guided meditations are a little like kink scenes except without safewords
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i have never heard any guided meditation say “you’re allowed to stop doing this at any time for any reason” and i think that’s bad; i think guided meditations can actually be really coercive sometimes (e.g. telling you you’re supposed to be feeling something)
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there's a whole subgenre of safety and consent hypno files, with some creative frameworks for what mental autonomy means in this context. (partly in response to widespread abusive behavior, of course.) ie,
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why not? it seems a pretty decent idea
It's pretty easy to snap out of the immediate but it's harder to know they will switch too if you want
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One of my fave yoga nidras begins “if you wish to proceed, please lie down on the floor and await my instructions” and it’s pretty distracting tbh
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