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Chapter 635: Chapter 581: If You’re Staying Up Late to Read This Chapter, Be Careful Not to Fall Asleep (Part 2)

Nan Zhubin observed the visitor, noticing how the curiosity on their face gradually faded with prolonged gazing and adjusted breathing.

They beca focused, even to the point of disorientation.

He said, “Good, look at my hand, take one last deep breath, and then close your eyes.”

“Follow my rhythm. Inhale—exhale—close your eyes.”

The visitor did as instructed.

“Yes, let’s close our eyes completely.”

“Imagine your eyes tightly glued shut, locked together firmly, completely sealed.”

Nan Zhubin tirelessly explained and described the action of “closing eyes,” repeatedly suggesting it.

His tone turned light and slow, soft and steady: “You attempt to open your eyes, but they won’t open at all, and we enter a deep state of hypnosis.”

“Now, focus your attention on your breathing, maintain the current breathing rhythm…”

“There’s no need to change it deliberately, just watch it like a curious observer… feel how the air naturally flows into your body… and then naturally flows out… with each inhale, bringing in a sense of calm… with each exhale, taking away a bit of tension…”

“Yes, very good, just like that.” Continuously encouraging, like a kindergarten teacher.

This step is still repeatedly persistent.

Visibly, the visitor’s shoulders exposed outside the blanket relaxed.

The fingers draped over the blanket also trembled slightly, slowly spreading out, until they completely drooped on the fabric.

“Can you hear my voice?” Nan Zhubin asked softly.

To prevent the relaxation from working too well and the visitor falling asleep directly.

“Yes.”

“Good.” Nan Zhubin nodded, moving on to the next step.

“Now, let’s imagine a park where you’re sitting on a bench. The winter sun is very warm, shining down on you.”

“Slowly scan your entire body, starting from your scalp, feeling whether it’s relaxed…

“Then slowly downward… across the forehead… around the eyes… cheeks… chin… feel the muscles in these areas softening little by little, relaxing…”

“Let this beam of light continue downward… through your neck… shoulders… allowing your heavy shoulders to slowly, slowly loosen up…”

“As if unloading a ton of burden… then your arms… elbows… wrists… all the way to your fingertips. Feel a tingling, warm sense of relaxation…”

This beam of light is actually the visitor’s “attention.”

Using imagination to concretize abstract concepts, guiding attention to orderly scan various parts of the body, and suggesting “soften,” “relax,” promoting the gradual release of body tension, deepening the state of relaxation.

“The light continues to descend, reaching your chest cavity… abdon… feel your internal organs resting peacefully…”

“Then the hips… thighs… knees… calves… finally reaching your ankles and toes…”

“Now, feel your entire body surrounded by a comfortable, heavy sense of relaxation… you feel very safe… very stable…”

By depicting the feeling of relaxation in each part of the body and repeating words like “safe,” “stable,” further deepening the hypnotic state and reinforcing the sense of security.

“Good, now we feel very warm, so warm, let’s stand up and walk forward, and we will see a staircase.”

Nan Zhubin watched the changes in the visitor’s facial expressions.

“We walk down step by step. I’ll count from 10 to 1, and each ti I count a number, you take one step down.”

“Let’s imagine, imagine you can feel your footsteps, hear your footsteps, see your footsteps.”

“We flow downstream, entering deeper and deeper into a hypnotic state.”

“10…”

“We feel the warmth of the park’s sun, the chirping of birds around, the sound of the wind, the sound of flowing water.”

“9…”

“Listen to these sounds, let them lead us into deeper and deeper hypnosis.”

“Another step down, 8…”

Nan Zhubin guided step by step.

The principle of this session is to use symbolic imagination that aligns mind and body to structurally deepen the state of hypnosis.

Walking down the stairs itself taphorically represents “gradually delving into the subconscious,” and synchronizing each stair step with a deep breath essentially sets a perceptible rhythm and progress bar for the relaxation process.

This consistent, repetitive, and predictable psychological task continuously occupies the conscious mind, preventing distractions.

Simultaneously, the visitor’s body unconsciously binds the visual imagination of “downward” with the physiological feeling of “sinking” and “relaxing,” achieving a gradual deepening of relaxation through psychological suggestion guiding physical state.

Of course, this process does not necessarily succeed in one attempt.

Nan Zhubin noted the changes in the visitor’s face: “Now, we walk down the last step. Let your imagination run wild, can you tell what you see?”

The visitor’s eyelids fluttered: “…Sunlight, stairs…”

Not enough.

“Good,” Nan Zhubin said, “let’s continue to feel the warmth of the sunlight and keep walking forward, imagining ten more stairs appearing in front of us.”

“Every ti I count a number, you take another step down. 10…”

“9…”

“1…”

The preparation stage is the most crucial part of hypnosis and also the most ti-consuming.

“Imagine the surrounding environnt, let it lead us into deeper and deeper hypnosis.”

Nan Zhubin’s voice was light and steady: “Even if you don’t enter a hypnotic state, it’s okay; it’s not your fault, but mine.”

“Let’s try raising both hands, can you do it?”

The visitor did not move.

“Okay, we continue forward…”

A full ten minutes later.

Suddenly, it was as if everything spun around.

It was as if they fell into another world, the distance between consciousness and reality continuously lengthened.

The visitor said nothing, with no movent on their face.

But Nan Zhubin knew so change had occurred.

“We go down the last step.” Nan Zhubin looked at the visitor’s body, “Let’s try raising both hands, can you do it?”

This part of the expression is sowhat ambiguous.

Is it the imagined self walking the staircase that raises their hands, or the real self raises their hands?

The visitor made their own judgnt.

No sound, because the movent was very slow, very slow.

Like a marionette pulled by strings, two slender arms slowly rose in front of Nan Zhubin.

Nan Zhubin knew the visitor could still feel their voice, the sofa, the blanket.

She could clearly be aware of where she was.

But simultaneously, there was another “her,” the subconscious her, appearing in another place.

“Can you tell what you see now?” Nan Zhubin asked.

“…The park…”

…

No longer based on the monotonous “sunlight,” “stairs” these isolated elents as described by Nan Zhubin.

But a complete scene.

A park.

Or rather, a “Safe Island.”

Building a “Safe Island,” this is an essential stabilization technique in trauma therapy.

Creating an internal refuge for the visitor where they can return at any ti when emotions beco too intense during exploration, offering calming, preventing them from being overwheld by traumatic mories.

The visitor intermittently said, “…Hmm, I see… a… a sunny lawn… with red, yellow, blue flowers… and butterflies…”

Nan Zhubin took a sip from the cup, adjusting his voice:

“Very good, a park with a sunny lawn, red, yellow, blue flowers, and butterflies. Please fully feel the peace and safety there. Rember this place; when you need it, you can always return here.”