Dissociation During Induction

I cannot put this technique into practice probably because I have incomplete understanding of how mental states remain stabilized and how cue from one experience influence another one. So can I ask here a few more preliminary questions about dissociation process?

Q1. One of the techniques of trance induction involves directing subject's attention to different external and internal realities in a manner that produces narrow focus of awareness, for example p.56-57 or p.75-76 etc. of "Hypnotherapy" which, I guess, is a kind of dissociation of unimportant things from the subject's conscious set. But when we direct the subject's attention to something new, we always add something to the state and probably wait passively for removal of anything from it. Then why does it produce narrowing of field of awareness instead of broadening of that?

Q2. It is known that while we attempt to produce analgesia subject may continue to feel pain even in deep trance state. Does it signify that the dissociation process is essentially automatic and our active effort is limited to giving distraction intelligently using our common sense or there exists some principle but that is not effective deterministically?

Q3. I am very keen to know whether narrow focus of attention alone is enough to produce what we call trance or there are other characteristics of trance independent of narrow focus of attention.

Thanking you,
Chayan Das

Replies:

Re:Dissociation During Induction, by Steve Lankton, 04/16/04 Suggestibility!, by C. Das, 05/22/04

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