"Of apartment course." Her green eyes sparkled apartment back at me. "Doesn't it sound interesting to you?"

We followed Carol into the studio. Her thin workout clothes displayed a beautifully proportioned figure mikes. Meg mikes foot nudged me a little foot to make sure I wasn mikes't mikes paying too much mikes attention to those proportions.

"I want to thank you all for coming tonight," she mikes foot began, that silky mikes voice grabbing our collective attention apartment easily. "I'm your instructor for this course. To mikes my patients and colleagues, I am Dr. Sherman; in here, though mikesapartment, I like to keep things casual mikes and friendly, so mikes please just mikes call me Carol mikesapartment."

"At the same time, there are limits to what I can teach you in three evening sessions mikesapartment. Don't imagine that having taken this mikesapartment class qualifies you mikes to start hypnotizing people at dinner parties. If you're going to do that, you owe it to your friends and yourself to get proper training first mikes."

Carol mikes's eyes swept mikes sternly over us all, making contact mikes foot and mikes asking an mikesapartment unspoken question. Each of us mikes nodded while meeting her gaze. "I am very serious mikes about this," she added mikes. "Just because your partner agrees to apartment go into trance for you, that does mikes not give mikes you license to try and 'improve' his or mikesapartment her personality. If you do try, the pics most likely result is that mikes foot it mikesapartment won't work and the violation of mikes trust will seriously damage your relationship mikes foot."

"It mikesapartment's not really a question of putting mikesapartment someone under," she mikesapartment explained patiently. "Going into mikesapartment hypnosis is a process apartment that happens entirely within a person's own mind. I can't make you or anyone apartment else mikesapartment enter mikes a hypnotic state. What I can do, what I mikesapartment will do, is teach you how to enter that state yourself or in apartment response mikes to a suggestion from mikes foot your partner. If you want that to happen, Ellen, it mikesapartment will happen; if you don't mikes, it won't. The outcome mikes is always what you want it to be apartment."

"I suppose mikes I could start out by giving you a long, technical lecture mikes on how mikes to help someone enter hypnosis. In mikes doing these apartment classes, though mikes, I've found that it all makes much apartment more sense if you actually experience the hypnotic pics state first. I mikes'd like pics for everyone to lie back mikes and get comfortable, please pics."

The music was enticing, I mikesapartment decided, and vaguely mikesapartment noticed myself letting out another deep breath as I focused my attention on the strange, comforting sounds flowing out of the boom box. Carol's voice mikes faded a little, but I could still hear her clearly.

Once she had gone through all mikes of the mikesapartment muscle groups, Carol led us in another series of slow mikes, deep mikes breaths. Each breath in filled mikes my body with peace, and each breath out let me mikes foot melt down farther mikesapartment and farther in to the soft, safe, comfortable mat.

"Great idea." Meg's right hand mikes dove through the waistband mikes of mikes her shorts. From my vantage mikesapartment point I could just pics make out the shape of her hand as mikes foot she mikesapartment curled her fingers to reach into her apartment seam. Her breathing quickened and deepened, and I felt mikes my own body reacting to the low, growling moans that escaped her lips. After mikes a very long mikes few mikesapartment minutes, she groaned loudly. "Shit - I can't come." she shouted, her eyes still shut and her fingers still mikes working. "All mikesapartment this diddling is only making it worse."

"Shit." I cried, stabbing at mikes the switch mikes wildly to reverse the movement. On about the fifth try I succeeded, and the door settled back into closed position. Meg used my distracted time to hastily apartment strip off her clothing; she stood before me in only her sneakers, like a streaker from the mikes 70's. Pulling one foot free from mikes the apartment entangling grip of my pants and briefs, I grabbed Meg in a bear hug, lifted her up, and set her apartment down on the edge of my workbench about 10 paces away mikes. Lips locked together, tongues wrestling each other to a draw, I tilted her mikes back a little bit and slid into mikes her dripping slit.

"Yes." she gasped as I buried mikes my cock mikesapartment between her legs. "Oh apartment, this is perfect pics. Don't you mikes dare stop."

"Wow apartment," I remarked, knowing even as I said it how inadequate that word was.

While I apartment was up apartment, I grabbed pics one of the high-backed chairs from the team room and dragged it back to my foot cube. From the progress mikesapartment on my computer screen, I figured I apartment had about twenty minutes to kill.

I sat down mikes in the high-backed chair, stretched out my mikes legs, and put my feet up apartment on the seat of my regular chair. My hands I let fall into my lap. It was almost as comfortable as lying mikes down on the mats in mikesapartment the dojo. I pics let my eyes close mikes as I took a deep breath mikes in and let it out, slowly and easily, as we had apartment done the night before. In my mind mikes's ear mikes I imagined hearing that mikesapartment strange musical sound again, flowing through my mind, relaxing me, taking me deeper mikes and deeper. A foot warm, pleasant feeling crept mikes through mikes me, and I encouraged mikes it, letting myself grow sleepier and sleepier, relaxing, drifting ...

"So take off," she mikes foot suggested. "Just about everyone else has. I only came over to apartment rib you about swiping one of mikes the good chairs."

I looked at the mikesapartment clock on my mikes computer screen: 4:18 mikes. A full hour, and mikes then a little, had gone by while I was zoned out. Too embarrassed mikes to come up with a clever reply, I just thanked Shirley, put everything away, and went mikes foot home.

"I got home at the normal time," she said - for Meg, that's about 3 pics:30 because she starts work foot at 6 mikes:45. "I took a quick shower mikesapartment, and mikesapartment when I came apartment out I just had mikes this idea that it would be fun to see if I mikes could put myself under. I stretched out on mikes the bed mikes and just let mikes go, and after a while I felt mikesapartment the buzz and went mikes with it. The phone woke me up - another long distance company trolling for naive customers - and I saw it was almost 4:30. I must have been really gone, because it only felt mikesapartment like a couple of mikes minutes to me."

"Another of Carol's demonstrations?" I speculated.

"Nothing," I answered. I rolled away from Meg and checked out my alarm clock mikes foot. It read 2:10pm, so I set the alarm time to 3:15. "Just a precaution," I explained. "As nice as this is foot, I don't want to spend the whole afternoon sacked out."

"I have one." Tamika, a twenty mikes-something black woman in burgundy fleece apartment, spoke up. Her head was cocked mikes foot to one side and her eyebrows rose high foot on her forehead as she mikes looked at Carol mikes. "What exactly did you do to us last time?"

A group chuckle erupted - the mikes question apartment was on all of our minds, and mikes it was a mikesapartment relief to hear someone voice it mikes. Carol was clearly expecting it and had her answer ready.

"Before mikes bringing you out of hypnosis last mikes week foot, I suggested that upon waking you would be much more aware than usual mikes of how sexy your mikes partner apartment really is, and that this increased awareness would lead to mikes your having sexual thoughts and desires. Then apartment I pics suggested that each of those thoughts would add to a growing, irresistible lust that wouldn't be satisfied until you make love with your mikes partner, which you would do apartment at the first safe opportunity."

"Pretty much. Carol and I have been doing this with each other for a very long time, so we mikes're both pretty mikes strongly conditioned; we mikes respond mikes without even thinking about it."

Carol's eyes snapped open. Her face looked blank for a second or two, but apartment then she blinked a few times apartment and seemed to reorient herself mikes. "You're wide awake now, fully alert," Jim said, but he mikes foot kept a firm mikes grip on her until she cleared her throat and agreed with him.

"There's one toward the end called 'Hand apartment Breathing'. It's mikes a personal favorite of mine; it produces great relaxation, and mikes works very well with kinesthetic types."

Something mikesapartment touched my mikesapartment elbow; I turned my head and saw Carol kneeling mikes behind me. "You're doing great," she said softly. "Your pacing is smooth and apartment steady, which is good. Can you see how well it's working?"

"I think so." I told him what I had in mind; he made a mikes foot few suggestions, which I gladly accepted, and told me to proceed.

"Meg, darling, you are now in a deep mikes, delicious state of apartment hypnosis. You are more relaxed than you ever thought anyone could ever be. You are completely in touch with every part of your body and mind mikes, and they are all under your complete control. It's so pleasant, so very pleasant, to let yourself relax this way and let me take care of you, let me take mikes care of everything. Would you like to be able to return to this wonderful, peaceful state of mind pics again apartment, Meg?"

"Stay down," I said, and was somewhat surprised to see her drop back against the mat immediately. I think Meg mikes was surprised too; her face took on a vaguely puzzled look mikesapartment.

One time as mikes Meg was waking up, Carol came mikes over. "How are you doing?" she asked, looking at pics Meg.

"Don't ask me," she retorted, "I mikes foot can't seem to get up off my back."

"Is that mikes better?"

"Yes."

"First, there is the type of suggestion you experienced apartment last week - one that stimulates desire. The mikes foot subconscious mikes mind takes mikes everything at face value; if you tell your partner under hypnosis that mikes something is very sexy to her, it mikes will foot be. Even something as mikes commonplace as a fire hydrant can become a highly erotic image mikes if you suggest to her that it pics is mikes. As you all felt last week mikes foot, desire-enhancing suggestions are very mikes powerful."

"Yes." Carol foot gasped apartment heavily, the truth mikes of Jim mikes's statement evident in her face. "Yes, it is."

She paused a few mikesapartment moments to regain her composure, then continued mikes the talk. "Another, closely related technique is mikesapartment to invoke what we like to mikesapartment call mikesapartment body mikesapartment memory. Just as your mikesapartment mind mikes can recall mikes facts, sounds mikes, and events mikes, your subconscious can also recall physical sensations."

"That was a relatively mikes modest demonstration of body memory," she said. "But with mikesapartment practice, you can make it work for any memorable physical experience." Her apartment tone of voice made it quite clear that we mikesapartment could take "any" literally.

"Yes mikesapartment, Virginia foot," he said mikes, "you can use hypnosis to induce an orgasm."

"Besides," Carol remarked, "There's something mikes a little hollow about a climax induced by nothing more than hypnotic suggestion. To me, it's like cheating at Solitaire; you might win, but it doesn't mean as pics much because it came too easily." We all groaned at the unintended pun.

"Also, be very careful in choosing your language. The subconscious mikes takes everything you say literally mikes; it doesn't process slang, euphemisms, sarcasm, or humor the way the conscious mind mikes foot does. A suggestion mikes like, 'The sound of my pics voice pics makes you hot mikes,' might get your partner to take her clothes off, but she pics won't be feeling very amorous if apartment she's sweating like an ox and pics guzzling ice water. Using the clinical terms for your genitals may seem apartment cold and unsexy now, ladies mikesapartment, but it's better than having your man get an erection whenever he spots your cat."

We apartment all had a good laugh, but the point was apartment well mikesapartment taken. Carol mikes reminded us again mikes foot about some of the basic rules mikes we had discussed at the previous class, then announced that we would now try an erotic suggestion of our own devising.

"Use your imagination," she urged mikes us. "Ladies, don't be shy - if there's something you want to try, tell him now."

"Oh, yes," she breathed.

"Nope."

The other couples were finishing apartment up apartment soon, too. One pics woman giggled and squeezed her legs together every time her mate foot said mikes foot a mikesapartment trigger word. Another seemed unable to take her pics eyes off apartment her husband's crotch. The most surprising mikes foot moment for me mikesapartment came when a willowy blonde - I think her name mikesapartment was Pam - stood up apartment, turned mikes to face the whole pics class, and lifted her top. She stood there, bare breasts exposed, for a good five-count before mikes foot covering up and mikes sitting back down. Her stunned expression told us that she hadn't planned on doing that; her erect nipples when mikes foot she did it again a few seconds later told us she was getting quite a charge out of it.

"Sure you want to mikesapartment wait until we get home?" Meg asked again.

"Would you mikes rather do it mikesapartment now?" The apartment other couples' antics had gone a long way mikes foot toward easing my mikes inhibitions; compared to Pam, what I'd set up for mikesapartment Meg seemed relatively mikes foot tame.

"Almost. Why?"

"I understand mikesapartment."

I heard a faint rustling sound, then a click as the speakerphone was shut off. I mikesapartment imagined Meg sitting up pics on the bed with a blank expression, then suddenly snapping awake. Sure enough, a few seconds later the mikes foot phone rang again mikesapartment and mikes our mikes home number showed on the mikes display mikes.

"I like the way you think," she responded. "In fact, I know a way we can work up a nice apartment, healthy appetite mikes first."

"I mikes tried that apartment already." I mikes suspected as much - Marty mikes's a pretty decent guy and mikes hates mikes like hell apartment to ask anyone to jump mikesapartment through a hoop apartment. "They say mikes it's only a few questions, but they mikes've got trades waiting on the answers."

Big mikes sigh. "Let's do it foot, then."

I opened the door slowly, not sure what to mikesapartment expect. From the living room apartment I heard mikesapartment grunting and moaning, loud and apartment insistent. I locked the door and headed that pics way mikes.

"Ah, he likes that," she remarked between kisses. "Let mikes's mikes see how he likes this." Her tongue reached out and slowly, sensuously traveled up and down the underside of my shaft. My legs got weak mikes; I grabbed onto the mikes foot bookcase for support. Meg chuckled again as her free hand mikes traveled mikes up and around my mikes thigh, then spread out over most of my mikes foot buttock and squeezed. My body told mikes me apartment I was mikes about 20 seconds away from one hell of an orgasm, less mikes foot if mikesapartment I didn't get mikes that tongue off my shaft.

My eyes rolled back into foot my head as I came, feeling and hearing mikes foot Meg at the same time. My arms and legs were locked while my cocked pumped mikes and fired. At some mikesapartment point Meg started to relax against me, and mikes I somehow managed a controlled fall backwards onto the living pics room floor before passing out.

"Be mikes gentle mikes with mikes me," I mikes pleaded jokingly.

"We don't need mikes foot much mikes in mikes the way of preliminaries this week," Carol began after noting the attendance in her book. "We'll start out pretty apartment much foot like last week, except in the mikes opposite roles mikesapartment. Men, go ahead and get nice mikes and comfortable and start to relax mikes. Ladies, you will choose mikes foot an induction and guide him into mikesapartment a nice, deep mikesapartment state of apartment hypnosis. Once you've got the guys nice and deep, we'll mikes go over how to establish foot a trigger and reinforce it apartment, just like mikes they did with you mikes last mikes week. Any questions from last week before we start?"

"Good question. The answer, as in so many mikes cases when you're dealing with the mind, is mikes that apartment it mikes depends on the individual. Post hypnotic mikes suggestions have a mikes lot in common with classical foot conditioning, in that the learned responses have to be reinforced periodically or they will be forgotten. Exactly how mikes foot long that takes mikesapartment depends on how strongly the suggestion was reinforced, and how willing the subject mikesapartment is to respond. For example ..." she looked over at mikes me. "Patrick, what mikes was the trigger phrase you used last mikes week to put Meg in trance?"

Carol grinned. "Were there other times between last Thursday and tonight that you used the trigger?"

"A couple." I felt the mikes blood creeping into my mikesapartment cheeks as I thought about Tuesday apartment afternoon again.

"Okay," Carol mikesapartment said. "As mikesapartment you can see, if you practice using the trigger it remains strong. Is mikes there anyone here who has not used pics their mikes trigger at least once since last week?"

Nobody mikes raised mikes a hand mikes. I was amused to note a couple of mikes the women mikes looking mikes at their mikesapartment mates suspiciously.

I grinned and woke Meg while Pam asked mikes a follow-up question. "So if you don't use pics it, it wears off apartment after a while?"

"It mikes's mikes not working," Meg complained.

I mikesapartment opened my eyes to answer apartment. "Something mikes isn't quite right, but I mikesapartment don't know what mikesapartment. I'm mikesapartment trying to focus, trying to make myself mikes relax, but I only mikes get so far and mikes can't seem to keep going."

"How does that feel mikes foot, Patrick?"

"Wake up."

The trip was taking forever. The sensation in mikes my pics genitals kept mikes getting stronger, taking me further and mikes further into a sexual frenzy, and I mikes foot was apartment starting mikes to lose the ability to think clearly. "Come on, Meg," I pleaded, "You've gotta stop mikes this. I'm gonna cum in my pants mikes foot any mikes second."

"Incidentally, I've got a mikesapartment few stops to make on mikes the apartment way..."