I use relaxation with my therapist and at home on my own. the act of dissociation is a person relaxing themselves through the use of daydreaming, imagry. If you can control your amount of dissociating for example be able to relax to the point where you are comfortable but not to the point of not being aware of the here and now you will be fine.

The way I learned to control my dissociating and use of relaxation was by first paying attention to my triggers and how I felt when I started to dissociate.

First I was in the here and now one second and the next I was off floating in la la land.

But then I started recognizing when I was upset and feeling floaty and far away relaxed and numb feeling (my tunnel area) and I would use grounding techniques of paying attention to how things feel - what my cats fur felt like, the blanket I had around me, the chair I sat on.

and soon I was able to hold myself at that space where I was floating relaxed and feeling far away but not enter my la la land.

By using the grounding technique of focusing on my therapist voice I was able to teach myself to pull myself back out ot that floaty far away feeling that I call my tunnel area.

Once I had those two things down consistantly I started doing the same thing with relaxation type music. I focused my attention on the music to the point where I got that floaty far away relaxed feeling and hold myself there and not go to the point of entering la la land for one song and then pull myself out of it to full awareness again. Then I did it for two songs then three and so on.

Now for the most part I can follow my therapist voice when doing relaxation visualizations during therapy sessions and by listening to the tapes we recorded of those sessions.

As far as I know using hypnosis (relaxation and visualizations) do not "set" DID people off. If it did they would not be DID. DID begins in childhood and children avoid painful things so if using relaxation was painful and upsetting children would not be daydreaming themselves out of the situation.

As for dissociate more. Not for me Any therapist that I know that works with DID and uses relaxation techniques have told me the focus of those activities is to relax while remaining aware if the client does not have the ability to remain aware they use and teach grounding techniques first before they engage the client in the focused relaxation visualization activities.

Lose myself no I cant lose myself or forever be gone. A DID person remains unaware only while they are upset and triggered. relaxation activities are geared to calm an upset person so if anything the person will gain more awareness not dissociation by using relaxation visualization activities because they are learning how to calm their self at the same time as remaining aware of their surroundings and what is happening in the present. So for me I had no fear of loosing myself.