This sucks . . . When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web . . . what a teacher does in their private page or elsewhere is their own damned business. It has nothing to do with their job performance but young teachers are being fired because of their Facebook or Myspace pages. Sucks much.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Trance-Acting: Actors, Directors, Dancers, and Musical Performers
Improv Taiwan 2008
by Brian David Phillips •
This is a complilation video of students in my Theatre Arts: Acting and Directing class at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. Inspired by Improv Everywhere, the students designed their own "missions" and went out into the real world of Taipei to perform scenes or bits. The folks around them did not know they were "performing"…
Celebrity Hypnosis, Hypnosis in the News, Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Ewan McGregor Quits Smoking with Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
Ewan McGregor, movie star and international heart throb, says he is having a generally better life after quitting smoking because of the peace of just relaxing and not having to hunt for cigarettes, ashtrays and lighters. A number of news sites reports that he quit a little more than a year ago through hypnotherapy and…
Hypnosis in the News, Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Hypnosis Before Breast Cancer Surgery
by Brian David Phillips •
This piece is from the National Cancer Institute and is well worth a looksee. Summary Women undergoing surgery for breast cancer who received a brief hypnosis session before entering the operating room required less anesthesia and pain medication during surgery, and reported less pain, nausea, fatigue, and discomfort after surgery than women who did not…
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnotherapy Benefits Spartans Pitcher
by Brian David Phillips •
After taking a line drive to the face, Spartans pitcher Megan Eichelberger developed a gun shyness that caused her performance to take a nose drive. Christian Worstell writes a profile on Eichelberger’s use of self-hypnosis to overcome her fears and bounce back to full performance (here). Eichelberger entered into a deep state of relaxation and…
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WELCOME TO THE FUTURE AND IT SUCKS . . .
US Live Expectancy Going Up and Down at the Same Time . . .
. . . the healthcae gap is getting wider and it’s killing women
by Brian David Phillips •
Common understanding is that due to advanced in healthcare and technology and nuitrition, life expectancy has been rising. Women tend to have a longer life expectancy than men. A recent study on mortality rates by counties in the United States paints a very different – and rather depressing – picture. The study by Majid Ezzati,…
Eroticatrance, Hypnosis Videos, Metaphysical Hypnosis, Psychecstatic Engineering Psychological Psychedelic eXperiential Ecstasy
Frenzy Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
This is a short video outtake from the making of Frenzy Hypnosis One – 狂乱催眠1 – using an energy model with a very different twist. The DVD is from the King of Hypnosis series in Japan. All the best,Brian Sign Up NOW!:TAROT TRANCETaipei, Taiwan (25 May 2008)METAPHYSICAL HYPNOSISTaipei, Taiwan (21-22 June 2008)SPEED HYPNOSIS TECHNIQUESIndia (August…
*** Workshop Announcements, Experiential Trance, Hypnosis Videos, Metaphysical Hypnosis
Higher Self Hypnosis Processes
by Brian David Phillips •
One of my favorite "practical" metaphysical hypnosis processes is the Higher Self process which guides a trance partner into a sense of unconditional universal love for healing and introspective guidance. There are a slew of different approaches to similar results. In the variation that I have developed, I guide the trance partner into physical relaxation…
Hypnosis in the News
Heal Faster with Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
From www.kansascity.com: Heal faster with hypnosis News flash: 15 minutes of hypnosis can reduce post-surgery pain. Mesmerizing news for breast cancer patients: Just 15 minutes of hypnotherapy can reduce the amount of anesthesia needed during surgery and the pain, nausea and fatigue afterward. Doctors at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine gave 200 women…
Celebrity Hypnosis, Hypnosis in the News, Metaphysical Hypnosis
Helen Reddy and Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
Helen Reddy . . . yes that Helen Reddy . . . has been practicing hypnosis for a bit and now does quite a bit of work with pastlife regression. She is a patron of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists. Reddy recently has released an autobiography and has been doing a public speaking tour…
Hypnosis in the News
Stop Smoking, no way . . . okay I’ll do the fast one but only so you can see what it might be like as I am not so sure I should even bother helping you yet as you really might not want me to and oh wouldn’t that be silly . . . therapy
by Brian David Phillips •
Laura Marsden provides a delightful account of her visit to see hypnotherapist Steve Williams – Hip Hip No Therapy – with a very nice recounting of his approach to helping her stop smoking. Hypnotherapy. Does it work? Not if you’re blind drunk, psychotic or have the mental age of a seven year old. That’s according…
Hypnosis in the News
Self-Hypnosis Surgery!
by Brian David Phillips •
Hypnosis is in the news as Alex Lenkei enters his second major surgery using only self-hypnosis with no chemical anaesthesia. See here for the latest surgery story which involved taking a sliver of bone from the base of his thumb and fusing the joint. All the best,Brian Sign Up NOW!TAROT TRANCETaipei, Taiwan (25 May 2008)METAPHYSICAL…
Influence
Edward Louis Bernays . . .
. . . more than the father of public relations
by Brian David Phillips •
In this excerpt from a documentary, there is a fascinating demonstration of the role of Edward Louis Bernays (here) in creating the American political public response and use of the Cold War. Bernays is considered the father of Public Relations. The case example of Guatamala is very chilling and interesting . . . Now, compare…
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Cloudbusting
by Brian David Phillips •
Kate Bush’s song “Cloudbusting“ was released with the Hounds of Love. The song’s release was 14 Oct. 1985. The song and music video portray the relationship between father and son . . . psychologist Wilhelm Reich and his son Peter . . . the song describes Reich’s arrest through the eyes of his son and…
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An Engineer’s Guide to Cats
by Brian David Phillips •
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Tricia Walsh Smith
by Brian David Phillips •
Hypnosis Videos
Dalton McPhee, Evil Hypnotist
by Brian David Phillips •
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China Celebrates Number One . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Parts Party at Its Best
by Brian David Phillips •
Steven Barnes (who cowrote a number of good reads, including one of my favorite books) writes about his experience with The Parts Party: Ericksonian Hypnosis at Its Best . . . Barnes trained in Ericksonian hypnosis and NLP years ago but gave it up after he found the language patterns were a bit more effective…
Influence
The Shock Doctrine
by Brian David Phillips •
Alfonso Cuarón, director of "Children of Men" (which I just watched tonight, wow, striking stuff), and Naomi Klein, author of "No Logo", present a short film from Klein’s book "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism." See http://www.shockdoctrine.com.
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Parts Integration and Psychotherapy
by Brian David Phillips •
Richard Bolstad goes a little hog wild in his essay Parts Integration and Psychotherpy in which he discusses the concept of parts integration, which he characterizes as an NLP term, and other areas such as a neurological model for understanding the task of therapy, neural networks, Ericksonian NLP, psychodynamic therapies, transpersonal therapy, body therapy, cognitive…
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On eBay, A Little Less Conversation
by Brian David Phillips •
Rob Pegoraro has some interesting comments regarding changes in Ebay’s feedback structure, noting that just as offices need to have a bureaucratic system when they become too large for intimacy, so too with networking sites . . . On eBay, A Little Less Conversation.
Celebrity Hypnosis, Hypnosis in the News, Trance-Acting: Actors, Directors, Dancers, and Musical Performers
Mind Games, the Zone, Tiger Woods, and Self-Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
Kevin Manahan has written an interesting piece that explores Tiger Woods and self-hypnosis . . . Mind games? Tiger wins those, too . . . Woods learned self-hypnosis when he was young and now routinely uses it to go into the Zone, that special place where an athlete is able to create peak performances via…
Hypnosis in the News
Seventeen or More Personalities . . .
. . . trancework and dissociative identity disorder
by Brian David Phillips •
Karen Overhill discusses her experience with longterm visits with a psychiatrist for Dissociative Identity Disorder (her autobiographical essay refers to her condition as Multiple Personality Disorder but MPD has given way to DID as the preferred way of looking at the condition . . . meet the 17 personalities inside my mind and read how…
Hypnosis in the News
Bulimia and Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
Monica Tavares discusses her battle with bulimia and how hypnosis helped her to overcome it . . . how hypnotherapy helped me overcome bulimia . . . when working with eating disorders of this type, it is very important for the hypnotist to use clean session language (guiding but not leading statements and questions) and…
