Now, you don’t need to have someone dressed in a bikini to hypnotize them . . . really, you don’t. However, if that someone is Airi Nagasaku then it might not be a bad idea after all. The folks at the RMQ Project did just that. It’s all in good fun, of course. The...
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Lyndsey Parker posts an excellent discussion of just why The Voice is so engaging and why it really is in many aspects an Anti-American-Idol program, in a good way. Her reasons range from the obvious focus on voice instead of looks – despite some critics calling the blind auditions a gimmick – to less...
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One really great way to show people just how powerful hypnosis can be is to have a demonstration in which you hypnotize a trance partner so that they are unable to perform a very simple act . . . no matter how much they “try” they continue to fail. A classic gag is to...
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Here it is! Hip Hop megastar S.mouse performing his award winning megahit SLAP MY ELBOW! The song is from the television series Angry Boys in which Chris Lilley plays all of the major characters. It’s absolutely brilliant stuff and the character of S.mouse with his incredibly bad taste is a lot of fun to...
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Coolness and a half! We’ve updated the website store and added a whole slew of products, downloadable and otherwise. We have over one hundred hypnosis products online for you! And . . . more is on the way! Check out the store by clicking on the link in the left sidebar in the “Waking...
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An an experimental musical trancework, singer Alisa Amor has taken a classic hypnosis script by Milton Erickson and set it to music to create a unique twisting experience. You can see more of Alisa’s videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/alisaamor and explore her work at http://www.alisaamor.com and http://www.miraclesong.org. I met Alisa through one of my online courses...
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Orgasm, orgasm, one little two little sixty-nine little orgasms all in a row . . . the folks from Generation Sex, the cutting edge sexish ed program from Britain’s Channel Five, take a look at the seemingly elusive Multiple Orgasm . . . something that is no longer mere myth or legend but they...
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The Republican-controlled Senate of New York has passed a Gay Marriage law. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/gay-marriage-legalized-new-york_n_884434.html for a whole lot of coverage. I particularly like Republican Senator Roy McDonald‘s defense of his own support for the new law: “You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good...
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Okay, you could say that this is not amazingly awesomeness in its own right but if you did it would only very clearly demonstrate that your brain is broken. Seriously, this is great news. Neil Gaiman‘s American Gods is being brought to HBO for a multiple season multi-million dollar run with Tom Hanks behind...
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Honestly, when I first read that a hypnotist was making the news in regard to his use of hypnosis to help strippers earn more money, I assumed he was using hypnosis to help the girls become better dancers via performance enhancement hypnosis techniques . . . personally, I have helped quite a few actors,...
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Dr. Valerie Wells goes over some key points on how to use self-hypnosis to overcome anxiety . . . here are her five steps to anxiety relief: Here are her steps to use self-hypnosis for anxiety relief: Silence all telephones (land/cell), as well as all media (i.e., music, computers, pagers, etc.) Get your body...
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Dr. Judith Orloff discusses the difference between LOVE and LUST and how you can tell which you are in. Some things to note? Signs of LUST: You’re totally focused on a person’s looks and body. You’re interested in having sex, but not in having conversations. You’d rather keep the relationship on a fantasy level,...
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What do you get when you cross a highly skilled hypnotist with a bevy of bikini babes? I’m not sure but it’s pretty awesome. Seriously, in these clips from a Japanese television program we can see some clear examples of obvious titillation on the part of the producers (the girls, the trance partner volunteers,...
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I admit it, I absolutely love Case Histories (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011w4g0), the BBC television adaptation of the first three of Kate Atkinson‘s Jacskson Brodie novels (see http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk). Jason Isaacs is absolutely wonderful as Brodie. The man is a powerful and highly skilled artist and craftsman as his acting shines through beautifully. Yes, I am talking about...
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My daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, performs the solo piano version of her original composition MERMAID’S LAMENT . . . you may remember her earlier video of Kaye and two of her friends performing a trio version of the same song, Kaye’s original composition for flute, piano, and cello on 9 June 2011 at Tamkang...
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