The Washington Post had a photo profile of the Camp Quest (http://www.campquest.org) programs in which they called them the atheists’ answer to Bible school (http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/camp-quest-is-atheists-answer-to-bible-school/2011/07/19/gIQAe1hRbI_story.html) which is only partially correct. While they do tout themselves as a secular humanist camp open to atheists and agnostics and secular humanists without a religious bent, it isn’t...
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We’ve learned a LOT about the mind and suggestibility and the nature of experiential trance since the days of Jean-Martin Charcot and his assumptions that hypnosis was only possible with personalities prone to hysteria or his celebrity hysterics who he would wheel out and induce heysterical attacks at will. However, Charcot has indeed made...
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The Huffington Post has discovered Cat Cafes at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/17/lolcats-cat-cafes-in-tokyo_n_824620.html with a pictorial of a few photos from a Cat Cafe in Tokyo. As many of you know, my family and I are fans of Cat Cafes and we even run a page on facebook dedicated to the beasties with hundreds of photos and videos...
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News reporter Ashley Kohl describes her experience going to a hypnotherapy clinic, complete with interview, at http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/health/Ashley-goes-to-hypnotherapy-. - Brian
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Every year, the National Stereoscopic Association hosts an amazingly fun convention for 3D photo and video enthusiasts. A number of years ago, Lorraine and I were able to go to one con as we happened to be in the US at the right place and right time. This year’s convention was in Mesa and...
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Methinks a whole bunch of folks are making much more of a simple tweet about having a wonderful day than perhaps they should. A whole slew of folks are taking a twitter tweet from Miley Cyrus of “Dear Universe, For my next life can I please come back as some form of marine life?...
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Terry Brushwood is hoping hypnotherapy can help him win his first Bradford Open tomorrow. The 39-year-old goes into the district’s premier competition at Northcliffe as one of the form guys following his triumph in the Bingley St Ives Salver last week. And he revealed his three-shot victory in the Yorkshire Order of Merit event...
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One of the real tricks to success in hypnosis and any other endeavor is to learn anything and everything you can from the masters, those special innovative people who came before us, and take that information and those techniques and combine them with other effective methods you have learned and refine and refine and...
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Erica Moonstar of iShakti, explains and demonstrates the technique for Spontaneous Orgasm. You can learn to orgasm and experience bliss in any moment with no physical stimulation. Also called “Thinking Off” – because your Shakti / lkundalini energy and thought is all you need. We’ve discussed and demonstrated this sort of thing on numerous...
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We’ve already seen a video of Jessica Murphy being hypnotized by Steve Sykes on the radio and in that session she was hypnotized to have a crush on one of the DJs. Well, here we see her hypnotized to model a bikini . . . keep in mind, it’s all in good fun. That...
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In the Ithaca Journal, Anne Marie Cummings describes entering hypnosis at http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20110719/NEWS01/107190338/Alternative-Tompkins-Entering-relaxed-state-hypnosis. While it is an interesting read, I do take issue with the assumption that hypnosis requires relaxation. This is a common misperception. Actually, hypnosis can take place in a completely alert and even agitated state. What is required is focused attention and...
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In this brief clip, we see a very simple hypnosis induction demonstrated . . . one that regular readers know I also enjoy as I’ve demonstrated it a number of times on this site . . . the pendulum hypnosis induction is a particular type of eye fixation hypnosis induction which relies upon the...
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As part of the regular Hypnosis Mondays program with Stevie Sykes on radio station Rock 107, hypnosis with Jessica Murphy as the volunteer trance partner hypnotized to have a crush on Tommy for Rock 107. Want to learn how to do this and other forms of hypnotic work? Go to my main webpages at...
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William Weir of the Hartford Courant discusses the very positive use of hypnosis to relieve pain and other effects of surgery on patients at http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/18/3776632/relieving-the-effects-of-surgery.html. It is very important to know that hypnosis has been shown time and time again to decrease and even eliminate pain, alleviate stress, and in many cases benefit the...
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Trudi Pratt discusses the use of hypnosis to help folks stop-smoking at http://www.redding.com/news/2011/jun/29/quitting-smoking-is-a-battle-that-you-can. - Brian
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