Monthly Archives: June 2014

So What If Trance Changes the Brain?

Brian David Phillips discusses the question of SO WHAT TRANCE CHANGES THE BRAIN? Essentially he discusses why this may be an important discovery since neuroplasticity is known to occur based upon many activities so why is the fact that experiential trance also changes structures in the brain important? Doesn’t everything? Dr. Phillips discusses the phenomenon…

How Trance Changes the Brain

Brian David Phillips discusses HOW TRANCE CHANGES THE BRAIN and how experiential trance and changing structures of the brain make us healthier with specific examples of positive changes in the brain and how they related to our lives outside the trance with points on neuroplasticity as related to experiential trance such as certain types of…

Trance Changes the Brain: Part Two

In this second half of a two-part talk, Brian David Phillips discusses TRANCE CHANGES THE BRAIN along with numerous research studies that point to neuroplasticity as related to experiential trance such as certain types of meditation, somnambulistic hypnosis, intensely experienced guided imagery, active prayer, and immersive trancework. Scientists have discovered that experiential trance can change…

Trance Changes the Brain: Part One

In this first half of a two-part talk, Brian David Phillips discusses TRANCE CHANGES THE BRAIN along with numerous research studies that point to neuroplasticity as related to experiential trance such as certain types of meditation, somnambulistic hypnosis, intensely experienced guided imagery, active prayer, and immersive trancework. Scientists have discovered that experiential trance can change…

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

Brian David Phillips creates a brief guided trance experience based upon the BENE GESSERIT LITANY AGAINST FEAR from the DUNE novels by Frank Herbert. The litany itself isn’t a typical guided imagery experience but a bolster against fear. For our purposes, some liberties have been taken with the form. Within the novels, the Litany Against…

Singer Alama Kante Sings While Having Throat Surgery Under Hypnosis

A professional singer is ready to perform again, two months after doctors in France removed a tumour from her throat while she was under hypnosis. In a world first, surgeons at the Henri-Mondor Hospital, at Créteil near Paris, performed the operation to remove the tumor from her vocal chords while their patient was awake. She…

CREATIVITY ENHANCEMENT – 5 July 2014 – FREE Hypnosis Workshop in Taipei

FREE HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP CREATIVITY ENHANCEMENT Trance Techniques to Inspire the Imagination Hypnotic Methods to Enhance Creativity 5 July 2014 : Taipei free focused trance hypnosis workshop in CREATIVITY ENHANCEMENT Trance Techniques to Inspire the ImaginationHypnotic Methods to Enhance Creativity Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips www.briandavidphillips.com brian@briandavidphillips.com 5 July 2014, 14:00-17:00Waking Dreams, Taipei PLEASE REGISTER NOW!…

Get Drunk, It’s NOT The End of the World As We Know It Drinking Finger

It’s Not Really THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT The Drinking Finger Oh Yes IndeedIn honor of today being Friday the Thirteenth with a Full Moon and since it’s a special one (we won’t see Friday the Thirteenth with a Full Moon again until 2049 or so and since NASA says we’re…

Why Do Hypnotists Say Breathe Out & Relax?

Why Do Hypnotists Say Breathe Out & Relax? Here’s a brief introduction to why hypnotists ask folks to relax as they breathe out rather than when they breathe in and the physiological responses that assist in hypnotic inductions. This video clip was filmed during a free workshop on SIMPLE HYPNOSIS techniques, easy methods to hypnotize…

Why NOT Try? and Intensified Imaginative Involvement

Why NOT Try? and Intensified Imaginative Involvement Here’s a brief introduction to why hypnotists tend to avoid the word TRY except in particular contexts and why it’s important to engage your full active imagination in order to achieve experiential hypnosis – what trained competent hypnotists refer to as Intensified Imaginative Involvement. This video clip was…

Hairband Hypnosis Induction (Improvisational Challenge Hypnosis)

Here's some more spontaneous creativity with another Improvisational Challenge Hypnosis piece (see the previous Drinking Glass Hypnosis Induction at the entry here). This coming August 15-16, 2009, I will be at beautiful Redondo Beach, California, USA, with a bunch of folks having a wonderful Walkabout Trance Beach Resort Getaway (the improvisational speed street hypnosis event…

Aud90 Tulpa Thoughtform Construct Series

Aud90 Tulpa Thoughtform Construct Series (downloadable audio hypnosis sessions, multiple mp3 files; three sets of three files each for download). This is the collection set of all nine construct sessions in a special package for your convenience. This experiential hypnosis session series collection is called TULPA THOUGHTFORM CONSTRUCTS and in it you will use intensified…

Aud93 Thoughtform Constructs

Aud93 Thoughtform Construct (downloadable audio hypnosis sessions, three mp3 files). This experiential hypnosis session is called THOUGHTFORM CONSTRUCTS and in it you will use intensified imaginative involvement to conjure your very own Thoughtform Creature companion or manifested thought servitor of any type via Sigil visualization. This set includes an initial session and two reinforcement sessions.…

Aud92 Fairy Creature Constructs

Aud92 Fairy Creature Construct (downloadable audio hypnosis sessions, three mp3 files). This experiential hypnosis session is called FAIRY CREATURE CONSTRUCTS and in it you will use intensified imaginative involvement to conjure your very own Fairy Creature companion of any type via the Magickal Egg visualization. This set includes an initial session and two reinforcement sessions.…

Aud91 Fairy Dragon Constructs

Aud91 Fairy Dragon Construct (downloadable audio hypnosis sessions, three mp3 files). This experiential hypnosis session is called FAIRY DRAGON CONSTRUCTS and in it you will use intensified imaginative involvement to conjure your very own Fairy Dragon companion via the Magickal Egg visualization. This set includes an initial session and two reinforcement sessions. You may employ…