Share on Tumblr This Saturday evening enjoy music and fun.  I will be appearing at THE NEXT HOORAH (http://taipeimotion.com) presenting hypnotic comedy fun in the 8:45-9:25pm slot right between a couple great music acts. The Next Hoorah is a musical extravaganza with a few comedy and variety style acts to keep things fresh (that’s...
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Share on Tumblr When the Amazing Kreskin was asked to play an evil hypnotist in Dante Tomaselli’s film Horror, he decided he wanted to honor a conversation he had with Orson Welles years before . . . all the suggestion effects in the film are genuine. BEHIND THE SCENES See clip on youtube at...
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Share on Tumblr I was invited to be the special guest for a performance segment in an episode focusing on hypnosis of Michael Cheng’s English language television program.  My segment is to be selected clips from a mini-hypnosis show I performed in the studio.  The piece was filmed in the CTS studios (中華電視公司) in...
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Share on Tumblr Here are a few videos that fit this month’s Hypnotic Video Challenge on Suggestibility Effects . . . with a twist.  This series were done with Sneh Desai, a well known trainer in his own right in India (http://www.snehhouse.com), who attended as a student at of my Speed Hypnosis Techniques seminar...
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Share on Tumblr Raiya Sinha, actress, attended the Speed Hypnosis Techniques workshop taught by myself (Brian David Phillips (羅狼仁)), hypnotist (催眠), in Mumbai and volunteered to be trance partner for the demonstration of the Fairy Dragon trance technique. Sorry for the poor lighting. This video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv3OspAjsLw – is part of a series of...
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Share on Tumblr Navin Prabhakar (yes that Navin Prabhakar , the famous comedian, actor, and singer) attended the Speed Hypnosis Techniques workshop I taught in Mumbai, India, and volunteered to be trance partner for the demonstration of the Desired Intention Memory Box creative trance process. Those of you familiar with my improvisational hypnosis approaches...
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Share on Tumblr When working with folks for weight loss, it is important to work on ideal weight goals within healthy ranges. Courtney Love is certainly known for extremes . . . she has had weight problems for some time with a tendency to balloon up and then purge and diet and then balloon...
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Share on Tumblr Country music star Adam Harvey recently performed in Melbourne and revealed that he wasn’t always so comfortable in front of an audience. In a recent interview, Harvey said that ten years ago, he underwent a severe case of nerves.  According to Harvey, “I ended up having hypnotherapy and ever since then,...
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Share on Tumblr According to Liz McClarnon, she had quite the humiliating experience which led her to hypnosis. McClarnon, of Atomic Kitten fame (web), participated in the reality television series Celebrity Love Island and was completely devastated by the humiliating weigh-ins and  the like.  See the top photo at right to see McClarnon all...
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Share on Tumblr Derren Brown has had to back down from some of his very critical statements about Neruolinguistic Programming (NLP) and – more specifically – about Richard Bandler, one of the founders of NLP.  In his book, Trick of the Mind, Brown called NLP a bit of a pyramid scheme rather than a...
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Share on Tumblr Two-time Olympic silver medal winner, U.S. shotputter Adam Nelson has begun using hypnosis as a means to prepare himself for the gold this time around . . . Diane Pucin of the Los Angeles Times features Nelson’s work with hypnotist Pete Siegel using sports enhancement and peak performance techniques (similar to...
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Share on Tumblr Sometimes hypnosis helps artists to create art . . . http://briandavidphillips.net/2008/06/coldplay-goes-h.html . . . and sometimes hypnosis is the art, or at least a major part of it. On 22 April 2008, Raimundas Malasauskas once again ventured into the world of the paranormal . . . well, supposed paranormal . ....
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Share on Tumblr Now this is a fun and rewarding and delightful bit of hypnotic news . . . Coldplay’s newest album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends was written in part with the help of hypnosis. Three years ago, front man Chris Martin (Gwyneth Paltrow’s husband) made some ripples when...
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Share on Tumblr In a recent response to a question in her column, Dr. Joyce Brothers gave an endorsement for hypnosis for losing weight and other issues: Actually, it is possible that hypnotherapy can help people lose weight. Obviously, it’s not a magic bullet, and it’s not for everyone, but there are cases in...
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Share on Tumblr Major League Baseball is as much a head game as a physical one and there are now rumors of a number of major league players who will be using hypnosis to help them with the mental focus of the game (web).  The MLB rumors goes into more detail . . ....
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