Share on Tumblr Sorry, folks, but some major commitments have come up that just can’t be rearranged so . . . the Los Angeles hypnosis seminars we had planned for this Summer will be delayed to some time in February 2012. The extra wait will be worth it. - Brian Share on Tumblr
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Share on Tumblr As I write this we’re running around the Hong Kong apartment grabbing things and throwing them into luggage as we ready to head to the airport and then HOME . . . back to Keelung . . . back to Taiwan . . . back to familiar beds. The Hong Kong...
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Share on Tumblr I have just finished reading one of famed hypnotist, psychologist, and behaviorist Andrew Salter‘s papers from The Conditioning Therapies: the Challenge of Psychotherapy (Leo J. Reyna, Andrew Salter & Joseph Walpe, 1964) and he has a beautiful comment that serves almost as an epiphany of sorts: “I mention my interest in...
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Share on Tumblr We’ve had a number of discussions over the years related to Memory Replacement Therapy and the purposeful use of hypnosis in False Memory Intallation. Recently, on one of the hypnosis discussion groups on Fetlife, the question was raised on using this sort of technique. Now . . . I’ve absolutely no...
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Share on Tumblr See http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/01/05/science.1198331.abstract for the recent study on women’s tears as linked to chemosignals.  There was a definite difference in the affect of female tears toward men . . . tears of women who were sad had a very different effect than those from women who were happy.  Granted, it’s a small...
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Share on Tumblr I was recently asked about becoming a certified hypnotist through the Video-Based Hypnosis Certification Exam program offered by the Society of Experiential Trance (http://www.trancesociety.org). The certification by exam program was set up specifically for folks who are already experienced hypnotists who really don’t want to have to go through yet another...
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Share on Tumblr Most of us understand the concept of placebo . . . usually in the context giving a patient sugar pills with the suggestion that they are actually medicine and the patient receiving relief simply through the power of the belief in the suggestion . . . well, suggestion of this type...
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Share on Tumblr I meet so many hypnotists who were trained to believe that suggestibility is a cut and dried proposition of a never changing characteristic that never varies for an individual throughout their lifetime regardless of age, circumstance, or trance event context. Technically, at least for most people, this belief is on the...
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Share on Tumblr Terry O’Brien has started up a blog reboot of his well-known and much-respected Hypnosis In Media work and it looks very very promising! From Terry: “After much deliberation, I have decided to start blogging about my collection of hypnosis-related material, roughly 250 works of fiction. plus several shelves of non-fiction, myriad movies...
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Share on Tumblr ONLINEH Y P N O S I STUTORIALS Group Mentorship Chat Sessions (Includes Examination and Certification Fees) Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H. http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/online.html IMPORTANT COURSE FORMAT The new mentoring tutorials we are beginning to offer are essentially guided self-study programs in which participants are expected to do a great deal of...
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Share on Tumblr BY   POPULAR   DEMANDBECAUSE   YOU   ASKED   FOR   IT!http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/hypnosleep.html   HYP-NO-SLEEPBeyond Hypnosis and NLPEyes Open Suggestion andWaking Hypnosis http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/hypnosleep.html Sept. 25-26, 2010 Taipei, Taiwan Dr. Brian David Phillipswww.briandavidphillips.combrian@briandavidphillips.com Certification Training in Neuro-Linguistic Experiential Trance and Experiential Waking Hypnosis http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/hypnosleep.html Imagine having the confidence and skills to be the sort...
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Share on Tumblr As regular readers know, I have posted about the wonderfully beautiful THE TRUE LOVE PROJECT (http://thetrueloveproject.com) before (http://briandavidphillips.net/2009/07/the-true-love-project.html). As I just started a group on Engineering Ecstatic Experiences on the Community at http://trancesociety.net/community (it's free, so join it), I was going through some of Zack Seckler's amazing portraits from that truly beautifully executed...
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Share on Tumblr I recently wrote an essay on how artists can create flow states for enhanced creativity so imagine the synchronicity meter going off when I found a link to this beautifully constructed essay on the same such thing.  See Learning to Flow from Zero Paralax at http://zeroparallax.com/blog/2010/04/learning-to-flow/ and enjoy. All the best,Brian (If you are...
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Share on Tumblr Yes, I have finally joined the twenty-first century, well part of it at least. Most of my audio CDs are now available as instant downloads from my store on the Community at http://trancesociety.net/community . . . I've been slow to do MP3 downloads but since the Community platform makes it convenient...
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Share on Tumblr Well . . . we've finally done it . . . the Community site is prepped and ready to open its doors. As a member of our extended community, you are invited to join us at http://trancesociety.net/community – there are a number of groups and resources waiting for you there as...
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