In one of the hypnosis groups I belong to on Fetlife, a question came up regarding the use of hypnosis for breast enhancement and someone brought up my work in the discussion. So, here’s my clarification from there, cross-posting here. Within the discussion, someone posted a question as to why the woman who opened the…
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Happy Birthday Celebration Sale! From now through June 6 save 50% on audio hypnosis sessions!
by Brian David Phillips •
Folks, I’m getting older! When I say older, I mean really really old. When talking to my students at the university, I will often joke about how things were different when I was younger than they are today . . . “when I was a university student and dinosaurs walked the Earth . . .”…
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Heads Up on Hypnotic Personality Restructuring coming in August!
by Brian David Phillips •
We will be posting full details soon as well as opening things up for the early bird registrations . . . but . . . at the risk of getting ahead of myself, here’s a heads up that the HYPNOTIC PERSONALITY RESTRUCTURING seminar on New Model Experiential Hypnotic Conditioned Reflex Therapy will be held 20-21…
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Hypnotically Enhancing Breasts
by Brian David Phillips •
We had another interesting question come in via the Hypnosis Technique Exchange, my email discussion list devoted to hypnosis on yahoogroups here which folks may find of interest. You have posted some interesting opinions in the past, so let me ask for a new one. What is your opinion about claims women’s tits can be…
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Hypnotic Depth and Intensification of Imaginative Involvement
by Brian David Phillips •
Hypnotic depth is often referred to as a means of judging how far or much a person is hypnotized. Actually this concept is a bit of a misnomer as there really is no such thing as depth as we don’t actually go deeper into hypnosis but rather we allow the hypnosis to become more powerfully…
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Psychological Profile Exam Designed to Drive You Insane
by Brian David Phillips •
While it may seem like someone’s idea of a completely bonkers psychological experiment intended to drive you insane, the Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic is an odd ride into the unconscious that is an exploration of your brain’s affective response system. Nonverbal emotional reactions to shape tableaus target the portion of your brain that is intuitive…
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Illusion of Trance Depth
by Brian David Phillips •
As part of a discussion on depth of trance and the validity of various theoretical trance states such as Sicort, Ultradepth, Ultraheight, Esdaile, hypnotic coma, and the like, I posited that “Depth of trance” is all muddied water as it is often tied into so-called levels of hypnotizeability and scales based upon “phenomena” with the…
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Hypnosis at the Mayo Clinic
by Brian David Phillips •
Here’s a quick overview of the use of hypnosis by the Mayo clinic . . . see http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hypnosis/MY01020. All the best, Brian http://www.briandavidphillips.com
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US Trip and Los Angeles Hypnosis Seminars Delayed
by Brian David Phillips •
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
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Headin’ Home . . . Passion Speed Hypnosis was WONDERFUL!
by Brian David Phillips •
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 trip was wonderful (okay,…
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Andrew Salter on Problem Solving
by Brian David Phillips •
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 ‘problem-solving’ because years ago…
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Installing False Memories
by Brian David Phillips •
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 issue with recreational temporary…
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Women’s Tears and Male Arousal States
by Brian David Phillips •
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 study and needs quite…
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Hypnosis Certification via Video Exam
by Brian David Phillips •
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 course for their basic…
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Murder by Suggestion
by Brian David Phillips •
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 can go both ways.…
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Suggestibility as Attribute and Skill and Context-Sensitive Thingie
by Brian David Phillips •
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 polar opposite of reality.…
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Shiny New Hypnosis in Media Blog
by Brian David Phillips •
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 and TV programs, comics.…
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Online Hypnosis Group Mentoring Tutuorials
by Brian David Phillips •
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 the work and practice…
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HYP-NO-SLEEP Eyes-Open Hypnosis Seminar September 25-26!
by Brian David Phillips •
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 Rev. 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 of person who…
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True Love Project Hypnosis and Synchronicity Fun
by Brian David Phillips •
As regular readers know, I have posted about the wonderfully beautiful THE TRUE LOVE PROJECT (http://thetrueloveproject.com) before (https://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 project (one in which…
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Learning to Flow
by Brian David Phillips •
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 reading this blog post…
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My Audio CDs are now available for immediate download as MP3s!
by Brian David Phillips •
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 to manage, here we…
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eXperiential Trance Community now OPEN!
by Brian David Phillips •
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 well as a whole…
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Sigil on the eXperiential Hypnocast
by Brian David Phillips •
In this episode of the eXperiential Hypnocast, I demonstrate a playful yet powerful technique based upon ancient wisdom with a contemporary twist for externalizing internal feelings through the use of sigils, signs, symbols, or glyphs that creates a magickal connection within the changework process. The process uses visualization, focused feeling, kinesthetic and ideomotor effect, and…
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Furry Fun Hypnosis on the eXperiential Hypnocast
by Brian David Phillips •
Two episodes in the pipe related to the Shapeshifter process, one audio and one video, at the eXperiential Hypnocast for your listening and viewing and experiential pleasure. The audio is an Animal Spirit Guide process while the video runs through an experiential trance process of becoming the animal. While the processes are very similar, there…
