Hypnosis Videos

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…

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…

ANCHORING and HYPNOTIC TRIGGERS . . .
. . . hypnotic video challenge

The September Hypnotic Video Challenge at the Society of Experiential Trance is for the theme of ANCHORING and HYPNOTIC TRIGGERS which continues to explore stimulus-response loops. This month’s challenge for participants to perform a variation of the NLP Anchoring process or make use of Hypnotic Triggers. This may be overt anchoring, covert anchoring, or some…

How to Play with Improvisational Hypnosis

As regular readers here know, I absolutely love spontaneous and creative approaches to hypnosis. Sure, I can recite a ton of learned patterns, processes, and techniques like the next guy, well maybe a bit more than the next guy . . . but . . . I really love to be in a situation where…

Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom

Updating a post from a few years ago, on 26 December 2007, I presented a workshop on "Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom" to senior students in an elite English program at Taipei First Girls High School, the top girls high school in Taiwan. The program is an adaptation of one I have presented elsewhere in…

Orgasmic Clicker Training for Humans

ACOUSTIC PLEASURE DEVICE or Orgasmic Conditioning with Hypnosis or Erotic Clicker Training for Humans Here’s a brief introduction to our work the ACOUSTIC PLEASURE DEVICE AND ORGASMIC CONDITIONING WITH HYPNOSIS AND EROTIC CLICKER TRAINING FOR HUMANS and how you can open your mind to absolute pleasure and beyond while conditioning erotic and arousal response as…

Get Your Very Own Fairy Dragon via the Magick Egg Process

Get Your Very Own Fairy Dragon Via The Magick Egg Process You may well ask, “What’s an hypnotically hallucinated Fairy Dragon?” Keep reading and be sure to watch the videos! Well, join us at Next Month too! One of the many fun things I will be doing at the workshop is teaching folks how to…

Hot and Cold Sensation Imagination Games and HypnoThoughts Live in Las Vegas coming in July 2014

Most regular readers here are familiar with my various suggestibility effects, mindgames, and similar trance processes as well as a number of our delightfully fun Mind Ecstatic methods. Go ahead and scroll on below for a video treat of the HOT AND COLD imagination game in which you can play with the intensity of your…

The Energizer and HypnoThoughts Live in Las Vegas coming in July 2014

Most regular readers here are familiar with my various suggestibility effects, mindgames, and similar trance processes as well as a number of our delightfully fun Mind Ecstatic methods. Go ahead and scroll on below for a video treat of the ENERGIZER in which you can play with the intensity of your own imagination and genuinely…

Altered States of Choice and HypnoThoughts Live in Las Vegas coming in July 2014

Many regular readers here are familiar with my various DRINKING FINGER or HYPNODRUNK or similar HYPNOTIC DRUG OF CHOICE trance processes. Well, scroll on below for a video treat of HYPNODRUG OF CHOICE in which you can play with the intensity of your own imagination and genuinely feel drunk, high, or just plain sensual with…

Scott Sandland’s Keynote Address from the Dallas Hypnosis Convention

Scott Sandland (http://www.gohypnotherapy.com) shares a whole slew of very useful comments and ideas during his keynote address at the Dallas Hypnosis Convention hosted by Richard Nongard. Scott and I have been friends it seems since hypnotists were carving scripts in stone tablets as we’ve known each other a whole lot of years, much longer than…

Dental Work done with Hypnosis instead of Chemical Anesthesia

The video below is an absolutely excellent exploration of the use of hypnosis for dental work – hypnodontics – with hypnotist Dave Berman (http://manifestpositivity.com) committing to the process and undergoing multiple dental procedures with absolutely no chemical anesthesia under the hypnotic guidance of hypnotist Juan Acosta (http://www.hypnodontist.com). As Dave posted to his Facebook profile: I…

Psychic Hypnosis Fun

Here’s a new entry into the Hypnotic Video Challenge . . . a short clip taken at my comedy hypnosis show performance last weekend. Yes, we are booking for a return engagement at the Live Comedy Club Taipei set for Dec. 7 and 8.  We will be doing a hypnoHOT hypnoKOOL double bill with our…