Share on Tumblr If you haven’t sent in your submission for this month’s Hypnotic Video Challenge, then do ahead and do so now! The current theme is rather open-ended so a whole lot of stuff will work for it . . . stimulus-response and shifting submodalities . . . a whole batch of processes...
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Share on Tumblr The sky’s the limit for the month of August’s Hypnotic Video Challenge at the Society of Experiential Trance as we are exploring processes to move or change underlying drivers or response sets in a stimulus-response loop.  This can be anything from shifting submodalities around or changing driver ingredients (such as in...
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Share on Tumblr Since the Society of Experiential Trance (http://www.TranceSociety.org) is sponsoring the Hypnotic Video Challenge along with the Hypnosis Technique Exchange, here is my entry to the May Challenge with the theme of Handshake Inductions.  This is not a street hypnosis but a first-time trance induction.  If all goes well, I hope to...
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Share on Tumblr I have recently been giving some thought to psychedelic experiences and have begun developing a trance process model that replicates the psychedelic experience via experiential hypnosis without the use of psychoatctive substances. My goal here is not simply the loopy floaty high of the recreational psychedelic but the shamanic visionquest experience....
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Share on Tumblr Recently, I was having a conversation with a very very good friend about the mechanics behind the famous Drug of Choice Induction/Pattern used by NLP practitioners first developed by Bandler and often used with drug addicts as a way to demonstrate that they can recreate the benefits or positive aspects of...
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Share on Tumblr Well, it is time for the HYPNOTIC VIDEO CHALLENGE to get underway and the very first challenge theme is for folks to go out and video themselves running a variation of the HANDSHAKE INDUCTION. We were inspired to make this our first challenge them because of discussion of the HYPNO-SCULPTURE videos...
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Share on Tumblr Sometimes you just have to marvel at another performer’s bit.  The Art of Hypno-Sculpture is an elegant, quirky, and interesting idea that takes a rather unorthodox approach to street trance and performance.  Basically, international entertainer Win Eiam-ong (aka Win the Mentalist and Master Hypnotist, web), walks up to folks in major...
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Share on Tumblr Okay, we’ve talked about the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and the Vulcan Mind Meld as hypnotic processes here before. Once again, there’s a bit of discussion about it on the Hypnosis Technique Exchange, evolving out of a discussion on Mesmerism. The current thread thus far . . . Brian David Phillips (in...
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