FREE HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP AUTOMATICART Automatisms forCreative Expression of the Soul 27 May 2012 : Taipei free focused trance hypnosis workshop in AUTOMATIC ART Automatisms for Creative Expression of the Soul Dr. Brian David Phillips www.briandavidphillips.com brian@briandavidphillips.com 27 May 2012, 14:00-17:00Waking Dreams, Taipei AMAZING OPPORTUNITY A Few Hours of Focused Trance Hypnotic eXperience! Don’t miss...
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What do you get when you take some of the absolutely worst dialogue delivery in video game history and combine it with someone with a penchant for facial expressiveness? You get some pretty awesome FACE ACTING, that’s what! As the folks at geektyrant note: “Be it shoddy translation, poor delivery, bad writing, or just...
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Brian David Phillips, hypnotist and professor and acting coach, demonstrates a Trance-Acting technique, the adaptation of hypnosis and trancework techniques to the development of the actor. This presentation was part of a a very special actors trancework session for students at Kishore Namit Kapoor’s Acting Institute, one of the most highly respected actor training...
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Brian David Phillips, hypnotist and professor and acting coach, lectures on Trance-Acting, the adaptation of hypnosis and trancework techniques to the development of the actor. This presentation was part of a a very special actors trancework session for students at Kishore Namit Kapoor’s Acting Institute, one of the most highly respected actor training institutes...
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Recently on the Hypnosis Technique Exchange (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypnosisTechniqueExchange), there has been a query and bit of a discussion about my Magick Egg or Fairy Dragon Hypnosis process. For those with an interest, I have a number of resources that explain the process as well as the background to it . . . some free and...
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As many readers here know, I teach Communication as well as Acting at the university. One of the innovations I use in my English as a Foreign Language courses is a set of interactive games known as Improvisational Language Structures (ILS) which are a series of activities I have adapted from theatre games and...
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We’ve learned a LOT about the mind and suggestibility and the nature of experiential trance since the days of Jean-Martin Charcot and his assumptions that hypnosis was only possible with personalities prone to hysteria or his celebrity hysterics who he would wheel out and induce heysterical attacks at will. However, Charcot has indeed made...
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Dr. Valerie Wells goes over some key points on how to use self-hypnosis to overcome anxiety . . . here are her five steps to anxiety relief: Here are her steps to use self-hypnosis for anxiety relief: Silence all telephones (land/cell), as well as all media (i.e., music, computers, pagers, etc.) Get your body...
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As regular readers here know, my original professional training is in acting and directing. My undergraduate degree, BA, is in Theatre while my first graduate degree, MA, is in Acting and Communication, and my PhD is in Comparative Literature with a specialty in Interactive Drama and I’ve got professional acting and directing experience under...
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A slew of news, entertainment, and gossip sources are reporting that Katie Waissel, the X-Factor star, is seeking help with hypnotherapy to help her with the stage fright that has been causing her to flub lines and make on-stage mistakes. See http://www.in2town.co.uk/News-Celebrity/X-Factor-singer-to-under-go-Hypnosis-for-stage-fright for one story on the subject. Evidently, she’s turned to her mentor...
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Mental Orgasms? Well, Lady Gaga can do it . . . so can you . . . Lady Gaga recently outed herself as one of those few gifted women who can give themselves full blown orgasms just by thinking about them in a special way. Good for her! Regular readers of my blog already...
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During a break before I presented a special seminar on Trance-Acting (trance techniques for actors) to a Bollywood acting studio’s special invitation audience in Mumbai, I had a chance to do some tranceplay with a former Miss India with some waking suggestion fun. Here’s a short clip. Remember, to sign up for my upcoming...
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Now, while this question from one of the groups I belong to is specifically related to consensual adult recreational erotic hypnosis, it applies to a number of contexts – educational, training, and therapy – as well. A fellow states he has the idea of guiding his trance partner into a state where he tells...
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Entertainment Hypnosis isn't just hypnosis, it's ENTERTAINMENT A discussion thread at the Hypnosis Technique Exchange morphed into a discussion of public speaking and hypnosis and then into a review of a particular book on stage or entertainment hypnosis. One remark in the discussion is worth noting here as well. "One thing I have noticed...
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Ryan Omega writes an interesting profile of Toni Attell (http://www.attell.com) and her acting/hypnosis courses for the Examiner (http://www.examiner.com/x-12989-LA-Occult–Paranormal-Examiner~y2009m7d5-Hypnosis-as-a-method-for-actors).  Toni's program covers some of the same general concepts that I cover in my own Trance-Acting courses as well as the improvisational comedy that I incorporate in my creativity for the classroom/boardroom programs.  For those of...
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