Life of Brian

Handclasp Hypnosis Fun

We had a bit of playful fun demonstrating the handclasp hypnosis induction. The volunteer has never been hypnotized before (this is his first time). The video was made 19 May 2008.

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Brian

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Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom

On 26 December 2008, I presented a workshop on "Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom" to senior studetns 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 to teachers and is comprised of improvisational language structures (which I have adapted from improvisational theatre games), guided imagery, and a demonstration of hypnosis for stress reduction and study skills enhancement (the students had signed parental consent forms for the hypnosis demonstration - the teacher tells me that every single student received parental permission, most enthusastically).

The three-hour workshop was a resounding success.  The teacher (a former university student of mine) tells me the kids got a LOT out of it and couldn't stop talking about the experience for days.

Here's a short video clip:

And . . . some photos . . .

More photos can be found here.

For other educators in Taiwan, I am happy to present this or similar programs by special arrangement for your students or events.  See http://www.briandavidphillips.com for contact details and more information.  If you don't see a specific program that fits your needs, email me and we will design something perfect for you.

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Brian

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Frenzy Hypnosis

This is a short video outtake from the making of Frenzy Hypnosis One - 狂乱催眠1 - using an energy model with a very different twist. The DVD is from the King of Hypnosis series in Japan.

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Brian

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Higher Self Hypnosis Processes

One of my favorite "practical" metaphysical hypnosis processes is the Higher Self process which guides a trance partner into a sense of unconditional universal love for healing and introspective guidance.

There are a slew of different approaches to similar results.  In the variation that I have developed, I guide the trance partner into physical relaxation and imaginative involvement then intensify that involvement through mental relaxation and guided imagery.  So . . . we're relaxed the body, we've relaxed the mind, and then the spirit in the equation.

The video above is from my hypnocast and has an explanation and a couple examples of me running the process with trance partners.

This is one of the processes that I teach in my Metaphysical Hypnosis courses (see here for the Taipei course June 21-22 and here for the Los Angeles course July 26-27).  Of course, that particular course covers a whole LOT more than this as well as ways to adapt the process to ANY context and ANY emotional construct.

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Brian

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Dalton McPhee, Evil Hypnotist

Fairy Dragon Experiential Trance . . .. . . The Magick Egg

A recent query via email . . .

Brian, could you explain that Fairie Dragon thing you did at the wrokshop?

That would be the Fairy Dragon Experiential Trance (Magick Egg) process.  I love that process.  I also received some wonderful comments about it both at Hypnoticon and at the Walkabout.

The process itself was the result of spur of the moment on the fly playfulness.  I made that up years ago just in the moment as I was running a playful session and had some time left and had been reading "The Magic Egg" by Frank Stockton, the Nineteenth Century author.  The hypnotist in that story mesmerizes the entire audience and has then watch experientially as he has them believe he has a phoenix egg which hatches.  Well, I'm not so big on phoenixes but love fairy dragons and so I ran with the concept and improvised the first fairy dragon session (folks who have taken my courses know that I absolutely LOVE to play with things and improvise new processes on the fly - using the underlying hypnotic operators/elements/components/juju to leverage response, intensify imaginative involvement, and apply sensory enhancement (yes, the folks who attend the upcoming Experiential Hypnosis and the Metaphysical Hypnosis courses in July will be doing the same thing, and more - see http://experientialtrance.blogspot.com for details and contact Richard Clark soon if you want to take advantage of the deep discount program which won't stay on the table long).  The process idea worked beautifully so I kept at it and played with it and tweaked it.

For more explanation, there is a video of me explaining and then demonstrating the process at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6371037115055193199 (although the handheld quality during the explanation does get in the way for a bit):

The manual that I provide for my Walkabout Trance course and the Speed Hypnosis courses have copies of a transcript of that hypnocast.

It's a nice little piece and I get emails from folks from all over the planet who use it in their hypnotherapy sessions as well those who use it for recreation or entertainment (the last show I performed in Taipei included that bit).  The girl I ran the process with on the very first run emailed me years later that she still occassionally lets her dragon out to play with it.

In addition to a number of other experiential processes as well as solid hypnotic skillsets, an updated version of the process within a sensory-enhanced context is included in the Experiential Hypnosis course coming July 14-18 in Los Angeles - see http://experientialtrance.blogspot.com/2008/03/experiential-hypnosis.html for more information and signup now if you want to take advantage of the discount pricing (the Deep Discount of this course and the Metaphysical weekend at major pricing advantage will not be available for much longer).

All the best,
Brian

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Social Psychology, Influence, Perception . . .. . . and More Videos

A number of folks enjoyed the Test Your Awareness video which is an example of selective attention and bypassing the critical factor of the conscious mind. That is an intriguing advert which hedges its bets on ensuring that folks do not notice the dancing bear through color and motion masquing.

However, it is still a very clear demonstration of the effect.  Actually, I found it to be a wonderful demonstration as the concentration on the "white" players is definately enhanced.  This is not the original variation of the test and there are other variations out there.

So . . . in the interest of having more fun with perception . . . here are some more videos of various social psychology and other experiments as well as a few that have been adapted into popular entertainment.  The principles demonstrated are very powerful and extremely influential.

Visual Selective Attention Experiment
Becklen and Cervone (1983)

Selective Awareness
Dancing Bear

Selective Attention
Kids Version

Change Blindness
Harvard Experiment

Change Blindness: Person Swap
Derren Brown

Change Blindness
Young People Person Swap

Social Psychology Experiment
Students of University of Westminster (London)

Social Psychology Experiment
Crowds and Helping those in Distress

Conformity
S. Asche

Milgram Obedience Experiment
1963

Milgram Obedience Experiment
Derren Brown

Stanford Prison Experiment

Human Perception of Time
David Eagelman

Heightened Sensory Perception
Lee

Extra Sensory Perception
Adam Wasdin

As a number of the courses I teach at the university are in regard to critical thinking and communication with a very heavy component on influence, I often have my own students design their own experiments to test social influence principles (such as the "laws of influence" described in Robert Cialdini's book Influence: Science and Practice and more - yes, you can get that book and others related to social influence at the bookstore) as I find that when students are able to demonstrate through personal direct experience they understand the principles so much more powerfully than simply reading about them in a text.

Since I believe in experiential critical thinking, once in awhile, I will ask students to test bogus theories or controversial ones in addition to more accepted rules of social influence or behavior.  On a few occassions I have presented such material in class as if it were true and then asked them to test the theory to encourage original thought and a sense of relying upon empirical data rather than simply accepting uncritically material presented by a so-called authority figure a la Milton Rokeach's model of the mind or Cialdini's so-called law of power (albeit, I do occassionally warn my students that sometimes I lie in class so they need to be careful and watchful of the material).

All the best,
Brian

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Test Your Awareness: Do The Test

Shinhwa Hypnosis X-File

What do you get when you mix Shinhwa, the longest running popular boyband out of Korea, with a special television program eXploring hypnosis?

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

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