Are You A Trance Guy Now, James?
Following last weeks post on Alpha States and Hypnosis, I had a few people suggesting that I might be beginning to ‘see the light’ in terms of recognising ‘trance’ as the basis of hypnosis. In the video I talked about Dr. Les Fehmi’s work on attention and how we use attention impacts us neurologically and…
Roland Suljic – HWT in Changework (Case Study No. 2)
This is a case study on the application of HWT to changework, presented by the incredibly creative hypnotist Roland Suljic. If you have any questions or comments, I know that both Roland and I would love to address them, so please do leave them in the comments section below! Over to Roland! The case: Subject…
Free Your Mind… There’s No Such ‘THING’ as Hypnosis!
OK… I guess it’s soapbox time! I have said it before but I haven’t said it THIS way before (and I’m not just talking about the psychedelic background). I really want people to be FREE to be the best hypnotist they can be, but sometimes it is hard to escape the the ‘jailhouse of stale…
Hypnosis: Deeper & Deeper into… New Hypnotic Realities!
As you may have noticed, the ‘tag-line’ for Hypnosis Without Trance is “No ‘Sleep’, No ‘Eyes Closed’, No ‘Deeper & Deeper’…” I love this tag-line, but I have a confession to make – it is not strictly true! No ‘sleep’… true! No ‘eyes closed…’ mostly true, but I do use eye-closure as part of my…
Hypnotherapy Without Trance
Hi Y’all SOME NEW VIDEOS! (Below) These videos are not going to be for everyone, because they are about HWT as it applies to Hypnotherapy (I have decided to use the term “hypnotherapy” for convenience, although personally I don’t like the whole ‘therapy’ frame, and am more of a ‘changework’ guy). I have had a…
Number Amnesia – Ideomotor Method
This clip was taken at the ‘No-Fail Protocol‘ workshop held in April 2010. It is a classic ‘Name Amnesia’ piece, but what is different here is that I am using ideomotor phenomena to set it up (ideomotoer to set up ideocognitive). The reason for this choice was that this volunteer had already shown great competence…
Quality of Response
New hypnotists are often concerned about whether or not they will ‘get’ the phenomenon that they are going for. So much so, in fact, that they often pay almost no attention to the quality of the responses they get – and it is the quality that carries the most useful information. Watch the vid! httpv://youtu.be/JZz2k_kdYWw
Invisibility Revisited
When I put the invisibility video up before, it received pretty ‘lukewarm’ reactions. At first this surprised me (because negative hallucination is such a strong phenomenon), but looking back it makes sense for 2 reasons: I had left off the suggestion sequence that sets up the phenomenon (things lose their impact outside of context). The…
What if it doesn’t work?!
Having formally taught this Hypnosis Without Trance method a few times now, it is coming to my attention that many people have a concern (maybe even an anxiety), that they are going to set up the process and have it ‘fail’ at a critical moment, leaving them looking foolish or incompetent. I totally get this…
Curiosity and Fascination as Tools for Hypnosis
What I have included here is a little snippet from the audios covering the concept of Curiosity Framing! This is something that I use a lot when hypnotising (so much so that I do it without thinking), and I think that it is a really valuable little tool for absorbing the subject in the process. Check out the audio clip and, as usual, I am happy to hear your comments on the blog.
