When old bread grows fungus on it, many of us have laughingly said that a bit of penicillin isn’t going to harm us; and chopping off the offending portion we have proceeded to make toast and eat it! Now we hear a lot about medici...

Many alternative therapists actually hold conventional therapy to be responsible to causing or at any rate exacerbating existing cancers. Mammograms, which is a common mode of breast cancer detection and which traditional medicin...

Today's episode of the eXperiential Hypnocast is a video explanation of the TAROT TRANCE process that I love so well. See it at http://podcast.briandavidphillips.net and keep coming back for more as more is on the way! All the best,...

As most of the regular readers know, last Monday was Lorraine's birthday - see http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2010/03/happy-birthday-lorraine.html. Since it was a school day, we decided we'd have the "official" birthday...

In this episode of the eXperiential Hypnocast, I demonstrate a playful yet powerful technique based upon ancient wisdom with a contemporary twist for externalizing internal feelings through the use of sigils, signs, symbols, or glyp...

Yesterday at school, my daughter Kaye took part in a relay swim meet. She was on the team representing her year and program (the music specialty program, first year students). The girls in her team were strong swimmers and knew...

While there are many who are frankly skeptical to not downright dismissive of homeopathy in the United States, the discipline appears to have rather more credibility in Europe and other parts of the world. Some of these figures are ...

Chakras relate to a form of ancient belief that the body is also an energy portal. This form of belief holds that a chakra is a place on the body which receives and processes life force energy that we need to survive. Our bodies ...

Yoga Chi Gung is, in a sense a product of our times. Drawing from ancient disciplines, this holistic system for good health is able to integrate two diverse systems that grew in complete isolation from each other and brings them ...

We are reminded here of the reasons why alternative therapies for a number of health issues including ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) have been gaining in popularity. The fact is that even conventional therapies for ...

As the west becomes more and more sensitized to alternative and even spiritual healing, it is becoming possible to talk about medicine other than conventional therapy without being apologetic or diffident. A number of strong voices ...

HYPNOSUMMIT PROGRAM Brian David Phillips Suggestibility Sequencing, March 27, 7am HypnoDrunk, March 28, 6am Pacific Daylight Time Check for your local Time Zone! The program for the upcoming HYPNOSUMMIT of March 27-28 is now online!...

This Info graphic is about the various purported health benefits of the health supplements on offer, their popularity and their effectiveness at actually helping. Is Vitamin C worth taking or not? Does Echinacea kill colds? Missin...

A few years ago, one of my nephews had a gallstone. As far as we are away from the medical world, we thought that the gallstone was equal to a kidney stone, and lots of water or a few quick beers would solve the problem. We also k...

Green tea has of late been credited with a number of seemingly miraculous cures and treatments, literally from ulcer to cancer! And when the talk show icon Oprah Winfrey announced to the world, that green tea could help in weight...

Happy Birthday Lorraine! I LOVE YOU! With each passing birthday and every passing year . . . I love you more and more. All the best, Brian (If you are reading this blog post via a stream, go to http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/...

The Victorians had many names for depression, and Charles Darwin used them all. There were his “fits” brought on by “excitements,” “flurries” leading to an “uncomfortable palpitation of the heart” and “air fatigues” that triggered h...

I teach communication and influence theory in certain of my courses at the university and begin every year quoting from my favorite Roman philosopher on the first day of class . . . long ago, Marcus Fabius Quintilian who is...

Now up on the podcast, HAPPY FINGER ANCHORING PROCESS . . . this is a video episode of the eXperiential Hypnocast with explanation and demonstration of the HAPPY FINGER process many of you have enjoyed in the past . ....

Often there’s a tendency to know a particular practice one way. A habit is formed, albeit a good one, you get comfortable, it works for you and you stick to that routine, to the idea of what the practice is and can bring. Authentic ...