Diesel Magic of Christmas - Hypnosis Videos

This Christmas, Diesel decided to celebrate by giving the childhood joy of the season back to some of its most suggestible customers.  Over three episodes, we get to see them experience the Anticipation, the Joy and the Goodwill of Christmas, all while behaving like happy 5 year old children.

Head Hacking collaborated with Super Heroes, Skin Flicks and The General Assembly to create the most hypnotic series of advertising videos made to date.  We took 80 volunteers through the casting process, from which 10 were selected.  These wonderful hypnotic subjects then spent a magical day in a very special Diesel store.

Working to a tight story board and script, the directors pushed us to achieve very specific behaviour and ranges of emotions, many of which were achieved in a single take.  The whole team were very methodical and a joy to work with.  Everyone appeared to know their jobs inside out and worked amazingly quickly to achieve the shots that were needed.  The subjects were warm, friendly people and they thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Prior to the first episode being published, Diesel released a teaser video of the security camera footage.

The first episode, The Anticipation, relives the experience of waking up on Christmas morning as a young child, eager to find and open their presents.

The second episode is The Joy, and this is all about opening presents.

The final episode, The Goodwill, focuses on the inevitable consequences.

We had a lot of fun on this project and feel that the end result looks absolutely stunning.  I hope you enjoyed watching them.

If you're interested in how these videos were made, then luckily Diesel has published Behind The Dreams, a video about how it all came together.

Wishing you a happy winter solstice and a merry new year,

Head Hacking.

Automatic Imagination Model Hypnosis Demonstration

At change | phenomena, the hypnotism conference, 2012, Marcus Lewis demonstrated the Automatic Imagination Model of hypnosis on stage at Kings College London.

Here is a short video of it.

As you will see, the Automatic Imagination Model, developed by Head Hacking Research, allows the production of hypnotic phenomena without a hypnotic induction.  We think it works on many more people than traditional approaches to hypnosis and are dedicated to gathering formal evidence to test this idea.

The Automatic Imagination model is discussed on Ripped Apart audio CD, available at www.headhacking.com/products.

Please post comments on youtube and ask questions via www.headhacking.com/contact.

Kev

Ripped Apart Ringtones Free Download

Remember all the lovely acid squelchy noises on Ripped Apart audio CD (the Automatic Imagination Model)?  Well, I've cut them up into phone-friendly loops, suitable for use as ringtones and alert sounds.

There are three zip files, each containing the same 30 ringtones, one for iPhone, one for Android and one for Blackberry/Other.  There is also a short Read Me file that explains what to do with them.

http://bit.ly/PIU8aE

I hope you like them.

Kev

change | phenomena - The Hypnotism Conference 2012

We are pleased to announce that 'change | phenomena', the hypnotism conference, is returning to London on May 19^th, 2012.

New speakers will be sharing their remarkable thinking and ideas about how to use hypnosis in the real world. This will be a unique and thought provoking conference that will be of interest to anyone from hobbyist to clinical practitioner, who wishes to gain greater understanding and develop their skills. The emphasis this year is on presenting real world applications of hypnosis from a diverse range of experienced professionals.

We are offering a 10% discount for anyone booking their place before the end of March. This offer and full event details are available at http://www.changephenomena.com/

This years speakers are as follows:

Barry Thain: Clinical Hypnotism in Practice - Brain Surgery without Knives.

Gary 'Smiler' Turner: Psychological Skills Training in Sport

Adam Eason: Practical Self Hypnosis

Kev Sheldrake: The Subjective Experience of Hypnosis

Harry Lucas: Hypnosis – A Mystery Performer's Perspective

This will be followed by a chaired panel Question and Answer session with all speakers answering questions put forward by delegates during the day.

Those who have attended before agree this is a valuable conference, well worth attending and a great place to network with your peers in the industry.

Check the details at http://www.changephenomena.com/

If you can attend, I look forward to seeing you there.

Anthony Jacquin

Learn to Hypnotise - Free Lessons on You Tube

I am really excited to announce Head Hacking's new video channel where you can learn how to hypnotise in a series of free lessons.

The channel can be found on You Tube here:

http://www.youtube.com/how2hypnotise

The clips are drawn from lectures and trainings we have run around the world. We have included everything from the approach to the wake up and hope you find real value amongst the content. Those of you who are familiar with 'Reality is Plastic' book, 'The Manchurian Approach' DVD and 'The Trilby Connection' DVD will recognise the general structure but I am certain will pick up many subtleties from the demonstrations that will increase your effectiveness.

More videos will be added soon including more techniques, instruction from other hypnotists and much more.

Please share the links with those who have an interest in learning about hypnosis. Any questions based on the clips will be answered and any comments left on the channel much appreciated.

Anthony Jacquin

www.headhacking.com"

Where've we been?

Hello everyone

We've had a crazy 6 months and haven't blogged in that time. We have, however, become active on twitter (@headhackinglive) and instagram (instakev and hhaddict). Ant is, of course, still prolific on Facebook and email and you can find us both at uncommonforum.com's hypnosis board.

Last month we ran The Trilby Connection in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Our host, Frankie Lee, was very well organised and helpful with all aspects of our trip. We had a lot of fun and made lots of new friends. We expect to be back in Malaysia next year and are already looking forward to it.

On the research front we've been doing a lot of background reading and work on the scripts that will be delivered in our experiment. Over the coming months we hope to blog our thoughts on some of the more significant scientific papers - unfortunately, most of these cost money but hopefully given our review you will be better informed as to their value to you.

We have also launched a shop on amazon.co.uk recently. If you have our products, please review them on amazon to let other buyers know what you think.

Xmas discount - 20% off all Head Hacking products in December 2011. This discount also applies to our shop on amazon.co.uk as well as www.headhacking.com/products and www.headhacking.com/mproducts - our magicians' shop.

We'll both be at the Japanese Geek Dinner tomorrow night so might see some of you there.

Kev

Head Hacking giro per l'Italia

Ciao!

Head Hacking in Italia this weekend. I am sat at the back of the room (rather than on the stage at the front), with Marcus Lewis and Alex Hendrick, watching Anthony present. Why? Why are we at the back instead of presenting all together at the front? Because Anthony is being translated on-the-fly from urban Kentish to perfect Italiano by professional translator, Roberta, and it would just be too confusing and complicated for us all to talk together. Plus Anthony rarely leaves an opportunity for anyone to get a word in edgeways (must be something about being a hypnotist and talking relentlessly) but when there is a translator involved and Anthony gets 5 seconds to think between each sentence, there is absolutely no way anyone else would get a shot without first sticking Ant's mouth shut!

Milano was good to us last night and even though it sporadically rained heavily, many of the students found ways to get people interested and performed. In Italy many people seem to be scared of the word hypnosis, and more so about the word Sleep. This is clearly just superstition but it can be a major barrier to street hypnosis. Yes, fear is emotion and can be worked with, but if the subject won't even give you the time of day and is scared to be in your presence then it's much harder to get them to clasp their hands together and make a desperate prayer.

To get around this the students generally did not mention hypnosis with anyone over the age of 20. They just offered to show some mind tricks or to show how the subjects could use their mind to make interesting things happen. It was an exercise in reframing that paid off; once the students got over the fear of approaching random people, and their subjects weren't scared off by the word hypnosis, they found that people were interested and would follow their instructions. Just as in the UK, the majority of the public were having their usual Saturday evening and jumped at the chance to experience something amazing and different. Any question whether this would be more difficult in Italy was mute and we all had a wonderful time.

Many thanks to Dialogica, Alex Hendrick and all the students for making this such a great course.

Kev