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A quick hello to wish you a wonderful New Year! And to hop once more into sharing a wonderful episode from this last year. I have such a great time chatting with Derek Heron! I was lucky enough to have Derek demonstrate a fun protocol called Mindscaping with me and I was fascinated. In today's episode, he explains all about what it is, how it works and why it's useful in helping you clear away stubborn or annoying issues in your life. He shares all about carefully sculpting the features of your internal map to change your mind, changing your life. Derek has a unique perspective on the work he's doing today, as compared to, as he says, 'the old school ways' of doing it years ago. It's a bit of a Goldilocks story he shares in his quest to find the right fit to work with his clients for the best outcome in clearing not just one, but many symptoms. Finding just the right fit is something that serves so many now in the healing he's brought their way. Derek Heron is a qualified hypnotherapist with 2 diplomas in Hypnotherapy and has undertaken numerous certificated courses including The Swan Masterclass. Hypnotherapy for PTSD and Level 2 Certification in Self-harm and Suicide Awareness and Prevention. During 2020 and 2021 Derek embarked on further study and is now a Sexual Freedom Hypnosis therapist, one of only a handful of trained certificated practitioners in Europe. In May 2022 Derek became a qualified CBT practitioner. Derek has a global practice, holding client sessions over the internet using media platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Derek is also a respected author, keynote speaker and freelance body language analyst. Derek has written about and presented seminars on body language, perception, linguistics and memory. You can connect with Derek here: Survive PTSD Cognitive Cure Derek on CATCHptsd And if you're interested in learning more about Mindscaping, you can go learn it yourself with the creator, Mike Mandel here: Mike Mandel Hypnosis Of course, please feel free to send me YOUR questions anytime, or connect with me for an actual conversation to get them answered. I definitely look forward to connecting with you anytime! If you'd like to have a FREE life mapping chat with me, you can grab a time right here to do that: 20 Minute FREE Life Mapping Session You can also find me on the CATCH website. It has a great video and some free recordings right there to explain more. CATCH - Laura Ordile Please come join me in The Change Gang Group! Change Gang Group Grab yourself a freebie made just for YOU here: Fun FREEBIES! And I have a brand new one that's not even on the website yet. If you'd like to boost your happiness and increase your sleep, this one's for you! Sleep Better and Live Happier! And I'm also always happy to connect on Instagram: Laura Ordile Thank you so much for joining me in the fun. I'd be very grateful if you would be willing to take a moment and rate and review the show for me. And I hope you have a great week! Happy day to you, Laura
I have such a great time chatting with Derek Heron! I was lucky enough to have Derek demonstrate a fun protocol called Mindscaping. He explains all about what it is, how it works and why it's useful in helping you clear away stubborn or annoying issues in your life. He shares all about carefully sculpting the features of your internal map to change your mind, changing your life. Derek has a unique perspective on the work he's doing today, as compared to, as he says, 'the old school ways' of doing it years ago. It's a bit of a Goldilocks story he shares in his quest to find the right fit to work with his clients for the best outcome in clearing not just one, but many symptoms. Finding just the right fit is something that serves so many now in the healing he's brought their way. Derek Heron is a qualified hypnotherapist with 2 diplomas in Hypnotherapy and has undertaken numerous certificated courses including The Swan Masterclass. Hypnotherapy for PTSD and Level 2 Certification in Self-harm and Suicide Awareness and Prevention. During 2020 and 2021 Derek embarked on further study and is now a Sexual Freedom Hypnosis therapist, one of only a handful of trained certificated practitioners in Europe. In May 2022 Derek became a qualified CBT practitioner. Derek has a global practice, holding client sessions over the internet using media platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Derek is also a respected author, keynote speaker and freelance body language analyst. Derek has written about and presented seminars on body language, perception, linguistics and memory. You can connect with Derek here: Survive PTSD Cognitive Cure Derek on CATCHptsd And if you're interested in learning more about Mindscaping, you can go learn it yourself with the creator, Mike Mandel here: Mike Mandel Hypnosis I definitely look forward to connecting more with you! If you'd like to have a FREE life mapping chat with me, you can grab a time right here to do that: 20 Minute FREE Life Mapping Session You can also find me on the CATCH website. It has a great video and some free recordings right there to explain more. CATCH - Laura Ordile Please come join me in The Change Gang Group! Change Gang Group Grab yourself a freebie made just for YOU here: Fun FREEBIES! And I have a brand new one that's not even on the website yet. If you'd like to boost your happiness and increase your sleep, this one's for you! Sleep Better and Live Happier! And I'm also always happy to connect on Instagram: Laura Ordile Thank you so much for joining me in the fun. I'd be very grateful if you would be willing to take a moment and rate and review the show for me. And I hope you have a great week! Happy day to you, Laura
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Masterpiece, published by Richard Ngo on February 14, 2024 on LessWrong. A sequel to qntm's Lena. Reading Lena first is helpful but not necessary. We're excited to announce the fourth annual MMindscaping competition! Over the last few years, interest in the art of mindscaping has continued to grow rapidly. We expect this year's competition to be our biggest yet, and we've expanded the prize pool to match. The theme for the competition is "Weird and Wonderful" - we want your wackiest ideas and most off-the-wall creations! Competition rules As in previous competitions, the starting point is a base MMAcevedo mind upload. All entries must consist of a single modified version of MMAcevedo, along with a written or recorded description of the sequence of transformations or edits which produced it. For more guidance on which mind-editing techniques can be used, see the Technique section below. Your entry must have been created in the last 12 months, and cannot have been previously submitted to any competition or showcase. Submissions will be given preliminary ratings by a team of volunteers, with finalists judged by our expert panel: Roger Keating, mindscaping pioneer and founder of the MMindscaping competition. Raj Sutramana, who has risen to prominence as one of the most exciting and avant-garde mindscaping artists, most notably with his piece Screaming Man. Kelly Wilde, director of the American Digital Liberties Union. All entries must be received no later than 11.59PM UTC, March 6, 2057. Award criteria Our judges have been instructed to look for technique, novelty, and artistry. More detail on what we mean by each of these: Technique. Mindscaping is still a young art, and there are plenty of open technical challenges. These range from the classic problem of stable emotional engineering, to recent frontiers of targeted memory editing, to more speculative work on consciousness funnels. Be ambitious! Previous winners of our technique prize have often pushed the boundaries of what was believed possible. Even when an effect could be achieved using an existing technique, though, submissions that achieve the same outcome in more efficient or elegant ways will score highly on the technique metric. Conversely, we'll penalize brute-force approaches - as a rough guide, running a few thousand reinforcement learning episodes is acceptable, but running millions isn't. We also discourage approaches that involve overwriting aspects of MMAcevedo's psyche with data from other uploads: part of the competition is figuring out how to work with the existing canvas you've been given. Novelty. Given that there have now been millions of MMAcevedo variants made, it's difficult to find an approach that's entirely novel. However, the best entries will steer clear of standard themes. For example, we no longer consider demonstrations of extreme pleasure or pain to be novel (even when generated in surprising ways). We're much more interested in minds which showcase more complex phenomena, such as new gradients of emotion. Of course, it's up to the artist to determine how these effects are conveyed to viewers. While our judges will have access to standard interpretability dashboards, the best entries will be able to communicate with viewers more directly. Artistry. Even the most technically brilliant and novel work falls flat if not animated by artistic spirit. We encourage artists to think about what aspects of their work will connect most deeply with their audience. In particular, we're excited about works which capture fundamental aspects of the human experience that persist even across the biological-digital divide - for example, by exploring themes from Miguel Acevedo's pre-upload life. These three criteria are aptly demonstrated by many of our previous prizewinners, such as: Discord, a copy with ...
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Masterpiece, published by Richard Ngo on February 14, 2024 on LessWrong. A sequel to qntm's Lena. Reading Lena first is helpful but not necessary. We're excited to announce the fourth annual MMindscaping competition! Over the last few years, interest in the art of mindscaping has continued to grow rapidly. We expect this year's competition to be our biggest yet, and we've expanded the prize pool to match. The theme for the competition is "Weird and Wonderful" - we want your wackiest ideas and most off-the-wall creations! Competition rules As in previous competitions, the starting point is a base MMAcevedo mind upload. All entries must consist of a single modified version of MMAcevedo, along with a written or recorded description of the sequence of transformations or edits which produced it. For more guidance on which mind-editing techniques can be used, see the Technique section below. Your entry must have been created in the last 12 months, and cannot have been previously submitted to any competition or showcase. Submissions will be given preliminary ratings by a team of volunteers, with finalists judged by our expert panel: Roger Keating, mindscaping pioneer and founder of the MMindscaping competition. Raj Sutramana, who has risen to prominence as one of the most exciting and avant-garde mindscaping artists, most notably with his piece Screaming Man. Kelly Wilde, director of the American Digital Liberties Union. All entries must be received no later than 11.59PM UTC, March 6, 2057. Award criteria Our judges have been instructed to look for technique, novelty, and artistry. More detail on what we mean by each of these: Technique. Mindscaping is still a young art, and there are plenty of open technical challenges. These range from the classic problem of stable emotional engineering, to recent frontiers of targeted memory editing, to more speculative work on consciousness funnels. Be ambitious! Previous winners of our technique prize have often pushed the boundaries of what was believed possible. Even when an effect could be achieved using an existing technique, though, submissions that achieve the same outcome in more efficient or elegant ways will score highly on the technique metric. Conversely, we'll penalize brute-force approaches - as a rough guide, running a few thousand reinforcement learning episodes is acceptable, but running millions isn't. We also discourage approaches that involve overwriting aspects of MMAcevedo's psyche with data from other uploads: part of the competition is figuring out how to work with the existing canvas you've been given. Novelty. Given that there have now been millions of MMAcevedo variants made, it's difficult to find an approach that's entirely novel. However, the best entries will steer clear of standard themes. For example, we no longer consider demonstrations of extreme pleasure or pain to be novel (even when generated in surprising ways). We're much more interested in minds which showcase more complex phenomena, such as new gradients of emotion. Of course, it's up to the artist to determine how these effects are conveyed to viewers. While our judges will have access to standard interpretability dashboards, the best entries will be able to communicate with viewers more directly. Artistry. Even the most technically brilliant and novel work falls flat if not animated by artistic spirit. We encourage artists to think about what aspects of their work will connect most deeply with their audience. In particular, we're excited about works which capture fundamental aspects of the human experience that persist even across the biological-digital divide - for example, by exploring themes from Miguel Acevedo's pre-upload life. These three criteria are aptly demonstrated by many of our previous prizewinners, such as: Discord, a copy with ...
This week's episode of Spotlights features Dan Smyer Yü, PhD, the Kuige Professor of Ethnology in the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Yunnan University and a Global Faculty Member at the University of Cologne. He discusses his multifaceted, interdisciplinary work with religion and ecology, including his work with trans-Himalayan studies, Buddhism and ecology, ecological indigeneity, commoning, and the role of affect in responding to climate change. Along the way, he talks about some of his books, like Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Eco-aesthetics (De Gruyter 2015) as well as some of his co-edited volumes, including Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China (Routledge 2014), Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities (Amsterdam University Press 2017), and Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability (Routledge 2021).
Donovon tells us about coding and depression. He also tells us about a leap of faith he took after his boss kept promising a promotion that was never coming. ********I'm a Utah native who has long been interested in human development and health. I double-majored in psychology and health policy, graduating Magna Cum Laude through the Honors College at the University of Utah. I'm an entrepreneur who has been involved in several projects, mainly focusing on music and poetry. In my free time, I enjoy playing soccer, writing poetry, and discussing philosophy.I'm an author, co-host of the HappyTalks podcast, and software engineer at Google. I love the work you're doing at Better To. I was especially drawn to the story-based format. I run the website How to Happy, which focuses on tools and information for optimizing happiness using psychologically sound principles. My recent book Mindscaping focuses on practical steps individuals can take to increase happiness, health, and wellbeing. I teach several courses, including Goal Setting Challenge and Happiness Challenge, each with over 4,000 studentsI also enjoy creating rap and poetry. I teach courses on these subjects as well with over 10,000 students. My corresponding Youtube channel has 1.6+ million views.*********If you would like to contact the show about being a guest please email us at Dauna@betertopodcast.comFollow us on Social MediaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0ETs2wpOHbCuhUNr0XFTw?view_as=subscriberInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/author_d.m.needom/Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaunaD1Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bettertopodcastwithdmneedomThe video of the interview is available here: https://youtu.be/Dw1eYOmYt2MHave a question or want to be a guest on the podcast email: dauna@bettertopodcast.comTo see upcoming guests click here: https://www.dmneedom.com/better-topodcastSupport the podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/bettertopodcastwithdmneedomSound Design and production by Rich Zei at Third Ear Audio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thirdearaudioproductionsBuzzsprout: Affiliate link https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1832259©2022 Better To...Podcast with D. M.NeedomSupport the show
Our guest, Zelda “Sally” O'Connor, explains the spirituality element in her modality of hypnosis used in counseling others. The unique style of Mindscaping, created by hypnotist Mike Mandel, is a method used where a client can experience the full benefit of easily resolving conflicts without having to reveal what those conflicts are to others. It's inspiring to hear, and Waking Lions is proud to bring this episode to you—after all, it's Time to Focus on You! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Mindscaping proves to be a unique form of hypnosis where the client literally builds their own world in their mind with the obscure guidance of a professional hypnotist. Sally O'Connor, or Zelda as she's actually named, gives full details of this incredible journey. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Something I don't talk about often but practicing and working on every day - mindscaping. The better I get at it - the easier life gets, the faster I make progress, and forming habits, breaking not-serving ones becomes almost instant. (Things are still hard but I'm not quitting and 100% consistent)My Free Brain Performance Course (1700 students in 113 countries!)"Cancel Brain Fog to Prime Deep Focus, Productivity and Flow"Produced by Angela Shurina,CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHNutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition as a tool to unlock your brain genius and unlimited energy level
Donovon releases his new book, Mindscaping! And in this episode of HappyTalks we discuss what to expect and some important information about the book! Dr. Alice Fong is a naturopathic doctor, known as the “Virtual Stress Doc,” and she helps busy professionals break free from stress, anxiety, and burnout without having to quit their jobs using a 5-step holistic approach. She is the founder of Amour de Soi Wellness and her mission is to help people discover self-love and happiness. She has given several talks around the country for healthcare providers, corporations, women's conferences and for the general public. Donovon Jenson is a software engineer in the Bay Area and the founder of howtohappy.com. He is a Utah native who has long been interested in human development and health. He double majored in psychology and health policy, and graduated Magna Cum Laude through the Honors College at the University of Utah. How to Happy strives to provide thoughtful and actionable insights on living a happier life. We believe happiness is the result of self-awareness, balance and a positive mindset, among a myriad of other things. Our goal is to inspire you to see life through a new lens by adding strategies and exercises to your toolbox, then encouraging you to take action. We are all capable of being happier, let's work together to find the best pathways to get there. Together we're out to cause more happiness in the world! Dr. Alice Fong http://www.dralicefong.com https://www.facebook.com/DrAliceFong/ https://www.instagram.com/dralicefong/ https://twitter.com/DrAliceFong https://www.youtube.com/dralicefong Donovon Jenson https://howtohappy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheHowToHappy/ https://www.instagram.com/thehowtohappy/ https://twitter.com/TheHowToHappy https://www.youtube.com/HowtoHappy Michael Lira, Voice Actor Opening Credits Voice https://www.michaelapollolira.com/ Information on this video is provided for general educational purposes only and is not intended to constitute medical advice or counseling. #mindscaping #happy #howtohappy --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/happytalks/support
De Anti-zelfsabotage-brigade - Breinpiraten podcast #31 https://www.breinpiraten.be/ In deze aflevering van de Breinpiraten zullen we het niet hebben over sabotage, maar wél over: - de kennismaking met Breinpiraat Jelena Cecelja - de Breinpiraten interviews komen als podcast afleveringen beschikbaar - onze volgende activiteiten, zie https://www.breinpiraten.be/events - Mindscaping met toelichting van Jelena - Zelfsabotage: - als competitie tussen delen - als negatief zelfbeeld, gevoel van tekortschieten - beperkende overtuigingen - angst om te 'outshinen' - de positieve intentie achter zelfsabotage - van beperkende naar vermogende overtuigingen - paradigma shifts - van 'moeten' naar 'mogen' en 'kunnen' - ruimte creëren - 'Zone of incompetence', 'Zone of competence', 'Zone of Genius' - overkomen van barrières Deze boeken worden aangehaald: - The Big Leap (Gay Hendricks) - The Willpower Instinct (Kelly McGonigal) En de aflevering wordt afgesloten met een begeleide visualisatieoefening. Beluister de Breinpiraten podcast: www.breinpiraten.be/podcast Abonneer je op het Breinpiraten kanaal op YouTube: www.youtube.com/breinpiraten?sub_confirmation=1 Gebruik deze link om deze video te delen: https://youtu.be/n9saAPgQGdQ Volg onze livestreams en conversaties op Facebook: www.facebook.com/breinpiraten www.facebook.com/groups/breinpiraten #breinpiraten #podcast #zelfsabotage
Breng je kerst- en nieuwjaarsgesprekken naar 't volgende niveau Breinpiraten Podcast Aflevering 23 https://soundcloud.com/breinpiraten/podcast-23-breng-je-kerst-en-nieuwjaarsgesprekken-naar-t-volgende-niveau In deze podcast blikken de Breinpiraten terug op de voorbije JubileumParley; - ze geven een woordje uitleg over Mindscaping en verwennen je met - een hele reeks fijne praktische tips om je conversaties aan de kersttafel, tijdens de nieuwjaarsrecepties en lang nadien, een extrafijn tintje te geven. Het leven mag immers plezant en aangenaam zijn voor jou en bij tijden lichtjes vervelend voor anderen ;) Wil je hier het fijne over weten, schrijf je dan in voor de NLP Blended flex training via www.breinpiraten.be Beluister de Breinpiraten podcast: https://www.breinpiraten.be/podcast Abonneer je op het Breinpiraten kanaal op YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/breinpiraten?sub_confirmation=1 Volg onze livestreams en conversaties op Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breinpiraten https://www.facebook.com/groups/breinpiraten #breinpiraten #podcast #babbelboosts
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Go to rickonfacebook.com to join the Mind Flipping Facebook Group!! Share your feedback, questions and comments with us! Ryan Smith is a performance and endurance coach working with executive level athletes to achieve maximal results. Using a variety of approaches, these athletes balance their personal and professional lives. His methodologies, developed and refined over time, help the individual to maximize performance by fine tuning their mental, nutritional, and physical profiles. With his partner, Dr. Jen Quammen, he helps Veterinary Professionals achieve a high performance life. Ryan discusses his journey from Physical Education to Finance to Coaching, what led him to working with veterinarians and his very recent Mind Flip. What does it mean to thrive and why is change different than transformation? Plus he shares easy strategies and tools for flipping your mind, his belief in edutainment, his struggle with impostor syndrome and how he’s working through it. Show Notes: Ryan’s cocktail party pitch (3:35) The thriving mindset (4:50) Ryan’s personal Mind Flipping Story (6:13) Why does Ryan now work with veterinarians? (11:20) Ryan’s HypnoThoughts Live Mind Flip (15:33) What is a Kinetic Shift? (17:26) Muse Headband as an easy tool for Mind Flipping (20:32) The other Mind Flipping tools Ryan loves to use (23:03) The quick method to relieve stress (24:22) The Spackle Round (27:29) Ryan’s Word of the Day The difference between change and transformation (28:59) What Ryan always thought he’d believe (30:34) Ryan’s current struggle (32:22) Ryan’s Get of Jail Card says… (35:23) Ryan’s request for listeners: Be kind to your veterinarian (and make sure your pets are getting regular check ups) (37:06) Resources From the Show To learn more about work with Ryan, visit High Performance Living HypnoThoughts Live Scott Sandland on Episode 7 Muse Headband for $199 (at Target.com) Mindscaping from Mike Mandel Psy-Tap Kevin Laye Psy-Tap Interview with demonstrations HPTI Watch this episode on Youtube!!!
Here are the show notes from this episode: May Hypnosis Training is sold-out, and June is too! We’ve opened up the November 2018 training, so look here… Melissa Tiers did an amazing job teaching for us at the University of Toronto! And we had it videoed for her too… Hats off to Mike Mandel for doing an amazing MINDSCAPING training on the Friday… Are addictions just habits that are driven by anxiety? We think so. Most people just stop the addiction when they’ve had enough, although people are told they’ll have to deal with it for their whole lives… Mike’s mentor Derek Balmer turned alcoholics into social drinkers… People get addicted to a dopamine release with their smart phones and squeezing blackheads… People in the AA program keep on saying “I’m an alcoholic” and reinforce the problem at the level of Identity! It’s all about self-directed neuroplasticity and you’re rewiring your brain! What’s the benefit of the addiction? Find another way to get it… Stop! Push the picture down and away, and then re-script. The result is new neural pathways! The Meta Pattern is the same as ADAC: Associate – Dissociate – Associate – Collapse! Setting up the Awesome Anchor! It’s Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic, and you can stack it up with resources! The 100 Day Challenge begins Saturday May 12th, so make your life awesome! Videos for 100 days on our Instagram Channel…#MMHAwesome We will be awarding significant prizes to those who post and follow along! The tattoo anchor! The picture turned out wrong…Horrible, but funny, so stack those positive anchors… Virtual Gastric Band treatment? You still have to change what you eat. We don’t prescribe, diagnose, or treat disease, and we’re not telling you what to do; just what we do. Empowering Question: How will you use all the awesome and free Brain Software material to have an awesome and fantastic life? Empowering Metafive: Henry O’Hagen and the missing childhood Ending: The MMHA Theme Music (Thanks Greg McColl!) Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send us your questions for future episodes! You can either email them as text or record them using your phone’s voice recorder and email us the audio file! Email address is info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Here are the show notes from this episode: Moving from Thinking to Taking Action! If you don’t execute, nothing happens! Move away from analysis paralysis and towards action. Closing in on MINDSCAPING certification on Friday May 4th, 2018! Melissa Tiers will be arriving from New York to teach her Addictions Protocol Word of the Day: Vehicle – Getting from where you are to where you want to be… The Magic Question again! What do you want? or the Clean Language version: What would you like to have happen? Check out the Hypnotherapy Sandwich here. Identify the target in positive terms, because you’re the one who’s going to take action! Be very thorough in your changework so the change lasts… Don’t attempt to fix everything at once! One key thing or key big-chunk at a time is enough Chris says “Life is a Road-trip” which is a great metaphor! Stop blowing money? Or start saving money? What do you want? Tiny changes over time stack up and lead to great rewards. You have to start though… Write down your plan and make it manageable to avoid Overwhelm. Too much Chaos steals Order! The 2 Minute Rule! It enables you to get started NOW! Celebrate small victories… The Big Chunks of Life – Resources, Health, Money, Relationships…etc. What’s the priority for you? If I could only have one of these important things, which would it be? Clear the clutter, and the time-clutter! What will you remove that takes too much of your time? A word from our sponsor: The Shizzjigg Corporation Six Action Shoes: Navy blue formal shoes – Procedures, checklists, routines. Gray sneaker – Exploration, investigation, sneaking and gathering evidence. Brown brogues – Sensible shoes for practicality and pragmatic action. Orange gumboots – Firefighter boots for safety, emergencies, urgent problems. Pink slipper – Care, compassion, sensitivity, human feelings and comfort. Purple riding boots – Emperor on a horse. Leadership, command and Imperial authority. Read Six Action Shoes by Edward De Bono. It’s an awesome book so buy it now! Empowering Question: What will I take action on today to get myself moving toward where I want to be? What will I do this very day to get started in the optimal direction for my life? Empowering Metaphor: The Minden Tidal Wave Ending: The Border Crossing at the Maginot Line
Here are the show notes from this episode: This is all about thinking folks! Alone, in small groups or huge gatherings… Everyone needs to think well, and we’ll show you how… It’s Spring today! Hurrah! Melissa Tiers is coming to Toronto soon! Come to Toronto and join us in the class. And while you’re at it, take the MINDSCAPING training with Mike… May Architecture of Hypnosis is SOLD-OUT! You can still come to the June class if you book soon. Come to HypnoThoughts Live 2018 in Las Vegas in August, and meet Chris and I and study with us live… Check out our Wellness Academy and change your life. It’s the stuff we do, and the way we live! MINDSCAPING intersperses with other therapies, or you can use it alone… Chris is managing ego states and just rockin’ through 2018…managing time with his daughters Axolotl and Barbarella… Mike’s word Onward will enable him to write his Magnum Opus…His eating has changed too, as has gene expression! The Word of the Day is CHALLENGE We are moving away from the Krysse and Jeff Show to a new business model… Mike does a horrible cough and forgets to say “We’ll edit it out”… Mike will be a Senior Citizen on April 29th! That’s really old… Is thinking just asking and answering questions? Don’t substitute the kinesthetic sense for thinking! It seldom works! The moron who invested based on his good feelings… It’s okay to notice if something feels right…but it must be based on sound analysis too… Watch out for the scam artists! They’re out there…and facts don’t care about your feelings… Am I substituting feelings for thinking? Ask yourself… Investigative thinking sorts through the known and finds the relevant. Exploratory thinking searches the unknown… Investigative thinking shows up in inverted V formations in the writing. Analytical thinking shows up as deep V formations that touch the baseline. It shows up in Ms and Ns… Analysis discards what is not needed, because more information will not always help…You must sort and discard! Keen comprehension is sharp points in the writing; often when Ms and Ns look like Us…This is quick mindedness… Cumulative thinking is slower, building block thinking. It is tied to creativity too… Mike jumps in with a hilariously brilliant joke about drinking poison and a real estate agent! Elon Musk gets it right, folks! Intuition is a thinking skill. It’s not psychic, but the answer is…6 of clubs! It’s making drawing conscious conclusions based on unconscious clues. As the right questions! It’s part of the Socratic Method! The Large X explanation. The upper V is success. The lower inverted V is failure. They’re both exponential! Chris says that everything that is growth oriented in any direction is exponential. He’s right! Everything you do to improve your life will have an exponential effect! This podcast is the proof it works…Loochie! 10% improvements are awesome, even though Chris Ken Sweatmans it a bit… It is crucial to increase your schema. Add new stuff! Always. Everyday. Be a Renaissance Man or Polymath Woman! Turn off the damn television and fill your brains with something useful. Edward de Bono’s book: Six Thinking Hats is awesome! The Blue hat is the sky. The organiser’s hat. Processes, control, the agenda, the summary, etc. The Green Hat is growth, life, creativity, new ideas. Great ideas can come from stupid ideas – like Post-it Notes! The Black Hat is organised negativity. What can screw up? What’s wrong with the plan? Don’t wear the Black Hat when you’re being creative! Wear it at the end when implementing the plan. The Yellow Hat is the sun! It’s optimism, fun, positives and benefits. The White Hat is pure data. Information, no emotion at all, facts and figures and stats, Google Analytics, etc. The Red Hat is emotions. It justifies any emotions, good and bad. Gut sense, anger, fear, etc. It switches us to the kinesthetic system! The key is flexibility. Learn to switch between them all! Just by wearing imaginary hats, you can direct the thinking of yourself, or a group. Buy Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. It’s a great book! All his books are great, come to think of it! Empowering Question: What is my strongest thinking style, and how will I make better use of it today? What is my strongest thinking style, and how will I apply it today, to have a better life tomorrow? Empowering Metaphor: The nine men and women and the jigsaw puzzles Ending: The Anthem of The Bag Men of Edward the Confessor (When Drumming Comes and Juju) Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send us your questions for future episodes! You can either email them as text or record them using your phone’s voice recorder and email us the audio file! Email address is info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Here are the show notes from this episode: Melissa Tiers is coming to Toronto soon! Come to Toronto and join us in the class. And while you’re at it, take the MINDSCAPING training with Mike… May AoH is SOLD-OUT! You can still come to the June class if you book soon. Chris is giving Mike a raise! Woo hoo… Mike’s been reading Jordan B. Peterson’s book – 12 Rules for Life and it’s all about Order over Chaos… Chris bought the Audible book and Mike lies and says you can get an “audio highlighter” now. Chris believes him, which is scary when you think about it. Mike wants to see a firearms thing that helps you change guns and continue targeting on aliens if they’re attacking Earth! This is how we do it! This is how we do it Downtown… The Taoist symbol, Yin Yang is an order vs chaos symbol. Look for the dot there, folks! The point is to have one foot in each world…Neither too much chaos, nor too much order… Perfect order cannot be achieved, and a garbage dump accepts everything – but it’s not pure Chaos because there is still structure and Order! Chris says “Conversationally interested hypnotists” which is brilliant or just weird. Mike calls Chris “Yin” and breaks into a spirited rendition of The Captain Game It’s official! Chris used to play Dungeons and Dragons in Montreal. Who would have guessed? Lawful Evil – Chaotic Good…strange…and with Chaotic Neutral you never know what’s going to happen… Too much chaos is bad, but so is too much order. Anarchy is too much Chaos. Fascism is too much order! So is boredom. A little Chaos is a good thing. It staves off too much order and boredom and staleness… Mike found order through the electronic calendar. Anxiety can mean too much Chaos! Too much unpredictability… Start with Podcast #1 if you’ve just gotten into Brain Software. There is an arc to what we do! Chris nearly says too much but is reigned-in just in time… Chris invokes the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle but Mike isn’t sure why. so he applies it to the temperature of bath water. There’s Order everywhere! Even phone numbers, because you cannot call any number at random and hope to get the correct person… Mike invokes Edward de Bono’s Provocative Operation and explains how chaos intrudes can create abject creativity… Even our podcast is an example! There’s a structure but then we wing it by adding Chaos! Chris comments on another podcast that has too much order. .. There are always elements of Order in all Chaos and vice versa… Chris laughs and Mike yells “Loochie!” Don’t smell the dishcloth! Or most things for that matter… Chris spoils the illusion of the downtown Toronto expensive studio… What special thing do we do for our 100th podcast? We can tell when we have a foot in each world; neither bored, nor overwhelmed. Chris mentions his daughter and Mike calls her Glapotrynne, which is damn hilarious and creative and brilliant! We seek some Chaos to escape from boredom. Mike says “Then they will Singh!” but Chris misses it completely. Mike exposes Chris’ condescending abuse that the audience never hears… Chris has heard stories… Mike brought order to his life with graphotherapy! Organize those small letter Fs folks by balancing those loops. Check out our graphology video here! Remember to start small when you’re adding Order to the Chaos of your life! Add Chaos by getting out of the rut! Learn something new to spark your creativity… Jokes reset your attention span! How cool is that? Make sure you do it every ten minutes or so… Foveal vision is a RAM hog! “Those who are not at threshold are willing to accept the level of Chaos in their lives.” – Mike Mandel Mike starts singing Callejjonno but Chris seizes the locus of control. Gotta be change, gotta be me, and gotta be now… You cannot be forced to go to threshold (although you can stir the pot and nudge them) Don’t put a chaotic malcontent into an orderly workplace. He’ll screw up everyone else! It will lead to a level of despision… Check out our Wellness Academy and change your life. It’s the stuff we do! Empowering Question: What is the greatest area of chaos in my life and how will I impose positive order upon it? What components of my daily life have become much too orderly and rigid and how will I open doors to a bit of creative chaos? Empowering Metaphor: Feeding the birds and squirrels… Ending: Brian? Brian? Andy’s here…
Here are the show notes from this episode: The show gets off to a bad start, with Mike saying “Loochie” way too many times… We’ve made it to Podcast #95! Unbelievable…The early shows were horrible. Chris actually says “Kltpzyxm” for the first time! What is anxiety? It’s why we’re here…for your…now…that’s right… You can get our Stress Relief audio product at mikemandelhypnosis.com/stress7 Warrington Reversal from Chris! He’s on a roll, folks! Chris catches himself saying “The most soon”??? What was that? Anyway, we have Melissa Tiers and MINDSCAPING coming up… There may be a single spot left for the May Architecture of Hypnosis training… You will love our training! Come to Toronto… Mike admits he dreamed about Melissa Tiers and punched out some scruffy guy…He used a fist which is a No No! What about the UK Hypnosis Convention? We aren’t going this year…(sob) Mike is needed elsewhere, and it’s ecology first! Tammy from Israel asks a question…What about metaphor cards? Mythos and OHcards are awesome! Sneeze! What about George Dillman and his pressure-point knockouts…What’s happening here?!!? If you’re in a martial art where the opponent has to believe in it for it to work…you might want to find a new martial art… Tappety tap tap on the pressure points… NLP Mindreading discussed! Not telepathy…but thinking you know what they are thinking…and there’s also reverse mindreading too! 6 of clubs! Correct. Chris gets stressed when people email for support and force him to reverse mindread… Loochie! (It’s a useful and pointless word) Do not sip from the Bag of Pykthos! Give us your mindreading examples! Audio message from Charles the Marathon runner with cardiovascular problems and panic attacks… Anxiety is always trepidation about the future, but it might have a connexion to the past… You must jump in on anxiety as soon as it begins! That’s how you’ll rewire your brain. Some dick in a movie theatre lighting up the room with his cell phone! Shut him down! (Loochie is Mike’s new swear-word) Mike tells about his previous anxiety when he’d phone home and get no answer. It all started back in 1963… Mike calls Chris’ daughters Drusilla and Dentistrica, which is brilliant! In the night…in the dark…Mike’s parents were missing! Yikes! Free-floating anxiety is bad because it’s just there… Chris recalls anxiety from high-school when breathing became conscious…He sang in his head and switched on his right brain! Mike and Chris believe that anxiety is a behaviour, not the person’s identity or something that’s just happening to them. Again we say: Deal with anxiety the moment that first spark begins to burn… Kevin’ Laye’s Psy-Tap is awesome! He taught us how to shut down panic attacks in seconds! Grip and squeeze the first 2 fingers of your hand and hold until the fear vanishes… You can use Mike’s 6 Step Tapping Method Seven Eleven breathing works too…It brings in more parasympathetic response… Mike’s frickin’ genius comes in, and so does Chris’ genius! Do Kevin Laye’s method while you breathe in the Seven Eleven pattern! Mike sounds like he’s having a stroke, but he’s just remembering the term EMDR. Change the voice in your head and stop it scaring you! Your house might have burned down! The Spin Technique is awesome too. Use your actual physical hands to change the spin. It works best that way! Make sure you add the laughter. Mikemandelhypnosis.com/stress7 Gus Grissom Update: Elon Musk from SpaceX contacts us! Empowering Question: What makes you nervous, anxious or afraid…and what are you going to do to shut it down the next time it starts happening? Empowering Metaphor: Howard Roach, the World’s scariest dentist Ending: He said Captain…I said wot? (Captain Sensible)
Here are the show notes from this episode Mike has repositioned himself as the Scarecrow of Hypnosis! Even Chris doesn’t pretend to understand why. Today is all about Energetic Therapy! You’ll learn how to free yourself and others from pain and negative emotions, often in seconds! Hypnothoughts Live 2018 is on its way! Make sure you check it out and come and study with Mike and Chris, and make a ton of awesome new hypnotic friends! Mike and Chris will be teaching MINDSCAPING, so whether you’re a coach, social worker, therapist, psychologist, whatever…come to Las Vegas and get certified in this amazing protocol! Mike first studied Meridian Based Psychotherapy with Swiss psychologist Willem Lammers. Mike’s grief was cured in front of the class, and you can apply these same techniques on your own psychological pain. It’s awesome to be set free in seconds! Get rid of your emotional pain, whether it’s fear, anger, sadness or trauma, and report back as to how well it worked for you! Does this really work by discharging electromagnetic disturbance in the brain? Mike and Chris aren’t sure exactly what happens, but it works, dammit! The great thing about these tapping therapies is: They only remove negative stuff. People who use this report that they can think of traumatic stuff or elicit old phobias with no bad kinesthetic at all. The bad feelings are stripped from the visual and auditory recall. Roger Callahan to Gary Craig, to Tapas Fleming and Larry Nims, and Robert Smith to Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! You don’t have to believe in these algorithms to make it work. You can just start tapping on these points while you think of your problem, and clear all sorts of bad emotions – usually forever! Tapping the forehead hits the bladder meridian. That’s what the old-school hypnotists were doing without knowing what they were doing, when they were doing it. Larry Nims stopped tapping. He just imagined tapping, and got the same results. Give it a shot once you’ve activated the spots by tapping them, and see what happens. Mike still likes Be Set Free Fast, but now uses faster methods. Here are the points from Mike’s 6 Step Tapping Method: Center of the top of the head, forehead, outer corner of the eye, under the eye, under edge of the collarbone, squeeze or tap the inside of the wrist. Make sure you’re saying a word that keeps you focused on your problem as you tap. If you have anxiety start tapping on the very top of your head about 50 times, several times per day and notice how you feel. (At this point, Chris corrects Mike and makes him feel like a dick on a worldwide podcast to millions of people. Well…thousands of people.) This stuff is so effective, Mike taught his method to a trainer in Minnesota and the trainer cured a fear of heights in another trainer in a few minutes! How can you apply this in your own life? You have nothing to lose by going after your own emotional pain. Make sure you check the SUDs -The subjective units of distress so you can tell that it’s going away. Make sure you’re bringing that vaded ego state to the executive by feeling the bad emotions. Always tap with all of your fingers, so you’ll be sure to hit that sucker! You can use either side of the body. Go after all the roots of the problem. Keep on tapping until it’s zero. Mike explains that this is your First Aid Toolkit and you can start using it right away. Use it on all negative emotions, anytime, anywhere. Use this to help your kids too! You’ve got the history and the system we use, so start using it! We’ll even send you a cheat sheet if you want it! Commercial Break: The Shyzzjigg Corporation Use the back of the hand point to put yourself into an awesome empowered state. Make sure you’re saying positive affirmations, as though you mean them. It only takes about 30 seconds to install a powerful ego state! If you want to feel awesome, check with your doctor and then tap the spot on the back of your hand between the fourth and fifth metacarpals, while saying those affirmations. The rest is automatic! I feel AWESOME! All my resources are online! I am energized and ready for anything! True science follows the evidence wherever it leads. Tap those points and notice how you feel… Make sure you do the proper 6 points when you eliminate bad emotions. If you make up your own points, they just won’t work. Is this somehow defractionating people and bringing them out of trance? Maybe…maybe not…but it works! Mike references his nasty fall. He used homeopathy to recover and thinks it’s working on the same energetic system as the tapping. He invokes Dr Andrew Lockie, an ObGyn from Scotland. Empowering Question: What negative emotions will I focus on zeroing completely, and as I review those negative emotions, such as fear, anger, sadness and trauma, which ones will I clear today, and how amazing will my life be when that happens? Empowering Metaphor: The standing ovation and the radiator! Ending: The Warrington Reversal (aka “Scare Ya?”) Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send us your questions for future episodes! You can either email them as text or record them using your phone’s voice recorder and email us the audio file! Email address is info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com Important Links and Reminders: We discussed the best hypnosis conference in the world, Hypnothoughts Live, which you can get details about here: HTLive website We are teaching MINDSCAPING as a pre-conference course in Las Vegas. You can get details on that and all other live events at our events page Registration is open for our May and June 2018 Architecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto.The May class has very limited space left, June is starting to fill up now.
It’s Winter Solstice as we record this! So Welcome all to Episode 92 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! You’re officially riding the hypnotic storm… This is how we do it…this is how we do it Downtown! The word for the year is Onward! So let’s get moving… Check out the show notes below while you’re listening. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you! Here are the show notes from this episode: Mike begins by telling the story of how he nearly went bowling with Jim Carrey! This is how we do it…this is how we do it Downtown! It’s a great line, Chris! What’s the One Word for 2018? Mike’s is Onward! Chris’ One Word is Management…Self-management, life-management, etc. Let’s switch on that Reticular Activating System, folks! Mike’s word used to be Alacrity. Now it’s definitely ONWARD! Mike calls Chris’ wife and daughters Zithromax, Rendlesham and Cytobobula, which is fantastically funny. Chris completely ignores everything except the antibiotic reference, leaving Mike to solely enjoy his own humour. Our business is expanding…and our new words are needed… Mike is the worst multi-tasker in the world! But he admits it so it’s okay! Chris has to treat Mike like a brilliant 5-year-old! He does it with good management skills! What is your word for 2018? Get it nailed down now while there’s still time. Don’t pick a word like Insomnia or Cancer! Chris is way too strong and fit and has set the bar way too high for us mortal beings… Now for the Mail Bag of Edward the Confessor… Chris tells us what trainings are coming up in 2018…see our events page. Tom from Washington asks critical questions about pressit the blotz! Mike answers Tom. It’s a lot like the Branson Protocol! Mike answers vitally important questions about Santa, Doctor Who and the Tardis. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the globe with a 30-foot cutter! Mark in Indiana asks if Mike has ever read scripts at people, and the answer is NO. Mike started on stage doing hypnosis and mentalism where no scripts were needed. Mike’s education is Earl Beatty Public School, Wexford Public School, and Wexford Collegiate Institute (which he didn’t graduate from!) Mike’s biggest mistakes were onstage in the early days…What’s needed and what’s just theatre? Do shows and you’ll find out… Always have a Plan B. Make sure you have a bail-out if needed… Michael C. Anthony is brilliant at bailing out from horrible events…He uses mentalism and magic as his Plan B. Hypnosis for alcoholism or excess drinking: Mike and Chris answer questions about Derek Balmer‘s method for turning alcoholics into social drinkers. Beware of labels! They affect you at the level of Identity and can really screw you up if they’re disempowering. Mike refers to the time he knocked out a drunk with a right cross on a hayride. Chris gets the time of year wrong. When someone falls off the wagon, it can be devastating; depending on how they frame it. Chris makes a clever comparison of neglecting to take the garbage out and then generalizes it to everything his wife asks him to do! Mike refers to a tabloid article about how a third of women’s husbands are actually space aliens. It’s actually very few of them. Don’t prescribe. Don’t diagnose! Don’t treat for any specific disease! Retro-Avoidance Ego States prevent Vaded Ego States from becoming Executive! Mike really enjoys yelling “Hurrah!” What would you like to have happen? Mike thinks it’s essential to treat the pain or trauma the client is carrying… Commercial Break: Life’s Abrupt End Morticians, and The Shyzzjigg Corporation Is Graphology scientific? Resentment…procrastination…over 200 traits show? Statistically significant. It’s a soft-science and a subset of psychology. (Thanks, Chris!) Graphotherapy really can change your personality! It’s not the hand that writes; it’s the brain! Change the handwriting and change your life! Dave in Florida asks about MINDSCAPING at the end of a hypnosis session. Can it be used to check your work? Yes! MINDSCAPING has a built-in check for ecology. Always Future Pace clients before letting them go home. Chris ties in the Elman Induction with Dave’s question. MINDSCAPING can be a covert check on the work that’s been done! Mike sneaks in a Guinea Pig Laugh. What do you do if you have to cough? Mike mentions Himalayan Salt Pipes to clear the lungs. But we aren’t telling you to do this… Empowering Question: What will I begin to do today to ensure that 2018 will be the most awesome and productive year I’ve ever had? Empowering Metaphor: The Dyatlov Pass Incident Ending: Dave Ambrose from the 25th Dimension! Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send us your questions for future episodes! You can either email them as text or record them using your phone’s voice recorder and email us the audio file! Email address is info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com Important Links and Reminders: We discussed graphology. We have an online course available here. We talked about ego status and many other personal development topics. Check out our Personal Development Academy! You can learn the same techniques that Chris and Mike use to have awesome lives! We answered a question about MINDSCAPING, which is available as an online course here. Melissa Tiers is coming to Toronto! You can register here. (We are more than 1/2 full already, months in advance) Registration is open for our May and June 2018 Architecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto. (The May class has very limited space left, June is starting to fill up now) Our new live events calendar is also online now.
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Podcast #88: Thirteen Relationship Hacks byMike Mandel Welcome to Episode 88 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! We have only one question for you: Whatever happened to that old tranquility we used to know? This podcast is all about relationships, and we’ve brought you 13 relationship hacks that can change your thinking and your behaviour. Check out the show notes below while you’re listening. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you! Here are the show notes for this episode: Mike’s retiring from the stage?!? Oh no…But he’s still going to be training Storm Riders worldwide. The final show ever is coming up in March 2018. Buy one of our ubercool Brain Software shirts! There’s a huge bonus for you! ($100.00 worth!) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and a default mystery bundle! This shirt will make you seem more powerful and attractive. It’s true! Better relationships mean a better life! Skills map across. People are not the same, folks! Deal with it… We all react in our own ways! Ego States are great to learn about! Notice them in others, and in yourself too. Notice which one is executive! The boyz forget to edit out the words “sexual vigour”. Ego States are burned in neural pathways in your brain. Notice them becoming executive. Find out which triggers cause different Ego States to become executive! Open loops irritate people! They leave things hanging, and men especially hate open loops. Women: Give us closure! Please! Zeigarnik Effect! Yikes! Filler phrases again! Notice them and learn to stop doing them. When a woman has PMS, you shouldn’t bring up that she has PMS! Be careful which loop you open…and when. Learn to really listen! Make it clear you are listening too. Give the person your full attention by using Mike’s intention technique! Gotta love those tendrils of light! If the person doesn’t give you attention. Stop talking and wait. It’s powerful. The mythical Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy office building… Put that phone face down and listen! The John Grinder method of Rapport! Pretend that the other person is the most fascinating and important person you’ve ever met, and continue to congruently pretend it. “Were there other women there, and were they wearing yoga pants?” Beware reverse mind reading. Don’t expect other people to know what you’re thinking. Be specific as to what you mean! Learn your partner’s triggers that set off negative patterns. Then stop doing them. Borderline people switch instantly! Mike has learned to stop triggering the “cockadoody” response. Watch out for those auditory anchors. Mike used to get depressed on the road. Now he crafts his states. We pause for station identification an an important message from our sponsor. Learn the Love Language of your partner! There are 5 of them: Acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch, quality time, gift giving. We discuss them in session 75 here When you learn it, fulfill it! Your relationship is a garden. Make sure you pull the weeds. Admit to faults. Avoid the triggers! Generate light, not heat! There are 3 levels of argumentation! Don’t EVER drop the Atomic Bomb! It’s a relationship killer. Be an adult. Let things go! Choose to forgive, because it’s a choice. The feelings will follow. Forgiveness does not mean condoning the bad behaviour! You can release the nasty person from your life. Beware the Zombies! They’re arguments that come back from the dead. Mike says “cockadoody” again. Learn to zip up your mouth! Let people finish their sentences. Milton Erickson listened intently, and so can you. People like other people who make them feel good about themselves! Chris says that Mike carries around a lot of weapons, making him seem like a psycho. Empowering Question: Which of these hacks are you going to immediately apply to your relationships, and what results do you expect? Metaphor: Gary Foo and the practical joke series. Ending: You’ll have to listen. It’s our finest hour ever … Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com Important Reminders: Registration is open for our May 2018 Architecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto. It’s filling up already, so if you’re serious about attending get on board quickly. Click here for details! Our first UK training is also coming up in November! It’s a hypnosis Master Class, so come on out! You get full certification in MINDSCAPING too…Go to the this page for details! Get Your T-Shirt and FREE $100 in Training Details are here, and the campaign closes on October 13th. Get Your Brain Software Podcast Shirt and FREE Bonus Training Bundle
Here are the show notes for this episode: Mike and Chris will be bringing the hypnotic storm to the UK this November. We start at the UK Hypnosis Convention and we then move onto a master class in Suffolk. We’re interviewing Jason later than expected because Mike had car problems on our originally scheduled date. But he did NOT die in a fiery crash and his car is fixed! Jason first got interested in hypnosis the same way Chris did! What hooked us on hypnosis: “Things are happening that are different than normal”. How did Jason get into hypnotherapy after first becoming interested in stage hypnosis? It’s all due to a horrible eBay accident. Mike discusses the immense overlap between stage hypnosis and hypnosis for therapy. In the early years, Jason wondered whether he should hide his hypnotherapy interests from his stage hypnosis audiences and vice-versa. He soon realized the error of his thinking. Jason used to work as a stage manager. Perhaps this is how he became so freaking well organized! Hypnosis seemed like a more “pure” way of doing magic versus carrying around a deck of cards, or other props. Effects of the mind … Mike used to do a huge stage show with pyrotechnics done by “Lunatech”, but Chris hears “Lunatics”, which sounds way funnier. Jason prompts Mike to call him a “special forces hypnotist” based on his approach to hypnosis sessions. As the “hypnosis market guinea pig” Jason won’t teach a marketing strategy that he hasn’t actually used himself. If you want to learn from someone who really knows his stuff, follow Jason! Mike and Jason discuss how much a theatrical background plays into doing therapy work with clients. While Jason takes marketing concepts and applies them to the field of hypnosis, Chris and Mike have a podcast that takes concepts from hypnosis and brings them to the lay person to apply in daily life. How the heck did Jason become such an outstanding public speaker? (because he really, REALLY is) Every scene has a reason. Every story has a purpose. Speaking is a theatrical performance! Listen to Jason explain why he would record the audio of his stage hypnosis shows and listen to it while driving home after the show. Looking to become an exceptional speaker? Map out the entire performance first. Know exactly what experience you want the audience to have. Mike shares a cool tip on how he lights up the audience’s receptive neural pathways just as he starts a corporate keynote. What can you do if your introduction completely FAILS to resonate with you audience? Mike shares a cool story from a friend. Chris points out that Jason doesn’t just change the behaviour of his clients. He helps them build a new identity where the problem behaviour doesn’t fit anymore. This fits in with Dilts’ Logical Levels from Podcast 74 Jason’s best advice for hypnotists: Harness your specialty. Embrace what you’re good at. Example: Most hypnotists are crappy website designers. Want help learning the marketing side of hypnosis? Check out “Hypnotic Business Systems” and make sure to use promo code MMH to save 10% (the code also works at his hypnosis training site, Hypnotic Workers) Jason brilliantly explains how he duplicates himself via online webinars so that he doesn’t constantly have to repeat the same information to every new client. He looks for ways to just do something once. This concept is pure gold, folks. Pay close attention. We help people! Note: The November 13 – 17 Architecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto is sold out, but we’ve opened up the May 2018 class and it’s filling up already. Get on board! Click here for details! Our first UK training is also coming up in November! It’s a hypnosis Master Class, so come on out! You get full certification in MINDSCAPING too…Go to the this page for details! Ending: The Bingo Game and King for a Day. Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Here are the show notes for this episode: Mike has arrived from Bob Lake, because he cares about you! Hypnothoughts Live is nearly here! It’s the best hypnosis conference on Earth. Mike wants to talk about …but Chris interjects that his attention span is next to zero. (No kidding! He didn’t let Mike finish what he was saying!) Television used to be black and white with slow scenes and character development. It’s all about focus, folks! Does acetaminophen really reduce empathy? Apparently, if you take it, you just don’t care! Mike keeps trying, but somehow, just can’t seem to care! Microexpressions are not being judged accurately and we are saying goodbye to the power of mirror neurons. If we stop caring about each other…what kind of therapists will we be? Chris used to read 1,000 word articles, but something’s gone horribly wrong. Even Mike’s not immune (gasp!) It takes a couple of days for Mike’s brain to slow down. Switching on and off like a crazy monkey! It’s like a drug, and Chris is onto something… Mike studied neuroscience and gives the example of coffee and the brain beginning to expect it. It’s the same with stimulation from images. Chris talks about mental fasting, which is really clever. Beware of word whiskers! English is extremely precise. Use it like a tool…you know? The filler phrase attack! Nice one Chris!!! Mike coughs like a lunatic from the tickle created by laughing. Like? The one that drives Mike insane, although “I mean…” is even worse. So anyway… Anyway has a legitimate purpose as a recentering phrase. Please don’t say “Yada Yada Yada” or yeah…no…yeah…now… You know what? We have to stop talking about this. Let’s put an end to word whiskers! Awareness is the first step! It’s okay to pause! Chris’ Dad is doing a horrible throat sound whisker. Mike brilliantly invokes Gus Grissom. He goes on to explain the elderly woman’s horrible musical sound whisper: “Uh…hmm…mmm…” Mike is actually beginning to annoy himself! Hypnosis is an enhancing of focus. What a great definition! Focus created a throbbing thumb… The Reticular Activating System again! You can tune it. Mike used the RAS to find The Peterkin Papers again… The Engineer speaks! The brain is tuned by wanting the book and presenting it to conscious awareness. Mike and Chris are NLP people. The Magic Number 7 +/- 2 By putting stuff in your environment to remind you of your focus, it helps bring it into being. LTP is long-term potentiation…leading to permanency through Hebb’s Law. Mike bought a camera and camera advertisements appeared everywhere… MTV in the 1980s with Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles led to lack of attention! Lack of growth in a cancer is good! Mike talks about being at effect rather than being at cause. The 4 Love Languages Reprise… We all need things in the foreground to habituate connexions… You can use focus to help relationships too! “Uh…hmm…mmm” Mike admits to a rare relational error and actually apologized. When we ask you an empowering question it enables you to step outside the situation with a new focus… When things go wrong, someone’s lost track of the target state! Refocus, people! What would you like to have happen? (Thanks David Grove) Mike’s Word of the Year is back to Alacrity! Flow did not work for Mike. It made him way too laid back. Mike hits Chris in the solar plexus, purely for his own amusement. Mike says that Chris’ word Strength “will kick in at some point”, which is hilarious! Empowering Question: In what area of your life is focus lacking, and what will happen when you re-engage it today? Empowering Metaphor: The missing memories… Mike’s Introduction to Ericksonian Hypnosis 2 day class at Hypnothoughts Live is SOLD OUT!!! Note: The November 13 – 17 Architecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto is already half full! Book now or wait until May 2018 for the next one! Clickhere for details! Our first UK training is also coming up in November! It’s a hypnosis Master Class, so come on out! You get full certification in MINDSCAPING too…Go to the UK Hypnosis Academy Facebook page for details! Ending: Dave Ambrose, the People’s Physicist! Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Here are the show notes for this episode: Mike begins the show by admitting that he likes LOUD! And why not? He was into Black Sabbath way back in 1970! “If it’s too loud, you’re just too damn old!” Mike saw a plastic flying saucer being lifted by heavy equipment… Our student Florian has taken the hypnotic storm to Africa…The picture of the bell is proof! Check out Caveman Lodge in Zanzibar! You can see the bell… Whenever he gets fired, Chris just rehires himself. Self-directed neuroplasticity coming up… Las Vegas is looming…Come to Hypnothoughts Live 2017. Mike’s session is filling up… Mike suspects Chris has had a stroke, but it’s only a demi-stroke. The Ryan Intervention discussed…Created by our Enneagram One friend… Don’t lend other people’s stuff! He unwinds by doing woodworking, and his wife’s on his case. He offers drugs, alcoholism, massage parlours, as alternative ways to unwind. It works, because it’s really reframey! She saw it as an annoyance and a waste of time, but he shows the benefit. Books are on the way, and they’re awesome! Bo Bennett writes great stuff. 300 logical fallacies explained for you! Reductio ad Hitlerum is real! WTF??? Mike’s been doing this for years! By making someone seem to have something in common with Hitler, they automatically lose the argument! Underwires? Undergirds? Mike self-corrects to “undermines”! 12 years ago Mike accused Chris of being like Hitler because he’s left-handed! Can the brain process negatives? We’re really discussing the unconscious and it’s inability to handle negatives without deletion. Don’t PANIC!!! Make it easy for a stressed-out mind, by framing things in the positive. Tell people what to do, not what not to do… Even the unconscious mind is a model… Chris mentions autopsies now, which is weird, but Mike reigns him in… Beware the Straw Man! Conscious / Unconscious is only a model, but it’s a useful one! Walk the plank easily…unless it’s between two 50 storey buildings! Focus on crossing safely! If you focus on not falling…you probably will… The unconscious protects the physical body so it has somewhere to live! The intention might be protective, but ineffective… Mike alone on Huyckes Island…in the night…in the dark…Imagination on steroids. The 4 Stages of Competence! Bring in the emotions that will motivate! ADAC – Associate, Dissociate, Associate, Collapse! Commercial Break: The Shyzzjig Corporation ADAC Continued…Associate into the problem…Dissociate from the problem…Stop!…Associate into a Powerful State (shopping for weapons)…Collapse them together! Point at that sucker, just like Milton Erickson! Repeat as needed…You are literally rewiring your brain, folks! Do it with a Pattern Interrupt too! Whoa! This stuff really comes out! Karl Smith and the backwards phone number! (I don’t even care!) Forests get paths from use. The brain’s the same! It’s sort of like the old NLP Swish Pattern, only better! Empowering Question: What obsessive or compulsive thoughts will I erase from my mind? Empowering Metaphor: The camping trip… Mike and Chris will be taking the Hypnotic Storm to Las Vegas again in August! Come hang out with us and Storm Riders from around the world at the Orleans Hotel, and while you’re there, take our 2 day Introduction to Ericksonian Hypnosis. Details arehere. Note: The November 13 – 17 Architecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto is already half full! Book now or wait until May 2018 for the next one! Clickhere for details! Our first UK training is also coming up in November! It’s a hypnosis Master Class, so come on out! You get full certification in MINDSCAPING too…Go to the UK Hypnosis Academy Facebook page for details! Ending: The cheese tray, the road accident, and the 4th Johnny… Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Here are the show notes for this episode: Mike begins by screaming “Loochie Hi Oh!” in the background, which sets the tone for what’s coming… Are we all hypnotized? The quarter game on steroids! Chris fears this might be an intervention Using PGO spikes to your advantage – Yes, there’s sound neuroscience for this! Mike does a good Gandalf impression, which Chris doesn’t pick up on, because he hasn’t seen The Lord of the Rings The electricity intervention! Best used in a text message or in a chat room. It really sounds weird… Backgammon for blood! Shut her down! This stuff really comes out! Are you into…you know…electricity? It sounds like it might be obscene or some horrible sexual thing that nobody talks about! Mike recalls the Jack 0′ Lantern Attack in his online chess games! Chris directs us to the PGO spike – Shock, novelty and surprise! That damn guy Bryan! He’s been attacking us online without motive, and may actually be a dick… Mike gives Chris permission to Ken Sweatman the story, and naturally Chris responds to the opportunity… The Sweatman story goes on for several minutes…Chris still hasn’t mentioned Bryan… We aren’t con men! Honest we’re not! How can a free video be a con?!?! There’s not even an offer attached! Chris responded to a vituperative email, and now the gloves are off… Full disclosure from Chris! How you become our customer…We are transparent and everyone wins, except Bryan! Mike can be heard in the background, quietly saying “dick…” Chris actually says A-hole and then asks for permission. We have a “No Dick Policy!” We don’t hang-out with them or interact with them. But Bryan wasn’t done yet… Chris tells the best way to use Social Proof is with Facebook comments! Bryan attacks our comments online because he thinks our students aren’t real… Our Storm Riders went aftah that peckah! It was an onslaught of support! Whoa! This stuff really comes out! Bottom line? Use social proof in your favour. Bryan has actually helped us with his dursatision The PGO Spike – Pons, geniculate body and occiput. Who’s lurking in that dark alley waiting to kill me? Oh, it’s a bag of garbage… Fight – Flight – Freeze…It’s a superhighway folks! Christophe the psychiatrist confirmed it! Fender bender in the rain! He used the PGO Spike to ensure the other driver would agree with his version of the accident! “Yes, I don’t know what he did! That car just pulled out in front of you and stopped! Then he just left!” The hypnotist winds up paying no $500.00 deductible, and gets his car fixed for free with no increase in insurance! Life can be nobody’s fault! Commercial Break: You’re Still Just Danny! Mike and Chris will be taking the Hypnotic Storm to Las Vegas again in August! Come hang out with us and Storm Riders from around the world at the Orleans Hotel, and while you’re there, take our 2 day Introduction to Ericksonian Hypnosis. Details arehere. Note: The November 13 – 17 Architecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto is already half full! Book now or wait until May 2018 for the next one! Clickhere for details! Our first UK training is also coming up in November! It’s a hypnosis Master Class, so come on out! You get full certification in MINDSCAPING too…Go to the UK Hypnosis Academy Facebook page for details! Back into the show! Mike preframes by explaining that he did 24 college level lectures in Quantum Mechanics with theoretical physicist, Professor Benjamin Schumacher. Mike was reading about CERN. What the heck are they doing there? A positron is just an electron going backward in time! This freaks Chris out. Quantum computing is here, and Elon Musk is on the edge of new technology. Has the space/time continuum changed? Some physicists think it’s possible to enter another universe… Has it already happened?!?! Every decision we make can shift things…but dammit! Things have changed! The Mandela Effect is here! Mr Rogers, Moonraker, We are the Champions of the World! It’s all changing folks! The braces are gone, so that’s why they fell in love. A European VISA commercial is an artifact… Where’s that huge island off the west coast of Australia? (Mike makes a rare error and invokes Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but the film is actually Dazed and Confused.) That’s where the Malaysian aircraft disappeared! It’s freaking us out… The first James Bond was Barry Nelson! What’s going on here? Mirror mirror on the wall is gone, but Mike’s most freaked out by the Bible changes. Even the 1961 Bible has changed!!! Chris nails the issue with his scientific brain: There are only 2 possibilities here…Either a lot of people remember things incorrectly, or these things have changed… Michael C. Anthony is freaked out by this too. Charles Schultz is now Charles Schulz! Chris said “I’m planning on doing absolutely nothing with this knowledge. It isn’t going to change my life!” (He’s in denial and needs an intervention) The statue of The Thinker…his hand has moved! Empowering Question: What is your greatest gift or talent, and how will you use it to overcome your greatest weakness? Metaphor: The Lord of the Rings and Christopher Lee! Ending: Dave Ambrose, the People’s Physicist and a hearty Kltpzyxm! Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Welcome to Episode 83 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! The Hypnotic Hurricane is horrendous in the scope of it’s harshness! Watch out power lines and trailer parks… Check out the show notes below while you’re listening. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you! Here are the show notes for this episode: Chris does a great introduction, welcoming all of us! But he says “glance” and it sounds like “glans” which is unfortunate. Only 2 weeks to the Architecture of Hypnosis, June training… The May class was awesome, as was Karl Smith’s amazing Kinetic Shift training. We had our first neurosurgeon in the class. We have credibility at last… Mike says “amazing” twice, which is terrible, so he wants to begin speaking in received speech. The story of the Facebook ads. Warning! Grammar violations, but Mike invokes Webster’s Dictionary… A One Star Review! WTF!?!?!? Chris was being the Good Cop, which was very nice! Better to have our friends and fans come to our defence… The orphanage burned down! Hilarious! Mike really amuses himself here! We’re going to the UK to teach, and maybe even Costa Rica…Warning! There are bot flies there! Mike is being interviewed by the awesome hypnosis trainer, Igor Ledochowski, which is great collaboration… Let’s talk about inversion – one should safeguard the testicles. Chris explains psychological inversion, which is a cool technique. (We got it from JamesClear.com) We look at the Target State to tune the RAS, but once you have that in sight, now you can invert things! How would you design a failed marriage? Chris comes up with some great ideas! How to be a lousy Dad? Make sure you do the opposite! How can we make the podcast fail? Apparently by doing everything we’re already doing. The PMI – Plus Minus Inventory is a very powerful tool Do the PMI on both issues; staying and going, whatever it is. This way you’re applying the inversion to the PMI… Mike is considering being an investment banker. This is so ridiculous that it requires no comment, but Chris almost does a Guinea Pig laugh! Don’t let your job become doing PMIs! Mike apparently used this technique on the way to the Christmas party, but he doesn’t remember… Phonological ambiguity “new direction” or “nude erection”? You decide. Mike is still obsessed with ASMR and Miss ASMR is the best of all…Most beautiful mouth in the universe! Some people find ASMR to be annoying…the rest of us are addicted! Christophe, our psychiatrist from France is also into ASMR. Chris Thompson hates it though. REJECTION! (Cough actually edited out) How do you deal with rejection? Norm Yates and Ken Hunter rejected Mike…(sob) Nobody likes being desocialized! Chris was rejected from a baseball team! Hard to believe that anyone would dump The Golden Boy… Chris is a super-athlete too! And he doesn’t give a You Know What! We’re back to testicles, which Chris reframes as “fortitude” Mike was rejected by an NLP Trainer! Yikes! How can this happen?!? (It wasn’t Hugh Comerford because he’s awesome!) Sometimes there are no answers. Just move on… Oh no! It’s an intervention!!! Mike’s being fired from his own hypnosis academy! The person who cares least is the one who’s in control! Let it frickin’ go! You can’t have a friendship with everyone. Mike attempts to talk about Miss ASMR again, but repents. The Gus Grissom Update: Grissom is back in Toronto, delivering a birthday card…He’s listening to the podcasts…. Our first UK training is coming up in November! It’s a hypnosis Master Class, so come on out! You get MINDSCAPING too…Go to the UK Hypnosis Academy Facebook page for details! Empowering Question: What is the simplest thing I can implement in my life to avoid a host of problems? Metaphor: Toshi Architecture of Hypnosis has a few spots for June 2017. Get in NOW or you’ll have to wait until November …(The June dates are are June 12-16) Ending: Danny Boy plus freestyle chanting! Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Welcome to Episode 80 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! The Power of the Cataleptic Colonic Cyclone grows ever more evacuative, and you’re in its path… Check out the show notes below and scroll down to listen to the podcast directly on this page. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you! Here are the show notes for this episode: Yo wassup? You found us, but despite what we said last podcast, there’s no booze here… 5 Stars and we’re still going strong… You can send an email to info@mikemandelhypnosis.com and let us know your questions! Preferably record them as an audio file so we can include them in a future episode. It’s Mail Bag day! (Ouch) Karl Smith’s coming to the Hypnotic World Epicenter! We’re hosting him and taking the class too. An advertisement for HypnoThoughts Live 2017! It’s going to be amazing, especially when we win the Orleans Casino Bowling Tournament with the Dream Team we’ve purchased! Mike was just at Wagner’s opera, Gotterdammerung! It really hits the unconscious mind. The words are the conscious mind and the music is the unconscious…really cool stuff. Chris is not an opera fan……..yet. Culture is what makes us human and gives us depth. Mike refuses to do the Guinea Pig Laugh. Did a young Leonard Cohen hypnotize his maid to do the naughty? Mike and Chris think it’s unlikely. Erickson was a meticulous researcher and the greatest hypnotist in history…bar none! Remember that television (including Derren Brown) is not reality. You never see the whole story… Chris fixates on the French Maid story, and clearly has issues here. Pykthos is invoked again! Can hypnosis help learn a language more quickly? Yes! And there’s lots of ways to do it. Chris talks about entering the zone. Mike answers in flawless German. Let’s call an ego state to the executive! It works, folks! Chris continues for awhile but Mike wisely breaks into the explanation and seizes control, teaching how to tap the Triple Warmer and get the right ego state in the executive. Chris takes control of the show an references MINDSCAPING. Mike responds in perfect French. Chris mentions learning and Mike answers in excellent Russian. Mike pretends that Chris has written in. Hilarious. A listener wants to specialize in pain control. But how? Mike claims to be the god Hypnos in human form. Why does everyone equate hypnosis with smoking cessation? Chris shamelessly promotes our hypnosis training school. We recommend Jason Linett for hypnosis marketing! Mike and Chris tell how to get your hypnosis pain-control practice going… Chris says we’re eating our own cooking. Mike says he’s wrestling with his own underwear. We admit that we’re marketing! Check us out… Word of mouth works, once it reaches critical mass… Medical doctors have no problem referring patients to a competent hypnotist…You must convince the doctor that you’re not a dick though. Mike thinks Chris is going on too long about this, and says “Let’s not hammer it into the rectum”. Mike suggests we’ll edit the phrase out of the podcast, but let’s face it … that’s not going to happen! Can hypnosis help with burns? You betcha! Mike had a weird year…anaphylactic shock from a wasp sting, and a nasty burn! A 425 degree metal tray can burn you! Chris talks about high coefficient of heat transfer. Mike corrects him and explains he’s talking about thermal inertia. Chris persists, but Mike references a college level course in Meteorology he’s just completed and the subject ends properly. Chris shows restraint by holding back the credibility of his mechanical engineering degree. They’re both correct, but he’s happy to allow Mike to believe he’s more correct. Mike admits he was “momentarily dickish”. Remember: Flush burns with cold water until help arrives! Bradykinins are released at the site of a burn and make it worse. Hypnosis in the first hour after a burn can stop those nasty bradykinins! Mike says that Chris’ burns turn to scabs (because he’s Polish) and then become cancer! He then howls with laughter at his own comedic brilliance. Chris got a bacon burn! Is there anything worse? The hypnosis worked for him too! Chris turns the bacon story into a Ken Sweatman story, and Mike quietly calls him “Ken”. Mike gets Christ to look away and then coughs on his neck. Callum is a cop. He’s interested in training. Come to Toronto! Robban in Sweden asks about using the rewind technique to detraumatize. Mike clarifies the muddy waters of Chris’ explanation. Mike say’s that you can’t have a memory backwards, but means that you can’t have an emotion backwards. Yes folks, it was a rare mistake. Mike learned some of this from Willem Lammers. Chris pulls a Bandler book from the shelf and Mike trumps him and yells “Hurrah!” This is the second time they’ve done this podcast. The first version sucked! The Gus Grissom Update! Sponsored by Shyzjigg! Send your Gus Grissom sightings to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com Architecture of Hypnosis is approaching sold-out status for May 2017. Get in now, or wait until June…Then there’s only November left…(Update, the June dates are now officially set as June 12-16) Empowering Question: What is the most valuable relationship that you’ve been neglecting, and how will you strengthen it today? Ending: Dave Ambrose the People’s Physicist! Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Welcome to Episode 78 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! We are communicating with you from the very centre of the trauma room of the hypnotic rash ER! That’s how serious this whole storm thing is getting…and the snow has arrived! Check out the show notes below and scroll down to listen to the podcast directly on this page. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you! Here are the show notes for this episode: Mike gets off to a bad start by saying “testicle”. He’s irritated because of the blood in his eye, and the heavy snowfall he’s been shoveling while it’s not even winter yet. Mike promises to make no guinea pig laughs, but does just one. Mike is speaking remotely via Skype, despite his winter tires, because Toronto had 500 car crashes in one day! Chris preframes “the great content we have”… Chris and his wife Tildanna go for a walk together, despite the weather. Chris is way too interested in the subject, clearly thinking this is a promotional podcast for winter clothing. Mike calls Chris “Ken” but Chris continues. Registration is open for the May 8-12 Architecture of Hypnosis Class The training is already half full! Come to Toronto and study with us… Reminder: Karl Smith will be in Toronto at the World Hypnotic Epicenter to teach the Kinetic Shift for an entire weekend! Come out and be classmates with Mike and Chris! Check it out at mikemandelhypnosis.com/karl The Immense Power of Language is the Snow Theme today! Mike admits that he’s a stickler for precision in language…Don’t short-change yourself. “Try to get some sleep…” You’ll hear it in films all the time, and you know it’s not going to happen! Words have an effect! Here are the 3 influential models of language that Mike uses: Meta Model, Milton Model, and the Metaphor Model. The Milton Model is incredibly hypnotic! It directs attention inward to subjective experience. “Certain things are beginning to happen…notice that growing sense of ease…” This stuff is vague, folks! Mike invokes Peter Reveen so Mike impersonates him. “Ladies and gemmelemen…” Some hypnotists suggest, which enables the subject to disagree. We direct instead of suggest! (Mike spends a few seconds saying “Nome sane?” for his own amusement.) Mike brilliantly defines the models, beginning with the Meta Model. The Structure of Magic by Bandler and Grinder got it all started. (It’s still an excellent read.) The Metal Model uses language to clarify language… The Magic Question is What do you want? You must identify the target state. Jamie Smart and the shopping list metaphor. The Meta Model gives greater and greater specificity. Chris gives an example from his daughter Texephone’s life. Never assume! Humans generalize, delete and distort. It’s how we navigate life. The Milton Model is the opposite! Mindreading is when we think we know what someone’s thinking without asking them. The Milton Model throws all sorts of generalization, deletion and distortion at a person. The Metaphor Model is the use of Clean Language. David Grove, a New Zealand psychologist invented it. Clean Language prevents you from “leading the witness”. It stops us from imposing our metaphors and models of the world on our client. We use an average of 6 metaphors a minute! Mike thinks Clean Language is awesome! It extracts the subject’s metaphors. Just like in Mike’s MINDSCAPING, when the metaphor changes, the client changes too! Mike gives a huge plug to Judy Rees and Clean Language, and he’s not getting paid to do it. This is the last podcast of 2016! How sad… Chris explains how he’s re-structured the use of time in his life to develop a wider knowledge base. It’s working…Mike notices Chris is getting even smarter! Chris is also reading Clean Language, but warns us to beware of Parkinson’s Law: Any task will require the full amount of time allotted to its completion. Mike talks about selective gravity. Empowering Question: What will you do today to re-order the tasks in your life, to put the important stuff up front? Gus Grissom Update! Virgil Grissom spotted in Manhattan! Send your sightings to gusgrissom@mailinator.com Empowering Metaphor: Christmas, Brian McDowell, and the mechanical hockey game. Ending: Dennis Bryce-Morgan and the language Brilli, and the Spangler iron trader! Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Freja Njorden, Intimacy Educator and Master Hypnotist, consults with individuals and couples on sexually related subject matters, providing holistic effectives solutions to help you to make love better. Freja is a master hypnotist, bodyworker, mindscaper, graphologist and emotional freedom facilitator. She first studied massage in New York, as well as the original Emotional Freedom Technique as presented by Gary Craig. In Germany, discovering the simplicity and incredible effectiveness of an updated method called faster EFT, finally studying it on a practitioner level using programs made available by Robert Smith and Silvia Hartmann. Freja pursued subliminal programming, quantum touch, tantric arts, volva and shamanic studies, and studied Mindscaping and Hypnosis, completing the Architecture of Hypnosis practitioner and masters courses offered by Dr. Mike Mandel at the University of Toronto. In her spare time she enjoys the out of doors, yoga, cycling, and "making things" out of wood, metal, and creating healthy products of of natural butters and essential oils.
Welcome to Episode 73 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! This could be our last podcast before attending Hypnothoughts Live in Las Vegas this coming August, but hopefully we’ll record one more before then. This podcast is all about how to change someone else’s behaviour. Check out the show notes below and scroll down to listen to the podcast directly on this page. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you. Remember to send your Gus Grissom sightings to: gusgrissom@mailinator.com Here are the show notes for this episode: This is your last chance to sign up for our MINDSCAPING workshop in Las Vegas and get a discount to your Hypnothoughts Live ticket. We already have well over 50 people signed up and we prefer smaller groups, so we’re shutting down registration soon. It’s all too common for people to want someone else to change … because we tend to think we’re perfect and we don’t need to change. The other person needs to change, right? It’s important to remember that relationships are communication loops. The way to change someone else, magically, is to change yourself. John Grinder taught Mike to ask the question, “What am I doing that is exquisitely maintaining that other person’s behaviour?” If you ask this question to yourself you’ll often come up with useful answers. Chris asks Mike to do a detailed breakdown of the NLP personal edit known as “Theatre of the Mind”. It’s an absolutely brilliant technique that was taught to Mike by his mentor. Don’t JUST listen to this. Learn it and then use it on yourself as a personal test. Then use it with clients, friends, family, etc. Shock yourself at how incredibly powerful this is. We discuss how formalizing this as a “personal edit” is more effective than just consciously analyzing the situation and thinking about how you *should* change. Mike explains another great NLP technique that makes use of two chairs and an exploration of the three perceptual positions. The three perceptual positions are: 1) Self; 2) Other person, or empathy; 3) Dissociated, or observer. Chris admits to using a horrible line on his wife that he KNOWS will irritate her, and relates it to the Theatre of the Mind personal edit that Mike taught in this episode. Mike discusses the importance of having an exit strategy for conversations. Chris brings up the “What’s next?” exit – this is the question all hypnotists should ask to their clients at the end of a session. Mike talks about dealing with pain by speaking to it directly – it sounds like it should be totally nuts but it isn’t. Check it out as an exercise to use for yourself! Want to setup your own personal anchor to fire off an incredibly resourceful state at anytime? Mike explains how to begin the process such that you stack on more and more positive stuff each time you do it. This is amazing stuff! Anchors must be replicable, repeated, and unique so you’re not firing them by accident. Mike is teaching the next Graphology Class in Toronto – September 17th and 18th – this date is coming up fast. Check out this video. The Gus Grissom Update: Grissom was spotted in Jonesboro, Louisiana by a local deputy. We’re determined to find this man and speak with him. Make sure you email in any sightings to gusgrissom@mailinator.com Empowering Question: Who is the single most toxic person in my life, who always manages to drag me down to their level, and what am I going to do about it today? Metaphor: The cottage bear Remember: Check out:this link for the MINDSCAPING training at Hypnothoughts Live in Las Vegas, in August 2016! Bonus: When you pick up a digital copy of MINDSCAPING using that link you can attend our one day class for free AND get a significant discount on your conference ticket. Ending: Dave Ambrose, the People’s Physicist, discusses Robert Oppenheimer. Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Welcome to Episode 72 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! This is podcast is powered entirely by ukulele; the only certain protection against hypnotic rash. Today we ask that musical question: Hey script readers…Can you really stop us? Can you stop us at all? Check out the show notes below and scroll down to listen to the podcast directly on this page. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you. Remember to send your Gus Grissom sightings to:gusgrissom@mailinator.com Here are the show notes for this episode: The shear hypnotic quality to the bounds of the colon of the world! Chris and Mike say a big hello to Mario from Romania and Christophe from France who attended the sold-out June Architecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto. Roman and his awesome daughter also attended from Winnipeg, along with 25 other students. Upcoming training: The Architecture of Hypnosis, November 14 to 18 (Monday to Friday) at the University of Toronto. This will be the final hypnosis training for 2016, and the last training ever where the Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy online will be offered FOR FREE! (It’s filling up already, with students coming in from Spain and Switzerland, so book now…) Chris promotes the 2 day Graphology training, also at the University of Toronto, September 17 and 18 (Saturday and Sunday). Mike has been a handwriting specialist and has done graphology forensically since 1993. Check the video atmikemandelhypnosis.com/handwriting Remember: The writing never lies… The boyz jump into content and discuss Reframing. Chris finds the excellent Bandler and Grinder book from the 1970s while they’re talking. Content vs context reframing. Is the glass half empty or half full? Changing the context changes the meaning, because without context, there is no meaning whatsoever. Mike explains the blue-painted face phenomenon, and how context changes meaning. Chris gives a fairly lame example about the meaning of laughter changing on the street vs in a pub. Mike feigns interest to avoid hurting Chris’ feelings, and cleverly switches to a story of a man on a train in England who kept laughing while reading a book, and how he confronted him. Mike makes an extremely rare mistake, because the book is actually called The Wilt Alternative, and is a hilarious read. Mike asked John Grinder about the classic 6 Step Reframe to find out what the reframe was. Chris and Mike discuss how Mike was frequently bullied as a young, extremely brilliant boy. He could have framed the situation as I am a victim, but had better options. Identity statements are powerful stuff. Robert Dilts’ Logical Levels describe 6 different ways of viewing situations. Mike and Chris explain. The levels are (going up) Environment, Behaviour, Capabilities, Beliefs, Identity and Spiritual/Mission. Identity statements are I AM statements. Mike thinks AA has it wrong by telling people to say I am an alcoholic! Mike gives the example of a personal reframe he used, by reframing himself as a Communicator…Chris mistakenly switches the discussion to commodities, such as gold, lead, and wheat, and profit margins. Mike gently brings the topic back. Brain Building provided the answer. Chris chunks up from stage hypnotist, to hypnotist, to communicator, and explains how he’s “zooming out”. Mike reluctantly admits Chris is correct this time. Chris is gaining confidence and speed and starts talking about smoking, and immediately begins to channel Ken Sweatman. The subject becomes organ language. Mike teaches the literal reframe, where the movie is stopped at the peak moment and the submodalities are changed. The decorative frame and museum light complete the procedure. Chris gives a surprisingly effective example about his daughters, Santa Domingaand Lucretia, in the school system. That which you cannot anticipate becomes irrelevant clutter and wastes your time. Chris tells how he and his wife, Dorotrapula, focused on what they could control instead of what they couldn’t control. As Chris explains, Mike can be heard saying “Nice…nice…” but isn’t listening at all, because he’s preparing to deliver the Empowering Question! Ladies and Gentlemen: The Gus Grissom Update: Grissom was spotted outside St. Basil’s Church next to Brennan Hall, University of Toronto, by Capt. Rick Green of Michigan. Grissom was wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey and although Green pursued Grissom, he managed to slip away. Empowering Question: When you look at your life, where are you wasting the most time, and what are you going to put in its place that is entirely empowering and useful? Metaphor: The Tour From Hell – 1999 Remember: Check out:this link for the MINDSCAPING training at Hypnothoughts Live in Las Vegas, in August 2016! Bonus: When you pick up a digital copy of MINDSCAPING using that link you can attend our one day class for free AND get a significant discount on your conference ticket. Ending: Dave Ambrose, the People’s Physicist...Kltpzyxm! Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Welcome to Episode 71 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! From Toronto Canada, to the trenches of France and the Orient Express, this is the only podcast you’ll ever need. On the heels of the sold-out MayArchitecture of Hypnosis training at the University of Toronto, Mike and Chris get ready to teach a weekend of MINDSCAPING, and then yet another sold-out hypnosis course. The hypnotic infection is officially incurable. Check out the show notes below and scroll down to listen to the podcast directly on this page. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you. Here are the show notes for this episode: The boyz begin by updating the listeners regarding the most recent Architecture of Hypnosis training in Toronto, which drew numerous internationals, including 4 medical doctors. Chris recaps the last few years, and then Mike coughs loudly. Meta-analysis starts…Every live class leads to the rediscovery that caring about people has a profound effect. Mike talks about John Grinder’s awesome rapport secret. Chris adds that the highest level is to really care. The classes are kept small, to build friendships with attendees. Las Vegas is approaching again! 26-28 of August, 2016, with a pre-conference event on August 25. The online MINDSCAPING training has been enlarged for free. Chris uses the word “effing”, but Mike is more concerned that he said “no brainer”. Regression vs Direct Suggestion in Hypnosis (DSiH) Bernheim and Liebeault used DSiH and still got great results with no metaphors or regression. Chris channels Erickson, and then begins channeling Ken Sweatman. Regression and Parts Therapy do not preclude DSiH. Make your suggestions positive, repeat them, and keep them simple. No flowery language! No mechanistic repetition. People hate it. Mike shows tremendous restraint! As the Rickson Gracie of hypnosis, he resists the temptation to continue the discussion point. An extended discussion of sleep nearly begins… Use whatever the situation dictates! Initial Sensitising Event (ISE) is like a thorn or a piece of shrapnel in a wound. An ISE can hide behind Activating Event (AE) Following the amplified feeling becomes an Affect Bridge to the ISE… The ISE creates a platform that the phobia can build upon. Mike reports on his former fear of high ceilings that originated with St Wilfrid’s Anglican Church which triggered the ISE from when he slipped on the wet grass near the pond. The unconscious notices the connexion… Chris likes Mike’s shrapnel metaphor. Strip the negative emotion by actualizing the event… Backwards, forwards, just run the damn thing, but make sure the client’s relaxed first! Ideomotor signals are a means to accessing the unconscious mind. Keep them simple! They work even in a superficial trance. Very, very effective, for getting to unconscious stuff and shift it! Chris reports on working with a claustrophobic client where the client didn’t verbalize what came up. DSiH can be used along with ideomotor to complete the work. We built not dependency, but independency! Metaphor complete… After an update on June’s Architecture of Hypnosis course, which is sold-out, Chris talks about denying things to draw attention to them. Mike gives the example of his friend on a television talk show who demanded that his opponent “Turn to that camera, and tell everyone you do not sacrifice babies to Satan…” Chris uses an excellent example of his daughter Staphysagria, and bossy behaviour at school. Chris tells about his other daughter Texephone, and the example of the stolen candy. Mrs. Coletart’s roof and the bird, and reprise of the Isn’t the real issue… Chris explains how Texephone used the Jerry Intervention with success!!! Mike refers to her as “Clymnestrata or Synecdoche…” Mike explains the brand new Gibraltar Method. To throw an irritating person off their game, just meaningfully call them “Gibraltar”. This is beyond context-free and is now schema-free humour. What we need is the Gus Grissom Update! Send in your Gus Grissom sightings to gusgrissom@mailinator.com Empowering Question: What is your greatest talent, and how are you going to use it to overcome your greatest weakness? Gus Grissom Update: Gus Grissom was spotted sipping a cup of coffee in Tweed, Ontario at Kelly’s Restaurant. He denied being Gus Grissom, and fled, when confronted by Washona Teale, who only wanted an autograph. Remember: Check out: this link for the MINDSCAPING training at Hypnothoughts Live in Las Vegas, in August 2016! Bonus: When you pick up a digital copy of MINDSCAPING using that link you can attend our one day class for free AND get a significant discount on your conference ticket. Ending: Dennis Bryce-Morgan and the supply train. Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Welcome to Episode 70 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! Not only is the hypnotic storm a hypnotic rash now, but it’s delivering the kind of results you’d expect from a high-quality anabolic steroid! If you like podcasts and listen to a lot of them, stop now! This is the only podcast you will ever need. Check out the show notes below and scroll down to listen to the podcast directly on this page. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you. Here are the show notes for this episode: Plausible deniability! Angus Young’s 61st birthday, and chicken at a coffee shop drive through! Is Mike the real-life Gus Grissom? April 1st when recorded! Chris is still talking about the wacky endings and ruining them. Mike says donuts “are full of wheat and they kill you!” How to order Swiss Chalet chicken at a Country Style Donuts shop… April Fools Day is illegal in China. Episode is all about focusing on the positive! Mike discusses AC/DC and the travesty of Axl Rose filling in for Brian Johnson. Another reference to Virgil “Gus” Grissom! Chris acts like a morning guy on an FM station. After a bad start, he begins a Ken Sweatman story. People complain about everything! Complaining becomes habituated. Life is good and bad. Where is your focus? What do you want? This is the Magic Question! Present Me vs Target Me. What do I want the Me to be at some definable time? Focusing on Present Me creates a stuck state. Mike runs into clients who even after they fix things, have to know why it happened. Mike thinks it goes back to Freud and psychoanalysis. If you’re better, who cares? If a tree falls in the forest… Chris says “lariss” instead of hilarious. Present is where we’re stuck. We need momentum and resources to move forward. Chris uses a fairly weak soccer ball metaphor that nearly gets the point across. It becomes a Ken Sweatman story. Mike manages to exit the story by talking about transformation. Mike’s wife is a personality genius and says you have to look into the abyss of your own personal darkness. Otherwise, we won’t change. Self-awareness is critical. Mike references Chris’ move to Hypno East from Toronto. Baby steps…Chris uses a business example and claims he does all the marketing (true) but also attempts to claim he creates the brilliant products too, obviously thinking Mike’s senile and he’ll get away with it. He wisely backs away from this dangerous thought… Take baby steps! Move forward each day, in business, or any area of life. Take action! Keep walking, running, whatever you need to do, and you’ll arrive at your destination. Chris begins a financial lecture about asset classes, stocks, mutual funds, etc. Baby steps again! Mike is silently frustrated, attempting to get away from the endless baby step discussion. Mike admits to being a senior citizen and collects a pension! My F! I’m buying a Tesla! It’s all coming apart in this podcast, but after yet another mention of baby steps, they move on. Chris promises to tell how he got his wife with an April Fool Tesla joke, but is lying and never mentions it again. (Chris is proof-reading these show notes and will have to finally explain the hiliarious joke in the next podcast!) The Grinder Model! How to call powerful high-performance states to the executive. The laundry list begins… 4 Levels of the Grinder Model are universally applicable. On the bottom isPerformance. How well, how elegantly will you do something? Next one up is State. This will ensure good performance. The more powerful your State, the better your Performance. Physiology will shift State. Chris says “slunshed” which is not a word. Mike pretends it doesn’t bother him, but then talks about driving his elbow into Chris’ head. There is a connexion. How would I move if I was a powerful person? Who is confident, and how would he or she move? The AS IF Frame! If I was confident…how would I stand. Mike invokes Kim Kardashian, because she’s visually quantifiable… Breathing is top level, and shifted in Qi Gong, Tai Chi, martial arts, yoga, etc. Support powerful states with breathing and physiological shifts. Mike mentions Paul Federn, Watkins and Watkins, Gordon Emmerson, etc. Ego states speak, act, and even look different from each other. Make sure the right one’s in the executive! Mike performs at Western University every year, where the kids are about 18 years old. How does he do it? Chris is obsessed with doing the laundry. Mike is calling the best state to the executive. Hypnosis shows work the same way! Call up the volunteers who present ego states that fit the criteria of the desired show. The right state in the executive will love being there! Watch our for teachers! They often keep their teaching states in the executive when dealing with adults! Mike explains how to breathe in the right state! Hypnothoughts Live 2016! August 25th MINDSCAPING course with Mike Mandel in Las Vegas! Lunches are included. One all inclusive awesome hypnotic event! Book the online MINDSCAPING training. Go tomikemandelhypnosis.com/htlive2016 Get a bonus of a full day training with Mike in Las Vegas, as well as the digital course. You also get a discount on your Hypnothoughts Live ticket! Come and hang out with Mike and Chris in Las Vegas, at the best hypnosis training in the world! The Personal Development Academy is here now! Go tomikemandelhypnosis.com/pda Check it out, along with all the incredible bonus material that’s included for FREE! Do what we’ve done, and transform your life! Waking hypnosis? Ormond McGill? Men staring at women as they pirouette…Is this hypnosis? News Flash! You’re never asleep in hypnosis. Watch our for PGO spikes though…Novelty, surprise and shock, can trigger an inroad to the unconscious mind. Monsters and Magical Sticks. Great book! Erickson just says “That’s right…” Chris is in full Ken Sweatman mode by now, and you can tell Mike’s losing interest. Chris is obsessed by the boss and the woman’s dress. Mike is very lenient with Chris. Mike says “Yes, Ken Sweatman!” Empowering Question: What old rules have you been living your life by, and what new rules will you write today, to replace them, as you move toward your goals, with alacrity. Gus Grissom Update: Gus Grissom was 150 lbs and 5’7″. Metaphor: Matty and the wooden guns. Remember: Check out:this link for the MINDSCAPING training at Hypnothoughts Live in Las Vegas, in August 2016! Bonus: When you pick up a digital copy of MINDSCAPING using that link you can attend our one day class for free AND get a significant discount on your conference ticket. Ending: Dave Ambrose, the People’s Physicist. Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Welcome to Episode 68 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! This is more than just a hypnosis podcast. It’s the only place on earth where you can get a good quality hypnotic rash! Check out the show notes below and scroll down to listen to the podcast directly on this page. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you. Here are the show notes for this episode: Podcast #68 starts abruptly, with reference to Janis Joplin and Jelly Babies and Chris calling Mike to task for lack of modesty. Mike responds brilliantly by spasmodically coughing on Chris’ neck. MINDSCAPER Susanne Witt is in the studio as a guest on today’s program! Mike makes a joke about Baghdad which they decide to edit out…except they didn’t … edit it … out. Chris begins a preframe about how he won’t be telling a Ken Sweatman story, which immediately becomes a Ken Sweatman story about not telling a Ken Sweatman story. Chris broaches the MINDSCAPING subject, and that’s what this program is mostly about. Mike repents and says that Chris’ explanation was so brilliant and cogent that Mike wants to learn about MINDSCAPING! Susanne explains how Mike tested MINDSCAPING on three female therapists/Hypnobabes. Emails keep coming in, all about amazing MINDSCAPING results! Chris explains how Milton Erickson used metaphors that changed people’s lives. He compares it to MINDSCAPING and Susanne says our unconscious minds want to protect us and give us good lives. Mike can be heard channeling Erickson in the background and talking about sending his daughter out to buy oil for the wheelchair. Chris pretends to ignore him. Chris and Mike discuss how MINDSCAPING accesses a specific map for the client; large or small issue. They talk about the stuff Susanne’s worked on with clients and the sound get’s suddenly weird but sounds cool, so it is not fixed. MINDSCAPING works even if you have no previous experience with hypnosis. Trance just happens! They discuss buildings that say “Trust” and fish appearing in MINDSCAPES. There are 2 aspects to MINDSCAPING: Seeing the map and landscaping the map. Susanne talks about how she often “sees” the client’s map. Mike kept a forest intact to protect the owls that were nesting there. Chris goes into good detail about how the protocol works. MINDSCAPING involves the client! The therapy goes deep and resonates for days or even weeks after the session. The Layla example: “This $hit works!” Chris mentions a man who bought the online MINDSCAPING course and used it immediately to help his son, who saw a blue Swedish fish floating behind him… You never know what’s going to be in their map! Susanne explains working with an artist whose map was a dry riverbed. He’s now doing reproductions of Picassos! Chris asks about the “dry river bed” which super-literate Mike calls a “wadi”. Chris says “watty” and Mike corrects him. Creativity responds well to MINDSCAPING. Mike gives the example of a man from Neil Strauss’ Society International and how he helped him get his creativity back. You can do MINDSCAPING online, which becomes MINDSKYPING! Mike gently points out that Chris said “progress” when he meant “process”. Chris promises to be much more careful in future podcasts… Threshold is needed in most therapies – Something must change! It must be me! It must be NOW! MINDSCAPING can be used to push people toward threshold. Chris explains and Susanne takes the easy way out, because she’s “intimidated” by Mike and to a much lesser extent, Chris. Mike goes into a tirade about his great vigour at his age, while doing the voice of an elderly man. Chris manages to reign him in. Mike talks about the beta testing and how Susanne ‘Scaped him. Mike explains the water, horizon and the pirate ship that’s on his desk. When rechecked later, the ship had moved out toward the gap in the horizon and everything took off… Chris explains how MINDSCAPES just happen without planning what will be experienced. Susanne responds with the snail story – a gift from the unconscious mind… NEVER explain a MINDSCAPE!!! Susan tells a Ken Sweatman story about a Skype client and how the snail image worked for her. The client caught the shift in the imagery, and changed stuff in his life. Susanne’s MINDSCAPE story changed the client’s own situation. Chris talks about a kid’s percentile and his difficulty to score well on an entry exam for a private school. The father bought the online MINDSCAPING training, and his first client was his son, who scored 30 percentile units higher, the very next day after the session. Mike explains about the Green Man and how it fit in the subject’s map. How weird can it get? Mike tells the golden tree story but avoids channeling Ken Sweatman, although it gets close. Waterfalls in MINDSCAPES? Look for the caves behind them… Mike says “We cannot let this go, without discussing the Goat Man!” Chris screams “Oh no!!!” in genuine terror. Susanne sounds quietly traumatized. Mike tells the story of the East Indian client and the father issues. It leads to the deserted subway station, the father’s voice, and the imaginary binoculars reveal…The Goat Man!!! Mike explains that it was an archetype. How many NLP Practitioners does it take to change a lightbulb? How many Ericksonian hypnotists? How many MINDSCAPERS? Chris talks about the daily use of metaphors to help people get where they want to go, and solve a lot of their own crap. Mike, Chris and Susanne are all available to do MINDSCAPING online! Chris makes an inadvertent inappropriate comment at exactly 30:10 of the podcast, but Mike shows admirable restraint, and says nothing… SusanneWitt.com is the website for Susanne, the Coach of the Unconscious Mind… MINDSCAPING came from many roots, including conversations with Mike’s mentor, Derek Balmer Mike explains the phenomenal correspondences between MINDSCAPING and graphology. Mike invokes The Goat Man again, and Susanne pleads “Stop it!” Come out to Hypnothoughts in Las Vegas in August! Mike will be teaching a full day of MINDSCAPING…Buy the online course and attend the live training for free, and get a discount on your Hypnothoughts ticket too! Check it out here: MINDSCAPING promotion for Hypnothoughts Live Hypnothoughts Live is awesome! Scott and Richard have done an amazing job, so come on out in August! Join the Hypnotic Storm Riders at the Irish Pub drink-off at the Orleans Hotel, Las Vegas! Chris mentions “The Wacky Ending” but Mike chides him for talking about it! Chris says he’s the marketer so Mike drops it, knowing that Chris is generally correct in these matters. Empowering Question: This is one of the strangest empowering questions yet, and it’s way too complex to write down. Mike goes into a “weird spin” and tells Chris he’s “just cut the throat of a man your age…” Metaphor: Life is a metaphor…so stop looking for one here! Ending: The Jenny Song Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Welcome to Episode 67 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson! The Hypnotic Storm is spreading like a rash, and you’re infected! Check out the show notes below and scroll down to listen to the podcast directly on this page. Keep sending us topic suggestions and show feedback. We love hearing from all of you. Here are the show notes for this episode: The podcast begins with the usual stupidity, with Mike doing guinea pig laughs over Chris’ intro, and then yelling “Hurrah!” for no apparent reason. A new way to vaguely confuse and sexually stress people by asking them to invest in you! Mike admits he’s pathologically ontime, as are all Enneagram Eights, and does love Oregon Pinot Noir, as well as the Washington State offering. They discuss Mike’s near crash enroute to Hypno East because of a guy texting. Toronto isn’t a backwater! 16 lanes of highway prove it! Mike uses a badge and yells that he’s not a cop to gain the advantage over idiots. Come out to Hypnothoughts in Las Vegas in August! Mike will be teaching a full day of MINDSCAPING…Buy the online course and attend the live training for free, and get a discount on your Hypnothoughts ticket too! Check it out here: MINDSCAPING promotion for Hypnothoughts Live. Chris goes well beyond the requisite explanation and it all gets dangerously close to a Ken Sweatman story, and draws Mike into the explanation of whatMINDSCAPING is and how it works. Chris and Mike discuss cold-reading, and the confirmation bias, the worst of this being Kripkean Dogmatism. Mike tells how in Newfoundland on a documentary shoot he convinced 2 observers that he’d never gotten up off a couch, which made the appearance of a selected card in a card-case across the room near miraculous. Events are reconstructed after the fact, which makes cold-reading seem real. People tend to remember only what fits their confirmation bias. Mike demonstrates the method on Chris, using his tan as an example. Mike advises to Google the Classic Reading! It fits most people. Chris brilliantly cold-reads that Mike hasn’t done the Classic reading recently. Mike says “Your sexual adjustment has caused you some difficulties…” and isn’t kidding! Cold readers make broad statements, and their dupes make specific applications of the material. Graphology is far more effective than cold-reading because you’ll be correct! Mike has been a certified handwriting expert since 1993. He provides forensic graphology and college lectures. Check out Mike’s online graphology course! You can see a cool video here: Introduction to Graphology and there’s over 7 hours of awesome training for you in the online course. A question comes in about rapid inductions and PGO spikes. Chris sends listeners to the rapid induction video on the blog at mikemandelhynosis.com Family members can be your worst subjects…at first, anyway. Mike tells how his student Mohammed hypnotised his father after one day of training. Chris explains the use of the startle effect and the PGO spike. Confusion means the brain looks for resolution. Chris starts to explain and begins channeling Ken Sweatman. Mike quickly takes control of the conversation and explains the need for rapport. They discuss a hilariously inept video from a hypnosis trainer that “drips with ridiculosity”. Mike’s REM induction fires a PGO spike, but the subject doesn’t know when it will happen. Chris mentions hiccups and startling the sufferer. Mike feigns interest. The startle must be poweful! Mike recommends Gil Boyne’s brilliant videos. Mike applauds Chris’ use of the Jerry Intervention, or: Seizing the power via confusion. Chris tells how he psychologically decimated the man for using sweeping generalizations and straw man arguments. Chris says that the man was an idiot, and Mike can be heard in the background, quietly chanting “Dick?…Dick?…” Chris continues speaking as Mike laughs. Chris thinks that Mike was laughing at Chris’ brilliance, but Mike is actually laughing at the way he kept chanting “Dick?…and wasn’t actually paying attention to anything Chris was saying. Chris explains how he actually used the Jerry Intervention, and says “This was textbook Jerry Intervention” and Mike laughs until he coughs and injures something. I think you know! is discussed. It all drips with portent and confusion. Who the hell is Jerry?!? Jerry was SO right about you! It’s now becoming a Ken Sweatman story. Life should be effortless, enjoyable and vaguely annoying to other people! Mike tells you how to do 3 really cool practical jokes while driving, and you do them at your own risk, and assume all responsibility for the results. Rememer: We are NOT responsible. At all. For anything. Ever. Mike tells how brilliant stage hypnotist Michael C. Anthony got him with the first of these practical jokes. Stomp on the accelerator and try to make it through the light. (Unless you’re in Chris’ Tesla, in which case you will make the light.) The second joke involves a horrific sharp turn and the relieved laughter when the car doesn’t roll and then burst into a fireball. The third joke is the best! Nothing like surviving a car crash…Stupid, but brilliant! (We aren’t telling you to do this, so don’t.) Empowering Question: What is it going to take for you to apply these empowering questions for your life…and how soon are you going to do it? Metaphor: Mike’s mentor, the late Derek Balmer and the parking meter… Ending: The brilliant song writing of Heinrich Dieter: Aufnahmevermogen aufmerksamkeitsverteilung! Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send in your questions by email to info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com Remember to check out this blogpost on pre-hypnotic work.
Freja Njorden independent hypnotist bodyworker emotional freedom facilitator and founder of Holistic Sexual Health is my guest. Websites www.thesensualist.org My work is my passion and I am happiest when thinking breathing, feeling, and doing what I love most. I first earned my massage diploma in New York, as well as studied the original Emotional Freedom Technique as presented by Gary Craig. In Germany I discovered and fell in love with the simplicity and incredible effectiveness of an updated method called faster EFT. Always interested in tools for change and an improved life, I pursued education in subliminal programming, quantum touch, tantric arts and studied Mindscaping and Hypnosis. I have been working independently with the mind-body connection and sensuality for the last 8 years, and consistently am upgrading skills, knowledge and techniques. I believe we are more mature and intelligent than the sexual culture in which we are taught sexual disconnect, objectification, compulsion, dissatisfaction and violence as the way things are. People are unsatisfied with the intimacy in their relationships and not understanding why or how to change it. Freja Njorden Intimacy Educator
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