Welcome to Toronto Canada, and to the Brain Software Podcast! You are welcome here...So get ready to hear all about Hypnosis; both therapeutic and onstage...
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Introduction for Episode 173
Be careful...things are about to get weird...
Stage Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy...Similarities, and differences?
Who cares Scro, because
THESE ARE DAYS OF VICTORY!!! Did I scare ya?
Think Tank Words for This Episode
- INTERIOR
- DEVELOPMENT
- SAVINGS
Show Notes for Episode 173
- The Warrington Reversal explained...
- Mike's stage hypnosis began in November 1974 at an Amazing Kreskin show...
- Heteroaction increases the likelihood of responding to different suggestions...
- Homoaction increases the likelihood of responding to the same suggestion...
- Mike started doing stage hypnosis in 1975 and hypnotherapy in 1993...
- Hypnotherapists should study the skills of the stage hypnotist!
- Theatre shows are the best, because people have paid to be there!
- You must get the buy-in, in order to help people...
- Melissa Tiers has written some awesome books!
- Mike set the groundwork for scary stories by creating an imaginary campfire...
- Richard Bandler used to joke about his clients' problems...
- ABC - Always Be Calibrating! Including calibrating yourself to avoid gaping in the gapery...
- When you're presenting in the presentery, you're onstage, so get it right!
- Jordan Peterson speaks by fixating a single person with his attention...
- The relationship is different between stage participants and clients...
- Onstage all phenomena are convincers.
- Your changework should be entertaining, but your stage show should not be therapy!
- Ecology first, both onstage and in the therapy room!
- Don't diagnose, prescribe, or treat for serious problems...
- There are elements of danger in a stage hypnosis show...
- Beware the Late Night Phone Call!
- Sometimes the social benefits are greater than the perceived risk...
- The logical fallacy of non-falsifiability...
- Hypnosis shows attract "unusual people"...
Commercial Break - The Shyzzjigg Corporation
- Abreaction! The release of pent-up negative emotions...
- Onstage you need to break state quickly and stop it!
- In a therapy session, abreaction is a great time to discharge it completely!
- Don't go out there and fly by the seat of your pants without insurance!
- There are specific dangers in street hypnosis, so be careful and beware...
Empowering Questions:
Ask yourself: In all my considerable skill sets...what can I do really well...and how can I map those learnings...over to a completely different ability...and how will my life change for the better...when I do just that?
Metafive: Kim Mitchell and the ruined guitar solo
Ending: The Captain Game
Important Links and Reminders:
- The agree and repeat process video training is here, and it's free.
- This is our free video course on conversational hypnosis.