Podcast #173 – Stage Hypnosis vs Hypnotherapy

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

  1.  INTERIOR
  2. DEVELOPMENT
  3. 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:

  1. The agree and repeat process video training is here, and it's free.
  2. This is our free video course on conversational hypnosis.