Working with Your Mind, from a Hypnotist with Doug Sands - a podcast by Jessica Sun
from 2021-02-19T11:00
Have you ever had the idea that your mind is working against you? Get a better understanding of how to work with it, from a professional in the world of the mind. Plus, learn about some funny hypnotism skits and the science behind being hypnotized.
Doug is a professional hypnotist, host of the Making Meaning podcast, and an adventurer. He helps people worldwide overcome roadblocks like mental illness and fear through online hypnosis at Anywhere Hypnosis. He also does performance hypnosis at different events.
Quotes to remember:
“I realized that no one was going to come to save me… I didn’t want to die, but I didn’t want to continue living the way that I had been.”
“Our unconscious mind speaks in images and feelings.”
“When we change at the identity level, everything else changes.”
Takeaways:
- Solo meditation actually increases the frequency of our brain waves
- Depression and anxiety are large issues that aren’t cured by hypnosis or meditation by a magic wand; they have layers and steps to them
- Depression can become a guidepost for you, to provide you with needed information
- Hypnosis is not the same as mind control; it is entering the creative and open theta state
- Changing at the identity level is more difficult than changing at the habit level
- Everyone responds to the same hypnosis differently
- A hypnotism performance is similar to improv in that the hypnotist works with new actors and doesn’t know where the show is going to go
- Our emotional states are a lot more malleable than we think; emotions as patterns last only a few minutes
- Depression can be useful to be aware of
What you’ll learn:
- How Doug got started in hypnotism
- The link between meditation and hypnosis: our brain waves
- Doug’s tools for facing anxiety
- What self-hypnosis looks like
- What being hypnotized is actually like (as opposed to the movie version)
- What it’s like being a stage hypnotist and performer
- How Doug writes his shows
- How to tell a good hypnotist from a so-so one
- Why Doug believes that everyone can be hypnotized
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Links:
Further episodes of Guru Please
Further podcasts by Jessica Sun
Website of Jessica Sun