Brain Software with Mike Mandel: Hypnosis | NLP | Self Improvement

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…

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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!

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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!

• 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

Here are the show notes for this episode:

• Chris begins badly by explaining in advance how nonsensical this podcast is. Mike can never get him to stop telegraphing or debriefing the humour…
• Woah! This stuff really comes out!
• Hilarious to us…but still disturbing.
• Architecture of Hypnosis training in May is SOLD OUT! There is still some space in June…Book it now!
• Mike sneaks in a guinea pig laugh.
• The Wellness Academy is better than ever.
• Mike is very concerned about the umbrella in Chris’ garden…
• Aren’t you glad the dictionary is in alphabetical order?
• The mail bag is in! Dan at The Bay checkout…Let’s change people’s states!
• We do not respond to the world, and neither do you!
• Our experience is framed by our language…
• Do you have to do something? Or do you get to do something?
• For the record: Chris admits he did not get beaten up as a kid!
• Another email from our online student John; the pharmacist who falls flat on his face.
• There are lots of ways to interrupt a pattern!
• Shock, surprise, fear, etc., can trigger a PGO spike.
• Can the REM Induction be used on Skype? Nope.
• Can you pattern interrupt a pattern interrupt?
• The hidden phone…On of Mike’s Finest Hours!
• Vanishing an iPhone with someone else’s hands – all without their knowledge!
• Different restaurant – different waitress – same iPhone!
• Ken Sweatman has arrived…
• Indirect suggestion at work. Erickson would have been proud of Mandel!
• Distraction makes it easy!
• Waitresses with amnesia. This stuff is so cool!
• “It doesn’t matter…”
• A Robert Cialdini Pre-suasion discussion ensues. It’s a brilliant book! Read it.
• Pre-suasion preps the person to be influenced by you.
• Offer a warm drink to influence before you make your pitch…
• If you’re an athlete a higher number has a powerful effect on how your athleticism is perceived.
• Offhandedly mention the million dollars you aren’t going to charge! It drops the anchor.
• If you read senior words, you’ll walk slower! If you want to seem younger, move faster!
• Mike makes a brilliantly funny wizard hat joke, which Chris actually improves upon.
• Heavy clipboards are way more important!
• Chris actually asks Mike if he’s ever heard of the iPad. Shocking…
• After a wonderful explanation of groups and helpfulness, Chris wrecks it by saying the redundant “close proximity”.
• Toronto is drivable for lots of Americans, and the Canadian dollar is very low, which is great for our students from the USA. Come out and train with us before Canada builds a wall along the border…
• Mike refers to Chris’ daughters as Ramphorinsicus and Aravuantavay!

Commercial Break: We didn’t have a sponsor!

Empowering Question: What could the empowering question be, if you were to create one?

Metaphor: Mike’s Ultimate Enjoyment Day!

• Architecture of Hypnosis is  sold-out status for May 2017. Get in NOW for the training in June…Then there’s only November left…(The June dates are now officially set as June 12-16)

• Ending: The Voice of B.J. Thomas for Pepsi, circa 1974

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Here are the show notes for this episode:

• Yep! We made it to number 81! The most victorious podcast ever…
• If you’re going on a picnic, there’s going to be ants in your sandwiches…but no ants in your casters, thanks to the Shyzjigg Corporation!
• Mike is almost a knight! But no history lesson here…
• Mike’s a cook…not a chef, but he loves knives.
• Triggers! What are they and what the heck do they do to us?
• A bacon discussion ensues…Let’s call people “Bacon”!
• Chris’ daughters Staphysagria and Vorolaya will love this!
• Call people bacon, unless they’re Jewish. Keep it kosher with chicken bacon if necessary!
• As our friend Jason Linett says “We help people.”
• We discuss the hilarious “hide the phone” prank Mike played on Chris last week (The funny thing is, Mike did it again at lunch after this podcast was recorded!)
• Chris is clearly puzzled and amazed, but Mike lets him run with it.
• Chris actually calls Mike “you bastard” which is horrible in a family rated podcast. Such filth.
• The waitress stole the phone, but she doesn’t know about it consciously.
• Mike is clearly really proud of this, and rightly so. It’s hypnotic magic, boys and girls!
• The Zeigarnik Effect in action!
• Timing is everything…make sure the 7 +/- 2 chunks are occupied.
• What’s coming up? Karl Smith in Toronto on April 29 and 30 to teach the Kinetic Shift! It’s going to be awesome…
• Architecture of Hypnosis still has a few spots for May and June 2017.
• Chris says “cheaper” way too many times and it sounds strange.
• HypnoThoughts Live 2017 is just a few months away. Come and study and hang with us in the epicenter of culture, Las Vegas! Mike’s teaching the Essentials of Ericksonian Hypnosis for 2 days.
• The boyz are also going to the UK in the Fall. It’s going to be awesome!
• What sets you off? Words get coded in your brain emotionally, so watch out, wimp-boy!
• Mike combats Chris’ earlier obsession with the word “cheaper” by hitting the lazy button about 10 times.
• You have to access the kinesthetic system to get to emotions.
• Triggers happen during sports events too.
• Mike goes on a Ricky Henderson tirade that continues to infuriate him.
• Are these bad states Ego States? Chris gives a great response!
• Mike doesn’t teach British Jiu Jitsu in his Egyptian Mau or Bengal cat playing state. (Good thing too…)
• State of mind, or sub-personality. Ask Gordon Emmerson…
• The Executive Ego State is YOU…(at least at that moment…)
• Some people trigger us on purpose. This can be dangerous…
• Withheld information!? Oh no! Back to the Zeigarnik Effect…
• “This is serious!” Don’t make me kill you!!!!!
• Chris’ daughters (Texephone and Clemnestrata) won’t let him leave a loop open.
• Notice when the triggers have fired. Where did they originate?
• Chris says he grew up in Montreal and Mike adds that he “killed a couple of kids with an axe!”
• Chris actually personified his skis and physically attacked them for being stupid.
• Mike invokes John Cleese in Faulty Towers.
• Chris says “EElogical” which Mike jumps on at record pace.
• Trauma is a memory distortion. The past intrudes into the present.
• Mike invokes Edwin Twitmyer and the knee jerk reaction.
• Chris admits he used to trigger his daughters, Samothrace and Yseult, by not tickling them. Mike reports Chris to Children’s Aid.
• The evil tickling torture of Gerry Childs!
• We are not our emotions! Practice QTiP (Quit taking it personally!)
• Associated vs Dissociated
• Mike admits he used to look like Dumbo.
• Chris teaches the Power of SO…

Commercial Break: You’re Still Just Danny!

Empowering Question: What triggers set me off on a regular basis, and what am I going to do to stop being reactive?

Metaphor: The Power of Food to Annoy…

• 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

• Ending: Mike begins a brilliant round of Free-Style Chanting, and Chris joins in with great gusto and power.

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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!

• 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 79 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson!

Technical difficulties abound! Something went horribly wrong, but here’s the podcast anyway… (it’s not that big a deal)

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!

• Podcast #80 is next! Mike wants to bring in some booze!
• Mike starts with a Gerry Kein cough, and mentions the Generation of Morons we see everywhere.
• Let’s talk about logical fallacies, children! You’ll hear these in politics, advertising, etc.
• Only 2 groups of people in the world…
• Upcoming stuff! Karl Smith arrives in April to teach the Kinetic Shift! Chris and Mike will be students in the class, so come and join them.
• Architecture of Hypnosis is nearly sold-out for May 2017. Get in now, or wait until June…Then there’s only November left…
• Mike does his really stupid old British guy voice, purely for his own amusement.
• Bandwagon is the first logical fallacy in the podcast. Mike admits that he used to be a telephone operator.
• Bell Canada sent a salesman to Mike’s house to sell him an upgrade. Note to Bell: It didn’t work.
• We all want to be part of a Tribe! Groups are safer than lone wolves.
• Chris invokes Robert Cialdini, who’s an awesome author!
• Mike’s wife decides by committee…
• Being a Brit, Mike manages to bring the Germans into the discussion.  Let’s invade France!
• Strawman! When losing an argument, redefine the terms of the argument and then attack the new definition.
• We must respect the elderly, because Mike’s getting close…
• A Red Herring is often used if you’re winning the argument. It’s pure distraction.
• Chris brings up reciprocity at this point, which is a good addition.
• Mike tells the tale of the patient NLP Trainer who kept spatially anchoring the point of interruption…
• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc! (The Great Courses are awesome! Google them.) I got my car washed and it made it rain!
• Mike invokes Magical Thinking! Mike’s friend of 53 years, Brian McDowell thinks carpet fluff can change the course of a hockey game that’s happening elsewhere.
• Check cause and effect, and listen for Post Hoc!
• The No True Scotsman fallacy. Just keep redefining things until it works for you. Mike mentions Occam’s Razor.
• Friction doesn’t exist! It’s all about demons…
• The Gambler’s Fallacy or the Law of Independent Events. The dice and cards have no memory! There is no equilibrium to be restored.
• Chris talks about the stock market…he knows what he’s talking about.
• The taxi driver Webb, and the lottery tickets.
• Sound is getting weird now! Keep listening though, and just pretend someone’s tapping his fingers on the table in a senseless rhythm, and you’ll be okay!
• Being hit by lightning is more likely than winning the lottery! Would you pick the numbers that won last week?
• Human Givens says that strong emotions make us stupider! Even really good emotions do it. When you’re in love, you’re stupid. Seriously. Stupid.
• Mike says that good hypnotherapy gets the emotions involved. He invokes the example of a stupid inlaw he had to deal with.
• You can’t use logic to say that you can’t use logic! Thanks Aristotle!
• Circular Reasoning A proves B because B proves A…
• Chris makes a tedious point about spreadsheets, and Mike pretends to be interested.
• Ad Hominem is to attack the person, rather than refuting what they’re saying. “Your hat looks stupid, so I don’t have to listen to you!”
• Mike says that white dudes lie all the time! They don’t. Neither do other races, although Martians might…
• Get somebody angry and flustered and then point it out to win the argument! (It’s a cheap shot. Don’t do it.)
• False Dilemma is related to the double-bind. Sometimes there are gray areas…Politicians are great at this one.

Empowering Question: How will I become more ruthlessly logical to see through all attempts to manipulate?

Gus Grissom Update! Grissom has clearly gone into hiding. No sightings in awhile…

Send your sightings to gusgrissom@mailinator.com

• Empowering Metaphor: Fred Penner and Melanie Haber…
• Ending: Come on along with the Black Rider!

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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!

• 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!

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Welcome to Episode 77 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson!

Mike has been dubbed “The King of the Hypnotic Kingdom”, which Chris admits is fairly lame. But we couldn’t be bothered to come up with anything better, so it’s settled.  Mike is King. Today’s podcast is all about how laughing relates to hypnosis and our interview guest is the incredible Texan hypnotist, James Hazlerig.

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!

• Only one show left, the massiter branch of the facial nerve, and he’s not black!
• This show’s about laughter, so Mike has revived the Guinea Pig Laugh!
• Mike is way more British than the average Brit, and he’s got Irish blood too. Also some Iberian, and Viking DNA.
• Mike’s wife has the black DNA that Mike wanted, all the way from Benin Africa.
• James Hazlerig from Austin Texas is on the show by invitation!
• It’s all about the power of laughter and the Little Book of Laughnosis, so Mike does the Guinea Pig Laugh again.
• So this doctor in India started it all with Laughter Yoga. They told jokes until they ran out, but found a connexion with Pranayama (Yogic breathing)
• Imagining lemons causes salivation, so why not make laughing noises, which they did.  Chris attempts to tie Clark Hull into it all, but quickly gets lost in his own meanderings.
• Amy Cuddy did the Ted talk about body positions and standing like a super hero.
• When you decide to laugh or even smile, you release endorphins, serotonin, etc. Mike quotes Richard Bandler and the drugs our bodies produce.
• James says that laughter is the orgasm of smiling. We edit it out, but he’s right, damn him! Oxytocin, the bonding chemical hits too.
• Meetings in the morning? Oh…I get it.
• Dogs get oxytocin too. Cats probably couldn’t care less. Dogs have owners and cats have staff.
• James leads laughter yoga classes! Chris says it’s infectious, but means contagious. Hence the laugh tracks on comedies.
• Laughter makes us love other people! Even other people in restaurants. Mike finds this to be hilarious. Transcendence!
• We don’t take laughter seriously enough. Mike tells James about his insane laughter game. You have to laugh like a psycho!
• Play the laughter game when you’re out with your friends. It’s hilarious! Make sure you tell us what happens…
• Chris is a self-confessed “personal drug dealer” and references Tim Ferris.
• Drugs change your brain! So does meditation, playing music, laughter…
• Unconditional intention laughter affects your brain because of Hebb’s Law: Neurons that fire together, wire together.
• James is honest. He’s a naturally depressed, angry, anxious person.
• Mike ties the laughter in with Architecture of Hypnosis class.
• Laugher produces positive states for any purpose, even exercising.
• Chris makes a connexion with trampolines and laughter. Mike responds by quietly doing the Guinea Pig laugh again.
• Bilaughteral Stimulation anyone? Let’s fire both brain hemispheres, children…Listen to the result…
• You can even do this quietly while lying in bed!
• Tap and laugh: Thighs, stomach, chest, head, sky…
• The frequency climbs!
• Mike nearly has a stroke from laughing.
• Chris’ wife is upstairs and we all wonder if she’ll think we’ve gone crazy given all the laughter.
• She found it to be unfunny when he told her later that he’d put her in the podcast.
• Mike admits to buying The Three Stooges Ultimate Collection. He’s going to do James’ stuff first.
• Chris says “Who needs booze?” James and Mike think he’s gone too far.
• Laughter bypasses the Critical Faculty! Let’s reprogramme those minds, folks!
• Chris begins reading aloud from James’ book. He indirectly takes shots at people from Newfoundland and also blondes, but he’s quoting a study referenced in James’ book, so it doesn’t count.
• Get out and buy The Little Book of Laughnosis by James Hazlerig, available at Amazon!
• Empowering Question: How will you include intentional laughter in your life today, and how will it change your life?
• Ending: The Spunky and Beezer Show!!!

Insist on Shyzjigg!

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Welcome to Episode 76 of Brain Software with Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson!

The rash is getting moist and moving inland with alarming speed, so stay out of its way, or face a lifetime of hypnotic itchiness!

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!

• Chris begins brilliantly with the following introduction:
• Mike is back from the Canadian Wilderness, is into Neoclassical Dark Wave (but who isn’t these days?) and is secretly hoping he’s black.
• The Trio is addressed…Mike loves the music of Dead Can Dance. You will too…
• Mike coughs as he says Microsoft, so nobody hears him. He’s having his DNA analyzed and wants black blood to justify his obsession with the blues and the poetry of Langston Hughes. If he has any black DNA, Mike is going to claim to be black from now on, as his personal kick into the very pouch of racism and racists everywhere.
• We’re talking all about FUN today. Chris attempts to talk about Ego States but Mike keeps control.
• Is your life too full of activity? If there’s no fun, what’s the point? You are the author of the fun in your life! Make yourself your number one project!
• Chris goes back to the relationship discussion in the last podcast. He references people who are in competitive or un-fun states. Mike asks What is the point of your life?
• Mike references a friend who’s now overloaded with the work of 2 people. He referenced Mark Twain to contrast fun and work. Chris asks How do you know you’re having fun? 
• Toronto Blue Jays just got knocked out of the playoffs. Mike segues to hockey, and makes an incredibly brilliant Comet Kohoutek joke, which Chris pretends to get.
• In a hypothetical hockey game, a rubber disk has a completely different effect on Detroit and Toronto.
• Mike preframes Ego States…Paul Federn, Watkins and Watkins and Gordon Emmerson.
• These are sub-personalities. They aren’t psychological. They are part of the physical structure of the brain. They are digital, and only one can be Executive at a time.
• Chris explains the Classroom Metaphor. Mike interrupts him for his own amusement.
• Chris presses on, and amazingly, avoids doing a Ken Sweatman impersonation.
• Mike commends Chris and seizes control. All metaphors are imperfect though, as Chris points out.
• Which state is Executive? You need the right one for the task at hand. Mike explains with the dog story…Teacher stuck in the Executive!!!
• Mike says that depressed people have a depressed state that hogs the Executive.
• Chris points out the obvious, and says that you’ll be happy with a happy state in the Executive. Mike humours him. They invoke Griffin and Tyrrell of the UK  (Human Givens Theory) and John Grinder. Move and breathe to change your state.
• Mike and Chris are not doctors, psychologists, or therapists. They’re educators and unconscious coaches.
• Mike talks about the girl at the funeral and the inappropriate comments of the Executive Ego State.
• Make a shopping list of things that are FUN. The boyz move to discussing Retail Therapy. Mike sometimes buys stuff to feel better. Now he keeps the price scaled down. Cold Steel knives are awesome!
• Chris goes back to the shopping list of fun stuff from the past. He says that no-one is infected with FUN. Mike likes this, and says FUN sounds better and more active than happiness.
• Mike wants to go downtown with Paul Pacific and twitch to scare people as he saw on YouTube. Mike finds it hilarious to scare people in non-threatening ways. Practical jokes are awesome!
• Chris and Mike continue laughing, because even the thought of scaring people is fantastic.
• Get sad people having fun! Chris mistakenly says “Retail therapy” and tries to pass it off as intentional, but Mike jumps on it. When Chris is in the zone, he doesn’t even realize how competitive he is (insensitive to others).
• Mike is studying meteorology and loves learning. Chris reminds us that we all had fun as children.
• Get a recipe list, and build the FUN back into your life. Moving and breathing to support this will help. Chris mentions that Mike is in his 60s. He then says TEE-vee, which sounds weird.
• Family board games are awesome. Mike especially likes beating Michael C. Anthony at backgammon for money…
• John Grinder taught Mike to overwhelm bad states with good stuff. Silvia Hartmann does this too! Buy her book Positive EFT.
• Commercial Break.  
• Newsflash! You can’t be depressed while you’re having fun…Get out there and build the FUN back into your life. Make fun for other people too, or at least scare them.
• Coming up in the next podcast: The Power of Laughter with James Hazelrig. Add intentional laughter to your life!
• Mike does the scarecrow laugh to terrify Michael C. Anthony, and now you can too!
• Empowering Question: What did you used to do to build a high level of FUN into your life, and what are you going to do today to get it back?
• Gus Grissom Update – Byron Bay Australia! Send your sightings of Gus Grissom to GusGrissom@Mailinator.com
• Ending: What becomes of you my love?

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