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Brain Software with Mike Mandel — 314 episodes

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Session 311: The Hypnotic Power of Identity Statements

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Session 310: The Mandel Method of Hypnosis: The Three Pillars

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Session 309: How to Control Time with Hypnosis

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Session 308: The Momentum Method: How to Achieve Any Goal Faster

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Session 307: Habits, Identity, and Taking Back Control

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Session 306: How Fear Controls You (And How to Take Back Your Power)

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Session 305: Hypnosis Q&A: The Secret Mechanics of Personal Transformation

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Session 304: Hypnosis for Kids - How Parents Accidentally Sabotage Child Therapy

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Session 303: Why Modern Hypnosis Works Better

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Session 302: Master Self Hypnosis for Instant Results

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Session 301.66: Hilarious Commercial Breaks (And Other Weird Stuff...)

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Session 301.33: Communication Skills & Conversational Hypnosis Techniques

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Session 301: Hypnosis and the Words We Use

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Session 300: How Words Rewire Your Brain & Shape Reality

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Session 299: 23 Psychological Hacks to Rewrite Your Life Story

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Session 298: Seven Conversational Hypnosis Tools You Can Use Today

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Session 297: Stop Reading Scripts! How to Actually Learn Hypnosis

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Session 296: The Mandel Method: How to Master Hypnotic Skills Faster Than Ever

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Session 295: 13 Years of Personal Growth: Health, Relationships & Life Mastery

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Session 294: Is Hypnosis Fake? What the Science Really Says

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Session 293: How to Be Happy: Cultivating Joy as a State of Mind

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Session 292: Is Hypnosis Dangerous or Just Misunderstood? (Halloween Special)

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Session 291: How to Spot and Stop Psychological Manipulation

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Session 290: Conflict Resolution: Everything You Need to Know

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Session 289: Conversational Tools in Hypnosis: Rapport, Presuppositions, and More

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Session 288: Aphantasia and Hypnotic Success Stories

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Session 287: The Magic of State - Hacking Your Mindset Instantly

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Session 286: HypnoThoughts Live 2025

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Session 285: The Unconscious Mind, and Much More…

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Session 284: Hypnotizing Cheaters and a Visit to the Hypnotic Art Gallery

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Session 283: The Hypnotic Power of One Tiny Word

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Session 282: Hockey, Aging Horribly and Hypnosis

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Session 281: Hypnosis vs Talk Therapy Cage Match

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Session 280: For Those Who Get Triggered … We Will Trigger You

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Session 279: Big Crowds and Bad Logic: Trump, Hypnosis, and the Fallacy Factory

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Session 278: Epic Stories from Decades of Stage Hypnosis Shows

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Session 277: The Hypnotic Power of Words: How Language Shapes Your Reality

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Session 276: Massage Drunk & Mind Hacks: How Hypnosis Works Everywhere

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Session 275: The Evolution of Hypnosis: From Mesmer to the Future of Trance

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Session 274: Busting the Biggest Myths About Trance and Suggestion

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Session 273: Tony Robbins and Mass Hypnosis in the Media

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Session 272: Quantum Hypnosis? What the heck is that? Magic

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Session 271: Oyster Allergies, Fear of Spiders, and Needle-Free Dental Magic

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Session 270: Hypnotic Experiences with Time

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Session 269: Microdosing and the One Word

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Session 268: Distinctions for a better life

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Session 267: Learning Faster with Artificial Intelligence

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Session 266: Self-Work with Ideomotor Signals

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Session 265: Perceptual Positions to Solve People Problems

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Session 264: Repairing Burnt Bridges and Cutting Cords

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Session 263: Crushing Everyday Problems with This One Method

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Session 262: Hypnosis for Strange Unconscious Problems

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Session 261: Takeaways from the World's Biggest Hypnosis Conference

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Session 260: Hypnosis to Reframe Recharge and Relate

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Session 259: Brainwashing Secrets and Pain Relief through Hypnosis

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Session 258: Conquering Negativity: Hypnotic Techniques and Optimistic Living

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Session 257: Hypnotic Mistakes and Mastery: Insights from Mike, Chris, and Timothy September

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Session 256: Bernheim's Amnesia Technique and the Power of Personal Development in Hypnosis

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Session 255: More Q&As

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Session 254: Erickson was the GOAT

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Session 253: More Questions and Answers about Hypnosis

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Session 252: Questions and Answers about Hypnosis

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Session 251: Is Hypnosis Scientific?

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Session 250: Hypnosis to Forget an Ex…and Other Cool Stuff

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Session 249: Giving Hypnotically Dynamic Presentations

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Session 248: Communicating well, when the other person doesn't!

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Session 247: Staying Safe in this Crazy World

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Session 246: Staying Safe in this Crazy World

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Session 245: NLP Classic vs NLP New Code

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Session 244: Hypnosis, Imagination and Guided Imagery

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Session 243: The Rise of Top-Down Therapy

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Session 242: Get out there, and wreck those relationships, while there's still time!

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Session 241: Calibration, Conversation and Hypnotizability

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Session 240: Presentation Skills, for Stage and Life!

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Session 239: Reframing, Systems, and Mailbag…

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Session 238: All about FEAR!

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Scott Adams on Reframing – Brain Software Podcast (in-betweener episode 02)

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Session 237: Keys to being an Awesome Hypnotist!

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Session 236: Hypnosis Questions Answered

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Session 235: Stop doing these 10 things right now!

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Session 234: Back from HT Live!

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Session 233: What is hypnosis? That, and conversational power for all of us…

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Session 232: Bad therapy, regression to cause, and more!

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Session 231: Hypnosis and Language So Fun It Ought to be Illegal

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Session 230: Hypnosis Miracles

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Session 229: Gang of Four

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Session 228: Sleep and Dreams

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Session 227: AI, Automatic Writing and Allergies

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Session 226: Pet Peeves Part 2

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Session 225: Pet Peeves

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Session 224: Resources and where to find them…

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Session 223: From Wimp to Wizard the Making of Mike Mandel

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Session 222: Stage Hypnosis as a Career

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Session 221: How to Tell if You're in a cult

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Session 220: This is your brain on fun

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Session 219: Health and Fitness Made Simple

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Session 218: The Power of Perception

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Session 217: MMH Rules for Living

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Session 216: What about Mesmerism? And hypnosis tools to blow people's minds…

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Session 215: Everyday hypnosis for everybody

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Session 214: Generative Changework for hypnotists

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Session 213: Where did hypnosis come from?

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Session 212: Building Self Confidence

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Session 211: All About Behaviors

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Session 210: Las Vegas debrief, and what we've learned from the best trainers

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Session 209: Amaze and Astound Your Friends Part 2

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Session 208: Amaze and Astound Your Friends Part 1

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Brain Software Podcast In Betweener Ep 01 - Ken Guzzo

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Session 207: The Secrets to Mastering NLP

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Session 206: The Secrets to Mastering Hypnosis

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Session 205: Beliefs vs Hypnosis

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Session: Hypnosis Q&A

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Session 203: Ideomotor and Ideosensory

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Session 202: A Discussion on State, Focus and Physiology

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Session 201: What We Believe about Beliefs

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Session 200: A Celebration of Context Free Humour

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Session 199: What We Have Learned from Other Hypnotists

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Session 198: Tips to Become a Great Direct Hypnotist

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Session 197: Becoming a Better Ericksonian Hypnotist

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Session 196: Life as a Series of Continuums

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Session 195: Be an Awesome Communicator

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Session 194: Modelling Success in Any Area

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Session 193: Compounding to Make 2022 a Great Year

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Session 192: The Power of Baby Steps - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

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Session 191: Power of Decisions and Imagination

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Session 190: Hypnotic Age Regression or Regression to Cause

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Session #189: In Pursuit of Happiness

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Session 188: Using the Pareto Principle to Improve Your Life

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Session 187: Transforming Yourself with Questions

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Session 186: Distinctions for a Better Life

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Session 185: Abandonment, Chronic Pain and More Q&A

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Session 184: How We Can Overcome Fear

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Session 183: Never be Lied To Again Part 2

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Session 182: Never be Lied To Again

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Session 181: 3 Models for an Awesome Life

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Session 180: Ego State Integration and the Magic of Heteroaction

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Session 179: Performing Surgery in Your Own Brain Now Possible Using Ego State Transformation

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Session 178: Do these TIPS to Greatly Reduce Stress

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Session #177: Improve Your Hypnotic Abilities with These TIPS

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Session 176: CONTROL Issues!

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Session 175: Truth & Lies | Detection and Indicators

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Session 174: How MMH got started

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Session 173: Stage Hypnosis vs Hypnotherapy

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Session 172: How to Command Respect

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Session 170: All About Confidence

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Session 171: All About Confidence Part 2

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Session 169: Dunning Kruger and Imposter Syndrome

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Session 168: Cheat Sheets and Exit Strategies

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Session 167: Attitude and Gratitude Part 2

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Session 166: Attitude and Gratitude Part 1

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Session 165: How to Screw Up Your Life Completely

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Session 164: Hypnotic Stories and Metaphors

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Session 163: Hypnotic Language

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Session 162: All About NLP Part 3

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Podcast 161: All About NLP Part 2

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Session 160: All About NLP Part 1

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Session 159: Wellness and Mass Hypnosis with Dr. Tro Kalayjian

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Session 158: Journey to the Castle

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Session 157: Mail Bag Edition

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Session 156: All About Beliefs (part 2)

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Session 155: All About Beliefs (part 1)

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Session 154: The Mandel Model

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Session 153: Easy Self Hypnosis

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Session 152: Become Assertive

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Session 151: Ten Tips to Change Everything

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Session 150: Conversational Hypnosis Part 3

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Session 149: Conversational Hypnosis Part 2

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Session 146: Cold Reading is Awesome!

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Session 145: Dealing with Disaster

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Session 144: Discovering Your Sub-Personalities

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Session 143: All About Anxiety

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Session 142: Personal Development Lessons from Chris (Part 2)

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Session 141: Make 2020 Your Best Year Ever - part 2

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Session 140: Make 2020 Your Best Year Ever (Part 1)

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Session 139: Personal Development Lessons from Chris

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Session 138: Aim Your Brain

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Session 137: Fascinating Hypnosis Conversation

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Session 136: The Architecture of Change

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Session 135: Words That Work

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Session 134: Top Ten Wellness Tips

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Session 133: Top Ten Transformational Techniques

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Session 132: Top 10 Greatest Hypnotists of All Time

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Session 131: Interview with Michael C. Anthony, World's Greatest Stage Hypnotist

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Session 130: Hypnosis Mail Bag

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Session 129: No Instructions Required

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Session 128: Logical Levels and Your Best Life NOW!

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Session 127: Hypnosis and Manipulation

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Session 126: Communication Pitfalls

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Session 125: Part 2 of Suggestion, Regression and Timelines

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Session 124: Suggestion, Regression and Timelines

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Session 123: Turn Insomnia into Quality Sleep

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Session 122: Ramping Up Your Creative Power!

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Session 121: Building a Quality Life

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Session 120: Communication Tips Part 3

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Session 119: An Interview with Anthony and Freddy Jacquin

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Session 118: Communication Tips Part 2

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Session 117: Powerful Communication Strategies Part One

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Session 116: The Principles of Hypnosis Part 4

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Session 115: Principles of Hypnosis Part 3

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Session 114: The Principles of Hypnosis Part 2

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Session 113: Principles of Hypnosis Part 1

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Session 112: The Unconscious Mind and Never Surrender

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Session 111: Dealing with Toxic People

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Session 110: An Interview with Dr. Richard Nongard

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Session 109: Las Vegas Aftermath, Hypnosis Cards, and a Dishwasher

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Session 108: Rudy Giuliani, Mail Bag and the Lawn Tree Blooms

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Session 107: Assertion, Argumentation, and Inner Child Work...

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Session 106: Interventions, Incidentalomas and the Magic Cabbages

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Session 105: Wellness, Ego States and Blood Chokes

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Session 104: Hypnotic Influence, Assertion, and the Window of Doom!

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Session 103: False Memories, Monica, and That's Ridiculous!

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Session 102: Eliminating Allergies and More Days of Awesome

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Session 101: Mirroring Hands and Awesome Days

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Session 100: Addictions and 100 Days of Awesome!

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Session 99: Guilt, Shame, Empathy and the Bucket List

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Session 98: Take Action Now!

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Session 97: Learning to Think Better

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Session 96: Making Order and Chaos Work for You!

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Session 95: All About Anxiety

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Session 94: Being Your Best

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Session 93: Energy and Negative Emotions

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Session 92: Onward in 2018

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Session 91: The Fascinating Field of Hypnosis

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Session 90: How to have an awesome life

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Session 89: An Interview with Steve Roehm

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Session 88: Thirteen Relationship Hacks

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Session 87: An Interview with Jason Linett

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Session 86: Focus, Empathy and Weird Word Whiskers

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Session 85: The Ryan Intervention, Hitler, and the 4th Johnny!

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Session 84: PGO car crashes, online attacks, and Nelson Mandela

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Session 83: Inversion and Rejection, plus Miss ASMR!

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Session 82: Pre-suasion and Chris' Big Dictionary

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Session 81: Triggers, Bacon, and Cold Pizza!

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Session 80: We cut open the Mail Bag, and it didn't hurt a bit!

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Session 79: Spotting a Logical Fallacy

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Session 78: Three Models of Language

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Session 77: Laughnosis with James Hazlerig

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Session 76: Fun vs. Depression and Scaring People in the Street

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Session 75: Relationships and Love Languages

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Session 74: Logical Levels: An Awesome Method for Personal Change!

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Session 73: The secret to changing another person's behaviour

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Session 72: Riders on the rash and power of reframing!

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Session 71: Gus Grissom is Alive and Well in Tweed Ontario!

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Session 70: Let's focus on the positive! Even if it kills someone.

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Session 69: Social Hypnosis, and You're Still Just Danny!

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Session 68: Mind if I 'Scape You?

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Session 67: Cold-reading, the Jerry Intervention, and jokes while driving!

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Session 66: Chris is a "bast", Alacrity, Incarceration, and Dennis Bryce-Morgan in the studio!

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Session 65: Beach Volleyball, Timelines, the Dancing Hair, and all the zany fun of another episode of the Honey Hallmark Show!

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Session 64: The Bag of Pykthos mystery, psychedelic endings, hypnotizing South Americans, and how tomato seeds can lead to inadvertent circumcision!

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Session 63: Logic, graphology, alternate sexuality, and street fights with James Randi...It's the Honey Hallmark Show!

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Session 62: Hypnothoughts Live in Las Vegas!

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Session 61: Top 10 Terms Every Hypnotist Needs to Know!

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Session 60: Foreign accents, strange warts and hypnotizing crazy people

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Session 59: Vitreous detachment, earbud hypnosis, and the word "membrane"

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All About The Enneagram: An Interview with Bettylynn Stoops

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Session 58: The Amazing Kreskin, flying tables and naked audiences

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Session 57: Unnecessary Filler

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Session 56: Spunky, Beezer and the Context Free Humour Tag Team

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Session 55: Black Hats, Reframes, Violets and Lavender

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Session 54: Hidden Observer and Ego States

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Session 53: Hypnotic Intersection

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Session 52: Insanely Stupid Food Aversion Hypnotherapy

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Session 51: Building a Powerful Trance

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Session 50: The Magic of Mentalism

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Session 49: Posthypnotic Suggestion, a Powerful Tool

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Session 48: How Metaphors Work

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Session 47: Context Free Humour and More

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Session 46: Language Patterns and Arguments

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Session 45: Boring People into Trance?

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Session 44: Be strong and take control of your own life

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Session 43: The complete insanity of yesterday's mainstream hypnosis

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Session 42: What are the Limits of Hypnosis

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Session 41: Generating Your Own Hypnotic Language

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Session 40: The Chris and Jeff Show

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Session 39: Riders on the Storm

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Session 38: Flow states and Practical Jokes

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Session 37: The Riders of the Hypnotic Storm

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Session 36: Creating Peak Performance

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Session 35: The Threshold of Change and The Models of Hypnosis

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Session 34: Improving Your Memory (Part Two)

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Session 33: Improving Your Memory (Part One)

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Session 32: How to Increase Your Intelligence

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Session 31: Power Napping, Grief and The Idiocy of Tautology

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Session 30: Dealing with Pain and other Fun Hypnosis Conversation

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Session 29: Hypnosis and pattern matching, dealing with grief and Mike's hacked email account

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Session 28: What's Happening in the World of NLP (with Hugh Comerford)

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Session 27: Clean Hypnotic States, Congruence, and Comedy

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Session 26: Hypnosis, NLP, Anchoring, Milton Model and Much More!

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Session 25: Mentalism, Handwriting and Hypnosis

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Session 24: You Can't Fix Stupid

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Session 23: The Nonsense of Hypnotizability Studies

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Session 22: The Buffet is So Much Better than Grilled Cheese and Fries

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Session 21: Street hypnosis with Gabriello Pitman

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Session 20: Reframing, submodalities and more mentalism

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Session 19: Practical jokes, marketing, and hypnosis Q&A from the audience

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Session 18: Weight management with hypnosis (with special guest Didi Vergados)

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Session 17: Handwriting and hypnosis, age regression, the Enneagram model and hypnosis Q&A

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Session 16: Pain management, creativity and problematic people

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Session 15: Conversational hypnosis, propaganda and marketing

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Session 14: Hypnotic phenomenon, hypnosis uses, anchoring, amnesia and much more!

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Session 13: Dr. Mike's latest hypnosis class, REM and Elman inductions, and more

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Session 12: Self hypnosis, human givens, REM sleep, fixing insomnia and building confidence

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Session 11: Telemarketers, Lucid Dreaming and more Hypnosis Q&A

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Session 10: Hypnosis and other models of therapeutic change

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Session 09: The Mandel model of therapy and more hypnosis & NLP discussion

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Session 08: Hypnogogic states, dreams and much more Q&A about hypnosis

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Session 07: Messing with People's Minds Part 2

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Session 06: Messing with People's minds Part 1

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Session 05: More hypnosis Q&A, Mentalism, Metaphors & Training

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Session 04: Hypnosis and TV, reality tunnels, opinions of other hypnotists, self hypnosis, Hellstromism

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Session 03: Hypnosis Q&A, metaphors, headaches, hilarious stage hypnosis "therapy" and the Acid Test revealed

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Session 02: The most popular hypnosis questions we get, and Mike Mandel's answers

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Brain Software with Mike Mandel Session 01