The Healing Power of Clinical Hypnotherapy with Taisen Blackwolf

1 00:00:00,166 --> 00:00:04,738 Most people no really understand what go into counseling or therapy is. 2 00:00:05,472 --> 00:00:07,640 So when you hear the word counseling, 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,311 you automatically think of going in and or talking to a therapist. 4 00:00:11,611 --> 00:00:15,048 Have you thought about what exactly is hypnotherapy 5 00:00:15,048 --> 00:00:17,717 and how is that used and is it effective? 6 00:00:18,118 --> 00:00:20,954 Is hypnotherapy the same as hypnosis? 7 00:00:21,121 --> 00:00:24,791 And so I have a very special guest today that we're going to be talking about 8 00:00:24,791 --> 00:00:26,092 that very thing. 9 00:00:26,092 --> 00:00:29,996 And the title of this episode is The Healing Power 10 00:00:29,996 --> 00:00:35,001 of Clinical Hypnotherapy with Tyson Blackwell coming right up. 11 00:00:35,602 --> 00:00:38,104 Oh, don't worry about it. 12 00:00:39,105 --> 00:00:41,374 Oh, things we cannot change. 13 00:00:41,641 --> 00:00:44,277 It's over the past weekend. 14 00:00:44,844 --> 00:00:46,446 Welcome to the Mental Health Today's show. 15 00:00:46,446 --> 00:00:51,251 My name is John Cordray and I'm a licensed therapist and I am the host of the show. 16 00:00:51,251 --> 00:00:55,355 And I am so, so happy that you're here and you're tuning in. 17 00:00:55,388 --> 00:00:56,856 I have a very special guest here. 18 00:00:56,856 --> 00:01:02,128 His name is Tyson Black Wolf, and he is the CEO and founder of Safe 19 00:01:02,128 --> 00:01:06,733 Hypnotherapy and Safe Hypnotherapy is an online mental 20 00:01:06,733 --> 00:01:10,670 health clinic that specializes in treating anxiety symptoms 21 00:01:10,904 --> 00:01:14,707 and anxiety disorders using VR telehealth. 22 00:01:15,008 --> 00:01:18,178 And we all know that telehealth is really popular right now. 23 00:01:18,178 --> 00:01:21,648 And you can literally get on your computer and get the help 24 00:01:21,648 --> 00:01:24,117 you need anywhere around the world if you need it. 25 00:01:24,350 --> 00:01:28,588 And so the safe hypnotherapy allows you to get the mental health services that 26 00:01:28,588 --> 00:01:32,192 you need from the comfort of your home, which is so cool. 27 00:01:32,425 --> 00:01:35,628 And so Tyson uses what's called, if I can say 28 00:01:35,829 --> 00:01:39,466 for some reason I get this this term, this name wrong, strategic. 29 00:01:39,532 --> 00:01:41,000 Yes, I think that's it. 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,904 Sadistic hypnotherapy, which he uses a highly effective 31 00:01:44,904 --> 00:01:50,009 combination of psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis. 32 00:01:50,610 --> 00:01:52,779 So, Tyson, welcome to the show. 33 00:01:52,779 --> 00:01:54,114 Thanks, Joe, and thanks for having me. 34 00:01:54,114 --> 00:01:55,715 It's great to be here. 35 00:01:55,715 --> 00:01:58,351 Well, I'm very, very thrilled that you're on here. 36 00:01:58,351 --> 00:02:02,122 And right from the get go, I think people can sense or hear 37 00:02:02,122 --> 00:02:03,490 that you have an accent. 38 00:02:03,490 --> 00:02:05,525 So tell us where you're from. 39 00:02:05,525 --> 00:02:08,695 Yes, I'm from I'm based in Melbourne, Australia. 40 00:02:09,262 --> 00:02:11,531 Yeah, Down Under. Yeah. 41 00:02:11,731 --> 00:02:12,899 Love it. 42 00:02:12,899 --> 00:02:15,535 So we're going to get into more of what 43 00:02:15,535 --> 00:02:19,272 hypnotherapy is and the type of services that you provide. 44 00:02:19,272 --> 00:02:24,210 But I'm really curious, how did you get into hypnotherapy 45 00:02:24,210 --> 00:02:28,047 in the first place and tell us a little bit about why you found it safe? 46 00:02:28,047 --> 00:02:31,050 Hypnotherapy Yeah, that's a great question. 47 00:02:31,050 --> 00:02:37,190 And for me, my personal experience was I grew up in a dysfunctional family 48 00:02:37,190 --> 00:02:42,195 environment and experienced a lot of trauma in that space. 49 00:02:42,862 --> 00:02:45,899 And after I left that space 50 00:02:45,899 --> 00:02:49,669 where that trauma was happening, I still really struggled 51 00:02:49,669 --> 00:02:53,406 with my mental health and it affected me for decades. 52 00:02:53,740 --> 00:02:56,876 And I tried traditional therapy models 53 00:02:56,876 --> 00:03:00,180 and found that they didn't really they didn't really fix my problem. 54 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:01,381 It didn't really 55 00:03:02,315 --> 00:03:04,417 help me to improve my mental health. 56 00:03:04,417 --> 00:03:08,855 And then I actually started going down the life coaching path initially, 57 00:03:09,389 --> 00:03:13,860 and I found that that wasn't wasn't effective for me. 58 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:17,997 It didn't have any long term effective effects for me. 59 00:03:17,997 --> 00:03:22,001 And then it was actually after that, I discovered hypnotherapy. 60 00:03:22,669 --> 00:03:26,539 And through studying hypnotherapy and the interaction 61 00:03:26,539 --> 00:03:29,976 between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind was 62 00:03:30,310 --> 00:03:33,479 where I first started to experience some relief 63 00:03:33,646 --> 00:03:36,783 from my own anxiety symptoms. 64 00:03:36,783 --> 00:03:41,888 And so I decided to start a company and because because it had helped me. 65 00:03:42,288 --> 00:03:47,060 So I'd like to be able to help other people using it. 66 00:03:47,060 --> 00:03:48,728 So I think that's awesome. 67 00:03:48,728 --> 00:03:53,566 And I've found that so many CEOs or founders of mental health 68 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:58,371 companies tend to start the company based out of some of their own pain. 69 00:03:58,705 --> 00:04:03,743 And I think that can be so powerful because you're not coming from 70 00:04:03,743 --> 00:04:07,113 like you just decided that you're going to create this company 71 00:04:07,647 --> 00:04:11,851 and maybe run this huge company and make a lot of money. 72 00:04:12,218 --> 00:04:14,487 You're not in it for for that per se. 73 00:04:14,621 --> 00:04:18,625 You're in it because you know what it's like, you know, the pain and the hurt 74 00:04:18,625 --> 00:04:20,860 that people are going through because you've went through it. 75 00:04:21,661 --> 00:04:23,863 And so you are using that hurt 76 00:04:23,863 --> 00:04:27,600 and pain in your own life, in your past to be able 77 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:32,272 to offer something special to people who are struggling right now. 78 00:04:32,405 --> 00:04:33,740 And I think that's phenomenal. 79 00:04:34,907 --> 00:04:36,809 So save hypnotherapy. 80 00:04:36,809 --> 00:04:38,578 Tell me a little bit about the name. 81 00:04:38,578 --> 00:04:41,080 Like how how did you come up with that name? 82 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,749 Yeah, good question. 83 00:04:42,749 --> 00:04:46,119 I had a lot of ideas and it's it's one of those things 84 00:04:46,119 --> 00:04:50,156 where you're never really sure which which name is the best way to go. 85 00:04:51,057 --> 00:04:54,160 But there is some misconception around 86 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,597 hypnotherapy and stage hypnosis. 87 00:04:58,197 --> 00:05:00,199 And there's a misconception that 88 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:05,004 when you're in the hypnotic trance state 89 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:09,609 that the hypno test has complete power over you. 90 00:05:10,043 --> 00:05:14,580 And that's not actually true. 91 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:18,351 Anyone in that has been hypnotized has the power to pull themselves 92 00:05:18,351 --> 00:05:20,186 out of hypnotic trance. 93 00:05:20,186 --> 00:05:22,889 If they're receiving suggestions that they don't agree 94 00:05:22,889 --> 00:05:26,392 with or they find offensive. 95 00:05:26,392 --> 00:05:29,629 And so so I wanted people 96 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:32,298 to know straight off the bat that this is 97 00:05:33,132 --> 00:05:36,336 this is a safe therapy model. 98 00:05:36,736 --> 00:05:41,808 And so through choosing the name Safe Hypnotherapy, it's it's 99 00:05:41,808 --> 00:05:46,846 communicated through through the branding, which is what I wanted to communicate. 100 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:47,814 I love that. 101 00:05:47,814 --> 00:05:50,083 And I love how you start with the word safe. 102 00:05:50,516 --> 00:05:51,951 Yeah, right away. 103 00:05:51,951 --> 00:05:55,822 As soon as someone sees that, they they, they see the word safe 104 00:05:55,822 --> 00:05:59,158 and it really brings them a lot of comfort, I'm sure. 105 00:05:59,926 --> 00:06:03,930 And also with that, it is an online model. 106 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:07,367 So people get to get the mental health services 107 00:06:07,367 --> 00:06:10,737 they need from their home or safe place. 108 00:06:10,737 --> 00:06:16,409 So it's it's also on that level where you get to do it 109 00:06:16,409 --> 00:06:19,846 from a safe environment where you are protected, you are secure. 110 00:06:20,813 --> 00:06:22,048 Yeah, Yeah. 111 00:06:22,048 --> 00:06:27,520 In that I think that level of comfort, it translates into, well, 112 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:33,025 I can literally be anywhere and I can use my phone to tell you one. 113 00:06:33,059 --> 00:06:34,227 Yeah. And that's the other thing. 114 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:38,498 You know, people have busy schedules and they don't have to be at home. 115 00:06:39,132 --> 00:06:40,500 They can be 116 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:44,470 they can be at work in their lunchbreak or, 117 00:06:44,470 --> 00:06:48,341 or they could be on holiday somewhere and just open up 118 00:06:48,341 --> 00:06:52,044 the laptop computer and and be able to do a session. 119 00:06:52,645 --> 00:06:54,347 Yeah, that's pretty convenient. 120 00:06:54,347 --> 00:06:55,681 That's pretty awesome. 121 00:06:55,681 --> 00:06:57,617 So most people know how to do that now. 122 00:06:57,617 --> 00:07:00,119 So it's not as foreign as it used to be. 123 00:07:00,653 --> 00:07:03,923 Well, Tyson, you've mentioned and you brought up a little bit ago, 124 00:07:03,923 --> 00:07:05,491 and I think it's a great distinction. 125 00:07:05,491 --> 00:07:09,228 You you've mentioned stage hypnosis, 126 00:07:09,529 --> 00:07:14,700 and it's an image that comes to my mind, and I've seen movies and I watched movies 127 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:19,372 where the hypnotist, I guess, is the official term and they're on stage. 128 00:07:19,372 --> 00:07:22,375 They're on stage and they're reading people's minds. 129 00:07:22,375 --> 00:07:25,878 Or maybe they they have people come up on stage 130 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:29,482 and they make them act like a chicken, right. 131 00:07:29,882 --> 00:07:30,683 Countdown. 132 00:07:30,683 --> 00:07:33,286 And then they they get in this transient state 133 00:07:33,286 --> 00:07:35,021 and then they act like a chicken 134 00:07:35,021 --> 00:07:37,824 and then they make fools of themselves and they feel embarrassed afterwards. 135 00:07:38,391 --> 00:07:40,326 That's not what you're talking about. 136 00:07:40,326 --> 00:07:44,030 That's not the same as hypnotherapy, correct? 137 00:07:44,397 --> 00:07:45,298 Yeah, Correct. 138 00:07:45,298 --> 00:07:49,368 So it's important to understand that we all go into hypnotic 139 00:07:49,368 --> 00:07:52,972 trance on a daily basis every day of our lives. 140 00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:54,240 It's a natural state of being. 141 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,443 It's actually a natural part of the human process. 142 00:07:57,710 --> 00:08:00,680 And whenever you daydream, 143 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,182 you're experiencing hypnotic trance. 144 00:08:03,950 --> 00:08:07,286 So if you're able to, for example, imagine a pink elephant, 145 00:08:07,954 --> 00:08:11,190 that's the part of your mind where you can start visualizing a pink 146 00:08:11,190 --> 00:08:15,728 elephant that's a part of your mind where trance or that's the trance space. 147 00:08:16,229 --> 00:08:19,699 So clinical hypnosis is actually the act of 148 00:08:20,032 --> 00:08:26,506 guiding clients in to that trance space and then offering them 149 00:08:26,973 --> 00:08:30,610 positive suggestions that's congruent with their their identity 150 00:08:30,610 --> 00:08:31,978 and their personality 151 00:08:31,978 --> 00:08:36,582 to help them shift or resolve problems within their subconscious mind. 152 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:41,454 And so with stage hypnosis, stage 153 00:08:41,454 --> 00:08:45,391 hypnotist is using that principle of being able to take people into trance. 154 00:08:45,391 --> 00:08:48,761 Also, there's a really important distinction here 155 00:08:48,794 --> 00:08:53,833 that the stage hypnotist actually he asked for volunteers. 156 00:08:54,233 --> 00:09:00,339 So in that process only extroverts will volunteer to get up on stage. 157 00:09:00,339 --> 00:09:04,277 So introverts have no interest of making a fool of themselves 158 00:09:04,277 --> 00:09:05,611 in front of their friends, 159 00:09:05,611 --> 00:09:08,714 whereas extroverts generally happy about doing that sort of thing. 160 00:09:09,048 --> 00:09:12,852 And so it's only extroverts that will get up on stage. 161 00:09:13,052 --> 00:09:18,190 And it's also a form of compliance because the stage 162 00:09:18,190 --> 00:09:22,328 hypnotist will ask them to do certain compliance tests. 163 00:09:22,328 --> 00:09:25,932 So one will be holding your hands together as hard as you can, 164 00:09:25,932 --> 00:09:30,636 and then the hypnotist will come up and see if he can separate your hands. 165 00:09:31,103 --> 00:09:34,273 So he's giving them the command that you have to hold them as tight 166 00:09:34,707 --> 00:09:37,743 as possible together, and he'll come and try and separate them. 167 00:09:37,743 --> 00:09:39,478 So the ones that he can separate, 168 00:09:39,478 --> 00:09:43,015 he will ask them to go back into, into the audience. 169 00:09:43,549 --> 00:09:46,819 So what he's actually looking for is people 170 00:09:46,986 --> 00:09:49,488 that will follow his instructions. 171 00:09:50,056 --> 00:09:54,393 So there's an element of, yes, these people are hypnotized, 172 00:09:55,061 --> 00:09:58,864 but they've also been whittled down from a large group 173 00:09:58,864 --> 00:10:02,401 to a small group, maybe five people or ten people. 174 00:10:02,969 --> 00:10:07,907 And these are the people that are the most compliant and also highly suggestible. 175 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,844 So the people in the audience, majority of the people in the audience 176 00:10:12,078 --> 00:10:14,113 will not be highly suggestible. 177 00:10:14,113 --> 00:10:19,151 So he's being selective about who he's choosing to bring up on the stage 178 00:10:19,352 --> 00:10:23,022 and who he is or she is getting to do 179 00:10:23,222 --> 00:10:26,058 silly things for the purposes of of entertainment. 180 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:28,928 And so there is an element of hypnosis that goes on, 181 00:10:29,228 --> 00:10:32,064 but it's it's a little bit like smoke and mirrors. 182 00:10:32,732 --> 00:10:34,900 The hypnosis sets all the conditions 183 00:10:35,201 --> 00:10:37,837 to give the impression that they have power over these people. 184 00:10:38,070 --> 00:10:41,007 Now, these people can easily pull themselves out of trance at any point 185 00:10:41,007 --> 00:10:44,810 in time if they receive a suggestion that they're not happy with. 186 00:10:44,810 --> 00:10:49,115 And that's also why the stage hypnotist won't bring introverts up on the stage, 187 00:10:49,215 --> 00:10:54,387 because if they refuse to follow a command whilst they're in the hypnotic state, 188 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,358 the audience start to go, Oh, okay, so you don't actually have full control 189 00:10:59,358 --> 00:11:02,695 over these people, but that's the illusion that they're trying to create. 190 00:11:03,362 --> 00:11:07,833 So that's why they're very selective about who they work with on stage. 191 00:11:09,135 --> 00:11:10,369 That makes a lot of sense and 192 00:11:10,369 --> 00:11:15,274 so there's a there's an actual form of selection 193 00:11:15,274 --> 00:11:19,679 at the very beginning, and they're the power of suggestion. 194 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,581 By the time people get up there, it's very likely. 195 00:11:23,082 --> 00:11:25,384 But that the type of service 196 00:11:25,651 --> 00:11:28,621 that you have, you don't do that right? 197 00:11:28,621 --> 00:11:32,892 You don't you don't go through that and you don't only talk to extroverts. 198 00:11:33,392 --> 00:11:34,093 Correct. 199 00:11:34,093 --> 00:11:39,865 Now, tell us a little bit about hypnotherapy, because you did a great job. 200 00:11:39,865 --> 00:11:45,404 Very, very good job of breaking down the stereotypical up on stage hypnosis. 201 00:11:45,838 --> 00:11:48,774 Now, tell us a little bit more about hypnotherapy 202 00:11:48,774 --> 00:11:52,111 and what you do, the type of therapy that you do in your practice. 203 00:11:52,578 --> 00:11:53,312 Yeah. Okay. 204 00:11:53,312 --> 00:11:55,948 So the type of hypnotherapy 205 00:11:56,315 --> 00:12:00,720 that we use is strategic hypnotherapy, and that's a combination 206 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,423 of strategic psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis. 207 00:12:04,924 --> 00:12:10,262 So a typical session is 90 minutes and the first part of the session 208 00:12:10,429 --> 00:12:13,799 is the counseling component to the session. 209 00:12:13,799 --> 00:12:19,171 And we talk, talk to people, get an understanding of their situation 210 00:12:19,171 --> 00:12:23,242 and where they feel like they're stuck, what's going on for them. 211 00:12:23,576 --> 00:12:26,278 And then through the psychotherapy, we ask some questions. 212 00:12:26,445 --> 00:12:28,247 A lot of what questions? 213 00:12:28,247 --> 00:12:30,182 A lot of how questions. 214 00:12:30,182 --> 00:12:34,053 And those questions actually elicit the client's process. 215 00:12:34,286 --> 00:12:37,823 So a lot of the times clients will have processes 216 00:12:38,023 --> 00:12:41,627 that to an extent is subconscious and they've whilst 217 00:12:41,627 --> 00:12:46,098 they do the process or have it, they've never actually spoken 218 00:12:46,265 --> 00:12:49,034 about their process, so they've never verbalized it. 219 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:53,372 It's through that, through asking the hard questions, 220 00:12:53,506 --> 00:12:59,011 they have to internally analyze their process and it's often through that, 221 00:12:59,411 --> 00:13:03,482 that, through that process of asking the questions that they 222 00:13:04,683 --> 00:13:05,885 themselves analyze, how 223 00:13:05,885 --> 00:13:08,921 they're doing things and they will verbalize it. 224 00:13:09,288 --> 00:13:11,824 And part of our model is also that 225 00:13:12,358 --> 00:13:15,561 not every one of your thoughts and feelings is valid. 226 00:13:15,828 --> 00:13:21,233 All of us have thoughts and feelings that are invalid, and part of what we do 227 00:13:21,233 --> 00:13:26,338 in the strategic psychotherapy is if if there are any invalid thoughts, 228 00:13:26,839 --> 00:13:30,342 we'll challenge them and ask them, have questions around that. 229 00:13:30,342 --> 00:13:34,280 And then a lot of the time the clients actually come to their own 230 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:40,419 aha moments and kind of realize where the tripping themselves up. 231 00:13:40,653 --> 00:13:43,255 And then once, once we do the 232 00:13:43,522 --> 00:13:45,724 the strategic psychotherapy. 233 00:13:46,425 --> 00:13:51,697 So there's also something we use is called the, the Gordian Pillars of Strategic 234 00:13:51,697 --> 00:13:55,401 Psychotherapy, which was developed by Gordon Young for my app. 235 00:13:55,601 --> 00:14:00,639 And so it gives us a way of understanding how people structure their problems. 236 00:14:01,207 --> 00:14:06,478 And so it gives us a really good understanding of anxiety 237 00:14:06,478 --> 00:14:10,182 and how to break it down because there's certain killer structures 238 00:14:10,382 --> 00:14:15,521 that if we target, we can actually stop people from running the process of anxiety 239 00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:19,291 because anxiety is it is something that people do to themselves. 240 00:14:19,658 --> 00:14:24,930 And then so once they once we did the psychotherapy part of the session, 241 00:14:24,930 --> 00:14:28,667 then we move into the hypnotherapy clinical hypnotherapy part of the session, 242 00:14:28,801 --> 00:14:32,771 and that's where I'll take the clients into trance 243 00:14:32,972 --> 00:14:35,808 and and it's in a trance state where 244 00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:40,512 so what happens with hypnosis is when you are in a hypnotic trance, your 245 00:14:40,512 --> 00:14:44,617 your conscious mind and your subconscious actually tend to harmonize there. 246 00:14:44,617 --> 00:14:46,819 It's almost like they're on the same level. 247 00:14:46,819 --> 00:14:51,056 And so this is where so much of the time when you have a problem, 248 00:14:51,056 --> 00:14:55,227 that problem is typically in the subconscious mind. 249 00:14:55,427 --> 00:14:58,163 So just addressing it on a conscious level 250 00:14:58,397 --> 00:15:00,633 doesn't always address the entire problem. 251 00:15:00,933 --> 00:15:05,237 So once clients are in that hypnotic state, 252 00:15:05,237 --> 00:15:08,741 whether the conscious mind and the subconscious mind harmonize, 253 00:15:09,174 --> 00:15:12,878 that's when we can start to offer some positive suggestions 254 00:15:13,512 --> 00:15:16,448 around information that we've gathered through the psychotherapy 255 00:15:16,849 --> 00:15:18,651 component of the session. 256 00:15:18,651 --> 00:15:22,354 So you get the subconscious to look at past 257 00:15:22,621 --> 00:15:26,225 traumas from a different perspective potentially as well. 258 00:15:26,792 --> 00:15:28,294 What did you learn from that? 259 00:15:29,695 --> 00:15:30,963 So you 260 00:15:30,963 --> 00:15:34,833 mentioned before, towards the beginning of the episode, 261 00:15:34,833 --> 00:15:39,138 you do a lot of work with anxiety and anxiety disorders. 262 00:15:39,138 --> 00:15:42,942 Can you tell us a little bit about the type of clients that come to 263 00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:47,313 see you in what types of symptoms that they're experiencing? 264 00:15:47,313 --> 00:15:49,815 Is it only anxiety or is that the primary one? 265 00:15:51,116 --> 00:15:54,887 So, so we focus on the main 266 00:15:55,487 --> 00:15:59,191 anxiety conditions or disorders like general anxiety, 267 00:15:59,992 --> 00:16:02,328 social anxiety, post-traumatic 268 00:16:02,328 --> 00:16:07,533 stress, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder 269 00:16:07,533 --> 00:16:10,035 or behaviors, also low self-esteem. 270 00:16:10,035 --> 00:16:12,204 So that's what we focus on. 271 00:16:12,204 --> 00:16:16,175 And often low self-esteem is is tied up with anxiety. 272 00:16:16,542 --> 00:16:20,746 So to go into your question, so anxiety is 273 00:16:21,513 --> 00:16:24,950 it's created or well, let's look at anxiety. 274 00:16:24,950 --> 00:16:27,686 Anxiety is a normal process 275 00:16:28,153 --> 00:16:30,522 that we run when when we're threatened, 276 00:16:31,390 --> 00:16:34,560 when we feel physically threatened, our body starts 277 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:39,331 pumping cortisol and adrenaline into our system to fight that threat. 278 00:16:39,698 --> 00:16:41,934 And so that's natural. 279 00:16:41,934 --> 00:16:47,806 What's unnatural is if people are going into that anxiety response 280 00:16:47,806 --> 00:16:52,878 when there's no physical threat to them and what that can be 281 00:16:53,278 --> 00:16:55,914 is there's past trauma 282 00:16:56,281 --> 00:16:58,650 that's unresolved in the subconscious mind. 283 00:16:59,518 --> 00:17:04,556 And that trauma, the subconscious is because it's unresolved. 284 00:17:04,590 --> 00:17:06,658 Subconscious feels like there's still a threat there. 285 00:17:07,593 --> 00:17:11,764 And so there'll be certain triggers associated to that past trauma 286 00:17:12,097 --> 00:17:16,402 and when those triggers, those subconscious triggers are activated, 287 00:17:16,802 --> 00:17:20,906 that's when people automatically start pumping cortisol and adrenaline 288 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:22,608 into their body. 289 00:17:22,608 --> 00:17:25,711 And cortisol adrenaline 290 00:17:25,978 --> 00:17:28,680 can leave your body relatively fast. 291 00:17:28,981 --> 00:17:31,950 The cortisol actually stays in your body for hours 292 00:17:32,418 --> 00:17:35,954 and it can make you feel agitated and irritated. 293 00:17:36,455 --> 00:17:39,525 And if people are exposing themselves 294 00:17:39,525 --> 00:17:45,030 to higher levels than normal of adrenaline and anxiety on a daily basis, 295 00:17:45,030 --> 00:17:50,002 it can actually have physical and mental impacts on their health. 296 00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:51,770 That's exactly right. 297 00:17:51,770 --> 00:17:56,041 And and so when a when someone is maybe listening to this 298 00:17:56,041 --> 00:17:59,611 and they're experiencing some of the exact symptoms that you're talking about, 299 00:18:00,512 --> 00:18:02,781 a lot of anxiety, a lot of fear, 300 00:18:03,182 --> 00:18:07,319 phobias, perhaps, and it does affect them physically. 301 00:18:07,486 --> 00:18:10,622 And whether it's a racing heartbeat 302 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:15,194 or maybe palpitation in the heart, sweating, nausea. 303 00:18:15,427 --> 00:18:21,400 So there's a lot of a lot of connection between the mind and the gut in our body. 304 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,302 So that's been proven. 305 00:18:23,302 --> 00:18:27,139 And from what you're saying, is the hypnotherapy, 306 00:18:27,172 --> 00:18:32,411 the type of hypnotherapy that you provide, it's a little of the counseling, 307 00:18:32,411 --> 00:18:36,181 the psychotherapy, but it's also this the state 308 00:18:36,281 --> 00:18:41,120 of being in a more of the subconscious mind as well. 309 00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:45,324 They want to make sure I'm saying this right, But you wanting that 310 00:18:45,324 --> 00:18:49,628 kind of tap into the subconscious mind when it comes to hypnotherapy. 311 00:18:50,162 --> 00:18:50,629 Yeah. 312 00:18:50,629 --> 00:18:53,265 So a lot of people would be familiar 313 00:18:53,265 --> 00:18:56,268 with the saying that we only use 10% of our mind. 314 00:18:56,635 --> 00:18:58,403 So that's not actually accurate. 315 00:18:58,403 --> 00:19:03,442 It's more accurate to say we use about or 10% of our mind is 316 00:19:03,675 --> 00:19:07,412 is the conscious mind and 90% of our mind is the subconscious. 317 00:19:07,813 --> 00:19:11,483 So a subconscious is designed to keep us alive. 318 00:19:11,750 --> 00:19:16,288 It's designed almost to follow our commands. 319 00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:19,291 But what can happen, especially there's unresolved trauma 320 00:19:20,058 --> 00:19:22,161 and there's issues of self-worth. 321 00:19:22,294 --> 00:19:25,998 We can be sending a whole lot of mixed messages to our subconscious, 322 00:19:25,998 --> 00:19:28,300 and it's trying to figure out what do we want, 323 00:19:28,767 --> 00:19:32,871 and it will tend to go off the most emotionally charged messages 324 00:19:32,871 --> 00:19:35,207 that are being sent from the conscious to the subconscious mind. 325 00:19:36,041 --> 00:19:39,578 So, so Titan, just talking about the conscious 326 00:19:39,578 --> 00:19:42,681 and subconscious mind, it's actually fascinating because it's 327 00:19:42,681 --> 00:19:45,150 so I mean, I think everybody can relate to that 328 00:19:45,784 --> 00:19:50,155 and the type of therapy, the hypnotherapy 329 00:19:50,622 --> 00:19:54,092 that you do, it really kind of taps into that subconscious mind. 330 00:19:54,092 --> 00:19:57,563 And you're right, we we are in our subconscious mind all the time. 331 00:19:57,563 --> 00:19:59,565 We may not realize it, but we are. 332 00:19:59,731 --> 00:20:02,601 And the type of therapy that you provide 333 00:20:02,734 --> 00:20:06,338 taps into that as well as psychotherapy. 334 00:20:06,338 --> 00:20:11,577 So you do talk through a lot of the symptoms, but it's not just that. 335 00:20:11,910 --> 00:20:14,513 So it's not like a you talk to someone online 336 00:20:14,513 --> 00:20:18,250 about their anxiety and then they leave and they come back the next time. 337 00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:20,852 No, it's talking about their anxiety. The symptoms. 338 00:20:20,852 --> 00:20:25,557 But then it's also a part of the your session is the hypnotherapy part 339 00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:29,962 where you try to help them tap into their own subconscious mind. 340 00:20:29,962 --> 00:20:30,362 Yeah. 341 00:20:30,362 --> 00:20:34,066 And create harmony between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. 342 00:20:34,066 --> 00:20:36,902 Because when there's anxiety, there's a disharmony. 343 00:20:36,902 --> 00:20:37,970 Because like I was saying, 344 00:20:37,970 --> 00:20:40,872 that the subconscious feels like there's a threat or is under threat. 345 00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:44,376 And like I was saying before, with 346 00:20:44,743 --> 00:20:47,779 our mind is 10% conscious, 90% 347 00:20:48,180 --> 00:20:51,216 subconscious, our subconscious wants to look after us 348 00:20:51,216 --> 00:20:55,921 and that 90%, a lot of the things, little things we do are actually automated. 349 00:20:56,121 --> 00:21:00,192 So opening a door handle, for example, you don't consciously do that. 350 00:21:00,325 --> 00:21:01,593 It's an easy task. 351 00:21:01,593 --> 00:21:05,430 You've done it so many times that your subconscious actually does it for you. 352 00:21:05,697 --> 00:21:08,567 You don't consciously focus on 353 00:21:08,567 --> 00:21:12,037 turning a doorknob or handle your subconscious takes care of that. 354 00:21:12,037 --> 00:21:16,808 So any processes that are simple, it can streamline for you. 355 00:21:17,709 --> 00:21:22,581 And so when there's unresolved trauma in the subconscious, 356 00:21:23,682 --> 00:21:24,683 there are also 357 00:21:24,683 --> 00:21:28,954 triggers which which trigger that trauma and the anxiety response. 358 00:21:28,954 --> 00:21:33,358 So part of it is, is communicating to the client subconscious 359 00:21:33,358 --> 00:21:36,061 that that trauma happened in the past 360 00:21:36,461 --> 00:21:40,365 and the past is done and it can't physically affect you anymore. 361 00:21:40,666 --> 00:21:43,101 So part of it's effective compartmentalization. 362 00:21:43,101 --> 00:21:46,905 We're understanding that and it's also dissociating like, yes, 363 00:21:46,905 --> 00:21:49,274 that did happen to you, but you've you've grown 364 00:21:49,641 --> 00:21:52,210 you're a much more mature person than what you were. 365 00:21:52,210 --> 00:21:54,413 And when that trauma happened 366 00:21:54,413 --> 00:21:57,749 and speaking directly with the subconscious mind, 367 00:21:57,749 --> 00:22:01,086 we can get it to look at traumatic experiences 368 00:22:01,086 --> 00:22:04,890 from different perspectives, get the subconscious to change its perspective 369 00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:08,460 of how it felt mostly about that trauma in the past, 370 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:14,433 and that can resolve the trauma and then it will settle down. 371 00:22:14,433 --> 00:22:17,703 So what happens when you do have unresolved trauma? 372 00:22:17,703 --> 00:22:21,306 It's almost like it's trying to come to the surface constantly. 373 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:25,177 But then your subconscious mind also spends energy trying to suppress 374 00:22:25,877 --> 00:22:28,180 that negative energy coming to the surface. 375 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,883 So what happens with people when they have too many 376 00:22:31,917 --> 00:22:35,520 unresolved traumas, they develop coping mechanisms. 377 00:22:36,321 --> 00:22:39,858 But what eventually happens is the person burns out. 378 00:22:40,425 --> 00:22:42,994 And when I talk about burnout, we're talking about 379 00:22:43,528 --> 00:22:45,831 there's a mental fatigue, but then it actually 380 00:22:46,431 --> 00:22:49,868 turns into physical medical conditions. 381 00:22:51,036 --> 00:22:53,205 So that's where it's really important 382 00:22:53,205 --> 00:22:57,943 to look after your mental health resolve, any unresolved past traumas, 383 00:22:58,710 --> 00:23:01,046 because if they build up, they build up, they build up 384 00:23:01,246 --> 00:23:04,683 you reducing your processing capacity to be able to deal with it. 385 00:23:05,083 --> 00:23:09,054 And once you once you maxed out with that 90% of your subconscious mind, 386 00:23:09,521 --> 00:23:12,290 that's when people experience burnout. 387 00:23:12,290 --> 00:23:16,795 Well, that's a great illustration and a really good illustration 388 00:23:16,795 --> 00:23:21,666 of why someone would need your services for hypnotherapy. 389 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:24,169 And I think you explain that really well. 390 00:23:24,169 --> 00:23:26,371 So if someone's listening to this 391 00:23:26,705 --> 00:23:30,542 and we already talked about it's online, so it's global. 392 00:23:31,076 --> 00:23:34,413 So you're you're way over in Australia. 393 00:23:34,679 --> 00:23:36,648 I'm way over in the US. 394 00:23:36,648 --> 00:23:39,484 So if somebody in the US is listening to this 395 00:23:39,484 --> 00:23:43,054 and they're thinking, this sounds really interesting, where can they go? 396 00:23:43,054 --> 00:23:46,124 How can they find out about your services? 397 00:23:46,124 --> 00:23:50,929 Yeah, so our website is safe Hypnotherapy online. 398 00:23:51,463 --> 00:23:55,600 So if they go to the website, we have an automated booking system, so 399 00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:58,537 all they have to do is register for an account in their client portal 400 00:23:58,737 --> 00:24:01,106 and then they can book a time that suits them 401 00:24:01,740 --> 00:24:06,344 or they can call the one 300 number and make an appointment via the phone. 402 00:24:07,345 --> 00:24:08,680 Okay, So that's pretty easy. 403 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,081 That's simple enough. 404 00:24:10,081 --> 00:24:14,219 And when let's say someone does sign up and they want they book a time, 405 00:24:14,753 --> 00:24:17,656 what's the wait to get in to see somebody? 406 00:24:18,557 --> 00:24:18,790 Yeah. 407 00:24:18,790 --> 00:24:22,961 So at the moment we do have open time slots available. 408 00:24:22,961 --> 00:24:27,466 So at the moment there isn't a period great. 409 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:31,336 So someone could literally be listening to this and then go 410 00:24:31,336 --> 00:24:35,340 in, sign up and get in this week, even. 411 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:36,408 Yeah. 412 00:24:36,408 --> 00:24:38,877 And one of the things about 413 00:24:38,877 --> 00:24:41,379 strategic hypnotherapy initially 414 00:24:41,379 --> 00:24:44,883 it is a little bit more expensive than the traditional therapies. 415 00:24:44,883 --> 00:24:50,622 However, the intention behind it is that you won't have to do 416 00:24:50,622 --> 00:24:54,960 as many sessions as you might with with a counselor or a psychologist. 417 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,395 It's designed to be a brief form of therapy. 418 00:24:58,129 --> 00:25:01,199 Well, that's great, especially for those who are busy, 419 00:25:01,566 --> 00:25:05,637 very busy in their schedule, and they need something that's intense, 420 00:25:06,104 --> 00:25:11,209 direct to the point gets to the the root cause of the issue and it's brief. 421 00:25:11,643 --> 00:25:15,080 So that's actually a great combination. 422 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,147 So that's safe. 423 00:25:16,147 --> 00:25:20,552 Hypnotherapy online is the website you can go 424 00:25:20,552 --> 00:25:24,456 and it also will be in the show notes that you can go look at. 425 00:25:24,456 --> 00:25:27,592 So twice in our time is coming to a close here. 426 00:25:27,993 --> 00:25:31,096 There's one question left that I like to ask you something 427 00:25:31,096 --> 00:25:35,400 I ask all of my guests and that has to do with self-care. 428 00:25:35,634 --> 00:25:37,235 I talk a lot about self-care. 429 00:25:37,235 --> 00:25:39,404 I practice self-care all the time. 430 00:25:39,404 --> 00:25:42,507 I think it's so needed and I'm interested to know 431 00:25:42,507 --> 00:25:46,244 what are some things that you do that you feel like are self-care for you? 432 00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:48,947 Yeah, good question. 433 00:25:48,947 --> 00:25:52,651 So anything creative is a great way 434 00:25:52,884 --> 00:25:55,587 for people to experience self-care personally. 435 00:25:56,154 --> 00:25:58,723 One of my self-care activities is because I live 436 00:25:58,723 --> 00:26:01,960 in Victoria, Australia. 437 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:05,564 Some people may be aware that there was a huge gold rush, 438 00:26:05,830 --> 00:26:11,169 100 and 170 years ago and there still is a lot of gold 439 00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:14,739 in Victoria, so I like to go gold prospecting. 440 00:26:14,739 --> 00:26:17,108 That's my that's my self-care. 441 00:26:17,108 --> 00:26:21,246 It gets me out in the bush, out in nature, often places I've never been before. 442 00:26:21,746 --> 00:26:25,750 Yeah, I will have to say, Tyson, this is the first time 443 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:30,455 someone's that ever said that they go hunting for gold for self-care. 444 00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:32,657 That's so cool. 445 00:26:32,657 --> 00:26:33,792 So like, sign me up. 446 00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:34,693 I want to go. 447 00:26:34,693 --> 00:26:37,562 I want to I want to learn how to do pan for gold. 448 00:26:38,997 --> 00:26:41,433 It's one of those things, too, where 449 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:43,468 once I started getting into it, 450 00:26:43,468 --> 00:26:47,872 I also started having to understand a bit about geology and then also looking 451 00:26:47,872 --> 00:26:51,910 at lots of notes from from the prospectors back in the 1850s 452 00:26:51,910 --> 00:26:56,214 and it's quite a large subject and that's my self-care 453 00:26:56,214 --> 00:26:59,818 where I can completely detach from from the therapy 454 00:27:00,085 --> 00:27:03,188 side of the things and just focus on gold prospecting 455 00:27:03,188 --> 00:27:05,890 and that that's, that's a great release for me. 456 00:27:06,958 --> 00:27:09,494 And you're out in the nature as well. 457 00:27:09,494 --> 00:27:12,697 And that's my big self-care is being out in the in 458 00:27:12,697 --> 00:27:16,401 the wilderness and nature and yeah, so fantastic. 459 00:27:16,401 --> 00:27:19,504 And so whenever I'm in your neck of the of the bush 460 00:27:19,571 --> 00:27:22,641 I guess not Woods like in the bush we need to go. 461 00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:25,610 You need to take me and go go do some panhandling. 462 00:27:25,910 --> 00:27:27,078 Yeah, for sure. 463 00:27:27,078 --> 00:27:29,014 But prospecting, I think is what you said. 464 00:27:29,014 --> 00:27:30,815 Yeah. Well, very cool. Thank you so much. 465 00:27:30,815 --> 00:27:35,420 And I want to really thank you for your time for coming on and talking 466 00:27:35,420 --> 00:27:39,190 about hypnotherapy in particular, safe hypnotherapy. 467 00:27:39,457 --> 00:27:41,259 The service that you provide. 468 00:27:41,259 --> 00:27:47,132 It's very needed and I'm so glad that it's accessible to people around the world. 469 00:27:47,298 --> 00:27:49,801 And you mentioned that it's not for everybody. 470 00:27:49,801 --> 00:27:56,341 It's for a select group in those who are very committed to their therapy. 471 00:27:56,474 --> 00:28:00,478 And once the the brief form of therapy. 472 00:28:00,478 --> 00:28:03,782 So that I think there's a huge need out there. 473 00:28:04,449 --> 00:28:07,819 And so I just want to encourage anybody that's out listening to this 474 00:28:08,253 --> 00:28:14,192 to check it out and sign up and look into getting some hypnotherapy 475 00:28:14,192 --> 00:28:17,962 along with your psychotherapy, can be one of the best things that you do. 476 00:28:18,229 --> 00:28:20,331 Well, thank you everybody for listening. 477 00:28:20,331 --> 00:28:22,967 I appreciate you. You know, I appreciate you. 478 00:28:22,967 --> 00:28:25,003 And some of you are new listeners. 479 00:28:25,003 --> 00:28:28,540 Some of you have been listening for a long time, and I never take that for granted. 480 00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:33,178 And I appreciate you love for you to check out my website at Mental Health. 481 00:28:33,178 --> 00:28:36,614 Today's show dot com Mental Health Today show e-comm. 482 00:28:36,781 --> 00:28:40,318 There you can listen to all the episodes of the show. 483 00:28:40,318 --> 00:28:45,390 You can view the show notes of this episode and you can check that out. 484 00:28:45,824 --> 00:28:48,660 So I'm going to remind you to continue to work 485 00:28:48,660 --> 00:28:51,696 on your mental health every single day. 486 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:55,500 And don't forget, the Mental Health Today Show has been championing 487 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:59,804 your mental health since 2015. 488 00:28:59,804 --> 00:29:01,339 Take care of my friends. 489 00:29:01,339 --> 00:29:24,129 Bye bye.