The Art of Hypnotherapy and How The Mind Works with Matthew Brownstein

The human mind is the source of our thinking. Our ideas, emotions, and behaviors are all interconnected. Thus, influencing how we feel and act. Negative thinking, on the other hand, can contribute to issues such as social anxiety, harmful habits, and stress. So, is it possible to adjust our mindset in order to overcome difficulties and accomplish more in life? In this week’s episode, Matthew Brownstein delves into the different modalities of hypnotherapy, the philosophy of mind, and how it can help to adopt the right mindset to live life happily. Anahat Education Group, Inc. CEO and Founder Matthew Brownstein aim to nurture individual and group success by providing leadership, vision, and purpose for all of our interpersonal relations. Matthew has dedicated his life to offering wisdom and truths that relieve suffering while promoting health and enlightenment. Want to learn more about hypnotherapy? Listen to this podcast of Actions Antidote. --- Listen to the podcast here: The Art of Hypnotherapy and How The Mind Works with Matthew Brownstein Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I'd like to have with you a more specific discussion around the topic of mindset. Most of my interviews are about people who pursue their own paths, go after their passions, and hoping that by being inspired by those stories, you would adopt more of the mindset that, “I can, I will, I should, I am going to be the one to pursue the path that I really want to.” Today, my guest, Matthew Brownstein, is someone who actually focuses on helping people adopt the right mindset. He is the CEO and founder of the Anahat Education Group. --- Matthew, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me here, Stephen. This podcast is all about mindset and you've spent a lot of your life studying the human mind and how we can go about adopting the right mindset. Yep, my whole thing is mindset. That's why I felt we'd be a good fit. My background is meditation, spirituality, philosophy, hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming. Yep, all of those modalities just point to the mind and how important the mind is in helping us to live our very best lives. Now, when it comes to those different modalities that you're talking about, whether it be your spiritual background, your philosophical background, meditation, mindfulness, broader practice around it, or even the neuro-linguistic programming or essentially how we're talking to ourselves, do these all go in tandems or do you tend to adapt it more along the lines of which one is going to resonate with this specific person, maybe someone's a more spiritual person, another person is more into the intellectual philosophy, maybe another person's more into how you train your mind? Yeah, I think they all go in tandem, the way that a plumber would walk in with every tool, or at least in the truck there's every tool, but you have to cater, whether, so even for myself, it's not like every time I go into meditation or do hypnosis, I'm using all of those modalities but, generally, the work I do is client centered so I would just say, “What are your goals?” or, “Where are you blocked?” like where's the issue, where's the goal, and then we just pick the best modalities to help to move towards that, and being client-centered work, I will often present the modalities that I think would be best, like, well, we could use hypnotic programming for this, maybe we could do hypnotic regression for this, maybe you just need to learn some self-help techniques. Once I present what I think could be the best options, I love it when the other person, whether it's a client or whomever, actually picks the modality and then they're that much more empowered to realize it's their journey, not me, I'm just the facilitator. I see, and so does it often happen that your client will then either try something and have to iterate and say, “Okay, this didn't work as well for me, maybe I should try another modality,” or maybe, if it's self-talk, I need to just change up the words I'm saying to myself, does it oftentimes happen where the first thing you come up with based on the client's personality situation, specific blockages is the one that works? I think, over the years of experience, usually, the first modality chosen is the one that's going to work, been doing this for over 25 years now. However, we work in NLP with the model that there is no failure, only feedback, and another model called TOTE, that’s an acronym for test, operate, test, exit. So I can test, say, “Okay, how you doing?” “Well, from 1 to 10, I'm at a 9, doing pretty bad.” Okay, let's do operate, let's do some technique to help make that better, and then we test again. And, okay, if that number went down to let's say a 5 but we’re not down to a 0 yet, so then we operate again, we use another technique. So with this test, operate, test, exit model and the idea that no failure, only feedback, we just keep applying different techniques until we get you to your goals and, again, you can't fail if you're coming from that perspective. That also takes into account the idea that, sometimes, in one part of your journey when you're first beginning, you need one thing, but then as you grow and progress, you get to another stage and maybe at that stage, you need to address something else, you need a completely different modality to address that. Yeah, again, a longer term client relationship, you're going to pull from any tool in your bag of tricks, so we’ll come up often come in for some issue and then realize how much we can help them with, then, next thing you know, they're talking about all these other issues. And if you have enough training, then there are usually plenty of modalities. A current client of mine has leukemia, and we actually, working with his physician, have normalized the blood levels, the blood, yeah, the T cells have dropped, white blood cells have dropped, and the platelets have gone up and everything is pretty well balanced now and I say, “Okay, what do you wanna work on today?” He's like, “Well, not the cancer, we beat that.” And then we started with excessive urination at night. It was like 10 bathroom visits a night, and one session in that, dropped it to about two visits per night. And, yeah, so a whole bunch of modalities that help to make these mental shifts occur. But the beautiful thing is, when you target the mind, you can change your mind like that. So if somebody is stuck in a fight or flight-type response, how quickly can we get them out of that? It can be sometimes instantaneous. So while the modalities seem like they take time, when the actual shifts occur, they're very quick because we're working in the mental level. Oh, wow. Okay. And so it sounds like you're also working on shifts in physical outcomes from the mental level. Yes. My background is actually in Chinese medicine and I studied a lot, a lot, about the energy medicine model, the acupuncture meridians, the chakras, and that's all great, yet I was saying, “Why is this energy so out of balance? Why does everybody seem to need an acupuncture treatment to rebalance their energy? And how is the energy blockage affecting the physical body?” but once I realized, oh, this is largely mental emotional, we have thoughts that create negative emotions that affect our physiology and our energetic physiology or energetic anatomy, once I started focusing on the mental level, I saw a cascading effect from the mind through the emotions through the energy body into the physical body that really laid the ground for miraculous change. So I started giving lectures all over called Healing the Mind, Healing the Body, and people would just hear those lectures and sometimes walked away changed, like literally healed, because they're saying, “Oh, this problem is in my mind, of course it is. My doctor said it’s stress but only prescribed a medication. I heard a lecture from Matthew saying my mind can overcome this,” and so here's a quick story, I had a client, he couldn't wear his dentures, he had a really strong gag reflex, and while I'm working with him, yeah, and we resolved that in one session but while I was working with him, his wife was in the room and she kept hearing me say to him, “Nothing outside of you can make you gag. Nothing outside of you has power over you.Share on X It is your mind that's causing this response,” she kept hearing the message, only your mind is causing the response. She called me and said, “I just wanna thank you, my husband can wear his dentures now. It's great. We can be social. We can go out.” She said, “And, during that session, I stopped smoking.” I said, “I didn’t even work with you, how did you just stop smoking from sitting in the room?” She said, “I kept hearing you say over and over again nothing outside of you has power over you,” and she extrapolated that over to cigarettes and just said, “Yeah, these things don't make me do this. I make me do this and I don't have to do it anymore.” So, yeah, two people healed in one two-hour session by just making a mental shift. Now, that sounds like a really miraculous turnaround on some things that seem really conditioned and I've been, I don’t want to say conditioned but I've been always thinking this along the realm of subconscious and subconscious training of the mind requiring 21 days or whatever the repetition is. It sounds like you found a faster way to get people out of the mindsets that are causing some of these terrible ailments. Yeah, I don't know who came up with that idea that it takes 21 days to change something, it's just not true from my experience. In just five minutes of talking to you, told you about three case histories, I can go on for like hundreds and hundreds of these case histories,...