Natalie Viglione, of the Disrupt Now Podcast, has Erika Flint on to discuss how she sees the mind as having it’s own operating system, the human nature of stress, and tools to instantly start changing your head space today. Erika shares her expertise in hypnosis, and how hypnotherapy is an effective tool for changing habits and unwanted thought patterns.
Learn more about transformative techniques you can start practicing today in the full interview below.
Time stamps are general summaries and not direct quotes.
3:00 - How did you become a hypnotherapist Erika?
8:00 - Was stepping into hypnosis a part of your healing journey?
9:08 - "Hypnosis gives us the power to reprogram our own inner operating system," Erika Flint
11:00 - Erika and Natalie discuss how different stage hypnosis is from in-office hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
14:00 - In hypnosis we get to change the "feeling space." For example weight loss clients are successful because they want to eat healthier, or people have cheat days because they just don't feel like eating healthy today.
15:00 - Erika and Natalie discuss the importance of matching your words and actions, and how easily we can perform actions without really connecting to what we're doing. "I was feeling… fuck it!"
"If you can sit in the "fuck it" for approximately 15 seconds without reacting, you can make amazing changes and weather that storm."
16:45 - It costs the body energy to experience feelings. The more we shove down a feeling, the more resources our body is using.
17:45 - We need techniques for the both when we're in the middle of the feeling, and when we're ready to actually address it.
19:20 - We're seeing a pattern of people wanting to take responsibility for everything in their life, and come to the hypnosis center to help feel in control of all their own stuff.
20:00 - What are some simple techniques that we can try on our own? Erika shares the Alpha Sequence.
22:45 - We've been practicing anxiety for so long that it's important to have these little practices throughout the day that bring down to a more relaxed state.
23:35 - Were you doing hypnosis or hypnotherapy before you really dove into the profession?
27:40 - Now is the right time for a lot of people. People want a new way of living.
28:35 - Since you also train new hypnotists, can you shed light on how the hypnosis business is evolving?
32:10 - Erika explains how she's just giving her clients the tools to see how their own brains are working.
32:40 - Erika discusses her newest book Academy of Eternity.