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Session 153: Easy Self Hypnosis

Brain Software with Mike Mandel

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The Importance of Focusing on What You Want

When you state your outcome in the positive, then you're aiming your brain towards what you do actually want. So if I said my outcome is to stick that handstand perfectly steady and hold it for 30 seconds? That's a clearly defined outcome. And I'm aiming my brain towards that rather than that, which I don't want. You know, how many times I told you, Chris, when I was a therapist in the 1990s, I had so many people come in and I would ask them what they wanted. About 80% of it was Pareto's principle because a lot of them wanted remedial change.

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