Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 697.

Now, in this episode, we are going to be getting into the subject of are we unknowingly hypnotizing ourselves to stay the same.

Now, you might be thinking, well, Joseph, I am not a hypnotist. Of course, I'm not

hypnotizing myself to stay the same. Well, I like to think that we are all hypnotizing ourselves

to some degree. In fact, everything is hypnotizing us to some degree. The people in your life are

hypnotizing you in some way because they're communicating to you consciously and unconsciously.

The government, society, cultures, religions, advertising, people we haven't yet met yet, our customers, our employees,

our bosses, our colleagues, at any given moment we are absorbing so much information and you're

not consciously catching every part of it. It happens beneath a surface.

And that means your unconscious mind is absorbing this information.

It is acquiring this information.

It's processing this information in many ways, an uncritical way, as in not a judgmental or considerate way,

it just takes it on.

But how does that relate to you?

Well, if everyone else and everything else can hypnotize us, and especially the big events that we go through those significant ones

the ones which really like paralyze you go oh my goodness I don't know what to do here I'm freaking

out where it be when we're a kid whether it be after that bad breakup or when we lost everything

in our career decisions are made and in the exact same way decisions are made. And in the exact same way, decisions are made that

your conscious mind, your conscious thoughts are being suggested to your unconscious mind. You see,

your thoughts become suggestions to your unconscious, which will then make it an evaluation

of how you experience yourself in this world and the world around you.

So let's put this in an example, right? Let's just say we're going throughout our day and we

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