99: Healing Hypnosis with Erika Flint
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane interviews Erika Flint about hypnosis, hypnotherapy, and how the two can help you to overcome mental blocks in your life.
Formerly a software engineer, Erika loves the idea of reprogramming, even your mind. Her recent book, Can You Be a Hypnotist? shows how virtually anyone who wants to be a hypnotist can become one. She tries to subvert the idea that all hypnotists are stage hypnotists. There is a more practical kind of hypnosis that can help you with your mental health.
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Though her job was great on paper, it ultimately wasn’t fulfilling. After going through her struggles with alcohol, she hit her rock bottom. Seeking meaning, she found hypnosis was useful in battling demons and fighting off addictions. Now, she spends her time helping people to get their lives back, to love their lives fundamentally.
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Interestingly, people are regularly entering into hypnosis, whether they know it or not. The goal of Erika’s work is to get people to enter that state intentionally to achieve some specific purpose. Hypnosis helps to cut through the conscious mind into the unconscious mind. It helps to target beliefs and values to get to the source of particular behaviors. Hypnosis can help to identify “limiting beliefs” and uproot them, dismantling unhealthy thoughts and behaviors in the process.
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Because hypnosis is an “opt-in” experience, it cannot be done in covert. There has to be a willingness on the part of both people in order to be successful. Because so many of the decisions we make are based on convictions in the subconscious, hypnosis tries to get to those baked in prejudices to free up the conscious mind. And contrary to popular belief, it all happens very quickly.
Erika’s style, called “insight hypnosis” is directed at coming to moments of insight. The goal is for her clients to have massive “aha” moments and generate great results in just one session. Erika mentions her concept of “bad data,” which is basically bad or misinformed perspectives and attitudes that can be corrected by illuminating truths through insight hypnosis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. We are on to episode 99. Wow, I can't believe that we are going to cross the 100th episode threshold. When I started this podcast, I committed to do 104 episodes. And, |
| 0:26.5 | wow, I'm almost there. People might ask, why did I decide to do 104? I figured, oh, if I did |
| 0:32.8 | one episode a week, that's 52 weeks in a year. I'll do it for two years and I'll get 104 episodes and |
| 0:40.9 | then I'll decide what I'm going to do after that. But, you know, about three years later, |
| 0:47.3 | four years later, I'm getting to the 100th episode. So it took a little bit longer than I thought, |
| 0:51.9 | but I hope you guys are all enjoying it and getting a lot out of it. |
| 0:57.1 | And I really appreciate all the positive support and feedback I've gotten in this journey. |
| 1:03.4 | So, wow, the next episode will be 100. |
| 1:06.6 | But this episode is 99. |
| 1:07.8 | So our guest today is Erica Flint Flint and she is going to talk about |
| 1:14.3 | hypnotherapy and how hypnosis can help you move beyond, overcome some of your blocks in your life |
| 1:24.4 | and really reach your full potential. This is something I wanted to talk about |
| 1:30.2 | and understand because I've heard of hypnosis. I've never experienced it personally, but I really |
| 1:36.6 | loved what she had to say about it and talk about it. She made it really clear and understandable. |
| 1:41.1 | So I hope you guys enjoy this episode. I hope it's really good. If you are enjoying |
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| 2:05.0 | All right, everybody. Let's go ahead and start this episode. |
| 2:13.9 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. My guest today is Erica Flint. |
| 2:21.3 | Erica, you want to introduce yourself? Yeah, sure. So I spent about 15 years in high tech as a software engineer and went through some really low period in my life and ended up wanting |
| 2:37.6 | more. And so I became a hypnotist. And now I get to help people retrain and reprogram the most |
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