UNLOCK The Secret Power Of Your Mind with Dr. Richard Bandler

If I can control my state it's easier to control yours yeah so when you say can I teach you how to put somebody in a trance I can show you how to relax and I intend to do that in a few minutes and the truth is the foundation of everything I do is a combination of all things I've abort but really NLP was the base of it all and um I brought Richard I called him up I hadn't had the privilege of learning from Richard I Just happened to been exposed to John first we're different

world and John and Richard very different people in radically different ways and while I have great respect for John his elegance and his language I was more Associated to Richard quite frankly because I'm a little crazy and people sometimes perceive me that way and sometimes Richard as well and he came in and I told everybody in the group before I brought him up I said people have been Very playful and crazy and they learn to do patn erupts and things like that and so I said Richard you know he has comes from a different world

I come from the streets a little bit I think Richard has a little of that in the streets it's a different way of being Rapport and respects really important and I want being misinterpreted he's coming out here I want to make sure we really take care of him re said yes and then Richard came up and someone came up and Interrupted him doing this stupid pattern rep then another kid walked up and like Richard was really being wonderful and warm and the next person walks up and he's got like a hat black hatat and a

cape and and he goes I've got a problem and he starts talking like he's The Godfather and Richard's trying to be patient I remember vividly I don't if he remembers this inde detail he's like what's his problem and he had this little guy beside him and he goes it's My son it's my son he goes what's your son's problem and he said and the son starts talking like Donald Duck right so Richard was still very wonderful and let the guy to sit down he like leave him alone let him do his talk right some guy

runs up jumps in Richard's chair takes Richard's hat do you remember this and his sunglasses he remembers it all takes it puts the Hat on himself puts sunglasses on and sits in Richard's chair while he standing on the stage and My eyes are going like this but it's the last time I got the privilege of be with him so I want to make up for it here by having all of us give this man the respect he deserves this is the man that all of our tools are built on when he comes up here let's

give him the the honor and respect he deserves of all that he's built and all the all of you if you've benefited from me you've benefited from Richard and we have the privilege of having here in person I Just thought it would be such a wonderful thing at this stage of life to experience Richard where he [Music] [Applause] is by the way uh there's something I'd like to say about Tony inviting me here uh I haven't seen him in decades but I do want to tell you something I have noticed over the years I have

traveled this planet and taught classes on every continent but Antarctica and uh and I'm not planning to go there either um but nobody has taken my work and inspired more people to do something about their lives than this man Tony Robbins just as a general rule it probably be a good idea to pay attention remember first and foremost I'm a hypnotist and that that means I'm going to be talking to both your minds not just your conscious mind but your unconscious mind Now just to give you a little history when I started in 1970 uh

the the operating beliefs about personal change because most of the things about personal development and things like Tony's doing now and Mary Mory and all of this stuff grew out of the human potential movement which was a reaction to Psychiatry psychiatrists at the time diagnosed everything and almost everything was defined as a problem somehow in fact when I started the DSM Which was the list of mental disorders was only that thick and then a few years later it was that thick and dsm3 was two volumes DSM 4 was huge and I don't even know what

it is now because I don't bother to look at it uh because as far as I could tell most of those categories had no value this began in LP because I was giving music lessons to a kid whose dad was a psychiatrist and when I went transferred to a four-year College he this guy the Psychiatrist said to me I have a spare house there now I've never heard anybody said that when you know I I I grew up with virtually nothing I I grew up a poor kid and you know I remember when we got

a television the first time and I remember just staring at it with it out not being on just going that's great I didn't even know what it did you know back in the 1950s it was a fairly new invention right and you know and it was green screen and black and white and and It was only on a few hours today and uh you know this was a big innovation so in my lifetime I've seen that I've seen people go to the Moon people used to say if something was impossible they'd Go is is impossible

was trying to put a man on the moon we've been there in back s times people died on the moon most people don't know that two people died on the moon and just be because they were keeping track of what they were doing there was there Sunspot and they Didn't get back in the Space Capsule fast enough and they died on the moon you know and NASA didn't know how to do those things and when I was talking to Tony yesterday about NASA and you know just the idea that they were going to do something

that impossible because they they went to Kennedy and they actually said there are three things we could do do we could we could feed everybody on the planet he goes we could probably cure some most diseases or we could go To the moon and Kennedy went let's go to the moon and a lot of people were at that time were very offended by that and uh and and and one of the weird things is is one of the reasons why we have cures for disease and got rid of small poox is because of the Space

Program because we invented the Disposable hypodermic needle and all of the things that had to be invented LED to all of the things your cell phones and all of the things that go on and now the Massive big corporations employing millions of people a lot of that stuff is a direct result of trying to do something that was impossible now I grew up in a world where most of the people you know post World War II you know were doing things building houses and you know the the economy was pretty good you know at that

time because we had a general in charge of the country and you know Dwight D Eisenhower was President I remember he ran against a guy named ADI Stevenson who was a super liberal right you know who you know was interested in feeding people in other countries and Dwight di eyes an our said what we need are roads right and you know and there were people that went how could you vote for somebody that wants to build roads there'll just be more ours but it led to employment it led to building hospitals it led to an

economy that's made us and especially you people fairly wealthy and you know that that the vision of the Future if it's limited if you if you base the future on problems now all of Psychiatry all of the human potential movement itself gal therapy ta all of those things there were massive numbers of them when I moved into the psychiatrist house it was filled with books I'm a very Avid Reader and I read all of them and I was flabbergasted over a 100 books not one of them said a single thing you could do about Anything

not one except take drugs right and remember it's the 1960s I knew all about drugs I went to college um right and they didn't help you know I you know I'm I'm sorry I was a musician and I can tell you straight ahead drugs do not make people smarter okay I played in bands with people that consumed enormous amounts of drugs and they never got smarter in fact they got stupider and stupider and stupider and fortunately there are Certain things that happened bass player in my band who took any drug you he could find in

any place he went into my medicine cabinet one day in the 60s and took a couple pills and walked over to me and said would these make me high and I said those are my girlfriend's birth control pills I said you won't get pregnant but you might get cranky once a month that's about the best they're going to do for you now when I read all of these books I I I said to the Psychiatrist he came to visit me and I said is there a psychotherapist that can actually do anything and get it done

and he told me there was that he knew a woman named Virginia CER and Virginia just happened to be coming to visit her so I started asking her questions I was an information science major and I knew about information I knew about mathematics I knew about equations I knew symbolic logic I knew how to program a computer and in those days it Was very complicated the languages in fact I worked on one of the languages because that's back when a floppy disc was this big it was called an rk5 you needed a pickup truck to

bring a program over to somebody else's house the world has changed tremendously over the decades but when Virginia arrived and I started asking her questions I said well how do you know when you know what you're going to do and she said I listen to people and I Said well how do you know what to listen for because you know that's that's what mathematicians do we want to be able to represent things in a calculus and compute what to do next you know and uh it was funny because there was a psychiatrist there and the

psychiatrist kept interrupting me and saying things like that doesn't matter and Virginia would go of course it does and she she told me she said I have this intuition that tells me what to do and I said well What tells your intuition what to do right she goes well if you pay attention to your intuitions then you'll know what to do now I then went and watched Virginia work with the family and was a three-hour Drive I drove her because she didn't drive very well and uh on the way there she told me to go

in her purse and pull out a leather strap little strip of leather and I said what's this for and she said I'm going to see this family she goes I'm going to talk to the mother She said I'm going to talk to the daughter and she goes and uh the identified patient because that's what they had in Family Therapy in those days was a a juvenile delinquent and a lot of other things with schizophrenic Tendencies they always had these lovely labels for everything that basically say you won't do what they want you to and uh

I've never met a mental somebody in a mental hospital who is cheerful at you don't go to a mental hospital because You're cheerful and and what happened was is is Virginia says to me she goes when I talk to the Father the little girl's going to have an epileptic seizure I want you to jump on the stage and put this between her teeth so she doesn't bite her tongue and I thought cool you can make people have epileptic seizures and she said no no no she said just when I talked to the father she said

he's going to start to cry and he's not that kind Of person and the daughter is going to react this way and I said how do you know that and she goes it's just a feeling I have I went great where and she went in my gut and I went in your gut and I said then what tells you to have that feeling and she said she went like this she goes I don't know and I said great that clears it all up and sure enough we went in she started talking to this family she'd

never met them before she just had a case history That was sent to her she turns around and starts talking to the father and I got to tell you this guy was a prick I know pricks I grew up in the pl neighborhoods that were full of them right and there was only one way to deal with them and it was called a 2x4 right this guy was a first class prick he was mean to everybody in his own family he was a complete and all of a sudden Virginia turns around and looks at him

she goes she goes you Know I hear you talking and all I can say is you seem so terrified she said it must be really hard for you to lose control of your daughter and your family and and you tried so hard and worked so hard your whole life she said I can hear the tears forming behind your eyes and this guy burst out crying the kid falls on the floor and has an epileptic seizure and I took the leather thing and stuck it in the mouth and went that was so cool that was just

so cool somebody Did something predicted what would happen and when I went back in the audience 20000 people are watching all licensed psychotherapists and all people kept saying was she's so intuitive now I'm a mathematician I know what that means in English I can translate that into human that means I don't have to learn it that's exactly what it means it means I can't learn it because it she has those intuitions it's It's not me it's not something that's learnable and I made a decision at that time that I would go through and figure out

how to make this predictable build a calculus for it and teach other people to do it and that was the foundation of the work that I did with John grinder that became this structure of magic Tony mentioned this foring deletion Distortion and generalization okay those three principles are called the three Universals of human modeling which I outlined in that book and to this day people keep asking me where they came from the answer is I made them up okay well laws of thermodynamics somebody had to make them up at some time you know when I

founded the field of neural linguistic programming people said why don't you want to be in the field of psychology and I said because it has a basic flaw the flaw is that you have to understand what went wrong in order to Be able to change uh anyway what happened was in when when when John grinder and I got together we took the work of gome Chomsky who had built the first model of how the brain works neurologically and it was about language and about the unconscious processing of language everybody knows in their own language what's

a well-formed thing if you were born in America you know a well-formed sentence of English whether you study grammar or not the only people Who don't are grammarians because they get it wrong a lot because they have rules that don't fit the intuitions of people but if you say color green ideas sleep furiously most people understand it's not a well-formed sentence but if you go Furious ideas sleep furiously they they know that's less well formed than the other one but not as well formed as saying Bob went to the store and the fact that you

can know that without knowing how is because the Hardwiring in the brain that allows us to learn languages no matter where we're born and no matter where we're born there's universals that function about the transforms and you can predict how neurology will learn language and whether the words are different or whether the syntaxes are different German and English both have about have about a hundred different syntaxes they're not the same one but they have about a hundred and up to a certain age They're identical and then they become more idiosyncratic now once we did that

I started looking and talking to my psychiatrist friend I said so what is it that you guys can't do and they started telling me things there was a group of six or seven psychiatrists and they started going well we can't do this and we can't do that and like one of the things they mentioned was phobias and I said so can You guys bring me each one person who's got a phobia of something right and bring me one person who had a phobia and got over it and they all looked at me and they went

how would we know if somebody got over a phobia and I said well I know a way so I put an ad in the newspaper and I I literally put an ad that said if you had a terrible fear an overwhelming fear a phobic fear and you got over it I'll pay you $100 to interview and then I gave them a lie Detector test to make sure they weren't bullshitting me which was about 90% of them by the way and and by the way I got a really cool lie detector from an agency that shall

remain unnamed but I was also a physicist so I did some work for them as well and when when I did the interviews all of the people told me almost The Identical same story there were idiosyncratic parts of it but they all said you know I I hit this point where I just started to Get fed up with it you know Tony was talking about threshold they'd go you know and it was always something like there was a guy who was a race car driver right now this guy gets in a car drives hundreds of

miles an hour in a pack of other cars not Not Afraid at all but he couldn't go up and escalator couldn't do it legs gave out I took him to a shopping center with a four-story escalator he couldn't even walk up to it his legs gave out he Flopped on the floor started twisting around and I thought that's so cool I said you can get in the car and drive hundreds of miles an hour inches away from another car and you can't go up a escalator and I started I said how how do you do

that I said because you didn't even make it to the escalator in fact when I brought him back to my office and started talking about being in the shopping center he got terrified and there was no Escalator now I discovered over the years like when I do seminars we bring snakes spiders all kinds of stuff in and I'm we don't fool around we bring the biggest spider you can imagine size of my hand these are professional spiders they they go to elementary schools and walk on kids hands but at the beginning of the week when

I say I'm going to do it there are people that will freak out they they'll jump up and they go I can't stand for the seminar if You're going to bring a Snider I can't say if you're going to bring a snake and I have to point out to them I go I go look you're terrified now and there are no spiders here in fact once on the last day there was a woman screaming in her chair going I don't know if I can stay in the room because the snake is here and the snake

the guy with the snake missed his ride so the snake was late you know it was London there was a lot of traffic and and he actually took the Snake on the tube underneath he had it in a sack you know and he called me on the cell phone and goes I'm going to be an hour late and This Woman's freaking out and I said well excuse me the snake isn't here it's late right you'll have to wait an hour and then freak out and you know I said but if you think about it you're

not afraid of the snake because you were afraid when there was no snake you're afraid of the idea of the snake now there's no better way to Scare the hell out of yourself than making a picture of a spider the size of a lobster and seeing it jump on you in that picture which is what people do when they terrify themselves about something if you don't have control over your thoughts then you don't have control over your feelings everything Tony demonstrated today was to get things in proportion now I'm a little more direct about it

you know I'm more like a sledgehammer Tony's a little bit More like an artist he he relates to people he's congenial I'm not I'll warn you in advance you know I'm one of those people that if I don't like your conscious mind I get rid of it and talk to your unconscious mind those people that were in that movie out cold that meant I didn't like them personally until I was done and then I probably did because they came up and whined to me about stuff now there's there's a point at which most people don't

understand The power of your neurology you have millions and billions of of neurons each talking to 10 to 100 others there are as many neurons in your brain as there are stars in the sky which means the number of configurations is infinite and what happens is is when you start to think about something which scares you or you think about something that frustrates you or something you worry about it goes down a neurological Loop now be it ever So microscopic the way it knows to do that is by size so that these little neurons go

to the next one in size even though there are billions of them woven together this is how you're able to have the same problem over and over again and the same success over and over again if you know how to open a door you come up and you have a brand new door it's close enough to other doors that you do this and as long as you didn't read the word push backwards on it you'll do fine now When people get interrupted when they try to push a door and it's actually a door you pull

I being left-handed when I built my first uh remodeled my first house that I bought in California I'm like Tony escaped and left uh I left earlier than he did and for different reasons but similar in structure especially it was the taxes that got me and things like that but uh I I left the country I went to Ireland and you I got out of Dodge at big time I'm back in the US now I live in Texas which is kind of like Florida without ocean around it we I don't have a view like this

out my window and and when it's summer it gets hot and today it's pouring rain but I'm not there now the best thing that you can learn from me today because I only have a short time with you is to take control of your thoughts because if you change the way you think it will change how you feel and therefore change what you can Do now as I went through the years because as I I I used to go into hosal hospitals and do crazy ass because uh being a physicist I know about the nature

of reality and when psychiatrist talk about the nature of reality they don't even suspect anything about reality uh you know there I I can't think of a group of people that were more out of touch about it you know they would say to me like well I have a patient and he had a nervous breakdown And I'd go which nerve broke and uh they'd go well that's not what I mean I go but that's what you said right and I said you put him man in a hospital for having a broken nerve and you're telling

me he doesn't have a nerve that's broken and they go well that's how we describe something and I went what because the metamodel itself is a very powerful tool it's a tool that's designed to do one thing solve problems and if you understand it and you learn the metam Model and I hope Tony has taught you things because he was using it all over the place here you know people would go well you know I have this and he' go what What specifically give me an example all that comes from metamodel training whether he got

it from John grinder me or a book doesn't matter where you learn it as a model itself whatever goes in comes out and leads you down the path to problem resolution in fact I rewrote the first book I wrote as A book called problem solving and released it a few years ago and to me and I've by the way written 35 books over the years that's how long I've been around and uh none of them really repeats of anything because I constantly wanted to be able to solve problems because I didn't like what happened to

the end user in the field of psychology they would come in with the fear and after four years they would have 18 Fears right now that demonstrates to me they're not doing the right thing now as a physicist I worked in an R&D company we measured success by whether things worked or not I work specifically in the field of Optics we made Holograms and things like that very technical work PE companies would come in and tell us where they were stuck and and basically I would use the same tools I used with psychiatric patients to

solve their problems uh I did it with the military Designing programs both Tony and I worked on the pistol training and we had we had a very interesting Kel in charge of it that put us things we did sonar training I worked with intelligence agencies corporations all using the same tools because personal problems and business problems in and of themselves are not different in nature they're all based on our neurology and if you can make a change that stays permanent now in computer science there's a thing Called a touring machine and basically what a touring

machine means is that you store memory you put a plate in at the cafeteria and you put another one on and it goes down it's push down storage so that the first plate off is actually the last plate you put on memory Works a little bit like this even though it's holographic in nature we all learn new phone numbers and we put that phone number over the new one and then we stopped dialing the old number and now Most people don't even bother to remember things they put it in their phone if you lose your

phone you lose your friends um you know it's a it's it's a risky business nowadays um you know that so I know people I had a glitch and I lost my emails or something and you know and somebody goes don't you have copies of that and somebody said it's probably in the cloud and I went oh okay if you say so it's a good place for it you know I can always write another Contract I you know I don't need to remember everything because I'm of the firm belief that the best thing about the past

is that it's over Brad all that stuff you were doing with Tony right you know the one thing that every time you came back and started talking about the unpleasantness of the past you were feeling bad right now I can make a prediction because I've been doing this for longer than you've been alive right which is horrible to say by the way I Used to be the youngest person in the room not so much anymore but when you think about those events in the past where that brought you the emotions that brought you the guilt

is the picture life size Larger than Life Larger than Life so it's like the big lobster right I want you to try something real quick I want you to I want you to what's your favorite Color pardon red okay put a 2inch red border around it and suddenly shrink it down to the size of a postage stamp blink it black and white he doesn't need a microphone I'll repeat anything that's important okay did you do that okay see pattern interrupt the only trouble with pattern interrupts is they don't last you keep having to interrupt them

over and over again okay big Larger than Life memory put a border around it A red border okay once you have the red border shrink it down size of a postage stamp and then go white black white black and go really fast you got it okay now I want you to try and go back and feel bad about it oops okay that's called neurological change okay see if the best thing about the past is that it's over you have to Do something with it you were running those neurons that led to the bad feeling and

then it would circle around until it habituated because every nerve will habituate see in fact there's a woman named Dorothy Kamura she's a neur neurologist and and in 1972 I stumbled across a journal article written in some neurological journal and your eyes vibrate all the time like this and the reason they do that is if they held still the nerves would habituate in Your brain so your eyes have microscopic jiggling all the time so being ever the scientist she was she attached a picture on a thing to the eyeball to both eyeballs a little picture

and and people would look at it and then it would go and disappear because it wasn't hitting a different nerve and once the nerve habituates it just stops doing what it's doing and then she asked them she said she said uh she said what was it a picture of and to her surprise 85% of The population stopped and looked up and to the left now when I read that journal article I went that's very interesting so I went to my class at the University had 300 people and I said what color are your mother's eyes

and everybody looked up and to the left except the people with the watch on this arm they were left-handed and uh that's where accessing cues came from that little Chart that was on the beginning of that movie which tells you things now when I saw Virginia work I went back and looked at Virginia I noticed that Virginia did something that when people walked up she would go what do you want she not consciously but unconsciously watch the movement of their eyes and shift her predicates so that with some people she go what do you see

that you need and with some people they go what do you feel is missing and some people she goes What do you tell yourself the problem is and by switching from one representational system in another she was able to communicate better because it tells you about the consciousness of the person you're dealing with I knew you were making pictures larger than life because when you'd stop and go and Tony would say so when You' think about what you were guilty about and you would look up look whatever it was wasn't that big you know that

if You observe people Most of the time you can tell now I know that what he did changed your attitude and and would Propel you into the future but if he the past isn't holding you back you're going to go faster because you will be able to line up both your conscious and unconscious activity to go in the same direction and when you when you don't have those two lined up then you start tripping over your own toes you start going in the direction and then doubts and fears start coming and Keep having to push

them away and do it by force of will which is great but you don't need to if you know how your brain works my job was to figure out how you use Consciousness now Tony was talking about what you focus on okay to me the conscious mind is like a flashlight in a dark room it's shining on some things and not others and if it's shining in the right place then you'll go the right direction if you're trying to find your way out of a door and you're shining it On the ceiling you're never going

to get out you'll Bang into everything and the trick with a lot of the meta model is to get you to focus on the right direction Tony got you to focus on the right direction now I want you to think about what would be difficult for you to do at this point because you were optimistic but did it seem easy what you were about to do does it Now pardon yeah okay because all you all you did was take that layer of neurons and put something over the top of it instead of going and habituating

and then starting it over again that's why it was hard to do it that's why people always go I can't really do it right now you know I I get people who are terrified of elevators and then we ride up and down and they go I think my phobia is tired today because they can't justify things Happening that quickly but it's easier to change something quickly than it is to do it slowly I'm sorry oh speedboat okay as long as it's not going to land on the ceiling I'm fine this is the first time I've

taught in a tent since I worked for Tony years ago he had a huge tent out in the back of a hotel with 2,000 people in and I I believe he was marrying them all when I showed up I I don't know exactly What that was about but he had somebody marrying them for a day so that they would learn to control their finances and things at least that's what he said um anyway in my work over the years i' I've taken project by project I did a phobia project I did things about anxiety Then

I started going through Mental Hospitals and listening to what doctor said with me for example I had a client there's actually a film out about a client I had and these two Psychiatrists said to me you know this guy is incurable and I said how could you possibly know that you know that's what they said about small poox they've said that about everything they said it was impossible to go to the Moon all progress is impossible until you do it as far as I can tell and believing that you can't do something is the slowest

way to go about doing research as far as I'm concerned there's nothing easier to change than a belief itself because if You change what you believe then it makes it easier for you to look at the future and not the past you know the fact that something hasn't been done doesn't mean it can't be done it only means it hasn't been done and when when you let yourself imagine the future and all the possibilities given that you've got billions and billions of neurons that could be directed in any direction all they need is that Focus

the flashlight shining on the right light And especially when you build up a threshold that says you know you can do things and you look at what you've accomplished in your life rather than what you haven't accomplish now I want to try a little experiment with all of you up for an experiment okay put your feet on the floor if you would for some of you that's easier than others I've got that stool out of the way because I noticed Tony was touching The floor and she her legs were only about halfway down and uh

Tony is a foot taller than me so I'm I I I have my psychiatr couch here so when I want to psychoanalyze somebody I can bring them up here and only I don't psychoanalyze very well I I go straight for the unconscious and find out what it wants and get it done um anyway put your feet on the floor and take a breath real quick in through your mouth really deep go hold it for a second and slowly let It out through your nose and just relax okay another quick breath slowly let it out through

your nose just relax now wiggle your toes and smile from your toes up to your mouth so that you go all the way up your legs all the way across your chest and you have to show teeth or it doesn't count my wife taught me that okay you have just smiled and felt good for absolutely no reason Isn't that Cool I mean that's a cool thing if you can be happy for no reason imagine if you start having reasons and start thinking about the things that you accomplish but if you don't do it with your

whole body then it's not going to really have the impact now I had an opera singer that came to me quite famous opera singer I not allowed to mention their name most of my clients who are rich I'm not allowed to mention their names but uh this a guy was very Famous and he he told me he goes he goes goes well he said you know I'm really motivated when I'm on stage but I cannot get myself to practice and I said really what's the difference and he stopped and he went well he goes when

I'm on stage and he began to make this gesture he goes everything just flows out but when I look at the sheet music to practice I just can't get myself to do it and so I went back to neurology and I started looking at the difference between uh What's called the inmic nervous system this is all of the hollow and solid organs and the connections between them your intestines and they go up through your old brain onto your kinesthetic cortex which overlaps about 40 or 50% with the visual cortex right and I started thinking well

if you could do this on purpose because if you think of something that you want to do all right right now just pick something that you want to do uh is is there somebody in Here that has a a uh let me let me ask you this is there somebody in here that has a memory they think about too much every day something that annoys you two minutes here three minutes there a couple minutes there you do how do you pronounce your name again arsl okay and so if you were to add up two minutes

and five minutes or three minutes here and there would it add up to 30 minutes an hour two hours How much a day I'm sorry can't hear you 30 minutes a day well that doesn't seem like a lot really that's that that's just north of 150 hours a year of course 10 years that's 1,500 hours and in 40 years that's 6,000 hours that you're planning to think this thought and feel bad does that sound smart no it doesn't would you like to do something about it okay why don't you come up here and sit next

to me I'm going to need you to hold the Microphone okay she's going to be busy okay so if she talks you put the microphone in front of her mouth right about here okay okay because I'm I'm old little deaf I'm like an old dog but once I get a hold of a bone I just don't let go okay see we're talk we're talking about her having 6,000 hours okay okay in the next 40 years that she could do anything she wanted with just think about that that's a lot of time you know 6,000 hours

to become more Successful to become more intelligent to to read to have sex there are all kinds of things you could do with 6,000 hours people are always complaining to me I don't have enough time and then I find out they waste so much on it I go how much time do you spend worrying a day you know about all kinds of stuff that you know you don't do anything about and it adds up some people it's 2 three hours a day she's talking about 30 minutes but that's just one idea okay so When you

think about this idea okay whatever it is you don't have to tell us I'm not that kind I'm not a therapist I'm I'm not a voer of the mind I don't I don't care what it is I just want you to tell me uh where it is when you when you think about it where where in your visual field would you say it it's a point in my visual field yeah well you you know what you know what you're thinking about right yeah yeah okay so where is It so it's it's here it's down okay

and how big would you say it is is it the size of a cell phone or is it bigger than a cell phone is it it's a little bigger than a cell phone a little bigger so you have this picture down there and when you look at this little picture you feel bad yes okay okay and and when you look at this picture do you say things to yourself at the same time or yes and is that voice on the right or the Left it's on the right pardon on the right it's it's on the

right Y and is it a pleasant voice no okay so you make a crappy picture and you talk to yourself in a crappy voice and mysteriously you end up feeling bad yeses does that sound smart to you no okay all right we're going to try a little experiment here I'm I'm going to turn around and all I want you to do is Look at me you won't need this for a second okay just turn turn around you just need to turn your head you don't have to turn your whole body you you may not want

to turn your whole body trust me okay just just look me in the eye I want you to take a deep breath when I do let it out slowly and I'm going to look you in the eye and I'm going to start to alter my state of consciousness and you're going to go with me there we go that's it your peripher Vision will begin to Tunnel a little bit and here we go we're going to go really deeper now that's right and go up a little bit now down back down that's it here we go

deeper and deeper and deeper still now just close your eyes and I'm going to lift up your arm and it's going to go stiff like that and it's just going to stay there and it's going to go down at the rate and speed at which you go into a deep relaxed State because I want your uncons I to be on your side in All things I want your unconscious which is close enough to listen to me to understand that when your hand touches your knee something really funny is going to happen you're going to look

at that picture and it's going to seem so freaking ridiculous that you're just not going to be able to stop laughing they say laughter is the best medicine and they say you're going to look back and laugh and my policy is why Wade here we go 1 two 3 There we go bigger laughter double it double it again look at that picture the more you look at it the funnier it's going to become this has been sucking the moments of your life out of you because when you talk to yourself in bad voices and you

make pictures that make you feel bad it takes up the currency of living the currency of living is how you spend your moments that's all there is to it and when you waste those moments and throw Them away instead of make rational decisions about it now since you're laughing about it and that feels better you might as well wiggle your toes and laugh all the way up right now what I want you to do is to realize I'm going to lift up your arm one more time only this time you're going to go deep and

really relax one two really relax all the way down that's your head fall just let yourself relax that's it deeper deeper and deeper and deeper Still now while your unconscious is listening to me I have a suggestion as a hypnotist I have many of them my suggestion is that you think of something better to do something that would make your life wonderful something that would make it something that you really desire to accomplish something that would be a challenge and that you take it and you take that little tiny picture that's been annoying you you

shrink it down to a DOT and you replace It with that picture only you make it so big that it's as big as this tent that we're in and you look at it and I want you to wet your lips because desire comes from neurology oddly enough the lips take up a third of the motor cortex so when you wet your lips with desire it changes your physiology it tells your cortex to desire things now I want you also to go back and look at that evil Little picture for the last time and I want

you to take a deep breath and sigh sighing is the neurological equivalent of being finished when you have a big meal and you're full you push away and you sigh when you have vigorous sex when you're done panting you sigh there are all kinds of things that we do when you run in a race and you're done being a things you sit on the ground and you take a deep sigh when people see something exciting at the movies when It's over the whole audience will sigh together with relief because it's the neurological equivalent of being

done and finished then you pull up your fancy new picture and you smile and you double that smile and you double it again again and you take the ability to have voices in your head in the same place replace it with a better voice it says I can do this now that I have the time I have all the time in the world this is just one bad idea you could do this with a Thousand and now I'm going to reach over and I'm going to touch you on the knee and you're going to come

out of this nice pleasant relaxed State like a rocket ship you're going to have this overwhelming sense of motivation and just like he had a feeling that went in a circle that got stronger your feelings are going to get stronger because you're going to want to do this and accomplish these things and get things done for the rest of your life One two three all the way up thank you so much [Applause] dear now when I did this kind of stuff in 1970s psychiatrist looked at me like I came from the freaking moon right I

would go into Mental Hospitals and by the way according to things that were written by psychiatrists for psychiatrists uh schizophrenics can't be hypnotized okay so this guy comes to me And he goes my brother is in a mental hospital the doctors have been medicating him every time I go to see him he's worse and do you think you can help him and I saidwell H wh why is he in a mental hospital rather than at your house and he saidwell because people come off the TV and follow him around and I thought cool I'd like

to do that right and so uh his two psychiatrists arranged for me to See him they filmed it in Colorado uh because they were scientists and they wanted proof and apparently videotape is proof and and they told me before I started they said look uh I had very long hair at the time that seems to have disappeared and comes out of my nose now uh but at the time I had very long hair they said you're going to have to put your hair under a hat because long hair freaks him out and I went right

don't have long hair and they said and don't Touch him because he will freak out and I said right and they said and you can't hypnotize him because he's schizophrenic and I went right and he walked in the room I grabbed his hand and I put him into a trance and uh he seemed to be fine apparently he didn't read the rules so he didn't know how to follow them but then I sat him down and I asked him a question I said so that they told me that people come off the TV and follow

you around and I Said who specifically right out of the metamodel and he said have you ever seen Little House on the Prairie this is some decades ago and it was still on TV then and he said you know that little Mary and I said well not personally but uh I have a feeling I'm going to meet her soon and he said yeah and then there was a list there was a a televangelist and he went down this list of horrible people that came and followed him around and he would turn around and argue with

Them and then they would arrest him and put him in a mental hospital and then they would medicate him because that's what you do when people are hallucinating you would give them more drugs uh makes perfect sense to me you know if you're not taking enough drugs then you'll hallucinate FL L and uh says to me he goes they they said I I said to him I said I said I said I said they told me you were schizophrenic I'm really confused you don't seem Schizophrenic to me and he goes well he goes then he

goes but I see people and I said right I said the problem isn't that you're seeing people I said it's that you're watching the wrong TV shows and this schizophrenic looks at me and I says what do you mean and I said have you heard about the Playboy Channel in an instant this light went on in his eye like Bing but then I told him I said have you ever watched Bugs Bunny and he said yeah I said do you remember the cartoon where bugs right uh is yelling at the artist and the artist erases

his legs and bugs gets really mad and then artist erases it and he goes yeah and I said can you see a TV here but he hallucinates floridly they they wouldn't let me have a TV they saw it was too dangerous you know cuz TVs are what causes the schizophrenia anyway so I had him hallucinate a TV he was in trance and I had him watch The Bugs Bunny cartoon and I pulled the pencil out of it and handed him the pencil and when he took the pencil I told him to go around and erase

Mary's head and then erase the other person erase the other person so he could take control of his hallucinations and and for some reason uh that seemed to work and then later on he was his brother called me and said that they were out in public and every once in a while he would pull out his pencil and erase something but Apparently it was better than taking narcotics and being incarcerated for being stupid you know that you're not supposed to watch people come off the TV and follow you around it's supposed to stop at the

screen you know although I went and saw The Exorcist which by the way I thought was the funniest movie I have ever seen scene right and apparently that made me inappropriate in the theater I Lally part of the way through was asked to leave because I Couldn't stop laughing that ly nice day for an exorcism I just thought that was the funniest thing I'd ever heard but then I didn't grow up very religious and apparently the people in the theater did and it scared the piss out of them the five people that went to the

theater with me went back to my house afterward and sat in the living room and they all look freaking terrified and I and I said to one of them I said said I said what's the matter and he goes I can't stop Thinking about that movie and I said really cuz we went and saw it on a really big screen you know they had just started making these humongous screens in theaters and uh you know and you know one kid that was a musician I played with said to me he goes I I just you

know he says I keep seeing that girl and he goes I'm afraid she's going to come tonight when I'm asleep and I said so you you went to the theater and saw scary movie scare the out of Yourself and you're coming home to practice and now you're giving yourself suggestions about when you're going to hallucinate this and scare the piss out of yourself later good plan to me the brain is designed to plan it's designed to remember and you should remember what worked and you should remember what doesn't work psychiatrist told me and psychotherapists told

me and I do love the name psycho the the rapist that's a great name it says it right on Their door uh that for me that when I see this kind of stuff over the years uh I worked with a whole bunch of educationally handicapped kids once I was I I helped a principal of a school got a stroke and lost his speech and his movement and I helped him recover both and so he said do you think you could do something with learning disabled kids and I'd never heard the term before and I said

I'm sorry you mean brain damage And he said no they're learning disabled and I said that don't understand I doesn't make any sense to me and so they introduced me to somebody called a learning disabled counselor just think about the name you know it's right on the door learning disabled counselor so when I went in I went hello how are you and this woman went why are you shouting and I said just trying to be clear I said you're the learning disabled counselor and she said no no she goes I Work with learning disabled kids

and I said like what so they gave me five fifth graders and they read these big files on them and there was one they said was crossed hemispher and I said so when you X-ray the brain the flat part is on the outside and the curves go in and they went no no no no they go it's just a diagnosis and I went well what does it represent what can this kid not do or what does he do that he's not supposed to because there really only Four choices you're either doing something you're not supposed

to or you're not doing something you are supposed to or you don't even suspect what's going on there are relative possibilities you either want something and you don't have it you don't have something that you want right or you want something and you have it or you don't want it and you don't have it but you probably need it I mean those are the four major categories of all my work And when I look at things I try to figure out what I have to plug into those boxes tells me what to do she said

to me she goes well all five of them are spelling at a second grade level and I went grade level I said who made this stuff up right and she goes she goes it's it's she goes it's required by the state of California and I went you know the state of California this is a state that's now17 billion doll in debt they spent $17 billion they Don't have and it's just proposed to spend 700 million on reparation right and you know all of the slaves are dead by the way are they going to pile money

on their graves I I'm confused about it no they're going to do genetic testing they're going to hire and set up labs to genetically test you which means they're going to have to dig up all these slaves to find out so they you know this is a complicated business so they can figure out who to give money to That they don't have when they're closing schools and people are starving Tony's feeding them for heaven's sakes right they go Tony you take over feeding people we're going to be testing dead people in the ground to find

out who we owe money to you know my memory is I owed money to a person once who got killed in a car wreck I didn't have to pay him back after that that's my memory you know uh that's called practical and intelligent uh you know I didn't go to His gravite and go here's your 200 bucks right and stick a little Rose through it into the ground you know you know some people said I should have given it to his family but he didn't have one so what are you going to do you know

and but I I I I could have found if I did enough genetic testing on them I could have found somebody I could have spent thousands of dollars to figure out who to give the 200 to uh but that's how the mind of some people works I try to Go for the easy result so with these kids I got a list of what they couldn't do they couldn't they they were in the wrong level of mathematics right these are only fifth graders for heaven sakes I mean we're not talking complicated you know you know they

didn't add and they said they can't multiply correctly and they don't do long division which is confusing because there is no such thing as long division by the way in the universe when you Divide things nothing is ever left over that's not how it works in in the real universe as a physicist we know this uh long division is a disguised way of doing multiplication and subtraction and you know but they don't teach it to you that way it would make it too easy everybody would get good grades so I made a big chart I

sat down with these kids they came in the first day and I said look I'm going to take you for an hour day And I said do you know why you're here and this little girl says because we're stupid and I said that's right but you're not as stupid as I am I am the stupidest person who ever went through school so what I'm going to do is teach you to cheat in a way where you never get caught and one of them looked at me and said how can you do that and I said

well you try to write things on your hand or have a piece of paper I said anybody can find that I'm going to teach You how to put stuff in your head where no one can see it and and make it so you can pull it up whenever you want and I said I'm going to do something that your teachers don't do and I gave them a list of numbers it went one to 100 and 1 1200 and all the combinations there in on a piece of paper and I said I want you to start

and we're all going to do three and just go 3691 1215 as fast as you can and find out who gets to the end first and I kept doing the numbers I did that For 15 minutes and then I went you know three times n and they went 27 right we just did this for 15 minutes a day for one week spelling I taught them how to hide words in their head well that's where they need to be hidden right I found somebody who won a spelling be she's a smartass little girl she knew how

to spell everything and uh she won the spelling be and so I went and asked her I said how do you I said how do you spell illogical and she Started to bark out the letters like a seal and I said no no I said I I didn't ask you that I said don't answer out loud just tell me if you know how to spell it she went yes and she kept doing this you know and I said so I said I said where's the word in your head and she goes it's right here I

said how big are the letters she went like this right and I said 'ow did they get there' and she goes well when I look at a word in the dictionary I put the word or the Spelling list up letter at a time right and then I say the word and then I say it in a sentence and then I put it aside and make sure when I say the word it comes back up by itself they didn't teach me to do that in school they taught me to spell phonetically which oddly enough you can't

spell phonetically uh unless you live in Ireland or Germany but you certainly can't do it in this country because English is the language that witches Have made i before e except after C you know long vowels short vowels silent letters how do you pronounce a silent letter crazy ass stuff but when I taught the kids to do this for an hour a day so I taught them math I taught them that and then I taught them to have a memory Castle so that they had a place to put dates for memorizing dates of things and

and a place to put different things that the teacher would teach her or anything She wrote on the Blackboard so they could put it away and pull it back up and then they went in and at the end of the week the teacher gave them a spelling test and uh they all got really good grades they got all of them because she gave me the 10 spelling tests for the year and uh they weren't that difficult of words and I had started out with harder words and then went to easier ones because it's still a

word is one picture it's not longer letters Don't mean it's a harder word it just means it's a you you have to make the picture a little bigger so you can see the letters clearly and uh they they all got really good grades and uh then the teacher said I don't know how you did this but you need to read this and gave me a copy of the New Testament because she said whatever you're doing has to have something to do with Satan because you don't teach kids to Spell quickly the truth is all of

you learn f faster if you learn quickly than and and more permanently if I put stick figures on a deck of cards and flip them in front of you you'll see a basketball player bounce the basketball and throw it in a hoop if I handed you one a week for a year you would have no idea what happened the brain learns by patterning itself the fact that ideas run through your mind quickly is what makes them Work by making that picture and shrinking it down and blinking it black and white your bln brain learned not

to think about it the way you are cuz you left it intact and the minute you put a border around it you moved it from one hemisphere to another so you neurologically change the idea I love the way you guys are writing this stuff down you know now you're going to have to read your notes and understand them that's going to be complicated I have This in books you can read this stuff it's really easy you can go online and download them stuff all of I write I wrote a book called using your brain for

change that tells you how to get over phobias and do this stuff I wrote a book about education that tells you all this stuff it's all written down and mostly it's being bootlegged all over the place you know there are all kinds of people doing NLP in fact now to become an NLP uh person really all you need is a Printer you can say I'm an NLP trainer um that's why we have licensed because you know we have trademarks on things you know in fact when they told Tony he couldn't do NLP I certified him

and said come after me you know well he's spreading information to everybody I don't care if he's sticking his own stuff in it everybody does that I did that this wasn't my idea I didn't I found all this stuff in people's heads and neurology journals you know I just Put it in a package which made it more learnable to people because I wanted to change the idea that Insight produced change because it's not a viable thing somebody Falls in a creek right and they end up with the phobia of water they're now 35 or 40

years old and they can't swim and they can't take a bath and the psychiatrist brings them to me and they go well the root cause of the problem we're still exploring I'm having him relive the trauma from his childhood and I'm going well excuse me if he could learn to be terrified in 30 seconds then why should it take longer for him to learn to go into the water and learn to swim it just doesn't make sense if the brain can learn quickly it can learn quick quickly and the idea that you know these traumatic

effects of of you know sure your life history influenced you but it doesn't control you and it shouldn't control you that's not the nature of of learning for human beings Um Tony was having people that have problems with their business is there somebody in here who got another one give him the microphone he's he's he's going to he's going to tell me about his problem what's your problem sir problem Tony says you're supposed to think good things uh think it's a good thing I haven't hit you thank you okay good now let's move on so

what's the difficulty I think that sometimes I get tired during the day and I tell you a Trick hold the microphone here than you very much Richard okay you don't have to look at it the sound will fall in it okay sometimes I get tired during the day and I think that it's something that I keep triggering in thought yeah you think so I do okay and so what what if I was going to fill in for you a day and get tired in your behalf I would love that wouldn't that be cool yeah temporary

help is hard to find it's definitely hard to find especially for This what would I have to do to make myself tired in the middle of the day um it just comes on no it doesn't well just is that magic word whenever you hear somebody say the just it translates to the word only and it and it it isn't that just means it just means you're not conscious of it yet okay so do you have to say something to yourself to have that feeling or do you think something I probably I definitely think it I

think it's Time you think what do you mean I just assume it's coming because it's come so many times and I fig it's coming after a couple hours I go I start to get a little tired Y and so when you assume it do you tell yourself this or I I'm definitely having a conversation going here it comes again okay and do you hear the voice coming out of your mouth or do you hear it coming from the side or I think it's coming inside my head and um well I I Get it's inside your

head because I can't hear it okay but is it coming toward does it sound like it's coming towards you or coming out of you or it feels like an inside thought so I I'm not necessarily aware of which direction it's coming from to be honest at this moment okay well if I'm going to do it for you you're going to have to be more clear about this okay okay so try to make yourself tired right now what would you have to Do I would probably just assume it was coming and okay now when you assume

it's coming what do you do what would I have to do to assume that something is coming because you could assume that you're going to get you're going to light up with motivation and and have a great day that would be a possibility that' be a damn good replacement okay well I'm working on it thank you okay okay but but I have to know where where the Assumption machine is yeah okay it's Definitely coming in from inside my head it feels like it's from this side okay so does it feel like it's going out of

your head or into your head it might feel like it's swirling I don't know Richard at this moment well try them both and find out which one fits okay um there I go up up to the left huh you saw that yeah I did I did I I noticed it too every single time okay um so you make a little Picture okay and what's in the picture just I just start to feel like um I'm going to start yawning and dozing off okay and do you see yourself dozing off in the picture no it's a

feeling okay well I know you feel it but the question is how do you know when to feel you have to have something that tells you what to [Music] do okay I mean you know which way the feeling goes okay and if it went faster You'd probably get more tired I just start to get tired okay I start to get my I start getting foggy in my thoughts and I go okay let me go clear my mind let me go rest for 10 minutes okay and if you get foggy in your thoughts what does that

look like does that mean your pictures aren't clear it just means that I'm not thinking clearly and I'm not but you're okay if you were thinking clearly what would it look like I'd be wide awake no No that's that's what would happen you said it you're not thinking clearly thinking I almost feel like there's a fog coming into my brain right okay and does it look like a fog it does okay so you have you have pictures that you normally look at that you can see clearly mhm and and then you have this fog come

in front of it yeah it does it does seem like a little dust cloud coming in to things up little dust crowd coming yeah okay and if how do you Get rid of dust in your house um sweep it up okay that's one approach that's very old school okay okay in the modern vacuum in modern society how do we do it well I mean get a vacuum or you could have a vacuum they have these magic cloths you can wipe your TV your computer screen with yeah okay now if you look at a cloudy thought

can you wipe it away on Purpose yes okay well that sounds like a good idea okay if you wipe it away do do you feel clearer well I'm not feeling it right now but okay I'll do it now okay next time I don't believe you oh I will I still don't believe you oh I will you you sure as I know that's a beautiful timee I will do it okay well that's that's a good promise let's try something a little similar I'm going to Put my hand on top of your hand i'm GNA take this

microphone boy you people jump up us I need to hire new help that's what I learned here come to Tony ranar some I need to I need more responsib people I'm going to lift my hand up and I want you to lift your hand at the same rate okay okay because I want to teach you a little bit about altering your state on purpose so that because there's cool things you can do when you go into an Altered state one of the things you can do is time Distortion right and this happens naturally all the

time something starts to roll off of a table and you grab it without even thinking about it because instead of it looking like it's going off fast you slow time down you do it in a car or something move in the road and you slow down time for a few minutes and go around it time Distortion is a natural thing that people do you go to the airport and a minute takes an Hour when you're waiting in line that's the wrong kind of time Distortion now when I lift my hand up I want you to

just take sure your hand continues to touch mine that's right and we're just going to relax together that's right one more double blink that's right here we go that that's right little deeper now take a breath in through your mouth slowly let it out of your nose and just relax and let go of all that Tension and let your hand continue to go up and just stop right there now I'm going to put my hand on your shoulder this is called stress okay and that tight muscle is going to suddenly relax a minute my hand

relaxes there we go you can do this on purpose feelings aren't what happen to us feelings are the byproduct of what we do and if you soften your skin the muscle underneath it softens if you stiffen your arm like this and sleep Just relax and go down and relax even deeper and deeper still let it all go for a moment because I want a total refresh button in your head we all need little buttons in our head that remind us of things if we work really hard and we focus our attention really intensely and we

don't ever get a break then we'll start to fatigue but if you know how to relax if you know how to relax that's right just relax that get every little ounce of see that little knot there That's going to disappear now that's right and all I'm doing is putting my hand I finger on a knot in a muscle then I tighten the rest of my hand and when I relax my hand the knot goes away because the skin tells the muscles what to do and when you reach for a glass your arm extends out when

the hand touches the glass every muscle relaxes and you reverse the process see it's one of those cool things it's like when I worked with bof feedback one of the Things I did was to teach biof feedback people not to measure where people are but to measure where they were going and how fast they were getting there because when you get one of those biof feedback machines and you start to relax and you go I'm going to relax and then it goes and then you oh well and then goes and it tells you where you

are it doesn't tell you where you're going now if you take the same calculations and you measure the speed with which you're Going into Alpha so that you take actually the second mathematical derivation what happens is is people learn it really quickly because it's how the brain works when you reach for something it's slow at first and fast at the end when you take food into your mouth it's slow until you get near your mouth and it's quicker because the more you zero in on a Target your target here is to feel refreshed and when

you come out of the state in a few moments you're Going to for a few seconds you're going to push a little button in your mind we're going to put a little button in there that says on it refresh okay and when you have that button I want you to just nod yes so that I know okay now we're going to hook that up so that when I touch your hand the refresh button's going to go in so you could press it any time you want and the fog is going to clear your mind's going

to get Crystal Clear beyond belief You're going to come out of this relaxed State like a rocket ship with a sense of enthusiasm and excitement you're going to feel great and you're going to smile because if you don't smile it ain't worth it trust me you got to learn to smile especially at the crap because if you don't it will harm you your whole life you'll end up Wasing tens of thousands of hours about something that's really silly especially when you think about it I had I had a 60-year-old woman come into me right I'm

27 years old and she goes she goes I can't stop fighting with my mother and I said did you bring her and she goes my mother died 50 years ago and I said so you're talking to dead people CU I saw somebody do that yesterday and I know it can be done and she go of course not it's all in my head she goes I have the same arguments we had when I was a kid and I said and you do this to they pay you to do this and she went no I don't Get

paid to do it and I said well does it sound smart because if you're fogging up when you should be working then you need a moment where you go in and totally refresh yourself so I'm going to count to three and squeeze your wrist and when I do that button's going to go down you're going to smile your nervous system is going to light up you're going to feel clear crystal clear super refreshed and you're going to do it one two three Now thank you um this is I'm just kind of sampling through things that

I've done over the years and uh anyway I thought I'd have a few moments and see if you have any questions yes sir what if you know you should do it and you still talk yourself into not doing it like exercise what what if I'm sorry I'm confused I wake up at 5: in the morning All Det what what if I don't do it and I can't talk to are we talking about you or me me me me me oh okay okay oh so this is the intellectual we well the first thing to do is

start talking about yourself instead of me correct because I take insults personally and and I may be old but I'm still lethal I can see that it's evident oh okay I thought you were insulting me because I would never do that to me now I don't know why you Do but uh when you said when you say what if are you are you really asking me how to stop this how to stop this okay well why don't you sit down and talk to me for a minute or you could just stand there and equivocate go

ahead so long as you don't make me jump like a bunny rabbit out here oh that's tempting poke the hypnotist that's smart not that I'm trying to plant it in your brain but it's there now what am I going To do about it uh so let me ask you you have to hold that up to your mouth when you talk sure but okay you're not talking now but when you talk you have to do that okay okay so let me let me get this clear there are stuff that you know that you want to do

but you talk yourself out of it correct okay and how there's a different reason then I don't talk much if I have to catch a plane it will be caught and if I have to run for it run for it okay but if I have to run On a boring treadmill ain't happening Oh you mean how to get yourself to do stuff that's good for you but you you don't you don't want you know it's not fun Tony was talking about that maintenance stuff right because I go to the gym and pick up that's way

too heavy and put it down and then pick it up again it seems really pointless to me but I like the effect right see if you think short term And you go do I want to go to the gym really the answer is no you know and you know that you know do I want to pick this up no do I want to run on the treadmill no but the question is do you want to live a long time and be healthy sure right if you ask the wrong question you get the wrong answer right

now if you picture how old are you now 59 59 okay so do you you know do you want to be old and feeble negative like at 62 negative Negative okay so you have to make a plan okay and that plan has to include some maintenance and it has to include some rewards and you have to see yourself as being a different person you are you're the one that doesn't go to the gym now the gym I go to uh you know they sell uh 100 gym memberships and probably three of us show up right

they make a lot of money but nobody ever is there it's always empty and you know part of the reason I go is because I don't want to Disappoint my trainer and you know I set up a schedule but part of what gets me to do it is because my wife said to me one day you need exercise and part of it was she got me to be able to walk again because I had a stroke and they they told they literally told me I'd never walk again they said you know they brought me MRIs

to prove it to me just so that I wouldn't try and they showed me pictures and they brought in a wheelchair and told me it was going to Be my new best friend and I looked at them and I said there's nobody in that chair and they said you're going to spend your life in a chair like this and I said oh yeah and I swung my legs around and stood up I have to admit I was mostly leaning against the bed but I just didn't like the idea of being helpless now do you like

the idea of being help us and not things do you want your lungs to get clawed do you want all those bad things to happen or do you Have a vision of yourself being healthier than you are now I do you do okay what is it far off in the distance or it's far away Out Of Reach how far maybe somewhere towards the end of the room but not the so you have a plan but it's like somewhere across the room yeah it's way outside of reach okay and so you see yourself being healthy at

sometime in the far distant future are there any steps between that Picture and you now right now I don't see a the answer is no no okay I can see the pictures and there's none in between okay if you're not connected to your own desires right I mean if you're going to cook a meal right do you go into the refrigerator and go there's no chicken how can I cook chicken or do you plan ahead of time and get the correct ingredients plan ahead of time or go somewhere where there's chicken okay Right okay so

that's called planning right this is a desire without planning when you have a desire without planning then it's hard to to to go for it see if you look at that picture off in the distance to begin with let's pull it a little closer let's pull it so that it's just beyond my hand okay okay and then I want you to think being the guy you are now the weight you are now the healthiest that you are now from you to get from here to there how much do you Have to do and where would

you start i' start now and well you can't start now you're sitting in a chair next to me you have you have to think when I go home do you have a treadmill at home yeah okay do you hang clothes on it or run on it no I'll use it once a month at best one once a month okay but how often do you think you would need to use it for it for you to get to that picture by the way when you look at that picture do you Desire it oh yeah it's yumy

when you when you look at it does it make you want to wet your lips and you're going to go I'm G to this is going to be me this is going to be me in six months this is going to be me in less than a year this is going to be me soon did your brain do that yes okay and when you look at it do you okay is it life-size now it is a little bigger than life okay well that's good bigger than life is Great okay and when when you think how

many days a week are you going to use it every day every single day maybe twice a day pardon maybe twice a day I I don't know I have a it depends how long are you going to run on more than one step no I'll do until I sweat what until sweat comes out and I don't feel like yes I've done it pardon I have to feel like I've given my bit to it and I feel good okay so uh is there anything that stops you from going Home and doing this nothing nothing this guy

okay well except you but what would make it so that you that every time you looked at it you felt like you wanted to do it you said it's in your house right the only thing that would make you do it is Desiring to become the guy in that picture right because there are terrible things that happen you know you're you're going to be healthier you know you're going to Be a better lover you're going to have more sex all kinds of things are going to happen if you start doing this you know I mean

I don't want to put any pressure on you right now but uh you have to look at this and want it desire is what makes things possible Tony lost everything talked about he was living in half a house for Christ's sake you know and it was molding up and you know and he had to have the desire that brought him so that we're sitting in This gigantic tent in his backyard you know and you know in order to do that you have to be propelled you know is there anything that to you is irresistible many

things I want to achieve they irresist I do them you're answering you're I'm sorry you're answering the wrong question look at me look at me I'm over here okay has there ever been any anything in your life that nothing in the world would stop you from doing yeah okay okay when you think About that are you proud of it very okay that has to be the same thing you do you have to put this picture where that one was because at some time in your life you hadn't done this but when you set your mind

to it you absolutely did it oh yeah so we need to bring this picture around so it's in the same place so that you go no matter what happens happens you can close your eyes now I'll take this and just go inside and desire it and put it in the same place in your Mind make it life-size and make it so when you look at it you wet your lips and you go I'm going to just do this I'm going to do it every day and sometimes twice a day and if I miss a day

I'll make up for the day but I'm going to do it until I become the guy in that picture and then I'm going to keep doing it so I stay that guy I'm going to become healthier and I'm not going to let anything get in my way now take a deep breath in and I'm going to touch You on the hand gently I want your unconscious to answer me because you've got to get lined up with your unconscious mind see your conscious mind knows better than this it's telling you better than this but old things

in the past are in the way so I'm going to touch this finger like that and I want your unconscious to just slow slowly raise that finger to answer me yes that's right let your hand go I want an unconscious signal from your other mind That's right this finger lifted up with honest unconscious movement now that's conscious movement honest unconscious movement let your unconscious do it that's the stuff there we go and I'm going to ask your unconscious if it knows exactly what adjustments to make so that you will become Relentless about this you've been

Relentless about other things and accomplish them this shouldn't be different this is the time in life because believe me I had a time In life where I either would be dead by now or I would have changed my lifestyle so that I could learn to walk and learn to stand and learn to move and learn to do all those things the doctor said I couldn't and it required tenacity your unconscious is tenacious your heart will beat eight billion times in a lifetime you will Breathe In and Out millions and millions and millions and millions of

times your neurology it balances your blood pressure it does all of these Things it regenerates cells it does all this marvelous stuff it even has the ability to speak language that slows you down and so what we want to do is to get a commitment from your unconscious that it will make the adjustments so that you line up everything so that when you look at that treadmill you become tenacious that when you think about the foods that you eat you become tenacious to have a healthier Life to Live years and years with a big smile

on your face and a Sense of Pride because the only thing in the way of that is you're unconscious and you doing the same thing so I want your unconscious to answer me yes that it's willing to line up everything to make sure this happens a full response that's right there we go now I want your unconscious to put a big shiny picture in your head right and when you see that picture I want you to feel the desire to get some exercise it's the Desire and if any voice comes up it's going to sound

stupid to you you know what stupid sounds like stupid sounds like telling yourself that you're too busy to have a great life I'm too busy to be happy I'm too busy to kiss my wife I'm too busy to do all the things that make life worth living right and you know if you ask somebody do you want to shorten your life by 20 years they never say yes but yet they do the things that will lead them in that Direction the only reason I go to the gym is to be healthier right you don't you

know it's not necessarily fun but there's a lot of things in life you do that are not necessarily fun we pay taxes that's not fun but we do it because it beats going to jail there's a worse outcome right we don't want to end up in prison right I mean you know they they're putting people in prison for just about everything nowadays right you know they they make up and put you In prison so but why would you want to imprison yourself in your body in a few years because you don't care enough about yourself

your unconscious does so put up a bright picture that's irresistable and [Music] say oo I'm going to feel so wonderful because I'll have a sense of Pride now if you look at yourself in the picture Being more fit and you see yourself being proud at yourself I want you to just want to be that guy so much you can't stand it I want you to be that guy so much it hurts so you'll do anything to get it that's what makes all of this work now I'm going to touch you on the wrist that picture

is going to firmly lock in your mind your unconscious is going to keep its agreement with me you're going to come out with an overwhelming sense of Commitment because sometimes we have to make deals with oursel there are a lot of stuff we have to do that we don't want to do and some of it takes time and when it takes time the more you do it the better you feel the first step on the treadmill is the hardest everyone after that becomes easier because if you stop you'll fall off but you got to get

on every day so one two three wake up eyes open now let me ask you this how do you pronounce Your first name I'm sorry pit pit pit pit okay pit the N I know just because I see it doesn't necessarily mean I know how to pronounce it trust me trust me I've been a lot of places and really mispronounced a lot of names over the years so I try to be careful about that I don't I don't like to call people the wrong name you know their unconscious gets mad at me it doesn't work

out well okay when you think about getting on the treadmill now Do you think you're going to do it I'm much more positive but not determined yet adamant not determin yet okay that's the feeling I'm getting right now okay what would it take better than what would it what would it take to be determined I don't know if it's a carrot or a stick but either of them well you got both you don't you don't get on the treadmill you you know five years from now you'll be a lot less healthy than You are now

get on the treadmill you'll be healthier seems rather black and white okay and that's not enough carrot and stick with you because I I could make it so that if you don't do it I come back next year and beat the crap out of you I'd love it be H more than happy to I'm good at it it's one of the things I learned in my childhood I'm extremely good at you know but that seems ridiculous to me it seems to me that you should want it so Much that the idea of not doing it

seems as stupid as it really is right whether you do it three times a week or five times a week or seven days a week doesn't matter what matters is that you do it and that the more you do it the more you feel how good it makes you feel right the first few times are always the worst trust me when I first started going to the gym when I first started walking oh man I can't tell you How much that hurt right when I first started exercising and using muscles I'd never use oh that

I'd wake up in the middle of the night and I just going to pee was like an act of God you know it was you know my legs killed me but sometimes you know that in the long run because you're not thinking about now you're thinking about down the road were you married yeah okay did you think that it was all going to be fun in games getting Married in ch yeah BD yeah I thought it'll be fun in games okay okay you you didn't think there would be any struggles at all they didn't come

to my mind at that time at that time okay right so you didn't think it through real clearly true right but was it worth it totally surely okay sometimes you have to do things that are harder than you think they're going to be but in the long run it pays Off this is one of those things and it doesn't matter to me whether you do it or not but if you don't let yourself look at it and if you don't look at that picture of that guy and feel desire you're never going to do it

you have to want to be him more than you want to be him is that true true well that's the carrot you know and if you want to do it then do it if you don't don't just that simple I'm sorry I'm just screwing with you now just because I can Okay so let let me ask you this when what's the most determined thing you've ever been situ that that had no exit I had to get out of a situation which seemingly did not have an exit and I had to just push through and find

my way right okay now when you did that okay you felt determination in your body correct yeah okay okay can you see what it is you had to get out Of it was a financial situation well it's a financial situation but when you were thinking about the memory right now what did you see in your mind you looked a little more ferocious than when you looked at that threadmill yes true okay so I was just asking because I wanted you to get back that feeling of for ious nness which way did it spin in your

body it didn't spin I I I had to go get you're answering a more complicated question than I'm asking okay when you Looked at the picture and you remembered being determin did it spin tumble forward rotate back in your body did it go clockwise counterclockwise it was coming this way I had to go this way it was it was coming in like this and I had to evade and go forward okay so it spins way when you're doing the right thing uh yeah when I'm doing the right thing it goes okay that's tumbling forward correct

okay yeah now when you think about getting on the treadmill do your Feelings tumble forward I go this way okay that's the wrong way that's the wrong way okay so you need to think about the treadmill right and and do it the wrong way right slow it down close your eyes slow it down and let it spin in the wrong direction and then slow it down and slow it down until it stops and then start spinning it in the other direction and then make bigger circles and bigger circles and bigger circles Till you start to

feel determination this is how you control your feelings with your inmic nervous system does that feel more right oh much much more right okay good thank you very much [Applause] yes I appreciate this like a master class in watching hypnotherapy and and helping people so much it's um magic to watch is it easy to teach us how to get people into trans into into Hypnosis and who's us oh everybody yeah well it's I can I can teach you how to go into a trance uh to put I've been hypnotist for 54 years and to me

you have to know what it looks like to get somebody there I did this by using machines I had brainwave machines and would trance people down because there is an infinite number of transes yeah some are more useful for some things than others uh a lot of hypnotists you know try to stay out of Trance I try to take people into trance because I I I think we all resonate and and and as much as I can resonate you know like when you're taught around a campfire and one person starts yawning everybody starts yawning we

have a connection with each other yeah see I I know this as a physicist because of my favorite experiment uh my favorite experiment is they took a yogurt culture and they took the yogurt culture and they measured its electrical current and They fed it milk which is what yogurt eats and it went wild then they divided it in half and they fed half of it and the other half went wild and then they put it further and further and further apart and when they fed this part this part would respond then they put things in

between they put lead shielding and electromagnetic fields and it didn't seem to matter they ended up at Stanford having it at opposite ends of the linear accelerator and still yogurt knew when The other yogurt was eating because in so far as we're similar we share energy that's that's things when when you make a photon of light you always get two and they go in opposite directions and if the electrical field and the magnetic field are going like that's what laser light looks like it's where it's perfectly lined when you turn a laser light like this

because it goes through bior refringent material this one over here turns too and which ultimately Means we'll have faster than light communication but to me what it means is if I can control my state it's easier to control yours yeah so when you say can I teach you how to put somebody in a trance I can show you how to relax and I intend to do that and few minutes uh so if you if you're in a hurry we could do it now sounds correct all right want you sit down put your feet on the

floor put your hands on your thighs like this and Rub it back and forth in opposite directions so one forward one back one forward one back okay and then all of the sudden pull them both back and push them both together take a deep breath in through your mouth hold it for a second slowly let it out through your nose close your eyes and go inside and relax and relax your shoulders relax your chest relax your arms relax your hand and then I want you to think to yourself I'm going to lift One of my

hands as slowly as humanly possible that means almost one neuron at a time so that when you lift that hand up it will allow your unconscious to come forward and your conscious mind mind to just step back there's a lot of conscious stuff going on in what I've been talking about so far but your unconscious has been breathing keeping your heartbeating controlling your blood pressure creating enzymes and doing millions and billions and billions of Things without your knowing about it and so if you just relax and when I talked about yawning earlier the more I

yawn the more you'll feel relaxed and the more you can and let go inside for a moment and think about one past Pleasant memory from a long time ago something you haven't thought about in years something with a smile attached to it I know psychologists like you to go back to past painful memories but I prefer you just find something wonderful Something that was really pleasurable and make the picture big and bright and keep relaxing and drifting down inside your s because what you're doing now is the very same thing you did years and years

ago when you first went to school he went to school and looked at a new task okay they had letters and numbers above the alphabet above the Blackboard and there was a big a and a little a and you didn't realize it at a time but all of those letters would become the Foundation of reading potentially an infinite number of books about an infinite number of things mustard jars movie titles name tags you didn't realize it then because you were building a foundation now if you go in your body and find at this moment What's

the most relaxed I don't want you to do that by finding out what's tense check your legs check your feet check the back of your ankle your stomach your left shoulder Your right shoulder your left ear your cheek your forehead and find out what feels the most relaxed and minute you find it start to Circle it with your conscious mind take your conscious mind and take that relaxing spot and just draw a circle and as you draw that Circle round and round and round make it a little bigger and a little bigger till it starts

to spread across your entire body because what you're doing now is focusing on what Feels relaxed and what feels good this allows your unconscious which has been listening to me the whole time I've been here I know more about talking to unconscious minds than conscious ones because I studied language that way and I have hypnotized hundreds of thousands of people in various states to do various things first class athletes children people with personal problems schizophrenics it didn't matter it's all The same the brain understands language unconsciously we think we're conscious when we listen to language

but it all goes in unconsciously and we understand some of it and not other parts of it so right now as you relax just say to yourself inside your mind let go and literally focus on the tip of your forehead and circle your face C counterclockwise with your mind Circle down to the ear down to the chin up to the other ear to the forehead and keep Circling it while you relax and drift down because I'm going to talk to you about a client I had many years ago I had a client that came to

me from a very famous hypnotic Institute where they study scientifically hypnosis at Stanford she was sent to me as an example of somebody who could not be hypnotized which basically meant she was inside her head and couldn't shut up and I asked her if she could talk to herself inside her head but to do so in a softer Lower tone to slow down the voice to put yawns in the voice and just relax with her own internal dialogue as she began to do that she began to yawn outside and she began to drift down and

I noticed that her face softened that her skin softened her breathing shallow and as she did she began to relax and in my office she fell asleep not into a deep trance but asleep I woke her back up because I was supposed to teach her hypnosis and she Told me that she had been an insomniac for years and I said well if you're an insomniac that just means you have trouble going to sleep but apparently you didn't go to sleep with having trouble because you were relaxing your thoughts see if we have pictures moving too

fast we need to slow them down if the voice inside your head is talking too quickly we need to slow it down we need to lower the tone of that voice and relax and then go back to that past Pleasant memory and smile when you look at it a big eaten smile show some teeth relax and realize you're capable of great pleasure we're also capable of disappointment we're capable of all kinds of things but the question is what are you going to do on purpose my talk here is all been about thinking on purpose I

wrote a book with my wife and another author Owen Fitzpatrick about this a long time ago I wanted to make a 15 play plan to get smarter and I wanted People to be able to think on purpose because if you change the way you think it changes how you feel and therefore changes what you're actually capable of doing Tony talked about changing beliefs and if you think right now I know all of you believe the sun is coming up tomorrow especially because we're in Florida and when the sun comes up you have plans you're going

to do things tomorrow apparently Tony has made plans for you to go Someplace now your belief even though you don't answer out loud if I go is the sun coming up tomorrow you know the answer for sure there's a big picture in your mind there's a voice and a feeling that goes with it you need to be able to master doing that on purpose with other things now the thing that you most want and need for yourself in your own person personal Evolution pull down a picture of it right over the sun say the same

thing so it feels as inevitable and spin Your feelings in exactly the same direction and build a new stronger belief in yourself your ability to believe in yourself and to do the things that you want and the things that you need is all based on whether you're going to do it now or later and later is too long it's better you do it now because the sooner you build big beliefs the sooner you get on and do the things you need to do it's just that simple now this is the point At which you really

need to go and start maybe drifting down a little deeper if you feel an involuntary jerk sometimes that happens that's not a bad thing that just means that you're relaxing in ways you're not used to you need to soften your arms and soften your leg muscles soften your thoughts and your internal dialogue and just drift for a moment on the idea that right now you're controlling your neurology you're listening to my voice But it's not my voice doing it it's your ability to follow instructions and this is a good chance to line up your unconscious

and your conscious thoughts so that they desire and go after the same things so that rather than letting the past haunt you you shrink it down to a little dot blink it black and white so you get out of bad habits of thought and when you worry too much you take that voice and turn it into bug's bunny or Sylvester the cat Suffering thuck attach I'll never amount to nothing so that you don't take it seriously the best tool and defense you have against all the of life is your sense of humor they always say

you're going to look back and laugh my policy is do it now take a deep breath and just giggle a little bit you can do better than that that's the stuff think of the stuff that holds you back and giggle think of the stuff you want and wet your Lips think of the stuff that holds you back and giggle it's stupid and then think of the stuff you want and let wet your lips and tell yourself we can do this easy we can do it slow but we're going to do it quickly because it's a

lot more fun that way and wiggle your toes and smile all the way up your legs take a deep breath and open your eyes and come back to Tony's tent uh well I like like to thank you all I really have nothing else to say at This point other than thank you it's been fun I want to thank Tony for having me here it was a it was a pleasure Tony keep up the good work let's give it up for Richard [Music] [Music] [Music]