Welcome to Brain Software Podcast, Episode #146 coming directly to you, directly from us, in the Hypnotic World Epicenter, Toronto Canada!
Today we discuss how cold reading can make you seem like a psychic, so stay tuned…
Calling all would-be psychics…It’s our Magical Mystery Tour with Dave Ambrose…
But let’s not waste time…Here’s the real question:
Whatever happened to that old tranquility we used to know?
THESE ARE DAYS OF SPECTACULAR AND REALLY WELL THOUGHT-OUT AWESOME VICTORY, SCRO!!!
So let’s welcome a man with a pulled muscle under his scapula…
Mike Mandel!!!
IMPORTANT! The Architecture of Hypnosis training and the Bob Burns event for April are POSTPONED due to COVID-19! We recorded this episode before the global epidemic was widely understood, so all mentions of these courses have not been edited out.
THINK TANK WORDS: ABHOR | COMMAND | CUCUMBER
Discussion Points:
- Anyone can use cold reading! Mike used to work at Debbie’s tea room…
- The key is to be encouraging! We help people…
- The graphology is so astounding it makes you seem psychic!
- Calibrate and look for shifts that show you that you just had a “hit”
- Mentalism effects open the door to a cold reading…
- Barnum Statements will be believed by about 80% of people…
- The Classic Reading produces the Barnum Effect…
- You have a strong need for other people to like and admire you!
- We pattern match to vaguely flattering or positive statements…
- Mike used his psychic powers to reveal that Chris had asthma at age 4!
- Feed the info you get back later – Time misdirection!
- You feel critical of yourself at times…
- You have a lot of unused capacity that you’ve never applied…
- While you have some personality weaknesses, you’ve generally learned to compensate for them…
- Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you!
- Disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be insecure on the inside…
- At times you have serious doubts as to whether you’ve made the right decision in life, or done the right thing…
- It’s not going to be easy, but if you apply yourself, this can work out well…
- When people attempt to control you and hem you in it will drive you nuts…
- You need logical proof, because you’re an independent thinker…
- You’ve revealed yourself too much to other people and regretted it later…
- You’re an extroverted and friendly person, but you need to withdraw…
- Some of your goals may be a little unrealistic…
- You’ll only remember the stuff that hits! A psychic told Aunt Betty the names of all her children!
- Feed back what they give you; just do it later on in different words…
- The Forer Effect – The content is important – All negative or all positive doesn’t work. Mix a little negative with strong positive. Trust makes it real…
- Confidence and Congruence will make a reading acceptable!
- Ian Rowland uses props and theatrics! It makes it much stronger…Astrology, palm reading, cards, etc.
- Mike used psychometry and held the subject’s ring or watch to get time to think…
- Study your props and their vernacular to have the right words…
- Mentalists have to be correct! A cold reader, not so much…
- Nail one powerful fact or moment and they’ll believe it all…
- Do you have a scar on your left knee? Women tend to know…
- I’m getting the impression that the letter J is significant to you? A relative? A powerful influence, perhaps?
- James comes up more often than John…
- The story changes in the telling…
- Ian Rowland is awesome at this. Here’s his website where you can order his books! The code is Mandel10 for 10% discount!
- If you have Mike’s graphology training, you have a real advantage! You can check it out here.
- Recapitulation Effect: A layperson will not be able to accurately remember what you said…
Commercial Break: The Shyzzjigg Corporation
- Can you use a cucumber to do a psychic reading?
- We are not witches! And we have no connexion with St Michael’s College, University of Toronto! None at all…
- Ian Rowland treats the reading like a journey, and it always ends on a positive…
- Career, Health, Relationships, Money – All are classic themes you can use!
- Buy all of Ian Rowland’s books and tell him we sent you!
- You can reframe errors as partial success! It might be a future event…
- Leave the subject in a good state; not rubbing their eyes and crying in an airport…
- You can cause a therapeutic effect that can nudge the person forward!
- Mike used to say: Be very careful about signing anything…
Empowering Questions: What things can I feed into a conversation so that I can make it sound like I know more than I do…and how amazed will that stranger be…when I tell her about the scar on her left knee?
The Metafive: Bruce Gibbon is Alive!
Ending: The Little White Alice
The Classic Reading
- You have a strong need for other people to admire you and to like you.
- You have a tendency to be critical of yourself.
- You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. (You are capable of so much more!)
- While you do have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them.
- Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you.
- Disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside.
- At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.
- You prefer a certain amount of change and variety, and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.
- You pride yourself on being an independent thinker and do not accept others opinions without satisfactory proof.
- You have found it unwise to reveal too much of yourself to others.
- At times you are extroverted, friendly and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary and reserved.
- Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic.
Ending: Please leave a rating in iTunes, and send us your questions for future episodes! You can either email them as text or record them using your phone’s voice recorder and email us the audio file! Email address is info(at)mikemandelhypnosis.com
Important Links and Reminders:
IMPORTANT! The Architecture of Hypnosis training and the Bob Burns event for April are POSTPONED due to COVID-19!
Free video course on conversational hypnosis, also contains free companion mobile app.
See all of our upcoming live events here.