August 15, 2024 • 28 mins
If you hear the term “hypnotherapy”, you might think it’s a guy swinging a watch back and forth and making you bark like a dog… but Glenn Rottmann is here to share the facts on hypnotherapy, as one of the world’s most recognized hypnotherapists.
Glenn has some tips to help Jana’s travel anxiety, and we find out how to find the positive intention in every negative thought!
Plus, hear some easy changes you can make to help reduce your stress and anxiety!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wind Down with Janet Kramer and I'm Heeart Radio podcast.
This week's Therapy Thursday, We've got Glenn Rotman. He is
one of the world's most recognized hypnotherapists whose transformative work
has captivated and helped celebrities, Grammy Award winning artists, and
social media stars to achieve profound personal transformations. And he
also has a new subscription for everyone to be able
(00:24):
to get. It's called the hypno Vault. So let's get
him on and see how he can help you with
possibly hypnotherapy sessions on his app. I'm really excited to
talk to you because we have had We've had a
hypnotherapist on the show before. It was a while ago,
and it was one of those things where like it's
(00:45):
not that I don't believe in it, because you know,
I've tried a few of them or a few times,
and for me, I think where it didn't quote unquote
work was because I don't think I've continued to follow
up on it. It's almost like I wanted like that
quick fix, you know, I'm like, oh, it didn't work,
and so what is like the science behind Like can
(01:06):
we just like get right into it, Like what is
the science behind hypnotherapy and how many sessions do you
have to do? And like we know with obviously you
have your hypnovault that I want to talk about. But yeah,
because there's just there's so many people to listen to
the show. You know that you know personally, I also
have anxiety, the stress, I mean, just like everybody else
in the world. So let's start with that and then
let's go into it.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Sure sounds great, So it depends on a couple of things. Right.
As a hypnotherapist, and I've done a lot of entertainment
hypnosis as well, So my approach is to always go
for the what I call the hypnomiracle, is the quick
that's what I want. Does that happen every single time?
(01:48):
Of course not. Not everybody is what we would call
a high responder to where in that moment I can
suggest away the problem or the anxiety or the fear
or the emotion that you don't want to feel anymore.
For somebody that's really highly responsive, yes, we can get
that immediately. For those that don't respond in that way,
(02:11):
it becomes more of a guided meditation, and then we
use repetition to make that change take place and so
I think it's important to kind of understand the difference
between kind of what I do on my Instagram when
I'm doing entertainment hypnosis or more more for fun or
for showy, versus really doing hypnotherapy with clients, If that
(02:36):
kind of makes sense. There is a little bit of
a difference, you know, so for you, depending what the
issue was that you were working on, and depending on
your connection with the person you're working with. And also
there's reasons sometimes not everybody is in a place where
they're ready to let go of the issue just yet.
It just depends on a few of those factors, you know.
(02:57):
So seeing people when I say sleep and they drop
and it looks very dramatic, Yes it is real, But
that doesn't work the same way on every single person.
Even in a stage show environment like you go to
a fair or a college and there might be twenty
chairs on stage. Well, ultimately we're gonna pull maybe four
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or three people off because they were distracted or they
weren't highly responsive in that moment. So there is a
little more at play than just everybody responding the same way.
Does that help explain it a little better?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It does? But so is that really I mean from
the stuff on Instagram, and that's actually real. Someone's like
dance like a chicken, or you know what I mean,
or be a chick, Like that's actually real, because I've
always wondered like, okay, come on, like that can't be real.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So here's the deal with that. When some people go
into a meditative state, they become highly suggestible. So let's
say you're doing a yoga class and at the end
of yoga class, you know, you're lying in a chiva suppose,
and you're just kind of relaxing, and you're going into
that kind of transke state. Some people become really suggestible.
(04:19):
So on a yoga floor, if I were to walk
by you and touch you on the shoulder and say, God,
you're feeling really cold, you're feeling really cold, your body's shivering,
you'll take that suggestion in and you'll believe you're feeling
cold and start to shiver if you are in that
kind of transx state. And that's really how to debunk it.
It's just we become not everyone, but we can become
(04:43):
very hyper suggestible in a meditative state. So when I
tell them things like you know, when you open your eyes,
you're going to see your favorite celebrity and they look
at me and they think I'm somebody else. In that moment,
they really believe it. It's their their imagination takes oh
and I'll say, like, do you love my long flowing hair? Like,
(05:03):
oh my gosh, your hair is beautiful, and it's the
most ridiculous thing. And I understand. I completely appreciate that.
You think, come on, that can't be real. But I've
had people, when I was doing entertainment hypnosis, be on
stage for ninety minutes have complete amnesia of what they did.
(05:23):
I mean, I'll give you a great example. People can
look at. There is a good mythical morning. I hypnotized
link to like tomatoes, and we did a whole hypnotherapy
session with him. I had him doing silly and fun
things and when I said okay, one, two, three, four, five,
eyes open waterwake, He's like, right, what are we getting started?
(05:45):
I'm like, we're done. He's like, what do you mean
We're done? He had complete amnesia of our whole time together.
You can see it. So it's it is. It's an
interesting phenomenon, and I get it that it's okay if
you're skeptical about it if you think, no, that's fake,
it really isn't. Now, could it be if you're doing
(06:06):
a stage show and some people are faking just for attention.
Of course, of course that could be, because you know,
people like to get attention, they like the spotlight.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Sometimes it's good to get laughs, you know, it's it
feels good when people laugh, exactly, So.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That can happen. But when I've known a few times
when that happens, because I can tell in their response
is that that's not a legitimate response, and we still
go with it. Man. I don't do the stage hypnosis
like I used to do in colleges and those things.
It's really more about working with people one on one.
(06:44):
I still use that entertainment hypnosis in my seminars just
to one, it's it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is entertaining, for sure, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And two it kind of makes people wonder, well, well,
if I can make them forget their name, or if
I can make them be stuck to a share, well,
maybe I can help them get rid of that anxiety too,
or maybe I can help them fly on a plane
again because they're holding a fear. And that's kind of
why I use that to get people to wonder, you know,
(07:17):
it's it's fun.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
There's a piece of that too, where there's you know,
I have a lot of fears, like you just mentioned
anxiety and flying, you know, fear flying, Like I have
all those just like yep, check the box, check the box.
But you know when you do also the entertainment side,
it's like there is fun and people miss out on
having fun sometimes, Like there's so many Like I just
(07:52):
recently was, you know, went on a honeymoon with my
husband and we just got married, and I had I
just had I was filled with like this. I have
like this medical anxiety where I'm like I'm gonna get sick,
something's gonna happen, I'm have to go to the hospital.
And then we're you know, in a different country and
there's I can't just go to the er, and so
I just I just spiral into like having an anxiety
(08:13):
about a medical anxiety that I can I'm going to
just die and it's I don't I don't even know
like what I've tried to, like been working this sound therapy,
like trying to figure it out, but you know, it's
it started to just kind of take over the amazing
moments of my honeymoon. I'm like, why am I letting
this steal like part of my trip? This is that
(08:35):
all these thoughts and fears of like what ifs this
is going to happen? Or like, oh god, I can't
be too far away from the hotel because if I
have an anxiety attack, then I'm gonna have to feel
so embarrassed and then have the boat guy bring me
to a hospital. Like I'm like stop, Like my mind
just wouldn't stop thinking about it, and I'm like, why
can't I just rest and joy? And so I love
that you know you also like you found a way
to like there is joy with people, but then also
(08:57):
you know, have a place that you can help people
too with everything else.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yes, yeah, it's it is. It's combining both and making
it a really special experience just out of curiosity. On
your hand, is your ring finger bigger than your first finger?
Or is your first finger a little bit bigger than
your ring finger?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Is my am I left or right?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Like either one?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Is my ring finger bigger than my first finger?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah? So like if look at my hand, I'm love
you can see it real clear, but you'll see how
my ring finger is a little bit bigger than my
first finger on your hands, is it the same or
is your first finger a little bit bigger.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
My first finger is a little bit bigger.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's what I thought and the reason I asked you
that question. For people that are prone to having a
little more anxiety and a little more panic, they have
a first finger that is just a little bit longer
than the ring finger, Meaning you are own to blood
sugar sensitivity, and that is one reason you are experiencing
(10:06):
that adrenaline and that corusol which is feeding those thoughts
when you're in those moments. So yeah, it is it. Really,
it's something I can. I can share a few things
with you that I could help you moving.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, please, let's go give me some more test. Okay,
tell me more, because I feel like other people right
now are listening or checking their hands, so if they're
also in the same situation.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Now, is that true in every single case? Of course,
not sure. But as a general rule, I've noticed that
people that are highly anxious or have a struggle with
anxiety and panic, their first finger is a little bit longer.
It's due to something that happens in the womb and
your development and what happens is this. If you go
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long periods of time without eating, your blood sugar will drop.
Your body will fire off adrenaline to raise your blood shirt.
When that happens, your heart starts racing, you get sweaty.
That is an anxiety attack, a panic attack in your mind,
because your thoughts just start to race and not feel safe.
(11:12):
The same thing is true. Let's say when you finally
do eat, if you eat a very starchy meal high
in sugars or things that turn in the sugar, your
blood sugar will raise. Your body makes insulin to lower
your blood sugar. Well, if you're not blood sugar sensitive,
it returns to normal, but for those that are blood
sugar sensitive it drops. And then here comes our friend, adrenaline.
(11:36):
The body hates adrenaline unless you're exercising. It does not
like it. So what has to happen is this one.
Make that connection for anybody listening. Make that connection. If
you are feeling particularly panicky one day more so than
the next, well, when's the last time you eat? What
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did you eat, kind of what did you eat the
night before? And make the connection between your blood sugar
and the amount of anxiousness you're feeling. And now what
happens when we travel. When we travel, generally we're in
a rush. Generally we're not eating our solid meals, might
be grabbing something that's junk food on the way to
(12:17):
the airport. In the airport, there's a lot of stress well,
our bodies creating stress hormones. We finally sit down on
the plane to relax and the body has to process
all those stress hormones and there you go. That's another
panic attack. And it start to become anticipatory anxiety because
now your subconscious mind, you know, it always has one job.
(12:39):
The subconscious mind does one job, and one job only.
It's to protect us. But it will try to protect
us in a way where if you are, like I
feel panic on an airplane, well maybe that first time
that you got kind of air sick or felt panic,
you were a low blood sugar state. The mind goes, well,
(13:02):
we don't like flying, so I'm going to give you
more anxiety to keep you off that plane so you
don't have to feel that feeling. And it's kind of
crazy making because it's trying to help you, but it's
hurting you more in the way that it's trying to
help you until we ship that pattern.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Okay, So how do we and that's what we do
with hypnosis, right.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Correct, that is exactly what we do with hypnotherapy.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Okay, then how do we do it? What do we do?
How do we do it?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Sure? Well? Two things. One, I mean I did a
consultation with this. I work with clients all over the world,
right and this is going to sound unbelievable, but I
promise you this is true. She was on the phone
and she had a cigarette in her hand, and she
was kind of shaking. She's like, my whole life is
panic and anxiety because every day I just feel panic.
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I'm like okay, and I'm like, all right, what time
is it where you are? And it was about two
thirty in the afternoon, and I said, what have you
eaten today? And she goes, well, I have any today?
So what have you had today? She said, I've had
four cups of coffee and a pack of cigarettes. And
I'm saying, all right, so you ate around eight o'clock
(14:09):
last night, You've gone what sixteen hours without eating, You've
had nothing but cigarettes and coffee, and you're asking me
why you feel panicked? And now that's an extreme example right.
But of course, if we take that back though, some
people will go long periods of time without eating. For
those that are listening that wake up in their sleep.
(14:32):
Some people wake up in their sleep kind of either
they feel like they're falling in a dream or they'll
just kind of wake up kind of sweaty and panicky.
Well that was an dress that was you have that?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's an andretde.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That is an adrenaline spike that you are having in
your sleep. So for you, we have to clean up
your blood sugar. So do you go long periods of
time without eating? Yeah, so number one, we have to change.
That doesn't mean we have to put on weight, because
obviously you're very conscious about taking care of yourself, but
(15:09):
we have to kind of change our diet into having
maybe smaller meals more often to stabilize your blood sugar.
For some people, they cannot intermittent fast because intermittent fasting
they get a blood sugar drop and they go into panic.
For those that aren't blood sugar sensitive, you know, intermedt
(15:29):
and fast and could be a great way to keep
off weight. But if your blood sugar sensitive, it can
be a mental sentence of just of panic and anxiety.
So first we got to clean up your diet. We
can't go along periods of time without eating. Okay, we
need lean proteins, we need foods that don't spike your
(15:50):
blood sugar. And this is actually I'm really glad we're
talking about this. I love going right into this topic
because most it irritates me that most physicians won't talk
about this with their clients, especially in the psychiatry world. Now,
of course they're needed and they're important. However, before you medicate,
(16:14):
let's look at the Let's look at the diet. Let's
look at the connection of bloodshirt, a long periods of
time without eating, and then when we do eat, eating
the wrong foods. So one is stabilizing your blood sugar,
and then two is a couple things. One we don't
always have to go back to the first time you
had this experience. You know, there's a belief in therapy
(16:36):
and even in hypnotherapy, you have to get to the
root cause the very first time that is true. So
what we do is a couple different approaches. One, we
literally bring up that emotion and in that state of
imagination when we're in hypnosis, when we're in that meditative state.
(16:56):
What I'm going to say now sounds so simple, but
in the meditative state it's really profound. We bring up
that emotion that you feel and we literally connect with
our subconscious mind and connect how is my mind using
what's the positive intention behind that fear? How is it
(17:17):
trying to serve me? And sometimes we ready know the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So that's where I'm like, I'm trying to think right
now because I'm like, all right, because I know the
negatives of all my thoughts, like why why I was
so scared of like the medical anxiety or you know,
because I'm like, oh, I don't want to be embarrassed,
I'll look weak, you know, it's I'll ruin our trip
and it's going to be all my fault, and like, yeah,
so those are those are like all the things that
we're underlying it probably why So yeah, I'm just like
(17:43):
trying to follow with that too.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah. So you have some answers now, But in that
state you get more clarity and you realize, wait a second,
this is why it's running that pattern Because every negative
habit has a positive intention underneath it, and when it
comes to anxiety, usually it's always based around safety, and
I don't want you to feel unsafe, so let's avoid
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anything that can feel unsafe. So we literally get behind
that pattern, understand it, and through imagery and through this
process and a few techniques, we create a new vision
of yourself so you can travel anywhere feeling safe in
your body. So here's a question on a scale of
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one to ten, ten being really unsafe, zero being fine,
Like how unsafe do you feel in your physical body?
Would you say, does your body feel like a safe
place for you?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
My body does, my mind doesn't, okay, And.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
On a if you're going to rate it, are we
talking like level eight, my mind doesn't feel safe, level ten,
or like level flourish?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I would say this is where it gets crazy. So
like my mind says like eight, my body is, you know,
I feel very safe, and then like my heart is,
like I feel so safe, you know what I mean?
Like I know I've got people that love me. My
husband loves me, that you know. But it's like my
mind is my worst enemy.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Okay, or it can be your best friend when we
shift it. So it's very common. Usually it's in your body,
when everything starts in your everything's in our head, right,
our thoughts are associations. So if you don't trust your thoughts,
you're not going to trust the world around you. You
know if you have that. So the first thing is
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within this session, we create a safe space in your
thoughts where you can be in any situation and you
know that your mind is a safe place, your body
is a safe place, so the world is a safe place.
And that's how we begin shifting this now for you.
I mean we can we can play some games from
(19:52):
games of imagination. I can see kind of how receptive
you are, if if you are kind of the one
instant or if you're more of a process of repetition
to make the shift take place. But it always can
take place, and it's just a matter of do I
get it in the moment or do we get it
(20:14):
over a process of repetition. And there's some other techniques
that we use. One is called EFT tapping that is
really good to release stress and anxiety. And I teach
that as kind of a like a safety net or
a what's what I'm looking for, like a life raft.
(20:34):
So when you go out in the world, you know
that no matter what comes up, you can instantly ground
yourself by using EFT tapping, and so that's something I
share a lot when I do this kind of work.
After we do a kind of a session on it.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
So what can people with the subscription available, what can
people get from the hYP no Vaults.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Sure, so the hYP no Vaults I created because obviously,
as you get more in demand, your time becomes there's
a little bit of resource. You know, how much time
we have. My voice gives out. I mean, I'm not
a great singer, but I take voice lessons because my
voice gives out after doing so much work. So I
(21:28):
wanted to make the work that I do in the
way that I do it available to everyone at any
income level. And that's what the Hypnavault is. These aren't
something that you just can go to YouTube and listen
to a doubt like an MP three session. These are
literally video hypno therapy sessions. I come on the screen,
we talk about the topic, then the screen kind of
(21:50):
blacks out, my voice changes, We put some music on
and it's as if I'm guiding you one on one
through the change. And I have I think at this point,
maybe over two hundred sessions on different topics. They range
with fifteen minutes to forty five minutes. I locked myself
(22:10):
away for about a year and a half and all
I did was record, edit, and upload sessions as I
was launching the Vault. And I'm so glad that I
did because now I put it out a new session
in every month, because there's more than anybody can get through.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But Glenn, that's amazing. You're helping so many people.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I one of the great things that I love. And
I know you get this with what you do and
with what you share. You with your music and your
gifts is pretty much every day of your life you
get somebody saying, my gosh, I love this song, or
I loved what you did. It helped me, it made
me feel good, or I was not feeling good your
(22:50):
song came on and I feel incredible now. And I
get those emails and messages every day and anytime i'm
kind of having I mean, we're all human, right, so
we all have doubts. There's days I'm not one hundred percent,
and it really shifts myself. If there's a challenge I'm
not feeling good about, it's like, yeah, okay, you are
(23:10):
making a difference in this world, and life is beautiful,
you know, And I love it because I my subscription
is very it's it's twenty nine ninety five a month,
so it's successible to anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Is it an app or is it online both?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's the hypno Vault dot com. That's easier than remembering
Glenn Raman dot com. But it's the hypno Vault dot com.
And there is a free app as well, so you
can take it with you when you travel, or you
can log in on right on the website itself. But
it's just it's a way I made this work available
right now, without waiting a week for your next therapy appointment,
(23:51):
without the expense of hiring me one on one, just
to be able to really share this with They're everybody,
and I absolutely love it. I also do for my
online community. We have a WhatsApp group where if you're
having a bad day you need connection, you just send
a text. I have my team members are on there,
(24:14):
and it's really nice for that. I do live group
hypnotherapy sessions every month with everybody too, so I take
questions and answers people share. I take a topic, we
do a session on it, and it's a really special
place because I there's not enough places in life where
we can kind of connect in a positive, supportive place.
(24:36):
I think we definitely the world needs more of those places,
and that's what I get to do with this work.
It makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
How did you fall into hypnotherapy? Was it something in
your past that you're like, okay, that's this helped you or.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yes, well, I in high school I took a class
on meditation called the Silver Method way back when, and
Jose Silva's obviously no no longer with us, but he
was incredible in this area. And then as I kind
of went through my life, I was a very successful
sales manager for years, and I just knew that wasn't
(25:15):
it for me. I was also a musician for years,
never got to make a career out of it. But
you know, two kids later, one divorce later, I'm kind
of midlife and like what happened to my life? Like
wait a second, I was meant to do more than this,
and this is time to change. And in the back
(25:36):
of my mind I always had you know, you should
do something with what you learned years ago, and so
I said, let's do it. I went to hypnotherapy school
and a year later I hypnotized one YouTube star on
her channel. I made her eat an onion. She thought
it was a delicious sweet apple. That apple. That onion
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gave me this whole new career because after that, another
YouTube star called me in another manner. People I still
don't know these people to this day, or I wouldn't
know how to get a hold of them, but they
all got a hold of me. And then college just
started calling me, we want the guy that hypnotized this
person to come to our school, and then private parties
and then parents were like, hey, you did this for
(26:22):
my kids, can you help me with this? And all
of a sudden, I had a whole new career. It
was as if, and I'm sure you can relate to this,
it kind of found me, you know, because I did
a lot of pushing and struggling through my life and
then all of a sudden, it just was like, oh,
(26:43):
I guess this is what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, well, I love that so much. And I personally
will be going on the hypnovault and subscribing because there's
a few things that are coming up that I'm like
already fearing about traveling so far solo, and so I
just I'm like I need this because what I don't want.
This is what I always say to people that listen,
is like, don't let the fear steal the joy, you know,
(27:07):
And that's kind of like, well, gas say that, but
I'm not actually one hundred percent living that too, so
I need to Yeah, I need to walk the walk
with it as well.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
It's true we don't have to settle for what's always been,
which is what many people do. I did it in
my life in my career. I settled for what the
way things were. You know, if you have an issue,
somebody else has had that issue and they've overcome it.
And the beautiful thing about the world we live in
with you know, podcasts like this and people share their
(27:41):
experiences so we can learn from others. And whether you
use hypnotherapy with me or somebody else or somebody else's technique,
we don't have to settle. We can learn and we
can grow. And it's like the process of overcoming those
challenges in your life and sharing with somebody else is
(28:01):
really an empowering thing to do, and it's a beautiful
thing to share and sometimes maybe just get over what
you're dealing with so you can share it with somebody else.
If that's your motivation. That's beautiful motivation too, right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Right, absolutely, no, I'm one hundred percent agree with you,
so Glenn, thank you for coming on. Everyone, go subscribe
and get on the hip no Vault. We'll see you
on there. Thank you so much, Glenn. Absolutely, I appreciate
you
Wind Down with Janet Kramer and I'm Heeart Radio podcast.
This week's Therapy Thursday, We've got Glenn Rotman. He is
one of the world's most recognized hypnotherapists whose transformative work
has captivated and helped celebrities, Grammy Award winning artists, and
social media stars to achieve profound personal transformations. And he
also has a new subscription for everyone to be able
(00:24):
to get. It's called the hypno Vault. So let's get
him on and see how he can help you with
possibly hypnotherapy sessions on his app. I'm really excited to
talk to you because we have had We've had a
hypnotherapist on the show before. It was a while ago,
and it was one of those things where like it's
(00:45):
not that I don't believe in it, because you know,
I've tried a few of them or a few times,
and for me, I think where it didn't quote unquote
work was because I don't think I've continued to follow
up on it. It's almost like I wanted like that
quick fix, you know, I'm like, oh, it didn't work,
and so what is like the science behind Like can
(01:06):
we just like get right into it, Like what is
the science behind hypnotherapy and how many sessions do you
have to do? And like we know with obviously you
have your hypnovault that I want to talk about. But yeah,
because there's just there's so many people to listen to
the show. You know that you know personally, I also
have anxiety, the stress, I mean, just like everybody else
in the world. So let's start with that and then
let's go into it.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Sure sounds great, So it depends on a couple of things. Right.
As a hypnotherapist, and I've done a lot of entertainment
hypnosis as well, So my approach is to always go
for the what I call the hypnomiracle, is the quick
that's what I want. Does that happen every single time?
(01:48):
Of course not. Not everybody is what we would call
a high responder to where in that moment I can
suggest away the problem or the anxiety or the fear
or the emotion that you don't want to feel anymore.
For somebody that's really highly responsive, yes, we can get
that immediately. For those that don't respond in that way,
(02:11):
it becomes more of a guided meditation, and then we
use repetition to make that change take place and so
I think it's important to kind of understand the difference
between kind of what I do on my Instagram when
I'm doing entertainment hypnosis or more more for fun or
for showy, versus really doing hypnotherapy with clients, If that
(02:36):
kind of makes sense. There is a little bit of
a difference, you know, so for you, depending what the
issue was that you were working on, and depending on
your connection with the person you're working with. And also
there's reasons sometimes not everybody is in a place where
they're ready to let go of the issue just yet.
It just depends on a few of those factors, you know.
(02:57):
So seeing people when I say sleep and they drop
and it looks very dramatic, Yes it is real, But
that doesn't work the same way on every single person.
Even in a stage show environment like you go to
a fair or a college and there might be twenty
chairs on stage. Well, ultimately we're gonna pull maybe four
(03:21):
or three people off because they were distracted or they
weren't highly responsive in that moment. So there is a
little more at play than just everybody responding the same way.
Does that help explain it a little better?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It does? But so is that really I mean from
the stuff on Instagram, and that's actually real. Someone's like
dance like a chicken, or you know what I mean,
or be a chick, Like that's actually real, because I've
always wondered like, okay, come on, like that can't be real.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So here's the deal with that. When some people go
into a meditative state, they become highly suggestible. So let's
say you're doing a yoga class and at the end
of yoga class, you know, you're lying in a chiva suppose,
and you're just kind of relaxing, and you're going into
that kind of transke state. Some people become really suggestible.
(04:19):
So on a yoga floor, if I were to walk
by you and touch you on the shoulder and say, God,
you're feeling really cold, you're feeling really cold, your body's shivering,
you'll take that suggestion in and you'll believe you're feeling
cold and start to shiver if you are in that
kind of transx state. And that's really how to debunk it.
It's just we become not everyone, but we can become
(04:43):
very hyper suggestible in a meditative state. So when I
tell them things like you know, when you open your eyes,
you're going to see your favorite celebrity and they look
at me and they think I'm somebody else. In that moment,
they really believe it. It's their their imagination takes oh
and I'll say, like, do you love my long flowing hair? Like,
(05:03):
oh my gosh, your hair is beautiful, and it's the
most ridiculous thing. And I understand. I completely appreciate that.
You think, come on, that can't be real. But I've
had people, when I was doing entertainment hypnosis, be on
stage for ninety minutes have complete amnesia of what they did.
(05:23):
I mean, I'll give you a great example. People can
look at. There is a good mythical morning. I hypnotized
link to like tomatoes, and we did a whole hypnotherapy
session with him. I had him doing silly and fun
things and when I said okay, one, two, three, four, five,
eyes open waterwake, He's like, right, what are we getting started?
(05:45):
I'm like, we're done. He's like, what do you mean
We're done? He had complete amnesia of our whole time together.
You can see it. So it's it is. It's an
interesting phenomenon, and I get it that it's okay if
you're skeptical about it if you think, no, that's fake,
it really isn't. Now, could it be if you're doing
(06:06):
a stage show and some people are faking just for attention.
Of course, of course that could be, because you know,
people like to get attention, they like the spotlight.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Sometimes it's good to get laughs, you know, it's it
feels good when people laugh, exactly, So.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That can happen. But when I've known a few times
when that happens, because I can tell in their response
is that that's not a legitimate response, and we still
go with it. Man. I don't do the stage hypnosis
like I used to do in colleges and those things.
It's really more about working with people one on one.
(06:44):
I still use that entertainment hypnosis in my seminars just
to one, it's it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is entertaining, for sure, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And two it kind of makes people wonder, well, well,
if I can make them forget their name, or if
I can make them be stuck to a share, well,
maybe I can help them get rid of that anxiety too,
or maybe I can help them fly on a plane
again because they're holding a fear. And that's kind of
why I use that to get people to wonder, you know,
(07:17):
it's it's fun.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
There's a piece of that too, where there's you know,
I have a lot of fears, like you just mentioned
anxiety and flying, you know, fear flying, Like I have
all those just like yep, check the box, check the box.
But you know when you do also the entertainment side,
it's like there is fun and people miss out on
having fun sometimes, Like there's so many Like I just
(07:52):
recently was, you know, went on a honeymoon with my
husband and we just got married, and I had I
just had I was filled with like this. I have
like this medical anxiety where I'm like I'm gonna get sick,
something's gonna happen, I'm have to go to the hospital.
And then we're you know, in a different country and
there's I can't just go to the er, and so
I just I just spiral into like having an anxiety
(08:13):
about a medical anxiety that I can I'm going to
just die and it's I don't I don't even know
like what I've tried to, like been working this sound therapy,
like trying to figure it out, but you know, it's
it started to just kind of take over the amazing
moments of my honeymoon. I'm like, why am I letting
this steal like part of my trip? This is that
(08:35):
all these thoughts and fears of like what ifs this
is going to happen? Or like, oh god, I can't
be too far away from the hotel because if I
have an anxiety attack, then I'm gonna have to feel
so embarrassed and then have the boat guy bring me
to a hospital. Like I'm like stop, Like my mind
just wouldn't stop thinking about it, and I'm like, why
can't I just rest and joy? And so I love
that you know you also like you found a way
to like there is joy with people, but then also
(08:57):
you know, have a place that you can help people
too with everything else.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yes, yeah, it's it is. It's combining both and making
it a really special experience just out of curiosity. On
your hand, is your ring finger bigger than your first finger?
Or is your first finger a little bit bigger than
your ring finger?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Is my am I left or right?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Like either one?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Is my ring finger bigger than my first finger?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah? So like if look at my hand, I'm love
you can see it real clear, but you'll see how
my ring finger is a little bit bigger than my
first finger on your hands, is it the same or
is your first finger a little bit bigger.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
My first finger is a little bit bigger.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's what I thought and the reason I asked you
that question. For people that are prone to having a
little more anxiety and a little more panic, they have
a first finger that is just a little bit longer
than the ring finger, Meaning you are own to blood
sugar sensitivity, and that is one reason you are experiencing
(10:06):
that adrenaline and that corusol which is feeding those thoughts
when you're in those moments. So yeah, it is it. Really,
it's something I can. I can share a few things
with you that I could help you moving.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, please, let's go give me some more test. Okay,
tell me more, because I feel like other people right
now are listening or checking their hands, so if they're
also in the same situation.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Now, is that true in every single case? Of course,
not sure. But as a general rule, I've noticed that
people that are highly anxious or have a struggle with
anxiety and panic, their first finger is a little bit longer.
It's due to something that happens in the womb and
your development and what happens is this. If you go
(10:51):
long periods of time without eating, your blood sugar will drop.
Your body will fire off adrenaline to raise your blood shirt.
When that happens, your heart starts racing, you get sweaty.
That is an anxiety attack, a panic attack in your mind,
because your thoughts just start to race and not feel safe.
(11:12):
The same thing is true. Let's say when you finally
do eat, if you eat a very starchy meal high
in sugars or things that turn in the sugar, your
blood sugar will raise. Your body makes insulin to lower
your blood sugar. Well, if you're not blood sugar sensitive,
it returns to normal, but for those that are blood
sugar sensitive it drops. And then here comes our friend, adrenaline.
(11:36):
The body hates adrenaline unless you're exercising. It does not
like it. So what has to happen is this one.
Make that connection for anybody listening. Make that connection. If
you are feeling particularly panicky one day more so than
the next, well, when's the last time you eat? What
(11:57):
did you eat, kind of what did you eat the
night before? And make the connection between your blood sugar
and the amount of anxiousness you're feeling. And now what
happens when we travel. When we travel, generally we're in
a rush. Generally we're not eating our solid meals, might
be grabbing something that's junk food on the way to
(12:17):
the airport. In the airport, there's a lot of stress well,
our bodies creating stress hormones. We finally sit down on
the plane to relax and the body has to process
all those stress hormones and there you go. That's another
panic attack. And it start to become anticipatory anxiety because
now your subconscious mind, you know, it always has one job.
(12:39):
The subconscious mind does one job, and one job only.
It's to protect us. But it will try to protect
us in a way where if you are, like I
feel panic on an airplane, well maybe that first time
that you got kind of air sick or felt panic,
you were a low blood sugar state. The mind goes, well,
(13:02):
we don't like flying, so I'm going to give you
more anxiety to keep you off that plane so you
don't have to feel that feeling. And it's kind of
crazy making because it's trying to help you, but it's
hurting you more in the way that it's trying to
help you until we ship that pattern.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Okay, So how do we and that's what we do
with hypnosis, right.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Correct, that is exactly what we do with hypnotherapy.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Okay, then how do we do it? What do we do?
How do we do it?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Sure? Well? Two things. One, I mean I did a
consultation with this. I work with clients all over the world,
right and this is going to sound unbelievable, but I
promise you this is true. She was on the phone
and she had a cigarette in her hand, and she
was kind of shaking. She's like, my whole life is
panic and anxiety because every day I just feel panic.
(13:48):
I'm like okay, and I'm like, all right, what time
is it where you are? And it was about two
thirty in the afternoon, and I said, what have you
eaten today? And she goes, well, I have any today?
So what have you had today? She said, I've had
four cups of coffee and a pack of cigarettes. And
I'm saying, all right, so you ate around eight o'clock
(14:09):
last night, You've gone what sixteen hours without eating, You've
had nothing but cigarettes and coffee, and you're asking me
why you feel panicked? And now that's an extreme example right.
But of course, if we take that back though, some
people will go long periods of time without eating. For
those that are listening that wake up in their sleep.
(14:32):
Some people wake up in their sleep kind of either
they feel like they're falling in a dream or they'll
just kind of wake up kind of sweaty and panicky.
Well that was an dress that was you have that?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's an andretde.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That is an adrenaline spike that you are having in
your sleep. So for you, we have to clean up
your blood sugar. So do you go long periods of
time without eating? Yeah, so number one, we have to change.
That doesn't mean we have to put on weight, because
obviously you're very conscious about taking care of yourself, but
(15:09):
we have to kind of change our diet into having
maybe smaller meals more often to stabilize your blood sugar.
For some people, they cannot intermittent fast because intermittent fasting
they get a blood sugar drop and they go into panic.
For those that aren't blood sugar sensitive, you know, intermedt
(15:29):
and fast and could be a great way to keep
off weight. But if your blood sugar sensitive, it can
be a mental sentence of just of panic and anxiety.
So first we got to clean up your diet. We
can't go along periods of time without eating. Okay, we
need lean proteins, we need foods that don't spike your
(15:50):
blood sugar. And this is actually I'm really glad we're
talking about this. I love going right into this topic
because most it irritates me that most physicians won't talk
about this with their clients, especially in the psychiatry world. Now,
of course they're needed and they're important. However, before you medicate,
(16:14):
let's look at the Let's look at the diet. Let's
look at the connection of bloodshirt, a long periods of
time without eating, and then when we do eat, eating
the wrong foods. So one is stabilizing your blood sugar,
and then two is a couple things. One we don't
always have to go back to the first time you
had this experience. You know, there's a belief in therapy
(16:36):
and even in hypnotherapy, you have to get to the
root cause the very first time that is true. So
what we do is a couple different approaches. One, we
literally bring up that emotion and in that state of
imagination when we're in hypnosis, when we're in that meditative state.
(16:56):
What I'm going to say now sounds so simple, but
in the meditative state it's really profound. We bring up
that emotion that you feel and we literally connect with
our subconscious mind and connect how is my mind using
what's the positive intention behind that fear? How is it
(17:17):
trying to serve me? And sometimes we ready know the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So that's where I'm like, I'm trying to think right
now because I'm like, all right, because I know the
negatives of all my thoughts, like why why I was
so scared of like the medical anxiety or you know,
because I'm like, oh, I don't want to be embarrassed,
I'll look weak, you know, it's I'll ruin our trip
and it's going to be all my fault, and like, yeah,
so those are those are like all the things that
we're underlying it probably why So yeah, I'm just like
(17:43):
trying to follow with that too.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah. So you have some answers now, But in that
state you get more clarity and you realize, wait a second,
this is why it's running that pattern Because every negative
habit has a positive intention underneath it, and when it
comes to anxiety, usually it's always based around safety, and
I don't want you to feel unsafe, so let's avoid
(18:06):
anything that can feel unsafe. So we literally get behind
that pattern, understand it, and through imagery and through this
process and a few techniques, we create a new vision
of yourself so you can travel anywhere feeling safe in
your body. So here's a question on a scale of
(18:28):
one to ten, ten being really unsafe, zero being fine,
Like how unsafe do you feel in your physical body?
Would you say, does your body feel like a safe
place for you?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
My body does, my mind doesn't, okay, And.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
On a if you're going to rate it, are we
talking like level eight, my mind doesn't feel safe, level ten,
or like level flourish?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I would say this is where it gets crazy. So
like my mind says like eight, my body is, you know,
I feel very safe, and then like my heart is,
like I feel so safe, you know what I mean?
Like I know I've got people that love me. My
husband loves me, that you know. But it's like my
mind is my worst enemy.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Okay, or it can be your best friend when we
shift it. So it's very common. Usually it's in your body,
when everything starts in your everything's in our head, right,
our thoughts are associations. So if you don't trust your thoughts,
you're not going to trust the world around you. You
know if you have that. So the first thing is
(19:32):
within this session, we create a safe space in your
thoughts where you can be in any situation and you
know that your mind is a safe place, your body
is a safe place, so the world is a safe place.
And that's how we begin shifting this now for you.
I mean we can we can play some games from
(19:52):
games of imagination. I can see kind of how receptive
you are, if if you are kind of the one
instant or if you're more of a process of repetition
to make the shift take place. But it always can
take place, and it's just a matter of do I
get it in the moment or do we get it
(20:14):
over a process of repetition. And there's some other techniques
that we use. One is called EFT tapping that is
really good to release stress and anxiety. And I teach
that as kind of a like a safety net or
a what's what I'm looking for, like a life raft.
(20:34):
So when you go out in the world, you know
that no matter what comes up, you can instantly ground
yourself by using EFT tapping, and so that's something I
share a lot when I do this kind of work.
After we do a kind of a session on it.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
So what can people with the subscription available, what can
people get from the hYP no Vaults.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Sure, so the hYP no Vaults I created because obviously,
as you get more in demand, your time becomes there's
a little bit of resource. You know, how much time
we have. My voice gives out. I mean, I'm not
a great singer, but I take voice lessons because my
voice gives out after doing so much work. So I
(21:28):
wanted to make the work that I do in the
way that I do it available to everyone at any
income level. And that's what the Hypnavault is. These aren't
something that you just can go to YouTube and listen
to a doubt like an MP three session. These are
literally video hypno therapy sessions. I come on the screen,
we talk about the topic, then the screen kind of
(21:50):
blacks out, my voice changes, We put some music on
and it's as if I'm guiding you one on one
through the change. And I have I think at this point,
maybe over two hundred sessions on different topics. They range
with fifteen minutes to forty five minutes. I locked myself
(22:10):
away for about a year and a half and all
I did was record, edit, and upload sessions as I
was launching the Vault. And I'm so glad that I
did because now I put it out a new session
in every month, because there's more than anybody can get through.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But Glenn, that's amazing. You're helping so many people.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I one of the great things that I love. And
I know you get this with what you do and
with what you share. You with your music and your
gifts is pretty much every day of your life you
get somebody saying, my gosh, I love this song, or
I loved what you did. It helped me, it made
me feel good, or I was not feeling good your
(22:50):
song came on and I feel incredible now. And I
get those emails and messages every day and anytime i'm
kind of having I mean, we're all human, right, so
we all have doubts. There's days I'm not one hundred percent,
and it really shifts myself. If there's a challenge I'm
not feeling good about, it's like, yeah, okay, you are
(23:10):
making a difference in this world, and life is beautiful,
you know, And I love it because I my subscription
is very it's it's twenty nine ninety five a month,
so it's successible to anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Is it an app or is it online both?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's the hypno Vault dot com. That's easier than remembering
Glenn Raman dot com. But it's the hypno Vault dot com.
And there is a free app as well, so you
can take it with you when you travel, or you
can log in on right on the website itself. But
it's just it's a way I made this work available
right now, without waiting a week for your next therapy appointment,
(23:51):
without the expense of hiring me one on one, just
to be able to really share this with They're everybody,
and I absolutely love it. I also do for my
online community. We have a WhatsApp group where if you're
having a bad day you need connection, you just send
a text. I have my team members are on there,
(24:14):
and it's really nice for that. I do live group
hypnotherapy sessions every month with everybody too, so I take
questions and answers people share. I take a topic, we
do a session on it, and it's a really special
place because I there's not enough places in life where
we can kind of connect in a positive, supportive place.
(24:36):
I think we definitely the world needs more of those places,
and that's what I get to do with this work.
It makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
How did you fall into hypnotherapy? Was it something in
your past that you're like, okay, that's this helped you or.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yes, well, I in high school I took a class
on meditation called the Silver Method way back when, and
Jose Silva's obviously no no longer with us, but he
was incredible in this area. And then as I kind
of went through my life, I was a very successful
sales manager for years, and I just knew that wasn't
(25:15):
it for me. I was also a musician for years,
never got to make a career out of it. But
you know, two kids later, one divorce later, I'm kind
of midlife and like what happened to my life? Like
wait a second, I was meant to do more than this,
and this is time to change. And in the back
(25:36):
of my mind I always had you know, you should
do something with what you learned years ago, and so
I said, let's do it. I went to hypnotherapy school
and a year later I hypnotized one YouTube star on
her channel. I made her eat an onion. She thought
it was a delicious sweet apple. That apple. That onion
(26:01):
gave me this whole new career because after that, another
YouTube star called me in another manner. People I still
don't know these people to this day, or I wouldn't
know how to get a hold of them, but they
all got a hold of me. And then college just
started calling me, we want the guy that hypnotized this
person to come to our school, and then private parties
and then parents were like, hey, you did this for
(26:22):
my kids, can you help me with this? And all
of a sudden, I had a whole new career. It
was as if, and I'm sure you can relate to this,
it kind of found me, you know, because I did
a lot of pushing and struggling through my life and
then all of a sudden, it just was like, oh,
(26:43):
I guess this is what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, well, I love that so much. And I personally
will be going on the hypnovault and subscribing because there's
a few things that are coming up that I'm like
already fearing about traveling so far solo, and so I
just I'm like I need this because what I don't want.
This is what I always say to people that listen,
is like, don't let the fear steal the joy, you know,
(27:07):
And that's kind of like, well, gas say that, but
I'm not actually one hundred percent living that too, so
I need to Yeah, I need to walk the walk
with it as well.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
It's true we don't have to settle for what's always been,
which is what many people do. I did it in
my life in my career. I settled for what the
way things were. You know, if you have an issue,
somebody else has had that issue and they've overcome it.
And the beautiful thing about the world we live in
with you know, podcasts like this and people share their
(27:41):
experiences so we can learn from others. And whether you
use hypnotherapy with me or somebody else or somebody else's technique,
we don't have to settle. We can learn and we
can grow. And it's like the process of overcoming those
challenges in your life and sharing with somebody else is
(28:01):
really an empowering thing to do, and it's a beautiful
thing to share and sometimes maybe just get over what
you're dealing with so you can share it with somebody else.
If that's your motivation. That's beautiful motivation too, right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Right, absolutely, no, I'm one hundred percent agree with you,
so Glenn, thank you for coming on. Everyone, go subscribe
and get on the hip no Vault. We'll see you
on there. Thank you so much, Glenn. Absolutely, I appreciate
you
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Jana Kramer
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
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