Some years back Steli signed up for a series of workshops. One of these workshops taught the audience about hypnosis and Neurological Linguistic Programming. Steli has mentioned this on and off during the podcast and our listeners have shown an interest in the subject. So Steli is going to tell us about his lessons from hypnosis and NLP.

Many people see hypnosis as a party trick and a “magical power” over people. But as we discuss on today’s episode, none of that is true.

We learn these things about hypnosis and NLP:

How hypnosis is a daily state

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Steli Efti:  Hey, this is Steli Efti.

Hiten Shah:  And this is Hiten Shah on The Startup Chat.

Steli Efti:  And in today’s episode, we’re going to talk about hypnosis.

Hiten Shah:  Yeah, and I know nothing about it except the voodoo I see on TV. Maybe there was like a night rider episode about hypnosis that I recall. So that’s the last thing I recall about hypnosis. I also—it related—I do know some people who consider themselves healers, so I think that’s kind of somewhat related in some ways. But, I’m supposed to talk to you about it because I want to learn all about it. Tell us about hypnosis, Steli.

Steli Efti:  So, here’s why we’re talking about this in this episode. A bunch of people have asked about this because in prior episode, I’ve mentioned it at random times contextually that I have studied hypnosis in the past and that, you know, I know a thing or two about it and people just were curious about this and, you know—Hiten was like “we should talk about this one day because I want to know more about it,” so this is what we’re doing.

Hiten Shah:  So this is hypnosis 101 from Steli straight up and I’m just going to bug him the whole time.

Steli Efti:  From Steli Efti. There you go. So, okay, let me give maybe a 2-minute version of how I got involved with it and my quick summary of it and then I’ll let you drive the conversation and whatever your curiosities are. Hiten has the most evil look ever on his—he’s just so happy to talk about this. I don’t know. You should see his look on his face. The other thing is Hiten has an awesome shirt on today. He’s so—he’s a very sexy, very handsome man, I have to say.

Now, he only has to make me one promise after today’s episode is that all the other T-shirts—so he lost all this weight. He looks great. All the other shirts that don’t fit anymore, you have to throw them away.

Hiten Shah:  Yeah, I’m working on that.

Steli Efti:  Throw them away. Okay. So, hypnosis. So I was never—I never had an attraction to hypnosis. I always thought of it as I think most people do like the stage hypnosis, the “you are chicken now, pok-pok-pok” and— you know. I never thought about it too much, never knew is this true or not or what is it, but I was not fascinated by this topic at all.

Hiten Shah:  So how did you get into it?

Steli Efti:  I got into it because I got fascinated for a while on the topic of neurolin...