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Have you wondered if you could get hypnotized to change your life? You see it in movies as some blank state where the person is powerless to control of the hypnotist or something than can erase memories. In this episode we explore the state of hypnosis and how it can change your life.

Debra Berndt Maldonado is a highly-trained clinical hypnotherapist and has personally helped thousands of people with her hypnotic tools. Her book, LET LOVE IN: Open Your Heart & Mind to Attract Your Ideal Partner (Wiley 2010) is all about how to use hypnosis to attract love.

• What is hypnosis and debunking the myths
• How the stage hypnotists get people to do things that look silly
• How you can use the hypnotic state to access a higher awareness within you and use suggestions to change the way you think and feel
• Are past-lives and regressed memories real?
• How in the hypnotic state you open the doorway to the Creative Mind and all of its power and that suggestions made in the state are 1000x more powerful than saying affirmations.

Episode Exercise: Self-hypnosis. Debra leads you through a quick self-hypnosis exercise you can do every day to shift your mind and get into a relaxed state instantly. She explains how to write affirmations that work in your hypnotic state for faster results.

One of the main tools that we teach our students in our Creative Mind Coach training program is how to effectively use visualization to help a client make changes in their life. Debra has developed hundreds of visualizations and her visualization videos on YouTube have received millions of views. There is extensive research on visualization and its effectiveness. While athletes use it to prepare for a sport, any person can use it to master their life. Visualization enables a person to use their Creative Mind to shift their perspective, work with emotions, uncover what is unconscious and focus their mind on what they truly want in life so they can achieve their desires.

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If you feel there is a hidden force working against you, slowing down your progress, throwing up obstacles and not sure what you are doing wrong, you may need to learn how to escape your family karma.

• Understand what Karma really is and how it affects your results in life
• Explore your Family Karma and how they influenced your patterns and experience
• Learn about how genetics and epigenetics impact your conditioning but do not limit your future
• Get three steps to escape your Family Karma and how to make conscious choices and change your destiny

Episode Exercise: Non-Judgment. Debra leads you through a quick exercise when you are looking at your current results to help you free yourself from Family Karma.

Subscribe to our podcast Creative Mind Living. Learn more about us and our transformational Life Coach trainings & Personal Development programs based on the best principles of Carl Jung, Neuroscience, and Eastern Philosophies by connecting with us online. Like our Facebook Page to stay updated about our next Group for free Creative Mind Coach micro-trainings on living life in Love & Purpose: fb.me/creativemindmethod

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Do you feel disconnected from your spirituality when you get caught up in work, money issues, relationship challenges and just trying to survive every day? If you crave a deeper spiritual connection in your everyday life, we will share:

• What is spirituality?
• How you get limit your ability to connect to your intuition, creativity and purpose and how to create a new spiritual habit
• Understand the power of spiritual goals
• Introduction to the symbolic life and how it can bring magic and wonder in your everyday experience

Episode Exercise:  Debra will lead you through an exercise you can do with symbols that show up in your life and how to find a deeper meaning to help understand yourself and guide your decisions.

Subscribe to our podcast Creative Mind Living. Learn more about us and our transformational Life Coach trainings & Personal Development programs based on the best principles of Carl Jung, Neuroscience, and Eastern Philosophies by connecting with us online. Like our Facebook Page to stay updated about our next Group for free Creative Mind Coach micro-trainings on living life in Love & Purpose: fb.me/creativemindmethod

Interested in Jungian Life Coaching? Download your free program brochure: https://www.creativemindlife.com/program-brochure

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Are you waiting for happiness? Do you think you will be happy when you meet the right person, have a better relationship with your partner, find the right job, get a new boss, lose the weight or get that dream home? In this episode we discuss how happiness is cultivated and that the seed of our potential is already inside.

We will share:

• How your life will reflect the default conditioning of the mind
• Why it is important to break free of the tribe to become your true self
• How to create the space in your home and life for happiness
• The key to identifying the growers from the status quo’ers in your life and how being around people with a growth mindset will help you grow
• The importance of commitment in your path of growth

Episode Exercise: Happiness Assessment. Debra leads you through questions to ask about your life so you can find out where you need to shift to cultivate more happiness.

Interested in Jungian Life Coaching? Download your free program brochure: https://www.creativemindlife.com/program-brochure

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Fairy tales are inherently subversive. If you sit with one, if you think about what puzzles, delights, or infuriates you, you will be changed. And there are thousands of fairy tales and stories in cultures around the world, that have this power. 

 “The Queen Bee,” a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, was new to me when I set out to record this podcast. It’s pretty short and I didn’t expect much. I didn’t love the story or think that it would find its way into a podcast, but the tale kept revealing new depths and I was compelled to follow the trail.

This fairy tale got me thinking about what kind of person I am and who I want to be, about hopelessness and surrender, belonging and miracles. I hope you find inspiration and food for thought here too.

A transcript of this episode is available at www.mythicmojo.com. Thanks for listening!

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If your reality is reflected by your mind, can other people influence it? Find out how your mind was conditioned to resonate with certain groups and how your environment played a key role in developing your perception of life. 

We will share:

• How to deal with challenging people and situations
• What it really means when you are around “toxic” people
• The power of your mind to change the situation without doing anything externally
• How to discipline the mind without fixing your thoughts
• How to face emotional triggers instead of avoid them 

Episode Exercise: Debra explains a way to stay “awake” throughout your day so you are not pulled unconsciously into circumstances that drag you down. 

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“I sing of the great god Poseidon, mover of the earth and fruitless sea […] god of the deep, shaker of the earth […] tamer of horses and savior of ships […]” Homeric Hymn to Poseidon

After the Olympians defeated the old gods, Zeus and his brothers, Hades and Poseidon, divided the world into three realms. They drew lots to establish which of them would rule over each.

Poseidon was awarded the ocean.

In this podcast I talk about Poseidon and share some his myths, including his role in Homer’s Odyssey and the contemporary significance of his longstanding competition with the goddess Athena.

A transcript of this episode is available at www.mythicmojo.com. Thanks for listening!

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In this episode, Henry Richardson, owner, and CEO of DEFINE body and mind, and I sit down to explore how to run what he refers to as a “spiritual business.” He uses terms such as “appreciative inquiry” and speaks of breathing life into not only a bottom line but also the inner and outer community of the business. He states that how the model of the business is structured will influence how each employee views their presence at the business, which then impacts how the customer and the community the business serves, feels about themselves and their interactions with the business. Henry outlines how to make this possible, and with a successful and growing business of 23 facilities in the U.S. and one open in Dubai, along with two graduate degrees, one MBA from Rice University and another master's degree from University of Pennsylvania in positive psychology, he can speak to both how he manages the business and how his story informs his higher purpose. Website:
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This conversation favors the irrational over the rational. Kate has made it her mission, both in her professional life and personal life to study the pathways on which people travel through their lives. She states, “The paths that people are called to are often socially unacceptable.” She is referencing how often each of us has to sacrifice either a part of ourselves for the security of the outer world or the security of the outer world so that one can “live on the edge” and discover who they are and what really matters to that individual. When Kate was 4 years old, a poisonous snake bit her, a story that had not entered into her awareness until she was much older and in analysis herself. Once she recalled the event she began to have dreams that included snake motifs and she began to study rites of passage, initiation, and rituals that people had been writing about throughout human history. We discuss the seven aspects she identifies and articulates through her book. Kate has made it her mission to help people place their struggles and conflicts into meaningful narratives. And, how is one to know the direction that the narrative is providing?
Bio:
Kate Burns is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Houston, Texas. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, she worked as a geophysicist until a downturn in the oil industry sent her back to school for an MBA from Rice University. A desire to explore spiritual issues led her to pursue a master’s degree in counseling, followed by studies at the International School of Analytical Psychology, Zurich. She has taught classes at the Jung Center in Houston since 2005 and has devoted herself to the practice of yoga since 2000. She serves on the board of directors for Jungians in Training Zurich, an organization raising awareness about C.G. Jung, his life and work. Kate is the author of "Paths to Transformation: From Initiation to Liberation and "Soul's Desire to Become New" in Jung's Red Book for Our Time, volume 2.
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As a scientist, Tom’s insight into religion and psychology balances his worldview given that he matriculated through both the sciences and philosophy. He says, that as soon as he began to see the world through a hand-lens, he was sold on physics, biology, entomology, evolution and ecology, and vertebrate zoology, but landed squarely in biology. Tom’s primary area of interest began in complex systems. Access to an electron microscope in the biochemistry lab opened up Tom’s understanding of the microscopic world that is within, around, and through us. He defines “complex systems” and uses this interest to look at religion and psychology. Tom asks why no one can predict what the Dow Jones is going to do tomorrow?” Because the economy is a complex system. Tom’s “naïve love of biology” was the attitude that bade him leave the early movement in bioengineering, which he deemed as morally repugnant, and sent him onto a path of recollecting his interests in philosophy and religion primarily to the work of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and Henry Corbin. Tom’s love for Hillman is expressed from his seeking psychological diversity and Corbin for his grounding in the imagination. Tom departed from reductive science because his brain began to feel like a machine, cranking out facts, and this landed him in the exploration of the imagination. With this in mind, Tom recognizes the battle within him between the “humanist” and the “scientist.” He believes on some level that adopting an easy pluralism as a means for us each to deal with our tendency toward fundamentalist thinking and behaving. He has been actively undermining the tendency for any human to be motivated by any fundamentalism – which both Henry Corbin and James Hillman do. Good on you, Tom!
Bio:
Tom graduated from Connecticut College in 1974 with a B.A. in philosophy, magna cum laude, with coursework in history and the history of art, and received the Susanne Langer Award for Achievement in Philosophy. Among the most long-lasting influences were my reading of Hegel, Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky, as well as the ideas and the teaching of historian F. Edward Cranz.
In 1997 Tom resigned from my teaching position and my family moved to Maine. He then began writing in earnest. Tom's first essay on Corbin was among those selected to receive a John Templeton Foundation Exemplary Essay Award in the “Expanding Humanity’s Vision of God” Program in 2000. The following year he was one of six invited speakers at the Eranos Conference in Ascona, Switzerland, where Corbin had been a leading figure for many years. Tom's first book on Corbin, the imagination and related themes was published in 2003, and others followed in 2005, 2007, 2012 and 2015. In 2004 he was invited for the first of a series of lectures for the Temenos Academy in London. In the summer of 2007, Tom was honored to be elected a Fellow of the Temenos Academy.
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In this episode, Alejandro’s knowledge provides a guide rail down into the parts of meditation that are not just about feeling calm and blissful, but the meditation that brings the “gunk” to the surface so that one can be more present with it, work with it and transform it. He discusses how valuable it is that a meditation practice helps increase feelings of relaxation and calm, although he also recognizes that we often need to bring our “shit to the cushion,” and ask difficult questions about where that pain is coming from and how we keep falling for the same patterns. We talk about religion as containing helpful tools, whose value can often be overtaken by people misusing the potential of each tradition. Dr. Chaoul defines enlightenment (if such a thing can be defined) and carefully articulates his words to help the listener begin to understand what it means to be present. Further, he defines spirit and discusses different ways to enhance one’s “spiritual connection,” with one’s life. How we find ways to support our connection with self, world, and the meaning of life. 
Bio:
Dr. Alejandro Chaoul is a Senior Teacher of The 3 Doors, an international organization founded by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche with the goal of transforming lives through meditation. Alejandro has studied in the Tibetan tradition since 1989, and for over 20 years with Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, completing the 7-year training at Ligmincha Institute in 2000. He also holds a Ph.D. in Tibetan religions from Rice University.
Since 1995, he has been teaching meditation classes, and Tibetan Yoga (Tsa Lung & Trul Khor) workshops nationally and internationally under the auspices of Ligmincha Institute and is on the Board of the Ligmincha Texas Institute for the Tibetan meditative and healing arts.
In 1999 he began teaching these techniques at the Integrative Medicine Program of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, where he holds a faculty position and for the last fifteen years conducts research on the effect of these practices in people with cancer. He is also an associate faculty member at The University of Texas’ McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, where he teaches medical students in the areas of spirituality, complementary and integrative medicine, and end of life care. Alejandro is also the author of Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition (Snow Lion, 2009).

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Rabbi Sholklapper may speak and read enough languages to make anyone jealous. This multi-lingual blessing allows him the unique gift of investigating ancient religious texts to deconstruct them and explore meaning lost over the passing of time and that has often been injected with interpretations based on ulterior motives. This fact makes him an exceptionally fun person with whom to share a coffee and conversation. One of the most influential and life-changing moments in Ariel’s life involved his experience of arriving on the scene as a first responder following a bomb exploding on a bus in Israel. This trauma sent him into enough of a blunted state of numbness that he began exploring meditation and mindfulness. He is now a teacher of both. Through this conversation, Ariel answers the question, “What is Judaism?” His answer: that each of us has a divine spark and our lives are about getting closer to that spark. The consequences of this understanding from his perspective is one of the goals of the work: becoming kinder to others, more compassionate, and also more settled, and in life. A necessary and honorable goal indeed. Bio: 
Rabbi Ariel Sholklapper is a mindfulness practitioner who got his start under the guidance of Rabbis Jeff Roth, James Jacobson Maisels, and Joanna Katz in 2011. Since then he has attended, managed, and facilitated retreats and mindfulness meditation groups all over the world. He was recently appointed Director of the Jewish Mindfulness Center of Houston at Congregation Beth Yeshurun, the largest Conservative Jewish congregation in the United States. He earned a degree in philosophy and Jewish studies at UCLA, was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, and holds an MBA in nonprofit management.

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Song of the week: Fireproof on Mingo Fishtrap’s album “On Time” 
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