Digital Social Hour
Stop Playing Whack-a-Mole with Self-Improvement | Ryan Christensen DSH #1164
Thu, 06 Feb 2025
Stop playing whack-a-mole with your self-improvement journey! Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as he sits down with hypnosis expert Ryan to uncover the truth about breaking free from limiting beliefs and emotional baggage. Discover how hypnosis dives into the subconscious to tackle those deep-rooted patterns holding you back. Ryan shares his fascinating journey of personal transformation, from working in intelligence to mastering hypnosis, and how he turned frustration into empowerment. Learn why traditional self-help methods may feel like an endless game and how reframing your mindset can lead to true change. Packed with valuable insights and practical tips, this episode will leave you motivated to take control of your narrative. Don’t miss out on this eye-opening conversation! Tune in now and subscribe for more insider secrets. Hit that subscribe button and join us for more powerful stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! Watch now and start rewriting your self-improvement story today. #mindsetmentor #selfimprovement #bettyerickson #conversationalhypnosis #cognitivebehavioraltherapy #selfimprovement #anxiety #hypnotherapy #meditation #selflove CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Ryan’s Journey Into Hypnosis 02:59 - How Your Subconscious Mind Works 04:52 - Today’s Sponsor - Specialized Recruiting Group 07:01 - How Hypnosis Works 09:00 - The Power of Suggestion Techniques 11:00 - The Power of Visualization Techniques 13:00 - The Power of Emotion in Hypnosis 15:00 - The Power of Repetition in Learning 17:00 - The Power of Association in Hypnosis 19:00 - The Power of Belief Systems 21:00 - The Power of Expectation in Success 23:00 - The Power of Imagination in Hypnosis 25:00 - The Power of Self-Hypnosis Techniques 27:00 - The Power of Trance States Explained 29:00 - The Power of Relaxation Techniques 30:50 - The Power of Focus in Hypnosis APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Ryan Christensen https://www.instagram.com/ryanthehypnotist/ https://www.ryanthehypnotist.com/ SPONSORS: Specialized Recruiting Group: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #ad
Chapter 1: What is Ryan Christensen's journey into hypnosis?
Got it. So that's where hypnosis comes in. Exactly. So you're not able to consciously say these millions of things that happened to me Maybe I should look at it differently. It's got to be sub-
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conscious exactly exactly the problem is that we have this thing called uh talk about in hypnosis being the critical factor kind of the barrier between the conscious and the unconscious mind what that means is in your waking state when you're conscious your unconscious mind judges true and false based on what it already believes so if that's the case that anything that doesn't match what you already believe is false by definition gets ignored so how do you prove it wrong if it's ignoring all evidence the contrary
So you can consciously say this is the way it should be, but if it doesn't match this, that part doesn't change. Hypnosis gives you access directly to that unconscious mind, kind of lets you bypass that, which means I can now have that conversation directly with that part of your mind, do that persuasion work and that reframing to get it to see things from a different perspective.
That's so interesting. What are the more common issues people are coming to you trying to solve?
What I do is very sort of programmatic and kind of like total transformation. A lot of times people are coming to me because of one of two reasons. Either number one, they're just kind of blocked in life, right? They know what they want to do. They've got this big vision. They know they have a lot of potential, but they're here and they should be here.
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Chapter 2: How does the subconscious mind influence behavior?
Absolutely. Have you ever had a client that was immune to being hypnotized?
Not exactly. People talk about suggestibility and people are harder and easier to hypnotize. And that's kind of based upon a bunch of academic studies and the way they do it in like Stanford and Oxford when they're studying hypnosis. The way they do it is they kind of run people through a standard hypnosis induction and see how they respond.
But hypnosis is kind of a very voluntary process, right? I'm leading you through a series of steps, kind of like a guided meditation, just taking you to your mind. So if you want to follow along, I can get you there. If you don't want to follow along, nothing I can do to get you there. So if I'm sitting there trying to do a test on you and you don't want to play the game...
You're going to come across as not suggestible, not able to be hypnotized. Whereas if you want to play the game, it's easy to get you there. So it's more a question of willingness capability. Right. If you're talking about people who are like schizophrenic or psychotic, kind of out on that edge, or you just don't have that intellectual capability.
I mean, that's obviously a different story, but for the mass majority of people, it's more a question of willingness than capability.
Yeah. Cause you see those magic shows or whatever, and they're on stage and some people knock out like they're, so they're just super open to it.
Yeah. They've decided they want to play the game.
So they're going to play the game. Right. And I've seen them tell them to do whatever and they'll do it. It's crazy. Yeah. It's hilarious. Yeah. But that's for sure. What you do is completely different, right? I like what you do. I've also tried past life hypnosis. I'd love to hear your, your theory on that. What do you think is going on there?
Man, could be a number of things. Like could be that there are past lives. You're actually being able to go back and experience those. The other thing that's possible is that your mind is kind of using that as a metaphor to help you understand a particular principle. It's like, okay, maybe it's not necessarily safe for you to understand what really happened in this life.
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Chapter 3: What are the key techniques used in hypnosis?
So we're going to put it in this other context to give you the same kind of general idea of what was happening. So it's easier to understand and deal with. Because your mind is only going to show you things that it feels it's safe for you to see. So if you've been through something really traumatic and it's like, okay, this is too much. Okay, let me give you this other story over here.
This happened to somebody else. It happened to you in a different life. It's not really happening to you. That makes it easier for you to be able to understand and experience it. and still get the gist of what's happening and the understanding that you need without actually having to push all those traumatic buttons. Interesting.
Have you ever tried that form of hypnosis? Are you opposed to it?
No, it's just not something that's really interested me. Okay.
Because you've tried psychedelics, you've tried other energy healing and stuff.
Yeah, yeah. And every single thing that I tried was fascinating. It had all kinds of interesting results, right? But I'm worried about what's happening in this life, what I'm doing now. I don't really care what happened then unless it actually applies to this now.
I find that focusing on what's happening in this lifetime has given me so much more information, understanding, and agency to change how I'm living this life.
Yeah, because you're getting down to what's actually running the shots. Yeah, energy healing feels good. I agree. I've tried it, but then a week later, I'm back to the same problems.
Well, it's kind of like, I'll often ask my clients this question of like, okay, what part of you is you? You've got your conscious mind, your rational mind, your emotional mind, your instinctive mind. You've got your neurochemistry. You've got your physical body. Start talking about like the body keeps a score. Now you've got an emotional body. Talk about energy healing. Great.
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Chapter 4: How can hypnosis help with personal development?
Because if each emotion is trying to help you navigate the world, it's trying to help you figure things out. It's trying to help you get to where you want to be, even if it's a negative emotion. The difficulty is we define negative emotions as pain.
something is painful, you have to avoid it.
More of that negative emotion experience, especially when you're young and you're looking at his pain, the bigger that survival response is, that survival trigger, right? So while emotions are pain, you have to avoid it. You can't actually use them to help you. So one of the things I do with my clients very, very often is to redefine emotions from pain to signal.
And once emotions are no longer pain, they become useful signals that I can engage with them as long as I need to figure things out. It also does an interesting change. If emotions are no longer pain, then they no longer come from emotional wounds, right?
Now there's nothing to heal. Wow.
It also means that trauma takes on a very different perspective. It's not something that happened to you. To me, trauma is a situation where you weren't able to find a way to win. You're stuck in a situation, can't figure it out.
Your mind is screaming at you for help and you don't have an answer. That's it. Yeah. But even in those situations, you're still breathing, which means you found a way to navigate it successfully.
That's a win. If somebody tries to destroy you, throws everything at you, including the kitchen sink, and you're still standing, go on. So even in those situations where we define as highly traumatic, they're extremely difficult to navigate, they were extremely painful from an emotional perspective, we still came out on top. Doesn't mean we didn't take our hits.
But if you look at guys like Conor McGregor or Mike Tyson to get in the ring, even when they win, they get the snot kicked out of them. Right? Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What role does hypnosis play in overcoming limiting beliefs?
You get in a lot of fights growing up.
Um, no, never been in a fight in my life. Oh, not really. That's interesting. Yeah. Well, I've never really put myself in a position where I had to, you know, and after I got through like the Marine Corps and so forth and so on, I've got a certain presence, right. Where you don't look like a victim. You don't look like a victim. So people tend not to mess with you. Yeah.
What are you working on next? Well, there's a lot of different things based on what I've kind of understood about how the mind works and focusing on that kind of emotional belief set and so forth and so on. There's a lot of things I'm working on to try and get that out there and explore a lot of different ways to apply it.
One of the things I'm doing these days is working with a lot of veterans groups kind of locally as well as around the country to sort of see how we can apply this to things like PTSD and stress disorders and things like that. Because a lot of that is correlated with high neuroticism traits. Now your tendency towards negative thinking and negative self image.
So if we can correct that negative self image and that negative worldview, that makes all that other stuff a lot easier to deal with. Kind of the techniques I use make that pretty quick.
I love it. I'll put you in touch with some veteran groups.
That'd be great.
Yeah, absolutely. Are you working with any right now?
Um, I'm, There's a entrepreneur group in Austin that I'm working with and I'm kind of putting those failures out with a couple other groups nationwide and one in the UK. So I'm still in the initial stages.
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