HS 130 - Changing Your Life Quickly Through Hypnosis with Dr. Errol Gluck

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It's my pleasure to welcome Dr. Errol Gluck to the show. He is an expert on changing your thinking and changing how you interpret things that happen to you and a whole lot more than that, which I will let him explain. And he is coming to us from New York today. Errol, welcome. How are you?

Oh, thanks for having me.

Well, the pleasure is all mine. So you've got quite a, quite an extensive background, about 150,000 hours of individual counseling. Is that it?

Yeah, Jason, it's actually a world record in terms of hypnosis integrating with rational cognitive coaching. And hypnosis is not stage hypnosis. It's called neuroplasticity. It's a real science taught in every medical school and I train a lot of doctors in doing this. And it is the way in which you affect the brain to process information and to react, interpret it so that your rational mind and your emotional mind are on the same page. Because, Jason, so many people know what they're doing is wrong, know that they overeat, know that they shouldn't be doing certain drugs, know that their fears and anxieties are irrational, but they cannot change their emotions so that their intellect and their emotions are on the same page. Hypnosis combined with rational cognitive coaching allows them to change their life literally in hours and not years. And I'm doing this now for 35 years, 100 hours a week. So that's how I amass Those crazy hours.

100 hours a week I work.

My office hours are from 8am to 12 midnight and we don't take breaks.

You work too much, my friend.

I just am very, very high energy and it's my passion. I love it. And eventually, eventually I'll slow down to a 60 hour week and that'll be fine.

Slowing down to a 60 hour week because, you know, on a normal 2,000 hour work year, in 35 years you would have accumulated 70,000 hours, assuming each hour was booked, you know, with an actual client. That is amazing. When you talk Errol about how people know what they should do, they know they should change this, they should change that, but they don't do it. It just brought to mind one of my favorite quotes. It's a Zen saying actually, and that is to know and not to do is to not yet. So how do people change their behavior? Like you said, they know what they should do. But how do you actually get yourself to do it?

It's interesting because in Hebrew the word to know means to have intercourse with. So there's a difference between cognitive or rational knowledge, which means they have an intellectual understanding, or to really know, which means they have experience. So what happens is that for some people they come with a problem and for some they simply don't have. They don't have the mechanics of how to deal with their problems. So they actually lack knowledge, they lack focus, they lack knowledge, they lack structure or procedure and they need just coaching. But for others, there are true emotional blocks. There's fear, there's anxiety, there's phobias, there's lack of belief. And that is when you use neuroplasticity or clinical hypnosis to actually change the way the brain interprets the information. So now all of a sudden, things that were previously Fearful or anxious, they're simply not there. I could take a person who smoked for 30 years, in two sessions, they don't smoke, or a person who had fear and depression, anxiety their whole life. And in four or five sessions, it's just not there. They're experiencing those previous feelings, whether it's claustrophobia or fear of planes or whatever the case might be. It's reinterpreted in the brain.

How do they do it, though?

Well, each induction is. It's a verbal induction, and each one is based upon the way each person's personality. It's a talk induction. And what we're doing is we're mapping out the way a person receives information. Therefore, just the way everyone has their own fingerprint and iris print and tongue print. I develop a hypnosis session based around their personality. You know, for some, it's more visual. For some, it's more auditory. For some, there's some tapping involved, which is, you know, some neurological tapping. It really changes based upon who I'm dealing with. And that's. That's why it's very difficult to do this profession without literally having, you know, a few thousand hours behind you to know what you're doing. Because you can know everything, but there's nothing like experience that makes you good at something.

You know, maybe the best way to sort of ask this question is to ask for an example. Would that be a fair way?

Like, sure, you can ask anything you like.

Yeah. What would. So I come into your office and I say, you know, I having trouble getting myself to exercise enough. What do you do?

Okay, so I would see what the problem is. So I would talk to you about your life, and I would talk to you about what the motivation is for you, the exercise, to make sure that you're doing it for yourself and not for someone else. Lots of people have problems doing certain tasks like exercising or giving up drinking, because it's not them who wants to change. It's their wife or their girlfriend. So I first want to make sure that it's really your idea. Then I would try a baseline, which means I would give you what you should do procedurally to start the exercise. We would pick a time, we would set an alarm.

We would do all the coaching function of what you would do with anyone who did not have an emotional block. Now, if you were able to do that, then fine. We don't need hypnosis. If you cannot do it, then I would find out what's the resistance to exercise? Is it a lack of motivation? Is there an Underlying depression. Is there a fact that you procrastinate and that you put everything first? Is it an issue that looking good, you know, creates another secondary fear of you don't know how to communicate with women you can't date. You have an ED problem. When people avoid something, there's always a fear component. And then we use the hypnosis to eliminate the resistance and to eliminate the fear.

And I mean, does a per. When you say hypnosis, I know there's a lot of misunderstanding.

The person is put into a state of high suggestibility. They are not passed out, they have consciousness. But their brain is in a place where the brain itself is about 3 or 4 pounds of fat tissue. It has about 100 billion neurons, which are nerve cells, about 6 trillion dendrites, which are fiber that connect one nerve cell to another. There are synapses in between, so there's neurotransmitters. So what you in neuroplasticity is you're really changing in the way in which the brain fires or which the neurological pathways that information takes. And if a person took a spect scan prior to hypnosis and afterwards, you would see that their brain literally is functioning differently.

It's pretty amazing stuff. I mean, why is it that. And by the way, I want to mention something to you and the listeners. My mother was a smoker for many, many years. And she went. She was sort of a militant smoker, actually, and she went to a hypnotist. And in two sessions she was basically going through withdrawals. I remember there was one night that was very tough for her. And after that she, she. I think she went back for a third session. Never smoked again. In fact, she thinks smoking is disgusting now. And you know, she smoked for probably 20 years, pack a day. It just worked incredibly well. I couldn't believe it. I mean, I was a kid when this happened, but I do remember it. It's amazing.

Smoking in 35 years. We have about a 96, 97% success rate. But that's only one of many things. The most common thing a person comes for, to be honest with you, is anxiety, procrastination and fears, phobias. These are the most common. Also drugs and public speaking and shyness. I mean, the list goes on, but in the same. It has the same effective.

And the problem is that most people who are trained are only trained in smoking or weight control. But it's effective for everything else, if you have the experience.

My question really that I wanted to ask though, when I told you about my Mother's success with the smoking secession is. Why doesn't everybody use this? I don't think of hypnosis as a mainstream thing. It seems like it's a bit out there on the fringes. A lot of people, they take all sorts of psychiatric drugs, and I'm very much against those, from what I know about them. I've done some shows on them. But they'll go see a sort of conventional, if you will, psychiatrist or psychologist or some kind of counselor. Why don't they go see a hypnotist? I mean, I hear a lot of success stories and I know one personally.

My mother's story, and here's why. The truth of the matter, Jason, is that most hypnotists are poorly trained. The National Guild of Hypnotists, which is the oldest and then.

The one with the most status. I am a certified instructor, which means I give the certification course for people to practice. But I will only train medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, dentists, clinical circle, where I won't just train the average person. And this is both a skill and an innate ability to do it. And then it takes years and years to practice. And unfortunately, in this type of practice, you have so many incompetent people that people go and they have horrible experiences and. Or they think of hypnosis like stage hypnosis, that they're passed out and they're going to be made to do things they don't want to do. So they really, you know, hypnosis is where chiropractic was 30 years ago. So that's really the problem. It's a lack of education. But those who go to someone who is recommended by their doctor who has, you know, great reputation, and it's a recommendation from someone who's been highly successful. It is the quickest way of changing your life in a very short period of time. And that's what people want. They want results.

So why hasn't the industry, like other industries, sort of cleaned itself up, if you will, to get the quacks out of the business so the rest of the pros, like yourself, can shine through and it can become less of a fringy type of thing.

They're actually trying. Meaning, you know, the National Guild, where I'm a clinical instructor, you have to take, you know, a number of hours each week of, you know, number of hours each year of extensive training. You're always going for more and more training. The problem is that it is a combination of a skill and an art, and you're not going to really be able to do this until you have about 5,000 hours under your belt. And unfortunately, what I used to do when I first started 35 years ago, I would simply give everyone a free session. I would work seven days a week giving free sessions out until I got better and better and better. I was a natural to begin with. I was really very good, naturally. But it did take years to get to the level where, where I had the knowledge that I am going to absolutely nail it each and every time. And that just takes a lot of time, you know, where it's not just science, it's science and art. So you do have some good people out there, but they're just not a lot. And that's why you really have to research them thoroughly and make sure that they have a good reputation and you know, and talk to them. If you don't feel comfortable with someone, just don't go to them. If you go to any, anybody who's dealing with your mind and you're not impressed the first time you meet them, don't go back.

How much does it cost?

It all depends on what the person is being treated for. And it all depends on where the person is living. If someone is very good and they're in Kansas, it's going to be different than if they're in the middle of New York like myself and they're paying $10,000 for a relatively small office a month. And it all depends on the experience of the person. You are going to be paying for experience. Because at the end of the day, what would take someone 20 sessions? May take me three.

What other advice do you have for people who want to change some of their behavior? Actually, before you get into that, maybe you can just touch on a little bit more about how you teach someone to interpret things, interpret their circumstances differently. I mean, that's kind of the crux of your technique, right? Interpret things differently and then the mind will react differently. Is that correct?

I mean, that's an excellent question, Jason. And a perfect example is this. Let's say that there are not too many parents who have the skills to be parents. They're getting a little bit better now, pushing 60. So when I was coming up, parents had really very, very little skills of any. But let's say a parent simply told the child that they're not very bright and they're stupid and they're not going to amount to anything. One of the one and that has traumatized the person and caused them to have low self esteem and be an underachiever. So one of the Reinterpretations is first rationally to discuss with the person that the parent didn't say that because it is true. They said it because they had their own problems, and they just projected those problems onto the child. The child, when the person is born, the frontal lobe, or the part of the brain that deals with logic and reason, the homo sapien brain, that's the frontal lobe, isn't even fully wired until 18 to 25, which is why so many children are so messed up. So to explain to them that everything that they absorbed as a child, they absorbed emotionally, and they took that as true, but it wasn't true. It was just that they had no way of rationalizing, well, my parent is a nut or an alcoholic or just an angry person, and they just dumped on. So once you explain to them what really happened and then you put the suggestions in during a hypnosis session, it really redefines their whole experience when they were young, and it changes everything.

Yeah, very interesting. So until one is about 25, you're saying they can't interpret the context in which the message was sent.

Correct.

They only interpret how they feel about it.

Absolutely.

Well, very good reason why car insurance. Insurance goes down at 25.

Exactly. And you know what happens? Most people, this is. This is true, Jason. People, they don't grow up, they grow old, okay? So what happens is they take those emotional pains and they. They stay with them to their 80 and 90, and they still see themselves through the eyes of their childhood experiences. And the beauty of hypnosis is that a person is not in counseling for 10, 20, 30 years. You know, their issues are dealt with in a very, very fast rate. You know, sometimes two sessions, sometimes four times eight. It all depends, but it's really reasonable. And when the person is changed, they are changed. They don't come back a year later for the same thing.

How long does someone. What's the typical sort of engagement, if you will? How long does someone come and see?

You tell me for what condition?

Well, I don't know. You tell me.

You pick anything.

Yeah. The example I gave, getting someone to be more active.

Three sessions.

So. So in three sessions, for how much money would three sessions cost?

For example, let's say about 300 to $400 an hour.

Okay, so. So. Oh, per hour. Okay, so for less, for about a thousand dollars, then, give or take, they can totally change their life. Yeah. Wow. Amazing.

Amazing. Yeah.

Wow. Well, anything else you want people to know? Give out your website, if you would.

And so my website, my name Gluck, My phone Number here is 212-599-3195. My website is gluckglucksolutions.org and my podcast is gluckradio.com Good.

And what final advice would you have for people?

Life is short, you know. It's unnecessary to live in pain for another day. People simply think that it's the better thing to grit their teeth and they'll it out. People don't work anything out. They just repeat the old habits and they get ingrained. Get help, make sure it's quick, make sure you're dealing with a true professional and be happy. Being happy is the best revenge.

Well, that's Most certainly true. Dr. Errol Gluck, thanks for joining us today.

Thanks for having me.

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