Mind Games

Mind Games: Unlock Your Intuition & Master the Art of Noticing the Unnoticeable (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Ever been amazed by a mentalist's ability to "read minds"? On this captivating Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason and Jana Banana dive deep into the secrets behind the illusion after Jason’s incredible on-stage experience with a mentalist. Discover how seemingly supernatural feats are rooted in the power of observation, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and a heightened awareness you can cultivate!

We reveal the fascinating techniques mentalists use: from reading subtle micro-expressions and breath patterns to employing specific word choices that unconsciously influence decisions. Learn how a simple phrase like "pick a number between one and six" can subtly guide your choice. This isn't just about stage magic; it's a profound lesson in how our minds work and how we can tap into our own hidden potential.

The real game-changer? Your intuition. That "gut feeling" is your subconscious mind processing these same subtle cues that mentalists train to recognize. Find out how our tendency to override these intuitive nudges with rational thought or people-pleasing can lead us astray. This episode is your guide to trusting your inner voice and challenging limiting beliefs about your own capabilities.

This isn't just entertainment; it's a powerful self-help journey to enhanced personal development. By actively practicing to "notice the unnoticeable," you'll unlock a world of previously invisible information and discover an abundance you didn't realize existed. Learn to recognize the resources available to you, cultivate a positive mindset, and fundamentally transform your experience of reality.

Ready to sharpen your awareness, trust your gut, and Live Lucky® by seeing the world with new eyes? Tune in and start playing the ultimate mind game – mastering your own perception!

How do mentalists read minds? The power of intuition in decision-making. Understanding micro-expressions and body language. How neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) works. Developing greater self-awareness. Trusting your gut feeling in life. Overcoming people-pleasing tendencies. Finding hidden resources for success. Benefits of heightened observation skills. What is neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)? How do mentalists influence choices? What are micro-expressions? How

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*Previously Recorded

Chapters

• 0:00 Jason's Mentalist Experience
• 3:13 How Mentalists Create Reality
• 5:13 Noticing the Unnoticeable
• 7:09 Trusting Your Intuition
• 10:51 Micro-Expressions and NLP Techniques
• 13:30 Challenge to Notice More

Transcript

Jana Shelfer: 0:00

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start Living Lucky®. Good morning. I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky® you are too.

Jana Shelfer: 0:20

Jason went to see a mentalist last night. I got mental problems no not that we are at the Belleville Republic County Fair and of course every night they have different entertainment. Last night it was the mentalist, which I always find mentalists to be very intriguing.

Jason Shelfer: 0:40

They fascinate me.

Jana Shelfer: 0:41

And you got called up on stage.

Jason Shelfer: 0:43

I did get called up on stage and I was like there's no way he's going to get me. And did he? Well, he did, yeah, and there were so many amazing little tricks that he went through and stories that he told that created this long narrative of things just actually happening right in front of your eyes.

Jana Shelfer: 1:04

So you just cannot believe. Yeah, he literally is creating happening right in front of your eyes. So you just cannot believe. Yeah, he literally is creating Living Lucky® in front of you.

Jason Shelfer: 1:10

Yeah, the whole thing culminated in a lottery ticket that had numbers that the crowd had actually picked out, but he had bought the ticket.

Jana Shelfer: 1:18

Previously.

Jason Shelfer: 1:19

Seven hours before the show which just blew my mind.

Jana Shelfer: 1:23

However, he somehow convinced the audience to pick these numbers, but we don't know how he does that.

Jason Shelfer: 1:30

It was either that or he had somehow a bunch of lottery tickets, which doesn't seem plausible or possible. I don't know how he got there because literally he just gives you a deck of cards with 30 numbers in it. He gave six people this deck of cards with 30 numbers in each deck and said pull out a card that you want to pull out. Like, look through them and you pick your card. And it was like, okay, we all picked out our number.

Jana Shelfer: 2:01

Yes.

Jason Shelfer: 2:02

And I was the quote unquote lucky crowd member.

Jana Shelfer: 2:06

Of course you were. You were all decked out in your lucky hat.

Jason Shelfer: 2:08

I had my Living Lucky® hat, yeah, and so I picked the Powerball number, okay, and then he goes through and he and you picked 13. I did.

Jana Shelfer: 2:17

Because you don't normally pick 13. And we sometimes think that 13 is not a lucky number.

Jason Shelfer: 2:27

Well, I was so in my mind I was like, okay, jason, friday, the 13th lucky number. Some people would say 13 is a lucky number, some people would say it's not, and I wanted to pick something that I thought was not obvious but was still had meaning for me You're playing reverse, reverse psychology.

Jana Shelfer: 2:46

My whole point today is that the mentalist notices the small things. It's what you pay attention to.

Jason Shelfer: 2:54

Yes. And the crowd doesn't, because there has to be a way it's happening outside, like with micro expressions that he's the mentalist is picking up on, and with the words that he's using to create his own reality, and the crowd is not picking up on it.

Jana Shelfer: 3:12

So he can simply say you know Powerball number, make sure you don't pick number 13, because that's the unlucky number. And then all of a sudden you're like I'm going to pick number 13. Something like that, exactly.

Jason Shelfer: 3:24

It's NLP, not so obvious, right, but it is just like that and we can start. And this just goes to show how you literally can create your own reality.

Jana Shelfer: 3:37

So he's using NLP.

Jason Shelfer: 3:39

He's using NLP, he's reading micro expressions. He would notice when someone holds their breath for a moment, just a moment, out of the norm.

Jana Shelfer: 3:48

So he can probably tell when you're telling the truth or when you're fudging just slightly.

Jason Shelfer: 3:53

Yeah, or just those little things that say, okay, things might be different than what I'm telling you. I might be exaggerating a little bit here or holding back a little bit here, and I think that there's a lot of training that goes on in this. We've done this for the last 10, 12 years of going through. How do we exact our mindset to work for us, work for us.

Jana Shelfer: 4:19

Another thing that happened is that I didn't go with you, Right? So when you got there, you sat with my best friend, Marcy, and both of you were called up on stage. Yes, and Marcy happens to. They ask who are you here with? And she says oh, my kids and my best friend's husband. Now, what you forget is this is a small town that's going to spread very quickly. That will probably make the Belleville telescope Right.

Jason Shelfer: 4:45

Marcy Bauman shows up with best friend's husband to the fair.

Jana Shelfer: 4:48

Yeah, like this is not good, Nefarious. So I guess what we're talking about today is noticing the unnoticeable. That's so yeah, and when you train yourself to do it, it almost seems obvious, but to other people it blows their mind.

Jason Shelfer: 5:09

It blows their mind. I think a lot of people look at us and it blows their mind the things that we do and the things that we accomplish. And it's because it's not necessarily that we're noticing the unnoticeable, but we are definitely noticing our thoughts, noticing our feelings. We're getting curious about those and then we get to adjust our actions or responses to life and how we show up in it.

Jana Shelfer: 5:35

Okay. So my question is now that you came home with the lucky lottery ticket, what do you think the outcome of this is going to be? I mean, if he is really a mentalist, you think maybe-.

Jason Shelfer: 5:46

Why not just go ahead and give me the winning numbers? Then it'd have to be a two-part show.

Jana Shelfer: 5:54

I know that I'm definitely going to check this, even if we have to drive to Nebraska to do it.

Jason Shelfer: 5:59

This is one of those things where I remember we got a Powerball ticket when it was like $400 million or something like that. Yeah, we got a Powerball ticket. I think it was in Arkansas. Okay, and then when I got back to Florida, I tried to check and they're like oh, this is an Arkansas Powerball, you got to check it in.

Jana Shelfer: 6:15

Arkansas, so you have to go to the state. Yeah, okay go to the state. Yeah, okay, so we're going to make a point to drive to Nebraska.

Jason Shelfer: 6:21

Or we might do it alone, so we can check this. We can do it old school and drive there. It's only what, 10 miles from here.

Jana Shelfer: 6:29

Okay. So question After going to that last night, do you feel like are you going to change the way you think, act, react, notice awareness.

Jason Shelfer: 6:40

I'm going to continue on the path that we're on, which is noticing the small things, being grateful for the small things, raise my gratitude level and then also just say what else might be.

Jana Shelfer: 6:55

So this for me, leads to intuition, me leads to intuition. And I know that you said the mentalist looks at your micro expressions and whatnot, but for me sometimes there's just a gut feeling.

Jason Shelfer: 7:09

Yeah, and it's just a very like a spark of a gut feeling sometimes and you learn to trust it because the more you trust it then, the more that that intuition starts really speaking to you.

Jason Shelfer: 7:22

Yeah, I can't think of how many times in the past where someone asked me to do something and I would notice my gut intuition and be like you're overbooked right now. Just say no, and then I would say you know what, let me think about it. And I would think for just a brief second and I would say, okay, I can do that, I can fit it in Because you're trying to please people.

Jason Shelfer: 7:42

Yes, If I just listened to my gut expression and recognize that little spark, I would have said you know what? I am overbooked right now. I'm building something particular and this isn't the right space and time for me to work with that or with you on that time for me to work with that.

Jason Shelfer: 7:59

Yeah, or with you on that, but good luck and I might be able to help you out in the future, because there's a way to say no. I don't have to explain myself. I just need to say that doesn't fit into my what I'm working on right now.

Jana Shelfer: 8:16

Yeah.

Jason Shelfer: 8:17

But I wish you the best of luck.

Jana Shelfer: 8:18

And sometimes our intuition is speaking because of a micro facial expression or because of, you know, something that we notice, that maybe we're not conscious of.

Jason Shelfer: 8:33

Yeah, Like, how many times have we gotten into it? Or has someone gotten into a bad deal when they it sounded really good? But their gut expression was like, hey, this, this might be too good or this might be different than what I'm picturing. And they just didn't trust their gut.

Jana Shelfer: 8:51

Yeah, because, then the next level is. Is it my gut speaking, or is it just that I'm uncomfortable? And that this is new, so I mean there's a lot to it but the more. You start diving into all of this, you start figuring out what works for you.

Jason Shelfer: 9:15

I think that's the key Figuring out what your recipe is, what works for you and what makes you feel like you're living the best version of yourself and the best version of your life on a day-to-day basis.

Jana Shelfer: 9:28

So I've taken a lot of NLP classes, which is neuro-linguistic programming, which I absolutely learned so much. I did not learn to the level where I could be on a stage and demonstrate or make it into some sort of performance that wows an audience or some type of manipulation tactic. So I wonder where he was trained.

Jason Shelfer: 9:54

That's a great question. I wish I had been able to stick around and ask him some of these questions. I think a mentalist would be a great interview, but are they like magicians, where they wouldn't give up all this information?

Jana Shelfer: 10:06

All their secrets, because that's their moneymaker.

Jason Shelfer: 10:08

Right.

Jana Shelfer: 10:10

Right, they're not going to tell us everything.

Jason Shelfer: 10:11

Well, I peeked at the names that you wrote down, or I peeked at what you were drawing.

Jana Shelfer: 10:16

So I could draw the same thing. I don't want to go to cheating. I don't want to go to cheating.

Jason Shelfer: 10:20

Well, I don't think it's cheating, because he's doing this in front of 75 people or 100 people and no one notices it. So that's another form of what are we not noticing, whether it's micro expressions or a gut feeling.

Jana Shelfer: 10:34

But like when he said to you pick a number between one and six.

Jason Shelfer: 10:38

One OK.

Jana Shelfer: 10:39

And you were like I'm going to pick four, one and six. And you were like I'm going to pick four. And then he literally picked up his notepad and said they always say four which had been written in his notepad.

Jason Shelfer: 10:50

So there was some type of neuro-linguistic programming that prompted me to move towards the number four, and part of that was that he said pick a number between one and six, which subconsciously kind of eliminates one and six.

Jana Shelfer: 11:08

OK.

Jason Shelfer: 11:08

Right.

Jana Shelfer: 11:09

To you, To me, I would have said I'm going to pick one or I'm going to pick six, maybe If you hadn't heard everything else. Right.

Jason Shelfer: 11:19

So it's possible that you're like in your mind, you know already, know what you're going to pick.

Jana Shelfer: 11:23

He might have been using words like square or right. Or a car, even the wheels on a car, or something that makes you think of four, four, four all these, all these words that could trigger Okay, that has four things, this has four things.

Jason Shelfer: 11:40

Yes, that just gave me goosebumps, because I'm sure that is something that happened. If I had recorded it and played it back, I could probably study it and say okay, what's happening here? Oh, I love it. And we're missing things like this every day in life.

Jana Shelfer: 11:56

So I literally am going to go through today and think what am I not noticing?

Jason Shelfer: 12:01

Oh, or what could I notice? That I haven't noticed before, which I think also leads back into gratitude, like what you appreciate, appreciates. When you notice things that you haven't noticed before, you realize how abundant we are and how we have all the resources right in front of us for whatever we want to create.

Jana Shelfer: 12:23

I'm also going to notice people's expressions, and they're what you call micro expressions, which could literally just be like a twitching eye.

Jason Shelfer: 12:33

Yeah, I get that. Or a flutter of the lip or a second inhale before they speak like that. Ok, here it comes. I'm going to tell you something, some hard news. A lot of people will have that secondary breath right before they start a hard conversation.

Jana Shelfer: 12:50

But the real talent for me is having the confidence to get in front of people. Right and actually get paid to put on a show to demonstrate these techniques.

Jason Shelfer: 13:04

And have that confidence to flip your pad over before you see what someone else wrote down.

Jana Shelfer: 13:09

See, I'm nervous. I'm nervous just thinking about it. Maybe that's a sign that I need to start going in that direction. Pick a number any number between one and six.

Jason Shelfer: 13:21

Between one and three. Pick a number any number. Between one and six. Between one and three.

Jana Shelfer: 13:30

We'll start there Start small, start small, go big. Okay, so we're challenging ourselves to notice even more.

Jason Shelfer: 13:33

Yeah, notice what we haven't noticed. And I think that's going to be a beautiful trip or journey for some people, because there's so much right in your general vicinity that you have fallen into that law of habituation and you've let it slip from your mind and don't realize everything that you have right there in front of you that you can work with.

Jana Shelfer: 13:54

I love it what we learn at the NCK, free Republic County.

Jana Shelfer: 13:59

Fair.

Jason Shelfer: 13:59

Thanks for joining us. Keep Living Lucky® Republic.

Jana Shelfer: 14:00

County. Fair Doing calls to something. Thanks for joining us.

Jason Shelfer: 14:02

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Jana Shelfer: 14:03

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Jana Shelfer: 14:06

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