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Benevolent Brainwashing is a meditative storytelling podcast designed to quiet the noise of modern life and guide listeners into deep states of relaxation and therapeutic self-discovery. Created by Glenn Ostlund, MS, MA, LAC—a practicing therapist with master’s degrees in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and in Folklore and Mythology—this series blends ancient wisdom with modern science, drawing from world religions, creation myths, and cosmology. Each episode features immersive soundscapes ...
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Created by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC—a licensed therapist in Arizona—this guided meditation series is designed to support clients between therapy sessions using evidence-based mindfulness techniques and binaural audio beats. Binaural beats are subtle, rhythmic sound frequencies that guide your brain into restorative states like alpha and theta. Research shows they can reduce anxiety, improve focus, and help shift the nervous system out of chronic stress. This “reset” happens as your brain l ...
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CTL-ALT-CREATE Hosted by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC Therapist • Folklorist • Podcaster Reboot your nervous system. Rewrite your internal code. Reimagine what it means to heal. Control-ALT-Create is an immersive podcast where science meets story, therapy meets sound, and transformation begins from the inside out. Each episode blends neuroscience, clinical insight, and mythic metaphor into a therapeutic soundscape—layered with binaural beats, hypnotic language, and deep emotional resonance. Th ...
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Day 9 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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Day 8 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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Day 7 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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Day 6 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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Day 5 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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Day 4 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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Welcome to the origin story of Control-ALT-Create. In this foundational episode, Glenn Ostlund introduces the philosophy behind the podcast’s name—and its deeper purpose. Drawing from personal reflection, neuroscience, and metaphor, Why We Don’t Delete Anything reframes the familiar keyboard shortcut as a model for conscious transformation. Here, C…
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What if your brain isn’t a factory churning out consciousness, but a filter shaping what you can see, feel, and be? In this episode, Glenn Ostlund, therapist, folklorist, and podcaster, explores one of the oldest questions in both science and myth: Is reality something we build from scratch, or something our minds selectively reveal? Drawing from n…
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What if nothing you’ve been through was actually wasted? In this episode of Control-ALT-Create, Glenn Ostlund dismantles the cultural myth of “wasted time” and invites you to reframe regret through the lens of biology, neuroscience, and emotional growth. Drawing on research in neuroplasticity, trauma recovery, gut microbiome science, and the chemis…
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The Quantum Body and the Seven-Layer Burrito of Existence
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What do quantum fields, trauma recovery, and burritos have in common? Everything. In this second episode of Control-ALT-Create, Glenn Ostlund guides you through a rich, multi-layered meditation on embodiment, consciousness, and the unseen threads that bind reality together. Using the playful metaphor of a “Seven-Layer Burrito of Existence,” Glenn e…
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In this premiere episode of Control-ALT-Create, Glenn Ostlund invites you into the shimmering depths of auditory healing. Inspired by the Star Wars image of a bacta tank—a glowing chamber where wounded bodies float and mend—this immersive sound meditation explores how binaural beats, narrative rhythm, and neural entrainment can become a therapeutic…
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Day 3 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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Day 2 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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Day 1 of 28 in a 28-day guided meditation series created by therapist Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, to help calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and support therapy between sessions. Using binaural audio beats and evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this series is designed to ease you into a powerful daily practice of self-awareness and emo…
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The ANTs go marching 24x7,7 Wanna know why? When? How? And other such reflective riddles… (Yes, you’re getting closer. Remember when kids used sometimes play these kinds of games?)By Glenn Ostlund, MS, MA, LAC
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Because… Maybe… The idea of Letting Go… (might sometimes first mean Letting In)By Glenn Ostlund, MS, MA, LAC
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If you were not here right now, who would be here to read this? In this awe-filled episode of Benevolent Brainwashing, we journey back—not to a single origin, but to the shared hum beneath every creation story ever told. From the Hindu Rigveda’s breathing without breath, to the Hebrew God hovering over primordial waters… from the Tao that cannot be…
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The journey continues… becoming the calm once more, and seeing it through. Each step. A breadcrumb along the pathway. A clue.By Glenn Ostlund, MS, MA, LAC
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In this poetic and powerful opening episode, Benevolent Brainwashing invites you into a new kind of meditation—one that doesn't tell you what to believe, but gently dissolves the noise around belief. Blending sacred texts, ancient wisdom, and scientific wonder, this immersive 10-minute experience speaks directly to the body, the breath, and the qui…
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“The Mind-Body Connection” Benevolent Brainwashing with Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC In this calming and science-informed meditation, Glenn Ostlund invites you to experience the power of sound as a catalyst for healing. Designed to gently soothe the nervous system, this episode explores how binaural beats can lower stress hormones like cortisol while…
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Benevolent (kind) Brainwashing (cleansing)
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Welcome to The Benevolent Brainwashing Podcast — a meditation series designed to soothe the nervous system, slow the mind, and invite gentle change. This first episode, “Benevolent (kind) Brainwashing (cleansing),” is an orientation — a soft, trauma-sensitive introduction to how your brain encodes experience and how it can begin to heal through awa…
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