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 awareness, rhythm, and suggestion. It draws from NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), hypnosis, and the neuroscience of brainwave states — especially theta, the realm of memory, imagination, and integration.
Each episode uses binaural beats — subtle frequencies that guide your brain into calmer states. For the best experience, please use headphones or earbuds while listening.
While this podcast is not therapy in the clinical sense, it is designed to be therapeutic — in the original meaning of the word.
From the Greek therapeia, meaning “to attend, to care, to serve,” these sessions offer support in that spirit: to gently accompany you as you reconnect with yourself… with safety, pacing, and permission.
There’s nothing you have to figure out.
Just press play.
Let your nervous system listen.
Let this be a beginning.
Be alert.
The clues are hidden everywhere in plain sight.
What do they tell you?
What is Benevolent Brainwashing?
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 and binaural audio beats to support nervous system regulation and expanded awareness. These aren’t just meditations—they’re gentle rituals of remembering who and what we really are.