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The Mandel Method: How to Master Hypnotic Skills Faster Than Ever

Most people who want to learn hypnosis start in exactly the wrong place.They look for inductions, scripts, or flashy techniques that promise instant results. What they usually get instead is confusion, inconsistency, and the feeling that hypnosis is harder than

Want change? This one question unlocks it

How can something so simple be so incredibly powerful?Let’s talk about a rather fascinating concept that comes from NLP and has proven its worth over and over again.It’s known as the As If frame, sometimes called the Power of Pretending.The

It’s Okay to Be Different

Most people spend their lives trying to fit in, and very few ever stop to ask whether that instinct is actually helping them.The truth is simple and slightly uncomfortable. Humans are wired to follow the crowd. That wiring once kept

Anxiety or Phobia? How to Calm Fear Without Digging Into the Past

Your heart is racing. Your shoulders are tight. Your mind has already leapt ahead to everything that could go wrong.In moments like this, people often ask the same question. Is this anxiety, or is this a phobia?It sounds like a

Why Treating Symptoms Fails and How to Find the Real Core Issue

You can spend hours talking about a problem, understanding it, analyzing it, and even feeling very smart about it… and still change absolutely nothing.If you have ever wondered why some issues seem to improve temporarily and then mysteriously return, or

When Words Matter Too Much… or Not at All

Does it really matter what we call it? Does it matter at all?It has always amused me how easily people get stuck on words. Entire discussions, and sometimes outright arguments, get derailed because someone insists on defending a label rather

Your Words Are More Dangerous Than You Think

All language is hypnotic…Even this sentence…We humans are an unusual species in many ways.Crows can use tools. Dolphins can communicate. Gorillas can learn signs. But none of them come close to what humans do with language. We don’t just signal

The Breadcrumb Effect: How Small Decisions Quietly Shape Your Entire Life

Imagine being able to trace your entire life back to one ordinary moment. Not a dramatic turning point. Not a bold, cinematic decision. Just a small choice that barely registered at the time, yet quietly shaped everything that followed.This is

NLP Timeline Shifts for Beginners

Most people think of time as something that ticks forward on a clock. Seconds, minutes, years moving along in a straight line. But the brain does something far more interesting. It stores time in space. And once this becomes visible,

The $2 Book That Changed Everything

Looking forward to the future of hypnosis training… and looking back to the beginning…As the year comes to a close and my 73rd birthday approaches, I’ve found myself thinking about where all of this started, how far it has come,

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