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The Trance of Familiarity: Why You Stopped Seeing Your Own Life

When you move, you break the trance. My wife said that to me recently, and the more I thought about it, the more interesting the idea became. Most of us don’t realize just how hypnotic ordinary life can become because

How to Calibrate and Deepen Trance in Hypnosis: Secrets from the Experts

What if I told you that you can make your hypnosis sessions more effective, more enjoyable, and more rewarding by learning two simple skills? These skills are calibration and deepening trance, and they are essential for any hypnotist who wants

The Best Hypnotic Trance Deepener

Last updated September 27, 2026 There is no single best hypnotic trance deepener, but there is a best one for each job. The simplest is the preframe, which we call Mike's Universal Deepener: three sentences, then you stop talking and

Nobody Learns to Swim Beside the Pool

You can study swimming for years. Breathing, body position, stroke mechanics, buoyancy, technique. You can watch Olympic swimmers and become impressively knowledgeable about what good swimming is supposed to look like. But eventually, you have to get in the pool.

The Dave Elman Induction: How to Master This Classic and Essentially Perfect Hypnotic Induction

Last updated: September 13, 2026 Every hypnotist needs to know how to do the Elman Induction. It's an easy and incredibly powerful hypnotic induction. It takes less than 4 minutes to achieve a somnambulistic trance in most cases. It's also

You Can’t Be Anything You Want

Try squeezing toothpaste back into the tube… That was my father's answer when I told him I could learn to do anything at all. He was right, and it turned out to be one of the more freeing things anyone

Sometimes Grief Is Asking Us to Finish a Conversation

It’s widely considered to be one of the most painful human experiences… Eventually, everyone grieves. There’s no getting around it. Because if we live long enough, we're going to lose people we love, animals we adore, relationships we thought would

The “Bad Subject” Myth

He was a poor hypnotic subject… That's the excuse. I used to make it too. When I first started doing hypnosis shows, one of my greatest fears was that one night I would walk onto a stage, invite a group

The Jeweler’s Hammer: Why Doing Less Can Create More Change

The most powerful change in a person’s inner world may begin with something so small that it is easy to miss. A slight shift in distance. A subtle change in size. A small adjustment to something that feels uncomfortable. Sometimes,

What Mike Mandel Changed His Mind About After Decades of Hypnosis

Hypnosis can look complicated from the outside. There are inductions to learn, techniques to practice, protocols to remember, theories to understand, and countless ways to approach a client. After decades of working with hypnosis, Mike Mandel arrived at a surprisingly

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