The Mike Mandel Hypnosis Blog

Last updated October 17, 2026 Age regression is a therapeutic intervention used to clear out negative emotions from the past. It consists of taking a person back to a past traumatic event and removing the emotional charge from that memory,

Resistance isn’t the enemy. It’s information. If you’re a therapist, counsellor, coach, hypnotist, or any other kind of agent of change, you’ve probably encountered a puzzling situation. A client comes to you and says they desperately want to change. They

They opened their eyes. That’s all you actually know. Years ago, when I was still relatively new to hypnosis, I thought I had to make hypnosis seem impressive. After all, this was hypnosis. Surely people should feel something remarkable. They

Last updated October 4, 2026 Conversational hypnosis is the skill of guiding someone into trance through ordinary conversation, with no formal induction and no script. You pace what the person can already accept as true, then lead them somewhere new,

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

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

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.