Hypnotic Susceptibility Gone Wrong

A few weeks ago, after I had put my kids to bed, I got an email from Mike Mandel ahead of our scheduled time to record a Brain Software podcast. His email, as usual, was short. It simply said “Read

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Scarcity is a Powerful Influence Tool but Fake Scarcity is Unethical

Yesterday I had the awesome pleasure of emailing those of you on our mailing list to tell you about the Mike Mandel's first DVD training product: Hypnotic Power Inductions: Elegant and Effortless Trance Creation.We've had a solid flow of orders

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The Truth about Inception and Lucid Dreams

This is a guest blog post from Ryan Rivera, who spent 7 years of his life dealing with, and then overcoming, severe panic attacks. Take it away Ryan! If you’ve seen the movie “Inception”, the movie where Leonardo DiCaprio plays

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What Does Hypnosis Have in Common with Clothing?

If you've been paying attention to our podcasts and to the videos that Mike Mandel has started sharing, such as his demonstration of the Elman Induction, you'll know that I have been asking him to do these because of a

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Mike Mandel Demonstrating the Dave Elman Induction

Here is a fantastic video demonstration of Mike Mandel performing the Dave Elman induction with Andrea.Dave Elman is one of the greats in the field of hypnosis. He has actually created many hypnotic inductions, but he is most well known

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Forensic Hypnosis – A Different Approach

Note: This article on Forensic Hypnosis was written by Mike Mandel for ReSource Magazine several years ago. He dug up the original DOC file, so we're publishing it here on the blog for everyone to enjoy. All the events in

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Hypnosis and Visualization: What if You Can’t Visualize?

Self hypnosis CDs often expect for you to be able to visualize various places, events, situations, people, etc.It's safe to say that you need to be able to visualize in order to make the most effective use of hypnosis CDs,

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Self Hypnosis for Insomnia

Can you use self hypnosis for insomnia? Yesterday I got an email from someone on our email list asking for a solution.  She has been studying a foreign language, and the excitement of it all has her lying awake for

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Creating The Esdaile State

This past weekend I completed my Master Practitioner certification in Ericksonian Hypnosis with Mike Mandel.  It was a great experience to be back in Mike's class, learning amazing new skills and meeting a bunch of really cool people.Yesterday, on the

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Self Hypnosis for Weight Loss

“Self hypnosis for weight loss” is the most popular use of self hypnosis that people search for in Google.  I’m sure this has a lot to do with the high percentage of the population that is overweight. But thankfully it also has to

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