A five-minute wait can feel endless, while an entire evening with people you love can disappear in what seems like a few moments. A long flight can feel surprisingly short, yet a few minutes of anxious anticipation can stretch into what feels like an hour. The clock keeps moving at the same speed, but the experience of time can change dramatically.

That strange flexibility reveals something important about the human mind: chronological time and perceived time are not the same thing. Time is measured by clocks and calendars, yet it is experienced through attention, emotion, memory, anticipation, and mental states. Hypnosis provides a particularly interesting way to explore that difference because it can influence how people experience the passage of time, remember the past, and mentally approach the future.

Understanding time perception can offer a different perspective on everyday experiences such as anxiety, pain, boredom, meaningful memories, and peak experiences. It also raises an intriguing possibility: instead of treating time as something that simply happens to us, it may be possible to develop a more useful relationship with the way time is experienced.

Why Does Time Seem to Go Faster as We Get Older?

The sensation that time accelerates with age is remarkably common. Childhood can seem expansive, with individual summers, school years, and holidays occupying enormous spaces in memory. Later in life, entire years can seem to disappear with surprising speed.

One explanation discussed in relation to subjective time is that each passing year represents a progressively smaller percentage of a person's life. Five years is a substantial portion of the life of an eighteen-year-old. The same five years represent a much smaller proportion of the life of someone who is fifty.

Memory also influences the way periods of life are experienced retrospectively. Repetitive stretches of time can become mentally compressed, while emotionally significant experiences tend to remain more vivid and accessible. A period containing few distinctive events may later seem to have passed quickly because fewer individual memories are separating one point from another.

This highlights an important distinction between chronological time and psychological time. A calendar measures duration objectively, while the mind constructs an experience of duration based on what happens during that period and how those experiences are represented in memory.

Perceived Time Is Elastic

Time perception is surprisingly flexible. Enjoyable experiences often seem to pass quickly, particularly when attention is absorbed in something engaging. Flow states, sleep, deep hypnosis, and general anesthesia can all produce experiences in which significant amounts of chronological time seem to pass almost instantly.

The opposite experience is called time dilation. Anxiety, pain, boredom, danger, and waiting can make relatively short periods feel much longer than they actually are.

Consider the simple experience of waiting for something stressful to happen. The clock may move forward normally, but attention becomes focused on the unresolved situation. Every moment is noticed. The result can be a powerful sense that time has slowed down.

An enjoyable evening produces almost the opposite effect. Attention becomes absorbed in the experience itself, reducing awareness of the passage of time. Hours can disappear before there is any strong sense that they have passed.

This is the fascinating part of subjective time: the clock does not need to change for the experience of time to change.

How Hypnosis Can Influence Time Perception

Hypnosis offers ways of deliberately working with this natural flexibility in time perception. Suggestions given during hypnosis can be used to create experiences of time compression or time dilation, depending on the desired outcome.

Time compression can be useful when an experience is uncomfortable, tedious, or physically demanding. A long journey, for example, may seem considerably shorter when a person enters a hypnotic state and alters their subjective experience of the passing hours.

Self-hypnosis can also be used as a way of changing the perception of time during prolonged experiences. For example, a long flight taken while dealing with a painful injury. By repeatedly entering trance between meals and other interruptions, the flight can be experienced as a series of much shorter periods rather than one continuous stretch of many hours.

The principle is simple: chronological time remains unchanged, while subjective time can be represented differently.

The same concept can be applied in the other direction. A deeply enjoyable experience can be deliberately expanded in awareness, allowing greater attention to its sights, sounds, sensations, and emotions. The goal is to make the experience feel more substantial and memorable.

Hypnosis, Pain, and Time Compression

Pain can also distort the experience of time. When attention becomes focused on discomfort, every moment can become more noticeable, making the experience seem longer and more intense.

Hypnotic time compression offers one way of changing that relationship. Using hypnosis, the perceived duration of an unpleasant experience so that it occupies less psychological space. Pain management with hypnosis is also possible.

This does not mean that chronological time has somehow been removed. Instead, the subjective representation of the experience changes. A long period of discomfort can potentially be experienced as a much shorter interval. The emphasis is on changing perception and awareness, rather than pretending that the underlying physical experience does not exist.

Your Memories Are Not Perfect Recordings of the Past

The relationship between time and memory becomes even more interesting when considering how memories are formed and recalled.

A memory is not a perfect recording that can simply be played back without alteration. Each time a memory is accessed, its representation can change slightly. Confidence in a memory does not automatically guarantee that every detail is historically accurate.

This matters because the way the past is represented in the mind influences how the past feels in the present.

An emotionally significant event may seem surprisingly close even when many years have passed. Conversely, long periods containing repetitive experiences may feel compressed when viewed retrospectively.

Memory therefore becomes part of subjective time. The mind does not simply remember when something happened. It also organizes how close, distant, vivid, important, or emotionally charged that experience feels.

When the Past Feels Like It Is Still Happening

Some emotional experiences remain powerful long after the original event has ended. Phobias provide a straightforward example. A person who experienced a frightening encounter with something during childhood may react years later as though the old threat is still present.

The historical event is in the past, but the emotional response can be activated in the present.

Hypnotic age regression offers a way of revisiting these experiences and changing their emotional representation. The purpose is not to claim that historical events literally happened differently. Instead, the focus is on changing the way those events are encoded and experienced emotionally.

This distinction is important when discussing hypnosis and trauma. The historical facts remain historical facts. The therapeutic concept described in the material involves changing the emotional relationship to the memory.

NLP Timelines and the Way the Mind Organizes Time

(Read: NLP Timelines: The Secret Mental Map That Changes Everything)

People often have an internal sense of where the past, present, and future exist in relation to their bodies. For one person, the past might feel as though it is behind them and the future lies ahead. Someone else may organize those experiences differently.

These internal timelines are subjective representations rather than physical structures, yet changing them can produce interesting shifts in experience.

This illustrates a broader concept in hypnosis and NLP: changing the structure of an internal representation can sometimes change the experience associated with it.

Chronos and Kairos: Two Ways of Experiencing Time

The ancient Greek language provides a useful distinction for understanding the quality of time.

Chronos refers to measurable, chronological time. It is the time represented by clocks, calendars, schedules, hours, days, and years. Chronos describes the quantity of time available.

Kairos refers to meaningful moments. It describes experiences that stand out because of their significance, emotional richness, or personal importance.

A life can contain a great deal of Chronos without containing enough Kairos.

This distinction changes the question from “How can more time be found?” to “How can the available time become more meaningful?”

A memorable trip, an extraordinary meal, an important relationship, a peak achievement, or a deeply meaningful conversation can become a Kairos moment. These experiences can remain psychologically vivid long after the chronological moment has ended.

Creating more meaningful moments may therefore be one way to make life feel richer without requiring more hours on the clock.

How to Make Positive Memories More Vivid

One practical exercise involves strengthening the sensory representation of a meaningful memory.

Start by returning mentally to an experience that felt important, enjoyable, or deeply meaningful. Allow the memory to become vivid and notice what was visible, what could be heard, and what was being felt.

Then increase the sensory detail. Make the visual experience clearer. Notice the sounds more fully. Intensify the positive emotions. Most importantly, experience the memory from your own perspective rather than watching yourself from a distance.

By amplifying the different sensory and emotional components of a positive experience, the memory can become more richly represented and potentially easier to access later.

The exercise proves that meaningful experiences can be given greater psychological presence through deliberate attention.

Creating a More Resourceful Future Self

The same principles can be applied to the future.

A future pacing exercise involves creating a mental representation of a future version of yourself who is healthy, happy, calm, successful, and living well. This technique gives the mind a clearer direction and can help influence present choices and behavior.

The future, like the past, exists partly through mental representation. The past is reconstructed through memory, while the future is constructed through imagination and expectation.

That creates an intriguing connection between hypnosis, time perception, and personal development. Changing how the future is represented can influence how the present is approached.

How Much Time Do You Really Have?

The most useful question about time may have little to do with clocks.

How much time is actually available for the things that matter? What is the best possible use of time that seems to be in short supply? How might life feel a year from now if nothing changes? How might it feel if meaningful changes have taken place?

These questions shift attention away from the constant feeling of being behind and toward deliberate choices about how time is used.

Time management often focuses on squeezing more activities into a schedule. A deeper relationship with time asks whether those activities deserve the time they consume.

Every hour spent scrolling, worrying, waiting, or dealing with unnecessary distractions is still part of a finite life. Time cannot be recovered once it has passed.

Protect Your Now

Time is finite, which makes each moment surprisingly important.

Hypnosis provides one fascinating framework for exploring time compression, time dilation, memory, emotional learning, timeline work, and future visualization. It suggests that subjective time is considerably more flexible than it appears.

There is also a simpler lesson. Spend time with people who matter. Pay attention to experiences worth remembering. Protect attention from unnecessary distractions. Make meaningful moments memorable.

Chronos will continue moving forward. The opportunity is to create more Kairos along the way.

A richer relationship with time may begin with recognizing that the most valuable moments are not necessarily the longest ones. They are the moments that become deeply meaningful, vividly remembered, and fully experienced.

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A memory can feel completely different depending on where the mind is standing.

Picture a difficult conversation from years ago. Suddenly, the words seem vivid again. The facial expressions return. The tension comes back into the body as though the event is happening all over again. Now change one thing. Instead of seeing the experience through your own eyes, picture yourself standing across the room watching the entire scene like a movie.

The event has not changed. The facts have not changed. Yet the emotional experience can change dramatically.

That's the difference between associated and dissociated states in hypnosis. Understanding that distinction can help explain why some mental images intensify emotions while others create distance from them. It can also reveal an important principle for hypnosis, visualization, and personal change: the way a person mentally represents an experience can influence how that experience feels and what happens next.

What Does 'Associated' Mean in Hypnosis?

An associated experience happens when a person experiences a memory or imagined event from their own perspective. The experience is seen through their own eyes, as though they are back inside the event.

Instead of watching a past conversation from across the room, the person sees the other person's face directly. Instead of watching themselves run a race, they experience the scene through their own eyes, seeing the track ahead and feeling the movement of their body.

Association can make an experience more vivid because attention is directed toward the sights, sounds, sensations, and emotions that occur from within the experience. In hypnosis and guided visualization, this can be particularly useful when the goal is to increase emotional intensity.

A positive memory can become more compelling when experienced from the inside. A meaningful achievement, an exciting moment, or a joyful personal experience may feel richer when the mental representation is associated.

The basic principle is straightforward: association tends to increase emotional involvement.

What Does 'Dissociated' Mean in Hypnosis?

A dissociated experience happens when a person mentally steps outside the experience and observes themselves from the outside.

Instead of looking through their own eyes, they can see themselves in the mental picture. It is similar to watching a movie in which they are one of the characters.

This creates psychological distance between the observer and the experience.

Dissociation is often used in hypnosis because changing the viewpoint of a memory can change its emotional intensity. A person thinking about an embarrassing conversation might feel uncomfortable when reliving it from their own perspective. Seeing the same event from several feet away can create a very different response.

The memory remains recognizable, but the emotional charge may become less intense.

This makes dissociation a useful concept for understanding visualization and other hypnotic techniques. Changing the perspective can sometimes change the experience.

Associated vs Dissociated: A Simple Way to Tell the Difference

There is an easy test for identifying whether a mental experience is associated or dissociated.

Ask one question: Can the person see themselves in the mental image?

If the person sees themselves in the scene, the experience is dissociated. They are observing themselves from the outside.

If they are looking through their own eyes and cannot see themselves, the experience is associated. They are experiencing the event from within.

This distinction can be surprisingly powerful because the difference may involve only a shift in visual perspective. Yet that shift can influence the emotional response connected to the memory or imagined event.

Using Dissociation During Turbulence

The concept becomes especially interesting when applied to an immediate emotional reaction.

Someone who dislikes flying may become highly anxious when an airplane encounters turbulence. The body reacts quickly. Muscles tense, attention narrows, and the imagination may begin producing increasingly alarming scenarios.

A dissociative visualization can introduce distance into the experience.

The person can mentally picture floating outside the airplane and viewing the aircraft from above. The plane can become smaller in the mental image, with the person observing the scene from a greater distance.

For some people, that shift in perspective can reduce the emotional intensity of the moment.

This illustrates a broader principle behind hypnosis and visualization techniques. The mind does not respond only to the content of an image. The way the image is represented can matter too.

Why Future Goals Require a Different Approach

Here is where associated and dissociated visualization becomes especially interesting.

A memory is something that has already happened. A goal is something that has not happened yet.

That difference changes how visualization can be used.

Suppose someone wants to become healthier, fitter, or more confident. It may seem logical to visualize the desired outcome as though it has already been completely achieved. The person might see themselves as already having the body, lifestyle, confidence, or success they want.

There can be a problem with taking that idea too literally.

If the mind treats the desired outcome as finished, there may be less psychological urgency to pursue the behaviors required to achieve it. The imagined destination has already been reached.

This is the humorous trap behind the idea of becoming “already fabulously wealthy.” If the mind genuinely treats the goal as finished, there is suddenly very little reason to keep working toward it.

The point is not that positive visualization is useless. Quite the opposite. The important question is how the desired future is represented.

Why the Desired Future Can Be More Useful When Dissociated

A powerful approach is to create a compelling mental representation of a future version of the person and view that version from the outside.

The future self can be healthy, energetic, confident, skilled, calm, or successful. The details should make sense for the individual's actual goal.

The important distinction is that this future version is something to move toward.

The person is not being told, at an unconscious level, that the goal has already been completed. Instead, the mind receives a clear representation of a desirable direction.

This is one reason dissociated visualization for goals can be useful in hypnosis. The imagined future becomes a target rather than a declaration that the journey is finished.

The future version can then become a powerful reference point for the behaviors that lead toward it.

From Seeing the Future Self to Integrating the Change

There is another useful step in this visualization process.

After creating a compelling image of the desired future self, the person can mentally bring that representation closer. The image can become more vivid, more detailed, and more emotionally meaningful. The person can then imagine physically reaching toward that future version and bringing it into themselves.

This creates a useful distinction between having already achieved the goal and installing a direction for change.

The visualization does not have to communicate, “The goal is finished.”

Instead, it can communicate something closer to, “This is the direction. This is the version of life being built. These are the qualities and behaviors worth moving toward.”

That framing can make the imagined future more actionable.

A Crucial Principle: Don't Reinforce the Problem State

There is an important caution for anyone using visualization in hypnosis or personal development.

It is generally unhelpful to repeatedly strengthen someone's identification with an unwanted problem. If a person constantly imagines themselves as anxious, unhealthy, incapable, or stuck, the visualization may reinforce the very identity they want to change.

The goal is not to make the problem representation more compelling.

Instead, useful hypnosis techniques can create distance from unwanted experiences while building a clear and attractive representation of the desired direction.

This does not mean that every hypnotic technique follows one rigid rule. Different therapeutic goals can require different approaches. The associated and dissociated distinction is best understood as a flexible tool for thinking about how mental perspective influences experience.

How Associated and Dissociated States Can Be Used Outside Hypnosis

The principles of association and dissociation are not limited to formal hypnosis sessions.

They can also be useful when thinking about mental rehearsal, visualization, emotional regulation, public speaking, sports performance, and personal development.

A person preparing for a presentation might associate into the experience to rehearse what it feels like to stand confidently in front of an audience. Someone dealing with an ordinary embarrassing memory might benefit from viewing the event from a more detached perspective.

The key is to ask what the mental representation is supposed to accomplish.

If the goal is greater emotional involvement, association may be useful.

If the goal is greater psychological distance, dissociation may be useful.

If the goal is future change, the representation of the desired outcome deserves particular attention. A compelling future image can provide direction without creating the impression that the work is already finished.

The Perspective Can Change the Experience

The fascinating part of associated and dissociated visualization is that the event itself does not necessarily have to change.

The memory stays the same.

The circumstances stay the same.

The person simply changes the perspective from which the experience is being represented.

Looking through the eyes of the person inside the experience can increase emotional involvement. Seeing the person from the outside can create distance and reduce emotional intensity.

When applied to future goals, that same distinction becomes a useful way of thinking about motivation and behavioral change. The desired future can be made vivid and compelling without mentally confusing the destination with the current reality.

That is the real value of understanding associated vs dissociated states in hypnosis. Sometimes changing the experience does not begin with changing what is in the picture. It begins by changing where the mind is standing in relation to the picture.

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It attracts some of the strangest people…

I first began learning hypnosis in the summer of 1965, and ten years later, I turned professional.

Since most of my hypnosis skills were forged onstage over more than 40 years, I met thousands of nice people fascinated by what a hypnotist could do, when working with complete strangers. But some people were just plain weird.

Like The Shrugger, whom I met after a stage show at the Landmark Hotel in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

He was a pleasant enough guy who said he wanted to talk to me about hypnosis. I was in a bit of a rush to get back to my room and catch some sleep, but I agreed to answer a few questions before heading out of the nightclub.

He looked at me, turned his hands palms up, said, “So…” and shrugged.

I waited for him to continue, but he just stood there in an increasingly uncomfortable silence. Then he shrugged again.

I asked what he wanted to talk about.

“You know…” he replied, followed by another shrug.

I pride myself on my communication skills, but despite my best efforts to pry some actual words out of him, he just kept looking at me, spreading his arms and shrugging. After about ten fruitless minutes of this, I told him I had to go and turned toward the elevator.

“Why won’t you talk to me?” he pleaded.

“Because you don’t say anything!” I replied.

Nice guy, but there are definite limits to how many content-free shrugs a hypnotist can handle.

Then there was The Stop Sign Woman in Ottawa, Canada’s capital.

I was doing a corporate show in a rented nightclub with a dance floor. About 100 people were in the audience, chairs had been set up for the hypnosis show, and everything was going well as my hypnotized volunteers were shark fishing from the deck of a cabin cruiser.

Then, to their amazement, a woman came up from the audience, and walked across the surface of the imaginary water and shouted, “Stop right now! We don’t want to watch this show. We want to dance!”

I explained that the dance was scheduled for later and that I couldn’t stop because I was under contract to perform, but she kept ordering me to “Stop immediately!” until security finally intervened and dragged her off the dance floor.

On another occasion, I was booked for a company event at a resort in Northern Ontario. I arrived around 7:00 p.m., and my smiling corporate contact greeted me with these unforgettable words:

“They’re really ready for this! They’ve been drinking since two o’clock!”

Excellent.

What a perfect way to begin a show that required intelligence and concentration.

Against the odds, I actually got the hypnosis working, until a drunken moron climbed onto the stage and poured a full bottle of beer into the face of one of the volunteers lying on the floor. I brought the show to an immediate end.

And I still got paid.

In retrospect, the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto provided one of the strangest volunteers I’ve ever encountered.

He emerged from the wings and walked directly toward me instead of using the stairs like everyone else. He was wearing military fatigues and had what looked like a nasty knife scar running down one side of his face. But it was his eyes that were truly unsettling. He had the thousand-yard stare you sometimes notice in military veterans, who have seen, and perhaps done, far too much.

“I’ve come 400 miles for this…” was all he said unblinkingly, as he took his seat.

If we were playing Spot the Terrorist, the entire audience would have chosen him.

My friend and driver, Craig Tutton, quietly moved to the end of the stage nearest the man, and kept him under observation for the entire show, just in case. Fortunately, the show ended without incident, but he really creeped me out.

So yes, hypnosis attracts some very strange people, but it also attracts some of the nicest people in the world.. 

Our online training and our live Architecture of Hypnosis classes in Toronto draw from first-rate therapists, medical doctors, psychiatrists, and a host of other outstanding students. 

Compared to the characters I met onstage, I’m sure you can guess which group I prefer…

- Mike Mandel

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Big goals often begin with a burst of excitement. A new fitness routine, a productivity system, a budgeting plan, or a commitment to learn a new skill can feel inspiring at first. Then reality sets in. Progress seems slow, motivation fades, and before long, old habits quietly return.

The problem is not usually a lack of discipline. More often, it is a lack of momentum.

The Momentum Method offers a practical approach to creating lasting change by combining several small actions that all support the same goal. Instead of relying on one habit to produce dramatic results, multiple manageable behaviors work together to create visible progress more quickly. That early success builds confidence, reinforces motivation, and makes it easier to keep going.

Whether the goal is improving health, becoming more productive, strengthening relationships, or gaining control of personal finances, the Momentum Method provides a simple framework for making meaningful progress without relying on willpower alone.

What Is the Momentum Method?

Many people are familiar with the idea of incrementalism. Small actions performed consistently can lead to significant results over time. Doing a few pushups each morning, making healthier food choices, or spending a few minutes reading each day may seem insignificant, but those habits can add up.

The challenge is that a single small habit often takes weeks or even months to produce noticeable results. During that waiting period, it is easy to become discouraged and quit.

The Momentum Method addresses this problem by stacking several complementary actions together. Each habit is still small and manageable, but instead of working in isolation, they reinforce one another. The combined effect creates faster feedback, making progress easier to see and maintain.

Rather than asking one habit to carry the entire load, every small action contributes to moving the goal forward.

Why Momentum Makes Change Easier

Momentum creates a positive cycle. Small wins increase confidence. Confidence encourages more action. More action yields better results, which in turn strengthens motivation even further.

Without momentum, every decision can feel like starting over. Each workout, healthy meal, or focused work session becomes another internal debate about whether it is worth the effort.

With momentum, the next step feels like a natural continuation of the previous one. Instead of asking whether there is enough motivation to begin, the focus shifts to identifying the next obvious action.

This subtle change in mindset reduces resistance and helps make consistency feel much more natural.

Using the Momentum Method for Better Health

Health goals often fail because people try to transform everything overnight. Extreme diets, exhausting workout plans, and unrealistic expectations usually lead to burnout instead of lasting results.

A better approach is to combine several sustainable habits that support one another.

Cleaning unhealthy foods out of the kitchen makes nutritious choices easier. Planning meals reduces impulsive eating. Increasing protein intake supports muscle growth and recovery. Daily walks increase activity levels. Scheduling sleep improves recovery and energy. Tracking progress provides valuable feedback, while accountability helps maintain consistency.

None of these actions are overwhelming on their own. Together, they create momentum that makes healthy living easier to sustain.

Improve Productivity by Attacking the Problem from Multiple Angles

Productivity is rarely about working longer hours. It is usually about removing obstacles that prevent meaningful work from happening.

The Momentum Method encourages making several small improvements at the same time. Clearing unnecessary meetings from the calendar creates more focused work time. Reducing distractions makes concentration easier. Organizing the workspace eliminates visual clutter. Closing unnecessary browser tabs reduces mental noise. Setting deadlines and sharing them with someone else increases accountability.

Each adjustment may seem minor, but together they create an environment where productive work becomes the default rather than the exception.

Learn Faster by Reinforcing Knowledge

Learning becomes much more effective when information is reinforced through multiple formats.

Reading books builds understanding, while watching lectures presents ideas from a different perspective. Taking notes encourages active engagement, discussing concepts deepens comprehension, and teaching someone else reveals how well the material has been understood. Applying new knowledge as quickly as possible helps turn information into practical skill.

Modern AI tools can also support this process by creating summaries, generating study materials, or presenting information in different formats. Consuming the same ideas in several ways helps strengthen retention and accelerates learning.

Build Stronger Relationships with Consistent Small Actions

Relationships rarely improve because of one grand romantic gesture or one important conversation.

Lasting trust is built through consistent everyday behaviors.

Listening carefully, expressing appreciation, spending quality time together, offering sincere apologies, showing affection, resolving small conflicts quickly, sharing humor, and practicing kindness all contribute to stronger relationships.

Just as healthy habits create physical momentum, positive interactions create relationship momentum.

Create Financial Momentum

Financial progress often feels overwhelming because many people focus only on the biggest problems.

The Momentum Method encourages addressing finances from several directions at once.

Tracking spending increases awareness. Reviewing subscriptions identifies unnecessary expenses. Negotiating better service plans can reduce monthly costs. Limiting impulse purchases prevents money from disappearing unnoticed. Selling or donating unused possessions creates both physical and financial space.

Perhaps most importantly, confronting financial challenges instead of avoiding them makes them far less intimidating. Once spending becomes visible, better decisions become much easier to make.

Avoid the Biggest Mistake

Momentum should never be confused with intensity.

Trying to accomplish everything at once often leads to exhaustion. Extreme diets, marathon workouts, and dramatic lifestyle changes may create excitement in the beginning, but they are difficult to sustain.

The Momentum Method is built on sustainable actions that complement one another. The objective is to create enough forward movement that continuing feels easier than stopping.

Small actions become powerful when they work together.

Put the Momentum Method into Practice

The easiest way to begin is by choosing one area of life and defining one clear goal.

From there, identify several simple actions that all support that objective. Adjust the environment to make those actions easier to perform, schedule them into the week, measure one meaningful sign of progress, and review the results after several days. If something is not working, make small adjustments rather than abandoning the entire plan.

Real change rarely comes from one dramatic decision. It comes from a collection of small, intentional actions working together toward the same destination. When those actions begin reinforcing one another, progress becomes easier to see, motivation becomes easier to maintain, and lasting habits become far more achievable.

Momentum creates more momentum, and that is often the difference between another abandoned goal and meaningful, lasting change.

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A confident professional freezes at the thought of speaking in front of a group. A capable driver suddenly feels panic every time the steering wheel comes into view. Someone who enjoys meeting new people still struggles with social anxiety because of an embarrassing moment that happened years ago. These reactions can seem irrational, but they are surprisingly common. Even more importantly, they reveal something essential about how emotional problems work.

Many people believe healing comes from talking about the past or understanding why a problem exists. While insight can certainly be valuable, it is often not enough to create lasting change. Emotional healing happens when the part of the mind carrying the problem becomes active in the present. This is why experienced therapists and hypnosis practitioners often focus on activating the problem state before attempting to resolve it.

Understanding why this process works can transform the way emotional challenges such as social anxiety, driving anxiety, fears, and trauma are approached.

Understanding Ego States and Emotional Problems

Modern neuroscience recognizes that people naturally move through different emotional and behavioral states throughout the day. These are often called ego states or parts. Rather than having a single, fixed personality, people access different ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving depending on the situation.

One state may feel confident during an important business meeting. Another may become playful around close friends. Yet another may carry fear, embarrassment, or anxiety that was formed during a difficult experience earlier in life.

This becomes especially important in therapy because emotional problems are often stored within a specific ego state rather than affecting every aspect of a person's personality equally. Someone may function exceptionally well in most areas of life while feeling completely overwhelmed in one particular situation.

That distinction explains why simply discussing a problem intellectually does not always create meaningful change.

Why Talking About a Problem Is Not Always Enough

Many people can describe exactly why they struggle with anxiety or fear. They know when it started and can explain every detail of the original event. Yet despite understanding the story, the emotional response remains the same.

The reason is simple: The logical mind is doing the talking while the emotional part holding the problem remains inactive.

Effective emotional healing requires working with the part that actually experiences the fear. If that state is not present, therapy may become an interesting conversation rather than a transformational experience.

Activating the problem state allows the therapist to work directly with the emotional pattern that needs to change instead of speaking only with the analytical mind.

Why Activating the Problem State Matters

The phrase "activate the problem state" may sound intimidating, but the process is actually quite straightforward.

Rather than asking someone to describe what happened years ago, shift their attention toward how the situation feels right now. A person with social anxiety may be invited to think about walking into a crowded room. Someone with driving anxiety might picture sitting behind the steering wheel.

The important question is not how frightening the experience was in the past. The important question is how the body responds in the present moment.

This distinction makes all the difference because emotional problems exist as current experiences, not simply as memories.

Emotions Live in the Body

Every emotion has a physical component. Anxiety may feel like tightness in the chest. Fear might appear as a knot in the stomach. Embarrassment can create warmth in the face or tension throughout the body.

When attention shifts from simply remembering an event to noticing these physical sensations, the emotional state becomes active.

This is the point where meaningful therapeutic work begins.

Rather than saying, "That experience was terrible," the person begins noticing, "The anxiety is building right now." That shift moves the experience from an intellectual discussion into a genuine emotional process.

Measuring Emotional Intensity Creates a Starting Point

Our SUDs scale ranges from zero to ten. We use it to measure emotional activation.

Zero represents no emotional discomfort, while ten represents the strongest intensity imaginable.

This rating provides a useful baseline before any intervention begins. It also helps both the therapist and the client recognize genuine progress as the emotional intensity changes over time.

Perhaps more importantly, assigning a number encourages the person to become aware of the emotional experience instead of avoiding it.

Why Increasing the Feeling Can Actually Help

At first glance, asking someone to make the feeling stronger seems completely backwards. After all, most people assume therapy should immediately reduce uncomfortable emotions. However, temporarily increasing the emotional intensity serves a powerful psychological purpose.

When someone discovers they can intentionally raise the intensity from a seven to an eight or nine, something remarkable happens. The mind starts recognizing an important truth. If the feeling can be increased voluntarily, it can also be reduced.

This subtle realization creates a greater sense of control, even before the therapeutic intervention is complete.

Lasting Emotional Healing Starts in the Present

Many emotional challenges continue for years because treatment focuses on the story rather than the current emotional experience.

Whether someone struggles with social anxiety, driving anxiety, public speaking fears, or lingering emotional reactions from past events, meaningful change begins when the problem state becomes active in the present.

Activating the problem state is not about making someone suffer. It is about identifying the exact emotional state that needs attention so it can finally be transformed.

When therapy works with the right ego state at the right time, emotional healing becomes far more effective. Instead of simply understanding the problem, the mind has the opportunity to update old emotional patterns and replace them with healthier, more adaptive responses that support lasting change.

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You can own every tool in the hardware store and still be a terrible carpenter. The same is true for hypnosis: having a binder full of scripts and inductions won't make you a master practitioner if you don't understand the underlying framework of how and when to use them.

In this episode, Mike Mandel and Chris Thompson reveal the Mandel Method of Hypnosis, shifting the focus away from rigid protocols and toward three pillars of good hypnotic work: rapport, calibration, and flexibility. Whether you're a professional hypnotherapist or simply looking to level up your everyday communication, these three pillars are the absolute secret to unlocking genuine influence and psychological safety.

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The twenty pound steel cylinder exploded off its welded base, slammed into the ceiling of the gymnasium, and then fell into the crowd…

It was the best of times and the worst of times back in 1978.

I was on tour with my hypnosis show, and we’d made it bigger, louder, and far more elaborate than ever before. Originally, I performed out of nothing more than a briefcase. I’d begin with a few mentalism demonstrations to warm up the audience, then launch into the hypnosis with about thirty volunteers.

It was a wonderful way to perform because every show was different. I never quite knew who would come up onstage, or how they’d react to my suggestions. That unpredictability was part of the excitement. One fellow, convinced the Titanic was sinking beneath him, swam frantically across the stage to save himself. You couldn’t script moments like that, and I wouldn’t have wanted to.

Then everything changed when my manager had an idea on how to make the show better, and proceeded to arrange a brand-new stage show, in which hypnosis would be incidental, rather than the entire point.

With a set that resembled the bridge of a starship, complete with sixty-four square feet of fibre optics and enormous rear projection screens, we were about as cutting edge as a hypnosis show could be. Our crew spent three hours setting everything up before each performance and another ninety minutes tearing it all down afterwards. All of that effort was so my hypnotic subjects could experience a journey into outer space, complete with angry aliens, weightlessness, explosions overhead, and enough spectacle to make a science fiction movie proud.

Through the magic of theatrical effects, I didn’t even walk onto the stage. I materialized through a scrim curtain of hand-threaded LED lights as if I’d beamed aboard from another galaxy.

Then came the launch sequence.

The sound of enormous rocket engines shook the building, and you could actually feel the vibration in your chest. At exactly the right moment, eight foot flames erupted from both sides of the stage, fired from two heavy steel cylinders loaded with smokeless shotgun powder. The entire sequence was triggered by one of my crew from an offstage control panel, and every night it brought the house down.

At least, when everything worked properly.

The show had grown from ninety minutes to nearly two and a half hours. I was performing constantly, on the road continuously, and becoming completely exhausted. Agents and managers never seemed to understand that a stage performance actually requires energy. They happily accepted every booking that came along. 

Sometimes there wasn’t even time to eat before the show. I’d be performing, feeling like I was starving to death, while my crew enjoyed submarine sandwiches that had conveniently arrived after I’d already gone onstage.

I was physically worn out and chronically unhappy, although I didn’t fully admit it to myself. And I was on salary too, so I got paid the same, no matter how many shows I did. 

Then everything came to a head.

One night the heavy steel flame projector exploded off its mounting, shot into the gymnasium ceiling, and crashed back down into the audience. Miraculously, nobody was struck. Had it landed elsewhere, someone could easily have been killed.

The cause was simple. My manager had sent a young high school student helper to the hardware store for smokeless shotgun powder; the stuff the flame projectors were designed to use. Instead, he came back with black powder, which is vastly more explosive and completely unsuitable for what we were doing.

That wasn’t our only close call.

During a show in the southern United States, our indoor pyrotechnics refused to ignite properly because of the humidity. Rather than cancel the effect, my manager decided to improvise. Having run out of flash paper, he substituted ordinary paper napkins. Predictably, they caught fire and drifted down into the audience. One young woman ended up with ashes and debris in her eye.

By this point I’d gone from being a minimalist performer who amazed audiences with little more than skill, personality, and a briefcase, to becoming one small cog in an increasingly dangerous theatrical machine.

The final straw came in Ottawa.

Our pyrotechnic effects had been specially designed by Lunatech in Alabama, a company that also worked with major rock bands including RUSH and KISS. Some of the explosive charges were built directly into the stage and required both a key and a firing switch before they could be activated. It was an impressively engineered system.

Then one night, without warning, one of the charges detonated like a landmine about a foot away from where I was standing, hitting me with a blast of heat that nearly set my stage clothes on fire.

That was enough.

I walked away from the giant production, left the management company behind, and went back to my original idea. I became the man with a briefcase again instead of the captain of an expensive and increasingly dangerous starship.

Ironically, audiences enjoyed the simpler show just as much, and I enjoyed performing it far more. The hypnosis hadn’t changed at all. The elaborate set, the explosions, the giant screens, and all the theatrical excess had distracted from the real miracle happening onstage, which was the extraordinary capacity of the human mind to respond to suggestion.

It’s easy to think that bigger productions, louder music, and more spectacular effects somehow make hypnosis more impressive. In my experience, the opposite is often true. Hypnosis is already fascinating enough. It doesn’t need smoke, flames, or science fiction to make it remarkable. At its heart, hypnosis gives us one of the most elegant and effective ways ever discovered to communicate with the unconscious mind. 

With proper training in hypnosis, anyone can erase phobias, clear allergies, reduce or remove pain, and give people much better lives.

That’s more than enough magic for me.

- Mike Mandel

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Discipline gets far more credit than it deserves. Countless people blame themselves for lacking willpower when they struggle to break bad habits, stay consistent with healthy routines, or follow through on personal goals. The cycle often feels frustrating. Motivation appears, progress begins, and then old behaviors quietly return.

The problem usually isn't a lack of self-control. It's that unconscious habits, deeply rooted identity, and automatic mental patterns are working against conscious intentions. Trying to overpower those patterns with sheer determination is like rowing against a strong current. The harder the effort, the more exhausting the journey becomes.

Real self-control isn't about fighting harder. It's about understanding how the mind creates automatic behaviors and learning to work with those processes rather than against them. When habits, identity, and personal boundaries are aligned, making better decisions becomes less of a daily battle and more of a natural way of living.

The Difference Between Control and Choice

Many people associate control with restriction, but healthy control is actually rooted in freedom of choice. There is an important difference between willingly trusting someone's expertise and allowing another person to dictate decisions.

Choosing a doctor's advice, accepting guidance from a trusted mentor, or asking a friend to recommend a great restaurant are examples of conscious decisions. The choice remains personal. That is very different from feeling pressured to think, behave, or live according to someone else's expectations.

Personal authority begins with recognizing that every meaningful decision should remain exactly that: a decision. The more ownership someone has over their choices, the greater their sense of confidence and independence becomes.

Why Willpower Isn't Enough

One of the biggest myths surrounding self-control is that success comes from simply trying harder. While determination certainly has value, it often loses the battle against unconscious programming.

Every repeated behavior creates familiar mental pathways. Over time, these pathways become automatic, allowing daily routines to run with very little conscious effort. This is why someone can drive home without remembering every turn or automatically reach for a snack while watching television.

When a conscious goal conflicts with an unconscious habit, the habit usually wins because it requires less mental energy. This explains why so many people struggle with healthy eating, procrastination, smoking, excessive scrolling, or other unwanted behaviors despite genuinely wanting to change.

The goal is not to strengthen willpower indefinitely, but to change the automatic pattern that keeps producing the same outcome.

Habits Shape More of Life Than Most People Realize

Habits influence far more than physical actions. They also affect emotional responses, thinking patterns, and decision-making.

Every habit typically begins with a trigger. That trigger leads to a familiar behavior, which produces some type of reward. The reward may be comfort, distraction, relief, or temporary pleasure. Once the brain associates the reward with the behavior, the cycle repeats itself.

This pattern applies to much more than overeating or nail biting. It can also explain anxiety, procrastination, negative self-talk, emotional reactions, and countless other behaviors that seem to happen automatically.

Understanding this habit loop is one of the most effective ways to improve self-control because it shifts attention away from blaming oneself and toward identifying the process that needs to change.

Interrupt the Pattern Before It Takes Over

Breaking a habit rarely happens through force alone. It becomes much easier when the automatic sequence is interrupted early.

The first step is noticing the trigger instead of waiting until the behavior is already happening. Once that moment becomes visible, it becomes possible to pause, consciously interrupt the routine, and replace it with a healthier response.

Repeating this process consistently helps weaken old mental pathways while strengthening new ones. At first, the new behavior may feel awkward because the brain naturally prefers familiar routines. With repetition, however, the healthier choice gradually becomes the new default.

This approach works because lasting behavior change is built through repetition rather than resistance.

Anxiety Can Become an Automatic Habit

Many people think of anxiety as something that simply happens to them. While anxiety is a complex experience with many possible causes, anxious thinking often follows familiar patterns that become automatic over time.

Anxiety tends to focus attention on future problems rather than present reality. The mind repeatedly rehearses possible threats, creating a cycle that becomes increasingly familiar with every repetition.

Viewing anxiety as a learned mental pattern rather than an unchangeable part of one's identity opens the door to meaningful change. Once someone recognizes when anxious thinking begins, it becomes possible to interrupt the cycle before it gains momentum.

This shift encourages greater awareness, healthier responses, and a stronger sense of personal control.

Your Identity Shapes Your Behavior

One of the most powerful influences on behavior is personal identity. The words people use to describe themselves quietly shape the choices they make every day.

Statements such as "I am lazy," "I am shy," or "I am bad with money" often become self-fulfilling because the brain naturally seeks consistency between identity and behavior.

Changing the language creates a meaningful shift. Instead of defining a person by a behavior, it becomes more helpful to describe the behavior itself. Saying that procrastination is something someone has struggled with in the past creates far more room for growth than permanently identifying as a procrastinator.

Identity is remarkably powerful because behavior tends to follow whatever the mind accepts as true. Building empowering identity statements encourages decisions that reinforce those beliefs, creating a positive cycle of personal development.

Become Your Own Authority

Real self-control grows stronger when confidence comes from within rather than from outside approval.

Instead of wishing to become more assertive or more disciplined, it helps to begin thinking from the perspective of someone who already values responsibility, consistency, and personal growth.

Seeing oneself as capable, resilient, and trustworthy naturally influences everyday decisions. Small actions begin aligning with that identity, making healthy habits feel increasingly authentic instead of forced.

Strong Boundaries Protect Personal Freedom

Healthy boundaries play an essential role in maintaining self-control. Without them, emotional pressure, guilt, and constant manipulation can slowly erode personal confidence.

People who rely on manipulation often repeat requests, appeal to obligation, or encourage feelings of guilt to influence decisions. Remaining calm while consistently repeating a respectful decision is often far more effective than becoming defensive or argumentative.

Boundaries also require follow-through. A limit that is never enforced quickly loses its meaning. Whether in personal relationships, family dynamics, or professional settings, consistent boundaries teach others how to treat someone while reinforcing self-respect.

Protecting personal time, energy, and values ultimately strengthens self-control because fewer decisions are driven by outside pressure.

Ethical Influence Begins with Good Intentions

Influence is part of everyday communication. Every conversation has the potential to shape another person's thoughts, emotions, or actions in some way.

The real question is not whether influence exists but how it is used. Ethical influence focuses on creating positive outcomes that benefit everyone involved rather than serving only one person's interests.

Helping someone build confidence, encouraging healthier habits, or supporting better decision-making are all examples of influence used responsibly. When respect, honesty, and genuine concern guide communication, influence becomes a tool for empowerment rather than manipulation.

Final Thoughts

Learning how to improve self-control is not about becoming tougher, stricter, or more disciplined. It is about understanding the hidden systems that quietly shape everyday behavior.

By recognizing automatic habits, reshaping identity, strengthening personal boundaries, and responding with intention instead of impulse, lasting change becomes much more achievable.

The greatest form of self-control comes from working with the mind instead of constantly fighting against it. Once that shift happens, better choices require less effort, personal growth feels more natural, and lasting change becomes far easier to sustain.

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A room full of people can respond to hypnosis at the same time, but that does not mean every hypnosis technique belongs in a group setting. Some methods thrive when shared with an audience, while others depend on personal interaction that simply cannot be replicated with multiple participants.

Understanding the difference is the key to hypnotizing groups and audiences effectively. Whether the goal is reducing stress, improving sleep, increasing confidence, or helping people relax, choosing the right group hypnosis techniques makes all the difference.

Not every hypnotic process is designed for an audience. Some approaches require individualized attention and continuous calibration, while others are remarkably effective when delivered to a room full of people. Knowing where each technique fits allows practitioners to create powerful experiences without sacrificing effectiveness.

Why Some Hypnosis Techniques Don't Work in Group Settings

Group hypnosis works best when every participant is moving toward the same broad outcome. That might be feeling calmer, sleeping better, becoming more confident, or letting go of everyday stress. While every individual brings unique experiences into the session, the overall objective remains the same..

Some hypnosis methods, however, rely on ongoing interaction between the hypnotist and a single client. These approaches involve asking questions, observing responses, adjusting the process in real time, and following the client's unique internal experience. This process is called calibration. Since every person's unconscious mind organizes information differently, each session unfolds in its own way.

Trying to guide several people through that kind of individualized process at once would require tracking multiple conversations, multiple internal maps, and multiple therapeutic directions simultaneously. That level of personalization simply is not possible in a group environment.

Understanding the Group Hypnosis Spectrum

One way to think about group hypnosis is to picture it as a spectrum.

At one end sits the traditional one-on-one hypnosis session. The hypnotist can ask questions, gather detailed information, and tailor every suggestion to the individual sitting in front of them. Every response helps shape what comes next.

At the opposite end is a prerecorded hypnosis session. The recording cannot observe the listener or adapt to changing circumstances. It simply delivers carefully chosen suggestions that are broad enough to resonate with many different people.

A live group hypnosis session falls somewhere between these two extremes. The hypnotist can observe the audience, adjust pacing, and respond to the group's overall energy, but cannot personalize every suggestion for every participant.

This is why successful group hypnosis depends on language that is flexible enough for each listener to interpret in a personally meaningful way.

The Secret to Effective Group Hypnosis

One of the most valuable skills in group hypnosis is learning to use artfully vague language.

Rather than describing a specific situation, the hypnotist invites each participant to connect the suggestions with their own experiences. The unconscious mind naturally fills in the missing details, making the suggestions feel relevant without requiring individualized instruction.

Consider a group session focused on stress reduction. One participant may feel overwhelmed by work responsibilities, while another struggles with family obligations or financial concerns. The external circumstances are completely different, yet both people can respond to suggestions about releasing tension, becoming calmer, and feeling more at ease.

This flexibility allows a single hypnosis session to create meaningful results for an entire audience.

Three Group Hypnosis Techniques That Work

Fortunately, several powerful hypnosis techniques are perfectly suited for group settings. Each one allows participants to personalize the experience while remaining focused on a common goal.

Direct Suggestion

Direct Suggestion in Hypnosis (DSiH) is one of the simplest and most effective forms of group hypnosis.

The hypnotist tells participants what they are likely to notice, experience, or feel as the session progresses. These suggestions remain clear and purposeful without becoming overly specific.

Instead of referring to a particular life situation, the suggestions focus on broader outcomes such as becoming more relaxed, sleeping more deeply, feeling more confident, or responding more calmly to everyday challenges.

Because the language remains flexible, every participant unconsciously applies it to their own circumstances.

Guided Imagery

Guided imagery invites participants to follow an internal journey using their imagination.

A peaceful forest, a winding path, a quiet beach, or a beautiful garden can all become symbolic environments where positive change begins to unfold. As participants mentally explore these scenes, they naturally attach personal meaning to what they experience.

This makes guided imagery one of the most versatile group hypnosis techniques. Everyone travels through the same general landscape, yet every person experiences it differently.

The hypnotist provides the framework while each unconscious mind supplies the details.

Metaphors

Stories have always been one of the most effective ways to communicate complex ideas.

Hypnotic metaphors allow people to discover solutions without being told exactly what to think. A simple story about overcoming obstacles, finding hidden strengths, or navigating uncertainty gives the unconscious mind an opportunity to recognize similar patterns within the listener's own life.

Unlike guided imagery, participants are not placing themselves inside the story. Instead, they observe the narrative while their unconscious mind extracts the lessons that are most meaningful.

Because metaphor operates symbolically, it adapts naturally to a wide variety of personal experiences, making it especially valuable during group hypnosis sessions.

Choosing the Right Goal for a Group Session

The most successful group hypnosis sessions focus on outcomes that everyone can relate to.

Stress management, relaxation, confidence, emotional resilience, improved focus, better sleep, and general wellbeing are all excellent choices because participants can interpret the suggestions according to their own circumstances.

Highly individualized therapeutic work, on the other hand, is usually better suited to private hypnosis sessions where every stage of the process can be customized for a single client.

Matching the technique to the setting produces a smoother experience and better results for everyone involved.

Final Thoughts

When the session centers on a shared objective and uses flexible language, direct suggestion, guided imagery, and therapeutic metaphor become remarkably powerful tools. These approaches encourage meaningful change while respecting the unique experiences every participant brings into the room.

Understanding which hypnosis techniques belong in group settings and which require individualized interaction helps practitioners deliver more effective sessions with greater confidence. As those skills develop, group hypnosis becomes a powerful way to guide many people toward positive change at the same time.

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It’s like a phobia of the immune system…

Over the years, we have demonstrated a process in our live Architecture of Hypnosis training that we refer to as immune system retraining.

Some people refer to it as the “allergy cure,” but I deliberately avoid that term. It suggests a level of certainty and medical efficacy that is not appropriate.

However…

One of our students, Dr. Vivian, was having lunch with another student, Rick Green, on the patio of a local restaurant when a cat approached them. Rick reported having a cat allergy for years that would make him sneeze and cause his eyes to itch and water.

Dr Vivian guided him through the immune system retraining process at the table, beginning with the preframe that allergies are like a phobia of the immune system, in which the brain has tagged something innocuous as being dangerous. 

Just minutes later, Rick shared a photograph of himself smiling, with the cat sitting on his lap.

Symptoms gone.

Our own Chris Thompson once worked with a stranger he met at a hotel who reported a sensitivity to eggs. After going through the process, the problem disappeared.

On another occasion at one of our Toronto classes, I worked with a student who reported a severe dairy sensitivity that caused immense gastrointestinal distress. The session went well, and I gave her explicit instructions not to test the result recklessly and not to assume that any underlying medical condition had been resolved. Instead, she was urged to see her doctor or allergist for a reassessment. 

She chose not to follow that advice.

She went to a local Starbucks, purchased a chunk of cheese, and ate it without experiencing any of her previous symptoms. Later, we encountered her husband, who was a medical doctor, and she enthusiastically credited the session with her “instant fix”. 

Another student had a severe sensitivity to shellfish that had the potential of causing anaphylactic shock. After participating in the process, she and her husband chose to eat oysters despite clear instructions not to do so without medical clearance. The video he took shows her surprised shock when she was completely asymptomatic. 

These stories may sound dramatic, but they are accurate, and display the incredible power of hypnosis when it’s properly applied.

The immune system is designed to recognize danger and protect the body, but in some cases, it may respond to substances that are not inherently harmful. While hypnosis may offer a way to explore how the mind and body interact, it does not replace medical understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of immune-related conditions.

But it’s clear that hypnosis can be a fascinating and potentially useful tool for personal development and exploration, as well as a means of supporting physical health. 

After more than 50 years of doing hypnosis professionally, I still don’t know what the hypnotic limits are.

But I’m going to keep looking for them…

- Mike Mandel

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