Imagine everything holding you back — gone.
Not someday. In 90 minutes.
The 90 minutes that does what years of trying couldn't.

The passage he put on his own feed: "Great music and art are said to arise from the quiet depths of the unconscious… So it is with the greatest efforts in sports; they come when the mind is as still as a glass lake."

And on the coach who rebuilt how he thinks: "He rewired my outlook and maybe even my psyche."

"It's all about mental training. I'll go through every skill in my head, exactly what I'm going to do, so that I can perform it to the best of my ability."

"We worked on a way to look at the target and pull it back into my hands and body, and let my subconscious react. That's what works best for me."

"I smoked two packs a day for 15 years, and I just quit. I've quit a couple of times before, but the way I'm quitting now… it's really great. I'm going to a hypnotist."

"I'm an exponent of hypnosis. I was raised off of hypnosis since I was 13, 14, until the end of my career. I always had hypnosis before I fought."

"I really realised the power of the mind over the body… I realised that this was something I could take control of. It was hugely powerful."

"It was a powerfully energizing yet calming experience. I didn't want it to end. When it did, I walked away feeling fuller than when I'd come in."

"I was freaked out going into it my first time… I do recommend the hypnobirthing classes. I highly recommend it. It just makes you chill."

"I felt my work in that moment was to breathe, to be able to handle that intensity. I breathed, I visualised that I was opening more, I relaxed, I breathed… I transformed that moment of pain into the hope that I would meet my baby."

"I never hit a shot, even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie."

"From where I was a couple of weeks ago to today, I'm a completely different person… it worked extremely well, extremely quickly for me."

"My batting average went from .230 at the time to where I was among the top 20 hitters in the major leagues."

Engineered his own trance to harvest images — a heavy key held over a plate, the drop waking him at the exact threshold where the images live.

Spent a full day with the father of modern hypnotherapy, producing a documented study of the deep-absorption state Huxley had been using to write for years.

Wrote himself a $10 million cheque for "acting services rendered," carried it in his wallet, and lived inside the picture until it cashed.

Runs a staffed mental-performance program naming imagery and mental rehearsal as core skills — "goal setting, visualization, self-talk, and relaxation training reduce competitive anxiety."

Ninety minutes under hypnosis with Harvey Misel: "I asked him to visualize how good he felt when everything was going right."

Visualised his way through the fear that had been costing him competitions — and cleared the bar that every kid dreams of.

"What I experienced was like a different state of mind… I was present and pleasant. It was like I was right there and I was looking at things from a different angle. It's almost like I removed some layers of clothing that were my conditioning in my life."

Told Graham Bensinger he was unfulfilled as a pro skater and, at twenty-four, "got hypnotized for success" — then built a television and business empire on the other side of it.

Hypnotized live by Paul McKenna to end her smoking — "your brain's like a computer; we're going to reprogram it so that smoking doesn't mean the same thing again." Three days later: "I feel so good. I feel healthier… I feel really good."

"They really help me to center. I have a therapist as well, and I do some hypnosis sometimes — whenever I get the chance."

"You can be a passenger of your thoughts, or you can be the driver of your thoughts.… Protect your time to think, to daydream, to visualize where you want to end up, and to reframe your self-beliefs."

"I kind of let my mind wander during the race, thinking of all the people that have trained with me, just saying their names in my head and thinking about them."