Most people don’t realize this, but modern life leaves a trail of clues.
You feel anxious for no clear reason.
You’re overwhelmed by a world moving too fast.
You sense your identity slipping, shifting, becoming something harder to hold.
As a hypnotherapist and depth psychologist who has guided thousands of Joymind clients through over a million minutes of inner work, I’ve learned to pay attention to these clues. They all point to a single truth:
A part of you is trying to get your attention.
A part you may have forgotten…
or left behind…
or never truly met.
This blog post is for the ones who feel that truth, even faintly.
The ones burned out by traditional systems.
The ones seeking something real.
Let’s open the case together.
The Disappearance of the Self
When someone shows up at Joymind, they often describe a strange feeling:
“I don’t feel like myself.”
“It’s like I’m living from the outside in.”
“The world feels loud… and I feel lost.”
This isn’t weakness.
This is evidence.
The modern nervous system is overstimulated, overtaxed, and under-nurtured.
Our minds have become survival machines instead of meaning-makers.
We are flooded, but not fulfilled.
At the root of this discomfort is a disconnection —
a fracture between who you are and who you’ve had to become.
Healing begins when we stop trying to “fix” ourselves
and instead learn how to listen.
And nothing helps you listen more deeply than trance.
Trance: The Portal Everyone Overlooks
Many people think hypnosis is sleep, control, or illusion.
At Joymind, we see it very differently:
Trance is a return.
A remembering.
A homecoming.
When you enter a hypnotic state:
Your nervous system softens.
Your mind becomes receptive, open, clearer.
Your emotional patterns become visible.
Your subconscious finally has space to speak.
Think of trance as stepping behind the noise of everyday life and entering a quieter, more honest room in your mind.
In that room, you can see yourself again.
Why Trance Heals What Talk Therapy Misses
Insight alone cannot heal anxiety or trauma.
Both live deeper than thought — in the body, in the nervous system, in the emotional circuitry that fires before we even realize what’s happening.
Trance works because it reaches the layers where:
old memories are stored
safety is encoded
habits are formed
identities are shaped
This is why Joymind clients often say things like:
“I didn’t talk about my trauma… But something shifted.”
“I feel lighter, clearer, more myself.”
“It’s like I remembered something I didn’t know I forgot.”
Therapy explains.
Hypnotherapy transforms.
The Detective Inside You
In the article linked at the bottom of this post, I wrote the story through the eyes of a detective — a symbolic investigator searching for the missing self.
Why?
Because every healing journey begins the same way:
You must be willing to investigate your own life.
Your mind contains clues.
Your emotions contain signals.
Your body contains stories.
Your subconscious contains all the remaining evidence.
And trance is the moment when these pieces finally rearrange themselves into something that makes sense.
The Technology of Transformation
Trance is not magic — it’s neuroplasticity.
It allows:
new emotional patterns to form
old triggers to release
confidence to grow
safety to rebuild
identity to reorganize
purpose to re-emerge
The brain doesn’t change through force.
It changes through experience.
And hypnotherapy gives you the experience your system has been searching for:
The experience of being safe enough
to become yourself again.
The Return of the Self
In one of my favorite poems, Derek Walcott writes:
“You will love again the stranger who was yourself.”
This is the heart of hypnotherapy.
Not fixing.
Not forcing.
Not pushing.
But returning.
Joymind clients don’t simply calm their anxiety.
They reclaim their identity.
They come home to their bodies.
They discover new emotional intelligence.
They begin to see their lives with new eyes.
And in that process, something old — and sacred — returns.
For Those Who Are Tired of “Trying”
If you’ve tried:
meditation
therapy
affirmations
breathwork
mindset hacks
lifestyle changes
…and still feel stuck,
you are not broken.
You simply haven’t gone deep enough into the part of you that actually holds the keys.
That part lives behind the conscious mind.
And the door is trance.
Step Into the Investigation
If you are ready to understand why you feel the way you do…
If you want to know how hypnotherapy actually changes the brain…
If you are curious about the deeper layers of healing, identity, and self-restoration…
I invite you to read the full detective-style article here:
👉 https://medium.com/@drmichaelglock/the-case-of-the-fractured-self-6773a84460c7
It’s written for seekers, skeptics, empaths, and thinkers —
for anyone who feels something shifting in their life
and wants to understand why.
It isn’t another technique.
It’s a portal.
And once you walk through it,
everything changes.
