Information and Scientific Research On Hypnosis

Hypnosis is becoming more and more widely recognised, and there are literally 1000s of hypnosis research studies, showing the links between hypnosis and improving memory, motivation, aiding weight loss, and significantly helping people to stop smoking.

Here we have selected just a few of these studies, first up is a study from 1970 which really brought hypnosis into the mainstream, and not only gave hypnosis real credibility, but accredited it with status as a more effective form of therapy than any other currently practiced:

Hypnosis has a better success rate than any other type of therapy

In 1970 a groundbreaking meta-analysis of hypnosis research studies was conducted by Alfred A. Barrios, which led to the mainstream acceptance of hypnosis as an extremely effective form of therapy.

Barrios compared 1,018 studies and articles on hypnosis, 899 articles on psychoanalytic therapy and 355 on behavioral therapy. In particular he noted the overall lasting success rates of the different therapies.

He found that hypnotherapy had a massive 93% success rate after only 6 sessions compared to only a 72% success rate with behavioral therapy (after 22 sessions on average), and only 38% success rate with psychotherapy (after an average of 600 sessions).

This led him to conclude that for changing habits, thought patterns, and actual behavior hypnosis was not only the most effective method, but that it needed less time / sessions than any other type of therapy.

Hypnosis and Weight Loss

Hypnosis for weight loss is gaining more and more popularity too - British pop star Lily Allen recently said in a newspaper interview that hypnosis helped her to drop 4 dress sizes!

After the hypnotism, I want to go to the gym every day, otherwise I feel really bad. I just want to get more toned and healthy. I'm really good about everything at the moment — I've never been happier.

Lily Alan in an interview to the Daily Mail

Here are some news stories and scientific studies which show the potential of hypnosis to positively help people to lose weight, not only that but to keep it off - to have a long lasting, and life changing effect.

Hypnosis isn’t a mysterious, or little understood phenomenon anymore, it is a scientifically proven tool which can significantly influence weight loss:

Woman loses 55 pounds after being hypnotized to believe she had weight loss surgery

 

 

Marion Cornes, lost 55 pounds (24.9kg) after she was hypnotized to believe that she had weight-loss surgery!

After 5 sessions of hypnosis she believed surgeons had placed a gastric band on her stomach shrinking it to the size of a golf ball. She was hypnotized and talked through every step of the surgery as if she was in an operating room.

She said she started losing up to 3 pounds a week immediately after the hypnosis and she now feels full if she tries to eat anything other than a small portion of food.

"I've tried every other diet and exercise plan the world has to offer," she said. "I've tried tablets, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Slimfast, milkshakes and even a personal trainer, but none of them helped me."

Hypnosis enhances weight loss substantially over time

 

 

Kirsch and Irving compared 100s of studies where either cognitive-behavioral treatment, or cognitive-behavioral treatment with hypnosis too was used (with weight loss being the goal) in a meta analysis.

Their analysis showed that on average after the final follow-ups, the average weight loss was 6.03 lbs. (2.74 kg) without hypnosis (with just cognitive-behavioral treatment) and 14.88 lbs. (6.75 kg) when hypnosis was used.

They concluded that when hypnosis is used it is likely to lead to more than double the weight loss than if just cognitive-behavioral treatment alone was employed. They also summarized that the benefits of hypnosis increased substantially over time.

Hypnosis is more than 30x more effective for weight loss

Cochrane et al conducted a study into hypnosis and weight loss with 60 female participants who were more than 20% overweight. He divided the participants into 2 groups, one who received hypnosis treatment, and a control group who did not receive any hypnosis.

Results showed that the group who received the hypnosis lost more weight. Each participant on average losing 17lbs over the course of the study, compared to women in the control group losing only 0.5lbs

Cochrane concluded that hypnosis can make your weight loss efforts more than 30x more effective.

Hypnosis and Stopping Smoking

Hypnosis is probably most famous for helping people to stop smoking, recently Matt Damon even testified to the benefits of quitting smoking - he told Jay Leno that he visited a hypnotist and it worked:

I went to a hypnotist... It worked. I swear to god it worked. It was the greatest decision I ever made in my life!

Matt Damon on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The research into this area of hypnotherapy is very solid, again it not only shows a massively increased success rate when using hypnosis to help you to stop smoking, but it points to hypnosis as the most effective form of smoking cessation therapy (with a higher success rate than nicotine patches / gum etc):

Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking

 

 

In 1992 the University of Iowa conducted a meta-analysis of studies using different methods to try and help people to quit smoking. This was the largest ever scientific comparison - looking at more than 600 studies which contained 72,000 people in total, from America and Europe.

They found that on average, hypnosis was over three times as effective as nicotine patches or nicotine replacement methods and 15 times as effective as trying to quit alone, and concluded that hypnosis is by far the most effective way of giving up smoking.

90.6% Success rate when using hypnosis to stop smoking

 

 

The university of Washington medical school conducted a study where they used hypnosis on 43 patients to help them stop smoking.

Of the 43 consecutive patients undergoing hypnosis, 39 reported remaining abstinent from tobacco use at follow-up (up to 3 years post-treatment).

Barber concluded that hypnosis is an extremely effective way to quit smoking and this study represents a 90.6% success rate using hypnosis.

81% Stopped smoking after hypnosis

30 patients were referred by their doctor to Texas A&M University for treatment to help them stop smoking. Of this group 21 patients returned and were given 3 sessions of hypnosis for smoking cessation.

Results showed that immediately after treatment 81% of patients reported that they had stopped smoking. Then in a followup 12 months later 48% of these patients reported that they were still not smoking.

Elkins GR and Rajab MH concluded that hypnosis was indeed a statistically significant method of helping people to stop smoking.

Hypnosis Research In Other Areas

There are literally thousands of other research studies into hypnosis, how it helps anxiety, motivation, memory, pain relief, focus and concentration, even how it can be used to allow someone to undergo surgery without the need to an anaesthetic.

Here are some more studies which show proof of the power of hypnosis for helping a wide variety of different problems:

Athletes focus better with hypnosis

 

 

Professional athletes are turning to hypnosis to help give themselves an edge, to correct everything from their golf swing to pre-competition nerves.

Dr Dwight Damn, president of the National Guild of Hypnotists estimated that more than 7,000 of the guild’s members are using hypnosis to help athletes improve their performance.

Bob Reese, the famous former trainer for the New York Jets uses hypnotherapy with both professional and recreational athletes to help them “get into the zone”

When used like this hypnosis works simply to take the athletes peak performance and make it available to them 100% of the time. It takes away subconscious doubts, nerves, and other mental blockages to allow the athlete to give their top performance, every time.

Hypnosis helps to reduce anxiety (greater than traditional relaxation techniques)

 

 

A small research study was conducted at Hampshire Hypnotherapy Centre in England with 10 pupils, aged 11 to 16, being treated at the centre for emotional behavioural difficulties related to anxiety.

The students were taught how to self-hypnotise to help them to set goals about things they wanted to achieve in their lives, and to help them to work towards these targets..

Mr Byron said "It seems to empower the students to change their lives and it's not me doing it, it's them." and that it produced greater effects than were seen in students using more traditional relaxation techniques. "There is no doubt it has a tremendous amount to offer."

After this trial the students' teachers said they had seen more changes in the students using the techniques and speculated this may be because the hypnotherapy produced cognitive and emotional changes.

It was concluded that the hypnotherapy helped to reduce anxiety and feelings of helplessness in students, and that the effects of hypnotherapy were found to be greater than those of more traditional relaxation techniques.

Hypnotherapy helps 71% of IBS sufferers for up to 5 years

 

 

A research study into hypnosis and its effects on Irritable Bowel Syndrome concluded that it helped 71% of patients - and its effect lasted up to as much as five years after treatment.

Researchers from Withington Hospital, Manchester (UK) conducted the study on 200 patients, each receiving hourly sessions for around 12 weeks.

The majority of patients found that hypnotherapy reduced the severity of their IBS symptoms, eased their condition and made them more comfortable, and these effects lasted up to as long as 5 years afterwards.

Even those patients who stated tat the effects wore off with time, found that the deterioration was slight

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The Law of Attraction and Hypnosis

You have probably heard of the law of attraction, you have probably even tried to use it, but apparently less than 1 in 100 people get the exact results they are looking for.. at least on their early attempts.

Usually the absence of success in the law of attraction is simply because it's an abstract concept as everyone is unique, and we all have different patterns of thinking, different upbringings and beliefs.

In amongst all of these possible causes of an absence of success there is one typical one - belief.

The law of attraction is so abstract and often so against our common beliefs and values that we struggle to believe it is possible... even those people who get excited about the law of attraction, those people who really embrace it and dive head first into it, even these people have limiting beliefs which hold them back.


Hypnosis may help target your subconscious mind and re-program your limiting beliefs and doubts throughout. This way your beliefs, or I should say your lack of belief in the law of attraction will be re-programmed.

Hypnosis can target your doubts, fears, skepticism, and replace these thoughts for positivity, optimism, belief in the law of attraction, and a simple, unshake-able faith that you can focus your mind in your wishes and have them be realized.

Hypnosis is more typically used in things like fat loss, giving up smoking, and self-esteem etc, but now there are new albums being unveiled by a new hypnosis audio company called Natural Hypnosis which are exclusively customized to the law of attraction.


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What is Success?

Someone one asked me what it took to be successful, this is a difficult question because it all depends on what you actually mean by success, you could be referring to success being an expression of your life in the terms of an external goal which could be for example; the attainment of higher social status, achievement of a goal, an academic achievement or even just a promotion at work.

Those of you with an away from mentality you may also define your success as not being a failure, not being poor, or not having to do menial work.

Whatever you drive either towards something or away from something perhaps one of the important factors is not the definition, instead it is the traits that you need in your character to actually achieve whatever the goal is that you have set yourself.

But before you start on your journey with the traits that you need, perhaps take a step back and really think about where you really want to go in life, because I would like to think that success is instead about being able to make time in your life to do the small intangible things that make all of the difference.

When you look back on your life it’s these small moment that you will remember, that make you feel happy and what gives your life real value.

To get this point across perhaps read The Story of the Mexican Fisherman which may well add a different perspective to the term success especially if you are only trying to measure it with external or materialistic goals.

Success in my eyes is about the journey, it is about the challenges on the way, it’s about where you have come from, and it’s about what you can’t measure that gives your life real value, success is about picking yourself back up and learning from failure and it’s about doing your best and doing it in the right way and in the words of Dale Carnegie;

Success is getting what you want, Happiness is wanting what you get.

There may be a time when the price of success takes away some of the things that are really valuable in your life, so my final advice to you is to concentrate on giving your life real value and depth and not to just strive for the shallowness of success at all cost measured by materialistic goals.

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Monday Motivation: The Upside of Taking Responsibility for Your Life and Career

 

The price of greatness is responsibility.

 

~Winston Churchill~

 

 

 

 

The word responsible comes from two words: response and able. Therefore, being responsible for your life and career means that while you can't control every situation in your life and career, you are always able to control how you respond to them. This fact doesn't change because of the nature of the circumstance and how difficult it may be. This is a significant distinction. One that warrants you to take stock of the upside of taking responsibility for your life and career.

 

Taking Responsibility for Your Life Puts You in The Driver Seat

 

Like most of us, your life has not been perfect. You have experienced disappointments, setbacks and adversity. Instead of getting on the band wagon with those who wallow in pity and major in the blame game, accepting full responsibility for your life puts you in the driver seat of how your life unfolds. Your complaining about the state of any aspect of your life will serve no positive purpose. More often complaining diminishes the amount of positive emotional energy that you exhibit towards taking meaningful actions that can change your situation.

 

No amount of life hacks can erase the process it takes for you to get from where you are to where you want to be. Sure, there are tips, principles and strategic plans that can help you reduce the amount of time it took someone else to accomplish similar dreams and goals, but they can't erase the fact that success is a process of quality decisions and purpose driven actions implemented consistently over a period of time. This is a fact of life. Any denial of this truth on your part will not alter this truth.

 

Whatever you want, improve your relationships, position yourself for your next promotion, start a business, expand your business, make new friends, go back to college to gain new skills to living a healthier lifestyle, requires that you accept responsibility for your present state and engage the most effective process of actions that will help you manifest your desired reality.

 

Taking Responsibility for Your Life Takes Guts

 

Taking personal responsibility for your life and being accountable for the effectiveness of your actions towards the achievement of your dreams and goals is summed up in this phrase, “If it's to be, it's up to me.” This mindset challenges the prevailing cultural norm which encourages people to wallow in self-pity and blame everyone and there mother for the conditions of their lives. It requires courage to believe that in spite of your imperfect life experiences, you have the power to define your destiny.

 

It takes guts to challenge the status quo. Defining your destiny begins with accepting the state of your life and career. It includes, acknowledging the gap between where you are and where you want to be and focusing on what you have to do to play the hand you've been dealt to win. You will need to develop personal practices which help you maintain an audacity to hope while nurturing empowering beliefs in your heart that your efforts will not be futile. You'll need to develop relationships with people who can provide you with wise advice and constructive feedback that supports your success. Nurturing a resilient mindset is essential to maintaining the ability to bounce back from setbacks. Your ability to tune-out the noise of the world so that you can tune-in to the still small voice within that offers you intuitive insight and guidance for navigating your path forward will be priceless.

 

The Upside of Taking Responsibility for Your Life
Becoming fully persuaded in your mind that your destiny is up to you enables you to experience the upside of responsibility which includes the following:

 

§  You don't depend on others to behave a certain way for you to manifest what you want in your life.

§  You recognize that the “ball is in your court” and the decisions that you make determine what your next shot will be.

§  You don't wait on circumstances to be ideal before you begin to initiate the actions it will take to create what you want to experience.

§  You have the courage to step out of your history to create the future you desire and deserve.

§  You cultivate an empowering story of who you are, who you can become, what you are smart and strong enough to handle and what you are worthy of experiencing in life.

 

In Conclusion

 

Taking responsibility for your life requires that you own up to the choices that you've made which reflect the current state of your life and career. The choice to take full responsibility for your life and career is not always an easy decision. It requires you to challenge the status quo of a prevailing cultural norm that tends to use people and circumstances as a scapegoat for not exercising one's authority and power to play the hand that you've been dealt in life with the purpose of winning.

 

Taking responsibility for your life and career requires guts. The moxie to stop playing small and tap into a greater measure of the seeds of greatness dwelling within your potential will come as a result of your decision to get into the driver seat of your life. A proactive approach towards defining your destiny fuels the personal leadership traits of courage, confidence and perseverance. Over time, the quality of your decisions and the effectiveness of your actions will determine your capacity to manifest new possibilities in your life and career.

 

I'd like to know your thoughts. How do you think wallowing in pity and majoring in the blame game effects an individual's ability to be the captain of his or her destiny? Share your comments below.

 

http://www.jackiecapersbrownblog.com/2014/08/monday-motivation-upside-of-taking.html

Change Yourself Forever With Hypnosis

Are we programmed in our early years with things that hold us back? Paradigms that stop us becoming what we really want to be? The human mind is a sponge that absorbs things both consciously and subconsciously.

Now is the time to get into hypnosis

Thanks to more and more mainstream celebrity endorsement, hypnosis has never been bigger

It seems like everyone is talking about hypnosis, and it is becoming increasingly popular to establish lasting change naturally.

Hypnosis is now established i.e. a way to gain access to your mind and reprogram your limiting and negative beliefs, a tool you can use to eliminate these negativities and change for the better.

Hypnosis is a simple tool really, and is often way over mystified. All it really does is put you into a focused state of heightened awareness, where suggestions can easily be made to you which you will naturally accept.

It is because of this that you can make changes more naturally - as your logical, conscious, and often negative mind is turned off, and so you can make changes on a deeper level.

There are 2 ways in which all hypnotherapy works:

Firstly self-hypnosis will penetrate into your mind to modify your patterns of thinking.This may differ with respect to the area you're pursuing, whether it is weight-loss or improve-confidence-hypnosis-self-assurance for example. Hypnotherapy would look at how you think about balanced eating, staying on a diet exercising, or meeting new people, socializing etc. tap into exactly how you think when you think about exercising, or enjoying healthy food, or how you feel when you think about having to meet a new group of people.

It basically swaps your negative patterns of thinking, for good ones - for example, it would identify your negative patterns of thinking concerning healthy eating and exercise and replace these with positive patterns so that you start to enjoy healthy food and begin to look forward to exercising. Or if you worry about social situations, then it would instill within you favourable patterns of thinking in this subject - so you start to look forward to socialising, and employ a state of mind where you love meeting and learning new things about new men and women.

It is in this way that your behavior starts to alter. However, the second element is required for much deeper, and authentic, lasting change:

The second element is that hypnotherapy changes your values on a deep level.

For example, it aims to replace the negative self beliefs, beliefs which hold you back from authentic change, for positive ones. It will make you more positive, more confident, and make sure that you truly feel like you can achieve change, like you can improve yourself and most importantly, that you DESERVE change.

Once you have these main self beliefs, this natural self assurance, and belief in yourself, then you will be able to change for the better.

Experience hypnosis for yourself and see what results you get

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Plant the Seeds of Natural Manifestation!

Plant the Seeds of Natural Manifestation!

 

Use this collection to get started in manifestation with a BANG. These three powerful, core manifestation albums will create the foundations of your new subconscious mind - super focused for manifestation success.

Plant Powerful Seeds Within your Mind

This unique package of manifestations hypnosis sessions is perfect to get started with.

This package will plant seeds within your mind - the seeds of natural manifestation. These hypnotic seeds will be planted and naturally grow and be absorbed into your subconscious mind where they will simply become part of who you are - to help you to manifest your desires quickly, naturally and effortlessly.

You will notice the difference straight after you start using these sessions. You will feel more focused on your manifestation goals, you will feel it inside, you will feel your subconscious and your conscious mind coming together and working as one. You will really feel as if anything is possible, as if you really can and will realize your manifestation goals

This is how you will know that the seeds of real manifestation have been planted within your mind. Then as you continue to listen, over time these seeds will grow and grow until you really are manifesting your true desires much more naturally and effortlessly!

How it Works

It works to naturally focus your subconscious mind for success with the law of attraction.

Many people pursue the law of attraction, but few get the real results that they really want.

The law of attraction is a state of mind - either you have it or you don’t, either your mind is focused for success, is operating in a way which brings real manifestations.. or it isn’t.

However, this isn’t final, you can change, you can re-program and re-align your mind for manifestation success!

Imagine what it would be like to be totally in control of your mind, to be able to focus on your desires and have them manifest within your life. Imagine if you really could sit down and design your dream lifestyle, focus on things you want to achieve and on things you want to bring into your life and actually have them naturally manifest and come true.

This is all possible, this is the exact aim of  powerful hypnosis. It will transform the way your mind works on a subconscious level and instill within you the patterns of thinking and mindset required for natural manifestation. You will actually get to the point where will be able to sit down, focus your thoughts and simply KNOW that your manifestations will come true!

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Anthony Robbins Who Is He?

Anthony Robbins
Entrepreneur, Author & Peak Performance Strategist

World Authority on Leadership Psychology

 

 

Check this Dude Out! An Amazing Man who has climbed from despair, from living in his car to this. WOW!  Well worth a look at his life and website:-

 

For the past three decades, Anthony Robbins has served as an advisor to leaders around the world. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations, organizational turnaround, and peak performance, he has been honored consistently for his strategic intellect and humanitarian endeavors. His nonprofit Anthony Robbins Foundation provides assistance to inner-city youth, senior citizens, and the homeless, and feeds more than three million people in 56 countries every year through its international holiday "Basket Brigade." Robbins has directly impacted the lives of more than 50 million people from over 100 countries with his best-selling books, multimedia and health products, public speaking engagements, and live events.

What began as a young person’s desire to help individuals transform the quality of their lives has grown into Robbins’ lifelong crusade as he is called on by leaders from every walk of life-presidents, political leaders, advocates for humanity, CEOs of multinational corporations, psychologists, peak performance athletes, world-class entertainers, teachers, and parents. Since fathering the life coaching industry, Robbins has produced the #1-selling audio coaching system of all time. He also is a corporate Vice Chairman, and Chairman overseeing five private companies. Robbins has been honored by Accenture as one of the "Top 50 Business Intellectuals in the World"; by Harvard Business Press as one of the "Top 200 Business Gurus"; by American Express as one of the "Top Six Business Leaders in the World" to coach its entrepreneurial clients; by Forbes as a Top 100 Celebrity; by Justice Byron White as one of the world’s "Outstanding Humanitarians"; and by the International Chamber of Commerce as one of the top 10 "Outstanding Young People of World."

Peace Negotiator & Humanitarian

Robbins was selected as Vice Chairman of Health, Education, and Science for the United Nations Research Center for the International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC) NGO. Working with the Organization of American States, the Carter Center, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Robbins participated as one of the members of the team that helped negotiate an electoral solution for peace to the strife and conflict that have devastated the Venezuelan people and their economy. Robbins has collaborated with political and business leaders in diverse world communities such as South Africa, England, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, and the United States. Robbins has also been a national spokesperson for the Wellness Community, a nonprofit organization that provides support, education and hope to people with cancer and their loved ones. Through participation in professionally led support groups and educational workshops, people affected by cancer learn vital skills that enable them to regain control, reduce isolation and restore hope, regardless of the stage of disease. Through his strategies for "Leadership in Times of Crisis" and his systems for "Indirect Negotiations," Robbins has participated in negotiations that have broken the patterns of violence and de-escalated the rhetoric that invites it. Robbins has worked on teams that not only help mitigate further devastation and facilitate peaceful decision-making among conflicting parties, but also inspire conflicting parties to create a mutually beneficial and compelling vision that is aligned with their respective values, raising the standard by which they live. He is also the recipient of the Timmie Award, given by the esteemed Touchdown Club of Washington, D.C for humanitarian efforts.

Strategic Advisor to World Leaders

Robbins has met with, consulted, or advised international leaders including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterrand, Princess Diana, and Mother Teresa. He has consulted members of two royal families, members of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Marines and three U.S. Presidents, including Bill Clinton. Robbins has had the unique opportunity to identify patterns and model the underlying strategies generating consistent results for some of the most successful individuals in the world.

Successful Entrepreneur & Honored Business Strategist

A successful entrepreneur, Robbins serves as Chairman of seven privately held — in industries as diverse as hospitality, education, media production, business services, and neutraceuticals, and he holds an interest in and strategically directs a series of others. While diverse in characterization, all the companies Robbins owns or is a partner in are geared toward Robbins’ creed of improving the quality of life for people around the world: from Namale Resort & Spa, the award-winning, 325-acre tropical paradise in the Fiji Islands, to Twinlab Corporation, the highest-rated neutraceutical company honored in 2003 with the Consumer Satisfaction Award as Top Rated Retail Brand by Consumerlab.com, an independent testing group. Robbins’ pursuit of creating and contributing to a higher standard of living is reflected by one of his subsidiary companies, Rebus Publishing, a leading consumer health and science publisher that has been communicating healthy ideas for more than 25 years through such avenues as the "UC Berkeley Wellness Letter" and "Johns Hopkins Health After 50" newsletter. Robbins was also the first individual in the personal improvement industry to surpass more than a billion dollars in gross sales.

Leaders and achievers already at the pinnacle of success in their respective fields call on Robbins to be their strategic advisor when they face critical decisions requiring creative options and a systematic evaluation of probabilities and consequences. American Express asked its entrepreneurial clients whom they would select if they could choose anyone in the world to personally coach them to take their businesses to the next level if price were no object. Robbins was chosen along with Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Warren Buffet, Lee Iacocca and Ross Perot.

Philanthropist

A founding strategist of the Presidential Summit for America’s Promise, Robbins partnered in helping to design systems that generated over two million mentors for young people throughout the United States. Four Presidents and Secretary of State Colin Powell partnered with Robbins in the process. What began nearly 30 years ago as Robbins’ individual effort to feed two homeless families has now grown into the Tony Robbins Foundation’s international holiday "Basket Brigade," which feeds more than three million people in 56 countries every year. His foundation has provided support or initiated programs in more than 2,000 schools, 700 prisons and 100,000 service organizations and shelters. Almost 20 years ago, Robbins personally sponsored a class of disadvantaged fifth graders in Houston, Texas, by becoming their personal mentor and sponsor of their college education. In 2003, these student "Champions" graduated from college—an experience that Robbins made possible. Each year, Robbins oversees his foundation’s Discovery Camp, which helps more than 100 students from 18 countries design and initiate leadership programs to take home to their local schools.

Award-Winning Speaker

In addition to his global efforts to facilitate leadership, peace and philanthropy, Robbins is an award-winning speaker who has addressed such distinguished audiences as the British Parliament, Harvard Business School, the Gorbachev Foundation’s Cold War Forum, the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future, the State of the World Forum, Vice President Al Gore’s Putting Customers First Conference, and the World Economic Forum. In 2006, he was invited to speak at the prestigious Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Conference, attended by the world’s most influential thinkers and leaders, including the founders of Google and Vice President Al Gore. His speech is one of the top ten most viewed in the history of TED, with more than two million views. Toastmasters International recognized Robbins as one of the world’s greatest speakers, awarding him the Golden Gavel Award, its most prestigious honor. One of the most sought-after speakers in the world, more than four million people from over 100 countries have attended Tony Robbins’ live seminars, speaking engagements or training programs.

Internationally Best-Selling Author

Robbins is an internationally best-selling author with five books published in 14 languages, and he is the creator of the #1 personal and professional development system of all time, Personal Power; more than 40 million audiotapes have been sold worldwide. Robbins has created a system of total immersion that produces the education, strategies, and momentum for measurable and lasting change. Robbins is also the founder of Mastery University, which brings together the world’s leading experts from their respective fields. In the past, Robbins’ co-facilitators have included General Norman Schwarzkopf and Secretary of State Colin Powell on leadership, Dr. Deepak Chopra on psychoneuroimmunology, Peter Lynch and Sir John Templeton on finance, and Vice President Al Gore on creating peace in troubled times.

Mass Media Veteran

Robbins has developed and produced five award-winning television infomercials that have continuously aired on average every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day somewhere in North America since their initial introduction in April 1989. Recently, Robbins has created a series of six television shows that will air on primetime NBC in the summer of 2010. His work has been featured in major media including Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, Life, GQ, Vanity Fair, Business Week, Tycoon and Success magazines, the CBS Evening News, NBC News, ABC’s Prime Time Live, Fox News, CNN and A&E as well as newspapers, radio programs, and Internet media worldwide. Robbins has been mentioned or featured in 15 major motion pictures, including a cameo role in the hit movie "Shallow Hal." In 2007, he was named to Forbes magazine’s "Celebrity 100" list.

Authority on Peak Performance

Highly respected as the nation’s foremost authority on the psychology of peak performance and personal, professional, and organizational turnaround, Robbins has advised and counseled Fortune 500 CEOs, world-renowned medical doctors, legends in entertainment, and championship sports teams including America’s Cup winner, America 3; Stanley Cup finalist, Los Angeles Kings; NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs; and other teams from the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association. He has worked with elite coaches and athletes, including UFC Champion Chuck Liddell, tennis greats André Agassi and Serena Williams, and golf legend Greg Norman, along with champions from the National Football League, the PGA Tour, the U.S. Tennis Association and NASCAR. He has also coached various celebrities and musicians including Leonardo DiCaprio and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.

Innovator in Psychology and Intervention

As a recognized catalyst for developing systems and strategies for accelerated and lasting transformations in individuals worldwide, Robbins has been sought after by psychologists and psychiatrists for training. Robbins, along with his partner Cloe Madanes, created almost ten years ago the Robbins-Madanes Center for Strategic Intervention, which produces training materials and programs for the therapeutic community. Together they have trained more than 100,000 therapists. For more than 20 years, Madanes has served as world-renowned teacher of therapists. Two of her books are considered classic texts—Strategic Family Therapy and The Violence of Men. Robbins appeared as a featured author in one of her books—Relationship Breakthrough: How to Create Outstanding Relationships in Every Area of Your Life. Robbins and Madanes are actively involved in the Council for Human Rights of Children at the University of San Francisco, a prestigious international think tank created to develop and codify methods to ensure the rights of children are maintained and championed. Robbins was among the speakers featured at the Council’s 2005 meeting at the University of Oxford, where he addressed "Alternatives to Institutionalization of Children and Youth in Crisis." He also has been a featured speaker at The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, the world’s largest psychotherapy conference that brings together more than 10,000 industry leaders from around the world every five years.

Family Man

Robbins’ commitment to creating an enduring legacy that will impact the world is surpassed only by his passion for family as a dedicated father of four children and a loving husband to his wife, Sage “Bonnie Pearl” Robbins.

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