EnTrance - Self Hypnosis and Guided Meditations

23/09/2026

I recently talked to my old friend Don Parker for his podcast, The Space Between Conversations, and the conversation went much further than alcohol.

Looking back across more than forty years, I found myself thinking about how different behaviours can serve a function even when their consequences are destructive.

Punk gave me identity. Looking aggressive could feel like protection. Belonging offered certainty. Alcohol eventually became embedded in how I lived.

None of that excuses what happened. But understanding what a behaviour was doing can give you a more useful place to start changing it.

The question isn't always simply: “How do I stop this?”

Sometimes it is: “What has this behaviour been doing for me — and what could replace that function without destroying the rest of my life?”

I've written the full story for Backstage, including the route from addiction and recovery to the unexpected beginnings of EnTrance: https://www.entrance.org.uk/blogs/backstage-1/when-the-behaviour-becomes-the-armour

Or watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/aj7sG-_X85o?si=qF02BUc9f4zIP9pn

Stu and I met at Eastbrook School in Dagenham in 1980. Forty-six ye...

13/09/2026

Can a download really help change behaviour?

I think it can. But not because an audio recording somehow takes control of you.

A hypnosis session cannot manufacture willingness or guarantee an outcome. What it can do is create better conditions for change.

For me, the first job is relaxation.

If your mind is full of static, even useful information can struggle to get through. When that internal noise reduces, you may be able to notice ideas, images and possibilities differently.

That is why I describe an EnTrance session as a breeding ground for change.

The recording is not the change. You are still the person who changes.

But the recording can help create a moment in which something different becomes imaginable.

Read the full article here: https://www.entrance.org.uk/blogs/backstage-1/can-a-download-really-help-change-behaviour

05/09/2026

Backstage 007: Why I Still Don't Use AI Voices

We've used AI voices before.

Back in 2020, EnTrance Global experimented with automated translation and AI voices across 30 languages. It was a way of testing whether existing EnTrance sessions could travel into other languages and find an audience.

Five years later, AI voices have improved enormously.

So why aren't we using them for the main EnTrance catalogue?

The answer isn't that we're anti-AI.

AI can speed up workflows and help manage the scale of nearly 200 sessions. But a hypnosis voice isn't simply reading words aloud. Performance matters. Intent matters. The timing, emphasis and small adjustments that happen when a human being moves through a script matter.

So, for now, the boundary remains clear.

The EnTrance store stays human.

Outside of that? The future remains open.

I'm watching.

And listening.

Read the whole article here: https://www.entrance.org.uk/blogs/backstage-1/why-i-still-don-t-use-ai-voices

Why does EnTrance still use human voices while AI voice technology advances? Backstage 007 explores AI voices, voice cloning, hypnosis and human performance.

29/08/2026

You can hear someone speak without really listening to them.

I became more aware of the difference when I trained in counselling skills many years back and learned about active listening. Like most people, I realised that I had sometimes been listening while waiting for my opportunity to give an opinion.

Sometimes your opinion isn't required. It isn't about you.

And sometimes people only hear what they're already listening for.

The difference between hearing and listening matters—in conversation, in understanding ourselves, and in recognising the patterns behind our own words and actions.

The new Backstage article explores the difference.

25/08/2026

Sometimes the first change is simply noticing what you're about to do.

Face The Machine is about the learned patterns that can run automatically: reaching for food, a drink or another familiar answer before we've stopped to ask what we actually need.

The pause doesn't promise a perfect life. It creates a moment to look.

And sometimes that first moment is where change begins.

https://www.entrance.org.uk/blogs/backstage-1/face-the-machine-how-automatic-patterns-shape-behaviour

08/08/2026

After around 40,000 hours in studios, I've learned to hear something I never used to notice: intent.

It's the fire behind the voice.

A hypnosis recording can have a good script and technically excellent production, but if the intention behind the performance isn't right, something is missing.

Yes Therapy is a good example. It uses layers of voices, and the whole recording has a particular energy and conviction behind it.

For me, recording hypnosis is partly about giving someone a pep talk — not telling them that life will be perfect, but reminding them that they can survive a lot.

And the production lesson is simple: slow down.

Give the words space. Record it again if it isn't right. Don't rush something that needs time.

It takes as long as it takes.

The full article can be read here: https://www.entrance.org.uk/blogs/backstage-1/what-i-learned-from-recording-hundreds-of-hours-of-audio

04/08/2026

194 million streams.
Not because people were looking for hypnosis.
Because they were looking for a little less noise.
For over a decade I've been designing long-form audio that helps people slow down, settle their attention and create the conditions in which change becomes possible. It's quiet work. Patient work. The kind that doesn't announce itself.
No hype.
No miracle claims.
No subscription.
Just carefully crafted sessions to buy, keep and return to whenever you need them. They're yours to use however feels right. Some people listen once. Others come back for years.
Quietly changing minds since 2016.
https://www.EnTrance.org.uk

25/07/2026

We all want the one thing that will fix the problem.

The diet.

The pill.

The decision.

The fresh start.

But most of the problems we want to solve quickly were not created quickly.

I learned that first through alcohol, smoking and drugs, and later through weight.

A juice diet helped me lose 20 kilograms in three months.

The result was real.

But when the diet stopped, the old eating habits were still there.

The weight returned.

The fix had changed the outcome without changing the structure beneath it.

Lasting change usually needs more than stopping a behaviour.

It means noticing the compulsion, understanding how it operates and creating some distance between the urge and the action.

That space is where choice starts to return.

The full article is now available in Backstage:

https://www.entrance.org.uk/blogs/backstage-1/the-problem-with-quick-fixes

23/07/2026

Hypnosis invites a gentle shift in attention. 🌿 The outside world softens, allowing rhythm and imagination to create space for a new response. Nothing is forced, and nothing is removed—just a quieter way of listening and being. 🎧✨

15/01/2026