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What is different about MMB Hypnosis?

Traditionally. hypnosis is known as a specific method of deliberately inducing and directing a trance state to achieve focused changes in perception, memory, emotion, or behavior.

Trance is one of the altered states of consciousness. An altered state of consciousness means any condition where your state is shifted — in perception, awareness, attention, or sense of self.

Traditional hypnosis uses suggestion to intentionally induce a trance state, while trance itself refers more broadly to any altered state of consciousness where ordinary awareness narrows or shifts. In hypnosis, a practitioner typically guides a person into trance using induction — the process of guiding a person into a focused, altered state of consciousness where they become more receptive to suggestions and inner exploration. It is accomplished through relaxation, focus, and suggestion techniques, aiming to make the mind more open to influence without critical resistance. Hypnosis is a structured way of entering and using trance for targeted purposes.

A trance is generally defined as: “A state of focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and heightened suggestibility.”

In contrast with traditional forms of hypnosis, whether it’s Ericksonian or any other, besides the specific methodology which is used for facilitating an altered state of consciousness (without classic hypnotic induction), MMB hypnosis alchemizes a state that could be described as a very deep meditative absorption. In the MMB, we call it Point None.

Point None vs. Trance:
UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE

Aspect

MMB Hypnosis

Traditional Hypnosis

Methodology

MMB hypnosis uses a unique, layered process of Diffusion through meditative absorption. It catalyzes entry into Point None, a deeply transformative, “ground zero” state, creating a profound shift in consciousness and loosening the identity.

Traditional hypnosis typically employs relaxation techniques, focus, and suggestion to create a trance state that enhances suggestibility for specific changes (e.g., quitting smoking, reducing anxiety). The focus is usually on surface-level issues and symptom relief.

State of
Consciousness

MMB hypnosis guides clients to Point None: a state of pure presence, where identity dissolves, and the client experiences direct connectionwith the core essence of consciousness, bypassing all learned cognitive frameworks (which are addressed at the Deconstruction stage of the MetaMind Bend coaching). This allows for radical transformation and the release of long-held attachments.

Traditional hypnosis involves a trance state, which can be hyper-suggestive and involves a heightened focus on specific issues. It doesn’t reach the depth of complete ego dissolution or the transcendence of identity found in MMB’s Point None.

Aspect
Methodology

MMB hypnosis is a deep deprogramming process, in which clients not only overcome surface-level issues, but also shift their entire sense of self. The practice leads to self-realization and ongoing identity deconstruction, aligning the client with their true essence and transcending attachments to limiting beliefs, patterns, and external validations.

itional hypnosis is a reprogramming process that can create short-term relief and changes, but typically does not result in lasting shifts at the identity level. While it is effective for modifying behaviors, it doesn’t offer the profound identity transformation found in MMB hypnosis.

So, THE DIFFERENCE IN THE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

with which traditional hypnosis and MMB hypnosis work:

Meditation emphasizes detachment from sensory input, while trance involves active sensory experience and responsiveness.

Because suggestibility in Point None is not activated, in the MMB we use a transitional “intensified trance” state upon the “recovery phase” from the meditative absorption.

Point None vs. Trance:
DEEPER BENEFITS

Aspect

Point None (MMB Hypnosis)

Trance (Traditional Hypnosis)

Methodology

Unfocused state of pure consciousness, transcending ego with its cognitive, physiological and energetic anchors, where the sense of self dissolves completely. Represents a core-level awakening.

Focused state, often achieved through relaxation and suggestion,  remains at the level of the mind and behavior, without transcending the sense of self or causing multidimensional healing of the mind.

Transformation

Radical transformation of identity and consciousness. Facilitates ego dissolution, profound self-realization, and the release of deep-seated patterns. Permanent change in perception and self-awareness.

Surface-level transformation focused on changing behavior or alleviating symptoms. Typically temporary, with changes often confined to specific issues or behaviors.

Experience
of the Self

Clients experience a loss of attachment to their past, beliefs, desires, and fears, entering a state of limitless potential and pure being. It’s a state of non-duality.

The self remains intact, and the experience is often focused on external changes. The individual may remain consciously aware of themselves relative to the changes they are trying to make (e.g., quitting smoking, managing pain).

Goal

To achieve a transcendent shift in consciousness that leads to self-liberation and alignment with one’s true essence. Permanent identity shift.

To facilitate temporary changes in behavior, thoughts, or emotional states, often for specific goals (e.g., habit change or symptom relief).

Duration of
Effect

b>Long-lasting effects as it shifts core identity and deep-rooted patterns. Leads to ongoing, natural transformation in daily life.

Short-term effects for specific issues, often requiring repeat sessions or reinforcement to maintain results.

Core Mechanism

Offers instant un-anchoring from deeply ingrained patterns. Accesses a state of no-mind, allowing profound release and future self-actualization with ease.

Uses heightened suggestibility and focus on specific issues. Works by using direct suggestions to alter thoughts or behaviors, often without addressing the core underlying identity.

Potential for
Awakening

Facilitates awakening to a deeper reality, allowing clients to experience oneness with their essence and the universe, as described in various spiritual traditions and experienced by mystics (including yours truly, the creator of the MMB).

Not typically aimed at spiritual awakening. Focuses more on behavioral change rather than shifts in consciousness or perception of reality.

The MetaMind Bend™
Catalyst and Her Vision

Olga Kostrova, the founder of the MetaMind Bend™ Project and the architect of the MetaMind Bend™ Model, is a true catalyst—a force that disrupts stagnation and ignites transformation. Her work is an alchemy of philosophy, psychology, mysticism, and radical self-inquiry, designed for those who seek not just to understand, but to unbecome—to embody the fluidity of existence, unanchored from all illusions… to become unlimited… to become a true Creator.

Know Yourself Beyond Psychological Structures. Accept Your Limitlessness. Become the Creator.

For all of us living in a chaotic world, where minds are conditioned by endless influences, the journey to true liberation demands more than self-improvement—it requires self-transcendence. The MetaMind Bend™ Model (MMB) is not just a psychological tool; it is an ontological shift that initiates a radical reawakening, a method of dismantling the perceptual architecture that confines consciousness within preordained limits.

AWAKEN
with the MetaMInd Bend and the MMB HYPNOSIS

At the threshold of what passes for ordinary hypnotic states and what can only be called the unmaking of self, there stands a stark difference: Point None, as accessed through MMB Hypnosis, does not sedate the mind into docile compliance; it uproots the entire project of personal identity itself.

Traditional trance—pleasant, efficient, occasionally therapeutic—is a gentle rearrangement of the furniture inside a house built by fear, habit, and inherited thought. Point None is something else: it is stepping outside the house entirely, seeing that the house was never real, and watching the horizon stretch so wide it erases even the idea of walls.

In Point None, the client no longer toggles between mental states but exits the machinery of mind altogether. This is not an altered state of consciousness—it is consciousness prior to alteration. No dreamy fog. No ritualistic affirmations. No clever bypass of resistance. Instead, there is the astonishing, unnerving, liberating realization.

Meanwhile, traditional hypnosis remains a competent technician’s tool. It is a method of inducing narrowed focus and heightened suggestibility. Fine for redirecting behaviors, softening traumas, rewriting the margin notes of personality. But it does not touch the ancient editors, the assumptions of selfhood, that wrote the script in the first place. It is well-meaning. It is not liberation.

Trance is local. Point None is tectonic.
Trance modifies experience. Point None modifies being.

Point None breaks with every traditional model that treats consciousness as a thing to be managed, steered, or upgraded. There is no management in Point None. No steering. No upgrading. Only an ending of the demand that any of these were ever necessary. And in this ending, something wholly new appears—new not because it was created, but because it was never absent except by misperception.
Traditional hypnotic trance solves the problems of the mind. Point None dissolves the problem of “mind” itself.

GET A DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS
Awaken through MMB-Induced Flash of Illumination

followed by perception and behavior altering suggestions

In the MetaMind Bend (MMB) model, hypnosis-induced meditative absorption serves as a bridge between ordinary trance and deeper awakening states traditionally described across spiritual and mystical traditions. 

Various cultures have articulated experiences of consciousness expansion, ego dissolution, and ultimate reality recognition — experiences that, while often arising spontaneously or through disciplined spiritual practice, can also be catalyzed more intentionally through the MMB hypnosis method. 

Culture

Equivalent Concept

Notes

MMB Hypnosis

Hypnosis-Induced Meditative Absorption

In the MetaMind Bend framework, hypnosis facilitates a meditative absorption state where cognitive anchors dissolve, opening access to deeper consciousness layers typically reserved for advanced meditators.

Hinduism (Advaita Vedanta)

Turiya

Turiya, meaning “The Fourth,” refers to pure consciousness beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, recognized in ancient Indian philosophy as the ultimate substratum of all states.

Hinduism
(Yoga Sutras)

Samadhi

Samadhi is a state of profound absorption where the mind becomes completely still, allowing the practitioner to experience unity with the object of meditation or pure consciousness itself.

Taoism

Wu Wei / Ziran

Wu Wei (“non-doing”) and Ziran (“naturalness”) describe a state of effortless action in spontaneous harmony with the Tao, foundational to Taoist philosophy and lifestyle.

Zen Buddhism

Satori

Satori is a sudden, intuitive flash of enlightenment or seeing into one’s true nature, often regarded as a first awakening experience in Zen practice.

Christian Mysticism

Union with God

Christian mystics like Meister Eckhart described “Union with God” as the direct merging of the soul with divine essence, transcending the sense of separation through love and surrender.

Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)

Fana (فناء‎)

In Sufism, Fana refers to the annihilation of the ego-self into the oneness of God, a state often described in ecstatic poetry and mystical practice.

Indigenous Shamanism

Soul Flight

In many Indigenous traditions, “Soul Flight” is a trance journey where the shaman’s spirit leaves the body, sometimes reaching realms of unity with nature or the cosmic source, such as the Andean “becoming the sky.”

Kabbalah
(Jewish Mysticism)

Devekut (דבקות)

Devekut, meaning “clinging,” refers to a deep, continuous attachment or merging of the soul with God, seen in Hasidic and Kabbalistic traditions.

Mahayana Buddhism

Bodhi / Kensho

In Mahayana Buddhism, Bodhi means full awakening, while Kensho in Zen signifies an initial glimpse into the true nature of reality, often through direct insight.

Native American Vision Quest

Direct communion

A Vision Quest is a rite of passage involving solitude and fasting, where individuals seek direct communion with spirit forces or nature, often experiencing ego-dissolution and profound guidance.

APPLICATIONS of MMB HYPNOSIS

As an entrepreneur or a leader, what can you accomplish as a result of it?

Mind and Behavior Hacking for High Performance:

Money, Wealth, and Manifestation:

Advanced Self-Transformation and Soul-Healing:

Physical and Health Enhancements:

Social Mastery:

Metaphysical / Consciousness Expansion:

Occult and Esoteric Applications:

Explore Our Clients’ Outcomes and Experiences

"As someone who takes a lot of pride in being deeply insightful and highly perceptive, I was very skeptical of Ms. Kostrova’s claims even after I watched her videos and lectures on the subjects of both personal and professional transformations. However, after only a few sessions the whole experience has left me speechless. Leveraging her analytically probing and coaching skills she was able to get to the root of the problem quickly while making me recognize it as well. I truly felt Ms. Kostrova was reading my mind while also making me feel both safe and comforted by her. In a word – magical"
Bill Baker, Founder & CEO, Celebrity Food Network LLC. LA CA
"What Olga did for me is beyond coaching. She not only helped me to facilitate a number of multi-million dollar deals giving great advice on how to approach negotiations, but she also helped me get rid of partial body paralysis. It was amazing. In 2 years of regular visits to psychiatrists and counselors didn’t help. For Olga it took only 3 of her unusual PhysioEmoDynamics sessions, and the paralysis was gone. Simply amazing!"
Tech CEO, Venture Investor, One of major shareholders of an advertising network recently acquired by Google, Mountain View, CA
"Olga… What can one say but that she is a required force of nature. If you need a sweet push into the vast change before you, then work with Olga. She is part coach, part business strategist, part trickster, part cheerleader, and all heart. Olga helps you feel the big picture, though the focus on the details to get you there. She is not trying to be your shrink or guru; she is trying to help you to be you. That’s remarkable, and so is she. I recommend her completely. Sarah, thank you very much for such wonderful testimonials of my work. I am blessed by the each opportunity of encountering beautiful souls like you."
Sarah E, Kornfeld, Innovation + Growth Strategist, Writer, Cultural Curator, San Francisco, CA
"Olga is a great coach to work with – she takes the time to establish great rapport, and she has amazing techniques and insight. She is also no-nonsense in the way she objectively deals with issues, while at the same time, offering a compassionate and feeling heart. I have managed to work through some very difficult issues after a bad breakup involving betrayal which left me angry, broken-hearted, mistrustful, and somehow dislocated from my own spirit. While working with Olga, I have moved past many of the destructive emotions which have taken up a lot of my time, energy, and focus, and regained a feeling of safety, health, and hope. Now I’m able to refocus on my business once again, and get back on with life as it was meant to be!"
Anna Weltman, Sport & Performance Consultant, Ottawa, Canada
"I had been struggling with my career development for a few years when my friend, Jan Hutchins, recommended I contact his wife Olga Kostrova for consulting. The previous year I worked with a career coach and the experience was mediocre, so I was very skeptical about career coaches. While in the process of doing my due diligence on Olga’s services, I found an impressive quote about her, which read that she’s a force of nature’. After working with Olga for several months I believe the quote is an understatement- Olga is nature! Let me explain: No matter what issue, struggle, fear, sense of failure, sense of grandiosity, etc., she has a wonderful way of grounding me by teaching me to ground myself. Through her, I learned to hear my own voice ‘echoing in the hallway’ thus I become my own counsel and redirect myself to my path toward success as I define it. She’s a teacher, leader, friend, muse, challenger, etc. Thus she’s the nature because she grounds me to my core stripping away all the wasted mindshare preventing me from my objectives. That’s just the tip of the iceberg with Olga. However, she’s incredibly astute about business on all levels, plugged into Silicon Valley, worldly and very technically savvy. In conclusion, hire Olga as a coach or consultant for whatever your professional goal is, and you’ll achieve those goals because if you read this you’re ready and Olga will help you down the path."
Laurence Verga, Owner, Allstate Insurance Agency, Eugene
"I feel fortunate that I had Olga as my mentor. I love her work, her intuition, especially how she has no hesitation when she “goes for the kill’ to show what I was missing to see. What amazes me most is her instinct about which way to go to find that little something that’s waiting to be changed for the better"
Nikola Dojcinovski, Data & Predictive Analytics Consultant, Ventura, USA
"I recently completed a 12-session MMB Coaching program with Olga Kostrova, and I couldn't be more grateful for the journey. From the very start, Olga’s engaging and high-energy personality made every session enjoyable and transformative. Her ability to break down complex issues into actionable steps, paired with her deep understanding of both personal and professional challenges, has been invaluable. The program provided me with practical tools and strategies that I can continue to apply long after our sessions have ended. Olga doesn’t just offer advice; she equips you with the frameworks to take control of your own path and make empowered decisions. Whether you're navigating business challenges, such as fundraising, Board dynamics, or employee productivity, or dealing with life transitions, she is a true catalyst, helping you zoom out and see a bigger picture. What truly stood out to me was how she helped me strengthen my connection with both the universe and myself. Her approach is holistic, and it felt like a collaborative effort to not only work through problems but also to gain a deeper understanding of the world around me and my role within it. I highly recommend Olga’s coaching for anyone looking to elevate their life, make impactful changes, or simply gain clarity. Her guidance has been invaluable, and I feel better equipped to move forward with confidence and purpose."
Tech investor, CEO of Defense Technology Company
"Taking Olga Kostrova’s workshop a few weeks ago was a great experience. Her leadership acumen invokes a level of trust and safety that allowed us, the participants, the opportunity to go deeper into our psyche around what was leading us into the inner world. Olga’s techniques, awareness of human interaction and vulnerability in her own transparency allowed us to take a closer look at our motivation and intention with many powerful subjects. It was interesting, engaging, intriguing and alluring, all at the same time. I am looking forward to the advanced classes."
Jay Saber, Leader of MKP (ManKind Project), Facilitator of inner work in prisons, Santa Cruz, USA
"I firmly believe that we all need coaches at different times in our careers. While I haven’t met Olga in person, she has still proven to be of incredibly high value to me. Her coaching can be very personal and amazingly business oriented. She transcends an understanding of individual issues, as well as organizational and business issues; that amazes me about her capacity. I have worked with a lot of coaches who have helped me individually or to get tremendous growth for my organizations, but she has proven she can do both. It’s amazing how she can coach and work with me via Skype to see and understand how I am reacting to our dialogue and issues and keep us focused and full of high energy. I would also encourage you to chat with her for yourself if you need a coach or others you think who could value from her skills. As I said, her work for me has been invaluable and is the best experience with a coach. I would recommend Olga to our clients as well as others, without hesitation."
David Rosen, CEO of TechxFoundry Accelerator, NY
"I had the cathartic pleasure of participating in Olga Kostrova’s compelling Shadow Work Theatre Workshop last weekend in La Jolla. Olga is a generous and empathic facilitator with a keen ability to draw authentic expression from all participants. Utilizing theatrical tools in service of psycho-therapeutic exploration and healing in a safe and encouraging field of play, we really got to experience the relief of owning vs suppressing our truth in as full a way as we were authentically feeling it. I felt cleansed and validated by the experience and happily recommend her to anyone seeking to claim and celebrate their own embodiment!"
Tes Kempner, Actress, Teacher, Facilitator, San Diego, USA
"Olga is very talented professional with extremely kind and beautiful soul that truly cares. From the very beginning she engages quickly and softly to understand your need that is actually beyond your own self-awareness. She is highly capable in real time to shift and create tailor made coaching that brings you to the core of your true need ,“want” (missing part) and self-discovery. After coaching sessions were over I was able to continue my own journey utilizing the experience and learning I was able to obtain from her. I highly recommend Olga’s coaching in this modern and unpredictable style of leaving where balance and self-knowing is key to have joyful and fulfilled life created by YOU"
Liljana Dojcinovski, Skilled business strategist, Los Angeles, USA
"Olga has bravely and brilliantly worked with me to dis-identify with the egoistic thoughts and feelings that ruled my life. She helped me to finally be able to see the insatiable desires, petty dislikes and life-blocking patterns that had been running me since childhood that had been causing suffering for me and those trying to love me. I’m no longer reacting to my ego’s insistent emotional urges to defend, distrust, and deny a sweet loving connection to self and world. I’m convinced she is a realized a being and lives in a state of powerful, angelic love. She ruthlessly trained me into my excellence and helped me to become a better public speaker, more proactive entrepreneur, and fully embody a new career and build a successful practice as an Executive Coach."
Jan Hutchins, Executive Coach, former Mayor of Los Gatos, TV news anchor, Public Speaker, Los Gatos, CA
"Olga is an unbelievable transformational artist. I approached her when I was drowning. 10 years ago I was diagnosed with depression, and in the last decade, my business sank. After a single session with Olga my depression went away. And I mean it was absolutely gone and the feeling of depression wasn’t even accessible to me any longer. I tried out of curiosity to feel sad and I couldn’t. It was the most unusual outcome. During the next 30 days my business grew rapidly. I was opening new accounts and optimizing my business processes under her guidance. To say that I highly recommend her work is an understatement."
Dennis, CEO of a Silicon Valley based construction company, San Francisco, CA
"During my very first session, Olga almost immediately identified my core trouble and simply hearing her insight on the subject gave me the tools I needed to work my way through and out the other side. Some people have a gift for this kind of work and in my experience; I found one of those people in her. Last year I hit a serious personal stumbling block that was holding me back from my true potential. In less than one hour Olga had completely nailed my restrictions and put it very clearly so I could see exactly what I needed to strengthen to achieve my goals. It was stunning and remarkably clear, definitely not something I could have achieved so easily without her help. I am now in a much better place, and my startup is becoming a reality. I’d recommend her to anyone who wants to explore what they need to overcome to take their next steps."
Pras Anand, Digital Engineer, London, UK
"Olga is definitely one of a kind, and that is meant in the most complimentary of ways. A unique blend of intelligence (intellect & emotional), business savvy, heart, intuition, truth, and enlightenment. I highly recommend those that are seeking something more out of their life/careers to have an introductory conversation. I can say with complete confidence that it is you and only you that creates the barriers to whatever it is you wish to attain. Olga has the unique ability to help you identify those barriers and provide the tools to become the best version of yourself (whatever that means for you). I believe Olga brings to the table what many coaches cannot, a unique combination of pure awareness/intuition and amazing business intellect. If you can find someone that can genuinely help you move you out of the way and have a meaningful and intelligent business impact as well, then you found the ultimate support. The hardest part for most coaches being the former. Here’s what I say, have an introductory conversation and I am guessing within the first 10 minutes of the conversation she will see your barriers and offer a plan that will set you free. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain."
Ken Hunt, Mindful Operations, Data and Finance Executive, Eugene, USA
"I wrote to Olga a few months back asking if she could help me heal from an emotional family wound. She assured me that I didn’t have to suffer as I did anymore. I was a little skeptical and waited another 6 weeks until I contacted her again to sign up for her services. The traditional therapy sessions didn’t heal the emotional baggage which I carried around these last two and a half years. I came in with an open mind and envisioned myself on the road to fully healing and happy again. And that’s exactly what happened. The memories of my past don’t haunt me or tortured me as it did before. I no longer live in the past and enjoy being in the present with my daughters. I cannot begin to thank Olga enough for setting me free. And my business now is doing extremely well. I am so happy!"
Emmi, Business Coach, San Jose, CA
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