Break the Trance of Despair:

Finding Softness, Strength, and Sanity in a World on Fire

A free, unrecorded Zoom class with Duff McDuffee
Saturday, April 5th | 10 AM Mountain Time

How do we stay human in a world that so often feels inhumane?

Between genocide, fascism, climate collapse, and the daily flood of heartbreaking news, it’s easy to feel trapped in a trance of despair—frozen, exhausted, and overwhelmed by a reality that seems too big, too brutal, and too much.

But what if despair isn’t the end of the story? What if there’s a way to break that trance—not by numbing out, but by waking up and coming back to your senses?

In this free 60-minute class, you’ll be guided through a simple but potent practice to interrupt the looping patterns of stress—not through denial or bypassing, but by making space to feel, shift, and re-source your energy from within.

Inspired by a Rumi poem that invites us to “wash the heart seven times,” we’ll move through seven rounds of gentle trance-breaking. We’ll literally come back to our senses by activating the built-in reset switches of the nervous system.

You'll learn how to...

• Use the eyes to exit the "fight-or-flight" response and experience spacious awareness
• Use the ears to quiet inner talk and discover the silence within
• Use gentle tapping on the body with compassionate self-talk to allow all thoughts and emotions to arise and pass without getting stuck
• Use gentle movement to bounce back quicker, shake free loose tension, and flow with all of life

Once we break the old trance of fear, anger, and despair, we can then form a new trance. I'll guide you through a hypnosis journey into a world where your deepest longings for humanity have come true—even if it’s 1,000 years from now—so you can start to reconnect with your optimism.

This class is free and will not be recorded to honor the safety of authentic expression. Come as you are. No need to be hopeful, energized, or even functional. Just bring your honest heart.

Because the truth is...

• You don’t have to burn out to care.
• You don’t have to go numb to survive.
• There is a way back to love and peace and joy.

And that way back is already built-in to who you are at your core.

The reason you've felt so bad about the state of the world is because you care. And as you shed the layers of accumulated stress and reconnect with your deepest self, you'll find renewed motivation to make the world a better place—not from fear or anger, but from love and joy.

You might not experience a complete shift from this one class. But it can be an initiation into practices you can easily do on your own, and which have helped me and many of my coaching clients shift from shutdown to alive again.

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I get bored easily, so it's probable I will only offer this class once. I may also record myself later and make this into a paid product.

❤️ May all beings be happy and free from suffering. ❤️

~Duff (they/them)