Mary Richards is nationally known as a certified hypnotherapist, seminar leader, author, educational consultant, psychologist and university professor. Mary is one of the country's leading experts in the use of relaxation techniques, hypnotherapy; to ease pain, promote healing and support life style changes. Mary is known to millions for her outstanding Master Your Mind audio releases.

She became an expert in self-help the hard way, critically injured in an accident, she was severely disabled for three years and was told she would never be able to return to active clinical practice. For six months Mary virtually spent four hours a day practicing deep relaxation meditation; releasing blocked energy, focusing on wholeness. She felt that answers and the will to cause change lie within. "Fortunately," says Mary, "when your mind is deeply relaxed, it doesn't analyze, criticize, overact, or interfere; so the mind can be guided through positive step by step instructions toward change." Mary's own healing began with the same life enhancing methods she now shares through her self-help compact discs. Toward the end of her long recovery period Mary had begun client practice again. Soon, the demand for her relaxation techniques had grown so large that she turned to the recording studio as a means of instructing the growing audience of self-help techniques. Essentially, Mary's experience with clients had already developed her insight into the role the mind holding on to past trauma plays in the experience of pain. Combining this insight with her own healing experiences along with deep relaxation, she created the Master Your Mind self-help systems. All of the self-help systems' messages come form Mary's real life struggle in addition to her professional training.

Available on compact disc, and digital download, Mary%u2019s work provides an effective and relaxing helpful tool to assist the listener in identifying their own barriers to making quality choices. These titles were developed through working with actual clients. Today, Mary's Master Your Mind self-help library includes over 200 titles which are found throughout the world in libraries, universities, treatment centers, hospices, meditation centers, medical, chiropractic and dental offices as well as healing centers. .

%u201CThese warm and compassionate titles are powerful yet gentle tools for recovery. Mary Richards' insight and love shines with a phenomenal brilliance," says Leading Edge Review.

Her Inner Peace Music for meditation, dreaming, and loving is described by Omega New Age Directory as "Liquid color falls that cascade effortlessly over the spirit."

Mary Richards leads Breakthrough Workshops throughout the country, has been leading self-healing no-fee meditation group for People with AIDS for twenty years and has her private practice in Walnut Creek. Clients across the country also receive the benefit of her work through telephone sessions.

The systems use elements of deep relaxation, hypnotherapy, guided imagery, awareness techniques, and creative visualization, all blended with soothing and sensitive music mixed with a background of the sounds of nature. The systems on these releases create a relaxing atmosphere and the gentle encouragement so needed for change. The listener can be guided to identify obstacles standing in the way of making better life choices. First, Master Your Mind self-help system works by teaching the mind to slow down, relax and go into a state of deep relaxation. Because the listener is actually creating or guiding the process, during this relaxation time, the ego is not overacting; attitudes or obstacles can be identified. When the obstacles are recognized as such, the listener canthen open the door to growth and experience changes. In a sense this technique provides a means of getting in touch with that inner wisdom deep inside all of us. When the mind is relaxed and free it can explore areas of concern back to their original scripted beginnings, perhaps when an unconscious or unhealthy reaction created the obstacle which is holding them back. Lastly, when a negative process is identified the script can be rewritten or reinstructed by the listener, with direction from Mary on the C.D. on how to let go of those negative feelings that can not support a successful and happy life.

Mary has seen evidence many thousands of times that when the mind releases feelings of limitation, maladaptive habits can change that are causing unhappy lives. It sounds unbelievable but the inner mind is the boss. It has taken some time in our "take a pill" society for acceptance of changing one's own habits by going deep within and visualizing a better life. The tremendous demand for these self help products is an indication of the growing awareness of the positive effect of using self hypnosis. All that is required for anyone to change harmful reactions is to have a desire to change, be willing to accept the responsibility for change, and to keep an open mind about how attitudes effect our daily activities. Mary says. "Change the mind and the body will follow."