Turan Mirza, at The Mac, Belfast - photo 0169.

All hypnosis is self hypnosis.

It’s not like going to a hairdresser, where they do all the work and you just sit there. Hypnosis is like going to a personal trainer. You’ve got to do the work, to get the results.

Sometimes people will change in the chair as I talk to them. Or a client will leave my place, and two days later they will call me and say, you’ll never believe this.I just woke up totally feeling different.

After many years working at Nortel as a software engineer and manager, when the company decided to downsize Turan was asked to let several of his team go, only to then be made redundant also.

A friend of Turan’s, who was also in Nortel, set up an oil and gas business and asked Turan to join this new business. While their first business venture didn’t do too well, the second attempt was much more successful. And after eight years, the company had grown significantly, and was sold for thirty-four million pounds.

After the company was bought over, Turan stayed on for several years.

With the oil and gas sector changing, and the oil prices plummeting, Turan step down from his role as Director of Engineering.

During his time running a prosperous company servicing the oil and gas industry, Turan used do magic tricks for his children, and his own amusement.

Turan became interested in one particular magic trick, and discovered it was done using hypnosis. Turan began to delve deeper into hypnosis, which inadvertently helped as a distraction from running a time-consuming business.

As word got out, Turan was invited to do birthday parties, and then some shows. While his hypnotism, at the time, was purely for entertainment purposes, people started pulling Turan aside and asking if he could help with personal issues, and the likes of insomnia.

During his time running a prosperous company servicing the oil and gas industry, Turan used to do magic tricks for his children, and for his own amusement.

Turan became interested in one particular magic trick, and discovered it was done using hypnosis. Turan began to delve deeper into hypnosis, which inadvertently helped as a distraction from running a time-consuming business.

As word got out, Turan was invited to do birthday parties, and then some shows. While his hypnotism, at the time, was purely for entertainment purposes, people started pulling Turan aside and asking if he could help with personal issues, and the likes of insomnia.

It was then that Turan discovered his hypnotism helped people, with great results.

While still a director of the oil and gas industry company, Turan began doing some courses on how hypnosis can help people cope with health-related issues.

With oil prices plummeting, and the oil and gas sector not doing so well, the company was bought over, and Turan moved on, to seriously focus on building his hypnosis services practice, Feel Good Hypnosis.

Turan’s business has become a family affair, with his sons Jonathan, who launched their successful Youtube channel, and Daryl both joining the company.

With a lot of networking meetings under his belt, and many more to come, Turan get’s a lot of business through face-to-face encounters at these events.