Personal Change

If something in your life needs to change, you're in the right place.

You don't need to know anything about the Nine Realms before you start. You don't have to understand consciousness theory, learn a new vocabulary or decide whether you believe every idea I've ever had. Frankly, I would be slightly worried if you did.

Maybe you know exactly what needs to change. Or perhaps nothing is obviously wrong and you simply have the irritating feeling that there is more of you available than you are currently living.

You do not have to know exactly what is wrong before you are allowed to begin changing what no longer works.

A place to begin

What if the problem is not that you haven't tried hard enough?

Most people do not arrive here because everything is going wonderfully and they thought they might squeeze in a little personal development between lunch and dinner. Usually something has become uncomfortable enough to need attention.

You may know exactly what it is. Your health has changed. A relationship is difficult. You keep repeating a pattern you promised yourself you would never repeat again. You have lost confidence, direction or energy. Perhaps nothing dramatic has happened at all, but you have the persistent feeling that the life you are living no longer quite fits the person you are becoming.

You may also have tried a great deal already. Books, courses, therapy, meditation, positive thinking, mindset work, perhaps several things that helped for a while and then somehow left you standing in roughly the same place with a slightly better vocabulary for describing it.

The difficulty is that human beings are complicated. A problem that looks emotional may involve identity. Something that appears physical may be tangled with stress, expectation or old learning. A lack of confidence can be connected to conditioning, relationships, past experience and the way you have learned to imagine your future.

That is why the Nine Realms Institute does not begin with the assumption that there is one technique everybody needs. There are different ways into change because people, and problems, are different.

You do not need to understand the whole Institute before you begin. You only need to recognise the place in your life that is asking for something different.

Start with what is happening in your life

You do not need to choose a Realm by understanding the Nine Realms first.

Begin with the situation you recognise. The map can come afterwards.

01

“I keep becoming the same version of myself.”

Start with the Identity Realm when old roles, self-concepts and patterns keep recreating the same choices.

02

“My emotions keep taking over.”

The Emotional Realm is the more direct doorway when the state itself, and what it may be signalling, is the immediate problem.

03

“I understand it, but it still hasn't shifted.”

The Healing Realm Audio Sessions are the personal route when another explanation is no longer what you need.

04

“I am living by rules I never consciously chose.”

The Liberation Realm examines conditioning, belief, fear and the structures that quietly define what feels possible.

05

“I know what to do. I still need to do it.”

The Heroic Realm is built around the capacities required when insight has to become courage, persistence, flexibility and action.

06

“The issue is broader than one Realm.”

Boundless Personal gives you the complete Nine Realms personal pathway when several parts of life are clearly entangled.

Other specialist personal programmes sit alongside the Realms too: Ageless by Design for ageing, The Second Spring for menopause, The Different System for neurodivergent functioning and The Invisible Body for the body-language of inner experience. You are allowed to start with the problem you actually have.

Why Nine Realms?

People often try to change the part they can see.

That works sometimes. Quite often the real problem is happening somewhere else.

A person can be trying to change a behaviour while the deeper issue is identity. They can understand an emotion perfectly well while some subconscious part of them has absolutely no intention of cooperating. They can have years of therapy, read a small library and become extremely articulate about why they are stuck while remaining, inconveniently, stuck.

I've spent nearly forty years trying to understand why human beings change, why sometimes we don't, and why insight on its own can be so bloody impressive and so bloody useless at the same time.

The Nine Realms grew from that. They are nine different places change can happen. You can explore one directly, move through them in order, or take the whole journey through Boundless.

One person's journey

Kate came looking for help with her health. What changed did not stop there.

This is Kate's story in her own words, bringing together what she has experienced through Sanomentology, Reality Hacker and Hercules Quest.

I had lived with health problems for most of my life. I had eczema from the time I was a baby, hay fever from around the age of seven, and joint pain by the time I was ten, which became a regular part of life through my teens. In my twenties, IBS, migraines and problems with my energy joined the list. Over the years I tried so many different therapies and treatments, including hypnotherapy, but nothing seemed to make a significant or lasting difference.

There came a point when my eczema became particularly bad. I was covered in it, including all over my face, and everything simply felt difficult. I had heard about Sanomentology, but I was frightened to believe that something might actually help after so many disappointments, so for a while I carried on as I was. Eventually things became bad enough that I decided I had nothing to lose by trying it.

I was astonished by how different I felt after just one appointment. Suddenly the world felt like a lovely place to be again. I could go outside, walk around and feel comfortable in myself in a way that had become very unfamiliar. I knew that one session wasn't going to undo a lifetime of problems, and I did continue with further sessions, but something had changed enough for me to realise I had found something very different. I became so fascinated by what I was experiencing that I eventually decided I wanted to learn Sanomentology properly and become a practitioner myself.

For clarity, I wouldn't say that I am completely cured. I still listen to the recordings regularly because I find that helps me maintain the benefits. What I can say is that my eczema, hay fever and joint pain have become far more manageable than they once were, and the difference this has made to my everyday life has been enormous.

Because I had already experienced such significant changes through Sanomentology, I became curious about what might happen if I explored the other Nine Realms programmes as well.

Reality Hacker was where I started to notice that the changes were no longer confined to my health. In the beginning, a few relatively small things seemed to shift and I didn't make too much of them. As I moved towards the end of the programme, however, I began to get the feeling that something much deeper had changed.

Other people seemed to notice it before I fully did. I started receiving repeated compliments, including being told that I looked radiant and that I seemed to exude confidence. My work diary became noticeably busier, and more importantly it began filling with clients who felt genuinely right for me. At the same time, something happened in another part of my business that had been frustrating me for months. I had been advertising for practitioners to join my team and getting virtually no interest. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I suddenly found myself with a choice of promising practitioners who wanted to work with me.

There was another odd little run of events during the same period that caught my attention. While I was working through Reality Hacker, I won something on the Premium Bonds four months in a row. I know perfectly well that Premium Bonds are random and I am not claiming that the course somehow made the numbers come up, but when several unusual things start happening at once you do notice them. It became one more part of that feeling that life around me was beginning to move differently.

I couldn't point to one single moment and say, "that was when everything changed." It felt much more as though something in me had shifted and life had gradually started responding differently around it.

I noticed something similar while working through Hercules Quest. Summer has never been an easy time for me. Even in recent years, with my eczema, hay fever and joint pain much better controlled, hot weather has usually left me lethargic. I tend to do less, eat more and spend quite a lot of the summer simply waiting for the temperature to drop.

This year I was particularly worried because of the extreme heat, but I realised after a while that I wasn't responding to it in the same way. As I worked through Hercules Quest I found myself naturally getting more steps in, snacking less and feeling far more interested in doing things rather than just sitting and waiting for the day to pass. The interesting part was that I wasn't forcing any of it. I hadn't started another regime or made myself follow a list of rules. I simply noticed that my behaviour was changing.

That has probably been one of the most interesting parts of the Nine Realms work for me. Some changes have been obvious, but others seem to happen quietly. You suddenly realise that you are behaving differently, responding differently or that things which used to feel difficult no longer require the same effort.

I originally came to Sanomentology because I was desperate to feel better physically. I could never have predicted where that first decision would eventually lead me. Since then I have experienced changes in my health, my confidence, my motivation, my work and the way I seem to meet life generally.

There is still more of the Nine Realms for me to explore, which is perhaps the part I find most exciting. I have already received far more benefit from the treatment and training than I expected when I first arrived frightened even to hope that Sanomentology might help me.

Now, rather than being afraid to hope, I'm genuinely curious to see what else might change.

From earlier personal work

Long before the Personal Editions, people were already coming to me with things they wanted to change.

These comments come from earlier one-to-one work. They pre-date the current self-study courses and are included because they show how people described working with the ideas and methods behind them.

Olga Zolle
Earlier one-to-one work
“In one session I came back feeling more confident and understanding the solution had always been in my head but was unable to access it before the therapy. It has helped me see the problem from a different perspective.”
Jennifer Bramley
Earlier one-to-one work
“I was REALLY sceptical. Martin tailors sessions specifically based on your area of focus and makes you feel really comfortable.”
James Power
Earlier appointment with Martin
“I loved this appointment. It changed my life in so many ways. I highly, highly recommend his skills and services. He is also one of the nicest people you will ever meet.”
Individual results vary. These comments describe those people's own experiences.
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Realm One

The Practitioner Realm

The Practitioner Operating System

Personal Edition — £97

Don't let the word Practitioner put you off. Realm One begins with the person doing the work, and sometimes that person is you.

Before changing your emotions, identity, beliefs or life, it helps enormously if the part of you attempting the change is reasonably steady. Otherwise you can end up with one part of you enthusiastically planning a completely new future while another part quietly pulls the handbrake on.

The Practitioner Realm develops the qualities underneath effective change: intent, intuition, confidence, faith, rapport and alignment. You learn to notice your own internal state, recognise when you have wandered off centre, communicate more effectively with your subconscious and use the Self-Work Loop to keep yourself moving without constantly fighting yourself.

This Personal Edition is for applying the underlying principles to your own life. It does not qualify you to practise with other people. It may, however, make you considerably better at dealing with the person you wake up with every morning.

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Realm Two

The Consciousness Realm

The Consciousness Codex

Personal Edition — £97

This is where things become interesting. And occasionally a little strange.

The Consciousness Realm asks a fairly fundamental question: what exactly is this thing having your life?

The model explores six interacting dimensions — Word, Thought, Physical, Subconscious, Alpha and Omega — and what happens when those dimensions align, conflict or pull you in different directions. From those interactions come things we experience every day: Reason, Will, intuition, intention, resistance, perception and ultimately the reality we experience.

You don't need to accept the model as holy scripture. Please don't. I haven't started a religion. Use it, test it against your own experience, and see whether it gives you a better way of understanding what is actually going on.

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Realm Three

The Identity Realm

Who are you being while all this is happening?

Personal Edition — £97

Most of us talk about identity as though somewhere inside us is a finished person waiting to be discovered. I've come to see it rather differently.

Identity is built. Some of it was built deliberately. Quite a lot of it wasn't. Family, childhood, culture, relationships, success, failure, fear, survival and other people's expectations all contribute pieces. Eventually those pieces fit together so convincingly that we stop seeing them as a construction and simply announce: “That's just who I am.”

The Identity Realm explores archetypes, core and secondary identities, the parts you use in different situations, shadow material and the way identity influences perception, behaviour, relationships and what feels possible.

The useful question eventually becomes less “Who am I?” and more “Who do I need to become for the life I am moving towards?” It is surprisingly inconvenient. It is also useful.

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Realm Four

The Emotional Realm

The Emotional Codex

Personal Edition — £97

Emotion has had some terrible public relations. We've been taught to control it, suppress it, regulate it, rise above it, calm it down and occasionally apologise for having it in the first place.

The Emotional Realm takes a different view. Within the Nine Realms model, emotion is information. It tells you something about the relationship between what you think, what your subconscious expects, what your body is experiencing, what you want and the direction in which some deeper part of you is trying to move.

The work explores emotional coherence, resistance, transmutation, subconscious imprints and the distinction between raw sensation and the meaning we attach to it. You may discover that some emotions you have spent years trying to get rid of were actually trying rather hard to be useful.

They could perhaps have sent an email. Apparently this is the system we got.

The journey changes here

Understanding yourself is useful. Eventually something has to change.

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Realm Five

The Healing Realm

Sanomentology

Healing Audio Sessions — Personal Edition £297

Realm Five is where the Nine Realms enters healing. It is also where personal use and professional training separate very clearly.

Sanomentology is the healing methodology I developed through years of working with hypnosis, consciousness, the subconscious, dream states, emotion, trauma, identity and deeper models of consciousness. A central idea within the work is that the subconscious is capable of considerably more organisation and repair than we normally allow it to perform.

For personal work, Realm Five is available through the Healing Realm Audio Sessions: guided sessions you use yourself, in your own time.

They are deliberately separate from Sanomentology Practitioner Training. Listening to and using healing work yourself is one thing. Sitting opposite another human being and taking responsibility for working with their trauma, fear, pain or vulnerability is quite another. I refuse to pretend otherwise simply because it would make the pricing easier.

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Realm Six

The Liberation Realm

The Greatest Escape

Personal Edition — £197

At some point, you have to ask a slightly awkward question: how much of what I believe is actually mine?

The Liberation Realm grew from Plato's Cave and the ancient idea that we can mistake the world we have been shown for the whole of reality. Our caves are rather more sophisticated now.

Family beliefs, social expectations, fear, status, culture, algorithms, political tribes, ideas about success and failure, money, love, work and what a respectable human being ought to do with a Tuesday afternoon all leave fingerprints.

Liberation doesn't mean abandoning ordinary life and moving into a cave. That would rather miss the point. It means becoming more capable of deciding which parts of ordinary life are actually yours.

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Realm Seven

The Heroic Realm

The Hercules Quest

Personal Edition — £197

There comes a stage in personal development where reading another fascinating explanation about yourself is no longer enough. You have to go and do something.

Annoying, I know.

The Hercules Quest uses the twelve labours as a framework for courage, wisdom, persistence, vulnerability, cleansing, adaptability, mastery, emotional intelligence, integrity, endurance, creativity and acceptance.

Your lion may be fear. Your hydra may be a problem that seems to grow two new heads every time you solve one. Your Augean stables may be the accumulated mess you've been promising yourself you'll deal with since 2019. The mythology gives the work shape. The point is what happens in your life.

Realms Eight and Nine

Once change becomes possible, a different question appears: how far can it go?

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Realm Eight

The Transformational Realm

Reality Hacker

Personal Edition — £197

By Realm Eight, we're no longer asking whether change is possible. We're asking how far it can go.

Reality Hacker explores transformation through identity, emotion, behaviour, symbols, embodied states, social influence, coherence and probability. It begins with the recognition that simplistic manifestation advice has never been good enough.

“Think positive.” “Raise your vibration.” “Act as if.” Lovely. What happens when half of you doesn't believe a word of it?

This Realm works with the more complicated human being whose body, emotions, identity, subconscious, environment and conscious intentions may all be broadcasting slightly different messages. It asks what becomes possible when those layers begin moving in the same direction.

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Realm Nine

The Potentiality Realm

Magic & Miracles

Personal Edition — £297

I called it the Potentiality Realm because “The Realm Where Things Get Really Weird” seemed slightly difficult to put on a certificate.

This is where I allow the larger questions into the room: intention, synchronicity, ritual, symbol, alchemy, manifestation, psi, archetypes, the relationship between consciousness and probability, and the strange coincidences people experience and then hesitate to tell anyone about because they don't particularly want to be looked at that way.

The Potentiality Realm doesn't require gullibility. Quite the opposite. I think we can remain sceptical without becoming closed, and open-minded without believing every bloke on YouTube who has discovered the secrets of quantum mechanics after watching three videos.

Some of this territory is psychological. Some is philosophical. Some is NRI theory. Some remains genuinely open. Mystery is allowed here.

Specialist programmes

Some parts of life deserve their own map.

The Nine Realms are the central structure, but some areas cross several Realms at once and deserve programmes of their own.

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Ageing

Ageless

Personal Edition — £97

Ageing is biology. It is also expectation, behaviour, identity, culture, stress, movement, sleep, purpose and what we quietly decide is “normal” once a particular birthday has gone past. Ageless looks at the evidence and the psychology together, without pretending you're twenty-seven or requiring you to start dressing like your children.

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Menopause & midlife

Second Spring

Personal Edition — £97

Menopause is biological, but no woman experiences biology in isolation. Identity, relationships, culture, sexuality, confidence, grief, freedom, anger and changing roles can all arrive at roughly the same time. Sometimes the interesting question isn't only what is changing. It's who gets to appear next.

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Embodiment

The Invisible Body

Personal Edition — £97

There is the body we can measure, scan and operate on. Then there is the body as it is experienced from the inside. Those things overlap. They aren't identical. The Invisible Body explores consciousness, sensation, embodiment and some of the less obvious structures involved in our experience of being alive in a body.

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Difference

The Different System

Personal Edition — £97

A lot of people spend years trying to become better versions of somebody else's nervous system. They call themselves lazy, disorganised, difficult, oversensitive, inconsistent or bad at life because the standard operating instructions don't seem to work properly. Sometimes the instructions are the problem.

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In production

Coming Soon

The Manifestation Paradox

I'm developing a new programme around something that has bothered me for years: why the things we desperately try to manifest can become harder to reach, while things sometimes begin moving the moment we finally stop gripping them.

The Manifestation Paradox will explore intention, importance, coherence, release, intuition, coincidence and some considerably stranger possibilities.

I'm still building it, which means I am currently doing the experiments rather than selling you the answers.

The complete personal journey

All Nine Realms. One journey.

Boundless — Personal Edition £1,497

You don't have to buy the Realms one at a time.

Boundless Personal brings the personal Nine Realms work together as one larger journey. You can move through the Realms in sequence, from the foundations of self-work through consciousness, identity, emotion, healing, liberation, heroic action, transformation and potentiality. Or you can spend time where life currently needs you.

The Personal Edition includes the personal Nine Realms material and Healing Realm audio sessions. It does not include Sanomentology Practitioner Training, practitioner certification, professional-use rights, personal support from me or the professional elements of the Practitioner Edition.

There isn't a separate Boundless preview. You can look inside the individual training programmes before deciding whether you want the complete journey.

A straightforward distinction

What does Personal Edition actually mean?

The training is still the training.

I haven't chopped half of it out, renamed the leftovers “Lite”, and put a cheerful badge on the front.

Personal Editions cost less because you're buying the material for your own independent use. You work through it at your own pace. There is no personal support from me, individual feedback, practitioner certification or professional-use entitlement. Major future additions are not automatically included.

If you want to learn how to use this work professionally with other people, that's the Practitioner pathway. That's more expensive because there is more responsibility involved.

I think that's fair.

Want to try the work first?

Before you buy anything, there is quite a lot you can do for free.

If you've got this far and you're thinking, “This sounds interesting, but I'm not giving this bloke £97 until I've heard more from him,” that seems perfectly reasonable.

So don't. There are four substantial free trainings available now. They are actual trainings, not five-minute teasers designed to stop just before anything useful happens.

Free training

Escaping the Self-Help Reef

For people who have done a lot of work on themselves, had insights, breakthroughs and good intentions, and somehow still find the same patterns waiting for them when they get home.

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Free training

Quantum Reality — Without the Bullshit

For people fascinated by manifestation, consciousness and reality who would quite like to keep their critical faculties while exploring them.

Start free →

Free training

The Gap

For people who can feel that something has become disconnected: between institutions and ordinary life, the person we perform and the person underneath, or endless online connection and actually being with another human being.

Start free →

Free training

The Coherence Threshold

For people who have the uncomfortable feeling that what is happening around us is bigger than personal stress or another bad news cycle, and want to explore coherence, fragmentation and what it takes to remain whole.

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Your future self

Your future self is not waiting somewhere.

I don't really believe there is one perfect version of you hidden in the future, patiently waiting for you to perform enough morning routines to reach them.

I think we build our future selves through what we understand, what we stop carrying, what we choose, what we practise, what we face, and sometimes through being willing to question something we were previously absolutely certain about.

Nine Realms Institute exists to help with that process. You don't need to rush it. You don't need to become somebody else by Friday.

You have time to become more deliberately yourself.

Welcome.
Martin