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Out of the Gutter: A True Story of Pain, Prison, and Power: From violence, addiction, and prison to personal greatness — a true story of never giving up.
The gavel hit the sound block and his mind went silent. Mark´s soul folded up once, twice, and once more. Until his senses were withdrawn from the reality and the numbness in his head made a dream-time of the external world. His mother´s cries echoing in the courtroom.
But it couldn't be real, could it? A violent thrust and he fell into a cage. A heavy door closing behind. The sound of the starting engine. Bang! The gavel against the block now was no more than a resonance in his head. He lost the game. It was over.
From mindless delinquent to mindful hypnotist, Mark Anthony´s story take us from the criminal world of Southeast London to a successful career as one of the World's Leading Hypnotists. A roller-coaster of family violence, children's home, expelled and suspended from schools, child abuse, drugs, crime and loss of freedom; cancer, bankrupt, divorce and false accusations, and the power of a man´s mind driving his way out to a brighter life of love and success.
Mark´s incredible story goes beyond anything told a real emerging phoenix. Fatherless, poor, beaten, abused, arrested, belted, threatened, on the verge of death…Mark´s childhood and adolescence elapsed like the worst of nightmares.
The brother of a murderer, he lost four friends to heroin and was employed by an underworld figure. Treated like scum but trusting there was a way out, it was when the game seemed lost, behind bars, that Mark decided to change his life. It was an arduous path, rich in disappointments and great mistakes, albeit Mark´s life tells us that nothing is fatal and never everything is lost. An inspirational story showing us that, no matter where we are at, there is always a way up if we put our mind to it, it's all about 'the choices we make'.
But it couldn't be real, could it? A violent thrust and he fell into a cage. A heavy door closing behind. The sound of the starting engine. Bang! The gavel against the block now was no more than a resonance in his head. He lost the game. It was over.
From mindless delinquent to mindful hypnotist, Mark Anthony´s story take us from the criminal world of Southeast London to a successful career as one of the World's Leading Hypnotists. A roller-coaster of family violence, children's home, expelled and suspended from schools, child abuse, drugs, crime and loss of freedom; cancer, bankrupt, divorce and false accusations, and the power of a man´s mind driving his way out to a brighter life of love and success.
Mark´s incredible story goes beyond anything told a real emerging phoenix. Fatherless, poor, beaten, abused, arrested, belted, threatened, on the verge of death…Mark´s childhood and adolescence elapsed like the worst of nightmares.
The brother of a murderer, he lost four friends to heroin and was employed by an underworld figure. Treated like scum but trusting there was a way out, it was when the game seemed lost, behind bars, that Mark decided to change his life. It was an arduous path, rich in disappointments and great mistakes, albeit Mark´s life tells us that nothing is fatal and never everything is lost. An inspirational story showing us that, no matter where we are at, there is always a way up if we put our mind to it, it's all about 'the choices we make'.
345 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 17, 2017
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June 30, 2020
Good rags to riches read
I have read all 10 of his hypnosis books and this help fill in the blanks. This a worth while read.
I have read all 10 of his hypnosis books and this help fill in the blanks. This a worth while read.
February 9, 2018
Great to know the man behind the books
About a third the way through the book I realized I had been watching his stage hypnosis videos on YouTube for years and I had already read 2 of his books so I picked up the rest of his books hoping to improve my own hypnosis skills
About a third the way through the book I realized I had been watching his stage hypnosis videos on YouTube for years and I had already read 2 of his books so I picked up the rest of his books hoping to improve my own hypnosis skills
November 24, 2018
Riveting read - a hard to put down book.
If the self-inspiration of the author could be spread, how improved many lives in the world would be.
(It’s even free from his website so no excuses not to read it)
If the self-inspiration of the author could be spread, how improved many lives in the world would be.
(It’s even free from his website so no excuses not to read it)
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