When exploring something new, you are going to have questions and concerns. And feedback from other people's experiences can give you insight from which you can make the best decision for you. And that's why I have provided this section so others can share with you their experience of working with me one-on-one.

What people say about Oz:

"Oz is a man of the highest integrity. His mastery of the most cutting-edge change technology enables him to provide quick and lasting results."

--Colin Harris, M.D.

"Let me introduce to you one of my "top" students. Oz Merchant has a hunger-- a hunger to learn all that he can about his brain (and yours) works. What a joy it has been to teach him. Oz took his NLP Master Practitioner Training with me. Not only myself, but the other students as well noticed the intensity of his focus in learning. Richard Bandler said, 'NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques.' The attitudes of NLP are that of curiosity and experimentation. Oz demonstrates these attitudes. His intense curiosity drives him to learn the finer points of NLP and Meta-States. He has a sincere desire to spread this technology to others that they may experience what he has experienced in learning the joy and thrill of running one's own brain. I highly recommend Oz to any student or client desiring to delve into the richness of this discipline."

--Bob Bodenhamer, D.Min.
The Institute of Neuro-Semantic Studies

A feeling of joy came over me when I saw you that day. Since our session, I associate you with freedom and lightness, humor and everything that is not presumptuous. It was refreshing to see from your eyes and perspective. I felt ridiculous and rigid and immediately wanted to change, when you pointed out how complicated it can make things if you hold on to ideas, concepts, perspectives which don't serve you anymore. The ideas you discussed like cutting around each family member, and visualizing what I might feel like in the future, etc. felt so healthy to me.

You helped me to harness a feeling of resilience inside myself. I needed to be reminded of how humans are really full of light and nothing should break our spirits. I enjoyed letting the garbage go. It was like I was sitting in a room full of garbage and the whole time I could have packed it up and sent it away but I didn't realize that. It never occurred to me that, I had the option to send the rubbish away 'to manipulate someone else' as you said. I am an imaginative person and I love to live inside my visions and I like to explore and mine my soul for inner qualities and treasures. And you brought this out through your imaginative exercises. There was something so clean and fresh and truthful about the way you worked with me.

A friend came into town recently and gave me that book The Four Agreements. It had been a while since I had read it. I reread it and it made me think about my session with you. It seems you must have already read the book or else the ideas you shared with me about 'hooks and getting sucked in' just happen to be similar to the Toltec wisdom in The Four Agreements.

The big work for me now is to uncover all the agreements that I have made which I am still unaware of. The trick is to be conscious of all the agreements I have accepted and see how they are trapping me and not allowing me to be free. And as the book says humans are pure love and pure light.

You were like a mirror to me in the session. I could see myself in you and it was so funny to realize how I get caught up and carried away in dreaming. The book calls this dreaming society's dream or the dream of the planet...

"The dream of the planet is the collective dream of billions of smaller, personal dreams which together create a dream of a family, a dream of a community, a dream of a city, a dream of a country and finally a dream of the whole humanity. The dream of the planet includes all of society's rules, its beliefs, its laws, its religions, its different cultures and ways to be, its governments, schools, social events and holidays."

And that is A LOT of layers to work through. And since I have grown up in a society which makes safety, convenience and efficiency their gods, I have a tendency to want to jump from one point immediately to the next. Instead it is a process I must allow myself to go through. No jumps. No trap doors. Just me and the process. And I may never totally get out of all the traps, hooks, and agreements but I am okay with that. I am not going to be able to evolve completely in my lifetime. So, it is my hope that future generations in my family or perhaps my children will continue the work where I left off.

--Sonia Avasthi, Peace Corps

 

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"I think I achieved great benefit from our session in EFT and whatever else you were doing with me.

I left our (phone) session feeling freer than I have in many years. The effect has somewhat stuck with me. Right after our call, I received a stressful business call from someone. I was better able to express my boundaries and prevent the usual extreme drain on my energy. Well, I was drained some, but not to the degree something of this nature would normally do. Plus, I felt proud of myself for having respected my own boundaries more without having responded in a negative way.

Yesterday, accompanied by a friend, I drove out Hwy 316 to Athens and then around the Athens loop. This was a major accomplishment for me. I was white knuckled and dizzy, but I made it. I didn't think it was going to be so far and I over stepped my capabilities really. I feel very nervous when I think of repeating it. I could not stop and let my friend drive because she had had a medical procedure the day before that prevented her from driving.

But I did it.

I will continue to use the techniques you taught me but I am aware there is much for me to learn. You did a fantastic job and I have encouraged two of my acquaintances to get in touch with you. I know they haven't yet, but sooner or later. I'll have some specific questions soon, but I'm trying to get the basics to become automatic. I look forward to our next appointment so that we can make even more progress. I know how important continuity is.

Thanks again for your help."

"I would like to take this opportunity to let you know the results of our session on Jan.23-01. I definitely felt a little something took place during the session, which we discussed afterwards, but the best was yet to come.  Not knowing if a transition had taken place when I left the center I definitely was on the brink of a great outcome.  On my way to work the next day this powerful drive came over me and then I knew something had happened, I completed the task at hand within 24 hours of the session.  Since then I have had such strong desires to keep moving with my project on a daily basis.

I now know the feeling a person with true passion has.  It is the most awesome experience I have ever had in my life.

For anyone interested in CORE Changes, I would highly recommend it.

My first session was to quit smoking two years ago.  It worked with no pain or withdrawal symptoms.  I had smoked for 25 plus years.  It was miraculous.

My second session was to conquer a lifetime battle of getting into projects and losing the thrill before completion, but with Oz’s help this is no longer a frustration and I know my true purpose will come to fruition.

Thanks again Oz"

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