unlocking the rare ability to act powerfully and freely in your life, especially when you don’t feel ‘ready’.

What is Acting Powerfully?

It’s a brand-new practical, step-by-step training that shows you how to stop waiting for the “right” thoughts or feelings and start taking the actions that actually move your life forward.

It takes the proven principles behind Practical Aesthetics and combines them with Michael’s decades of experience in NLP, coaching and high-level consulting… to give you a usable, repeatable method for doing what matters most — regardless of how you feel in the moment.

This isn’t about hyping yourself up, “getting motivated”, or pretending to be someone you’re not.

It’s about learning how to act in ways that are aligned, purposeful and powerful, even when your mind is noisy, your emotions are messy, and conditions are far from perfect.

Acting Powerfully is especially for you if:

• You’ve studied NLP, self-help or coaching for years… but your results still don’t match what you know you’re capable of.
• You find yourself overthinking, hesitating or second-guessing instead of taking the action you know would move you forward.
• You’ve done mindset work, belief work, value alignment, visualisation — and yet certain patterns, problems or habits stubbornly persist.
• You feel frustrated watching others with less knowledge create more tangible results.
• You’re tired of feeling like you’re “doing life in your head” instead of feeling fully engaged, decisive and alive in the real world.

It’s also a powerful upgrade if you’re a:

• Coach or helper who wants to help clients move from being stuck to being engaged and taking consistent action.
• Professional or entrepreneur who needs to make decisions, lead others and move fast in uncertain conditions.
• Student of self-help and NLP who want to make action their default mode.

If you recognise yourself in the description above, this may be the most important programme we ever release for you.

If you’re done collecting techniques and are ready to move differently in your life, this is for you.

For years, Acting Powerfully lay buried in the NLP Times vault — a private, two-day workshop never released to the public.

It was recorded live in London for a handful of Michael Breen’s private students — people who had already had extensive training in self-help and NLP, studying the theories, the mindsets, the visualisations — yet still found themselves stuck.

They knew what to do.

They just couldn’t get themselves to do it.

Now, for the first time ever, this remarkable audio workshop — remastered from the original recordings — is being released to a small circle of our most loyal customers, just in time for the new year.

And this may also be the only time it ever sees daylight before going back into our private archive.

Before I reveal what Michael covers in this rare live event, let me quickly tell you who this programme is not for.

Acting Powerfully is not for you if:

• You are unwilling to explore new methods, ideas and counter-intuitive exercises designed to teach you how to go beyond hesitation, act when you don’t feel ready, and make action your default mode.
• You’re looking for a magic wand that changes everything without you doing anything differently.
• You prefer to stay in the comfort of thinking, analysing and “understanding yourself” rather than taking bold, imperfect action.
• You’re attached to the idea that you must feel confident, healed or “ready” before you can move.

If you’re willing to be honest, experiment, and do, you’ll thrive here.

Inside Acting Powerfully, Michael guides you through a series of experiences that rewire how you relate to action, uncertainty and pressure.

The course is organised into two parts: recordings of the live two-day workshop, and bespoke video exercises.

Here’s a taste of what you’ll learn, starting with:

The Hidden Script

That Governs Your Life

(Until You Rewrite It)

Before you ever take an action — before you hesitate, delay, overthink, or finally move — a private script is already running inside you.

Most people never notice it.

But it shapes everything: what you attempt, what you avoid, what you finish, where you sabotage yourself, and why you keep reliving the same emotional dramas year after year.

In Acting Powerfully, Michael reveals how this script was formed, how it silently directs your behaviour, and — most importantly — how to rewrite it so action becomes the natural outcome of who you are, rather than a fight against who you’ve been.

In this module you’ll learn:

The one question Michael uses to expose the “scriptwriter” in your head who keeps sabotaging you — and how to flip that voice from tormentor to ally in under 60 seconds.

Why your unconscious “fantasy loops” keep you exhausted — and the deceptively simple shift that breaks them instantly.

Why the “I should have by now…” story is the most persuasive lie your mind will ever tell you — and how to dismantle it before it poisons your next decade.

The secret reason you torture yourself about things you can’t possibly know — and the one test that stops this mental self-abuse cold.

The unconscious deal almost everyone makes with suffering — and why breaking it frees up more energy than a week-long meditation retreat.

How to spot when you’re confusing means with ends — and the micro-adjustment that makes action flow again.

The sneaky way your mind uses “not yet” to keep you from ever beginning — and the one actor’s technique that bulldozes through it.

The telltale linguistic pattern that reveals when you’re running someone else’s dream — not your own.

Why the fantasy of “being in the process” is more seductive than real progress — and how to know when you’re trapped in that illusion.

The hidden cost of stockpiling dreams, courses, or opportunities “for later”… and why doing this creates an emotional wound that never heals until you act.

The little-known difference between internal dialogue and internal dictatorship — and how to overthrow the latter in one move.

How to identify the exact “Act Theree monster” in your personal drama — the thing that shows up the moment you get close to success.

What really keeps you from finishing things — and why it’s almost never fear of failure (hint: it’s far stranger than that).

The moment in the workshop when a participant realized he’d been living the same narrative loop for decades — and how Michael helped him shatter it in minutes.

Discover why your mind is addicted to running old emotional movies — and the game actors use to rewrite the scene swiftly.

The bizarre reason your brain thinks being unhappy is “useful” — and the actor’s trick that destroys that logic.

How to notice when you’re projecting misery into the future — and the playful question that erases decades of imagined suffering.

Suffer from a repeating inner judge? Discover the simple shift that turns your “perpetual critic” into momentum — and why this transformation often feels like removing a weight you forgot you were carrying.

The surprising psychological reason sending an email, making a call, or submitting a demo feels impossible — and the specific technique Michael uses to break that paralysis in students.

The Mechanism That Turns Intention Into Action — Every Time

Most people believe action is a matter of motivation, discipline, or willpower.

It isn’t.

As Michael demonstrates, action follows a mechanism — a simple, universal process running beneath everything you do.

When this mechanism is aligned, you move.

When it’s disrupted, you hesitate, overthink, and get stuck in “almost.”

In this section, Michael breaks down the hidden sequence that turns vague intentions into powerful action and results… and shows you how to activate it so reliably that taking action becomes your default setting — even on the things you’ve avoided for years.

You’ll learn:

How to use Michael’s “loosely tight” principle to break perfection paralysis… and why this tiny adjustment instantly shifts you from overthinking to doing.

The simple actor’s cue that collapses hesitation and gives your nervous system a green light to move — even when your mind is full of doubt.

Why most people profoundly misunderstand what learning is — and how switching the bar for qualifies as learning makes creating change ten times faster.

The hidden reason you can know exactly what to do and still not do it… and the counterintuitive process that finally reconnects knowledge to behaviour.

The surprising truth behind why children learn faster than adults — and how to reinstall this natural learning mode so action becomes automatic.

How a musician’s warm-up drill reveals the fastest way to bypass your inner critic and activate your “doing circuitry” on command.

Why abstract thinking kills momentum — and how switching to “video mode” turns vague good intentions into behaviour your body can’t resist acting on.

How to override your brain’s addiction to “thinking about doing” by replacing it with a far more pleasurable loop: doing that creates more doing.

The actor’s trick that turns even the heaviest, most draining tasks into light, effortless movements — and why it works even when motivation is at zero.

Why your mind invents imaginary prerequisites before letting you start… and how to delete these false conditions in under ten seconds.

The unsuspecting moment when your intention weakens — and how to strengthen it with a single question that forces the body to move.

What really separates people who act from people who stall — and why this distinction has nothing to do with discipline, willpower, or personality.

How to use the “present-moment snap” to terminate hours of rumination and immediately return to the action in front of you.

Why most self-help approaches fail to produce action — and the structural change in how you learn that permanently solves this.

How a simple shift in your sensory filters can turn procrastination into play — making even difficult actions oddly enjoyable.

The neurological reason parasitic thought thrives in idle time — and how to collapse its entire ecosystem by giving the brain something far more compelling to feed on.

What Michael means when he says states are “now” — and how to use this insight to install the state that gets things done, right when you need it.

Why your nervous system responds to imaginary scenes as if they’re real — and how this quirk becomes your greatest ally once you direct the film.

The moment you discover the body knows how to act long before the mind “understands” — and how this flips the entire learning model on its head.

The real reason meditation, martial arts, performance, and coaching share the same action mechanism — and how to make it yours in minutes.

How to Break the Drama That Keeps You Stuck

Every time you stall, self-sabotage, ruminate, or lose momentum, there’s a hidden drama running in the background — a story your mind slips into automatically.

It’s predictable, persuasive, and strangely comforting… even when it makes your life harder.

Most people never see this drama for what it is: a role they’ve been rehearsing for years.

In this module, Michael reveals how these internal storylines get created, why your mind keeps replaying them, and — most importantly — how to interrupt the script the moment it starts.

When you learn to dissolve these dramas instead of feeding them, you reclaim the attention, energy, and emotional freedom to act without resistance.

Here’s a quick taste of what’s you’ll learn:

How to detect the instant your life turns into a play you didn’t audition for — and how to walk off the wrong stage without burning everything down.

The hidden emotional payoff of staying stuck — and how to dissolve it so progress stops feeling dangerous.

Why your mind secretly hates empty time — and how this leads to self-inflicted misery, invented crises, and imaginary disasters.

The quiet, nearly invisible moment where your “story of the week” takes over — and how to interrupt it with one disorienting, liberating question.

How to expose the real plot behind your procrastination — and rewrite the ending so action becomes inevitable.

Why your mind keeps returning to the same five emotional dramas — and how to end the entire series instead of waiting for another bad episode.

The startling reason you cling to a wound long after the world has moved on — and the actor’s reframing technique that heals it through play.

How to uncover the “third-act monster” that appears the moment you approach success — and how to disarm it with a role change.

Why we entertain our suffering — and how recognizing this strange pleasure breaks its spell instantly.

The subtle drama involved in leaving something unfinished… and how to replace that unconscious identity payoff with something infinitely more empowering.

How to interrupt the addictive pull of internal movies — and install a new scene with completely different emotional gravity.

The fastest way to break the trance of comparison — using the same trick performers use to stop judging themselves mid-script.

Why your brain invents future catastrophes — and how to puncture their credibility with a single playful image.

The quiet relief people feel when disaster “finally happens” — and how to reclaim that energy without needing a real catastrophe.

The telltale signs you’ve been rehearsing your suffering — and the specific shift that puts you back in rehearsal for the life you actually want.

What happens when you stop trying to fix the past and instead give your nervous system a new part to play — and why change accelerates the moment you do.

Plus much more!

The Actor’s Advantage:

Using Performance to Change Reality

Actors have a unique superpower: they can step into a state, a role, or a way of being on purpose.

They don’t wait to “feel ready.”

They don’t negotiate with their fears.

They make a choice — and their body, mind, and behaviour follow.

In this session, Michael shows you how to use the same performance principles to transform your everyday life.

You’ll learn how to shift roles deliberately, create behaviours that fit the outcomes you want, and use structure — not emotion — to access clarity, energy, and presence.

When you understand how performers generate action on command, you discover a powerful truth:

You’re not stuck being who you’ve been.

You can play the version of yourself who gets things done — and then make that version real.

How performers slip into powerful states on command — and how you can use the same mechanism to enter action-mode without warming up.

The surprising reason actors can improvise courage, presence, and clarity at will — and how to use this ability in everyday life.

Why “playing yourself” is dramatically easier than being yourself — and how this reframing removes 90% of resistance.

How to use role boundaries the way musicians use key signatures — as creative constraints that make behaviour flow.

The hidden power of treating life as a sequence of beats — and how marking these beats instantly clarifies your next step.

The performance insight that reveals why you can be brilliant in one context and avoidant in another — and how to unify those selves.

Why performers never wait to feel ready before acting — and how adopting this principle breaks lifelong hesitation patterns.

How to use low-stakes play to generate high-stakes transformation — the technique athletes, actors, and executives unknowingly share.

The overlooked benefit of “dropping into character” — and how this move gives you immediate freedom from your habitual self.

What Michael learned from voice and speech training that makes communication clear, deliberate, and powerful — even when things go wrong.

Why the most effective people treat every meaningful action like a scene — and how this structure makes progress almost scripted.

The curious freedom that comes from not doing your “self” perfectly — and how imperfection becomes your most powerful access point for action.

The exact moment in the workshop when someone realized their entire life improved simply by choosing a better role — and how you can replicate that shift today.

How the concept of F-sharp and G reveals the profound difference between instructions and invitations — and how living from invitations transforms behaviour.

The actor’s secret to accessing energy, spontaneity, and presence without forcing it — and why this state makes taking action feel like play.

Mastering The Action State:

How to Enter the Only State That Actually Gets Things Done

Most people wait for motivation, confidence, or the “right mindset” before they act.

But as Michael reveals, those feelings don’t lead to action — action leads to those feelings.

The real driver behind consistent doing is something far simpler, far more reliable, and completely learnable: the Action State.

In this module, you’ll discover why the Action State isn’t an emotion, a mood, or a burst of inspiration.

It’s a practical, grounded way of organizing your body, attention, and intention so that taking the next step becomes almost automatic.

Michael shows you how to enter this state on demand, how to stabilize it, and how to use it to cut through hesitation, overwhelm, and mental noise.

When you can access the Action State deliberately, you stop negotiating with yourself.

You stop waiting for readiness.

And you start moving — naturally, consistently, powerfully.

How to enter the state-before-the-state — the quiet readiness that makes any next action effortless.

Why you don’t need to “fix your mindset”… you just need to choose the right state — and the backstage trick that helps you do this instantly.

The surprising reason meditation, martial arts, and theatre all emphasize the same principle — presence — and how to apply it without rituals.

How the “loosely tight” balance gives you more energy, more precision, and more focus than any motivation hack.

Why tuning your state is like tuning a guitar — too tight or too loose ruins the performance — and how to find your ideal resonance.

How to use the half-second between intention and action to shift your emotional physics — so acting becomes the path of least resistance.

The small, almost invisible change in breathing that actors use to change state faster than psychologists think is possible.

Why the sensation of “gravity being heavier today” is a state — not a truth — and how to drop its weight in one move.

How to install states that drive action instead of states that drive reflection — and why this one choice transforms your life trajectory.

The real reason affirmations rarely work — and the performance-based alternative that syncs your physiology with your intention.

How to use your imagination as a director, not a victim — and how this switch reshapes your emotional world instantly.

The neuroscientific reason the body reacts to imagined scenes as if they’re real — and how to hijack that mechanism to activate the state you need.

Why some states seem “hard to access” — and how to make them available in the same way an actor accesses a role: through rehearsal, not willpower.

Becoming the You Who Acts: The Art of Identity-by-Choice

You’re not a fixed personality.

You’re an evolving pattern — a collection of habits, memories, interpretations, and roles you’ve rehearsed for years.

And as Michael shows, the moment you stop treating your “self” as a fixed object and start treating it as a choice, everything changes.

In this module, you’ll learn how to step out of the version of you that hesitates, worries, or gets tangled in old stories… and step into the version of you who naturally moves.

Michael reveals how identity is shaped, how it becomes rigid, and how to loosen it so you can play a more capable, more grounded, more effective version of yourself — without faking, forcing, or pretending.

When you understand how to choose who you’re being in any moment, action stops feeling like a struggle.

It becomes the natural expression of the self you’ve decided to become.

How to stop trying to “find yourself” and instead choose yourself — using the same mechanism actors use to step into a role that fits the moment.

How to use the Three Selves distinction Michael teaches to instantly know whether you’re operating from the You that acts… or the You that hesitates.

Why your sense of “I” is mostly a construction — and how this insight gives you surprising freedom to pick behaviours that move your life forward.

How to shift from identity as history to identity as possibility — the frame change that releases a lifetime of unnecessary pressure.

Why you don’t need a “new identity” to change your behaviour — you just need to play the version of yourself who would already take the next step.

The subtle reason your current self-image resists change — and the actor’s pivot that dissolves this resistance in seconds.

How to use character boundaries to stop your old patterns from creeping back in — and keep your behaviour aligned with the person you’re becoming.

Why the story you tell about yourself is often more restrictive than the reality — and how to rewrite it without therapy, journaling, or emotional excavation.

The secret to breaking the loop of “I can’t do that, that’s not me” — and replacing it with “That can be me, starting now.”

How to play versions of yourself that are more resourceful, more grounded, and more capable — without pretending, faking, or posturing.

Why “being authentic” is often a trap that keeps you stuck in old scripts — and how adopting a chosen authenticity frees you to act.

How to switch from operating as a “problem solver” to operating as a “doer” — and why this identity shift produces immediate momentum.

Why every self-description you hold is a casting choice — and how to recast yourself in a role that makes acting powerfully the only logical outcome.

How to treat your self-concept as a rehearsable performance — not a fixed truth — and why this mindset accelerates any behavioural change.

Pro Tip: How to use the as if frame correctly — not as make-believe, but as a practical tool for embodying behaviour that moves your life forward.

Why you don’t need to fix your past selves — you just need to choose the version of You who’s willing to do what matters now.

The Flow of Doing:

How to Make Action Effortless

Most people struggle with action because they treat every task as a heavy lift — something to psych themselves up for, fight through, or brace against.

But as Michael demonstrates, action becomes radically easier when you shift your attention from the whole story of your life to the next beat right in front of you.

In this part of the course, you’ll learn how to structure your day the way performers structure a scene: simple beats, clean transitions, clear verbs, and minimal internal drag.

Michael shows you how subtle adjustments in focus, pacing, and framing can turn difficult actions into smooth ones — and how the right rhythm can carry you forward without effort.

When you move through life in beats rather than battles, you stop pushing yourself to act.

You let the flow of doing pull you naturally toward what matters.

How to bring an actor’s sense of “moment-to-moment living” into everyday life — and why this makes decision-making dramatically easier.

The performance secret that helps you stop overcomplicating simple tasks — and how this restores a sense of ease in everything you do.

Why treating life as a series of beats clarifies your next step better than any to-do list.

How to use the aesthetic principle of clean choice to eliminate wasted motion and get straight to what matters.

The simple adjustment Michael teaches that reduces emotional friction so well that even big actions start to feel small.

Why trying to “optimize your whole life” overwhelms the brain — and how focusing on one beat at a time keeps you grounded and effective.

How to create momentum using the same rhythm performers use to stay present on stage — and why this rhythm naturally pulls you into action.

Why the mind relaxes the moment it knows what the next beat is — and how this reduces anxiety while increasing productivity.

How to eliminate unnecessary self-evaluation by shifting your focus from “Am I doing it right?” to “What happens next?”

The aesthetic principle that turns difficult actions into graceful ones — and why grace is often a better productivity tool than discipline.

How to structure your day like a sequence of scenes — and why this makes transitions smooth instead of chaotic.

The elegant difference between completing something and bringing it to a close — and how the latter gives you real mastery over follow-through.

How doing this one thing dramatically increases your follow-through rate.

How to remove emotional drag by clarifying the single verb behind what you’re about to do — and why verbs mobilize the nervous system faster than thoughts.

Why “life aesthetics” — the way you move through the day — matter more than motivation… and how refining this makes action your default instead of forced.

Plus much more.