The MTP method is a clinical framework developed by Dr. Maruti Sharma over two decades of licensed practice as an RCI-registered clinical psychologist. It integrates three distinct disciplines ”Meditation, Trance, and Psychotherapy Protocols” into a single structured approach to psychological transformation.
It is taught exclusively through NGH India and is a component of every NGH India certification programme.
The Clinical Problem It Addresses
Most therapeutic modalities are powerful within their own domain and limited outside it. Cognitive-behavioural approaches work well when the difficulty is primarily one of maladaptive thought patterns. Psychodynamic approaches work well when the difficulty lies in unresolved historical material. Mindfulness-based approaches work well when the difficulty is one of a reactive relationship with experience.
None of these approaches, used in isolation, is consistently effective across the full range of clinical presentations that a practitioner encounters. The reason is structural: each modality accesses a different level of the mind, and genuine therapeutic change requires access to all of them.
The MTP Method was developed to address this structural limitation.
The Three Components
M "Meditation"
Meditation in the MTP framework refers specifically to the development of attentional stability and metacognitive awareness, the capacity to observe the contents of the mind without being captured by them. This is not relaxation training. It is the cultivation of a specific quality of attention that makes everything else in the framework possible.
Without attentional stability, trance is shallow and dissociative rather than productive. Without attentional stability, psychotherapy produces intellectual insight that does not translate into lived change. The meditation component builds the neurological and attentional substrate on which deeper work rests.
T ”Trance"
Trance refers to the hypnotic state, formally induced, clinically managed, and therapeutically directed. This is the component that distinguishes the MTP Method from all psychotherapy frameworks and most meditation-based frameworks.
The hypnotic state is characterised by focused attention, reduced critical faculty, and heightened responsiveness to therapeutic suggestion. In neurological terms, it involves altered default mode network activity, executive function modulation, and increased subcortical responsiveness. In clinical terms, it is the state in which change can occur at the level where change actually matters, below the threshold of conscious resistance.
The specific hypnotic techniques employed within the MTP framework include Ericksonian indirect suggestion, Elman rapid induction, direct suggestion methodology, and ego-state techniques, selected according to the clinical presentation, and not applied uniformly.
P ”Psychotherapy Protocols"
The psychotherapy protocols component refers to the full range of evidence-based psychological interventions, cognitive-behavioural, schema-focused, psychodynamic, and acceptance-based, applied within the state created by the meditation and trance components.
This is the integrative core of the method. The hypnotic state is not used merely for suggestion. It is used as the vehicle through which psychotherapy becomes genuinely transformative, reaching the level of experience rather than remaining at the level of understanding. Insight, in the hypnotic state, is not merely cognitive. It is somatic, emotional, and deeply integrated.
The Clinical Sequence
The three components of the MTP Method are applied in a specific sequence that reflects the mechanism of psychological change.
First, Meditation. Attentional stability is established. The client's nervous system is regulated. The internal environment for deeper work is prepared. This may take minutes within a session or weeks of practice, depending on the clinical picture.
Second, Trance. The hypnotic state is formally induced. The presenting material is accessed at the level at which it is organised — below the level of conscious narrative. Direct therapeutic work occurs in the trance state.
Third, Psychotherapy Protocols. The insights and shifts generated in trance are integrated through structured psychological work — narrative reconstruction, cognitive reorganisation, schema updating, or acceptance facilitation, depending on the modality most appropriate to the presenting condition.
This sequence can unfold across multiple sessions or within a single session of appropriate depth. The integration of all three components is the defining feature.
Conditions Addressed
The MTP Method has been applied across the following clinical domains over three decades of practice:
• Anxiety disorders — generalised, phobic, social, and panic presentations
• Trauma — acute, chronic, developmental, and complex
• Psychosomatic conditions — pain, gastrointestinal, dermatological
• Performance difficulties — executive, academic, artistic, and athletic
• Relationship and attachment patterns
• Habit and compulsion disorders
• Existential and identity-level difficulties
• Emotional regulation and affect dysregulation
The Lineage Behind the Method
The MTP Method did not emerge from a theoretical synthesis. It emerged from the intersection of two complete clinical lineages — Eastern and Western — held simultaneously in a single practitioner over two decades of licensed work.
The Eastern lineage includes: Sammohan Vidya rooted in the Atharva Veda, Tantrik Sammohan practices, the Mohana Karma within the Shatkarma tradition, Anuttara Yoga Tantra, Trika Shaivism, Kaula Tantra, the Natha Siddha tradition, classical Hatha and Raja Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and doctoral-level research in Vajrayana Buddhist Psychology.
The Western lineage includes: the Nancy School of Bernheim and Liébeault, Braid's neurological model, the Ericksonian approach, Dave Elman's rapid induction framework, ego-state therapy, analytical hypnotherapy, the Pavlovian cortical inhibition model, Hilgardian neodissociation theory, and direct NLP training under Dr. Richard Bandler.
Most practitioners inherit one tradition. The MTP Method was developed by a practitioner who has worked through all of them — and built something original from that integration.
Where the Method Is Taught
The MTPâ„¢ Method is an original proprietary clinical framework. It is taught exclusively through the NGH India certification programme, under the direct instruction of Dr. Maruti Sharma. It is not available through any other programme, institution, or instructor.
Graduates of the NGH India programme receive MTPâ„¢ Method Certification as one of four international credentials upon completion.
MTPâ„¢ is a registered methodology of Dr. Maruti Sharma / NGH India. All rights reserved.