Coffee With Hilary and Les from State of Mind Hypnosis and Training Centre
An almost-daily podcast for the State of Mind Community.
Offering ideas and answering questions on how to use your mind for growth, happiness and ultimately peace.
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Episodes
231 episodes
You Are Worthy! Part 2
We talk about why we want to untie ourselves from place and stuff, then use that as a bridge into the deeper question of what makes a person worthy. We challenge the myths that link self-worth to money, status, and other people’s approval, and ...
You Are Worthy! Part 1
We start with a simple scene of apple blossoms and use it to challenge the most exhausting habit many of us carry: treating our worth like something we have to earn. We explore how work, money, comparison, and early family dynamics program the ...
What Does It Mean To 'Just Be'?
We sit with the tension between how beautiful life is and how hard we work to control it when we feel afraid. We explore what “just being” actually looks like in real life and why trust can coexist with intention. • noticing spring as ...
The Need For Approval: Part 3
SELF LOVE Meditation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tjt3DfmhVmNyfIQzU68dnIfQKKk78Riv/view?usp=sharingWe follow a near-death experience story to a surprising takeaway: being your authentic self matters more than ...
The Need For Approval: Part 2
We start with a simple nature observation and end up at a big human problem: approval-seeking turns self-worth into an outside verdict and reshapes our relationships into bargains. We unpack why belonging and survival fears make validation feel...
The Need For Approval: Part 1
We talk about approval as a learned addiction that quietly trains us to trade our self-worth for other people’s reactions. We use family stories, social media examples, and a parenting study to separate appreciation from identity and move towar...
How To Stop Doomscrolling And Find Calm Again
We talk about how fear shifts from a normal emotion into a constant default setting, and why many of us wake up already bracing for bad news. We share simple ways to interrupt the loop, then go deeper into meditation, connection, and how hypnos...
How To Calm Anxiety By Listening To Emotions
We talk about why fear grows when we resist it and how to find calm by treating emotions as messages instead of threats. We share simple ways to shift your nervous system, question the “truth” of anxious thoughts, and use imagination to move to...
Your Desires Point Toward The Stars - When You Get Quiet
Desire stops being a guilty want and starts looking like a navigation tool, the inner “stars” we search for when life feels cloudy. We work out how to separate fear-based programming from inspired curiosity so the next step becomes clear even w...
Desire Or Programming?
We follow one question all the way down: what do we truly want when we strip away fear, approval-seeking, and the quiet pressure to fit in. We unpack how culture turns ordinary things into status symbols, then show a simple way to spot when “de...
How To Tell The Difference Between Real Desire And Social Programming
We take on a listener question that sounds simple but changes everything: do we choose our desires, or are our desires shaped by need, fear, and social conditioning. We sort needs from wants, use quick tests to spot programming, and point back ...
Put Down The Red Pen & Pick Up The Crayons
We sit with the link between creativity and the inner critic, then trace how judgment and criticism get installed and become a habit that shuts down trying. We reframe resilience as the skill of dropping harsh self-evaluation so learning, agenc...
You Were Born Worthy! Stepping Out Of Self Judgement
We pull apart the quiet rules that make us tie our self-worth to likes, reactions, and being seen as “normal.” We share a real moment of posting something vulnerable, panicking, and deleting it, then use that story to rebuild a healthier sense ...
What Would Happen If You Had Ice Cream For Dinner?
We follow a simple question from a frozen pond all the way into the mind: what counts as a rule, and how do those rules shape what we call freedom. We use hypnosis style questioning to expose how “choices” get narrowed by fear, judgment, and co...
How Hidden Social Rules Shape Choices And Identity
We follow a listener suggestion and look at the human rules that quietly run our days, shaping what we do, what we fear, and what we call “normal.” We keep coming back to one clean interrupt for old programming: asking “Says who?” and choosing ...
Rewriting The Rules: Learning To Trust Yourself & Intuition!
We start with a simple snow day “rule” and land on a bigger one: your mind is where your whole world gets interpreted. We talk through how to rebuild trust in intuition by becoming the observer of your programming and asking who benefits from t...
Ramblings Of Coffee And Third Spaces
We start with rain, no sleep, and a fresh cup of coffee, then follow that thread into why coffee feels like comfort and community. From third spaces to intuition, we land on a simple practice: change how we interpret life and our whole day can ...
Life Between Lives Places: Pre-Birth Planning & More - Part 5
We keep going with our life between lives conversation, focusing on where souls “go” and why those places can look wildly different from person to person. We also dig into planning, learning, and why the bigger message people bring back is peac...
What Happens In A Life Between Live's Session? - Part 4
We talk about how a Life Between Lives experience can permanently change the context you live in and the way you answer the question “Who am I?” We share the most common themes we see in sessions, from the meadow and the blue mist to guides, fr...
Your Questions About Life Between Live's - Part 3
We tackle the biggest Life Between Lives worry: whether hypnosis experiences are “made up” and why deep trance can still feel fully conscious. We also dig into life path questions, guide contact, and how meaning matters more than proving facts....
Life Between Lives Work Starts When You Shift Your Context - Part 2
We start with a quiet spring morning and use it as a doorway into bigger questions about consciousness and the life between lives. We unpack how hypnosis can shift your context, soften old programming, and turn spiritual ideas into felt experie...
Life Between Lives Hypnosis Foundations - Part 1
We lay the groundwork for life between lives hypnosis and why it can be both deeply therapeutic and deeply unsettling in the best way. We explore how regression expands your sense of self from a stressed body in a loud world into a wider contex...
Abundance Reframed: Let's Chat About What Money Means
We question the word abundance and the baggage it carries, then rebuild it into something personal, specific, and usable. We track how interpretation drives emotion, how money programs shape behavior, and how clarity about what we want changes ...
Join Us As We Muddle Through This Podcast On A Rainy Morning
We sit with a stormy morning and use Taoist wisdom to turn chaos into calm, tracing how acceptance changes our experience without dulling our drive. From blackout memories to the Tower card, we explore flow, resistance, and practical ways to st...
Channeling In Daily Life: Learning To Trust Yourself: Part 2
We explore how to trust guidance, read synchronicities without forcing meaning, and keep your choices sovereign while inviting help. Stories of art, cards, cars, and quiet impulses show how welcome and wonder strengthen the signal and turn doub...