The Healing Power of Hypnotherapy

Master hypnotherapist Joseph Drumheller shares his journey from geologist to energy healer and discusses the realities of working with energy both positive and negative. His mission to help people heal and awaken to their greatest potential stems from profound mystical experiences and six years working with cancer patients.

Joseph Drumheller

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@josephdrumheller
• Website: https://jdhacademy.org/
• Email: jdh@jdhacademy.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josephdrumheller/

• Dark energy is real and entities can be dangerous if approached without proper protection
• Energy flows where attention goes – focus on positivity to avoid negative attachments
• Joseph experienced hostile entities during his work in hospital settings
• The purpose of life is simply living – experiencing the full spectrum of human existence
• Humanity is currently in a massive transition period, learning to tap into higher vibrations
• Joseph's spiritual awakening in India transformed his healing abilities
• Creative expression often emerges during spiritual awakening
• Protection is essential when working with subconscious and energetic realms

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Chapters

• 0:03 Introduction to Friends from Wild Places
• 2:28 Meet Joseph Drumheller, Master Hypnotherapist
• 4:40 Unusual Death and Dark Energy Discussion
• 16:15 The Purpose of Life Is Living
• 22:42 Joseph's Journey from Geologist to Healer
• 26:29 Spiritual Evolution and Episode Closing

Transcript

Voiceover: 0:03

Tales from the wild, stories from the heart. A journey into the mind and soul of fired up business professionals, where they share their vision for the future and hear from a different non-profit organisation every month as they create awareness of their goals and their needs. Dive into a world of untamed passion. As we join our host, Shireen Botha, for this month's episode of Friends from Wild Places.

Shireen Botha: 0:35

Well, welcome back, shireen. Here. I'm your virtual boutique bookkeeper and QuickBooks proadvisor. The season of gratitude is here. Let's take a moment to appreciate what truly matters your business, right. Are you uncertain about where you stand financially? Well, at Shireen's Bookkeeping Services, we're here to help you find clarity and peace of mind. Our expert team transforms complex numbers into clear insights so you can focus on what you do best, which is growing your business. This Thanksgiving, give yourself the gift of confidence. If you want to know more, go check me out at www. shireensbookkeeping. com and allow me to keep your books clean so you don't have to Welcome back listeners. You are listening to Friends from Wild Places with myself, Shireen, your host and my amazing co-host, Tanya. How are you doing, Tanya?

Tanya Scotece: 1:43

I'm doing great, shireen, so glad we have the time this morning to discuss gratitude and how important it is, and what it means to each of us and for our listeners also, to take a moment and just kind of step back and breathe and allow I love that.

Shireen Botha: 1:59

Thank you, tanya. Yeah, tanya, if you also, while you're at it, won't you just mention a little bit about our subscriptions for the extra content that we create?

Tanya Scotece: 2:10

Sure. So here at Friends from Wild Places podcast, we have our guests featured once a month and we also have extra content, bonus content that Shireen and I go deeper on certain subjects, kind of like on raw, unedited material and I guess it could be raw and on raw, depending on your perspective. So we just go into deeper topics. If you have a topic that you would like us to discuss, feel free to drop us a line and for as little as $5 a month you can get behind that paid wall. So feel free to share with your friends and family and give the gift of giving. Friends from Wild Places podcast.

Shireen Botha: 2:48

Thank you so much, tanya. You said it perfectly. If you enjoy listening to us, then we would really really support, really appreciate your support via the subscriptions. Last month we had an amazing visitor on show with us. Her name was Irma and she gave us some really good tips on how to keep our employees happy and keep our business healthy. So if you want to listen a little bit more in detail of that series that was last month's series there's a total of three episodes over the whole month. So please go take a listen. We'd really appreciate it and we already appreciate you anyway for all your support. So anyway, let's get into it.

Shireen Botha: 3:48

I'd love to introduce our guest for this month, joseph Drumheller. We're so excited to have you here with us. Drumheller is a founder of JDH Academy of Wellness, a master hypnotherapist, energy healer, award-winning author and an advocate for soul evolution. He spent six years perfecting his craft by working as a clinical hypnotherapist in a cancer radiation clinic. His mission is to help all people heal and awaken to the greatest version of who they were meant to be. Welcome on the show, joseph.

Joseph Drumheller: 4:30

Thank you, honored to be here. Thank you very much.

Shireen Botha: 4:33

This is exciting.

Tanya Scotece: 4:35

Yes, we're so excited for this podcast. Oh, thanks, me too.

Shireen Botha: 4:39

We have so many. I know we have so many questions, but before we get into those questions, joseph, we want to get into a little bit of an icebreaker, which, uh, many of the listeners know this about myself and tanya is that we really enjoy true crime, um, but this time around I've got something more interesting, something out of the ordinary that we normally, um don't. Well, we have actually spoken about this topic once or twice before, but it's more. It's not really a trial or murder case or anything like that, or a criminal case. It's more an unusual death that has occurred and I'm really interested to hear what you two think about it. But let me just give you the details of the story. I don't know if any of you have heard of I want to get their names correct. I've got it all written down so I don't get anything mixed up. So hold on tight.

Shireen Botha: 5:47

The Warrens that's right. So if any of you know, it is Ed and Lorraine Warren. They were renowned paranormal investigators. They established a museum in 1952 and was called the Warren Occult Museum. This was a collection of allegedly we have to put the word, allegedly haunted artifacts located in Monroe, connecticut. This is what they protected in their house. They are no longer with us. They passed away this couple, but their stories and the cases that they worked on still live today in the movies we know better, know as the Conjuring, and also many of you might have heard of the doll Annabelle. This doll still sits in the occult museum, locked away in a box. Um, you know, aidan Lorraine Warren would always emphasize how dangerous the doll was and hence the reason it was locked up in a specific box that had, you know, it was blessed by priests and had all these art, you know, crosses on it and whatever for protection. And they said a lot that no one. It's they, you know. They make sure that they protect the outside world from all these artifacts, one of which being this doll.

Shireen Botha: 7:20

Now they have passed away, but they also started a specific, founded a group. Now, I need to get this right as well. All these details, listeners, listeners is important, I believe. Um, so, yes, let's get into the details of this. So they founded a group called the NESPRO group. Stad stands for New England Society for Psychic Research.

Shireen Botha: 7:51

Now, when they away, they have a board of members, and part of the board of members consists of a paranormal investigator, dan Rivera. He's also well known for his work, but Ed and Lorraine were his mentors as he got into this position. You know this position or you know career, I don't know really what to label it but so what happened was he died suddenly at the age of 54 while on tour with Annabelle with the animal doll the tour's name was the devils on the run tour which featured the allegedly haunted doll. Um was in gettysburg, pennsylvania, at the time and rivera's death occurred in his hotel room and the annabelle doll was not present at the time. Rivera's death was sparked discussions, or has sparked discussions and speculation within the paranormal community, with some fans attributing his death to the doll. However, adams county coroner francis dubrow confirmed that the doll was not in rivera's hotel room at the time of his death and that the cause of death is still under investigation.

Shireen Botha: 9:12

The new england society of psychic research, where rivera was a senior lead investigator, released a statement expressing their heartbreak and stating they are still processing the loss. They also noted that rivera's work was driven by a desire to educate, help and connect with others. The organization plans to continue with previously planned events honoring Rivera's memory and continuing his work. So my question is do you think this was a coincidence and natural causes, or do you think that there is something more sinister going on here? What do you think? Should we start with Joseph? What do you think?

Joseph Drumheller: 9:58

what do you think? Should we start with joseph? What do you think? Well, actually I I don't think I can comment on either one, whether it's like it was sinister or a coincidence, but what I can tell you is that I have had, in my work as a hypnotherapist and energy healer, I have had exposure to dark energy. So dark energy is very real and I actually teach it in my clinical hypnotherapy certification course. I have one lecture on working with dark energies and, because it's an introductory course, I tell my students to avoid it at all costs because there is entities are very real and they can be very dangerous.

Joseph Drumheller: 10:29

If you don't know what you're doing, you can open yourself up to who knows what doing it. You can open yourself up to who knows what, um, in my exposure to a couple entities, they have been, uh, life-threatening a couple of times and it's. And when you're working in the abstract and the unknown, you know you're not really sure what to do, even if you do have experience in it, and so, uh, you're stepping outside of the box of what is normal and you're actually stepping into, um, something that can be potentially dangerous. So that the I think the saying in energy healing goes energy flows where attention goes, and so in my work and in my teachings and what I do with everyone, we try and keep everything focused specifically on the positive so we don't try and give the the negative energy any, any footing by giving it any attention whatsoever.

Joseph Drumheller: 11:18

So you know, I don't know anything really about their society and what they're doing. From the video that you showed me it looked a little bit, you know, sensationalistic for entertainment purposes, and so you know I wouldn't touch that stuff with a 10-foot pole, quite honestly. So that's just my experience and stuff like that. So you know, whatever the people are doing, they're doing it to uplift and help people. That's great, you know. I wish them the best, but I don't think I would actually be part of that.

Shireen Botha: 11:49

I agree yeah.

Joseph Drumheller: 11:51

So it's because I can actually, you know, know you can actually feel a presence of negativity if you focus on it, and so you don't want to let that into your auric space at all. You want to stay very protected. So I mean, that is one of the the first things I teach all of my students that you have to set yourself up energetically and protect yourself, just because when you go into the, the subconscious, the abstract and the non-physical, you know you're opening yourself up to a different world that is not physical, and so you just want to make sure you're protected, especially in the beginning when you may not know what you're doing so much or you don't have as much experience. So so that that's my take on it. I can share you like some lengthy stories of my entity run-ins if you want. Oh, my gosh.

Joseph Drumheller: 12:38

Yeah, so I work in the hospital and they tend to hang around hospitals. So the entities you know you usually find in my experience you find entities where people have died unexpectedly or they haven't wanted to die and so that the disembodied energy form doesn't is kind of I guess this is one take on it that they're kind of lost and they grab onto whatever they can, and so most of them that I've had contact with are benign. They're just kind of like blobs of energy that make you feel like something's not right or if they attach to you or you're sick or something, so those can be cleared off pretty easily. I've run into one, two that were very hostile, very hostile. One was wanted to do harm and I think the other one just wanted to get out of the situation it was in and would run over anybody that was in the way. So those are my two main experiences with them.

Shireen Botha: 13:31

Wow, fascinating, joseph. Yeah, tanya what do you?

Tanya Scotece: 13:34

think yeah. So I'm going to agree with Joseph. So, as a funeral director, we're around decedents and of all different types of deaths and I just think you know as humans, whether you're a hypnotherapist, funeral director or, in the paranormal world, any of our listeners out there you can walk into a room sometimes and feel like when the energy is positive, even if no one speaks, right, you can just feel. So. I like to. I don't know if Einstein actually I know he's coined with it, but energy is neither created nor destroyed, and I like that because energy is real and there's good energy and there's negative or bad energy, so to speak. So anytime you're dealing with unexplained or paranormal situations, people can attach that meaning to what it means for them. So it's interesting that this couple founded their foundation in Monroe, connecticut, because I'm actually from Connecticut, born and raised, lived my first 33 years in Connecticut before I transitioned to Florida. So the next time I'm in Connecticut I want to go check out this. You know this place.

Tanya Scotece: 14:42

When we look at the causes of death, I mean, you know there's first of all like no one gets out of the world alive, right, so it's kind of like it's not like it happens to some people and not another, but there's so many. You know occurrences or situations even with regular people. For example, maybe somebody got an infection and they died, or maybe somebody was crossing the street and it was an accident or a suicide or a homicide. So when I look at the cause of death to say was it caused by quote unquote this doll or did this doll have any interaction? I don't know, I wouldn't put too much meaning on it to me that it's kind of irrelevant. I will say that the energy factor for me is of utmost importance, like Joseph is describing, and I also had a situation.

Tanya Scotece: 15:25

I'm not a Reiki or any energy healer by any types, but I just do energy kind of work on my own, like I'm not certified in it. But one time I did not protect myself before I did it and this was about six months ago and I actually my friend was physically ill and I went to clear her and I actually got violently ill for about six hours. So I really had to stop and realize like what happened to me? I was feeling fine and I was a sicker sicker than sick. So I realized sometimes that energy, if you don't protect yourself and you're working with it, it can be very dark and you can actually take it on or actually can manifest into physical maladaptation. So that's my take on it Shireen Crazy.

Shireen Botha: 16:11

Crazy, oh my gosh. Yes, so I know there's a spiritual world out there. I know, I respect it. I don't want to fiddle with it. I don't want to. I respect it, I don't want to fiddle with it, I don't want to go there, I don't want to open myself to it.

Shireen Botha: 16:25

Um, I know that Ed and Lorraine Warren they were helping a lot of these families that were struggling with these entities, that were attaching themselves to these families, and they were actually working with the um catholic church and, you know, assisting the families via the catholic church and, obviously, in advising the catholic church if the case was legitimate and needed an exorcism, um, and then obviously the catholic church would review the case and then send one of the priests down to help. But regardless, they are now past. So whether or not this new group is continuing what they were doing, I don't know. I really don't know, because I think sometimes fame and fortune can get mixed up with the glossiness of the show and tell of it all, and so it's very hard to discern those right now and trying to see what's what and pull it apart, I would agree with Joseph and with you, tanya, in what you're saying. 100%. So weird, with joseph, and with you tanya and what you're saying? A hundred percent so, so weird.

Joseph Drumheller: 17:42

Yeah, also with the, with the doll, the doll itself I won't mention the name, but with the it'll it'll take on any energy that people give it right? So if people, a lot of people, are focusing on this like you know, demonic thing, then it's gonna, it'll manifest into that, so right, based on right and necessarily the doll itself exactly.

Shireen Botha: 18:04

I mean, and if you actually follow the whole story of their cases with this doll and how you know the actual story of how it went from family, I'm like what are you doing, dudes? What are you even doing? What are you even removing it from that room? I mean, just leave it alone, stop focusing on it, like Joseph is saying, like just leave it. You know, it's not a what would you call. The doll is not a famous. It's giving it some kind of a famous Hollywood, of a famous hollywood style, and I don't like it at all anyway that's sure I want to I want to.

Tanya Scotece: 18:46

I want to jump in one second. So I don't know, maybe we can even do a podcast for a future. We'll get joseph back on for a second round here. I I had a situation and then, um, it was a doll that was brought in to accompany the deceased.

Tanya Scotece: 18:59

She was a very young girl, 16 years old, died of a car accident, no drugs or alcohol involved. It was just like a rainy patch where the car kind of hydroplaned and she was one out of four passengers that passed away. And when her sister brought in the doll to get cremated with her, the doll had exactly the same crack in her face as the decedent. And I'm talking an exact outline. Like you could not have drawn a more accurate. So when the doll was placed on top of her, if you looked like almost like, let's say, you were behind her, it was the same exact like demarcations it was.

Tanya Scotece: 19:35

It was something that was just so bizarre as in my career as a funeral director that it was just really one of those surreal situations. And when asked her sister why the doll had a crack, she says oh my, my sister used it as a change purse and she had it since she was two. So she died at 16. She's had this doll 14 years and the dolls crack in her face. She would put her change in there. So just a supernatural, like just kind of paranormal, just one of those situations again involving a doll.

Joseph Drumheller: 20:05

Yeah, if you ever want to go off on tangents, I got lots of stories.

Shireen Botha: 20:11

I think this sounds like a part two situation.

Shireen Botha: 20:15

We could get into these kinds of stories all day, and stories as well to share. Get into these kinds of stories all day. I mean stories as well to share. So, um, but let's move on to your quote, joseph, because I think your quote needs a little bit of a chat as well. Um. So quotes of the day for all the listeners, uh, picked by joseph. He says the purpose of life is living full stop, and I did my research as I trying to find who actually said it, and I actually couldn't find the person that actually said it. So, joseph, would you mind not only telling us where this quote came from, but also what it means to you?

Joseph Drumheller: 20:55

Okay. So where this quote came from, I don't know. The first time I heard it, I was attending a week-long meditation course at a place called Oneness University. It was outside of Chennai, india, and I had some major spiritual awakening experiences there. And one of the teachers said, you know, he asked the course, he asked the class.

Joseph Drumheller: 21:13

Okay, so can anyone tell me what the purpose of life is? And you know people would start up and say well, the purpose of life is to find out who you are and to live your meaning in life and to do whatever it is you're born to do and to fulfill your destiny says no, nice, nice, try for that. Anybody else, so everyone else is coming up the ideas with the purpose of life is, and he just goes no, the purpose of life is living, so please get on with it. It doesn't matter. We're here to live, that's what we doesn't matter. We're here to live. That's what we're here to do. We're here to experience life to the fullest or not the fullest.

Joseph Drumheller: 21:44

And that means not necessarily all the good things, but the up and down roller coaster of what it means to be human. Because I think that you know the big part of the reason here is. We're here to learn more or less in the course of our lives. You know we go through all these things health, relationships, finances, all these things but in the end it's a story or it's a walk of personal growth, and how we do that is in the act of living. Now, do you need to be a spiritual person to do that? Absolutely not. So it's whatever is placed in front of you is to take on life to the fullest, and if that means working hard or having fun the most, or whatever it is, you know.

Joseph Drumheller: 22:24

I love that Thank you Go live your life yeah.

Shireen Botha: 22:28

Go and live your life.

Joseph Drumheller: 22:29

Get off your phone and go live. You know I love that.

Shireen Botha: 22:33

Go and live your life. Listeners, please, while you're at it. Joseph, can you tell us a little bit about your background and who you are?

Joseph Drumheller: 22:42

Sure, so my name is Joseph Drumheller, from the United States. I started off. I've always had a very deep spiritual connection to nature. You know I was born with that and so I have this. Like you know, I could go on for stories of years and I got to go fly in helicopters around some of the most remote parts of the planet, stuff like that. But I always had this spiritual inclination too, and so I frequently get laid off as a geologist due to the market fluctuations of metals, and so I was always having spare time off.

Joseph Drumheller: 23:19

And so, with my natural inclination, I got involved in hypnotherapy. And so I went to see a hypnotherapist once because I read an article in a little newsletter and the first experience I had just blew me away. I just had these incredible mystical experiences, one after the other after the other, and I realized from that first session that I went into that there's a cause and effect of working in the subconscious mind and how it affects your physical, 3d life on a day-to-day basis. And so what happened to me? I had these real powerful experiences. I realized I stumbled onto some very powerful medicine. I didn't know what it was, and then, over the course of the next three years I continued to have like these mystical experiences. I was going, I was getting more and more into hypnotherapy, got certified and stuff. But in the context of that I just had an explosion come out in creativity. So, you know, I was, I turned into a writer, a musician and artist and so, like all this creativity was coming out all over the place. And so so I went and got certified and I played around with hypnotherapy for about 10 years, just mostly on myself and on friends and family and stuff like that, just because I was so fascinated with it.

Joseph Drumheller: 24:27

And then I moved to a smaller town in Washington State and I just wanted to market myself, but it's always been a challenge. And so I was reading this book called Guerrilla Marketing. I don't know if you remember that book, but I think it was in the 90s or something. And so I was reading and said, well, when you move to a new town, you should go volunteer someplace. So I went to volunteer at the hospital and I thought I would just go carry trays around to rooms or help push people in wheelchairs or whatever I could do, just to start meeting people and getting connected. So I went over to the volunteer center. She saw that I was a hypnotherapist and she sent me straight over to the cancer center. And so all of a sudden, I was working as a hypnotherapist with cancer patients. And so I did that for six years and in that experience I definitely honed my chops as a hypnotherapist. I experienced life and death on a, you know, regular basis with people and just going through these incredible experiences. And then I went to get more training at this time towards the end of that, in a place called India, where I came up with that quote and I went through some major mystical experiences again opened me up to higher realms of energy, I guess you could call it while I was working in the hospital. And so while I was working there, I went from a hypnotherapist to what I'd call a healer, and so the energy that was coming through was coming through my body. I could feel it all the time. That's never stopped since, and so, and then, after working at the hospital, I moved back to my hometown where I'm living now, got more into the hypnotherapy, started creating online courses, creating my own academy, and here we are.

Joseph Drumheller: 26:01

So that's kind of the abridged version. There's tons of stories in the middle, but I'll just leave it at that. So spirituality has been a really driving force in my life. It's very impactful and right now we're at a time of massive transition as human beings, and what we're learning to do now is what we're learning to tap into the higher vibrations, or the non-physical vibrations of what it means to be human. So that's going to be part of our evolution as a species and we're going through it right now. So, with all this chaos going on in the world right now we're also there's just like this big spiritual growth phase that's going on with people. So it's going to be really interesting to see how it unfolds, because we're right in it right now. So this is the, this is it. We're here, this is the show I've been waiting for, you know.

Tanya Scotece: 26:49

Tune in next week for part two from friends from wild places.

Voiceover: 26:55

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