From Leukemia To Hypnotherapy And Lasting Change: Healing the Subconscious

   Peter McLaughlin, certified Hypnotherapist and Life Coach, began his healing journey after a leukemia diagnosis in 2003. This life-changing event led him to explore the powerful connection between mind, spirit, and well-being.

​Trained at the American Academy of Hypnotherapy and the NLP Center of NYC, Peter helps clients heal trauma and reprogram limiting subconscious patterns.

​He is the creator of the popular BlueSky Hypnosis YouTube channel (127K+ subscribers, 17M+ views), author of Becoming the Customer, and is currently writing Healing the Wounds of Time, a book on past life regression.

​A former volunteer firefighter and EMT of 15 years, Peter now offers sessions in Tarpon Springs, Florida—also serving Palm Harbor, Dunedin, and clients worldwide online.

A cancer diagnosis can shatter your life or it can wake you up to what’s been running beneath the surface. I’m joined by Peter McLaughlin, a certified hypnotherapist and life coach whose path into subconscious healing began after a life-altering leukemia diagnosis in 2003, right after the intense stress of 9/11 and the pressure of holding everything together as a working dad. His story is raw, grounded, and deeply hopeful: what looks like collapse can become an invitation to transform. 

We get practical about how the subconscious mind works, why it drives the autonomic nervous system, and how triggers can flip on fight-or-flight before you can “think” your way out of it. Peter breaks down what hypnosis really is, why we naturally slip into hypnotic states every day, and how that same mechanism can be used for trauma release, nervous system regulation, and rewriting limiting beliefs. We also talk about the hidden impact of your media diet, why constant tragedy keeps the body braced, and why changing your environment matters as much as inner work. 

From weight loss as subconscious armor to identity-based money blocks, we explore how healing often requires finding the root cause instead of managing symptoms forever. We close with a powerful perspective on agency, free will, and what hospice teaches us about dignity, meaning, and spiritual peace at the end of life. If you’re curious about hypnotherapy, past life regression, Reiki and energy healing, or simply want to feel less alone in your healing journey, this conversation will meet you where you are. 

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Transcript

Season Two Welcome And Intentions

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Hello, welcome to season two of the Sacred Soul Sisters podcast. Oh my goodness, we are in 2026 and I have never been more ready for this year. Oh my gosh, the year of the fire horse. Well, welcome before we get too far ahead. Welcome to the Sacred Soul Sisters Podcast, a sacred space created for awesome souls who have spent years caring, giving, leading, and holding it all together, and are now feeling the quiet call to return to themselves. However, that call may be just getting a little louder this year. I'm Justina. I'm a Reiki master teacher, healer, nurse for over 20 years, transformational speaker, retreat leader, uh workshop leader, and this podcast is an invitation to you to allow your inner soul to slow down, soften, receive, and remember who you are beneath those roles and responsibilities and expectations that you've been carrying, but also to ignite the fire within you, to remind you how awesome you are. I'm so happy you're here. So here we talk about real healing, not the bypassing kind, but the kind that meets you exactly where you are. We explore energy, spirituality, emotional release, nervous system regulation, divine support, and what it truly means to live in alignment with your soul while navigating this crazy real life, right? So you'll hear heartfelt conversations, intuitive teachings, gentle practices, and soul-led interviews. They're all designed to help you clear energetic blocks, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and reclaim your vitality without guilt or burnout, right? Like we are done. We are done messing around. I am so fired up about this year of 2026, and I cannot wait to hang with you this year. So thank you so much for being here. This is the place where you don't have to have it all figured out, but it is the place where your strength is remembered, your light is reawakened. And if this resonates with you, I would love for you to follow the show. Please leave a review. It helps the message reach so many more individuals that need it at this time. You can also visit my website at angelrekyjourney.com, scroll to the bottom, sign up for the newsletter to receive soulful updates, upcoming offers, gentle reminders that you are never alone in this path. Come connect with me on Instagram at Angel Reiki Journey and join the conversation, or you can find me on LinkedIn where I share reflections, teachings, and ways to bring this work into your life and leadership. You are never meant to lose this alone. You belong here. And I'm so glad you are here. So take a breath and welcome to the Sacred Soul Sisters podcast. Disclaimer, you should always check in with your physician, your psychiatrist, your counselor, or anyone else assisting in your care prior to deciding that you would like to take any of the recommendations, the suggestions, and our thoughts on any of the subjects that we discuss in the podcast.

Meet Peter And His Mission

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Thank you so much. Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to the Sacred Soul Sisters Podcast, a space where we come together to awaken, heal, and remember who we truly are. I'm your host, and today's conversation is such a powerful reminder that even in life's darkest moments, there's always a doorway to healing, transformation, and deeper connection. Today I'm joined by Peter McLaughlin, a certified hypnotherapist and life coach whose journey into this work began after a life-altering leukemia diagnosis in 2003. What could have broken him instead awakened him? Peter went on to study at the American Academy of Hypnotherapy and the NLP Center of New York City, where he deepened his understanding of how the subconscious mind shapes our reality. He's also the creator of the widely followed Blue Sky Hypnosis Channel, reaching over 127,000 subscribers and millions of views, and the author of Becoming the Customer with another powerful book on past life regression currently in the works. But what I love most about Peter's story is not just his knowledge, it's his heart, his dedication to helping others heal trauma, releasing limbing patterns, and truly transforming their lives from the inside out. So today we're diving into subconscious healing, past lives, trauma release, and what it really means to reprogram your inner world so you can live in alignment, freedom, and flow. Let's dive in. Peter, would you like to introduce yourself, sir? Welcome.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Well, thank you. Thank you for that lovely introduction. I don't think I could bet, I don't think I could better it. So if you're happy to jump right into the topics at hand, let's do that.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Awesome.

9-11 Pressure And Diagnosis Wake-Up

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Okay. So if you could just kind of share, like bring yourself back to 2003, kind of what where you were out in your life, what what it looked like. You're also a father, there's a lot going on.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

What kind of work you were doing. And then you find out about the new diagnosis.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Sure. So all of this happened in the immediate wake of 9-11. I was working a block and a half away from ground zero. And I was I was working there four days a week. And then I was working a fifth day building a security guard company that I ended up uh owning fully and doing that full time. But at the time I was doing both of these things, living in a hundred-year-old house and trying to fix that up on the weekends. We had we had three small children, one of whom was born just a couple of months. The last one was born just a couple of months before 9-11. The two planes that hit the Trade Center flew within a half mile to a mile of our house because they navigated along the Hudson River going south to the to to Manhattan. I had a two-hour commute in each direction. It was just insane. Wow. And I think this is really, you know, all of these things really pushed me over the edge. And that, and that I was just thinking about how I think my life, in a sense, collapsed in in the way the towers collapsed. You know, just complete destruction in a sense. And I believe that I had been programmed growing up to just to just deal. You know, no matter what happened, to just keep going, keep going, keep coming. Which, which has its value, but it doesn't, if it if you take anything in life too far, it's it becomes destructive. And I think that that's where I was. And I think I needed to have this experience. I needed to be hit in the head with this spiritual two by four, which was uh actually two diagnoses. So it was, I was volunteering to be a firefighter uh in my local town in Connecticut. And the first day it was a physical, very extensive physical, and they said, wow, you're in really good shape for 41 years old at the time. Come back and give blood, came back and gave blood. Then the alarm bells went off. And they said, We think that you have both um Lyme disease and this rare form of leukemia. When I asked them how long I had to live, they said maybe 10 years. And then I went to see a hematologist, oncologist who said to me in this very breezy tone, um, she said, We don't know what causes this and we don't know how to cure it. And I looked over her shoulder, she looked like she was about my age. I looked over her shoulder and I could see pictures of children, small children about the ages of mine, behind her. And I thought, doctors have like 10 minutes for you. She's got she's raising kids and trying to be a doctor. Is she gonna be able to figure this out? And I thought, no, she's not. She's not gonna be able to figure this out. I'm gonna have to go down a different road. And so in my in my way, I thought, I'm gonna have to figure this out myself, which was part of my and so I

Synchronicity Leads To Hypnotherapy Training

SPEAKER_00 8:08

started researching. And the more I researched, the more I was drawn away from the purely physical cause and effect of things into the power that the mind has over the body. And a series of synchronous events uh occurred um that led me to a very particular school in Santa Fe, New Mexico that was started by a former paramedic that was focused on the medical application of hypnotherapy. And this all came about because somebody had just wandered into this store that I owned, a shipping and packing store, with a box that said, and this was in Connecticut, it said Hypnotherapy Academy of America, Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I got into an hour-long conversation with her. It turns out that her sister had been one of the founders, had been married to this guy who was a paramedic. And this guy, yeah, he had like emergency room doctors on his staff, and I was so heavily focused and identified with being a first responder at that time that it was like this this is heaven sent. I have to go here. And when I called the school, absolutely said, We have one more space left. This was on a Thursday. School starts on Monday, and I said, I'll take it.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

It started literally the following Monday. Yeah, yeah. I am, you know, some things are uh very divinely guided, aren't they?

Free Telepathy Workshop Details

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Hey guys, I wanted to jump on real quick and tell you about something. So, Spirit has been gently and consistently guiding uh myself and my friend Norma to share the importance of developing a backup way of communicating for what's ahead. So there's been an energetic transmission coming through for a little while now that suggests that forms of communication we are used to, such as the phone, email, internet, all of those things, um may experience some interruptions. So, because of this, we are being invited to dive in a little deeper to the understanding of telepathy, what that truly is, and whether it's real, why it matters, how it can support you in navigating a world that can sometimes feel overwhelming and unpredictable. Uh, kind of like now. Yeah. So this is about, you know, kind of peeling back the layers and connecting into that innate ability that all of us have. One that may become not just helpful, but maybe essential for a little while. So join my friend Norma and I for this incredible remembering workshop. It's May 14th, 2026. It is free, it's 90 minutes. It is on Zoom at 6 p.m. Central Time, 4 p.m. Pacific. The link to this will be in the show notes, but it's also on my website. If you scroll down under services, you will see the telepathy workshop. Again, it's free. We just need you to sign up in order for you to get the Zoom link. Looking forward to seeing guys there. Talk to you soon.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

And she said to me, No matter what happens, whether you decide to practice hypnotherapy after this or you don't, it's gonna change your life. And it did, it completely changed my life.

Energy Medicine Versus Modern Healthcare

SPEAKER_01 11:23

That's gonna make me cry. Wow. That's how I feel about energy medicine so much. Like, oh gosh, Reiki, like every time I teach a class, I the healing that takes place just in the learning alone is so magical. It's so profound and beautiful, and it allows us to release things that I don't know that any medicine could ever do, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

I don't know how it can because so much of medicine divorces the human the human energy, the what used to be called the bedside manor from from the patient. It's become so technologically uh weighted down and and shunted from specialist to specialist, and so much of it is just sitting in a room waiting. And I don't think it's a mistake that they call us patients, with implied we're supposed to be patient until the the the expert comes in, and if they can't heal you, you're screwed.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

Yes, yes, oh my gosh, like you're speaking to my nurse heart and my Reiki heart. Like, I mean oh, it it's a daily challenge. It is, and it and it's really becoming worse. Uh and it's crazy. I'm so glad though that there is there does seem to be this opening starting to take place around us where people are becoming a little bit more um at peace with looking into things that aren't a medication, right? Looking thing it's like hypnosis and energy medicine and all kinds of different other ways that hey, maybe there really is something to this that we can kind of take a different route to things. It's really heavy. And sometimes it gets so heavy that the overwhelm feels paralyzing, right? And when you get a new diagnosis of something like this, and you go to the doctor and they say, you know, we don't really know for sure how this got here, or if we'll be able to do much about it, but just kind of pacify you until you die, for lack of better words. Um you know, good luck. Uh but I I feel like what you're saying here is sometimes these greatest challenges, these these horrid things that take place are sometimes invitations. Right? Like sometimes there's an invitation in there, like just like you having that person come into your shop? Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_02 14:04

I know.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Like how how does that even take place? Right? And so, okay, so so so you start to go to this school, right? And what were your thoughts and feelings like once you got there? Like, how did you feel? Like, were you anxious? Were you scared? Like, did you tell anybody about this diagnosis? Like, what was going on with you then?

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Well, there was a whole the the it was about a three-year gap between diagnosis and finding my way to that school.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

Where I I I did take the invitation because that's exactly how I view it as well. I I imagine it as these doors that are presented to all of us at various points in our lives. And because we live in a free will universe, it's really entirely up to us as to whether we choose to open and walk through that door or we don't. And I'm convinced that I had multiple doors presented to me prior to the one that involved leukemia and Lyme disease and 9-11 and all these things. Really? Yeah, but that I didn't listen. I just kept walking by, kept whistling as I walked past the graveyard or whatever. And this one had been so intense because I wasn't listening to the other invitations. So I and and it and those three years also involved being trained as and working as an EMT and a firefighter, where, as you know, you're face to face with life and death. That's what you do. And having those experiences I think helped to shift my my opinion, my attitude from anger and frustration and bargaining and why me and victimhood and all of these things into you know what, none of us is guaranteed anything.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Isn't it mind-blowing, uh, no pun intended, when all of these things start to happen, right? Like you know why they call it an awakening. I mean, it's just your reality starts to shift so much. And I uh recently had an experience where I was doing a meditation and you know, really trying to calibrate and integrate all of the energetic changes that are taking place around us. And spirit showed me as I started to open my eyes, literally every single thing that was in front of me was in tiny particles, like atoms, like just tiny, tiny particles. And I was like, where am I? What is happening? And the longer I stared at it, it all went back into the form that I know it has. And spirit was just like, uh-huh, do you get it? And I'm like, oh shit. Like we really do create our like what? I mean, it was just what? So I feel like right now, especially and into 2027, there's gonna be uh a lot of people realizing that everything they thought was some way or something, or how they thought of someone, um, maybe shifting quite a bit and uh realities and things being revealed to them and their nervous system is gonna struggle some, right?

How The Subconscious Runs The Body

SPEAKER_01 17:32

So I want to talk a little bit about um, you know, our different types of mind, like our subconscious mind. I've had people tell me when I talk to them about that, their first response is, oh, you just mean when I'm sleeping. Like that that's the only time my subconscious mind is active. Like any other time, like I'm just always a hundred percent um on board, conscious. And I'm like, Well, if you are, that's really freaking cool. I don't know how do you do that, but um, so if you could explain a little bit about that, sure, sure.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

I mean, it's estimated that your conscious mind represents five percent of your brain's five percent of your brain's processing power, the other 95% is your subconscious mind. And your subconscious mind controls your body through the autonomic nervous system. So when when you get triggered by something, whether it's a real danger, which is unusual for people in modern life in this society, it does happen, but it's unusual, or you get triggered by the tone of voice of someone, or a smell, or something you see on TV, or something that just floats through your mind, or you may not even know what triggered you. It's that it's the subconscious mind that is activating the fight or flight response. That's literally what's happening. The reason you don't die in your sleep is because your subconscious is regulating your heartbeat and your body temperature and your immune system and your reproductive system and your endocrine system. It's regulating all of these things all the time. It's also the place of learning, it's also the place where patterns are created. So just you walking across a room is a rehearsed, unconscious competence pattern that if you had to consciously think about walking across the room, you would look like a drunk person or a toddler who hasn't learned how to do this yet. And you would fall down and you would stumble and you would crawl and you get back up and you'd fall again every single time. Because you can't actively think about all these things.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

Right, right. You know, and it doesn't matter how old you are. I feel like sometimes people get really caught on their like, well, hey, I'm like 50 years old now, so like obviously nothing, you know, affects me from my childhood or whatever, like any hangups I had, like, I'm good, I'm an adult, like, you know, I'm good. Yet five minutes later, they're in a conversation with somebody and they get triggered, and this part of them is like instantly shuts down or is like, oh, I knew I wasn't good enough anyway, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, that didn't just happen in like the last five seconds of the conversation. There's so many layers of so many parts of that subconscious mind, right? I know, you know, in the healings that I do, I also lead people through um inner child healing. And wow, uh the layers of that. I just want to be clear. There was something I used to think was the case forever, and I thought there is a spot where like um you're done healing, like you check off, like everything is healed. I'm 100% I am amazing, right? Because I love checking things off a list. I love checking things off anyway. But the truth is that's not true. It is a journey. I do feel like you get better equipped the longer you're on that journey to handle things that take place. However, um sometimes even when you heal something really big, it opens a doorway to something that was underneath that you may not even remember was underneath, right? Uh, or have any recollection of. So what do you do when you come across someone and they come to you? Like, how does how does that look? Like they come to you and they say, I have a problem with this, or do they come to you and just say, I just feel like there's a lot of crap going on?

SPEAKER_00 21:39

It could be for a host of reasons. As you said prior to us going live, um, anxiety is a huge issue in our culture right now. And uh excess weight, it's never been this bad. Never. And I'm old enough to remember the 1970s and the 1980s and how. People just weren't heavy. They just weren't. You know, I remember going to grade school in the 1970s, and if you had one sort of heavy kid that they called at the time husky, wasn't obese. If you had one heavy kid out of 25, out of 50, that was about normal. Everybody else was just a normal size. Everybody. Look at pictures from the 1970s of the beach.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

And and it wasn't like this is before they had these, you know, LA fitness gyms.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Yes. This is before they had, you know, uh equipment, $2,000, you know, treadmills and so on that you could buy in your home. That doesn't that didn't exist.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Everybody didn't have a personal trainer.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

No, a gym was a place where just just kind of guys went to lift free weights.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

And running, jogging was just coming in in the 1970s. But people look normal. They looked, they looked at least their weight healthy. And it wasn't like they weren't, they were smoking more then than they do now. They were drinking, they were eating crap food. Right. They weren't going out as much, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

McDonald's didn't have only fruits and vegetables on the menu then?

SPEAKER_00 23:12

No, just but I do think the people were less stressed out then.

unknown 23:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

You know, I think the economy supported people, the average person better than it does now. You didn't need two people working in every case.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

You're right.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Yeah. And the other thing, too, uh getting back to the subconscious mind, is that its job is to protect you. And it has no concept of time. And it has no concept, it can't distinguish between what we consciously say, oh, that's fiction, or oh, that's fact. And the proof of this for anyone listening is if you go to a movie and it's a chase scene, or it's a it's you know, people are getting shot at, or whatever, it's a horror movie, you're gonna get a nervous system activation watching that film. Your heart's gonna start beating rapidly as your blood pressure goes up. You're gonna dump adrenaline and cortisol into your bloodstream, you're gonna feel your muscles tense up. Maybe you're gonna start sweating, you might start crying, you might grind your teeth. Why? Because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish, it thinks it's real. And so it's producing a sympathetic nervous system response, fight or flight, in your body. The advertising for those movies recognizes this. They call it a seat of your pants roller coaster thrill ride. They know that they're activating your nervous system. And when your nervous system is activated, it doesn't matter whether there's a real emergency in front of you, you're imagining it or you're watching a representation of it on the news or in a movie. Your body's gonna respond as if.

Media Diet And Limiting Beliefs

SPEAKER_00 30:01

I have come to this conclusion that everything in life, every thought, every object, every action is either of God or not of God. In other words, it's either a very high vibration, and we don't know of any higher vibration than light, or it's a really low vibration. And everything that brings sickness to us is a low vibratory state. Everything that brings health to us is a high vibratory state, which also happens to bring happiness. And the low vibration brings things like depression, anger, resentment, fear. And we're we're living in a sea of influence in a way that we could never have been influenced before because of technology. You know, I remember I love history, and I remember uh reading many historians talking about how powerful radio was for the Nazis. Because for the first time, a leader like that, like Hitler, could reach so many different people at the same time. That wasn't possible prior to radio. You know, prior to radio, you'd have to give a live speech or or have it written in a newspaper.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

People would have to attend or yeah, or read the newspaper or whatever. You're right.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Where are we now in terms of of of a uh of a media diet? You know, we've come to the point where we realize that eating certain kinds of food or putting certain kinds of chemicals on our on our skin are deleterious to our health. Most people are not aware that what goes through their ears and through their eyes is affecting them just as, if not more, dramatically.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Because we were not meant to be privy to a tragedy on demand 24-7-365. We weren't. We weren't designed for this. We were designed to go into that sympathetic fight or flight response when our lives were really threatened for very short term, very short period of time, not constantly.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Yes, not constantly for sure. Um, you know, so uh something else that has been coming up a lot, and I'm sure you deal with this in your practice, I'm sure, but uh is limiting beliefs, people becoming a little bit more aware, or that they have them, or they're talking to a mental health therapist, which I feel like that is way more than it used to, too, because they have to go somewhere to get some help because of the overwhelm that is around them, right? So if you continuously, and we talked about this briefly before we got on um recording, but if you continuously surround yourself with the same environment, like I have patients in the hospital that I'll come in, right? And you know, I'll do their assessment and things and and I'll say, you know, you you feel kind of down, or are you doing okay? Do you feel upset or and I'll look over and CNN is running continuously on their TV and I'm like, and their phone. They have their phone, like one of the news station is running, and then on the TV CNN. And I'm like, okay, so let's try first to turn this off. It's not good for you to watch this 24. Well, I need to stay informed. Well, I appreciate and I well, I do agree you want to be informed to a certain extent, but you you're not made to take this information in 24-7. Please don't do this to yourself. Uh, it's not good for you. It's not good for your physical body, your emotional, your mental, all of that. Aside from that, um not sure how I got sidetracked on that, but you were talking about limiting beliefs. Yes. Thank you. The limiting beliefs. Um, you know, talking about, you know, I can never get past um, you know, getting like uh more than a thousand dollars a month in my job, let's say. Let's say somebody is an entrepreneur and they're in a job position, they're like, you know, I can just never break past a thousand dollars. Well, once it happened, but then I knew it was gonna go terrible afterwards and it did. It exactly did. And you hear that a lot. People say, Well, I knew it was gonna go wrong. I was just waiting for the shoe to drop. And and I feel like even with limiting beliefs, you also have like self-prophecy beliefs that take place. Would you agree?

SPEAKER_00 34:40

Uh yeah, of course, definitely. I mean, the the subconscious mind is a hypnotist would call it suggestible.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:49

And and people give these examples all the time. Like you can have you can have a room full of people close their eyes, and you can just say, I just want you to imagine a lemon. And I want you to imagine that you get a nice sharp knife and you cut that lemon right down the middle. And then and then you cut it into quarters, and then you bring a quarter of that lemon slowly up to your mouth so that you can smell everything about that lemon. And then you place it in your mouth and you bite down and notice everything that there is to notice about this lemon, including a little bit of it dripping down your chin. And so many people, most, would be actually able to taste the sour aspect of that lemon.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

I already am salivating. Yes, not even my dang lemon. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

So now, so that's that's there's no lemon in the room, just to be clear, if somebody's listening on Spotify.

SPEAKER_02 35:49

Right.

SPEAKER_00 35:51

But that's how powerful your mind is. So imagine get back to that patient that's sitting in that, you know, lying down on that bed with CNN. What is a constant drumbeat of tragedy and things that you should be frightened of, and things you should be afraid of, and things you should be worried about or angry about. What kind of effect is that having on your physiology? Because it is true that your mind and body are connected.

SPEAKER_01 36:16

Yes, yes. And there's people that truly do not agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

But they don't agree with that statement, or they just don't think it affects them.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

Like it is a um it is a mental thing, and my body is a physical thing. Like they can't put the two together. Yeah, I've had some.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

So if they if that same person were to hear what I described before about have you ever been to a movie? Yes. Have you ever have you ever had a physical reaction in a movie? Have you ever cried? Have you ever gotten angry? Have you ever felt your body tense up? Have you ever felt your heart beat more rapidly? Have you ever gripped the the armrests? They would say no.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

No, they probably would say yes after I would say that. At first, they just yeah, they just instantly start to block it down and say there's no way that's that connected, I should say.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

And I and I find what's most useful to to to speaking with people is to is to put it into context that they've experienced themselves. Like hypnosis. Most people, I'm gonna say 99.9% of people have never had a formal class to understand what hypnosis is. Why would you? High schools don't teach it, right? Colleges don't teach it. I've I've had many psychologists as clients of mine, they've never received any education about hypnosis, and yet the culture is awash in those concepts. The lyrics to popular songs, movies, TV shows, comic books, novels, newscasters talking about it, you name it. And they're talking about a dramatic interpretation of it, where one person's controlling another, they don't remember anything, they do whatever they're told, and so on. Well, when people understand what hypnosis really is and recognize, oh my God, I've been in and out of that state a million times myself. Like driving home thinking about something in your life, and you and you pull into your driveway and you're like, wow, I don't remember driving the last 10 or 15 minutes. Hypnosis. You know, um working in the garden or playing a sport and taking a shower two days later and seeing a bruise on your thigh that's you know the size of a grapefruit, and can't remember how you got the bruise and thinking, well, I guess I got it playing pickup volleyball a couple of days ago or working on my house. How come you didn't feel the pain? Hypnosis. The person who's watching TV and their name is called three times before they respond and say, huh, what? Huh, what nothing is wrong with their hearing, their focus was just so tightly invested in what was happening on television that they entered a hypnotic state. And when people recognize that's what hypnosis is, they're like, Oh yeah, I've go in and out of that state all the time without a hypnotist present. Right. The person who says, I would never let myself be hypnotized, I'm gonna go back and watch the rest of this football game, or I'm gonna go watch, you know, America's got talent or something. You're you're in a hypnotic state, dude. I guarantee you. This is one of the reasons that advertising works so well. You know, there's a reason why corporations have spent billions and billions and billions of dollars every year on advertising. It's not because it doesn't work, it's because it does work.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

Even if we try to work on change within ourselves and we go um for hypnosis sessions, or we go to therapy, or we go to this, if you never change your exterior environment, that's what we had talked about before.

Why Environment Change Matters

SPEAKER_01 39:53

There's a good chance that's going to be really freaking hard for you to hold on to, right? So, say you go to therapy because you're so overwhelmed, yet you keep going home and turn the news on your phone on one channel and the news on your TV on the same channel, and you just subject yourself to the same exact thing over and over. Like you have to be an active participant in your healing process. You have to be willing to make changes within and without, would you say?

SPEAKER_00 40:20

You do, you do. It's it's like going to a gym and paying a trainer to lift the weights for you. Wow. Because it's hard to lift the weights, and I'd rather pay somebody else to do it for me, but I'm not gonna build any muscle if I do that.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

And it is true that the most powerful way to change a person is to change their environment. That is true. That's the reason why there are rehab centers for drug and alcohol addiction. And I would also say that these are important, but they are also external. You got to change things on the inside.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

Right.

SPEAKER_00 40:58

Because you're dealing with, I mean, if you if you have a broken bone or a cut or something like that, you're really largely thinking about you've got an exterior problem, let's say.

SPEAKER_01 41:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Most problems that we have as humans are internal problems.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

Right.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

They're they're deep in our subconscious mind. And applying external solutions to an internal problem is not enough, usually. It's part of it. It's part of it.

SPEAKER_01 41:25

Yes, yes, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

But but but making those internal changes is, in my opinion, really the gold standard. You know, that there are that we're all essentially carrying around some degree of wounds from our past.

SPEAKER_02 41:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

And it's important to understand I think people might appreciate this. It's important to understand that the subconscious mind has no concept of time. Everything is now. And its job, as I said before, is to protect you. If you put those two facts together, in my opinion, it's just me speaking, you've described PTSD. So the soldier could be 15 years out of the military, not wearing the uniform anymore.

SPEAKER_02 42:16

You're right.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

5,000 miles away from Fallujah, but still get triggered. Right. Over and over again. Why? Because the subconscious has no concept of time. And until that trauma is healed inside, they're going to continue to have that experience. And the best they're going to be able to do is manage it. That's what our culture is all about. When it comes to anything chronic, they're all about management. They're not about healing or curing, they're about managing or pacifying it. When I was in EMT, I felt really good about taking patients to the hospital when they had suffered a physical trauma.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 42:53

Chopped their fingers off, fell out of a tree, broke a bone, something like that. I felt really bad about taking them there when they had a chronic illness.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

So the internal wounds have to be recognized and they have to be healed. If they're not, they're going to be managed either by uh the the drug complex, they'll be managed, or they're going to be managed by people themselves with alcohol, drugs, gambling, excessive shopping, yes, sex, uh, scroll, scroll doom scrolling, binge watching, you know, you pick your poison, uh, or overeating.

SPEAKER_02 43:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

It's gonna be it's gonna be one of those things that they're gonna find themselves pulled to because that thing is gonna uh offer a short term palliative effect. It's gonna distract them, it's gonna give them a little bit of pleasure, and then they're gonna have to return to it because that underlying pain has not been addressed.

SPEAKER_01 43:57

Yes. Yeah, absolutely. And And like you said, it doesn't matter what age, whatever event took place, what age, whatever wound you created, and what age you are now. That there's no correlation because, like you said, the subconscious mind sees it as now.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

Right. And it's the same with a past lifetime. Oh. Because the subconscious has no concept of time, which incidentally mirrors the quantum truth. So quantum physicists will tell you there is no time. It's an illusion created by a planet rotating on its own axis, giving us night and day, and orbiting around the sun, giving us the seasons and giving us the years. Just outside that little system, there is no time. And that is our reality of our subconscious mind. And everyone's also experienced that too, I might like to add, which is you're totally engrossed in a movie, and the movie ends, and you're like, that was two hours. It felt like 20 minutes. Or you're in love and you're hanging out with your beloved, and the sun starts going down, and you're like, wait a second, what time is it? We've been here for five hours? What?

SPEAKER_01 45:10

Mm-hmm. So that's what happens when I'm in the Florida keys. No concept of time. I'm pretty sure, like as soon as you start to enter the keys, like there's a veil that I go through, and then no longer do I know what time it is, that it's getting late. I have no concept of time. It's like it's so chill. Anyway, off subject. But okay, so say you have a client that has a limiting belief. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 45:37

Can you give me an example of the limiting belief?

SPEAKER_01 45:40

Okay. So let's say, um maybe I will never lose the weight or I can't stop smoking. Like I've tried, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Like I went to the doctor, I I ate the fruits and vegetables, I I stayed away from carbohydrates. I like, and they come to you and they say, Listen, I've heard about this hypn hypnotherapy stuff. I don't know what it's all about, kind of woo-woo, maybe. I don't know. Like, but is there any way you can help me? And then tell me what that how you take them through that.

Weight Loss And The Safety Mindset

SPEAKER_00 46:19

Okay. I'm I'm gonna bring you and the listen and the listeners, viewers back to that concept of the of the human being, conscious mind riding the elephant, subconscious mind, five percent of your of your mind versus 95%. And my my first approach is okay, let's figure out for this person why the subconscious mind is not going along with the program.

SPEAKER_02 46:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:43

If you if you remember the job of the subconscious is to protect you, that's what you're gonna find. That it doesn't, it doesn't think it's safe for you to lose the weight.

SPEAKER_01 46:53

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 46:55

Okay. And a house, President Lincoln during the Civil War said a house divided against itself cannot stand. Well, your conscious mind divided from your subconscious mind cannot succeed. They have to be aligned. So if you were, let's just take a take a hypothetical example. Let's say that you were sexually assaulted, or it you even felt threatened by that earlier in your life, could have been childhood, could have been when you were younger. Your subconscious may have decided that to keep you safe, it's got to keep the extra weight on you, like a suit of armor, like a barrier between you and a would-be attacker. And maybe it it decides that you're not as attractive to a would-be attacker if you have this extra weight. Well, how does this work if this massive part of you that's devoted to protecting you has decided that to keep you safe, it's not going to allow you to lose that weight? Or it'll let you get to a certain point and then it will stop you. Or let's let's say let's give another hypothetical. Human beings are herd animals. We're more like dogs than we are like cats. How do you feel if you've ever been, or you just imagine yourself wearing an old t-shirt and cut-off jeans and you're at a black tie event? How would that feel? Wow.

SPEAKER_01 48:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

Right? Look at high schools. No one has to tell the kids how to dress, they all dress the same way. Yeah, they do. And they do this because we are herd animals. We all think that we want to stand out, but we feel very uncomfortable when we do. And this is one of the reasons we admire people who are, and we call it like an athletic, standout. Because there's a certain degree of discomfort when we don't fit in with the tribe, when we don't fit in with the herd. It's hardwired in us, and we feel uncomfortable because it feels dangerous. So look at our culture. Arvind University has recently said that 70% of the culture is obese.

SPEAKER_02 49:07

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 49:08

Based on a new definition of obesity. Previously, I think it was 40%. But even that's out of control. 40% obese and it's called 30% overweight or something, or 40%. It's nuts.

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Wow, 70%.

SPEAKER_00 49:22

Yeah. So if your if your family, if your circle of friends and co-workers are all heavy, then there's there's a hardwired aspect of you that's gonna feel like uh this doesn't feel safe. This feels like I'm a zebra. The pack is over there, and I'm off by myself grazing, and there's lions circling in the distance. That's not where I want to be. I want to be in the center of the pack.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 49:50

So identity is a powerful part of our belief system. And identity is often formed by the the family that we grow up inside of. You know, when it when it comes to things like health, weight, smoking, you know, there they're there's a family-mind concept. There are families that say, oh yeah, all the males in the family die in their 50s of a heart attack. All the time. They're programming that in the minds of children and everybody else and then reinforcing it. Yeah. We would call this a nocebo. So a placebo means in Greek, I will please, or Latin, I will please. So 33%, up to 33% of the effectiveness of any drug is the placebo effect, right? Which is really a hypnotic suggestion for a particular outcome. A nocebo, the opposite of a placebo, is when a doctor says you got six months to live. And the person drops at six months. Well, the same thing happens in a family mind when they say, Yeah, all the men in their family drop, you know, die in their 50s of heart attack. They're programming that. They don't mean to. You know, or or the the Joneses are all heavy and always have been. Wow. Where we have no luck in this family with marriages, everybody gets divorced. It's it's creating a belief. And then we should define belief. There are some of these words that I've used, you know, for my whole life, and it wasn't until I started doing this work that I thought, well, what does that actually mean? Right. And the the definition of a belief is an idea, and the idea part of it doesn't have to be right or wrong. It could be partially right, partially wrong, or or fully wrong or fully right, with an emotion married to it. Those two things get married and they live in your subconscious mind. And when people are in arguments with each other, it's because their belief systems are clashing and the emotional part is expressing itself. But this also behaves like the software running the hardware of your life, of your body. Wow. You know, and if if when it comes to money, you were talking about that, think of a thermostat. You set your thermostat to whatever, 72 degrees. And the system works thusly. It gets to 72 and it either shuts off, or it gets, it may even get up to 73 or 74, and then it shuts off. And then it the temperature starts dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping. And when it gets to 72, or sometimes even when it gets lower, it kicks on again. And so it floats in a band, let's say between 68 and 74. Wow. Because that's where it's set. And it's not actually the uh the HVAC system, it's the software that controls it. The thermostat. That's not really the mechanism, the machinery that provides the heating or the cooling. That's just this small little mechanism that's determining at what temperature this thing is going to turn on, at what temperature it's gonna turn off. And we have something very similar inside of us. And it may be because we feel like we're not worthy. Or that it's bad to have this kind of success, or it's otherwise dangerous because of what I said before. Maybe you'll stand out too much.

SPEAKER_01 53:29

Wow. And then you would be outside of your herd.

SPEAKER_00 53:32

Exactly. Exactly. And you you might not this may never come into your conscious awareness, your little 5% processing, your 16 bits of data per second versus a million bits of data per second, it may never come into that part of you. And now you're just frustrated.

unknown 53:49

Right.

SPEAKER_00 53:50

And you start saying, Why does this always happen to me? And then the job of your subconscious is to answer those questions. So it might be, well, you're stupid, or this is just the way it is, you're unlucky, you're a bad person.

SPEAKER_01 54:03

And you just get in that hand.

SPEAKER_00 54:04

Yeah, you're not, you're not capable. And so you latch onto that as a as a belief, which again is just an idea and an emotion that get married. Doesn't have to be true, doesn't have to be false. Right. As long as you believe it for you, it is true. And and like attracts like so darkness and evil will attract darkness and evil.

Energy Frequency And Healing Sunlight

SPEAKER_00 54:33

Light and goodness and gratitude and forgiveness and grace will attract the same thing in terms of your health. It'll it'll it'll govern to some degree what food you want to eat. We even have terms we talk about comfort food. What's that? It's food that's vibrating at a low frequency. What do people want to eat when they are filled with joy? When they're first in love, almost nothing. Sure, they forget a light, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 55:11

Yes. Oh my gosh, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 55:14

We have to think in these terms. And it's this is not my original thinking. Nicola Tesla, who was the genius of the 20th century, like there's no one even close to him that I'm aware of. He said, if you want to understand the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. Because just like you said, you had this vision where everything dissolved into atoms. Which which is which is the scientific reality. We know this. That everything that we think is solid is just a bunch of atoms that are spinning at a particular frequency. So if you want your life to be better, you have to vibrate at a higher frequency. And that means you get in the sun. The sun vibrates at the highest frequency we know. A hundred years ago, when people were sick before antibiotics, they brought them out in the sun. You know, if you're depressed, doesn't it make sense that you would move away from things vibrating at a low frequency and get yourself to where it's vibrating at a higher frequency? Is it a mystery that when people take vacations, so many people go like you to the beach? Amen. What is the beach? The beach is four things sand, water, sun, and warmth. That's the beach. It's not complicated. You know, it's it's also the opposite of sad seasonal affective disorder. And they talk about this like in the Pacific Northwest, or anything above a certain um, what do they call that? Uh latitude. Anything above a certain latitude, there's so much darkness that often people, it's been recognized by by the medical and psychological profession. They get depressed. So, what's the opposite of that? What happens when you're when you expose yourself to more sunlight? Yes, yes, sunlight that regulates your endocrine system, that regulates the your hormonal system, that actually had a long time ago, right?

SPEAKER_01 57:25

Like, I don't know that they were talking a lot of seasonal affective disorder as much as they do now. Like, how much that term wasn't there, but I mean, I think people were so much more outside than they are now. And it's way more pronounced now. But yes, the sunshine, gosh, get out in the sun.

SPEAKER_00 57:46

Yeah, I was just listening to a guy talking yesterday about the effect of light, like being in the sunlight or using a red light device, and how it's it's crucial for your mitochondria. And your mitochondria is what produces your energy, your eight it's called ATP. And that you can you can have a 16-fold a 16-fold increase in your energy level if you expose yourself to light every day. And if you live in the northern hemisphere and you don't have access to it because it's the middle of the winter, you can use a red light device. I got one right here on my desk. It's not complicated, it's not even that expensive. It's astonishing that that the sunlight actually and red light actually shrinks fat cells.

SPEAKER_01 58:36

It's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 58:37

They were talking about how people in these studies were being cured of things like prostate cancer just by exposing them to red light. And they were giving them methylene blue to to make them more photosensitive, to make them more um receptive to the light. Wow. There's all kinds of podcasts. Uh, you know, even Rogan was bringing somebody on talking about red light therapy, and it's it's really amazing. It's really amazing. And and back to how did our distant ancestors live? Not even that distant, 200 years ago. How did they live? They were outside most of the time. Outside, chopping wood, washing the clothes in the stream, you know, pumping water from the well, tending to the animals, in the garden. This is what they were doing all the time. It wasn't until the industrial revolution that people really started coming inside.

SPEAKER_02 59:32

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 59:33

So wouldn't it make sense that if our bodies evolved over millennia, and all of a sudden, in a relatively short period of time, everything changes that we wouldn't suffer as a result of this?

SPEAKER_01 59:47

Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 59:49

And how much does it cost to go into the sun?

SPEAKER_01 59:53

Right. Amen. It's free. It's free. It's free. It's yeah, it's right and it's right available to us, like everywhere. Obviously, at certain times of the year, it's harder at certain places, but for the most part, it's readily available. Sometimes within driving distance, if it has

Root Causes And Patient Self-Leadership

SPEAKER_01 1:00:15

to be. Um, you know, I want to ask you a question with everything that you have learned, okay, since was it 2003, right? Since then with everything you've learned, and a client comes to you and say this client is like, I don't know, 30 and they just got the same diagnosis that you got that day. They found out, hey, I've got Lyme disease, leukemia, uh, I just went and saw the doctor, they basically said, I mean, we'll do what we can. Uh what would you say to him or her?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:02

Well, I I think I would first use myself as an example and say, if I if I can defy the diagnosis and be this healthy 23 years later, when they told me maybe I would live for 10, so can you. That's the first thing I would say. And the next thing I would say is no problem occurs in a vacuum. In other words, every every problem has a root cause. Even if the experts don't know what it is, it didn't just magically appear. It has a root cause. If you took your car in because there was smoke coming out of the engine, and the mechanic said to you, don't know what causes this. Whew, you're really just unlucky. Um, but I tell you what, we can install a fan to blow the smoke away. How's that sound? There's not one person in this country that would accept that.

unknown 1:02:02

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:02

But we're essentially accepting the same thing when it comes to our bodies. And people denigrate so-called woo-woo, but the real magical thinking is that a problem occurs in a vacuum. Oh no, your your roof is leaking. Have no idea why. I don't know, but you can put a bucket underneath it. Come on. And I know that these are ludicrously simple examples because the human body and mind is way more complex even than a car. But the principle holds true, and this is not a new principle. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it, but there's there's something called the seven hermetic laws or seven hermetic principles. Hermetic just means hidden. And they govern the behavior of the universe. This is how the universe and there are laws, they're immutable laws, like gravity as a law. It if it applies to you whether you're rich or you're poor, whether you're black or you're white, whether you're male or you're female. It applies to the universal laws.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:11

Like, is that what you mean?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:12

What's that?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:14

Like the universal laws? Universal laws. Yes. Okay, got it. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:18

Right. And one of the laws is cause and effect. Every effect has a cause.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:28

It's immutable. Nothing occurs in a vacuum. Everything, everything has a cause. And if you want to solve a problem, and we all understand this from our own lives, you got to get to the root cause. You don't walk around and just chop the heads off the dandelions and think you've eradicated the dandelion. Because the next day it's going to be there again. You know? We all know this. It's like common sense.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:52

But sometimes in that immediate moment where you're freaking out, you've just got this diagnosis, and your brain is like, I'm terrified. I'm terrified. Like your nervous system is in fight or flight. Like, I don't know. I mean, I went to the expert, right? The doctor, they told me, like, you know, oh my gosh. Um, so being able to have somebody like you to go to to be able to give them perspective on, hey, let's just take a minute and let's look at it this way.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:26

And my and the other thing I might say to them is all of us, you, me, your doctor, everybody, we're all basically advisors. I think it's best if you're the general, if you're the president, and you listen to your advisors, and then you make a decision that is right for you, based upon your circumstances, your wishes and desires, and and the information you hear. And it doesn't mean you just take every last piece of advice you get from everyone you ever talk to. No, you weigh it, you compare it, you you you sit with it, you pray on it, you meditate on it. And and I personally don't think the best decisions are made in haste.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:17

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:18

I don't think that they're made when you're in a place of terror and fear.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:22

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:24

And I know I know from firsthand experience how much fear I had. And I think it's important to do whatever you need to do to try to center yourself, to try to ground yourself, to breathe before you rush into something. And again, disclaimer I'm not a doctor in our culture. You know, you can get in trouble if you're, and I'm not trying to give anybody medical advice at all. Correct.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:55

I'm just a I'm just a normal guy, but it's these are. Philosophical things to consider.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:04

And I do think that the individual always, in every in every form, should be primary. You know, that the rights of the individual should be respected in terms of understanding what they're getting into.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:20

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:21

Informed consent, we call it. That no one should ever be pressured into something. They should enter into it of their own free will. These are things that I believe in.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:32

Absolutely. And and every individual does not have to give their power away to anyone, regardless of their title.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:44

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:45

To make all those decisions for them. They really truly can be the decision maker for their own body and mind and spirit.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:54

And this is an important spiritual principle. We live in a free will universe. And no one has the right to violate your free will. As long as your free will isn't trampling on somebody else's, for example. Right. And none of us ultimately knows what's what's best for another person. We may think we do, but we don't really know because the picture is much larger, the frame is much larger than this body and this lifetime and this planet, and so on. It's bigger than that. And sometimes when people pass away, I've often thought, and I was a firefighter in an EMT. So I did what I could always to try to save life, to try to mitigate disaster and dangers. That that's what I did. And I love doing that. And as a human being, that's what I always want to do. But I also have this recognition that we really don't know for a person's larger journey, for their higher path, what is right for them. It may be that that they needed to have, you know, like I needed, I think, to have this horrible diagnosis. Sure. In order to give me an opportunity to change my life. And we never know if someone dies. Maybe that's part of their soul's journey.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:13

Absolutely.

Hospice Lessons About Death

SPEAKER_00 1:08:14

You know, you were talking about hospice, and one of the things that I think we probably both love so much about hospice is that they don't view death as a mistake. They don't view death as a catastrophe. They view it as a natural part of life. And they seek to bring dignity to that part of life. They see seek to bring meaning to that part of life. You know, conversations that somebody maybe never had with loved ones, where they're able to have those conversations, where they're able to reflect on the meaning of their life and the value of their life and what may be coming next as a beautiful adventure or something, or being reunited with loved ones. Rather than we're surrounded by machines and we're going to throw everything we have at this. And if it doesn't work, oh well that was just their time, or it was a failure of some kind. It's not a failure.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:02

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:03

And I think we all are perhaps well advised to have these philosophies that everything happens for a reason. And that when we feel pain, it's a message. It's trying to teach us something.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:15

You know, and when we and when we're able to shift in those moments, and I know it's not easy, when we're able to shift in those moments, it actually interrupts the fear, tension, pain cycle, which you're probably well familiar with. You know, the more tension a person has in their body, the more pain they feel. The more pain they feel, the more they fear the pain that causes more tension, that causes more pain. And breaking or interrupting that cycle is valuable in and of itself. And that philosophy I have found helps to do that, whether it's emotional pain or even physical pain.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:45

Absolutely. We we talked uh a little bit before we were recording about uh different nursing um avenues I've been in. And hospice was definitely one of my favorites. And I was telling Peter that uh if you ever want to grow your faith or learn more about life, hospice is absolutely the place you should work in, volunteer in. I the beauty that unfolded in front of me, the people that would say, you know, uh, I see streets of gold, people would say, you know, they would start talking to their family members that had passed several years before, and they'd be sitting right next to them in spirit form. There would be one uh gentleman was speaking to someone and he was uh legally blind. And so I always had to say something for him to know who I was when I would come in the room. And one particular day I walked past his room and he was speaking to someone who I did not see. And I said, you know, hey, you doing okay? Actually, I didn't say anything yet. I stopped his room because I was like, he doesn't usually just talk to nobody, and I'm looking in the room and I'm standing, so he can't see me, right? And all of a sudden he says, Justina, is that you? And I'm like, uh and I hadn't spoken yet, and I know he can't see me. And I was like, uh yeah. And I said, uh, how did you know it was me? And he said, I'm not sure. And I said, Okay, but he was also crying, and I said, Who are you talking to? And he he he didn't say anything for a minute, and then he looked directly into my um line of view and he said, He says it's not your time to see him yet. Oh and he then said I didn't know if he would be willing to see me now either, because I I knew this time was coming, but he is here with me now, and he knows everything that I've done in this lifetime, and I'm gonna cry thinking about it because this this was a man that was a very elite athletic person that was what people would refer to as a brick shit house back in the day, like just massive, strong man, and he was just weeping and weeping and weeping in the safety of how he was being wrapped in love. I mean, the beauty that I got to unfold. And as far as what you were just talking about a minute ago, um, you know, whether it's healing a wound or anything like that, as far as breaking through like the tension and pain, and you know, and then the lady I told you about and that weighed 70 something pounds and the pain medication was not helping her anymore. The cancer had gotten her bones, and I would just rock her and give her Reiki and healing energy, and she would be able to relax. And once we're able to get that nervous system to relax, then that tension eases, which then in turn eases the pain, right?

Hypnotherapy For Chronic Pain Relief

SPEAKER_01 1:13:11

So is chronic pain also something that you could work with in hypnotherapy? Yeah, wonderful, absolutely wonderful. There's there's so many avenues, it sounds like that hypnotherapy can help so many individuals. Yeah, how does somebody get in touch with you if they'd like to work? And do you work with people outside of Florida or I do?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:32

Yeah, yeah. I I'd say probably 70% of my sessions are remote.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:38

Oh, okay, great.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:40

And because of my YouTube channel, I get people coming literally from uh all over the world. You usually English speaking countries, but not always. Sometimes people from other say European countries will come. So it's it's really cool. So blueskypnosis.com is my website. That's how to get in touch with me, how to book a session if you want. And then same name for my YouTube channel, Blue Sky Hypnosis.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:06

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:07

I think I have 270 or 280 pieces of content there on all kinds of topics. So you can try it out if you want. You can read the comments, which I always suggest that people do, because people who comment write the good, the bad, and the ugly, everything right there.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:24

Right. I hear that, yes. Oh

Key Takeaways And Share The Message

SPEAKER_01 1:14:30

my goodness. Well, let's just take a second and take a deep breath in and out. And our hands on our hearts of gratitude for Peter being with us today and sharing his beautiful story and his energy. Thank you so much, so much. This conversation, it's such a beautiful reminder that healing isn't about just fixing yourself. It's about remembering who you were before the world told you who you had to be. It's about going deep into healing things, the root causes of things. And Peter's journey shows us that even in moments of deep challenge, there's wisdom, there's awakening, and there's always a path back to yourself. And you don't have to do it alone. You can go to someone like Peter and be able to be guided through this process. So if this episode spoke to your heart, I invite you to share it with someone who may need this message because healing is amplified when we walk this path together. And we weren't meant to do it alone. And if you're feeling called to go deeper in your own healing journey, whether that's through subconscious work, energy healing, reconnecting with your soul's truth, just know we are here for you. Thank you so much, Peter, for sharing your wisdom, your story, and your light with us today. And to all of you beautiful souls listening, please keep shining, keep healing, and keep trusting the unfolding of your journey. And still next until next time, stay aligned, stay open, and stay in your sacred flow. Bye guys. See you next time.

Stay Connected And Choose Yourself

SPEAKER_01 1:16:02

Hi, before you go, hey, I just want to say thank you again. I'm so grateful you're here. Thank you for sharing this space with me today. And I hope that you can feel the sense of community. Every time you listen to one of these episodes, you're in community with not only me, but everybody else that's listening to you. And in that beautiful frequency that's created, we get to have our hearts infused with the love and peace and the hope that we have for each other. So thank you so much for that. So as you move back into your day, I invite you to take a moment to soften your shoulders, breathe into your heart, and notice what shifted for you in this conversation. How do you feel? I hope amazing. And if this episode resonated, please follow the Sacred Soul Sisters podcast. Take a minute to leave a review. Your words help this healing ripple reach other beautiful souls who are quietly longing for support, remembrance, and community. And stay connected. You can visit my website, angelreikijourney.com. You can book an angelreiki session there. You can see some of the other events that we have going on. And if you scroll to the bottom, sign up for the newsletter where I share soulful reflections, upcoming offers, and gentle invitations to reconnect with yourself. You can also find me on Instagram at AngelReikiJourney for inspiration. Connect with me on LinkedIn. I'm over there too. And remember, you don't have to have it all figured out. You don't have to carry all this alone. You are deeply supported, you are divinely guided, and you are worthy of ease and joy and magnetizing moments in your life. And I'm so excited for that. Until we meet again, take care of your beautiful heart and know that it's okay to choose yourself. It's okay to offer self love to yourself, and it's okay to receive the love and abundance this universe wants to give you. So I will see you next week. Take care, bye bye.