Alba Weinman: Why You Are Already In A Trance (The Truth About Hypnosis)

How do I get my head around hypnosis and like what is it? What's going on? I mean, everybody can go into trance because we are basically in trance most of our time. What is a trance? How do you define a trance? It's an altered state of mind. Now the kind of hypnosis that I do is So you were a business executive in telco for so long and were you interested in hypnosis during that time or did you discover hypnotherapy later? Much much later. Do you want to hear the story? Yeah. Okay. So after I was an executive, I wasn't an executive because I lost my job and I just went to the bottom again just doing regular phone stuff, but I got to talk to everybody in the office all the time because they needed they needed service. Okay, my phone's not working. I need, you know, how do you work this feature? And I would talk to them and I was doing coaching to every single person I was talking to. I would coach them and they would drag their chairs all the way to my cubicle and say, "Hey doc, you know, can we can we talk about, you know, my future?" And in one occasion, one of the guys that I was coaching, without calling it coaching, ended up selling everything and moving to Switzerland and saying, "You were the one who inspired me. You should do this for a living, Alba." And I went, "Why not?" So, I I got certified to be a life coach and I was doing that as a side gig at night on the weekends and I realized, you know, it was great, but I wasn't getting to their soul. I knew there was something deeper. Coaching just wasn't enough. So, once you put something out to the universe, it listens. It's It's always listening. And uh I went through a whole dark knot of the soul. Um things fell apart for me, which usually happens when you're um going into your next phase of life. It's the it was the catalyst and I was very angry and I started taking kickboxing and just punching the bags and kicking and became a warrior. I mean, I was really strong doing all those challenging, you know, those uh warrior dash and mud the mud runs and the mud runs. I was doing all of that and I was I was in my mid50s at the time. No, I was actually at that time I was like 58. So I was really, you know, I knew that I had to just get my anger out. But I started getting hurt and um in one of those moments where I was physically like physically from the races and stuff. Oh yeah. Or wrist or something. Yes. Yes. Yes. So, I was icing all of this stuff. I said, you know, they're going to kill me. I I think my guides are killing me because, you know, I was tripping over my dog. I couldn't do push-ups anymore. I couldn't punch. I couldn't do what I was doing. So, I was just sitting there for, you know, icing my injuries and I with my iPad and I came across uh an old lady named Dolores Cannon and I said, "Who is this like grandmother?" Right? And she was talking about getting into the soul and I went, "Oh my god, this is it. this woman gets to the people's soul and that's what I want to learn. So I immediately signed up. I learned uh her technique. This was Dolores Cannon and uh she QHHT. Right. Exactly. So I learned that and um I'm a real go-getter. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it well. And as soon as I finished her class, I was doing sessions on weekends at night. uh besides my normal job, my telecom job. And it got to the point where my job was getting in the way. It was like, you know, I needed more time to do these sessions. And uh in 2017, I actually quit my job um and did this full-time. Now, during this time, I was learning from somebody else. I had deviated from QHHT because I was uh watching videos of this man named uh Aurelio Mahia. He's from Colombia. He's a hypnotherapist from Colombia who is also an IT guy originally. So uh he was funny. He was really good at what he did. And I started using some of his techniques which is more about forgiveness work and entity attachments, spirits that attach to you. So that is not part of QHHT. So I knew I was already, you know, drawing outside the lines of of that technique. And the more I did Aurelio's work, the more I deviated. And I said, you know, I by that time I was already putting videos online because those videos were my resume. I didn't put the videos out for any other reason than if you were to call me and say, "Hey, Alba, you know, uh, what's a hypnosis session like?" And I would say, "Hey, watch this video." But I didn't realize that these videos were going worldwide. Like I was like that naive that people were going to find these videos, you know? So all of a sudden people were coming, you know, after me like they want these sessions. So I said, you know, if I'm putting this stuff out, it's more therapy than it is past life regression. And in in my state of Florida, there are laws against doing um therapy unless you are a certified hypnotherapist. So I said, I I've got to be legit. So I took a really intense class to be a certified hypnotherapist. And I said, "Okay, now I'm clear, you know, now I've got the papers." And uh after that, I learned uh from another master uh from Spain, Dr. Jose Luis Kabulli. And he was doing work, it was more soul trauma. I would call it surgery of the soul because um there is no induction. You go in, you take care of it and you get out. and very effective, very dramatic sessions. I have to ask a few things. Uh cuz I am not really into the hypnosis world. Um I've always been sort of fascinated by it. I remember I had a buddy, there was a guy who came to our college and I had a buddy, you know, he he was a stage hypnotherapist and we're there and my buddy gets chosen as like one of the 10 guys that goes up and it was one of the most wild things I've seen because I knew I knew the guy. I he was one of my really good friends and he's doing things up there that are very unlike him. And so, you know, you just don't know, right? like all of the thoughts come into your mind like is this suggestion? Is he in this trance where he can't handle himself? But I got to talk to him about it afterwards and he was like no I was there the whole time but just for some reason I could just do all these things that I otherwise couldn't have done. And you know I think that a lot of our our viewers they probably aren't as super into hypnotherapy as well. So like uh but I'm fascinated with it because I also know that the APA the uh what is it? The American Psychological Association and the AMA, the American Medical Association, both recognize hypnotherapy as a valid modality for pain reduction, for IBS, for anxiety. And so, it's been shown in clinical settings to have an effect. And so, like, what? And but everybody now you're mentioning these masters who they're all doing different things and there's soul trauma therapy and then there's like uh uh past life aggressions and like what how do I get my head around this? How do I get my head around hypnosis and like what is it? What's going on? There are some people who are very visual and they could take a suggestion and really visualize it. Okay. Uh, for example, if if I were to say to you, you know, imagine this big giant shoe coming up and it's going to come down on your head. Okay. Some people say, well, I can't I I don't I can't I don't see it. But the people who can not only will see the shoe, but they'll start like doing things to avoid the shoe coming down on their head. Okay. So, a lot of people are very visual and those those are very highly suggestible. So they're able to take um words and create a good image and some people could smell somebody some people can hear um some people could taste everybody's individual on how they are suggestible but I mean everybody can go into trance because we are basically in trance most of our time you know when we're doing something we kind of phase out and I'm sure you've caught yourself, you know, doing Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Just zoning out. That is Yeah. What is a trance? What What is What is a trance? It's an altered state of mind. It's It's just an altered state of mind. So, when you're in hypnosis, you're wide awake, but you're highly suggestible. Okay. Now, the kind of hypnosis that I do is working with the soul. Now, you are a soul wearing this meat suit. Okay. That's really all it is. you're wearing this this costume, but you are a soul. And in my sessions, I work with the soul. So, especially the work that I'm doing now, I ask the soul to take you to where you need to heal. Now, you don't know consciously where that is, but something will pop up and you may feel it in your body. And from that feeling, we now go to where the origin of all of this began. So your soul takes you there. What's the difference between you asking me to do that right now and you asking me to do that after I'm in some sort of trans transient state, translike state? Not too Not too much. Not too much. Not too much. Not too much. No. I mean, I I I do this all the time. I mean, you basically just have to close your eyes and you and and start listening to my voice and you'll go there if you want to do it. We're not going to do it now. Okay. But Right. No, I'm not going to put you on the spot. Yeah. No, but Well, then what what what's the difference? Uh what's the difference between that and imagination? I guess like what is imagination? like is that are they kind of the same or are they similarly overlapping? Where is that imagination coming from? Where where are you making this stuff up? You and I always give this example. Imagine if something breaks in your house and you need something to fix it like right away. Okay. So, you start thinking, well, what could I use to fix this? And you start coming up with ideas, you know, and you think, would duct tape do it? And you kind of see yourself doing it. No, that that that won't work. Can I do this? Can I use a cork? And it's all coming in, but you're visualizing almost the results of what it would be like. You see what I mean? So, where is where are those ideas coming from? What is the subconscious then? How are people remembering things that they otherwise didn't remember previously? Yeah, that's your soul. Your soul is the one that carries all of those memories. That really is. And it's kind of blocked on a day-to-day basis or for some people or you know it's it's that kind of we're living in this otherworldly translike state that blocks the soul from kind of giving us that information. You know there's no such thing as time. Sure. Time is where we are right now. So for the soul there is no such thing as time. It's living simultaneously in all different lifetimes. Okay. Okay. Uh-huh. From my perspective, I don't see that. But that's cuz I'm right now feel like I'm in time. I think that that's true. And I can see how that can be true theoretically, but like how does that what does that matter for me today? It it depends on what's going on. For example, uh if I may, I'm going to use an example from just this weekend where I did a a very quick mini session on someone. Uh it wasn't even hip. uh she was complaining about the relationship with her daughter and her ex-husband. And um I said, "What do you feel?" And she says, "I feel a lot of guilt." So that's that's what we're diving after. Why do you feel this guilt? And that guilt is stunting her. And I said, "Well, we're going to go to the origin of this guilt." And she was also complaining about a pain in the back of her neck. Like her neck was hurting. People were coming up with ideas. Oh, it could be this or that. And I said, "Let's go to the origin." I did my quick a quick um my quick thing that I do. And she saw herself hanging from a tree as a black man. All right. This is a this is Okay. Yeah. a non-black female and she sees herself in her mind. It's like a I've never been hypnotized. So, it's like she's there in her mind. She is now being hugged from a tree. She's feeling that news. So, and they're telling her things like you you can't be around us and things like she's really like getting hammered by these people who are mad at her. Him. Is she having an emotional reaction while this is happening? Oh, yes. Oh, absolutely. She's there. She's there. Uh, so I said, "Let's go to the origin. How this did this all begin?" And she says, "Well, I like this this girl, this this this girl." And I said, "What color is she?" She says, "Well, she's white and she's very pretty and I really I really fancy her." And um they kind of start doing the thing, you know, and they get caught by her father who is now enraged and has him hanged. So when I ask her, "Who is who is this man, the father of this girl?" She looks into his eyes and she says, "That's my ex-husband." And I and I said, "Well, who is this young woman that you fell in love with? That's my daughter." And I said, "Well, you see, your daughter has come back to be with you in your life, and you have, you know, you have chosen your husband to work this out with him so that he will." So, this is Yeah. It's it's all relationship issues. You see what I mean? So, and that pain in the neck was the result of her being hanged. Now, this sort of preclude the the preconceived understanding here is that you'd have to believe in past lives, reincarnation, that sort of thing. Um, and I know that not everybody does. Uh, and so what I'm wondering around that is like did this did your patient did she believe in past lives and so was open to that? And have you ever had people who don't believe in past lives and all of a sudden they see themselves in a past life and that's sort of surprising to them? Absolutely. Yeah. I in in the early days I had one guy who was kind of dragged by his family cuz I was I was somewhere like maybe Salt Lake City or somewhere and I was doing a whole group of people while I was there and the family dragged this guy and he had no idea what I did and he says I don't believe in any of that stuff and I went well let's see what happens. Okay. And wow he had an amazing session and left a believer. So, it's not that you have to believe me. It's it's that you have to experience it. And not all of my sessions go to past lives. The majority of them don't go to past lives because the origin of issues begin in this life. So, you're really trying to get to the origin of an issue and that exact effectively if you can get to the beginning of wherever some issue happened, then that's where the resolution happens. Right. A lot of times it begins in the womb in your mother's womb. A lot of issues begin in your mother's womb. Like what? You're floating around inside your mother and she says, "I don't want to have this kid. I think I'm going to get rid of it." The father says, "You know, you made a big mistake. I'm I'm not going to do anything with this kid. You You can take care of it." Or, "We can't afford another kid." So you're inside saying, "Don't kill me." Okay? And you're picking up the fears of the mother. You're picking up the anger of your father. And a child in the womb doesn't know the difference between their emotions and their parents' emotions. So that child inside the womb is already making decisions. I'm going to try to behave so that I don't get in trouble so that they'll they'll like me. You see? So it may be a people it that child may be a people pleaser and they you have had patients who you bring into a hypnotic state and they remember that conversation going on. Now, they didn't remember it in their life, but now they have a a vision or a mental projection or a whatever. You're they're there and they're in the womb and they can hear their parents having this conversation and then and they are convinced that they're having it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then we that you realize that all of these fears, all of these emotions don't belong to you. They belong to your parents. So once we we come to that conclusion, you realize, oh my god, this is this is not my stuff. It's my mother's. And as children, puts it into appropriate context. Exactly. You want an you want to hear an example of one of those womb ones which was very interesting? Please. A man comes in and he says, "The whole reason I'm doing this session is because I could I cannot trust my mother. Never have I been able to trust my mother since I was a little kid. I c I can't trust her. So, we do a he goes back to the womb and realizes that she is having an affair and gets pregnant with him. No way. And the father is not really her father. I mean, his father because he's just the husband. He's got a different father, but she tells nobody. And was this confirmed later? No. But he realized that's what the issue was. No, the mother will never confirm this because she'll she'll take it to the grave. Okay. Oh, interesting. all of a sudden he was able to talk to the to the soul of his real father and you know kind of connect with him and then he realized okay well I've got two fathers you know I love this man who raised me but now I understand why I can't I couldn't trust my mother she was holding a secret that was hurting her so much every time she even saw him he felt her guilt he felt that shame came and that's why he couldn't trust her cuz he felt it. There was a you know, you're connected to your mother energetically and whatever she's feeling, you're feeling. So that's what he was feeling. So that's just an example of going back to the womb. Well, and so what is the what's the the pragmatic takehome from that? I guess it's forgiveness, right? I mean it seems to be all around forgiveness because forgiveness I mean it says it in many traditions around the world but forgiveness is for yourself not not for the other person and so exactly the ability to forgive well and maybe that's one of the things because I think I know a lot of I mean I know a lot of people who you know you want to forgive but you don't know how or you want to forgive and you what there's this tearing in your inside of yourself of mentally you're like sure I forgive you it's all good but emotionally you can't let go or you know there. It's very com it's forgiveness is very complicated. And so it sounds like this can be helpful in helping people to forgive and let go. Well, a lot of the times whatever has been done to you that you cannot forgive, you have done to others. So in those cases, I will take them to where something similar that has been done to them, they have done. And I had one recently last last month. He won't let me share it, but it was an excellent session where he felt like he was a victim in his life. You know, uh people betray me. So I said, "Well, go back to a life where, you know, it was the opposite, you know, where you were taking other people's power." He he was in uh the Roman army wearing the little skirt with the with the metal plate and the big helmet, big sword. And he it delighted him to uh do things that were very very horrific and he enjoyed getting a you know the head counts. Yeah. and taking it back to his to his um leader and saying, "Look how many I slaughtered." He delighted in it. And so this patient remembers, he's in the middle of this and he remembers being a Roman soldier and he remembers the joy he felt of murdering other people and Oh yes. And yes, what was his reaction to that? That was a surprise to him. I mean, well, and I don't know, you know, my mind is trying to wrap around it. And sometimes it's like, you know, at the end of the day, I think that if it helps you get to forgiveness or helps you understand yourself or gets you where you got to go, it's sort of irrelevant whether he actually was a Roman soldier or not in some capacities. Uh because if you believed you were one and then you saw how that worked and that helped give you perspective on to actually forgiving, it does get you the end that you're looking for. And so, yeah, that's interesting. But, you know, I'm and that's not me saying that that's what's happening necessarily, but I'm seeing the outcome is that's very helpful, but I'm just wondering the brain state like it's almost like would acting be helpful like acting like method acting how people get into these states of being a new person. You're going back to what caused it? And this is what your soul is carrying. It's carrying that guilt. Okay? So when you when you pass over in any lifetime, you do go to a review. Your soul goes to a place with your counsel with your guides where you review everything that has happened in your life. Not only do you review it from your perspective, but you actually feel everything that they felt about you. So when we have our life review, I will be witnessing this event right now again, but I will actually feel your feelings too. I've seen this. There are YouTube channels of NDEs, near-death experiences, where people will give their yes, their stories of how they died and they were dead for 10 hours and where they went, they got back back in the hospital. And a lot of them have these life review stories. And to your exact point where they will say, "I remembered it from my perspective, but then I could also switch into the other person's perspective and feel what they were feeling on that other side." And I mean, I don't know if I ever actually thought that was real until I saw so many stories and then you're always like, "Oh, was that all propaganda?" But it see everybody seems pretty genuine when they're doing it. And that seems um like that would be really helpful. Uh yeah, you know, if that's what happens after. So when you go to choose your next life, our our soul is always evolving. That's why we have all of these experiences. It's really about evolving your soul. So when you're on the other side, you will make a decision. Nobody else will make a decision. Hey, listen. I need to know what it feels like to be a victim this time. Would you please help me? You know, I love you so much. Would you please be the one who hurts me? That's how That's how it works. Yeah. That's how it works. We're never I've heard the analogy around it. It's being like a like a like people love to go to scary movies and I don't really like them uh or horror movies or thrillers or whatever. And I don't I don't particularly enjoy them, but a lot of people love to go to a movie and get scared. And you know, because they it's just close enough to having the real experience, but you don't actually have to have the real experience. Yeah. And they walk out of the theater and go, "That was crazy. I was scared out of my mind. Could you you know, whatever. That's the experience they want." And sometimes it makes me wonder if that's kind of what the this is is, you know, at the very end, do we take the helmet off and you go, "That was a wild experience." and you know that this happened and I did this and all these things and the amnesia is almost yeah the amnesia while we're here is almost a feature. It's like you can't even the pro the problem with the movie theater is you know it's still a movie you know you're still watching a movie and I'm not that guy but if you could give me a pill to make me drink that eat that pill and now I think I'm really that person in that movie people would sign up for it. People would pay money to go do it even further because they know they'd eventually get back out and it's fine, right? That's why we come here to Earth. We come here for the contrast. We come here for evolving our soul. We were talking about how I was doing all those challenging races. Well, why do we do it? We go to prove that we can do it. We get dirty. We get tired. We get hurt sometimes. But at the end you get that medal and say you made it to the end. Right? And that's the same thing with life. I mean we choose this life to experience all of it. And the people who have the most challenging experiences. for example, the the illnesses, the disabilities, those are advanced souls who want to clear as much karma, do as much as they can in one lifetime, really experience it all uh from that perspective. So, and I was I was shown that many years ago. It's like don't feel sorry for them. actually appreciate them for picking the really hard lessons this lifetime. How do you reconcile that with sort of uh it's almost like morality is fractal or morality has layers of abstraction to where I would think that you know beyond this life you would go this is great I'm going to go experience these traumas and so it's good for me but here I am on this layer and it feels like we should be helping everybody right like trying to alleviate those things because you could almost use that as a as a reason to not help people and go well they're here to experience or even almost justify more pain by going they're here to experience pain, you know, and I don't mean that I think that. I just mean h how do you from one layer it looks like this pain is good and from another layer it looks like I should help alleviate this pain. Yeah. One of the things that um I talked to to a good friend of mine who has gone through a lot of near-death experiences and uh we always come up with why is this happening for me? And that is a sentence that if you could use that instead of why is this happening to me, you realize that everything is to learn from it, is to evolve from it. And in the end, Matt, what's most important is how you react to things. That's the most important thing because everything in life is really neutral until you give it a meaning. Right. Totally. I mean, you know, I've I've heard that the uh I think I heard Echart Tol said a statement of like the word my changes the meaning of everything because a house can be on fire and you can look at it and go, "Ah, but if it's my house that's on fire, all of a sudden the meaning behind that house being on fire completely changes." Exactly. So, in the end, um what we really need to think about is how are all of these things helping us evolve? Is it making us a better person? Is it bettering our soul for the next level because in the end our soul wants to go back home. It wants to be as godlike as possible and with that these lessons are very important. How do I get through life not being a victim? So the h the hypnosis helps dive into all of these things because every session is completely unique and different and every person is different. Why would you say someone should you know I sometimes I wonder how much of it is self-fulfilling because the only people who go to hypnotherapy maybe believe that it's already working other than you have some examples of where a guy gets dragged to it. And I love those examples because those are the outliers. Those are the ones where yeah, you know, something unexpected happened. But it it sounds like like what what is it that hypnos hypnosis helps with that I can't just do sitting right here? Like can I just think about something and get there or like what is it that's that makes it so helpful? I told you at the beginning I'm I'm working more about soul trauma right now. So for example, uh I'll give you an example which is um it's it's hard to hear about but someone who a young person having the great life and all of a sudden somebody slips something into their drink and their life changes. They end up in a hospital. Okay. Now that person doesn't remember anything that happened because their subconscious mind has just buried it. It's too it's too difficult. Okay. But they have lost their abilities that they had before. You know, for example, perhaps they were a good athlete or they had inspiring uh they were very, you know, they were really wanting to achieve a lot in life and all of a sudden they're they have no motivation. They can't even think their way out of a paper box, you know, or paper bag. Yeah. And they're trapped. They're trapped and now they're going to therapy. Now their body is breaking down perhaps because all of whatever happened is deep inside of them. So in hypnosis we go back to what happened because the soul was there. Even though you are drugged, your soul is not drugged. It knows exactly what happened. So they relive the entire incident. They're able to take back their power from these people who harmed them and they understand what happens. mostly again forgiveness because um they understand now. So now all of a sudden their body begins to heal again and they get their power back. I have a lot of those sessions. I've heard of the information around how you know there's just there's just billions of bites of information going on around us. Just the color of everything, the smell of everything and we can't take it all in because we focus on you just can't. It's too much information. But maybe the soul experiences the whole thing. And so by going back to the soul or into a hypnosis, you can actually recall information that you did see, you saw their face or you saw whatever, but you can't remember it right now, but that information is in there. And it's kind of like going all the way down to the hard drive and asking like, let's recall some of this stuff that we didn't log into our, you know, memory. So hypnosis would be like the the admin password into the back, you know, the programming. Sure. So that's that's what it's like when you do hypnosis. You're actually going into the programming of the system, not what you see on the screen. Yeah. It's like a superpower, though. I mean, if that's real, it seems like everybody should do it because why would you want to go through this thing knowing that there's bits and bobs fragmented in you when you could go to the admin panel and go, "Hey, let's like clean this thing up." Like, why not? Even if you don't think you have any trauma, this isn't me plugging hypnosis. I just I've never been hypnotized, but it seems like why wouldn't that uh if we all have that ability, we just need someone who's done it before or knows how to guide. doesn't sound like it's magic. Like it sounds I don't know. I still don't know the actual mechanism of just breathing and relaxing that kind of gets you into that. I still don't fully understand it. You know, the technique I use there's no we don't need you to be relaxed. We need you to the the technique I'm doing has nothing to do with relaxing or meditating or being in a zen state. All I want you to do is feel what it is that you're feeling and we'll go we'll dive right in. And that's that's I use the emotion of it. I use the uh what's actually bringing those feelings up. Okay? Like like I told you the story about the lady with the with the neck, you know, we started with the pain, the guilt. That's how we started. It had I didn't I spent like 30 seconds going in. That's it. I didn't need anything else. So, and this person had never been do had never done it before and in 30 seconds. Well, she had been hypnotized before, but um I do workshops in which I I I do this um I call it like the a ninja. I go around and and uh just dive in when I hear something going on during my workshops. But nobody was expecting it. Let's say that it's not like you're expecting to be hypnotized. I've seen I've seen some of Dolores Cannon. She's like, you know, infamous, famous. She's one of the, you know, she's no longer with us, but she has just done thousands of these hypno and she and she's gone into past lives. And um I read uh Keepers of the Garden, which is where she discovered a patient who somehow had other life experiences as an alien, you know, a different being, and then kind of dove into that. And the whole book is about that, which was just mindboggling. Um, but one of the things that I thought was interesting around that is like can you being in the admin panel, what is with the idea to go, okay, well, we're here, but then like they're not going to remember that part or like you're accessing some information, but then when they come back from being hypnotized, they don't they're not going to remember that. Is that real or what? What am I what do I got to know about that? Some people some people don't remember. There's that's a very few that don't remember. But I make it a point that at the end of their session I put in the suggestion that they will remember everything. But if you put in the suggestion that they don't want to that they won't remember anything. How and I don't mean it from a danger standpoint. I just mean yeah like how much control is there in this hypnotic state? not from you, but just like, you know, it's reprogramming a a software versus like inspecting the software. You know what I mean? They're part of it. They're part of it. You're awake the whole time. It's just like we're having a conversation right now. That's one of the things I tell them before I go in. I said, "It's going to feel exactly the same." And and your your conscious mind is going to think you're making it up. It doesn't matter. Make it up anyway. Just just talk. That's all you need to do is just talk and I'll guide you. And just giving them that permission to just let go and and do say whatever they need to say, I'll eventually get to where I need to go. And Matt, I have over 700 videos online showing this. I have sessions up there where it shows you at the beginning it's kind of slow, nobody's getting anywhere and then all of a sudden, whoa, you know, where'd that come from? It takes everybody by surprise. It's it's like the muse a little bit. Kind of how people get an a solution to a problem or a song they are writing or whatever. It seems like it's the muse in this as well. It's just about yourself maybe. And and if time doesn't if time doesn't exist, then it's doesn't really matter actually. It just matters about your state of being and changing that. I mean, I think I one of the uh I've read Michael Pollen's book, How to Change Your Mind, and I'm trying to understand what it takes to change people's minds, mine own included, and I don't know how much control we have over that. It seems like it's it's uh you can want to, but you can't, or you don't want to, but you do. Like so often it doesn't feel like we're in a ton of control over that, but this feels like it's another way to kind of get control or or not get control but influence how you think or influence what you feel about yourself in the world. Yeah. Well, the work that I do is very spiritual. So the people that come to me are usually already ve, you know, spiritual or waking up about spirituality. So, sure. Um, nobody comes to me unless they're ready. Uh, I've already put, uh, I guess, uh, rules out there. You have you have a spiritual guide that guides you throughout your life. So do I. And my intention is whenever somebody is ready, their guide will send them to me. If they're not ready, there's no way they're going to get to me. So, that's very helpful. We have our ancestors who are always around. You know, people you never met are guiding you. Grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, they're there. You've never met them. Oh, you know, I don't even know their names. Well, they know who you are, your kin, and they guide you, and they're ready for you to come back, you know, when you're done with this lifetime. So, we have a and then we have angels that are there at our beck and call. All we need to do is call them. So, all of these entities I work with. and your soul which you know Dolores Cannon called the subconscious I call the soul uh your higher self that's who runs the show that's who guides you during the session so with me I have so much confidence that I have all of these players working with you and if you fail during a session for example you know which doesn't really exist. It's it's there's a reason why you're you're learning something about that and it's usually because someone wants to control the session. Uh you cannot go into hypnosis session wanting to control the outcome. Otherwise, you're in the driver's seat and you're not allowing your soul to to do the work. So, and I've had those, you know. So, what's the difference between that and setting an intention? Oh, very different. Setting an intention could be uh I I want to I want to um find out uh why it is that I have I'm making this up. Okay. Why it is that I have fear of heights? That could be the intention. I I want to know why every time I go over a bridge I freak out. That's your that's your intention. Okay. So in the session we will go to the origin of that and it may be something that happened to you in this life. Maybe you had a scare. Maybe your dad was driving and you know there was a scare and all of a sudden a bridge means this. It could be a past life that you fell off of a bridge or fell off of a cliff. Or you may have an attached soul that died and now is influencing you. So you're actually feeling all of the feelings of your attached of an attached spirit. That could be it, too. And people go around with a lot of attached spirits. And do you just say, "I want to talk to that one." Or they just say, "Something's on me," and you're like, "I want to talk to that spirit real quick." And then the person just sort of starts talking from a different perspective. Different it could be different ways. For example, I mean I'm so experienced now that I can kind of already feel it. Uh sometimes a person may go directly to a past life, right? As soon as they I'm done getting them into hypnosis, they go to a past life. And I have this feeling that that's not their past life. And all of a sudden at the end I realize that person never went home. It never went to the light. It attached to my client. So the past life that she was just talking about was the spirit's past life, not hers. You mean you mean there's another soul that lived a life that didn't go to the life review and kind of go back, but they stuck around and latched on to somebody else? Yes. There's lots of that. Oh man. What are the rules? What are the rules of this? When do you when you die? Do you get to pick that? Do you go, "No, I'm not doing it." You stick around or you're confused. Like, how does that Have you ever asked Have you ever asked one of those spirits why they're there? Oh, all the time. Every time I ask them, listen, when we die, it's really important what we think about death. It's really important. If you're afraid of death, uh, you're not going to want to go anywhere. Okay? You may say, "I'm too young to die. No, I'm not going there." Or you may be afraid because you your religion said that if you're not a good person, you're going to hell. And they're saying, "I'm not going there, so I'm just going to stick around." And maybe you like to drink a lot. Maybe you were an alcoholic and you said, "You know what? I'm just going to go to the bar. see what I can drink over there. You're a spirit. And then Matt, you walk in and you start drinking. One drink. Spirit says, "Hey, Matt, have another drink." Hey, bartender, get me another drink. Spirit says, "Have another drink. Matt, have another drink." Whoa. And all of a sudden, you're walking out with this soul that has had a delicious time drinking through you. All right. Then you get home and you go, "You know, we have any beer in the refrigerator?" And your wife or girlfriend says, "That's unusual. You just came home from the bar." And then you start drinking a lot. You know, you've changed a lot. You are actually being influenced, your personality is being influenced by the spirit and this could go on for years. Have you met anybody who's changed like that? Yeah. And then they can go through a hypnosis session and you identify this spirit of alcohol or whatever is attaching onto them and do they leave that session and kind of like never touch beer again sort of. Yeah. because it wasn't them. It was the It was the influence of Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's any addiction. We're talking about drugs, alcohol, pornography, sex. It could be anything. Any addiction. You can get a soul attached to you that it's actually wanting you to do more of that. Not because it comes from you, but it comes from these ideas that are just like saying, "Oh, I need that. I need that." And so, but someone can be addicted on their own. Someone doesn't need a spirit to be addicted. So, it's because you have some other issues. So, there's a variety of sources where that can come from basically, right? But, but the moment you open yourself up to that, and that's not the only way you get a spirit attached to you. Let's say your mom needs some surgery and you go into the hospital and you walk into her room and she looks really terrible and you're you're really depressed. Okay. As soon as you drop your kind of like spiritual immunity. Does that make sense? Like you're not really in a good mood. How would you drop that? Sad. You're kind of sad, right? Tired or you're open. you're vulnerable. Okay. Um there's a guy in the next room who just died of a heart attack. He never he doesn't know he's dead because they put it, you know, they put the mask on him and he died in surgery. Now he he thinks he's alive. So now he goes home with you. And you may feeling, you know, I feel like I'm having a heart attack. There's so many different ways. Does this do you think this is related to exorcisms in the Catholic Church for the last couple of thousands of years? Well, it talks about it in the Bible, but I don't do exercise exorcisms because those spirits to me are additional clients in a session. They're because they need help. You mean you're not just trying to get them out of here? That's that's too that's not loving to just kick them out. What you want to do is help them get back basically. Exactly. Or or heal. Okay. Got it. Exactly. Exactly. Um a lot of people won't leave because maybe they're waiting for their loved ones to die, so they just kind of hang out. Uh I've had so many different situations. It's there. Some of them are really funny, you know, because um I had one girl who she she was um of a culture where the family has arranged marriages and the father died and this girl couldn't get a boyfriend and her father was attached to her when he came through and I you know I was asking like you know why can't she get a boyfriend? He's like, "I'm I don't I don't uh I don't agree to these men, you know. I They have to ask me for permission. I have to find the man for her. She can't find any any any guy out there." So, you you have this woman, client, patient, and she's sitting there talking on the couch, and she's talking through as if she's her father, and her father is speaking who had passed and said she can't have any. Like, what? What what's going on in her in her mind when she comes out of it or you're done? Like she's some she's both her and she's felt her dad talking through her and she walks out and goes that was wild and he's gone now kind of thing or you know you help the dad let let go and whatever you know he you know in a loving way. I love you dad you know please you know you can help me another way let me live my life. Yeah, it's all about forgiveness again. The father has to forgive themselves for trying to be a control freak with his daughters and staying in their lives. She has to forgive him. And uh my my goal is always to be loving with them. They are an additional client, a non-paying client, but they're an additional client. And uh sometimes there's many of them. on that one. Sometimes there's many depending on on the person. So, there's many aspects to this. You'll have to watch my videos, Matt. I've seen a few, but you have so many that it's it is hard to, you know, it's hard to get them all. Um, can you tell a story of maybe one time where you were surprised? something surprised you in that you were leading a session and something that you didn't know was possible happened or something that was, you know, some some moment where you go, "Wow, I didn't know it it worked that way or that's new to me or maybe early days probably. I know you've been doing it for a while." Yeah. Um, I was never ever into the extraterrestrial stuff. Dolores Cannon was. I was never into that. I felt more comfortable with the spirits because of my my upbringing and stuff. I mean that was just a natural thing in our life but extraterrestrials that was not my thing right. So I actually asked my guides please don't give me those types of sessions like I I don't want them. And for a while I didn't get any sessions until finally there was a session. This is very early on where all of a sudden uh we were doing they were doing a healing. Somebody was doing a healing and I said, "What do you mean you're doing a healing?" And she says, "Yeah, she's on the ship." I said, "What do you mean she's on the ship?" She's she's on the ship. We're doing a healing on on her body, not her physical body, her athetheric body. And so that was the first time I ever really experienced anything like that where there were like your your soul your athetheric body went to a spaceship and there was a healing there. That was to me the most difficult thing to wrap my mind around because, you know, I watched Star Trek and stuff like that, but I didn't I didn't really buy into it, you know, and all of a sudden all of these sessions are about, you know, lion people, you know, or or cat people and uh yeah, strange people. And I saw myself in a in a past life as you know a type of extraterrestrial too. All different um mantis beings, ant people. So the sessions have have schooled me. That's been my education. Um extraterrestrials. Another thing that I never knew about was was angels. I didn't know anything about archangels. Um in fact, I had a friend who was always an archangel Michael fan. She worshiped Archangel Michael and I was like, you know, that's just religious stuff until the archangel started showing up on my sessions and started again educating me on what they do, who does what and these were different clients. So, little by little I have been educated from my clients and their connection. And now I call in the angels all the time. So you've had Archangel Michael and you've had different clients who didn't know each other and Archangel Michael keeps showing up at different ones and is even referencing other conversations you've had with other clients. Well, he doesn't need to he doesn't reference them. It's that they tell me what what they can do and things like that. Now I just call Archangel Michael. He to me is like my bouncer. Um, whenever I've got something really tough to work on, I just call him because that's what he wants me to do. You know, who are the archangels? I don't know anything about it other than the Bible mentioning Gabriel and, you know, Michael. Who are they? What are they what are they doing around? Gabriel, Uriel, um there's a lot there's a lot of angels, but they they're basically very very high up there uh under God and they are to help humanity. They help us. That's their job. And under them, they have many angels that help them. It's like legions of of uh they're beings. They're not uh it's not like they're just spirits. They're they're actual beings that have been created to help. Very powerful. Have they been humans before? Have they ever lived a life and they sort of progressed all the way up? I don't think so. People have said that, but my belief is that they have not been. There there could be an aspect of them that is human, but there is a their their main the main part of them is not human. But there's many people who say, "Oh, I'm, you know, I've lived. I am Archangel Michael." I think that's just an aspect of them because we're so multi-dimensional that, you know, we we can do that. There could be different aspects of us. Yeah, I definitely think there are other parts. Have you ever followed uh internal family systems IFS therapy with Dr. Richard Schwarz? He he talks about there there's many parts of ourselves inside of us and then we have the hot the self is the core and the core is kind of where you get to it's a modality it's a therapy modality that's okay um having way more promise beyond uh CBT cognitive behavioral therapy and anyways I think it has a little bit of an overlap in this um how okay so the archangels how do they help because they can't you just asked them they work with with the spirit so for example if I have a an attached soul that is really misbehaving that is a real tough guy and they do not want to go and I've tried everything. I've tried love. I've tried everything. It's almost like calling in the security guards and saying, you know, like get them off the plane. It's like that like wow like okay I I cannot do this. I need help. And during the session I will pray and say please send me you know send me uh the angels that will help. And um sometimes the angels are nice to them and say okay you know it's time to go. And sometimes the angels will be a little bit like okay that's enough. Come on. So and this is playing out through the the patient laying on the couch. Are they are they saying all the voices? Like you're hearing the narration of what's going on between everybody. Yes. Oh my gosh, that's incredible. And even the voice will change. Even the voice will change. You know, you're talking male. Yeah. Yeah. They'll have a different affect and a and a vocal everything changes. Yes. Yes. Even accents. Sometimes they'll have an accent of a different country when they start talking, which is really fascinating, too. What does what what would a client who doesn't know about archangel like let's say you okay let's reference the one you mentioned where he comes in maybe there's another spirit who doesn't want to leave and they get to the end of the session and the person wakes up what is their experience of that once they wake up and they go that was are they crying are they are they I mean you just had you know you just sat there for a couple of hours and Archangel Michael and these other spirits everything's like happening inside of you and it's coming out of your mouth. What's their experience when they wake up from that? Sometimes it's it's silence. They they have a hard time getting all of this wrapped up in their head. And that's why I give them their recording. I record all my sessions and they get to watch it. Sure. And listen to it. And they have to process this. Sometimes it takes a long time to process what they just went through because it it was be it would be unexpected to your point. They don't know where it's going. you just lay down on a couch and all of a sudden Archangel Michael is talking through you and this other spirit is talking through you and you're like going or you're on a spaceship or all these things and none of that was in their mind before they started. I just it's so it's so fascinating. I recently had one which is pretty fascinating. It's it's one of my recent ones. Uh she's actually a medium. So she has been seeing dead people as she says for a long time and she was complaining about migraine. She says I have this terrible migraine. So we found the we went to the origin of the migraine. She um finds herself on a spaceship and we end up having a medic do surgery on her to remove implants that were put into her brain into her head. And the medic is a feline being, a big cat who is very serious. And she is the surgeon. and she goes through surgery there on the couch. She's going she's she's explaining what what the medic is doing and what it looks like. It was like a little cube that had been implanted in the back of her head. And those those implants are usually put in by extraterrestrials to track you just like you would do to a dog or a cat. You put in a little a little tracking device and a lot of people have them. uh if they've been abducted, if they are part of the of the program. So, there's a lot of that, too, where we have to locate the implants and have them remove it. So, did did her migraines go away? I haven't followed up on her. The funny thing, Matt, is that a lot of people will not follow up with me. So, I do my job and and sometimes I'll see them years later and they go, "Oh my god, you changed my life." But they've never told me that. They never filled out the form at the end. How was your They never rated you on on Google. And you know something, it doesn't matter to me because I'm not doing it for ego. I'm doing it for them. And if they're okay, that's all that matters. I've done my job or, you know, to to help facilitate that. Usually people don't get back to you if you're if you're okay. Right. That's how it and that's true across every industry everywhere is that customers with bad experiences get back to whoever they had the bad experience with and customers with great experiences don't usually tell anybody. Right. If if you get your car fixed, you're not going to go call your mechanic and say, "Oh my god, it's running great." That's right. Yeah. Thank you so much. Although those are the calls we should be making. uh we should be making those calls but no one does. So so my work is very very diverse and um I know that it's changed thousands of people's lives just by them listening to these sessions. It's woken them up just by listening to the everybody else's videos. Oh yeah, that's made a big impact on people. Well, I'm grateful that you were putting those out there because I mean it's it's really it is one of these areas that um is controversial. Uh but it's because there's not a lot of knowledge. There's a lot of different opinions about it and it it just it's hard to get the rational mind around it. And yet the APA, the AMA says that they're legit modalities. And everybody seems to have incredible spiritual, emotional, physical healings from from sitting on a couch and talking somehow, but in this different way. And I think that it's very fascinating. So, I'm really glad you decided to start putting everything on YouTube just so people could watch it if they ever wanted to. It really wasn't um it wasn't something I wanted to do. Uh, a big part of my getting out there is a colleague of mine. Um, his name is Antonio Sancho and he and I kind of grew up together in this field. We met at our class with Dolores Cannon and we began collaborating together. We we it's every time I wanted to quit, he would tell me no and vice versa. So we spent many years kind of keeping ourselves going. You know, you always have to have somebody like that to to help you. Uh he's now developed uh or he has been since 2018 teaching the method that we use. Um he teaches introspective hypnosis and the classes are fantastic. It teaches you how to do this work. And um he's the one who pushed me to putting the sessions online. I didn't want to. And at first I used to only put the session showing my client and he said Alba you know uh people want to know who that voice belongs to. So I started doing a little interview at the end so people could see what I look like and what I really sounded like instead of this uh translike voice during my sessions, you know, because I go into trance, too. And um Oh, interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, tell me about that. What does that mean? What is that? What what what what's the Well, my conscious mind is not guiding my clients. It it is my soul, my my higher self that is that I'm channeling. At the beginning, it wasn't as much because I was learning. I was still in my mind, you know what? How do I do this? And when I'm doing a session, it almost surprises me because I'm in a translike state. As I'm with them, I'm I'm actually with them. I feel like I could see everything that they're seeing in my mind's eye and my my questions are guided. They're not they're not coming from my mind. They're just I'm channeling. So, it's usually very slow. My voice sometimes I sometimes don't finish sentences and then my conscious mind is like like are you going to finish that? Are you going to finish that sentence? and the client's already responding. It's like, okay, I guess not. Um, so the questions that I ask my clients just come to me just from a different place, just like in hypnosis when somebody's in hypnosis. So, it's very slow. It's very um it's just really slow sometimes. And I'm I'm channeling too. So, I'm in a state of hypnosis, too. And it takes me now that I'm doing these more uh deeper sessions that I was many years ago, it takes me a long time for me to come back too because I'll have to go out in nature and and just like it takes me a while to get back because I'm I'm so deep. How does that compare to like a flow state? A flow state is when well it doesn't really a flow state would be more like you're doing something I guess like you know things are just coming. Um but because I'm there with them it's almost like I'm remote viewing. Okay. So, if if you're going to let's say you're in a past life, all of a sudden you'll see you'll say to me, um, I see cobblestone street. I'm there with you. I could see the reflection of the of the gas lamps on the stone. They're wet. I'm there with them. They haven't even said anything yet. I'll say you male or female, I already know you're a male. I'll say, "You wearing any Yeah. Yeah. I I I'm like there with them and I'll I'll ask questions to confirm what I'm seeing. So, I'm saying, "Are you wearing anything on your head?" And they go, "Yeah, I'm wearing a a top hat." So, I'm I'm kind of asking questions sometimes to confirm that I am there with them remote viewing where they are. It's really fascinating. So, not only am I channeling the questions, but I'm there with them. So, I'm I'm like time traveling with them, which is fascinating. It would be interesting even to get a little bit more uh data around that if we, you know, if we got you hooked up to a bunch of things and the client hooked up to a bunch of things and we could actually track brain activity. That's really fascinating. Yeah, that I I would probably be too much in my mind. That would freak me out. Yeah, it's too much, right? It's the the measurement wrecks the experiment. I'm so anal about this. I I won't even allow anybody on my property when I'm doing a session because I'm very distracted very easily and um yeah I I I I it's just different different experience. I'm there with them. I'm in a state with them. So, but it's a it's a it's really um I think it's a blessing to be able to do this for people. It's really a blessing to have this opportunity these people's so what what would be the last you know why would you say someone would want to consider hypnotherapy what what if if they're sitting here listening to this now and what would you say to somebody who maybe has never considered it or is just learning about it now what what would be the reason to come do do hypnotherapy well it depends on who you go see okay because there are different types of hypnotherapists. There are hypnotherapists that specialize in addictions, let's say, and they're trained on working with addictions. U then there's hypnotherapists that well like like what I do um you know are dealing with issues that you you just don't know where it's coming from. Where are these fears coming from? Why do I get why do I freak out when I have to sit in the middle seat of an airplane? Okay. Why is it that um when someone tells me to go into a dark room, I have an a panic attack. Okay. Fears that don't make any sense. I think you should really find out where it's coming from. Because why would we carry something that doesn't belong in this lifetime? We need to heal that. And as a hypnotherapist, I have had to go through my own sessions to heal my own stuff. And you could be doing this constantly things. You get triggered all the time. All the time. Just because you have a session today doesn't mean that you can't be triggered next week for something totally different. It's almost it's another it's a therapeutic modality. It's similar to talk therapy in in the goal that you're trying to accomplish. Uh I know they'll have they're very different in their in their method, but the reason you would go is you're trying to work it out. You're trying you got some you got some wrinkles you're trying to smooth out. Right. Right. And some of these wrinkles are debilitating. They really are. They're they're acute. Yeah. You know, if you can't drive over a bridge, for example, that's a problem because, you know, it affects everything in your life. You may take back roads all the time and never go over a bridge. Why would you live like that? Well, and those are very acute. Those are very acute um symptoms. Uh yeah, to help sort of improve your life or if you're stuck, I guess to your point. I mean, maybe maybe something happened that you can't remember or maybe you think something happened that you don't even know about. You know, you don't know what you don't know and maybe it's kind of going in for figuring out if there's anything there that's blocking you or blocking what you want to accomplish or something. There could be so many different things and you could be meeting one person today and all of a sudden you start getting a backachche and you don't know why. And that could have been your executioner in some lifetime that put you on the rack. No way. That's Yes, I've had that session. I've had that session before. Yeah, it sounds like it. You're not You're not making this up. This is coming from experience. Lots and lots of experience. Well, Alba, thank you very much for spending time with me. I just I've always been wondering about hypnotherapy and hypnosis, and I've I've seen it a few times. I've never personally done it. I'm still curious about it. Um, but you have such a wealth of of of experience and information, and I just appreciate you putting out your sessions on on YouTube. So, uh, thanks for being on the chat with me. This is really really fun. Thanks for spending time with me. This was This was so fun. Thank you. You're welcome. Answered so many questions. Yep. You got it. All right. Take care everybody. See you.