Common Hypnosis Questions I Hear Before Booking

The questions people are almost afraid to ask.

Before most people come to a QHHT session, they have a version of it already playing in their mind. This may be influenced by Dolores Cannon's books or what they’ve seen on YouTube. They’ve imagined themselves going completely blank, or speaking in a strange voice, or waking up to find something in their body healed. While anything is possible, we can never know what a session will reveal. 

What actually happens is more often subtler than any promotional materials. Every session is unique, as every soul’s journey is. But there are a few universal questions I receive during discovery calls. I’d like to address the top three in this article. 

What if I don’t go under? What if I’m too in my head?

Indeed, this can occur, but very rarely. This deep hypnosis involves trust and releasing, two very difficult things for humans to do. But that’s what I am trained to guide. 

The hypnotic state in QHHT specifically — what Dolores Cannon called the Somnambulistic level — is a state of profound relaxation, not unconsciousness. You are present the entire time. You hear my voice. You’re aware of your body. And at the same time, something else opens: a quieter, deeper layer of awareness that is usually buried by the noise of daily life. That’s why I will encourage you to speak the very first thing that comes to awareness. 

People often describe this deep state as feeling heavy and light at the same time. The body becomes still, sometimes almost weightless, while the mind becomes unusually clear and engaged. I visualize it as floating on the surface of a pool of water. You feel weightless, balancing the sounds within the water and your gaze upon the sky above you. Drifting and floating. 

Will I know what my voice is saying? 

When people access what Dolores Cannon called the Subconscious(SC) — the Higher Self, the part that holds the fullness of who you are across all of your Soul Memories — they often come out of the session saying some version of: “I knew what I was going to say before I said it. Was that real? Was that me?”

Yes, and yes.

The voice that speaks during the deeper part of the session sounds like you — because it is you. It likely feels different: more spacious, calmer, unbothered by the things that usually ruffle you. The words may come with a certainty you don’t normally feel. But it is not a foreign entity. It is not a character you’ve invented. It is the part of you that exists beneath the protective adaptations, beneath the noise, beneath the ordinary reach of the analytical mind.

I know this from both the practitioner side and the client’s side. When I've regressed as a client, the experience of speaking from that place has a particular quality: the words arrive whole, before my thinking mind has finished deciding what to say. There’s no performance in it. There’s no reaching. It simply comes, with a kind of quiet authority that I’ve learned to recognize. It’s a shared awareness taking me beyond my Self. 

The analytic mind will try to argue about this. It will say: “But I was making it up.” That voice is also yours, the part that has been trained to distrust its own knowing. One of the gifts of the session is learning to tell the difference. And you always have a recording of the session to reinforce your experience. 

Will I experience physical healing?

I would love that to be the case, but every experience is uniquely what the soul is ready for. Sometimes we have more to learn from physical discomforts. Dolores Cannon documented session after session in which clients experienced remarkable physical healings — conditions improved or resolved, chronic pain lifted, symptoms changed. This is part of the tradition I was trained in, and I honor it. 

It is also the piece I am most careful about. 

Whether physical healing occurs, and to what degree, is not within my control, or yours. The Higher Self will offer what is appropriate for your healing at this time. Sometimes “appropriate” means exactly the relief you hoped for. Sometimes it means something subtler: a shift in the emotional root of a physical pattern, a new understanding that begins to change how you hold your body, a releasing of something that had been stored in the tissue for years.

This is where the relationship between emotion, belief, and physical experience becomes important. What QHHT can do very consistently is reach the deeper layers — the places where unresolved grief, fear, shame, or a long-held belief about your own unworthiness is living. Those patterns have a body. They take up residence somewhere. And when they begin to shift, the physical can follow.

I can’t promise healing. I can tell you that in session after session, people access something that couldn’t be reached from the surface. What the body does with that access is its own wisdom.

A word about Soul Memory

In QHHT sessions, clients often move through experiences that feel like other lives — other times, other bodies, other relationships. I call these Soul Memories rather than past lives, because the framing of “past” assumes a linearity that the soul doesn’t actually follow. These aren’t memories from before. They are memories held simultaneously, available now, surfacing because they hold something your soul needs to see. 

There are occasions where you stay in the present life experience because there is enough here for you to visit from a deeper space. 

When a Soul Memory comes forward in a session, it often carries an emotional clarity that is hard to find any other way. You may understand, in a felt sense, why you’ve always feared a certain thing, or loved a particular place, or carried a longing you could never name. That understanding doesn’t land in the mind first. It lands in the body.

What can I count on from a QHHT session?

Experiences will vary. Some people move through vivid, scene-filled journeys. Others receive impressions, feelings, or a sense of knowing without images. Both are valid. Both are real. We will always discuss these afterward. 

What tends to be consistent: people come out of sessions with information and clarity they did not have prior to a session. That is what I’m here to hold space for. Not a performance, not a promise, just what you are ready to meet at a soul level.

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If you’re curious about QHHT and what a session might hold for you, I’m happy to answer your questions in a free 20-minute discovery call.