In this episode, Andrew shares his personal transformation—moving through trauma, addiction, and a deeply reactive identity shaped by his childhood and years working in the oil and gas industry. Through journaling, breath work, and hypnosis-based tools, he began rewiring old survival patterns and reclaiming his sense of choice and freedom.

🧠 We dive into why willpower alone isn’t enough, and how the unconscious mind quietly runs our habits, behaviors, and reality—until we address the root.

🌬️ Andrew also shares a simple breathing technique to instantly calm the nervous system, plus insights on regulation practices like cold exposure.

🌌 The conversation expands into past lives, karma, and Quantum Healing—revealing how unresolved emotional patterns can carry across lifetimes and even manifest physically.

🎮 We close with a powerful reframe: life isn’t meant to be a struggle—it’s a journey meant to be lived with presence, self-love, and curiosity.

👉 If you’re ready to shift patterns at the deepest level, this episode is a must-listen 🎧

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Episode Summary:

Andrew's background and transformation @ 00:00

Andrew shares his journey of overcoming trauma, addiction, and a victim mindset through tools like journaling, breath work, and hypnosis-based methods. He discusses how he developed an identity around being defensive and reactive from his experiences in the oil and gas industry, and how he has worked to shift that programming.

The power of the unconscious mind @ 03:35

Andrew explains how the unconscious mind and habitual patterns can be more powerful than willpower alone. He emphasizes the importance of addressing the root causes and underlying trauma, rather than just managing symptoms. The discussion covers how the unconscious mind creates our reality and the role of choice in breaking free of unhealthy patterns.

Breath work and nervous system regulation @ 09:28

Andrew shares a simple 4-8 breathing technique that can quickly calm the nervous system and shift one's state. He discusses the science behind how this technique engages the parasympathetic system and the benefits of practices like cold plunges for regulating the body.

Past life exploration and karma @ 31:29

Andrew explains his approach of combining NLP and Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) to help clients explore past lives and understand the karmic lessons they are working through. He shares an example of a client who experienced physical healing after addressing unprocessed emotions from a past life.

Compassion, forgiveness, and the nature of reality @ 37:34

The discussion explores the concept that we choose our life experiences and the people we encounter in order to learn specific lessons, such as forgiveness. Andrew shares how understanding his own past lives has given him more empathy and a shifted perspective on the darkness in the world.

Closing thoughts and next steps @ 40:06

Andrew emphasizes the importance of making life a "fun game" rather than a struggle, and encourages listeners to focus on self-care, self-love, and living life to the fullest. He provides information on how to connect with him further through his website and social media.

About the Guest:

Andrew Wilson is a practitioner focused on fear, pressure, and emotional reactivity. He is the author of The Enemy Within, Fear as Our Greatest Opponent, and the host of the Beyond Transcendence podcast. Andrew works with people who keep promising they will change, then repeat the same cycle when stress hits. His approach is direct and practical, built around mindset tools, nervous system regulation, and hypnosis-based methods that aim to change the pattern at the root, not just manage it.

Contact:

Website: https://www.andrewfwilson.com

Fb: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.wilson.1042

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/beyondtranscendencewithandrew/

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

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