Transcript
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The following podcast is a Dr. Media production.
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This is, let's be honest with Kristen Cavallari, a podcast all about getting real and open on everything from sex, relationships, reality tv, wellness, family, and so much more. And just a fair warning, there will probably be some oversharing. Cause I got all the power.
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Yep.
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Welcome in. Today is potentially my favorite episode that I've ever done. I've talked about her so many times on this podcast. I have my hypnotherapist, Kristin Eichel on today for one of my absolute favorite conversations. She is one of the most fascinating, incredible, empowering women on the planet. So please, please enjoy this episode.
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Let's go.
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Okay. Kristen, I am so excited you're here. It's such a trip because we've worked together for years, but we've never actually met in person. We've done everything on Zoom, which I think speaks to the power of what you do. Yeah, but. Okay, so I've talked about you a lot on the podcast and about hypnotherapy and how it's changed my life. I want you, though, in your words, to explain what hypnotherapy is, because I do think there is kind of a misconception out there about it.
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Really good question. I think a lot of the misconception that you might be alluding to, correct me if I'm wrong, is that it's somehow like mind control. This, like, Bengali, I'm gonna make you do something that is against your will. Okay, that is completely not possible because I always operate from the level of agreement. And so you'll hear me say, does that resonate with your knowing? Is this a yes for you? Yes or no? I always ask for the agreement because if it's not an agreement, we're not going anywh like any other relationship. Right. So it has to be based upon trust, number one. Number two, the way I operate. And I started my training in the early 90s, so it's been like almost 35 years I've been doing this. I will just say, and I've really noticed my own practice, my own experience of it evolving and changing. But fundamentally, let's look at hypnotherapy as a brainwave state. So normal, everyday consciousness. Here we are, we're in beta. We can remember where we parked our car, we can remember the thing we're do later, we can have a normal, everyday conversation. The moment we kind of tip our eyes up to the left and like, oh, when I was a kid, I had a pony. Okay, now we're starting to go into alpha. It's like active, awake, but we're also in that sort of daydreaming state. Like if you're reading a really good book and nobody's like, you can't get anyone's attention. That's alpha. Okay, when we close our eyes, take a breath and relax in, you can follow along at home. And we really start to kind of drop down into the body and we arrest all this outside information of that sort of visual information. We start to tap in with the, with the heart coherence, with our breath, with our exterior and interior in alignment. Then we start to slip into what's called the theta brainwave state. And the theta brainwave state is like, it's that place where babies are born. The first three years of give or take of a baby's life is in the theta brainwave state, which is why they can pick up languages, they learn how to operate the body. Everything that they're in this like fast forward building. That's why they say the baby's personality is developed by the first three years. That's why you're in theta. However, when we want to kind of get behind the scenes and work on the os, the operating system, we have to get into the theta brainwave state. And so that's where we can start to open up the unconscious, the deeper conscious, the higher consciousness. Now in my early practice, I did a lot of work with like, what can we do? Let's play crazy games. You know, I wasn't working with clients. It was for me, it was my game. I had my whole media career. So I didn't need to do this as my job. It was just for fun. And I really began discovering sort of again way back in the 90s, that time was not linear and the experience of the I and the self was not necessarily an individual practice. Now this also emerged through, you know, my work in shamanism and other things, where I really began to experience the multidimensional nature of our experience, which is not just this linear. I see you, you see me. We are bodies in space at separation, which is how we're kind of taught to believe there's a before, there's a middle, there's a to come. And we can stress about the future, but when we really tap into where we are in the now, then we can kind of like, I sort of imagine like turning inwards into this library that then opens up into this like massive experience, you'll correct me if I'm wrong, where suddenly you can access Any time, any space. And it's not just like a memory of, like, oh, I remember my third birthday. It's more like, I am here. I am re feeling. Revisiting the sensations, the experience, the emotions, the state of being in that.
