The Drop the Needle Podcast

Ep. 50 – Unlocking the Subconscious: Spiritual Hypnotherapy, Past Lives & Soul Healing

Date: January 1, 2026
Host: Jim Alstatt
Guest: Lindsay Robinson, Certified Hypnotherapist

Episode Overview

This landmark 50th episode of The Drop the Needle Podcast dives into spiritual hypnotherapy, past life regressions, and soul healing. Host Jim Alstatt welcomes Lindsay Robinson, a certified hypnotherapist, to deconstruct myths about hypnosis, share insights on subconscious and superconscious healing, and explore the transformative power these modalities offer for self-love, authenticity, and spiritual growth.

The conversation balances practical explanations with personal and client experiences, offering listeners both foundational knowledge and deep, soul-level reflections in an open, compassionate, and occasionally humorous way.
Music’s role as a backdrop and tool for self-discovery also features, with a signature segment on life soundtracks.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

What is (and isn’t) Hypnotherapy?

• Debunking TV Myths: Lindsay clarifies that hypnotherapy is not about losing control, but rather a way to help people reprogram the subconscious mind for positive change.
• Subconscious vs. Conscious Mind:
  • The subconscious forms primarily in early childhood (“kids are sponges” [05:17]), storing automatic beliefs and habits that often outstay their usefulness.
  • “If it worked once, then it'll work forever – that's the logic of the subconscious.” – Lindsay [03:53]
• Critical Filter: Around age 7–9, the mind develops a “critical filter” between subconscious and conscious—a “bouncer at the club” (Jim’s analogy [07:58])—which protects established beliefs, sometimes impeding change.
• Willpower vs. Subconscious: Trying to change patterns with willpower alone is rarely successful long-term—“you're using 5–10% of your mind power.” Hypnotherapy helps teach the subconscious that new beliefs are safe, making change easier.

Spiritual Hypnotherapy & The Superconscious

• Intention is Key:
  • Hypnotherapy for “goals” (habits, abundance, relationships) and for “soul work” (purpose, guides, connecting with loved ones, psychic abilities) uses the same process, but with different intentions.
• Superconscious Work:
  • Spiritual hypnotherapy aims upward—tapping into higher consciousness, accessing wisdom “from all that is.”
  • “We’re accessing the higher… whatever the source, the universe, higher self, and all of those records.” – Lindsay [11:49]

Soul Retrieval and Spiritual Disconnection

• Soul Retrieval:
  • While not always called by that name, many seek Lindsay’s help when feeling lost, directionless, or severed from their “core being.”
  • Hypnotherapy helps “pieces of you come back home until you feel like you.” [14:15]
  • “You can’t truly know yourself and not love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, you just don’t know yourself that well.” – Lindsay [14:15]

Breaking Points and Awakening

• Disconnection often surfaces during relationships, work, or personal crises—leading to spiritual awakening.
• “There’s always a wake-up moment… where you’re like, I have to move. I am so uncomfortable something needs to happen.” – Lindsay [16:03]
• Jim notes that such turning points can be mistaken for breakdowns, but often precede profound transformation and self-acceptance.

The Healing Journey: Process & Expectations

• Session Frequency & Duration:
  • Most clients see significant shifts in 4–6 weekly sessions ([21:16]).
  • Lindsay’s most popular “big container” is a 12-week program: “Twelve weeks of going inward and discovering and gaining wisdom… it’s a pretty magical time.” – Lindsay [22:29]
• Therapist as Channel/Vessel:
  • Magic arises when two people unite in intention. Lindsay describes channeling—often through “automatic writing” during or after sessions—as an energetic exchange involving both her and the client’s spirit teams ([24:01], [28:14]).
• Authenticity as Expansion:
  • Lindsay found that bringing her own personality—humor, spiritual practices, intuition—created better client outcomes than rigid “clinical” approaches ([65:32]).

Self-Compassion & The Human Experience

• Emotions as Messengers:
  • “The only reason you’re feeling it at all is because it has a message.” – Lindsay [39:09]
  • Hypnotherapy, including past life work, helps safely process and release old traumas.
• Integration Not Perfection:
  • Both hosts highlight the importance of allowing all emotions, recognizing “we’re nine-year-olds walking around looking like adults” ([33:42]).
  • “We didn’t come here for easy… The only way you can feel the good is to have the contrast.” – Lindsay [34:01]

Past Life Regression: Reasons & Healing Effects

• Typical Motivations:
  • “A: I don’t know where this pattern is coming from, and this might be a possibility; or B: I’m just curious.” – Lindsay [35:27]
  • Even “just curious” regressions often reveal relevant patterns or sources of fears/traumas.
• Client Experience Example (Jim):
  • Recalls a regression revealing a 1930s past life suicide, explaining lifelong fear of heights ([37:26]–[39:49]).
  • “I don’t have that same [irrational] feeling any longer… It was like, okay, got it. Move on. Move through.” – Jim [39:33]
  • Regression provided both understanding and release.
• Lindsay on Processing:
  • Regression isn’t about “punishment.” Souls choose timing and lessons, and even difficult exits (“walking out on the test”) are seen with compassion and opportunities for further learning ([46:03]).

Life, Death & Connection Beyond

• Spiritual hypnotherapy and regression experiences challenge dogmatic notions of punishment, offering comfort and a sense of agency regarding soul contracts and life after death.
• “My soul knows better than I do. It feels amazing.” – Lindsay [46:47]
• Death shifts relationships, but connection persists—“I can talk to [my grandma] more now.”

Curiosity, Lifelong Learning, and the Power of Questions

• Both hosts celebrate curiosity (“Even though I may be an old soul, I am still so curious” – Jim [50:33]), describing the spiritual journey as constantly unfolding, much like an infinite universe.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “If it worked once, then it'll work forever – that's the logic of the subconscious.”
  — Lindsay Robinson [03:53]

• “The main job of your subconscious is to keep you alive… It doesn’t know expiration dates.”
  — Lindsay [02:28]

• “You are 100% successful at being exactly who you are, based off what your subconscious believes is safe. If you got to choose what your subconscious believed was safe, what would be possible for you?”
  — Lindsay [09:20]

• “You can’t truly know yourself and not love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, you just don’t know yourself that well.”
  — Lindsay [14:15]

• “There's always a wake-up moment or like a get off the pot moment where you're like, I have to move.”
  — Lindsay [16:03]

• “I refuse to believe—there’s a lot of hills I will die on, but this is one—you cannot know yourself and not love yourself.”
  — Lindsay [14:15]

• “It is a community: you got their team, you got my team… I always call in my guides, my gods and goddesses, ancestors, all the angels.”
  — Lindsay [28:14]

• “You can’t be thankful and mad at the same time… they don’t jive vibrationally.”
  — Jim [14:38]

• [On Past Life Regression] “For me, it’s always been curiosity… and it just kind of fits. Even if you’re just curious and you have no intention.”
  — Lindsay [36:38]

• “Suicide isn’t like a punishment… you realize, oh, I gotta do it again now. It’s like you walked out on the test. You’re still gonna have to take the test.”
  — Lindsay [46:02]

• [When music comes up:] “Music in the vibration that comes from it… fun and smiles and… time when they don’t have to be… stuck in an iPad. We’re all together.”
  — Lindsay [57:08]

• “The second you stop trying to fit into boxes and stop caring is usually when everything starts to bloom.”
  — Lindsay [65:54]

Important Timestamps & Segments

| Timestamp | Segment / Discussion | | --------- | ----------- | | 00:50 | Jim’s colorful welcome; intro to spiritual hypnotherapy with Lindsay | | 02:28 | Lindsay explains hypnotherapy and how the subconscious forms | | 09:23 | Goals, the “bouncer at the door,” and rewiring the subconscious | | 10:37 | Transition to spiritual hypnotherapy and the “superconscious” | | 13:42–14:15 | Soul retrieval, self-compassion, knowing/loving yourself | | 15:46–17:03 | Relationships, breaking points, and spiritual awakening moments | | 20:31–21:16 | Number of sessions for change; typical client experiences | | 24:01–28:14 | Channeling, energetic exchanges, working with spirit teams | | 33:42 | Adults operate on beliefs formed as children; “we're nine-year-olds walking around looking like adults.” | | 35:27–36:43 | Reasons for past life regression (“I don’t know where this pattern is coming from” or “just curious”) | | 37:26-39:49 | Jim’s personal regression experience; healing irrational fears | | 46:02 | Life, death, spiritual perspective on suicide and soul learning | | 52:52 | Musical segment — life soundtracks, family music memories, evolving tastes | | 66:48 | Lindsay describes a song that made her process deep emotions | | 68:52 | Power of music in moving through change and supporting joy |

The Music Segment: Life Soundtracks

• First song loved from the radio:
  • “Blame it on the Rain” by Milli Vanilli (Lindsay) [53:19]
• Family road trip music:
  • “No joint song growing up; parents divorced; Dad: Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, Jim Croce, Jimmy Buffett. Mom: Crystal Gayle, Barbra Streisand. But now, with her own kids: ‘Hamilton’ soundtrack, on repeat.” ([56:31])
• High school/college taste shifts:
  • High school: Nelly, Eminem, NSYNC; college: Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, singer-songwriters ([57:39], [58:43])
  • Now: Spiritual/ethereal music — Enya, Celtic Woman. “It transports me to what I think are my past lives in Celtic Britain, before Rome invaded…” ([59:42])
• Songs that get her “positive juices flowing”:
  • “Boudicca” by Enya — “She didn’t let anything stand in her way.” ([60:29])
• Guilty pleasure songs:
  • None — “I brag about my music even if it’s stupid. I’m like, no, you just should like it.” ([62:28])
• Songs that resonate deeply:
  • “Breakaway” by Kelly Clarkson — provided hope and courage during transformative life leaps ([67:39])
  • A yet-unnamed song once moved Lindsay to the fetal position in tears, unlocking and processing deep emotions ([66:27])

Where to Find & Work With Lindsay Robinson

• Instagram & TikTok
• Beacons/Linktree (linked in show notes)
• Podcast: High Vibe in It
• App: Align Your Mind (iOS & mobile)
• Personalized hypnotherapy sessions or self-guided app tools

Episode Tone & Style

The episode balances warmth, encouragement, and candor—infused with humor and a grounded approach to mystical topics. Both host and guest are genuine, transparent, and maintain a deeply compassionate and empowering attitude toward healing and self-discovery.

For New Listeners: Key Takeaways

• Hypnotherapy is safe, client-controlled, and highly effective at shifting limiting beliefs by updating the subconscious.
• Spiritual hypnotherapy opens avenues to insight, comfort, and profound healing—whether you seek practical change or the answers to your soul’s callings.
• The journey is about self-compassion, genuine curiosity, embracing the full spectrum of emotions, and allowing authentic expression—in music, healing, and beyond.
• The transformative power of music interweaves with the spiritual journey, acting as a bridge to feeling, release, and joy.

[For links, playlists, and more information about working with Lindsay, see the show notes.]