Aug 26, 2026
Peter McLaughlin was given a twin diagnosis 23 years ago: Lyme disease and leukemia on the same day. The doctors told him if he was lucky, he had 10 years. They didn't know what caused it and they didn't know how to cure it.
So he went looking himself.
What he found in the depths of his own psyche became the foundation of an entire life's work in hypnotherapy, past life regression, Havening, and subconscious reprogramming. He's been healthy for 23 years. And in this conversation, he shares what he learned along the way, including one of the most fascinating explanations I've ever heard for why we drink.
We get into what hypnosis actually is and why the entertainment version of it has given most people completely the wrong idea. We talk about how trauma gets encoded in the nervous system as safe or not safe, and why that single distinction explains almost every self-sabotaging pattern people can't seem to break. We go into past life regression, what happens emotionally when someone encounters a lifetime they consciously have no memory of.
And we talk about alcohol. Specifically, why it's called spirits. What it actually does energetically when you drink. And how Peter uses future progression in hypnosis to help people feel, in their body, the 10-year contrast between two versions of their life, one that keeps drinking and one that doesn't.
IN THIS EPISODE
- The twin diagnosis that sent Peter into the depths of his own subconscious, and what he found there
- What hypnosis actually is, why the entertainment version gets it completely wrong, and the everyday experience almost everyone has had that is genuinely hypnotic
- Why alcohol is called spirits, and what Peter believes is actually happening energetically when you drink
- How root cause healing differs from symptom management, and why going back to the origin of a pattern is the only thing that actually resolves it
- Past life regression: what it feels like from the inside, what happens emotionally, and why the most mundane past lives are often the most moving
- Havening: what it is, how it works, and why the magic isn't in the tapping
- The future progression technique Peter uses with clients, and why the 10-year contrast is so powerful
- Why other people don't give you love, they just trigger the feelings you're already capable of generating yourself
- The one book Peter recommends above all others, and why he reread it after his father died
Find Peter at blueskyhypnosis.com and on YouTube at Blue Sky Hypnosis, where his past life regression track has nearly a million views.
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