Hello my loves. Welcome back to the Balanced Bond podcast, Soul on Fire, where we talk about everything that sets our souls on fire and helps us live our most passionate, most aligned life.

I've been doing so much deep thinking and reflecting about what makes me happiest in my life and what my soul came here to do on this earth and a completion experience and connect about and share with everyone, meaning all of you and so much more.

And truly having this podcast is what my soul came here to do and it's such a good feeling to be able to express that and be here and connect with incredible guests like today's guest of the show, Dr. Mike Dow, who I've had the pleasure of meeting.

Thank you to our incredible mutual literary agency, shout out to Sarah and so last two incredible humans who've impacted my life and Dr. Mike Dow's life quite a bit.

We have so much gratitude for both of you and I'm just so happy because meeting Dr. Dow, Dr. Mike, I don't know what to call you. I'm going to call you Mike.

I feel it was so aligned and I learned so much from him. So together we will all learn so much in this episode. I was already such a fan of his work because I've seen him on TV.

My mom has watched him a lot on TV. He's been on a ton of different TV shows from Dr. Oz to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and beyond. He has many, many bestselling books, including his latest, which is your subconscious brain can change your life, which is a fascinating book that I devoured in the week leading up to him coming here that talks about all the different subconscious visualization techniques that we can use to.

We will rewire our brain and through this technique that he developed, people are healing from addiction, from disease, from chronic illness, from depression, anxiety, autoimmune diseases, Lyme disease, so many things.

And I got to experience this firsthand with Mike when he was here recording you guys will hear in this episode not only did he hypnotize me, but when he hypnotized me, he led me through a visual guided meditation.

And we flipped some switches in my brain and I truly can tell you that I did feel quite a bit better and more energized after that, which was my intention for the technique, the visualization technique that we did.

So since we are so lucky to have him here on the show leading me through a hypnosis, I just encourage you when you listen to have yourself in a comfortable place.

I mean, if you're listening to this podcast while you're driving, that's fine too, but just really get in the zone and tap into what he's saying here and let it impact your body.

Because I deeply believe that what he shared with me and what he led me through is something that you can also feel hypnotized by and walk through it yourself.

So I feel like he gave us all the gift of hypnosis on here.

I think his work is so cool and powerful. And as you'll hear in this episode, he also has done a lot of research on assisted hypnotherapy with psychedelics like ketamine and psilocybin and MDMA.

And if you listen to this show frequently, then you know psychedelics have been a huge game changer in my own healing journey from Iowaska, plant medicine.

Thank you. Thank you. Iowaska. I'm just coming out of beautiful ceremony weekend that was so healing to ketamine, which I've done in the comfort of my doctor's office, IV, to psilocybin, which I've done super intentionally.

And has been such a healing game changer in my own healing journey from chronic Lyme disease. So Mike and I are cut from the same cloth and I'm so thrilled for you guys to hear this episode before we dive in.

I would like to thank our sponsor for the show and also tell you so we have three sponsors today. We're going to talk about one of them right now and we're going to talk about the others in the middle of the episode.

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So I wanted to put that on your radar. We'll talk about it in the middle, but I can't wait for you to listen. And thank you to our first sponsor for today's show Thrive Market.

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