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This is Let's Be Honest with Kristen Cavalery, 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.

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, Kristen Eichelon 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.

Let's go. 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. 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 scongali. I'm going to make you do something that is against your will. Okay, that is completely not possible. Yeah. 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 anywhere 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 going to do later we We can have a normal everyday conversation. The moment we kind of tip our eyes up to the left, and like, oh, and 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 daydreamy state. Like if you're reading a really good book and nobody's like, you can't get anyone's attention.

And 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 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

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