#12 - Ali Christos - Knowing beyond thinking: Quantum hypnosis, healing, and higher awareness

Your mind already knows more than your anxiety will admit, and sometimes the fastest way to hear it is to quiet the noise instead of fighting it. We’re joined by Ali Christos, a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) practitioner, music producer, and author, to break down what QHHT really is and why it’s less about “woo” and more about accessing a deeper layer of consciousness.

We walk through how Dolores Cannon’s QHHT guides someone into a deep theta brainwave state, the same neighborhood of awareness you touch right before sleep. Ali explains how a full session unfolds, from the long pre-session interview to the trance journey where clients may experience past lives, symbolic scenes, or other timelines, followed by a powerful Q and A with what many call the higher self. If you’re skeptical, we also translate “higher self” into practical terms: the least reactive, most integrated inner intelligence you’ve felt before through intuition, clarity, or sudden insight.

We also get real about safety, intense memories, and integration. Healing isn’t always a fireworks moment during hypnosis; it often shows up afterward as dreams, emotional release, new boundaries, calmer reactions, and decisions you’ve been avoiding. Ali shares stories from his practice that highlight what can change when you stop performing your life and start aligning it.

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Transcript

Welcome And What Best Life Means

Peter Kolakovic 0:02

Hi everyone, and welcome back to another episode of My Best Life. In every conversation on this podcast, we ask one defining question. What does it truly mean to live your best life? Today, we're exploring a path to alignment that takes us deep into the multidimensional layers of the human consciousness. My special guest today is Ali Christos, a quantum hypnosis practitioner, music producer, and author. Ali specializes in helping individuals step beyond their everyday analytical minds to unlock trust, confidence, and the profound wisdom hidden within the subconscious. Driven by his own journey from self-doubt to deep spiritual exploration, Ali now helps clients navigate their inner landscapes to find clarity, purpose, and lasting relief. In this episode, Ali and I dive deep into the fascinating world of quantum healing hypnosis technique, widely known as QHHT. Developed by the late Dolores Canon over four decades, QHHT is a unique hypnosis method that guides individuals into a deep theta brainwave state. This is the state of consciousness we naturally enter right before waking up or falling asleep. Ali gives us an insider's view of how a typical QHHT session unfolds. He explains that the process isn't just about exploring past lives for entertainment or curiosity, it is a purposeful journey into the soul's timeline. We discuss how the subconscious mind serves up specific memories, vivid metaphors, or parallel life experiences that hold the precise keys to the challenges we all face in the present day. Beyond past life regression, Ali sheds light on the most profound stage of a QHHT session, connecting directly with the higher self or the subconscious. This all-knowing, deeply loving aspect of our consciousness can answer lifelong questions, uncover hidden family or emotional patterns, and even facilitate instantaneous physical and emotional healing. Ali shares inspiring stories from his practice, demonstrating what happens when we stop fighting our inner noise and surrender to this peaceful healing space. Whether you are completely new to quantum healing, feeling stuck in patterns you cannot seem to break, or looking to amplify your own conscious awareness, this episode may reframe how you look at the power of your mind. Get ready to explore what it truly means to heal from the inside out. Are you ready to explore the depths of your own consciousness and unlock your hidden inner wisdom? Subscribe to My Best Life on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. And leave us a review to let us know how this conversation transformed your perspective. And now let's dive into my conversation with Ali Christos. As always, thanks for listening.

QHHT Explained Without The Hype

Peter Kolakovic 3:45

Ali Christos, welcome to the podcast, brother.

Ali Christos 3:49

Thank you, Peter. Thank you for having me.

Peter Kolakovic 3:52

So I understand you're a certified practitioner of something called Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique or QHHT, which I was previously unfamiliar with, and I imagine that a lot of listeners might be unfamiliar with as well. So can you just can we start off by talking about well, what is this thing called QHHT and how does it relate to I guess we'd call it regular hypnosis and and what's the difference?

Ali Christos 4:26

Great. Yes, so hypnosis is a natural altered state of focused awareness, kind of like being very relaxed, how we are sort of in meditation. So it's similar to the moments before sleep or becoming fully immersed in a movie or a memory. So it's not mind control, as some may think, it's actually a heightened state of attention where the analytical mind quiets down and deeper subconscious materials become accessible. And QHHT stands for quantum healing hypnosis technique. It's a specific form of hypnosis that was created by the late Dolores Canon and it guides people into a deep, some I cannot pronounce this, but it's somnambulistic state. Right. It's it's it's where your mind is in a theta brainwave, which is just prior to sleep. Sleep would be a delta brainwave. So this is where you can explore memories, emotions, symbolic experiences, even past lives, and communicate with many, what many call the higher self or what Dolores dubbed the subconscious. Not the subconscious as we know in psychology, but the subconscious that is the broader part of who you are. So the difference is that the difference is that hypnosis is the broad category, while QHHT is a very specific modality and structure within it. And QHHT is more exploratory in nature, spiritual, it's healing focused than most standard clinical hypnosis. It's less about giving suggestions and more about facilitating discovery, insight, and inner healing.

Peter Kolakovic 6:22

Okay. Well that's that's that's a great start. Thank you for that.

Ali’s Path From Real Estate

Peter Kolakovic 6:26

So, how long have you been doing this and what was it that led you to this particular path?

Ali Christos 6:34

Well, I've my answer to you, Peter, because we know each other and we can speak this way, is that I've been doing this many lifetimes.

Peter Kolakovic 6:41

Okay.

Ali Christos 6:42

Good answer. Well, in this lifetime, I would say that all of my life experiences, specifically as an adult, have brought me to this in a very powerful way. And why I say that is because uh for about 15 years I was in real estate in New York City. And as you can imagine, that world is very different than the spiritual realms of yoga or or QHHT may be. And during that time, I had many mentors in the business realm who nudged me towards some spiritual books, one of them being Conversations with God by Neil Donald Walsh. I don't know if you ever heard of that book.

Peter Kolakovic 7:26

I'm familiar with it. I have not read it, but I've yeah, I'm familiar with it.

Ali Christos 7:31

One of my all-time favorite authors and books is Conversations with God. It started out as one book, then two, then a trilogy. Now it's over 40 books. And for the first 10 years of my real estate career, I resisted reading any of that book because I would ask my coaches, what does this have to do with business? You know, I was not interested in anything religious. In fact, I felt allergic to anything religious. Growing up in a conservative Muslim traditional household, I felt, you know, a little bit like I wanted to explore spirituality, but on my own terms rather than someone telling me who God is or what the rules are, if you will. So 10 years into my career, I'm at a Barnes and Nobles bookstore and I go into the New Age section, and in front of me are all these books by Neil Donald Walsh, all the different conversations with God. I pick up the last book, open up the last page, and I just wanted to know what happens in the end. Do sinners like me just go to hell, eternal hell? You know, what happens, right? So I start reading, Peter, and I kid you not, I could not put down that book. I was in tears. It spoke to me in such a deep way. It spoke to my heart and my soul. I got to hear of a God that was loving, was compassionate, was understanding and wise. And it was something without me even knowing, I've been searching my whole life. So that got me onto the road of researching more into who I really am, who are we, and what are we all up to beyond the surface? And that also got me interested in yoga. And I know that a lot of your listeners, including yourself, are in into yoga. And I don't know if you know this about me, but I ended up getting my yoga certification in New York. And as part of my certification, I also went to India. And that journey was very moving for me because one, now that I look back, and we talk about, for example, the you know, some of the great masters, including Jesus, who during the lost years was purported to be in India, it became more and more valuable for me to look back and see that journey and how that's impacted my growth and has brought me down the path to where I am now. So, fast forward several years later, lots of you know meditation uh practices that I've practiced, including the one that we where we met, which was Vipassana. And I came to know of this lady by the name of Dolores Cannon. It was my partner, actually, who introduced me to her a few years back. And my partner is very uh left-brained. She's very logical, very analytical. She's quite skeptical when it comes to these spiritual gurus. So for her to point someone out that she's interested in piqued my interest as well. So I looked further into Dolores, and when I would hear her talk, I just I felt so refreshed because there was there was no ego, there was a lot of wisdom and information that was very deep and interesting about the soul and the soul's journey prior to our current incarnation or where we are right now and where we go afterwards. And all those things were super interesting to me, even as a child. But now I had this lady who was able to explain it in a very easy to understand way. And then I came to find out that she teaches what, you know, the way that she accessed all this information, which became known as QHHT. So to bring it full circle, I ended up going into QHHT as a result of my research within the teachings of Dolores Cannon. And I wanted to just be able to access what she's accessing. And one of the things my partner said is that, hey, if you're going to change your whole career and go into becoming this QHHT healer, then you know, at least you should try it three times on yourself just to make sure that it's worth the time and investment and everything else. So I took her on the challenge, and ironically, she was at Vipassna while I was doing that. And I made the mistake, I would say, in hindsight, of doing three sessions within a very short period of time. I do not recommend that, by the way. If you're listening to this, don't do what I did. Do not, I did I did a session, my first QHT session was on a Thursday, and then the following day on Friday, I did my second one. And by the third day, I felt like I got hit by a truck. It was terrible. It was amazing, but it was terrible. And the amazing part was that I got super incredible insights each time that I did it. The only thing that I didn't realize at the time was that I needed time to integrate. And now when I see my clients, and you know, years later, now that I've been practicing and helping people all over the world with QHHT and with BQH, which is the remote form of QHHT, to simplify it. So we're able to do it not in person, but we can also do it remotely via Zoom or telephone call. And this is all now possible, which is really, really exciting because we can access people in remote corners of the world. We can access people who would otherwise not be able to come to us. We have people that are for whatever reason they they may be hospitalized and they still want to get a session, but they can't physically come to us. So this opens doors to that as well. And there was a woman that had a phobia of driving and she was able to get a session from the comfort of her home. So it's it's a really, really exciting time as a quantum hypnotist, if you will, because we're able to help people in ways that traditional medicine and spiritual healing practices may not be.

Explaining The Higher Self To Skeptics

Peter Kolakovic 13:47

So you mentioned, you know, being encouraged by your girlfriend to read this book and you know, to explore this path. And I think you also mentioned her as being someone who is logical and analytical. And I think it's fair to say that, you know, our society kind of has this preference for rationalism, for materialism, for, you know, there's there's a definite preference for analytical minds. So, you know, you're on this new path now, you're a QHHT practitioner serving others, helping others with their journeys. So for people arriving with that, you know, rational analytical mind, how do you explain this concept of, you know, what do you call it, the higher self that they can access through this technique?

Ali Christos 14:43

You know, it's a it's a very good question because most people that are in the spiritual realm, it's very easy for them to try this on if they've never experienced it. Such as myself, I was in that in in those shoes because I was already on the path of yoga and meditation and spirituality and seeing psychics and just exploring and being curious. But there are many that are out there that may be more rational, you know. So I'll often say that think of the higher self as the wisest, least reactive layer of your own consciousness. So it's not separate from being floating somewhere outside of you, but a deeper level of awareness beneath stress, beneath conditioning, beneath fear, beneath social programming and any of those survival patterns. So a rational person already accepts that the mind has multiple layers, right? Like you have the conscious awareness, you have subconscious processing, you have intuition, automatic pattern recognition, emotional memory. So the higher self can simply be viewed as the most integrated and expanded layer of that inner intelligence. So for example, your conscious mind may panic, but another part of you quietly knows the relationship is wrong, for example. Your thoughts may feel chaotic, but on another layer of your senses, what uh you s but on another layer you you sense what decisions actually align with your well-being. So it's like it's like different parts of you, right? I I remember when I was doing uh therapy, I've been going to a psychologist since I was like 17 years old at various times of my life, and it's helped me a lot to understand that there's different parts of us. So imagine that there's parts of you that there's a part of you that knows, that has an inner knowing and understanding of the ultimate truths, and it's always been a part of you. Maybe perhaps you haven't accessed it yet, you know? So that deeper knowing is what many traditions refer to as the higher self. I also explain that we already trust forms of intelligence that we cannot fully see. For example, intuition, creativity, sudden insights, gut feelings, dreams, moments of clarity, instinctive, instinctive knowing, right? So even highly analytical people experience moments where answers they seem to arise like instantly rather than through linear reasoning. So in sessions, clients often begin speaking with surprising clarity and compassion, emotional intelligence and self-awareness that feels very different from their normal anxious thinking patterns. So whether someone interprets that as the subconscious mind, expanses, expanded consciousness, intuition, the soul, or the higher self, the practical effect, Peter, is the same. They access a calmer, wiser perspective that is beyond their everyday mental noise. So I also tell skeptics that you don't need to believe in anything supernatural for the experience to be valuable. You can approach it psychologically, spiritually, symbolically, or even philosophically. The label matters less than the transformation people experience afterwards.

Peter Kolakovic 18:28

Okay. I wrote down, I wrote down you stated that it was the why is this least reactive layer of consciousness? I really like that. That's that's quite profound. And yeah, I think it's it's a good way to frame this type of work for someone that maybe is not coming from, you know, this background of you know spiritual practices. So

Entering Theta And Trance Signs

Peter Kolakovic 18:54

so you're working with a client, and I don't know, I guess maybe you've got someone on on a couch in front of you, laying down perhaps, or seated. I don't know what that looks like. And they're, you know, you're you're taking them on this transition from the conscious thinking mind to this deep, I also can cannot pronounce this word, sonambulistic state. Yes. So you do it better than me. What what does that transition look like for you as you're observing it?

Ali Christos 19:29

Great question. This is something that we are trained on, and it's something that distinguishes our type of therapy from other hypnotherapies out there, because when someone goes into that deep state of hypnosis, there are very visual signs that you can see. So the transition into the somnambulistic state is usually much more natural and subtle than people expect. So most people imagine hypnosis looks dramatic, like somebody suddenly switching off or becoming unconscious, falling to the ground. In reality, it's often, it often feels more like gradually drifting deeper into a state between focused awareness, imagination, memory, and deep relaxation. So at the beginning of a session, the conscious mind is very active. You you could we find people analyzing, judging themselves, wondering if they're doing it right, or worrying they're making things up. How do I know that? Because I go through the same. And the first time you do this or have yourself hypnotized in this method, you may experience the same thing. So it's very natural. But then slowly, as the nervous system relaxes, the analytical mind begins to quiet down and the breathing becomes slower, the body softens, the voice often changes, even ever so slightly. Responses become less filtered and they become more spontaneous. And instead of thinking about what to say, the person begins describing experiences as they naturally arise. And that's when the subconscious communication becomes stronger. So from the outside, the shift can look surprisingly ordinary to the untrained eye, but the client may simply appear deeply relaxed with their eyes closed, calmly talking. But internally, their awareness has shifted dramatically. So in the synambulistic state, imagination becomes more immersive. It's kind of like you know, you ever see the movie Avatar?

Peter Kolakovic 21:42

Yes. Yeah.

Ali Christos 21:44

So imagine you're seeing your own version of that movie. You're you're fully immersed in it, the emotions become easier to access, the symbolic imagery emerges naturally, the subconscious material flows with less resistance, time distortion. Often occurs as well. You don't know if you know where you may be, and that's natural, it's normal because you you're being drifted somewhere. And it's very safe, by the way. It's just it's like being deeply relaxed and guided in through a meditation. So the intuition becomes stronger in that state. So one of the interesting paradoxes is that many clients later say, I don't think I was deep enough, or was that even me just making it up? Meanwhile, they were describing detailed emotional scenes, accessing memories, receiving insights, and responding automatically for two hours, because that's how long the hypnosis portion of the session is. So the conscious mind often expects hypnosis to feel foreign or unconscious, but deep trance usually feels incredibly natural. In many ways, it feels more like allowing than forcing. So I sometimes explain it like this the conscious mind moves from driving the car to sitting quietly in the passenger seat. It doesn't completely disappear, but it stops trying to control every moment.

Peter Kolakovic 23:13

Okay. I

The Full QHHT Session Structure

Peter Kolakovic 23:15

did want to ask you about you mentioned, you know, the sense of time distortion. And you said these sessions typically last about two hours.

Ali Christos 23:26

So the hypnosis portion is usually two hours. Sometimes it can go a little longer, but it's not recommended because the body needs to be able to rest and recover. Right. Because it's it's you're you're going on a trip in a sense, and you're you're lying there for two hours. So you as well as the practitioner, you know, will need to take a break. And prior to the hypnosis session, there's a two to four hours, sometimes more, of a interview. And I call it an interview, but it's like a pre-session, if you will, where I sit down with with the client and we go over your entire life from the time you were born till now, and all the things that have really mattered to you and are important to you right now, the questions that you have. And it's a very, very important meeting because it's very rare that in our life we get to sit down with someone that will hear us without judgment and look to create space, if you will, where we can describe all of the things that have mattered to us and are impacting us today. You know, so that can be relationships, it can be symptoms. People come with, you know, they want to know their their career, you know, if they should change their career, what should they do? They want to know about their life purpose, all kinds of questions people come with. And so during the first part of the session where we're just talking, mainly the client is talking, they are asking, you know, like as it says in the Bible, ask and it is given, knock and you shall receive. So imagine it's it's the asking portion because as you're asking, your higher self is listening, it's it's paying attention to your intention. And so this paves the way for a great hypnosis session right after that. And so once we're done with the two to four hour conversation, we go into the hypnosis session, which is two hours. And that's essentially the the entire session is a day long. So even after the hypnosis, we do a little debrief, maybe 15 minutes for some people, half an hour, to make sure they're grounded. And if they're driving back, they can drive back okay because they've just had a quote unquote experience. And it's important that they're safe and they feel understood and they, you know, they can they can start to make sense of what they just experienced.

Peter Kolakovic 25:52

Okay. So this could be a six hour or more session, if I if I understood you correctly. So I'm wondering, yes, is there are are there specific recommendations on how a client should prepare themselves for that session? That's the first part of the question. And then how do you prepare your own energy? Because you know, staying present with someone for that long, it's like that's that must be challenging for you as well. So how do you prepare yourself as well?

Ali Christos 26:26

So great question. And preparation here is key because one, you as the client, you're taking out an entire day to be there. And most people are hoping for breakthrough results. And I can understand that. Having been hypnotized four times in this way, I know that every time I wanted to have a great session. And so when it comes to preparation, I have a video on YouTube that I prepared for my clients and also for other practitioners that may not have the video. That based on my experience and the experience of hundreds of other experienced practitioners, how best to prepare so that the client can get the very most out of the session. And by the very most, I mean to be able to go deep, to be able to see vivid visions, and have a dramatic spiritual experience if that's what they want. Or, you know, maybe they want to get certain answers, to be able to get all the answers if possible. And I say that tongue in cheek because I I remember I was, I don't know if it was foolish, but it was out of my curiosity. In the first few times that I got hypnotized, I brought 33 questions with me. 33 is a very significant number to me spiritually, but now looking back, I feel bad for the practitioners because it's a lot of questions. When you're being hypnotized for two hours, the question portion, if you will, of the hypnosis is the latter half. So you have about an hour to get all your questions answered. And it may seem like, hey, you can just go one after another, but it's not recommended because what you want to do and what an experienced caring practitioner will do is they will dig deeper into your most important questions. So, for example, if you say, Hey, I've had this shoulder pain in my right shoulder and I want it healed, right? So I would ask something like to the subconscious once it comes through, why does this person have this problem with their shoulder, you know, and and how long has it been going on? What is the root of it? Where does it come from? Is it from this lifetime or a previous lifetime? And what do they need to know about it? What are the emotions that are attached to it? Where in their body are they also interrelating to this issue? So, for example, I had this lady recently that came to me. She was in the military for over like three decades, and she was also a nurse practitioner as well as a medical aide for many, many years. And so she on her the right side of her body, she was having all sorts of symptoms. Her right shoulder was giving her pain, she was having wringing of the ears in her right ear, she was getting headaches on the right side of her head. And what's very interesting, Peter, is that one of the things that we've come to learn from all the sessions that that people have had and shared insights is that whenever we found whenever there's symptoms in the right side of the body, it has to do with the current life. Whenever there's symptoms on the left side of the body, it usually has to do with a past life. And so, armed with information like that, as well as knowing that every symptom or disease, disease that we experience is related to emotions that we've carried. And once we realize those emotions, where they come from, and we get clarity on why we felt that way and why we created what we've created, then oftentimes we find that the answers bring about healing. And oftentimes it's instantaneous.

Questions, Symptoms, And Healing Approach

Peter Kolakovic 30:29

Okay, fascinating. I'm I'm curious to dive in a bit more to the actual mechanics of these sessions, and you've already kind of touched upon this, but I'd I'd like to understand it a little bit better. So you were saying, you know, there's a two to four hour session where the client is is essentially, you know, reliving their life history, and then during the hypnosis session, which is about two hours, you mentioned that they come prepared with a certain number of questions, if I understood correctly. And then is it that you are reading out those questions to the client, and then their you know deeper higher self is responding? Is that what it looks like?

Ali Christos 31:16

Yes. So this is the fascinating thing. All of the answers come from the client's mouth, and that that's part of what distinguishes this from a psychic reading. In a psychic reading, you have a psychic that interprets what they're seeing. Whereas here, what's really powerful is that the wisdom comes through your mouth. And, you know, for a lot of people, this is very surprising because they're not familiar with this kind of an experience. But if you've been meditating for a long time or you've had experiences where you've accessed guides or higher wisdom, then it will not be as foreign to you. But yes, the first part of the hypnosis portion, we we guide you into experiences either in this current life, past life, parallel lives, or future life. Wherever you're meant to go, you will go and experience. And we we are there as the guides. And this is what we're trained to do is to guide you into into those areas. And then once that experience is over, it's usually about 40 minutes to an hour, then we bring forth your higher self or your superconscious or your over soul, you know, or as Dolores called it, the subconscious. And when that comes through, we're able to ask your questions that you brought with you and dig deeper. And in that, in that portion, we often find that the client's voice changes. In fact, it often, when they're deep in hypnosis, their voice changes from lifetime to lifetime. So if they're seeing multiple lifetimes, maybe they're seeing themselves as a farmer in the 1800s, somewhere in the Midwest, they will often put on that accent, they'll put on the persona because it's real to them in their experience. It's like a very vivid dream. And I've had people that have gone into past lives, I've had people go into their current life, but into the future or into the past. I've had people not even be bodies, I've had people be stars or seaweed or you know, be part of all that is, you know, part of source. And anything is possible. What I've learned in all these sessions that I've been doing, and from the experiences of my colleagues, is that anything and everything is possible. Whatever you're meant to see is and experience is what you'll get out of it. And every session is unique, every client is unique, and it's it's just extraordinary and it's hard to really explain in words. But essentially to answer your question, yeah, the the questions that we ask your higher self are in the second half of the hypnosis, usually the last hour of it, and before we bring you out of the hypnosis state.

Peter Kolakovic 34:23

Okay,

Handling Intense Past Life Scenes

Peter Kolakovic 34:24

interesting. So, you know, you were talking about exploring past lives and even future lives. I imagine from time to time that, you know, perhaps memories from past lives come up that may feel very heavy or distressing. Uh, and I'm wondering how do you help a client to process those memories?

Ali Christos 34:49

That's a very good question, Peter. I've had situations where people go into a past life and they're being burned at the stake, or they're being hung, or they're being crucified, or they're being stabbed. All kinds of scenarios where it's it's horrific if you if you can imagine. But what's beautiful is as the guide, we're able to nudge them to to be able to be observers rather than experience it. So I remember in one of the trainings we were doing in the higher levels, they had a person on stage who started to scream and was in was experiencing all the pain and a discomfort of being burned alive. And the practitioner had to respond to that. And it's a rare situation where it will be that extreme, but they had to demonstrate it for us because it can happen that you see a past life and you go right into, or you're you at some point experience uh a death experience that is quote unquote uncomfortable. So we we have ways of making sure that you experience it without actually feeling any of the discomfort. And it's actually important not to take the client out of that experience because there's a reason that the higher self wants them to see that scene. There's a reason that the higher self wants them to re-experience that particular scene. And so it would be a disservice to them if we were to just pull them out of it. And again, I'll preface this that it's it's completely safe. You know, it's uh we make sure we set up protection before, spiritual protection before you go into the session. And even when we bring you out of it, we make sure that there's no residues, if you will, left from previous lifetimes that that you got to experience in the session. I can give you a great example of where something actually went wrong. Yeah, please can. This this is one of Dolores' examples that she gave us that when she was first developing the session, it it was not something that she started off doing as bringing in the higher self. She started out doing traditional hypnosis. And when she was doing traditional hypnosis, she found that people were almost spontaneously going into regressing back into past lives. And, you know, she was not one to believe in past lives prior to this. And then she found after years of doing that, that they were able to bring in a higher consciousness that she dubbed as a subconscious, which we call the higher self or the oversoul. And it's was able to answer questions very deeply and profoundly, not just for the client, but also for Dolores as a practitioner. And what she found was that even when she went to other clients, the conversation where it ended with her from the subconscious continued with another client. So it's it was accessing a part of us as imagine we're as a collective consciousness, we're all connected at some level. And there's a that part of us that is always with us, always aware, always conscious of what is best for us. And we're able to access that through different people at in different sessions. So in this particular session where Dolores was still developing QHHT, there was a woman that was had an experience of being hung to death. And when she came out of the session, she went to the restroom and and and gasped because what what she saw was a rope mark on the left side of her neck. And so she called Dolores, and Dolores was surprised to see that because at that point she had not developed certain protections that were needed. She was still developing the technique. And so she called her son, who was waiting in the waiting room downstairs, and she's she called him up and said, Hey, what do you see? And he says, It looks like a rope burn on her neck. And Dolores is like freaking out, but you know, the client even more so. And then Dolores had to basically talk to this woman's body and her neck until that the signs of that rope burn went away. And since that time, she developed techniques to make sure that that doesn't happen again because the client's safety is is a priority. And so now, before we bring a client into the hypnosis session, we we set up protection for them and we have a very specific way of doing that. And then when we bring them out, we make sure that none of the entities or the memories that they experience are going to affect them in any negative way. And so that's something that has also been developed by Dolores over decades of experience and with thousands and thousands of clients. And so that's how we ensure the client's safety. And now to answer your the part where you were saying, how do I prepare?

Peter Kolakovic 40:10

Yeah.

Ali Christos 40:11

Well, partly I I've been preparing my whole life and perhaps many lifetimes, but more specifically for this particular sessions, how I prepare is I in the beginning I would I would fast, but I I find that it's not necessary anymore because when I was fasting, I was able to channel alongside my client as they were experiencing things. I would also view things and feel things and be able to interpret them in a psychic way. And now I make sure that I don't have a heavy meal. I make sure the client doesn't have a heavy meal. They are supposed to dress very comfortably. Some people even come in their PJs, it's completely normal. And yes, we don't do this on a couch. We do the hypnosis portion ideally on a bed because we want the client as relaxed as possible, not so relaxed that they'll fall asleep, but relaxed enough to let their conscious mind take the back seat and let their subconscious take over. And so trust is super important. Being able to relax is super important, and being present and creating that space is very, very important. So, as part of the preparation, I do many other things as well. I for not all practitioners do this, but for me, I set the space so that it feels sacred. Because for me, every client that comes in, it's a sacred experience. They're taking time out of their busy day, their life to have this session. And I understand that the session can have dramatic positive impacts on their life. So I want to make sure that they get the most out of it. And to that end, you know, if I need, if I feel called to it, I will, you know, light some incense, I will play some ohm chants, you know, just to cleanse the energy and prepare the space and myself for the session. And then during the session, I make sure that, you know, we're not disturbed. There's no I try to have the sessions at my home because I know that I can control the environment here and the bathroom is accessible for me and the client should we need it. I also have plenty of snacks because it could be a long session. But believe it or not, Peter, I've had sessions in a car and they've been successful.

Peter Kolakovic 42:29

Oh, wow.

Ali Christos 42:30

Interesting. In in the parking lot of no frills of all places. Wow. Okay. And it was this gentleman's first time ever being hypnotized, but hey, it worked. And the reason I tried it was because another practitioner led me onto it. She said she had a great experience. She was hypnotized in a car. At first I gasped. I said, Is that even allowed? Can you do that? Does it work? And she goes, I had this incredible spiritual experience. And yes, you know, like you it works. A lot of it depends on our intentions, right? And the intention of the client. The client, most clients that come in, they have a very strong yearning for fixing something in their life, either a repeating pattern that they don't want that no longer serves them, or an illness, or a relationship, or something going on in their life that they want to be unstuck or or to be able to fix. And so the intentionality of things is super, super important because it will bring about a hypnosis session that is deeper, more profound, and ultimately give them the answers that they're looking for and more if it's done in the right way. So I hope that answers your question.

Peter Kolakovic 43:45

Oh, it certainly has. So

Karma As Repeating Emotional Patterns

Peter Kolakovic 43:49

yeah, there was a lot in that answer that I'd like to dive into. I'm just wondering like before before clients get into these sessions. You know, you you've got this this unhealed trauma, or I guess in some in some uh traditions they would call that, you know, karma from from past lives. So how does how does that unhealed, let's call them karmic ties from previous lifetimes, how do they typically manifest in a person's current daily struggles?

Ali Christos 44:26

Yeah, very good question, very important one too. How does karma karmic ties manifest? So usually I explain karmic ties very carefully and practically, especially because the word karma can sound overly mystical or you know, fatalistic. And at its core, karmic ties are unresolved emotional, energetic, or relational patterns that continue repeating until they're understood, healed, or consciously changed. So whether someone views that spiritually or psychologically or symbolically, the manifestation often looks very similar. So people tend to notice recurring patterns such as attracting the same type of relationships repeatedly, cycles of abandonment or betrayal, intense emotional triggers around certain people, unexplained fears, deep guilt or responsibility, control dynamics, recurring conflict, or feeling unusually pulled towards someone immediately or something. So sometimes clients describe meeting someone and feeling I've known this person forever, or this connection feels unusually heavy or familiar. So in regression work, those dynamics are sometimes linked to unresolved experiences, emotional contracts, or unfinished lessons from other lifetimes. But even psychologically, we already understand that unresolved emotional wounds repeat themselves across time until consciously addressed. So for example, someone who's been abandoned emotionally in childhood, they may repeatedly attract emotionally unavailable partners. Someone who felt powerless may unconsciously recreate control struggles. Someone carrying guilt may continuously over-sacrifice themselves for others. So whether we call it karma, subconscious conditioning, attachment patterns, emotional imprinting, or soul memory, the pattern itself is real. So one thing I emphasize is karma is not a punishment. Many people think karma means, oh, you did something bad, now you suffer. But in my experience, karmic patterns are usually more about balance, learning, awareness, and emotional evolution. The subconscious often seems less interested in blame and more interested in understanding. So the goal is not becoming trapped in old stories forever. The goal is becoming conscious enough to stop unconsciously repeating them. And interestingly, once someone truly understands the emotional root of a pattern, the intensity of the karmic cycle often begins dissolving naturally and many times instantly.

Peter Kolakovic 47:41

Okay,

Client Stories And Unexpected Breakthroughs

Peter Kolakovic 47:42

very interesting. So I'm wondering naturally, you know, you you work with clients and and you know, as uh as a responsible practitioner, obviously you have to maintain client confidentiality. But I am wondering if there are, you know, anecdotes that you can share from your your practice of you know, let's say some of the more profound or unexpected sessions or things that a client has has said to you. Are are you able to share any of those?

Ali Christos 48:16

I can. Many of the clients that I see give me permission to share their sessions. In fact, I have many of my sessions on YouTube.

Peter Kolakovic 48:24

Oh, interesting.

Ali Christos 48:25

Um, and I'm very grateful to these clients because for my benefit, but also on you know, for the benefit of humanity, we were able to put those out there for the public to see. And it it helps to dissolve a lot of the myths and misunderstandings that people may have around this type of work. So to answer your question more specifically, I've had a couple of sessions that have been really, really outstanding. One of them, I had a lady that she was in her 60s and a little bit overweight. And after, you know, the healing portion of the hypnosis session, she went from lying on her back to lying on her side. And at the end of the session, she was in tears. And I asked her what happened. Are you okay? And she says, I can lie on on my side. I said, Yeah, what's the big deal? I see that. And she's like, No, you don't understand. I haven't been able to lie on my side for a long time. I said, How long? She says, Over a decade. Wow. And this she said, this is the first time I've been able to lie on my back. And she was on on her side, sorry. She's was on her side for a good half an hour, and she couldn't even do that for a minute before. And so this was one of the most immediate results that she experienced. And the second most prominent thing that came up was she realized in in the debrief part of uh at the end, she told me, she says, you know what? I just realized something. I said, What? She says, I realize why, because she she started to date again, she's in her 60s and she's single, and she's always been she's she has a very mixed uh race family, and so she's not racist or anything, but she was surprised that for whatever reason she was swiping left on all the Chinese men, and she didn't know why. She didn't know why, and and she's had this kind of aversion to China and Chinese, although she's very embracing of all other cultures. But what was interesting, Peter, was that the past life that the subconscious took her to was in China in the 1500s. She was 12 years old, she was made to go into a brothel/slash temple at the age of 12 as a young girl, and all these adults there she knew were gonna defile her. And she she experienced knowing that that happened to her. And then when we fast forwarded in that life to other important days, we saw that she was running away with four children, one of whom were her own, and the other three she adopted, and she was saving them from the same fate. And she went through this lifetime just trying to make sure that no one else, no other children, experienced what she experienced. And then when the higher self explained in the session why they showed her that, and that, you know, she was able to find healing with and understanding that okay, why she was so averse to China and Chinese culture and Chinese men, and because of that experience, she was able to find answers that resulted in her healing, and she was able to let go of that aversion.

Peter Kolakovic 51:51

Wow. That's fascinating. I'm I'm wondering now if she's found herself a Chinese partner.

Ali Christos 51:58

May well have. It's Toronto, so you know there's no shortage of great Chinese men.

Peter Kolakovic 52:05

It's a very, very multicultural city.

Ali Christos 52:08

Yeah, so that's just one example. Another example that I want to share with you and and your guests, your listeners, is I had this young lady who lost her parents a few years back, and she's been carrying a lot of guilt with her. This was not her first session. She's had sessions by others, but she came highly recommended by her sister, who is a practitioner, but she's watched my videos and said, Hey, you have to see Ali. He's really, really good. And so I was very honored to go and give her her, I think it was her fourth session. And she warned me. She said, she said, during the hypnosis portion, I will belch. And that's how you'll know that I'm getting my answers and my healing. And I said, Hey, as long as you're not farting, I'm I'm okay with that. But jokes aside, uh, she ended up burping maybe like 40, 50 times during a session. And it was a profound healing that, you know, session for her in many, many ways. All the questions she had were answered. What's even more incredible is that uh she got to have a conversation with her parents, their souls. Her mom came through, her father came through, and she cried like a baby. My God. And it was so emotional, Peter, that I was crying because at that time I was still starting out in my practice, and I hadn't experienced something so touching as this. And, you know, the to lose your parents at a young age, and then to be able to feel you're responsible in some way for their death. So I didn't realize that until she started talking to them and communicating to them. And then they had a message for her. And only when she felt complete, we we moved on. And that portion of the of the hypnosis alone was so, so healing for her. And, you know, I I felt it, she felt it, and she also said afterwards that she's so, so grateful. And, you know, we're I I talk to her on a regular basis. Many of my clients I stay in touch with because, as you can imagine, the things that come up are so moving and so profound and oftentimes very dramatic that it's hard for anyone else to understand what they've experienced. But having gone through that experience with them, it creates a special bond. You know, so I'm very, very honored that I had that experience and that she gave me that trust and that that that happened.

Peter Kolakovic 54:44

Fascinating stories. Thank you for for sharing those, Ellie. And and thank you also for mentioning that some of your sessions are on YouTube. We'll we'll put a link in the show notes to to your website and all and also to your YouTube so that you know, if listeners are curious and want to see, you know, what one of these sessions actually looks like, then they can explore your YouTube page and and watch those videos. So

Integration After The Session Ends

Peter Kolakovic 55:11

we're we're coming to the end of our conversation, but I don't want to skip over integration because I know that's an important part of the process, and and you've already alluded to it. But what does the integration process look like following a QHHT session?

Ali Christos 55:27

Well, one of the biggest misconceptions about quantum hypnosis or regression work is that the transformation only happens during the session itself. Whereas in reality, the session is often the beginning. So we kind of say that it's like an onion and different layers start to peel off from the time that the session starts and continues onwards for days after. Sometimes you'll see things in your dreams, but the integration afterwards is where the deeper changes actually unfold. I I explain integration like this. During the session, the subconscious opens a door. After the session, your mind, emotions, nervous system, and daily life begin recognizing, reorganizing around what was experienced. That's why many clients feel unusually sensitive, emotional, reflective, peaceful, or even mentally different for several days afterwards. So this is very normal. But the first 72 hours are often very powerful. The first few days after a session can be surprisingly important. So clients often report vivid dreams, emotional releases, sudden clarity, fatigue, increased intuition, unexpected memories surfacing, or noticing patterns they never recognize before. So sometimes the subconscious continues processing long after the formal session ends. So I like to tell people don't rush back into chaos immediately after, if possible. So give yourself space to reflect. So integration is about embodiment and it's not just insight, right? So a person can have profound spiritual insights during a session, but if nothing changes in daily life, the transformation stays intellectual. So real integration asks what patterns am I now aware of? What boundaries need to change? What behaviors no longer align? Where am I abandoning myself? Or what truth am I now avoiding less? So the session creates awareness. Integration turns awareness into a lived reality. So listening to the recording is one extremely important part that we encourage. I strongly encourage clients to revisit their session recording multiple times. Why? Because during trance, people often don't fully absorb everything consciously. But when they listen later, they suddenly hear emotional truths, subconscious language, patterns, insights, or guidance they completely missed during the session itself. So it's very common for clients to say, Oh, I don't remember saying that. The recording becomes part of the continued healing process. And then there's an emotional detox that can happen too. So not all integration feels blissful. Sometimes unresolved emotions surface afterwards because the subconscious is finally allowing them to move. So a person may temporarily feel emotional or raw, tired, reflective, or more aware of like unhealthy dynamics in their life. So that doesn't necessarily mean something went wrong. Sometimes it means something real was finally acknowledged. And healing is not always like immediate euphoria. Sometimes it's just increased honesty. So the nervous system needs time to catch up. So one of the things I've learned is that insights can happen instantly, but the embodiment, it takes time. So a person may intellectually realize I deserve peace, I deserve love, or I don't need to stay in survival mode, or I've been repeating this pattern for years. But the body and the nervous system may still need weeks or even months to fully adjust to that realization. That's why gentleness matters afterwards. Gentleness with yourself, compassion with yourself. So some practical integration matters more than the spiritual highs. Because that's essentially what you're experiencing in the session, is a very spiritual high. And so I always tell clients the goal isn't becoming addicted to mystical experiences. The goal is becoming more grounded, authentic, emotionally free, and aligned in your ordinary day-to-day life. So true integration often looks very practical. It can mean healthier boundaries, calmer reactions, more self-trust, less self-abandonment, improved relationships, better emotional regulation, or finally making decisions that they were afraid to make before. So the most powerful sessions, Peter, are not always the most dramatic. They're the ones that quietly change how someone lives afterwards. My favorite definition of integration is that integration is when the wisdom from the session stops being a memory and starts becoming the way you actually live.

Peter Kolakovic 1:01:01

Beautiful. Ali, this has been such a fascinating conversation for me as someone who had, as I said earlier, no prior knowledge, no prior experience with QHHT. I'm genuinely curious now to uh maybe try a session one day. I do have one last question for you, though, before we wrap things up.

Living Your Best Life As Alignment

Peter Kolakovic 1:01:25

The theme of this podcast is living our best lives. I'd like to get your perspective on what that means to you.

Ali Christos 1:01:36

To me, living your best life is not about constant happiness, luxury, or status or performing success for other people. It's about alignment. Alignment with who you truly are, how you live, what you value, and the life you're actually creating day to day. A lot of people spend years living according to survival patterns, social expectations, fear, or the need for approval. They become disconnected from themselves, trying to become who they think they're supposed to be. I know because I was that person. So for me, living your best life means slowly removing those layers. It means being honest with yourself, trusting your intuition more, abandoning yourself less, creating peace internally and living in a way that feels authentic rather than performative. So it doesn't mean perfection. You can still have anxiety. I know I often get it. You can still have challenges. I know I have much of those. You can still be growing. We're all growing all the time. I'm growing every day, every moment. But there's a difference between struggling while connected to yourself versus struggling while completely disconnected from yourself. I think a meaningful life is less about chasing endless external achievements and more about emotional freedom, inner peace, meaningful relationships, purpose, presence, creativity, love, and authenticity. Ironically, many people discover their quote-unquote best life not by adding more to themselves, but by releasing, releasing fear, releasing guilt, releasing shame, releasing constant comparison and the pressure to constantly perform. And honestly, one of the biggest signs someone is living more authentically is simplicity. And that's one of my favorite words these days: simplicity. They stop trying so hard to impress everyone. They become more comfortable being themselves. Their nervous system softens, they feel more present, more real. And as I'm saying this to you and the listeners listening to this, I'm saying it to myself. To me, that's success. Not becoming someone else, but finally feeling safe enough to fully become yourself.

Peter Kolakovic 1:04:24

Ali Christos, thank you again for joining me on this episode of My Best Life. This has been a really insightful conversation. Again, I've learned so much, and I really appreciate you sharing your time and your perspectives. Thank you for having me, and thank you to the listeners for listening.