Illuminated Mind® w/ Matthew J. Brownstein #46

Hello everyone. Welcome to the illuminated mind podcast with me. Matthew Brownstein, I’m the founder of the Institute of interpersonal hypnotherapy, and I’m really pleased to be with a very special guest, Miss Alba Weinman, I was a graduate of our school from we were just talking about 2017 2018 or so. You’re a rock star on social media, leading events and seeing clients and doing profound things in the field. So first of all, welcome to the illuminated mind podcast. Alba. Thank you for inviting me. Thank you. It’s a pleasure to have you here. Tell us about you, your background and just who you are, what you’re all about.
Ooh, well, I’m I’m in my 60s now, so that’s a lot of information, but to go back, I guess, to the beginning. I was born in Cuba. I came here as a refugee. I guess political asylum is what we came here with. Back in 1960 I grew up in New Jersey and didn’t have much, much idea, many ideas of what I was going to do. So I fell into the world of telecommunications eventually, after I moved to Miami, and I had felt that I had hit the jackpot of life. It was the most exciting career for me. I loved every minute of it. And I think every job you should find the best in it. But during those times we’re talking about the the 80s, spirituality was not something you spoke about. And I happened to stumble upon somebody invited me to a transcendental meditation meeting. I was a business woman at that time. I wanted nothing to do with it, honestly. And I went to one session, and they taught us how to meditate by using a sound, right? It didn’t work. I felt that my neck was being twisted all over the place, and I felt like something had taken over my body. And I looked at everybody else, they were very calm, and I said this, this is not what I thought meditation was all about. But I had been reading some books by Ruth Montgomery. At the time, Ruth Montgomery was doing automatic writing, and there wasn’t much out there at that time. So I said, you know, now that I’ve learned this technique of this meditation, why don’t I just sit down and try to do it, but with a pen and pad in my in my lap, and immediately I started writing. My father came through, and this was in 1988 my father had died nine years before, and that changed my whole world. That opened up a new world for me, because my father was actually communicating with me about what was it like to die. How he remembered everything that was going on in his life, you know, around us, in, you know, the hospital, and what it felt to cross over. And this was amazing for me, and he was teaching me things from the other side. After a while, he said, You know, I can’t talk to you anymore. I have to go to school now, which was a really strange What do you mean? You have to go to school? You’re dead. And he says, No, we have school here. That was the first time I had heard of that. And he said, I’m going to pass you over to another guide who will continue with your with your studies. And so the years went by when I was learning more and more through automatic writing that became my connection to the other side, and in that one of the teachers that came through was a very highly evolved teacher, and he said to me, I’m going to be teaching you about things that People don’t know about. And I said, Well, who are you? Says, just call me teacher. So he was teaching me how to manifest. And at that time, I mean, we’re talking the early 90s, or through the 90s, he was teaching me how to think something and write it down and and it was manifesting. I couldn’t believe it. It was, and there was no such thing as the secret and things like that out, right, right? So that was my basis of my education. So I wanted, I was trying to, I was trying to learn more, but at the same time, I was also helping other people wherever I worked, so they would come to me with a problem, and I would immediately just come up with answers for them. It was almost like the answers were coming through me. Why don’t you try this? It was almost like I was doing the automatic writing with my voice. Does
that make sense? Oh, yeah, no, I get it. Sure. And
one guy. I once said, you know, you should just be a coach, because you’re so good at this, why don’t you do like life coaching? And I took the leap of faith. I went into a coaching program. But that happened to be the year where everything collapsed, you know, this is like 2008 Yeah. And that was the wrong time to start a new a new self, self business, okay, yeah. And during the writings I was I got this one writing which totally blew my mind. It said you are going to be doing your your name is going to be known all around the world, and
you’re going to be doing this work face to face. And my response was, you’re on crack. You know, this is
I’m no Tony Robbins, this is not going to happen. And this is in 2007 so I couldn’t imagine how my name would be a household. You know, it was, it was crazy. So just two years later, my whole world fell apart. My son was accused of something he did not do. He was, it was a witch hunt. It was, it was international news. He was arrested for for something he didn’t do. I lost everything, and I I went through the whole ordeal of of this nightmare, losing my house, losing my my savings, everything, almost almost losing myself. Because how can something like this happen if I had learned to manifest?
Yeah? Sure you know what I mean. Yeah, I totally know what you mean.
And the worst thing about it is that when the police came to do a search on my house, they took all of my automatic writing, yeah, so which were my journals, too, and it, it hurt. It hurt to my soul. It was like, This is worse than anything, because you have actually stolen, you know, my, my, my own, everything that I have inside and I kept I was very upset. How could you do this to me? You know, these people are reading my personal journals, my personal thoughts, my my fears. And they kept saying, Keep writing. Whoever’s reading them, they’re meant to read them. And, you know, I’m fighting with them. How can God allow this? You know, this is horrible, and this went on for 17 months where this, you know, this whole ordeal, until finally, everything just fell apart one day and everything was back to normal. It’s like it never even happened, the weirdest thing. But of course, I was already ripped apart, and I had been hospitalized twice already for this, because the stress was horrible. And I got the journals. I got copies of the journals because I didn’t know what was in them, yeah, and I started reading them, and I said, wow, these are really good. They’re not that personal, really, and they are good. And of course, I could hear the guides cheering. We told you. You know, these are important. So at that time, I had a mailing list that I would send out every morning, like at six o’clock in the morning, I would send out an inspiring quote and an affirmation to 1000s of people, random people that I didn’t know, but I had this long mailing list. And even throughout the whole ordeal, those those inspiring quotes kept going out. And one day, I decided, You know what, I’m going to put one of these things that one of these writings, I’m going to put it out and see how they react to it. I got so many requests to be put on that mailing list to read those journals, and I realized it was true, those were meant for the world to read. And I tell you this story because I would not be doing what I do now unless that had happened. Yeah, it was perfectly orchestrated, because I realized that what happens to one person is not just you alone. It happens to everybody. Yeah, we all have the same emotions. We all have the same fears. And when I was putting my fears down on paper and they were writing back those, it was universal, sure. So after. I got everything back. He was exonerated. I had all of this anger inside of me, and I knew that I would get cancer or something, had I if I didn’t get it now, so I started kickboxing, and I became really strong and best shape of my life, and I was in my I was in my middle 50s at that time, and suddenly I started getting hurt. Things started breaking on me, like, like, how does that happen? Well, it was all to settle me down, and I found Dolores Cannon, and I realized that she was getting into the people’s soul, and that’s that was my next step from coaching to get deep inside of their soul. And I signed up for her class. I started doing the hypnosis right away. I loved it. But what happens is that my colleague, Antonio sangio was watching somebody else online, our Mejia, who’s a hypnotherapist from Colombia, in Spanish, we were watching this, and I started doing some of his techniques and and so all of a sudden I started finding entities and and things that weren’t part of Dolores, cannons technique. Well, it got to the point where Antonio pushed me to put it online. He says, you know, there’s audio, has 1000s of videos in Spanish, but there’s nobody who has it in English. Why don’t you put your stuff online? And I, you know, I like to give credit to where credit is due. I always give out people’s names, because that’s how I am. So I realized that I could not study under Aurelio Mejia because I was no longer doing Dolores Cannon’s work. And if I was going to put out the work that I was doing with AUDU Mejia, the laws in Florida would bite me, yeah, because we were doing therapy now, right? So that’s when I found your school, and I said, Okay, we’re this is getting serious. Now. We’re really getting into therapy. So I need all the tools. I need to have the papers, I need to have the tools. And so I took your class, yeah, and, of course, now, now I had so many other tools, plus my own tools that I kind of found along the way too. So that’s how I got to be to your school. Was all of this craziness, and yeah, so now I’m here
in search hard to sum up 60 years. If somebody asked me that question, I’d sum it up in what, 10 plus minutes. Yeah, that would be challenging. So good job. Sorry to hear about the what happened with your son. It had to happen. Yeah, the blessing that came out of it. So your journals, you got to read your own journals and realize there’s some good stuff in here. So yeah, one of my questions for you is going to be what led you to hypnotherapy, but I think we got that. And what I’ve noticed is when people come to our school who have been through QHHT, Dolores, cannabis type of work, they realize that stuff’s great, it’s so deep, it’s profound, but it’s not a comprehensive hypnotherapy training. It doesn’t give you every tool you would need to deal with whatever could come up. But yeah, people quite often come to the school and they say, Yeah, I want to do what Alba Weinman does. And yeah, there’s the deep stuff. And of course, you know, we go quite deep as well. But then there’s also the comprehensive nature of it. So tell me about what are some of the most profound aspects of the work we were talking before we started about, well, Bigfoot, first of all, which was fun talking about Sasquatch, but we’re also, I was going to ask you about the movement into the light, the higher spirituality, working with higher self. And you said, you know, I tend to attract a lot of trauma as well now, so I’d like you to go wherever you want to go, whether it’s into the heart, the wounds that we can clear, or tapping into higher self and or, you know, both.
Well, I think that what you focus on is what you attract. Yeah, so, I mean, that’s, that’s what it is. So when I was doing the more of the QHHT work, I was attracting a lot of people who were more into the spiritual aspect, actually, pretty crazy stuff. You know, other planets, other beings, I still attract those, but it was more concentrated on that as I learned more tools, then I started to attract people who had so much trauma from this life. And what I realized Matthew is. Yes, if you’re a light worker, which it seems a lot of people are okay. Some are awake, some are not awake. But if you’re if you’re a light worker, where are the where would you put a light you’d put it in the darkest of places, right? And so it seems that a lot of the Light Workers have picked the hardest boot camps to prepare them for this life. Perhaps they didn’t have as much experience on Earth and wanted to get a lot of stuff done, or they wanted to really help the people that they were being born into, you know the families, they wanted to help them and felt that their light would change, change them. Unfortunately, that didn’t work many times. But so now I’m realizing that in order for you to really do the work that you came here to do, which was to spread your light to to be a loving person and to really change the vibration of the earth, you have to get through all of this trauma that was inflicted on you since you were a baby, or since the womb actually, sure, sure. So I’m doing a lot of work now, from within the womb, there’s a lot of damage just by how the parents talk about the baby, their their fears. You know, should we keep it or not? Can we afford this kid? I don’t know if it’s a good time in my career to have a baby, and here’s the little baby going so that, and then, of course, just, you know, we’re sensitive beings, and just one word can just harm you, yes, whether it be at home or at school, or the bullies. So if we can get through all of that and and face it and and and see it from a different perspective, which is what is done in, you know, during the hypnosis session, you see the world differently. And then, okay, I went through, just like I told you, the experience of of what I went through with my son while I was in it, it was the most horrific time of my life, but now I could talk about it and see the blessings, yes, and that’s what a hypnotherapy session should be all about, is about seeing it from a different perspective, so that you could say, Okay, That was an experience that made me stronger. I’m not that person anymore. This is how I choose to move on with my life.
Beautiful, yeah, if it’s not a blessing, then what’s this hypnotherapy session is offering a blessing? What is it doing? Brian? Let me find it refreshing that you’re talking about looking at the dark side, looking at the shadow of self, going to subconscious, healing the wounds, looking for where the trauma is. Because I know a lot of people are drawn to and we refer people to through the school, as you know, you did become quite a household name. It’s like, oh, go check out what Alba lineman is doing. And I usually say, you know, go to her for that real deep spiritual stuff. And I know they can’t, and that’s why it’s very refreshing to hear about. I like the model. The closer you get to the light, the more you see your shadow. So when people come to us saying, I want Self Realization, I want to light them in or they don’t always use those words, but they’re definitely asking for happiness in life, to have a blessed life, to be successful, to manifest what they want out of life. And then what do we do? When we really understand we say, well, let’s look at what’s blocking that like, of course, miracles, as you talked about, there’s always another way to see things which hypnotherapy offers, but it talks about, we can’t show you what love is. We can’t teach you what that is. We can only help you to remove the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence. And it sounds like there’s a lot of what you’re I want to say realizing, because I’m sure you’ve known for quite a while. It’s like, if you don’t clear what’s in the heart, you can talk about ETs and aliens and other planets all day, but the problem actually isn’t there. So it’s beautiful to hear about that. What is your experience of bringing spirituality into the work, though, when it comes to going into those deeper realms?
I mean, that’s all it is. I mean, I don’t do anything that’s not spiritual when I first, when I first started to learn hypnosis, I made a request. You know, I had a prayer, very strong prayer, prayer, and I said, I make me an instrument of God. That was my prayer. Make me an instrument of God, so that whenever I’m with a client, make those be God’s words. That’s how I feel. Whatever you feel God is, but that’s how I felt. It’s whatever I do. Make it be from the deepest sense of love, and that’s why I think. When people watch my videos, or actually listen to my videos, because there’s nothing to watch except talking, but when they listen to my videos, I think that’s what carries them through, is the authentic love that I have as I’m taking it through even even in the moments of, you know, dealing with a misbehaving entity or something like that. It’s still done almost like a loving parent, you know, helping them out. You know, you it’s like with children. You argue with a little bit, but you still love them and you want the best for them. So I think that just setting an example for how you treat clients is really important, yeah? And so, yeah, I think that’s what’s the most important. Is the fact that I’m doing it from the core of it is it’s it’s spiritual, it’s love based. And how can you not feel better when you’ve spent, you know, almost two hours, you know, just being, basking in, in love. Yes,
for sure. I know, when I got into the profession, it was a similar theme where spirit was saying, you’re going to be hypnotherapy, like, No, I’m going to be a doctor of oriental medicine. I’ve been through two Chinese medical schools. I’ve dedicated my life to that field, and yet I’m getting a totally different message. But I needed to do this work, because I needed every moment of my life to be based on a deep spirituality, not just treating symptoms or the body level, the energy level, but really getting into someone’s soul. I want to go into a topic that you said, I think would be great for anybody who’s listening. You felt that spirit or the voice that was guiding you with your automatic writing was basically telling you what you’re going to do in your life’s work. And you’re saying, God, make me an instrument in your hands. I’d like us to go into the topic of Dharma purpose in life, because I know for me, founding Anahata Education Group and the school and the association and my publishing company, and writing the books I have all of that came from being in meditation and hearing that inner guiding voice saying, Go write this. Go do this. Time to go do that. Really, that’s a lot of work. It’s intimidating. How’s that gonna happen? Like, really? And then I just do it. And like you said, Hey, if you’re a master manifester, why do challenging things happen? I can empathize with what you’re saying there. It’s like, really, this is not always an easy path to walk, but my experience is the it’s the only path to walk. Either you’re an instrument of divine love or you’re not right, and, of course, a miracle that’s either fear or love. It’s either you’re in your ego or you’re coming from spirit. So what if you could elaborate on, maybe, how people can tap into that guidance to know what their life’s purpose is, why it’s so important to come from that space?
Well, I think you have to follow your, your your greatest passion, yeah, and follow that, that that’s the the you know, in the solar plexus, in the heart, you know, that area you’re going to feel drawn to something. And I think as children, we all do it. We all are passionate about something. It could be Legos or it could be drawing, but we’re passionate about something, and when we’re trying so many different things, but something keeps drawing us back to that, you know. And so when you follow your heart, I think it just opens doors for you, and that’s how you follow. That’s how you find your purpose. And people think purpose is something that you do. I don’t think purpose has anything to do with what your job is or anything. I think it’s how you how you express yourself through something your love, through something. When you see somebody, for example, somebody carving wood, and they’re totally into it. And you go, like, how can they, how can they carve that wood? Like butter? It’s like, if I did it, I’d cut myself. And they have so much passion and vision in it, they’re bringing out something from that wood. Yeah, and when we’re following our our purpose, you’re drawing out from anything that you do something beautiful, nice. You could be a car mechanic, and all of a sudden you go like, how is it that you just do this work so perfectly? And they’re like, you know, I just love what I do. Yeah, yeah, beautiful. That’s what it is. It’s not about the job. It’s about expressing your passion through something. Yes,
does that? Does that mean? Yeah, absolutely. When I use the word dharma, people often say, Oh, you mean my career like, no, that’s not actually what the word means. If in that word lots of levels of meaning, yet, to me, one way to look at that word is what. The most harmonious thing in any moment, right? There’s another word in Sanskrit, Niyati, which is similar to dharma, and it means like, what is the rule or the law of a thing? Like, what is the Niyati of a cloud? Right? Well, it’s like the mentoring. But it’s not its or not only that, right? But it’s that’s it. That is job. It’s just what it’s being is harmoniously being. If a cloud tries to be a tree, it’s not going to be a very good tree. But it doesn’t mean like it’s your job. It’s just, what are you doing at every moment? I think, when you really found your calling, there’s no such thing as a job. There’s you said you’re 60, you’re still doing the work. There’s for me, I’ve kind of played the word retirement. I’m like the great saints and sages retired, Bucha and bodhisattvas retired. Do you ever stop doing your dharma? Do you ever stop doing your passion and your love? And like A Course in Miracles says we teach all the time, it’s just a question, what are you teaching? You’re either teaching fear or you’re teaching love. And when do you stop teaching love? You never stop teaching love. You said about your father he was in school. I’ve done a lot of astral projection work and read all the lot of the books. And yeah, when you’re out of your body quite often, they’re like, Okay, now you’re in school as well. You’re not just flying around the universe. You’re always growing and learning. So I think, yeah, we’re all each other’s teachers and whatnot. So it’s beautiful to hear that perspective on it. What are you up to these days? Are you doing? Still doing workshops? I know you have your physical place there in the kenopy So tell us. Yeah, I’ve got
my I’ve got crystal bowls. Now I I started using tuning forks in my session several years ago, because, well, let me tell you how silly it started with, I started using an induction which, which, I can’t remember who it was. It’s the one who talks the smoker. I can’t remember his face. I don’t know if it was Dave Elman or I can’t remember which one it was. It’s the one that smokes all the time, and he was doing an induction where he was he’d say, I’m going to, I’m going to puff this cigarette in your face. The first time you know, you’ll be alert and focus. The second time I Puff the cigarette, your eyes will begin to get ironed and the third time, your eyes will close down shut and you won’t be able to open them. You know, it was a very simple introduction. How cool. Let me try that. But I’m not going to, of course, use a cigarette, because I don’t smoke. But why don’t I use a sound? And so I just took a glass and I started, you know, just doing the sound. And I said, No, I need something else. I need, I need something that makes more sound. So I bought a little, a little tiny Bell and and then I said, I need something else. Yeah. And then I went into tuning forks. And I went, This is it. And I started just using tuning forks in the session. It all started with that one little, tiny, I mean, that’s not a full induction, that’s just, that’s just the beginning of doing something. But I started using tuning forks. I realized that when I did, I asked them to, you know, either fill their heart with love or whatever, that if I used a vibration, it would help it. It would just amplify it. Because, first of all, my voice is one vibration which is already putting them into a state, and then the tuning forks. And then, of course, I have to continue upping my game. And now I’ve got crystal bowls, I have Tibetan bowls, I’ve got gongs. And I’m doing sound baths also when the days I’m not not sound baths, but just one on ones on the days I don’t want to use my throat, I can do that. So I realized that sound and vibration was what I wanted to do more and incorporate that into all of my sessions. Yeah, and it works. It works great, but that’s how I got to do what I did is, is, that’s how I got to the tuning before, because that silly little and, you know, beginning of an induction that used something different. Because, you know, when you’re doing this work, you have to try all different types of inductions, you know, I mean, for every person, I try some, you know, well, I, at one point, I was trying a different induction almost every day to see which one worked for each person. And you know now I hardly need an induction, because you know that when, when you have a rapport with someone, right, just talking to them, they’re already going into a trance, sure, sure. So that helps, that helps me. Maybe other therapists don’t have that. Luxury. But for me,
yeah, now we teach at our school that the greater the rapport, the less need for technique, right? So if you have a good connection, you just encourage someone to do something, and they feel like, oh yes, I’ll do that. Do need anything more, really, so beautiful. So I hear you’ve definitely got into the sound component of things with the bowls and whatnot. Are you still doing workshops? I know I love. I want to talk about your social media presence as well, because I love how you have students all over the world. You can go to any country and basically tell your people, Hey, I’m going to be here. And you get clients. And when our school, which we’re happy to refer to you, because we do, and somebody says, Who can I come to for past life regression and this, I’m like, go to elbow, but then went up from somebody on my team and be like, yeah, no, she’s booked up for a month, so you can’t get in with her. So I definitely want to talk about your success in social media presence, for sure. But yeah, are you still doing workshops, or is it more local to where you are now? No,
no. In fact, I have one coming up next week. I’ll be flying to Phoenix. I like to do workshops. Because during the workshops, I actually do mini sessions, like mini like, like 10 minutes, because I’m able to go right to the core of what people are going through. And within seconds, you take them to the you know what’s what it is that’s happening. And they’ll, they’ll go through a past life, or I’ll find an entity or something within within seconds, you could find this, and then get a relief. It’s not like they’re getting a whole session, but I’ll bounce from one group to another and just help them out. So they get, they get a one on one with me, just for the whole day, and then I teach them different techniques, not hypnosis, but different things about manifestation. It’s really all about manifestation and how you you can change your life, doing some quantum jumping with them, going into the future, things like that. And then, of course, you know, you have the the required past life regression, group regression and things like that. But the workshops are fantastic because I get to actually meet people that I wouldn’t meet because they haven’t gotten a session with me. Sure, definitely, I get to spend the whole time Nice.
Yeah, the group work is beautiful. Our school has gotten largely online, especially since COVID, and I definitely missed, like back in the day, being in a classroom with 2025, 30 people, and there’s the hugs and the camaraderie. It’s a bit different now that we’re online, but also we get to reach a whole lot of people that way, and you’re doing both beautiful. So what’s this key to your success? You have 10s of 1000s of YouTube followers. You didn’t expect to be a big name in the field, but somehow you are. What are some key components?
It’s changed now, because social media has changed quite a bit in the last 10 years, when I got online, there was nobody doing this work. In fact, hypnotherapist were very secretive about what they did. They didn’t want to show people how they worked. And I think they I think there’s also a lot of fear of people judging them because you are being micromanaged by everybody who who is listening to you. And as I, you know, as I was putting stuff out there, I was, I was a novice. I didn’t I wasn’t good. I mean, the first few videos, I wasn’t that good. So people who are experienced are probably, you know, thinking, Oh, she’s, you know, she’s leading, or she’s whatever, you know that was a little rough, or because you’re learning, but nobody had seen that before, and and I, I was a very, very self conscious about being on camera. I did not want to be on camera. I had had a hobby since I was 13 years old that I was always behind a movie camera. Since I was 13, I was always behind the movie camera. I was the one who photographed, who videotaped, I can’t say video. There were no videos we did. We did movies. They were, yeah, okay, this is in the 70s, and I was always behind the camera. So to be in front of the camera was just terrifying to me, because I was always the cameraman. And so I decided that I was going to when I did a video, I would show the audience exactly what I saw, so I would actually put the camera like right by my shoulder so they could see that. And I never had an introduction or anything. I never explained what was happening to me. It was like, I always, I always start my videos as if, and this is how I envision it. You know, you’re walking by a TV and all of a. Sudden, there’s something going on. And you go like, hey, what’s what’s going on there? And you go, Oh, that’s interesting. You sit down and you watch. So I I just always start my videos right in almost mid sentence as to whenever, when they’ve already landed wherever they are, and they start describing it so it kind of catches your attention, because there’s, there’s no reeling in. It’s just either you’re there or you’re not, yeah. And so for many, for for many, many, many videos, I did not show my face because I didn’t want to show who I was. I was, yeah, self conscious until I was pushed again by by my friend Antonio, and he says, You got to show them who you are, at least. So then I would start interviewing at the end, because I realized that my voice when I’m doing hypnosis is not the same voice as when I’m just having a conversation with somebody, yeah. So I wanted them to see the difference that, you know, I do talk a little wackier when I’m, you know, one on one with someone, and get excited and very, very vocal and expressions. And so I started putting that out there. But I really put it out there, mostly for a resume. I wasn’t, I wasn’t doing it for, hey, look at me. What I could do. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody and say, Hey, do you want a hypnosis session? And they’d say, Well, I don’t know. And I’d say, Well, look at this video so you know at least who I am and what I do. And if you like it, then you can book with me. Yeah. So it was my it was my resume and, and then all of a sudden, people started watching them and following me and and they like I started coming up on the feeds automatically. Yeah, now there’s too many. The algorithm has changed. Now there’s too many shorts out there, and people are, people are just shouting for attention. So it’s not the same, right? I’m only attracting people who are looking for certain things and who will sit through an hour and a half or more of Sure, my stuff, yeah,
but I hear largely not being afraid just you just started putting yourself out there, not being afraid of people critiquing the work, or seeing the nature of the work, or just seeing you, and then you just kept posting. And I also hear doing putting yourself out there without attachment to the outcome. You’re just like you didn’t know what’s gonna happen. You just kept putting it out there. And then more and more people are tracked in and so now the algorithms, and it’s the general environment is not as conducive perhaps, to what you’re doing before. Is it still enough for you to run a business, to have the clientele that you want? Or do you find me? Oh, absolutely,
because my mailing list is huge and it’s all over the world because these people have been waiting, or they discover me through somebody sending them a video. I don’t work as much as I used to, because I’m trying to slow down. Yeah, but yeah, they still find me, and they’re I still and my business is not run the way other hypnotherapists run their business. I only book one month in advance. That’s it. I do not have a I don’t have a waiting list. I You can’t get a session with me two months from now. You have to be on my newsletter, a mailing list. I send it out once a month, first come, first serve. I have certain slots. They pick it after it’s done, I’m closed, and that’s it. So it’s
Yeah, yeah, and it’s nice to be able to run your business that way. Yeah. You feel is, I know there’s people who are listening who would like to be successful in this field. Do you feel there’s something about you, and I’m gonna be humble and say no, but is there something about you that makes you really unique, or is it the approach that you’re taking, like, Why have you been so successful? Maybe other graduates from our school or other programs haven’t been able to make a big dent in the marketplace?
Well, the the most important thing is you don’t do it for money. Okay? You don’t do it for money. You do it because you want to do it, because you would do it, whether you are getting paid or not, because you want to help the person that’s that’s the attitude is, if you go into anything wanting to be a success, you’re going to fail nice because you’re chasing the money. And yeah, your clients will feel that, sure, and that’s a turn off. It’s like, are you really? Do you really care? I’m going to just expose my soul naked. It to you. Can I trust you, or are you just going after you know, hey, give me your credit card and I’ll just take your money, because it’s almost feels like a violation. But if this, if you go to a hypnotherapist and you truly feel that they want to help that they’re going to go in there with you on this journey, and they’re not going to lose you, because you know you are journeying with them sure there you’re not going to lose them. You’re not going to say anything to harm them because they’ve already been harmed, that you’re not going to do anything to make them feel uncomfortable. Can they trust you? That’s when you’re going to get referrals. Hey, you know, this person’s really great. They really care about you. I felt really safe with them. I really think you should try them, because I felt so good. They really are, you know, they really have your best interest in mind. It’s not a money making machine. That’s how I feel. To make you a success is, is you’re doing it from the heart, Yeah, beautiful. Not because it’s a good earning money. You know, it’s not about that. Definitely
that goes back to doing your dharma, living your passion, living from your heart, not being attached to the outcome. Whenever we talk about goal setting in the school, we talk about, okay, so you know you want this to be your career. So how much money do you want to make per year? Okay, let’s say you want to make more than $100,000 Great. How many clients per week does it take to make that when you’re doing your manifesting, just focus on 20 full paying clients per week, but forget about the money. Just focus on helping 20 people per week, whatever that number is, for you to have a good living, but really focus on people. And that’s part of why we’re called interpersonal hypnotherapy, right? It’s like honoring the sacred nature of the relationship, and as soon as money becomes a motivating factor, yeah, you’ve already lost that,
and people will feel it, and they’ll feel creepy, you know, it’ll feel creepy around you if you, if you’re because I, I have known other people Who are, are hypnotherapist and, you know, they’ll come up and talk to me because they they want to, you know, find out how I do things and, and honestly, they feel creepy to me. I wouldn’t go to that person.
Okay, sure, yeah, so many of your students because,
but yeah, you just like, you
know, yeah, part of your success seems like a sincerity and authenticity. You’re really just being yourself. And yeah, it’s comes from your heart. You can tell it’s, it’s real, it’s who you are. I mean, I know for me, this has been my life’s work. There’s nothing else I can’t not be like, you know, doing what I do, because it’s we are the teaching in that sense, and it’s beyond rewarding, right to have this as a career, to be helping people in this way. I can’t imagine we’re just working some job that I don’t love. So tell us kids history, something that comes to mind about some client success that just makes you absolutely love this.
I could think of two that I had recently in the last year. There’s so many, but two, there’s one woman who came she was young woman. She’s probably in her 30s. I would say everybody’s young now, when you get to my age, oh, she was young woman. She was like 50. She was in her 30s, I guess, and she had, um, been so ill. She’s had so many surgeries, she could hardly she, I think she wore a brace for a while. She just was a mess. She was a hot mess. It physically all of her health issues. And we took, I took her back to the origin of it. I mean, we don’t, we don’t go into we’ll go to this specific event unless, unless something you know, it’s really necessary. But go back to the origin of when you know, your soul had this trauma, and the woman had been violated very badly when she was young, when she was probably a teenager. And you know, one of the things that you teach in class is, you know, you have to defend yourself. That was when I was in class. That was not one of my favorite classes. Okay, the old the old pillow thing, okay, well, you have to defend yourself. And she was able to really relive that. I had her relive it over and over again to really defend herself. Off and get everything out, get all that, that that poison you know, that she that she had swallowed from from this event. And after she finished, she says, I have been under psychiatric care for 15 years. And what you just did in the last hour or in this session is just, yeah, I can’t I can’t compare. I mean, I feel like a new person. And so that was so amazing, and she was so happy. And then I had another one recently, that one, that one’s online because she had also had a same violation in college. She was studying to be an opera singer, yeah, and she had one of those nights where she ended up in the hospital. She didn’t know what happened. No. Happened. She just woke up in the hospital, completely a mess, and didn’t and I asked her, what happened? She goes, I don’t know. I just know that my body was was a mess, and I never sang again. I was never able to sing again, so I did the session with her. We found out exactly what happened moment to moment. Because, you know, we went back to every second of it, and when she went at the end of the I didn’t I cut out what happened in the in the video, but at the end, I said, so go ahead and sing your song. And she sang the Ave Maria, and it was, it was just chilling that all every hair on my body went up because she had not sung in so many years. And she says, I got my voice back and and that’s, that’s the beautiful thing about it, is when you see these results, you see their face, and you feel like this heavy weight has just been lifted off of them. Yeah, that’s what’s cool. Those
are such touching stories. And it really speaks to my heart, because I’ve been on the field now for like, 30 years, and you’re reminding me, just generally, of the miracles that I’ve seen over the years when somebody comes in and like you talk about these violations, I was shocked at how rampant sexual abuse is when I started doing these regressions to root cause like wow, again and again, and how traumatic it is, the negative beliefs and negative emotions, the physical issues that happen in the body. It’s a big reason why I was motivated, I want to say, chose, but motivated to get out of Chinese medicine. Because, you know, like you said, this woman went to a psychiatrist for what, 15 years, I think you said, and she has one session with you. I mean, I have seen things like asthma, allergies, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer. I mean, there’s a huge list I could go on, but I have seen a lot of this healed within a matter of hours. Like Crohn’s disease healed in 10 hours. And these people can be in like, yeah, not as young. I’m feeling it too. I’m 52 now. So I get your references to getting older. You know young people, like 3040, 50 plus years old, struggling for decades with issues, and they get into the root cause of the issue in their mind. They heal it. As you were talking, I was thinking about how, how one negative thought you can feel in your body, right? Just have, like, just one thought, and not to bring anything up, but like, um, what happened with your son? Like, if you dwelled upon that. So let’s not if you dwell upon that like you would feel a negative feeling. What if you hold and you said, I put you in the hospital twice? So what if we hold these feelings for decades? I don’t think we realize how resilient the body actually is, but how incredibly powerful the mind is, right? And just one simple change in thought, clearing those painful, traumatic memories, clears everything. So I love how we’ve been talking about this, what we said when we started this, we were talking about, like, the traumas more than actually the past life regressions or the entities, or the aliens, all that really cool stuff. But like, where’s the real issue? It tends to be, from my experience, largely, not always, but largely this lifetime, starting in the womb, the traumatic events that happen in childhood. And there’s a new term you hear, a spiritual bypassing, which, like, I’m going to skip all that stuff, and it’s going to go to my past lives, or I’m just going to go the light. But I really appreciate, after all your years now in this work, to say, you know, a lot of the best case histories are when you clear those blocks and see the physical, mental, emotional healing that’s so incredibly rewarding.
Yeah, every every session is so unique. And what’s happening to me now, and I do have to slow down because I can’t, I can’t. Just physically do this, like I did it, because I go in so deep myself. I go down the rabbit hole with them, and I travel with them. And it is so real. It’s, you know, I just it’s, it’s remote. It’s remote viewing. You’re there with them. You’re actually there. And I found myself the other day, for the first time in all of these years, actually, like I would say simple things, because I wanted to, to validate what I was experiencing. And I said, so, you know, you know, what is, what is there, or who’s there? And they said something. I said, Yes, that’s right. It’s like I was validating what I was seeing. Yeah, oh yes, that’s right, yes, yes, you’re right. That’s it. And so I felt my I had to to ease myself back, because I was, I felt like I was using them to validate what my remote viewing, but when I’m finished with a session now, it takes me a long time to get back. Yeah, I end up having to go out in nature. I sit on my dock and and eat something ground myself because I’m very I feel very loopy. I feel like I’ve just come back very long journey. And so I feel like there’s something happening to me that I’m able to go deeper into some subjects that I used to before, because I’m really there with them. Yes, it’s really, really there, and it’s not like I’m pretending, it’s like I’m there. I get it, yeah? And I feel like, you know, this is portal work, like we’re really when we’re doing this work, we’re going through a portal, yeah, oh,
I couldn’t agree more. I in the school I teach remote viewing. My book the sutures on healing and enlightenment. One of the chapters is long distance healing and the takedown of karma. And basically, I do that, whether it’s in meditation, with tapping into a client’s energy, or on a zoom session, or in person, you totally go into it with them and you’re feeling what they’re feeling. And I love, during the intake, where I like, then I’ll say, How do you feel? Like, I don’t know, and I’m like, Okay. And then, you know, you don’t want to lead them like you said. That’s something similar with critique, for sure. But at the same time, you’re like, they just feel sad because they’re alone. They haven’t said yet, but they feel sad because they’re alone. And then you’re like, just close your eyes. Just go to your heart. What do you notice there? Like, well, I guess I feel sad. And you’re like, yep, right? And then as you feel like you are and they’re like, alone, like, Yep, that’s it. But when you have that validation, you know what you need to heal. It’s not a mystery anymore. It’s like, No, I can feel it in my own system. I know what you’re doing, okay? And when you’re at that level of work, you’re willing to go through it with them completely, because you know your confidence to get them to the other side, right? And when they’re healed, you’re healed in the process. And then, yeah, you go out, you connect to nature, you take care of yourself. But I get it as I’m getting older, too. It’s like, when someone asks for a session, it’s like, I’m not just sitting there talking. It’s like it might seem easy, because all we’re doing is just, you know, guiding their prosecution or words. But no, we are, like, embodying their feelings. We’re working through their emotions in our own system. And I know, let’s cover this briefly before I end up wrapping it up that I’ve known people who are deeply empathic, who actually ended up getting serious illnesses and even dying because they didn’t necessarily know how to get that through their system. And I know almost every one of our hypnotherapy classes I will talk about reflective, empathic listening and really getting into the empathic part of hearing and feeling what the person saying. And students always ask, but what if I take on other people’s stuff, and I have my answers for that? And the simplest answer is, you just keep extending love, extending light, extending love and light use. We’re like defending and, of course, miracles, right? It says Love means no defense, but I know what you mean. Of course, in our protocols, you’re getting that emotion out, and then we really lead them into assertiveness, right? Like I have the right to defend myself. I have the right to say no, I have the right to be treated with respect, super important. But what were you some of your words of wisdom for when you go that deep into someone’s stuff, to not take it on? Um,
there’s a saying I came up the other day that reminded me, it’s, it’s, it’s not my monkey, it’s not my circus, or something like that. I think that’s one. It’s not mine. Yeah, it’s not mine. So when somebody’s I have very clear boundaries myself. I have very clear boundaries. They come to me for a reason, but that’s not and I’m able to to be there for them everything. But once the session ends and they leave, it’s like flushing the toilet. It’s done. I’m it’s not there anymore. I. Do not hold on to that at all. And in fact, you know, as we were talking before, I forget very quickly if, unless I’m editing a video and I have to work, I usually vet edit the video if I’m going to post it right after their session, because it’s still fresh, and I remember what I have to edit out and everything, you know, I’m writing notes. But once I’m done and that video is finished, that’s it. That’s done. I don’t I don’t hold on to it. I, you know, that’s it, because it’s not mine. Yes,
beautiful. So you make a clear distinction between, that’s yours. I might you or you. And I have that as well, the amnesia after this session, because you’re essentially in trans when you’re working with them, and then when you come you bring them out, and you come out, it’s like, who are you? I had a, I don’t this is way back in the day before I had a school or anything, but I was teaching yoga and meditation, and I also had those for my hypnotherapy clients as well. And I worked with a woman, and she had this deep seated trauma, and then she was a yoga student, and so I hang out with my students and go out for meals. I don’t, you know, get careful about that these days, but back in the day, we went out, and she goes, you don’t mind just having a meal with me. I’m like, why would I mind? And she goes, Well, because, you know, I was abused as a kid. I’m like, You were it’s, it’s like, that’s not who you are. I’m not projecting or passed on to you. I don’t see that, and nor am I going to carry it in my own system. So I appreciate that sense of, yeah, I am I you? Are you? At the same time, I have seen that in the oneness model, their stuff is our stuff, like, and, of course, in miracles, it’s until we’re all healed, we’re not healed. Like, until everyone is free. We’re not free. So I get told, like, that that’s your issue, that’s your belief that you’re alone. I also like, that was example of like, you’re sad you’re alone. Well, I don’t feel that. Like, that’s yours. At the same time, I found so much value in saying, like, well, is that true? Do I acknowledge on some level, maybe I feel alone, and that’s like, that horizontal connection between you and the client. It’s like, okay, we might both be aware of like, now it’s in our space. Like, let’s say the example is, I feel alone and I feel sad. Well, now it’s ours because it’s in our consciousness. But then we turn to higher wisdom, like higher self. And you could just ask, is that true? Are we alone? And then, of course, that revelation, that answer is, no, there’s only oneness. And once we let go of the belief and help the client, like all the belief, it’s just gone, and then any effect that comes from that goes away as well. So I appreciate hearing like, well, that’s them. And for me, like the bodhisattva vow is basically saying, and it’s us, and until you’re free of that, I’m not free of that. And to me, that’s a lot of what motivates the work, right? It’s not money, it’s if you’re your lack is my lack, your suffering is my suffering. Until we’re all free, we’re really not all free. So yeah, appreciate.
What I noticed is that throughout the years, somebody asked me this question the other day, and they said, when you’re doing a session, do you feel that you’re learning anything from it. And yes, I feel that I am attracting the at first I was attracting people who had the same questions, the same the thing, same things that I needed answers for. And now I realize I’m attracting the people who have all who are going through things that I went through in my life, that I’m able to that I’ve healed from it. You know, luckily, I never had to go through any type of abuse when I was a young child, because I had the most amazing parents, and I think I chose them for this work because I’m not triggered, yeah, with anything. So I actually am channeling my mother when I do it, because my mother was so incredibly kind that, you know, that’s how I knew, that’s how she treated me, so incredibly kind. So I like to treat my clients exactly how my mother would treat me. You know, she was, you know, talking to me and tucking me in. You know, that’s, that’s it. But I am learning so much more through my clients. I feel like I’m expanding and expanding, expanding just by being able to help them. And, you know, one thing I didn’t say, which I do want to throw in here, is that you are channeling your higher self when you’re doing this. I mean, that is an absolute. It’s absolutely true. There are times where I am going to say something that is, you know, a normal technique that I would say, I would say something, and at the last second, my words are changed, right, right? And, and my ego, my conscious mind, is like, hey, you know, why did you say that? Yeah? And it actually takes them into a different path that then it just amazes me. It’s like, Whoa, yeah,
for sure, yeah, I love though for you, it’s become a fact, because for me. Like, okay, I have a conscious mind. It’s pretty hard to we, none of us can deny we have a conscious thinking mind. Then we learn about we have a subconscious mind, and that’s where our stuff is. But, you know, you can clear your stuff, and then when you, like you said, you attract a client, and it’s, it is their stuff. You’re not carrying that anymore. You’ve worked through that in you, and at the same time, say, Alright, I’ve got a subconscious that needs healing. That’s more my heart. I’ve got a conscious mind I’m aware of, kind of my head, but then there’s this super conscious mind, and what I see trans as is largely taking the center of attention, like, is it in my conscious mind? Is it down in my subconscious or and, or because eventually it’s not really divided in any way. Am I bringing my attention up to super conscious but largely when we’re working with the client, the attention is like, on their subconscious, and yet our higher wisdom is right there. And I noticed back in the day too, I’d be ready to say something, or not sure what to say. And then I would hear the words, I’m like, really? Like, yeah, sounds like something Jesus would say. I’m not like, you know, qualified, but down my Get, get my silly mind out of the way and just say it, and then it’s like, oh, always, always trust that voice. And it’s, of course, going to conflict with our ego, because it’s sane and we’re not saying so. It was, you know, guiding me throughout my life that we were talking about earlier. It’s like, just let that guide you for everything. I had a teacher who would say, How many times is your conscious mind been wrong, like, Why do you keep listening to an advisor which is consistently mistaken? Why not turn to a divine mind that knows everything you would need to know, that’s has all the right words, that is all the right direction, and that always leads you from suffering and always leads you into beauty and grace and goodness. Once we bring that into our practice, it’s really profound. That’s,
that’s the goal, is to really get out of the way and just allow that information to flow through you, not be worried about what you memorize, not be worried about the technique that you’re using, whether you’re doing it right or wrong. It’s what, what is flowing through you. Because it’s almost like you’re connected to God. I mean, it really is. You’re, you’re, you’re connected to all of this higher wisdom, and that’s when the magic happens, yeah, yeah. That’s when the magic happens, yeah. That’s, that’s what I love about it. It’s, it’s people ask me, like, how did you know to ask that? It’s like, yeah, right. I don’t, oh, I have no idea. And why did you say that? Why did you say that? And it’s like, I was surprised too.
Yeah, it’s definitely, yeah, yeah, for sure. Like, I was like, you think you said something, we’re almost like, we’re connected to God. And I you said earlier something, like, we always do this as teachers, we say, you know, God, or whatever you mean by that. If you’re a light resource, we always have to qualify that, which is honestly kind of annoying as a teacher, like, every time I use the God word, I have to say, or whatever you’re believing because, but I think, you know, because I’m in a firm I know here, and I think our audience is, you know, the type of person who it’s like, it’s not like, we’re kind of connected, like, there’s only that, when it comes down to it, like, isn’t there only Infinite Light and Love everywhere? And we are all part of that, and we have to skirt around it. Because some people are like, I don’t believe in that. I’m like, okay, but I’m telling you, there’s, it’s like, you know the story of the well frog and the ocean frog? Like, we got the well frog who’s got a little bit of water, a little bit of light, but a healed healer, somebody who’s really been around the block with this. Knows, super conscious mind is all you’d ever want to be in touch with Divine Light and Love is all you would ever want. And all you want to do once you have that is you just want to give it away and help others to get there. So, yeah, I just wanted to bring the idea of, like, I think, you know, like, of course, like, that’s the only reality that we’re connected to, right? Like, isn’t it the essence of the work? Yeah, we could
use now the cloud, okay, you’re connected to the cloud.
That’s one way to look at it, too. In case people don’t like the G word
exactly, you’re connected to the to the intelligence of the cloud. Yeah. I mean, it’s there, and you don’t have to identify it. You just have to plug into it and just allow it to move you.
Definitely, yeah, it doesn’t need the G word, but to not like, to not to not live with that realization that there’s infinite peace and love and wisdom surrounding every cell of your being at every moment. Is like, you’re either aware of that or you’re not, or, you know, a lot of people waking up tapping into it. For me, I’ve realized, like, that’s the solution to all of our problems in the world. If we all just tapped into that, we would harmonize with each other. There wouldn’t be all the conflict we see. I so appreciate the discussion, the interview time with you. Do you have any closing words, things you might like to share based on what we’re talking about, or anything else? For our listeners,
I would say, you know, if you’re practicing hypnosis, just you know, put it, put your your love into it. It’s not, it’s not a career. It is more of a life’s work. It really is. It’s, it’s, don’t look at it as, you know, a money maker or anything. If, if you’re putting your love into it, you will be guided and. You will have the success you you deserve. But yeah, just just live your life with passion.
Mm, hmm, beautiful. Put your whole heart into it. Live your life with passion. And while we are a Career School, I love saying, like, don’t make it a career, just make it a lifestyle. For me, that’s what it’s definitely become. It’s like, Yeah, this is just my life. It’s just what I do. The money just happens to follow. But yeah, we’re we. I believe we all have a purpose and a mission. I think that’s part of every hypnotic programming session for my clients, is, you’re important, you’re valuable. You have a mission and a purpose. So how to how can people get in touch with you if they’re interested in aligning with your mission and purpose? Website, Email. How can we contact? Yeah,
I everything goes through my website. Alba wineman.com and everything goes through there. I don’t give out my email, because usually when my email comes in, four emails for every message, and I lose everything in my email. So through the through my website, I could definitely see your message, and I would suggest people watch my videos. I mean, it’s it’s always nice to to to learn something new. And just go to YouTube and just look up my name, Alba Weinman. That’s where you find them. There’s, I don’t, I don’t know, just close to 700 videos there now,
yeah, I’m sure by now it’s
like 670 something. I think we’re up to
Nice. I remember when you presented at our conference? I’m going to guess, maybe remember, I think it was 2019, I want to say you presented at a conference we had in Tampa, and we watched, actually, some of your videos in the conference. It’s really cool. So I’m sure there’s hundreds more since that, and then hopefully we will be seeing you in our this is 2025 our 2025 conference, and actually, we’re wrapping it up. I just looked at the clock. It’s 1111, so it’s a perfect time for us to to wrap it up. Thank you all. Bye. Sincerely appreciate Thank
you. It was a pleasure. It was a pleasure, and I’ll see you
soon. Yes, absolutely, conference in October in Orlando. So awesome. Thank you very appreciate you. Thank you, bye, bye, bye.