Session One

Past Life Regression

Typically 3 to 3.5 HoursSession Fee $330

Past Life Regression is becoming more widely known, but not all sessions are the same. Back in the mid 1960s, I first watched my father guide a neighbor back to a past life, and that experience shaped everything that followed. I have been trained by the top names in the field and bring everything I have learned in the classroom and from thousands of hours with clients into every session.

The session begins with a conversation about you and about hypnosis, so you understand what to expect and feel comfortable before anything begins. From there I guide you into hypnosis and the journey starts.

Why Do We Start With Childhood and the Womb?

The first part of the process involves revisiting several happy, enjoyable memories from childhood. These may or may not be memories you consciously recall. They surface from the subconscious and serve as a warm-up, helping you settle into the experience before the deeper work begins.

After exploring those early memories, you are guided back even further, to the time before you were born, to the experience of the womb. This can be one of the most powerful parts of the session. It often creates an opportunity to connect at the soul level, and many clients have been able to validate what surfaces here by talking with family members afterward.

What Happens in the Past Life Part?

Following the womb experience, you are guided back to visit one or more past lifetimes. The direction is always to go to the most appropriate time and place for what you most need to experience at this point in your journey. After each lifetime, additional understanding becomes available from a higher perspective, where you can ask specific questions about that life and receive clarity.

Most sessions allow time to visit two, sometimes three lifetimes, though every session unfolds differently and we follow wherever the work leads.

Can Talents Come Forward From a Past Life?

I often incorporate Alchemical Hypnotherapy processes to bring forward talents and abilities discovered in past lives. This is not always the right fit for every client or every session, but when it is appropriate, the results can be remarkable. Artists, musicians, and healers have all reconnected with gifts carried forward from previous incarnations.

In some cases there are blocks around accessing those abilities, often because of challenges or even loss of life connected to that gift in a past life. When that is the case, additional work is done to release that energy before the talent can be brought forward.

What Kind of Energy Gets Released?

Some of what we carry in this life has its roots in a previous one. Physical pain is one of the most immediate examples. When a connection is made between an unexplained pain in the current life and an injury in a past life, releasing that energy can bring immediate and lasting relief. Mental and emotional patterns can be released in much the same way, though the shift may unfold more gradually.

Could I Have Been My Own Relative in a Past Life?

Yes, it is a common discovery in hypnosis. What I have seen in sessions is that souls often reincarnate within the same family line to keep working on shared lessons or to resolve old karma together. During a past life regression you might find that you were your own great grandparent, an uncle or an aunt a few generations back.

Clients often tell me that this brings real clarity to recurring family dynamics. It also explains the strong familiarity some people feel with certain ancestral homes, heirlooms or relatives, a sense of already knowing a place or a person that they could never account for. The family you were born into may be one you have been part of for a very long time.

Can Something Negative Attach to Me During a Session?

Some people worry that being hypnotized leaves you open for something negative to come in. That is a religious view of hypnosis in general, the idea that when you are hypnotized evil spirits can move in and become a part of you. Here is my experience. I have never had that happen in a session. That is not what happens, and I do not know of anybody who has ever seen it.

What I have had is people who bring something like that in with them, and if I discover it, and usually I do, I can help them release it. You are not going to leave with something you did not bring in, and you are not going to pick something up as a result of the session.

Mark Johnson with Dr. Michael Newton

Mark with Dr. Michael Newton

I had the privilege of training directly with Dr. Michael Newton and his training team in 2007. Michael was the pioneering researcher whose work with Life Between Lives changed the way we understand the soul's journey. Being certified by Michael and the Newton Institute is something I do not take lightly, and his influence runs through everything I do in all my sessions.

When you sit with someone who has had that kind of direct transmission, the work carries a different quality. Not because of credentials, but because of the depth of understanding that comes from being in the room with the person who developed this body of work from the ground up.

If you have questions about whether Past Life Regression is right for you, or you are simply curious about what a session might look like, a free discovery call is a good place to start. There is no pressure and no obligation. It is just a conversation.

A $100 deposit schedules your session, and the balance is due at least 24 hours before we begin.

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In Mark's Own Words

Past Life Regression vs Quantum Healing Hypnosis

People often ask me what the difference is between Past Life Regression and Quantum Healing Hypnosis. I put together this short video to answer that question directly. If you are trying to figure out which session is right for you, this is a good place to start.

Questions People Bring to a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Session

The past life session is the past life. The quantum healing hypnosis session is the past life and then your questions, and the questions are about your life now, the things that do not make sense to you. These are examples to give you an idea. You bring your own.

  • What are my objectives / what is my purpose in this life?
  • Am I on the right track? If not, what changes can I make to get there?
  • What blocks do I have in this lifetime and how can I overcome them?
  • Am I punishing myself for any reason I am unaware of in this lifetime?
  • Why am I challenged by issues such as stress and anxiety, procrastination, insomnia, concentration, self-esteem, fears, etc., and how can I move past them?

See the full list of commonly asked questions

Session Two

Quantum Healing Hypnosis

Typically 4 to 5 HoursSession Fee $470

Quantum Healing Hypnosis Therapy, or QHHT, is a very special form of Past Life Regression. It was developed and refined by the late Dolores Cannon, who spent decades working with clients and documenting what she found. A QHHT session involves exploring past lifetimes and then connecting with what Dolores called the Subconscious, the part of you that holds all knowledge and has the ability to facilitate healing. I had the privilege of studying with Dolores Cannon from 2008 to 2012 in Northwest Arkansas.

The defining feature of QHHT is what happens in that second part of the session. After exploring past lives, the client connects directly with a higher intelligence that can answer deeply personal questions and, when it is appropriate and possible, initiate healing. The range of what has been addressed in these sessions, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, is extraordinary.

Mark Johnson with Dolores Cannon

Mark with Dolores Cannon

Dolores Cannon was a remarkable woman and a genuine pioneer. I studied with her for several years and the time I spent learning directly from her is something I carry into every QHHT session I facilitate. The photo above was taken during one of those training events in Arkansas.

What Dolores built over decades of research and thousands of sessions is a body of work that continues to help people access healing and understanding that goes far beyond what most forms of therapy can offer. I am honored to carry that work forward.

What Sets My Approach Apart

Dolores taught many students over the years, and she only required prior hypnotherapy training to take her classes for the first few years she was teaching. That change was by design in some ways. She wanted the work to be accessible. But what became clear over time is that a large percentage of those students were not continuing to practice, and the ones who did often found themselves in session without the foundational skills to handle what came up.

I have worked with a number of those students. They came to me already certified in Dolores' method but knowing something was missing. After working through my Hypnotherapy Training, they went back to their QHHT sessions and found them transformed. Deeper. More reliable. The method was the same but the foundation under it was solid, and that makes all the difference.

One story tells you why that foundation matters. A student of mine once had a QHHT session with another practitioner, and at the very end, asked if there was anything else, she found herself in a cave, hanging from a meathook. The practitioner did not know what to do, so she counted her out, bringing the physical and emotional trauma of that scene right out with her. It stayed with her for a year, until she came to take my Past Life Regression training and I used her session for the class demo. We released all of that physical and emotional energy right there. The method did not fail her. The missing hypnosis training did.

When I first took Dolores' training in 2008 it was called Dolores Cannon's Advanced Past Life Regression Technique. I studied with her through 2012, and those years gave me something that goes beyond technique. I understood what she was trying to accomplish at a level that only comes from being in the room with someone while they work.

My sessions begin differently than most QHHT sessions you may have heard about. Rather than moving directly into past life exploration, I start by revisiting happy childhood memories. It is the same approach I use in Past Life Regression, and it serves the same purpose. In fact, I originally learned this from Michael Newton in the Life Between Lives training in 2007. He liked to call this mental stretching exercises.

Starting with childhood memories gives you time to settle into hypnosis gradually and build the depth of trance that makes the deeper work possible. By the time we move into the past life portion of the session, you are ready for it in a way that simply does not happen when you start cold.

Didn't Dolores Cannon Say QHHT Should Not Be Done Online?

Yes, she did, and even now, more than a decade after her passing, people read what she wrote, hear what she said, and ask me about it. So let me answer it the way I do on a discovery call. Dolores was not big on technology. It took her years to move from cassette tapes to a voice recorder, and the online sessions of her era were not the online sessions of today.

The argument was that if a client is in a traumatic moment and the connection drops, they could be stuck in that space. Here is what my years in her classes showed me. The training did not teach what to do when a client lands in a traumatic situation, so the connection was never the real issue. A practitioner who only learned QHHT never learned hypnosis, and it is the hypnosis training that prepares you for whatever arises, online or in person.

My clients are prepared before we begin. If you need a restroom break, you tell me and I help you come up enough to take care of business. If a technical issue comes up, you come up enough on your own to deal with the situation, and if all else fails, we reconnect on the phone to wrap up any loose ends. When a client is prepared and understands what to do, there are no problems.

I started working with clients online in 2009 using Skype and have continued ever since. Everything that can be accomplished in person can be accomplished online, with one exception. In a physically present session I can offer a respectful, grounding touch to help a client go deeper into the hypnotic state. Online that option is not available. And many clients find they actually prefer working from home, because the familiar environment helps them relax, and comfort is one of the most important factors in reaching the depth needed for a successful session.

How Do I Write My Questions for a QHHT Session?

Keep your list to one page, a page and a half at most, and group the questions by category such as physical health, relationships and life purpose. The most important thing is how you phrase them. Ask How and What questions rather than Why questions, because why questions do not provide you with the answer you are really looking for from your Higher Self. What do I need to do to improve my career gets a practical, actionable answer.

Focusing your questions on action and resolution is what draws out the deep, useful answers my clients come away with. The commonly asked questions on the QHHT preparation page give you an idea of what you can ask. They are examples only, and your list should be about you and your situation.

If you have had a QHHT session elsewhere that felt incomplete or left you with unresolved questions, I have worked with many clients in exactly that situation. A discovery call is the best way to talk through what happened and what might be possible.

A $100 deposit schedules your session, and the balance is due at least 24 hours before we begin.

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Session Three

Life Between Lives

Typically 4 to 5 HoursFirst Session $650 • Returning $600

Life Between Lives is an experience unlike anything else available. It offers you the opportunity to explore yourself from the soul level by visiting the time between lifetimes, the realm that Dr. Michael Newton spent decades researching and documenting. The understanding that becomes available during this experience has the potential to be genuinely life changing, offering a perspective on who you are and why you are here that simply cannot be accessed any other way.

Where Past Life Regression focuses on specific lifetimes, Life Between Lives takes you a step further. It provides access to your experience as an immortal, timeless being, the connections between all of your lives, and the heartfelt bonds with those you know and love across incarnations, as well as others you may only know at the soul level when you are in the spirit world.

What Becomes Available

In an LBL session you may encounter your spirit guides, members of your soul group, and your council of elders. You may discover the themes running through all of your lives, the lessons you are working on, and your soul's deeper purpose in choosing this particular lifetime. The knowledge available is not abstract. It is personal, specific, and often deeply moving.

Michael Newton preferred to call this Spiritual Integration rather than Spiritual Regression, and that framing captures something important. What you bring back from an LBL session does not stay in the session room. It integrates into how you see yourself and how you move through your life.

Why the Past Life Session Comes First

It is important to complete a Past Life Regression session before scheduling your Life Between Lives session if you have not had that experience before. This is not just a formality. The LBL process works with your past lives as part of the journey, and without that foundation the deeper material may not land with the same impact. Starting with the Past Life session also gives you the opportunity to experience hypnosis and build the depth of trance that an LBL session requires.

Many people arrive convinced they have no interest in past lives and just want to get to the spirit world. After their LBL session, those same people are usually the ones most grateful they started where they did.

Why Wait a Few Months Between Sessions?

Because a Life Between Lives session asks for a great deal of hypnotic depth and a very quiet mind, and that takes some preparation. When I check a client's readiness for LBL with my pendulum or muscle testing, my guides often suggest waiting two to three months after that first session.

The gap gives you time to process and integrate what came up in the past life work, builds up what I call your hypnotic muscle memory, and leaves you energetically prepared to enter the spirit realm comfortably. In my experience that patience pays off in the depth of the LBL session itself.

Should I Read Journey of Souls Before My Session?

Most people have already read Journey of Souls, and often Destiny of Souls too, before they ever reach out to me. That is usually why they want to do the session in the first place, because reading the book provides encouragement to want to experience this world. I do not think it has an impact on the experience itself.

So I cannot give you a cut and dry answer, do it or do not do it, because it is up to the individual. If you have not read it and you are concerned that it might give you expectations, then just do not read it. The session does not need the book. And if you have already read it, like most of my clients, you are in good company.

Mark Johnson with Dr. Michael Newton

Mark with Dr. Michael Newton, 2011

This photo was taken in 2011, the year I attended a Newton Insitute strategy meeting with the board of directors and Michael Newton himself. Spending that time with Michael, watching him work and absorbing the depth of what he had spent decades building, changed the way I approach every LBL session I facilitate.

Michael was meticulous, compassionate, and absolutely committed to the integrity of the work. That is what I carry forward. Not just the technique, but the spirit of it.

Plan to keep the rest of your day open after your Life Between Lives session. These sessions have been known to go longer than five hours, and what you experience deserves time and space to settle. Travel and other commitments immediately afterward are not ideal.

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Both Past Life Regression and QHHT are wonderful choices for a first session, and most of my new clients have never been hypnotized before we begin. Not sure which fits? A free discovery call is the easiest way to find out. It gives you the chance to get your questions answered, and I may have a few questions for you as well.

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Frequently Asked Questions


Yes, fluttering eyelids are a very positive sign during a session. It looks similar to the rapid eye movement of dreaming sleep, and it is a natural physical indicator that your brain has shifted from the active, conscious Beta state into the deep Theta brainwave frequency. I watch for that flutter as valuable real time feedback. It tells me you have moved past your logical thoughts and entered the level of deep trance where the past life work happens. So if you notice it happening, let it. My clients often mention the flutter afterward, and I tell them it was the moment I knew we were in exactly the right place.

Yes, and it is common. The way I understand it, we plan our lifetimes together with our soul group, choosing friends who will play both supportive partners and challenging antagonists to spark our growth. In a Quantum Healing Hypnosis or Life Between Lives session we connect with spirit, and that connection can include your higher self, your spirit guides, your soul group and loved ones in spirit. Clients tell me the comfort of that meeting is hard to put into words. It confirms that you are never truly alone, and it often helps you recognize the karmic partners who keep showing up in your current life, and understand why they are there.

The hypnotherapy certification. There is no way around it and no shortcut through it. The 220 hour program certified through IACT is the foundation the rest of the path stands on. From there you take past life regression, which is a six day class across two consecutive three day weekends, covering childhood memories, womb regression and past lifetimes, because the Newton Institute expects a regressionist to be fluent in those timelines before LBL training. Spiritual Connection and Communication comes after that. Each step is built to make the next one possible.

The easiest tell is how the message arrives. Your own logical thoughts involve active thinking, weighing and planning, and you can feel yourself doing the work. A message from your spirit guides or Higher Self lands all at once as a sudden clear hunch or a knowing, and my clients describe it the same way again and again, saying something like this just popped into my head. It arrives without effort and feels distinct from thinking. Learning to trust that line of communication without arguing with it is a real milestone in spiritual development. At the end of your session I teach you a self hypnosis anchor so you can settle into the relaxed state where those messages are easiest to recognize and trust on your own.

I cannot answer that specifically for you, because everyone is different. That deep, hard to explain feeling of not belonging is something I hear from spiritually sensitive people, and I am careful not to hand you an explanation before your session. I would rather you discover where the feeling comes from than have me paint a picture in advance, because whatever you find needs to be yours. What I can say is that people who bring this feeling to a session tend to find something that makes sense of it, and once they do, the isolation starts to ease. Bring it with you as one of your questions, and we will let your own experience answer it.