Session One

Past Life Regression

Typically 3 to 3.5 Hours

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.

Childhood Memories 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.

Past Life Exploration

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.

Talents and Abilities from Past Lives

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.

Releasing Physical, Mental, and Emotional Energy

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.

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.

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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.

Session Two

Quantum Healing Hypnosis

Typically 4 to 5 Hours

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.

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.

Working Online

A common question is whether QHHT can be done effectively online. I started working with clients online in 2009 using Skype and have continued to do so ever since. The honest answer is that 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.

That said, many clients find they actually prefer working from home. The familiar environment helps them relax, and comfort is one of the most important factors in reaching the depth needed for a successful session.

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.

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Session Three

Life Between Lives

Typically 4 to 5 Hours

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.

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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Not Sure Where to Start?

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, it can. Physical discomfort that has no clear explanation is often a carryover from a fatal injury in a past life, a kind of muscle memory the body is still holding. One client of mine had years of shoulder pain that traced straight back to being crushed by a falling rock in a previous lifetime. In the session we follow the sensation back to its original cause. Once your subconscious realizes the injury belongs to a body you no longer have, the unhealed energetic trauma has a chance to release. Clients often tell me that the discomfort they came in with eases noticeably, and sometimes what they had lived with for years simply stops making sense to their body.

You can still have a full, rich session seeing only black or grey, because you do not need to see anything like a movie. Some of my clients see vivid pictures. Many more experience the past life through impressions, feelings, sounds, or a deep sense of knowing, which is especially common for regular meditators. If you hit a wall where everything is dark, I have ways around it. One of the simplest is asking you to tell me what shoes are on your feet, even if you have to make it up. What typically happens is that the small detail opens the door and the memories start flowing on their own.

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.

Wanting reassurance that you are on the right path is one of the most common reasons people book a session with me. In my experience, the setbacks, the confusion and the stretches of feeling lost are often part of the plan your soul made before you were born, placed there to teach you specific lessons. Under hypnosis you connect with your Higher Self or your spirit guides, and they help you understand the spiritual purpose behind those obstacles. They rarely hand you a simple prediction. What they tend to offer instead is clear validation that you are exactly where you need to be to learn the lessons you chose, which many people find far more useful than a forecast.

No, I do not read from a script. There is a term, Scripnosis, for a hypnotherapist reading a generic pre written script word for word to a client. I avoid that approach because a canned script cannot respond to your unique personal issues and what your subconscious needs in the moment. My sessions are interactive and client centered. I listen closely to your words while you are in trance and create custom suggestions in real time based on what you say. That is also how I teach my students to work. The result is a session tailored to you, shaped by your own language and your own experience rather than a page of text written for someone else.