How to Prepare for Your QHHT® Session

For 25 years, I lived by data. As an economist, I built my career — and later, an award-winning AI company — on hard numbers. I predicted election outcomes down to the seat. I was recognised nationally for it (see my live television interview in 2022 on Channel 7 Sunrise). If you told me back then that one day I'd be guiding people into an altered state to speak with their Subconscious, I would have laughed in your face.

But a deep intuitive pull led me somewhere the data couldn't take me. I realised that the most important answers — the ones about life purpose, relationship patterns, and healing — don't live in petabytes of hard data. They live in consciousness, in the ethereal world of the metaphysical. Today, I'm a certified QHHT® practitioner, and I bring the same rigour I once brought to forecasting to the way I hold space for people in this deep work.

I tell you this because I understand both sides of the equation. I know what it's like to trust only what can be measured. And I know what it's like to discover something real that can't be seen. So when I talk to you about expectations — about walking into your session with an open mind rather than a fixed picture — I'm not asking you to abandon your discernment. I'm asking you to extend it somewhere new. To be open is to allow yourself to be open. It's a letting go, which is not forced, but gentle and quiet.

Why I'm Writing This

QHHT® is growing. More people are discovering Dolores Cannon's work as she's hitting social media, tapping into people's lives to help open their minds. More people are curious and are Googling their way toward a session before they ever pick up the phone. That's a wonderful thing. But it comes with a risk I'm seeing more of: people arriving with expectations of what a QHHT experience will be for them. As soon as they start to over-research, they begin to develop a hope of what will happen in their session. They adopt expectations from someone else's story — shaped by a video, a forum post, or one of Dolores's many books.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all had past life experiences in a session where we were pharaohs in Egypt, or a Roman soldier, or a famous person. That's what some people come to expect, after over-researching. But most past lives we encounter in this process are ordinary lives of ordinary people going about their ordinary (boring) days — Dolores calls them "digging potatoes" lives. An ordinary life, in my experience, still contains many valuable lessons and insights that can be brought forward to impart wisdom and insight to a client about their current life.

So what we want to avoid is setting up an expectations gap between someone else's experience and yours. So before you book, or before your session day arrives, here are the three things I most want you to know.

1. Don't Watch Other People's QHHT® Videos Before Your Session

I understand the pull. You've booked something significant, maybe unlike anything you've done before, and it's natural to want a preview. So you search, and you find videos — hours of them — of other people's sessions, other people's past lives, other people's messages from their Subconscious. You go "wow...this is amazing...I wonder what I will experience!"

Here's what I'd ask you to consider instead: every session is entirely its own. What happened for the person in that video was shaped by their Subconscious, their history, their questions. It has no bearing on what will happen for you. Watching it doesn't prepare you — it just hands you a picture that isn't yours to carry into the room.

The clients where I have seen the most rich, expansive, successful outcomes are the ones who arrive without a script in mind. Not because they didn't research QHHT® itself — understanding what the process involves is different from watching footage of someone else's inner world — but because they left space open for their own experience to be exactly what it needed to be, rather than measuring it against someone else's. Measuring, comparing, analysing is the work of the Conscious mind, which is the part that we want to quieten down as we connect with the wiser Subconscious mind.

2. You Don't Have to "Believe" You Can Do This — You Have to Trust What Comes

This is the question I hear most from first-timers: what if I can't connect with my Subconscious? Or, more quietly: what if I try, and nothing happens?

If you're new to this kind of work — if you're not used to tapping into your intuition in daily life — that doubt is completely normal. I don't ask my clients to arrive as seasoned meditators or lifelong believers. I ask them to trust what comes through, trust the process, trust me to guide them, and allow what unfolds.

You don't need to understand why something surfaces during your session. You don't need to justify it or fit it into a framework that makes sense to your conscious mind. You simply need to accept that it is — and allow it to come through. Allowing is receiving. Allowing is not analysing. Allowing is accepting what comes through. This distinction matters.

And here's the part that surprises people: there is no single way the Subconscious communicates. For some, it's vivid imagery, like they become another person. For some, it's vivid imagery like a movie that they're watching from afar. For others, it's a feeling in the body, a sound, a knowing that arrives without explanation, or simply a quiet certainty about something they couldn't previously answer. None of these is more "real" or more "successful" than another. Whatever way it shows up for you is the right way, because it's yours. Part of my role as your practitioner is helping you recognise and trust your own particular way of receiving — not steering you toward mine, or anyone else's. A skilful practitioner will help you learn how you receive.

3. Hypnosis Is Not Unconsciousness

This is the myth I most want to dismantle, because it's the one that keeps people away from a process that could genuinely help them.

Being in hypnosis means you're in an altered state — similar to theta, the space just before sleep, where the conscious mind grows quiet. It does not mean you're unconscious. It does not mean you're asleep. Many clients remain aware for some or all of their session, which means they may notice and remember what they experience, sometimes in vivid detail.

Aware doesn't mean awake in the way we usually think of it. And being aware doesn't make the experience any less real, any less valid, or any less yours. If anything, that layer of awareness is often what makes the insights land — you're not being told something while unconscious; you're receiving it, present enough to recognise its weight. If you happen not to be aware of anything during hypnosis, not to worry, because we record the session to capture everything.

Walking In Open

If there's one thread through all three of these, it's this: be open, let go of any expectations, and look forward to an experience that is entirely, uniquely your own. There is no right or wrong way for a session to unfold. Whatever happens is what was meant to happen for you, in this moment, in this life. It's almost a mirror for how we can approach life — whatever happens, there is a reason for it — just allow, not analyse or control.

As QHHT® reaches more people, I suspect these tips will only become more important — not less. The more visible this work becomes, the more expectations will quietly attach themselves to it. My hope, always, is that you arrive not with a picture of what QHHT® should look like, but with genuine curiosity about what it will be for you. In fact, expect the unexpected.

If you're curious whether this work is right for you, let's have a chat. Book a free 15-minute introductory call and we'll see what's possible together.

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Elisa Choy is an Economist turned Energy Coach and certified QHHT® practitioner based in Redfern, Sydney. See her client success stories and Google Reviews

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