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Jonathan Robinson: The Subconscious Truth About Trauma No One Explains | DSH #1698
21 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the relationship between childhood trauma and subconscious beliefs?
86% of middle schoolers have body dysmorphia, so men want to be bigger and stronger, women want to be more curvy and prettier. Combine that with depression, poor diet, parents divorce, things like trauma like that, it can cause some confusion.
But the deeper meaning is we're in this physical incarnation, we came here with the soul's contract, and just going with it because the universe will continue to test you until you pass the test.
Okay, guys, we got Jonathan Robinson here today. Flew in from Michigan and wearing a nice outfit, my man. Thanks for coming. Appreciate you having me. Yeah, you're 37, but you look younger than me, so well done.
Drink all the up north Michigan water.
Yeah, I think it's all the spiritual work you do, too.
That helps.
That definitely helps. I think people don't take spiritual health seriously these days.
Yeah, and I try to meditate or do self-guided hypnotherapy every day, if not twice a day. Wow. What does that look like? Um, about 20 minutes, just a nice reset. You know how you can reset a device or a computer, it works more optimally, but we have a lot of programs running in our mind and we need to get that reset sometimes and we can come out of it rejuvenated and just more clarity.
When did you start doing that? What age?
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Chapter 2: How can hypnotherapy help with mental performance and anxiety?
Very interesting. I want to try it again, but I felt definitely some pain alleviation.
I did Reiki for the first time a few years ago, and I felt more like myself than ever. My throat was opened up. She was telling me things about my body that I didn't tell anyone, and she was able to really help me balance myself out.
I do believe in emotions being tied to organs.
Yeah, they say everything in the physical manifests from the spiritual.
Because every time I'm dealing with anger, I'll look up like what emotion that's tied to and I'll be having some health issues in that, literally in that organ. Like I'll have a health test done and it correlates with it.
Yeah. Dolores Cannon says a lot of angers in the colon sometimes because our pelvic floor, we tighten up when we're angry. So we can learn to relax it more. We can just live more balanced.
I love that. Where do past lives play into all this stuff that we're talking about?
So I've always wondered the bigger picture questions in life. What happens after we die? Who runs the world? What's our purpose? And one day at a health food store, I came across the guy talking about Michael Newton. Michael Newton's a famous past life author. He has several books. So went home that night, watched some videos. Couldn't even sleep. I was so excited.
My body was vibrating like, this is important. You need to pursue this. After reading his books, I consumed Dolores Cannon's book. She's another well-known author. And I said, I'm a skeptic. So I said, they can do that. I can too. Learned hypnotherapy and Reiki and breath work. And one after another, all my clients started going into their past lives.
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Chapter 3: What influence do past lives have on our current fears and identities?
So it gives you confidence to do that and pursue that again.
Have you seen a lot of past lives where you're dating the same person?
So we do reincarnate with our spirit family. And this is a group of about 10 to 20 like-minded spirits that are vibrating at the same frequency that choose to incarnate with each other to teach each other lessons. This could be good or bad lessons.
But our soulmate, if you meet someone, you don't even have to talk to them and you feel like you know them forever, that could be part of that soul group.
It is interesting because I've had it done on me and my mother before. And it's kind of weird to say this, but like in past lives, we were siblings. We were romantic partners. I was her dad. I was her mom. Like, it's really interesting, right?
Yeah. Yeah. We switch places. So we could be male or female, rich or poor, dark skin, light skin, good relationships, bad skin. And we do that to learn different lessons. So your soulmate, you could switch places in the past life. And in future lives, you will as well, just to learn more lessons.
Now the transgender stuff. So that's obviously a big movement now. It's talked about widely, but it's been around for a while. I've had a couple transgender lives in ancient times. Have you seen that in any of your readings?
I've done some sessions with some people like that. And what happens is if we've had several past lives, let's say we're a female and five past lives, and then we choose to be a male to learn different lessons, we're going to feel like we're not in the right body. It's going to feel different, awkward, especially with relationships.
So your soul knows, your soul made the decision to come to this incarnation and learn that. So I've had several sessions like that, and we have masculine and feminine energy that we bring over. Usually it's leaning more toward one or the other. In the spirit realm, we don't have a form, so we're masculine and feminine, but we always present ourselves as one. So it's very interesting.
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Chapter 4: How do birthmarks and phobias relate to past-life experiences?
And I feel like that is what will help, this work helps people with.
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Don't see people as their physical differences. I see them as the essence of who you are So in past lives you'll switch bodies and look different But the character will remain similar throughout these past life journeys about your soul's history Wow even from beginning to now The essence of who you are, your character, your charisma, that will remain similar.
And I see the patterns and cycles in past lives of people struggling with relationship issues in this life. Maybe they're afraid to speak their truth. Well, in past lives, they'll see reflections of that happening. And what it does, it gives us a chance to reflect on that, learn the lesson. And in these sessions, that emotion from trauma gets trapped in your body somewhere.
Well, that can be carried over in the form of birthmarks, fears or phobias that are unexplained.
So birthmarks, what do those usually mean?
That's really interesting because epigenetics has no, science has no reason for birthmarks really. So I've discovered in these past life journeys, birthmarks are tied to a traumatic death scene with an emotional charge. Wow. So I've had someone be an Indian, Native American Indian. They were jumping across the river trying to impress a girl.
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Chapter 5: What role do spirit guides and soul families play in our lives?
Holy crap. Our subconscious is like a fireball. It tries to keep us alive. When we touch a stove when we're little, we know not to do that because we subconsciously know that hurt us. Well, that can be from childhood or from past lives.
So trauma from your own past lives. What about generational trauma? Is it possible that we can inherit trauma from our grandparents?
We can, yeah. So that's generational ancestral trauma, which does affect us. But the spiritual side is the past life's trauma from the different bodies that we were in. Our soul will carry those memories over with us, and our subconscious will try to protect us. When I was little, I fell off a sailboat when I was five. I was scared to go on sailboats for no reason.
I didn't know why until I realized, oh, that happened. That was an emotional... So we remember things that are emotional, whether it's good or bad. So that's what our body tries to protect us from happening.
I could see that. Have you ever seen a past life where the person wasn't human in human form?
Yeah, those are really interesting. I've had lots of off planet past lives. And by the way, these sessions go where they're supposed to go. The higher self will bring you what you're ready to see. A lot of people aren't ready to see that yet.
But a lot of spirit guides are, they present themselves as human, but they look, I've had several sessions where they present themselves as beings from other planets, other dimensions. Wow.
Spirit guides are like, what do you mean by that?
So we all have our higher self, which is imagine our higher self is the full, pure essence of who we are, our light. And we only bring a fraction of that into our human body right now. We're on the way because we're raising our consciousness here on Earth to bring over more. But we can only bring over a little bit. And our higher self is always watching us, helping us, guiding us.
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Chapter 6: How can we break free from karmic loops and toxic patterns?
In the same session, she was a Reiki specialist in Chinatown or something, and she would put Reiki into these objects, and people would take them home. They'd be healed. They'd get lucky. They'd have better relationships. She could move water. from water fountains with her hands.
She was waterbending?
Yeah. Yeah, it was wild. And then at the end of the session, I asked, is there any messages for Jonathan? I don't always ask that. He said, your brother. Your brother's saying he loves you. He's sitting by a bench by a pond with ducks. He's cute. He's saying he loves you and he's happy. Thank you. Wow. And then after the session, I told her my brother died a few months ago.
She didn't know I had a brother. She didn't know what happened at all. And that came through. Wow.
She had no idea. And she knew his name before you even brought it up? She knew it was my brother.
Yeah, she said brother right away.
Wow.
Yeah.
I mean, how would she know that? It could have been anyone. It could have been a friend. It could have been your dad.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of authenticity in healing and growth?
Yeah. That's my most important thing in life. Like trait wise authenticity. Yeah. I feel like I'm finally living in it when a majority of my life I wasn't.
You are. You are. You're genuine. And that's why so many people are gravitate toward this podcast.
Yeah. Yeah. I think it all worked out how it should, but I'm just so at peace with myself right now. Like before I felt like I was constantly being someone else.
Yeah. And me too. I would go to friend groups that were doing this or that. And I didn't even really like those activities. Now I just do what I want and I attract people to me and I'm more happy.
Yeah, same, bro. I was bumping Jonas Brothers on the way here in my car singing out loud. Like I would never be comfortable to do that five, ten years ago, you know?
Yeah, yeah, just be yourself. And we all have that pure essence of who we are before life gets in the way. Kids make fun of us. We kind of cover ourselves up and shield ourselves, but really letting go of that. And that's what these sessions do this. So a lot of times people have tough lives, challenging things happen, and we can choose to let it run our lives or we can choose to heal ourselves.
And that's what this work helps. I help people with PTSD, trauma from childhood or beyond. And in one or a few sessions, it's released.
Wow, that's fast because these people went through decades of trauma.
It's especially first-line responders. People have been to battle, you know, in war, and they think there's no way out. But really, we can rewrite the story with going into the subconscious. We can think about it with our conscious mind, but it doesn't get absorbed. So...
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Chapter 8: How do collective energies and societal influences shape our experiences?
Ryan Hamill, very famous past life story.
Yeah, Mateus DeStefano has quite a few of those too. Does he? Yeah, he just remembers all his past lives. It's crazy. Some people are like that.
Yeah, and by the way, I'm not here to, I want everyone to do their own research on what they believe and what they don't believe, but it's almost talked about like it's a matter of fact in the spiritual realm now. So I'll go over a few kind of validating facts. So past life regression is like an experiment.
We can do it with, I've done this session with people from 57 different countries, thousands, about a thousand sessions, and they just go into their past lives and it's like an experiment. You can do the same thing over and over and you get similar results. Every past life is different.
And then Dolores Cannon's books, Michael Newton's books, so thousands of, probably millions of people at this point,
children's past lives lots of cases like that so and then there's plant medicine which in ayahuasca ceremonies a lot of times past life stuff gets brought up psychics and mediums send a lot of people to me because they say oh there's some stuff in your past lives you might want to look at but they can't clear that like we can with the sessions spiritual books and gurus. So there's so much.
If you look in near-death experiences is one I really wanted to talk about. So many of those now. And you just had Betty G out from addiction to awakening. And I love her. I've never met her, but I love her. For her to go through that challenge and get through it and still have her light Absolutely amazing. And so if you guys are listening, that was a podcast a few months ago that came out.
Yeah, that was a fun one, really impactful and inspiring. I almost died a few times, I believe.
Yeah.
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