A Higher Branch Sam Makhoul

​There is a lot of emotions from your childhood that is stored in your subconscious mind that can affect you physical and mental health in your adult years.

In this episode we welcome back the intriguing conversation between Sam Makhoul and Lyn Macpherson on how hypnotherapy can heal those emotions.

You will learn:


The affects childhood trauma has on you now

The comfort of a good hypnotherapist

Why you need to want to make a change

This treatment is no 'fit for all'

How your addictions now can be part of something so much bigger


Short for time? Skip ahead using the below timestamps:

03:00 - Relationships

04:55 - Lack of connection is increasing

06:21 - Intimacy without connection

09:56 - Do you need trauma before getting hypnotherapy?

12:45 - Working at the unconscious level

15:02 - Couples therapy vs Hypnotherapy

22:57 - Releasing the trauma

27:48 - You need to want change

31:51 - There is no 'fit for all' treatment

38:03 - Why Lyn loves her 'job'

38:39 - How Lyn balances her life

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A lot of our anxieties are locked away deep in our subconscious. As hard as we may try, we cannot control anxiety until we unlock the subconscious and find out the source of our anxiety. Lyn Macpherson is a hypnotherapist who over many years has cured and healed people with trauma and anxiety, even after many years of traditional therapy. She sees anxiety as a message with clues.

In this episode, Lyn shares with Sam some of those clues.

You will learn:

How living in the moment gives you power over your anxieties

The typical anxieties carried around by people these days?

The unconscious and conscious mind

The difference between hypnotherapy and talk therapy

How anxiety is a misunderstood

The body and mind connection

How hypnotherapy is not ‘a one size fits all’

Why are people scared of hypnotherapy

Common causes of addiction


Short for time? Skip ahead using the below timestamps:

1:19 - Challenges in life

2:08 - Sams personal experience

3:10 - Misconceptions of hypnotherapy

4:58 - Anxiety

5:58 - What Involves the unconscious ad conscious mind.

5:57 - The difference between hypnotherapy and talk therapy

8:04 - How anxiety is a misunderstanding of the body and the mind

9:39 - How Lyns has used hypnotherapy

15:15 - Sam’s personal experience

18:35 - Body and mind connection

22:38 - Hypnotherapy is not ‘a one size fits all’

24:50 – Why are people scared of hypnotherapy

30:03 – Common causes of addiction

33:09 – Why you should respect an emotional wound

36:31 - It's necessary to talk about it before being able to let it go

40:06 - What anxiety is being carried around by people these days?

40:31 – Being in the moment is where your power is

47:43 – Who else works with the unconscious mind

51:54 – How clients communicate more then just through there words

53:03 – What does sense of self mean to Lyn

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And just like that... you now have all the 7 pillars to building a beautiful, healthy life. Today Sam Makhoul and Dr Scott Wustenberg finalise the series on the 7 S's with part 2 on stress. Stress can play a huge part in your life whether that be acute or chronic. But the impact of stress is reversible as you will find out in this episode.

You will learn:

The difference between acute and chronic stress

How stress can impact your body

How people can get addicted to stress-related hormones

The importance of cutting toxic people from your life

How to combat stress with a 3 step plan

and so much more


Short for time? Skip ahead using the below timestamps:

03:42 - What this episode will cover

04:20 - Can people be addicted to stress

06:50 - Stress response and resilience is learned behaviour

07:21 - Stress can be reversed

08:06 - Chronic stress

10:59 - Direct trauma

18:08 - Examples of stress to avoid

26:49 - Is sitting too long stressful on the body?

28:57 - Your stress toolkit

37:55 - Medicine for stress

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When stress is left unchecked the impact on our physical and emotional health can be debilitating. It can develop into anxiety and depression.

Most of us ignore the early signs of stress thinking we can reverse it at any time. For others they are in denial. They tell themselves i can stop my stress at any time. The reality is that once stress takes a hold in your system the effects of adrenaline and cortisol can become addictive.

In today's episode Sam Makhoul and Dr Scott Wustenberg discuss how to identify the early signs, the two biggest causes and how to stop stress before it takes hold.

You will learn:


The main causes of stress

How stress can effect you

The different responses to stress

How to use stress positively

and how to stop stress from turning into anxiety and depression



Short for time? Skip ahead using the below timestamps:

02:34 - How you should view stress

03:44 - How connection plays a positive role in stress

04:31 - We have to reframe stress

07:04 - Resource management

12:07 - The challenges in the 8 areas of life

16:18 - Hope, things can be better

18:50 - People who live stress free lives

25:16 - The threat from disconnectedness

27:03 - Isolation is the most dangerous stress

29:39 - Marketing fear to sell a product

35:53 - The four responses to stress

46:45 - The impact stress has on our body

44:17 - Isolation will breed fear in you


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The most important S in the series. You are going to love this podcast where Sam Makhoul and Dr Scott Wustenberg take us through how important it is to socialise for your health and wellbeing, how fearing connection takes a huge toll on your immune system, your questions answered about returning to the workplace and on the more positive side, the importance of socialising with your loved ones, friends and your work family.

Continuing through the 7 S's, we can guarantee this episode will resonate with you in one way or another.

You will learn:


The importance of socialising

Connecting with your work family

Why you should consider returning to the workplace

How connecting helps yourself, loved ones and strangers

Why you shouldn't fear others


Short for time? Skip ahead using the below timestamps:

01:27 - Meet Dr Scott Wustenberg

03:34 - Readjusting to the workplace

05:38 - Connection protects your immunity

08:41 - Why you should go back to the office

11:06 - Research on the Spanish Flu

12:37 - Disconnection can be harmful

15:21 - Love your work family and workplace

20:49 - Disconnect > recharge > connect

26:36 - Sam's longevity conference experience

27:48 - Fearing others

31:08 - Impacts of wearing face masks

36:07 - Connecting benefits our economy

39:42 - Robots vs connecting through electronics

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Humans are solar powered creatures. Our skin and our eyes serve as solar panels for the absorption of UV rays that stimulate the production of many hormones including Vitamin D (which is in fact a hormone), human growth hormones. Vitamin D has over 3000 functions in our body ranging from immune system to mood boosting. The ultimate benefits of the sun include higher energy, better gut health and deeper sleep powered by hormones such as serotonin and melatonin.

Getting sun is just as important as breathing and water. Its an essential nutrient. We need to chase the sun!

Join Sam Makhoul and Dr Scott Wustenberg in this weeks short episode which is filled with important information on Sunshine; forming part of the 7 S's series. They discuss why the sun is so important and what benefits and nutrients you can gain from it.

You will learn:


Reasons why the sun is so important

Why Vitamin D is essential

The difference between UVAs & UVBs

The impact that different colour light has on us

And much more


Short for time? Skip ahead using the below timestamps:

02:43 - Why sunshine is so important

04:11 - Why Vitamin D is so important

04:49 - The difference between UVAs and UVBs

07:43 How sunshine and sleep work together

08:20- The benefits of melatonin

09:55 - Where and when in Australia do we lose the sun in winter

11:11 - Sun safety

13:19 - The relevance of different spectrums of light

16:03 - The importance of the sun for women

18:39 - Sunshine and exercise

20:29 - What the sun really represents

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