Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) is the methodology developed by Dolores Cannon (1931–2014) over four decades of clinical practice. It is, fundamentally, a deep-trance technique — what Cannon called “the somnambulistic state” — in which the client’s analytical mind recedes and access opens to material the conscious mind does not normally reach.

The basic structure

A QHHT session typically runs four to six hours and follows a consistent shape:

1. Interview. A long pre-session conversation in which the practitioner learns the client’s life context, questions, physical issues, and intentions for the session.
2. Induction. A guided relaxation that brings the client into deep trance.
3. Past-life exploration. The client is invited to access scenes from what subjectively presents as a past life. Multiple lives may emerge; the relevant life — the one with material bearing on the client’s present questions — typically becomes apparent.
4. The Subconscious phase. Cannon’s distinctive contribution. After the past-life work, the practitioner addresses what she called “the Subconscious” (her capitalized term, distinct from the Freudian sense) — a deeper aspect of the client that she found could often answer questions about the client’s life, health, and purpose with surprising specificity and consistency.
5. Post-session integration. Audio recording is given to the client to listen to repeatedly. Cannon found that integration continues for weeks or months afterward.

What makes QHHT distinctive

Two things, in Cannon’s own framing:

• The depth of trance. Most clinical hypnosis works at lighter levels of trance. Cannon insisted on the somnambulistic depth, which she said was where the more interesting material became accessible.
• The Subconscious dialogue. This is the most distinctive — and most contested — element of the method. Practitioners report a consistent voice and intelligence that emerges in this phase, often markedly different from the client’s normal personality, and capable of answering questions in ways that surprise the client when they listen to the recording afterward.

Reading Cannon

Cannon’s books are not academic in style. They read like field notes from a long, ongoing investigation, with case material at the center. The Convoluted Universe series is the most extensive, but newcomers often start with Between Death and Life or The Three Waves of Volunteers.

The honest reader’s path: take the case material seriously as data, suspend judgment on the cosmological framework Cannon herself drew from it, and form your own view from the patterns.

Practitioners

QHHT practitioners are now found in many countries, certified through Cannon’s training programs (continued by her daughter, Julia Cannon). Quality varies; word-of-mouth recommendations matter.

Key readings

• Dolores Cannon, Five Lives Remembered (2009) — Cannon’s account of how the methodology developed.
• Dolores Cannon, Between Death and Life (1993) — accessible introduction to the past-life and between-life material.
• Dolores Cannon, The Convoluted Universe (Books 1–5) — the long ongoing case archive.
• Julia Cannon, Soul Speak (2013) — Cannon’s daughter’s complementary work on the Subconscious.

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Last updated: May 2026.