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THE TECHNICIAN PODCAST Your Dad Didn't Hurt You. Your 9-Year-Old Brain Did. | Mitch Hunter

What if the thing you've been carrying your whole life..the wound, the unworthiness, the need to prove yourself .. was never actually about what happened to you... but about the story your child brain made up about what happened?

This week I sat down with Mitch Hunter - physiotherapist turned meditation teacher, academic turned mystic, and one of the most grounded spiritual humans I've ever met.

Mitch has 30+ years of meditation practice, has trained in Buddhist monasteries and caves in India, worked in chronic pain at university level, and had a stabilised spiritual awakening in 2019 that completely redirected his life.

This conversation went places I didn't expect. We talked about what meditation actually is (and why most people are doing it wrong), how your nervous system holds onto experiences your conscious mind has forgotten, and why the most powerful healing tool on the planet isn't a technique, it's your own awareness.

Mitch shared the story of a childhood memory that surfaced during deep meditation.. his dad burning two sticks that meant the world to him as a 9-year-old ..and how seeing that moment through adult eyes dissolved decades of overachieving, people-pleasing, and proving his worth. No therapy. No framework. Just objective truth.

We also went deep on my own journey — a past life experience during holotropic breathwork that unlocked a shame pattern I'd carried my entire life, and how one moment of being truly seen cracked it wide open.

In this episode:

— Why concentration comes before meditation and why most people skip the step that matters most

— The difference between data and drama, and how your brain weaponizes meaning against you

— How Mitch went from physiotherapy clinic to Buddhist monasteries to a 5,000-year-old temple ceremony with 2 million people

— What actually happens in the body during a spiritual awakening (and why Mitch lost 10kg in 3 weeks)

— The one question that changes everything: "What literally happened?"

— Why the people most triggered by your truth are the ones who need you most

— How living your truth isn't about chasing peak experiences

— it's about being fully present while you take your sausage dog for a pee

This one's for the men who've done the work but still feel like something's missing underneath it all.

Connect with Mitch Hunter: Instagram: @_hunterhealing

Website: hunterhealing.com

Email: hunterhealing@gmail.com

Connect with Trav: Instagram: @thetechnician

Podcast: The Technician Podcast