
Past Life Regression allows for the recall of memories, experiences, and emotions involved with previous lives that continue to influence an individual's present day existence on an unconscious level. By allowing hidden influences and behaviors from the past to be expressed in present day awareness, it is possible to free oneself from negative patterns, beliefs, and physical ailments that no longer serve an individual in this life.
Reincarnation:
For the most part, people in the East believe in reincarnation, but it's not readily accepted by Western society. Many churches reject the doctrine of past-lives, and their members can be skeptical or even hostile when confronted with the possibility of the soul having previous incarnations on earth. Past-life regressions under hypnosis are most often cited as evidence (the only evidence) substantiating the concept. For those who doubt that hypnosis is real, or think it imagination or confabulation, the evidence seems shaky. Nevertheless, the case for reincarnation is far from insubstantial.
The best evidence we have that reincarnation exists consists of:
Waking-state (normal) memories of past-lives. Many young children have memories of a previous existence, and make remarks to their parents that may seem preposterous. Yet, in documented cases, some children were able to identify their previous homes and recognize their former relatives and friends. Adults retain memories of past-lives too. There are some cases where past-life information would have been difficult to obtain, yet when researched, the information proved accurate.
Documented cases exist of two or more people, strangers to each other, remembering the same past-life event in great detail.
People speaking or writing in foreign languages (even dead languages) while regressed to the appropriate time and place.
Is Past Life Regression Real?
Not all experiences recalled in a Past Life Regression (PLR) have actually been lived out in a former lifetime. Whether or not hypnotic past life regressions consistently uncover past life experiences is likely to remain open for debate. Past life recollections are not necessarily complete or accurate; so the mind often remembers the most emotionally laden events, and fill in the rest with confabulations. This is typical of us in our present-life memories as well. Your memory and your imagination come from the same source. However, that which comes out of the subconscious mind in dreams, imagining or fantasy symbolizes some aspect of a person's life, so what is retrieved as past-life memories can also be metaphors for present-life events and circumstances. Yet, whether the memories are real or imagined, it's of no significance if the recalled experience solves the problem or offers insight; which is usually the case.
Successful resolution of trauma can result from properly conducted past life regression therapy; and the value of past life regression has been demonstrated again and again. Recalling a past event, usually done with vivid emotion, typically results in resolving the problem; and people tend to identify with the memory far more dramatically than if they were fabricating it. From a therapeutic standpoint, the hypnotherapist need not evaluate the truth of the client's story. The story merely has to help heal the client.
Metaphysical Exploration
More and more people want to explore their inner awareness through a past life regression. PLRs can be done in a private session or in small groups. Private sessions have the advantage of focused interactivity between the regressionist and the journeyor and that allows for a deeper exploration because the client can answer questions and describe his experience while in trance. Another advantage of a private session is that you may be provided with an audio tape of your personal experience to review from time to time.
Clinical Application of Past Life Therapy
Past life memories may come to us in many guises, i.e.: the deja vu experience; recurrent dreams of a specific location or of a frightening event; or perhaps a crippling phobia or an unexplained fear.
In a clinical setting, clients explore the possibility that present life problems may stem from traumatic events (or in their belief in them) from prior lifetimes. For example, a fear of water, public speaking, or heights (to name a few common phobias) may relate to the 'memory' of a death by drowning, hanging, choking, or perhaps falling from a high place.
As these past life traumas are explored and resolved, the phobias can cease to be for the client. Today, past life therapy is being used effectively by increasing numbers of mental health professionals all over the world.
In the "Affect Bridge Technique", through the emotional "feelings" and "body sensations" associated with a present life problem, the client is prompted to locate the source or cause of the "feeling". Sometimes this leads to a painful past life memory. The client, in the personality of the past-life character, is guided through the traumatic episode in that lifetime, and possibly through the death experience in that lifetime. The hypnotherapist assists the client in resolving any remaining emotional issues, any unfinished business in that life, and integrates the experience into the present life situation. The past life character, as spirit, moves away from the body and the death scene and fully into the light in a way similar to the near death experience (NDE).
A surprising number of emotional problems and conflicts are quickly and effectively resolved through past life regression therapy, and often in far fewer sessions than with conventional therapy. Many psychosomatic physical ailments can diminish or cease altogether through past life regression therapy.