Have you ever watched a movie of a historical event and been
overcome with sadness and grief? Have you ever walked into a historical site
and experienced extreme anxiety, for no reason? Have you ever met a stranger and felt déjà vu---we’ve met
before? These emotions are not random.
Human beings do not have random emotions. These emotions are
attached to unconscious memories. The most effective way to deal with
unconscious emotions resulting from traumatic events in this current life, or
that are attached to past life events is Past Life Therapy (PLT), which is
often called often called Regression Therapy.
To my thinking, Past Life Therapy (PLT) should be called
life therapy. As a “life therapy” the goal is to free the individual in all
aspects of life---to be the person you want to be mind, body and spirit.
Mind, body, and spirit living is a holistic way of living.
In the U. S. we are having a renaissance in our approach to spiritual living.
People are recognizing that the enlivening, immortal spirit continues always
and is a resource today. We are recognizing that the mind is a nearly unlimited
storehouse of data. The beliefs and value judgments we attach to this data
create our quality of life mind/emotions, body and spirit.
What is Past Life Regression? It is branch of hypnotherapy,
which has grown over the last 50 years to be an important addition to the
healing arts. It is a therapeutic technique for accessing and re-experiencing
your past lives directly.
What does the average person have to gain from past life
therapy? The most essential answer is to say less stress. Do not
underestimate the power of this statement—less stress. Stress leads to inflammation (heart disease, cancer,
obesity, high blood pressure diabetes, etc.), emotional issues (depression,
anxiety, post-traumatic stress, obsession, addiction), relationship problems,
work problems, negative self-judgment, and more.
The historical or religious connotations of the words “past
lives” are a huge topic requiring a knowledge base I do not have---there are
many good books in the library. Hans TenDam, Dutch psychologist and
internationally known PLT instructor, warns us---don’t get lost in “past life
tourism.” In other words, the past life is only important in what it brings to
the current life for good or ill.
It is thought that child prodigies who are piano virtuosos,
speak languages they have never heard, solve intricate mathematical equations,
and have specific knowledge of geography and historical events are really
tapping in to past life memories.
According to Hans TenDam, PLT is regression therapy in which
we accept that scenes from apparent past lives may emerge. Regression therapy
derives its name from its method: recovering and reliving past experiences. The
goal is the release of tension and anxiety that results from repressed feelings
by bringing memories into consciousness.
Dr. Morris Netherton, my mentor, tells us it is not
necessary for the client to believe in past lives for the process to work. Nor
does the client need to have a specific religious, or spiritual outlook. What
is needed is a willingness to accept that his/her own unconscious mind holds
all the answers to current problems. Netherton focuses on the here and now life
concerns.
British psychiatrist Denys Kelsey became well known in the
1950’s for his work in past life regression. He compared past-life therapy as a
process with his work using traditional psychiatric techniques. Kelsey stated,
“In a maximum of twelve hours of regression therapy, I can accomplish what will
take a psychoanalyst three years.” (Source: Graham 1976) This speaks to the
efficiency, effectiveness of the past-life therapy process.
Past-life therapy is generally short-term therapy, though
the sessions are longer and tend to be more intensive than typical
psychotherapy. Rabia Clark’s research (1995) shows that most therapists (74%)
typically combine working in past lives with other therapeutic methods.
Past-life therapy is a specialized form of regression therapy where you may
regress to any point in life—adulthood, child hood, infancy, birth and the time
in the womb, or previous to now.
Many therapists (26%) also do past-life therapy with
children starting at about eight years of age. The main motives are childhood
fears and phobias. Other motives are bed-wetting, dyslexia, depression, anger
and hyperactivity.
Hans TenDam tells us about one third of clients will
experience a past life while about one third remain in this life. About one
third relive childhood events that appear to be older traumas that may be
stimulated by past life memories. Brian Weiss, MD, psychiatrist in the U. S.,
(1993) found that about 40% of his patients had to go to past lives to solve
their concerns.
Ten Dam tells us 40 percent of clients need regression to
previous lifetimes as a key to emotional and physical healing. “When past life
therapy is used to bring these long-repressed memories to awareness,
improvement in the current symptoms is usually swift and dramatic.”
The clients’ primary motives for past-life therapy:
1. Fears and phobias.
2. Relationship problems and
problems of connecting with people in general.
3. Depressions.
4. Physical complaints without
medical explanation or not responding to medical care.
5. Sexual problems.
6. Addictions.
7. Obesity and eating
disorders.
Dr. Roger Woolger takes a spiritual approach. In an
interview with Simon Martin (Here’s Health, December, 1991), Woolger tells us
“past life memories are the autobiography of your eternal soul-—personal
stories that explain who you are now and why you’re here on Earth.”
According to Woolger, “Fragments of past life memories often
surface in dreams or at unexpected moments, perhaps as inexplicable abilities
or as feelings of familiarity with places, historical periods and characters
and the like.”
Woolger has a theory that false memories of abuse may be
explained by past-life memories resurfacing during trauma. Woolger, states
“Child abuse leads to shock, which can put children into an altered
psychological state. And in that state they may well contact fragments of
memories from past lives.”
Woolger asks, “How many of us through history have lost
loved ones, seen our families wiped out by war and plague, and have not grieved?
It takes a lot of energy to block feelings of pain, especially when we know we
“should” be happy.” Past life/regression therapy gives allows us to put to rest
patterns of sadness, sorrow and regret.
Dr. Woolger is a leading theorist and practitioner of past
life therapy. His book Other Lives, Other Selves, is viewed to be one of
the most comprehensive introductions to the psychological depths of past life
regression.
Regression therapy is not to be confused with a past
life reading, which is a passive process and has little therapeutic effect.
Although some individuals try past life regression out of curiosity to see who
they were in the past, for most it’s a path for personal growth and healing.
The benefits of Past Life Regression come with the help of a
trained past life therapist, who can help you:
- Release
fears and anxieties linked to past life traumas
- See
personal relationships in a new light
- Release
past life traumas at the root of physical problems
- Energize
talents and abilities from the past
- Experience
the transitional states of death and beyond
- Understand and align with life purpose
Carol Bowman tells us we “were born not as a blank slate,
but as a soul rich with both the wisdom and scars from many lifetimes.” Our
unconscious memories create the patterns of choice and action that we weave
into quality of life.
My life has been a
tapestry of rich and royal hue,
An everlasting
vision of the ever-changing view
A wondrous woven
magic in bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel
and see, impossible to hold
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