Past Life Regressions: The Process and Value of Past Life Exploration
Hypnotists and metaphysicians have learned the value of using past life regressions to help their clients discover the root causes of deeply ingrained problems, phobias, and conditions that cannot be explained by any event in the current lifetime. A client, for example, who has an overwhelming fear of being trapped in an enclosed space (claustrophobia) and has no history of being confined in this life, may be regressed to a previous life in which he was killed in an avalanche or a collapsing coal mine. The soul retains all memories and particularly traumatic events, especially those that result in death, can affect future lives as the soul tries to protect the physical body from re-experiencing the trauma. A man, therefore, who is afraid of enclosed places will not seek employment in the mines, thus avoiding a similar fate in the current lifetime.
Some hypnotists reject the validity of past life regressions and insist that all conditions have their cause in some traumatic childhood event. A hypnotist with whom I attended a class many years ago insisted that all the overweight females he had ever treated could trace their problems back to childhood sexual molestation! As you can see by my photo at the top of the article, I am no dainty thing, and I promise you that there has been absolutely no childhood trauma of that sort in my life. Unfortunately, some hypnotists, having developed a theory based on a percentage of their clients, insist on applying it to all similar clients, whether the theory fits or not. This is not to denigrate hypnotists, for this occurs in any profession, especially the medical and scientific fields, where egos play a large part in the practice of said professions. Again, it is only a small percentage of practitioners that have this problem.
Even hypnotists who do not believe in reincarnation or the living of multiple lives, occasionally find their clients experiencing a spontaneous past life regression. This can occur when the suggestion is given for the client to go back to the original cause of a problem or phobia without direction to search within the present lifetime. Imagine the hypnotist’s surprise when the client begins to describe being attacked and killed by a pack of wild dogs in the 14th century English countryside, explaining his irrational fear of all dogs in the present life.
The following case studies may better illustrate the value of past life regressions.
- A young teenage girl develops a feeling of being unsafe at school and around unknown people. At the same time, she also finds herself feeling inexplicably angry with nearly everyone in her life. She consciously realizes that there is no foundation for the anger, but is powerless to prevent the emotion. She develops great physical self control, luckily, and does not allow herself to take out her anger on others. Instead, she restrains herself until she is safe in her room and unleashes the anger by throwing stuffed animals and playing loud heavy metal music. Some days she feels she may be losing her mind. Her mother, a psychic and metaphysician, understands that the root cause of all this does not stem from the loving and nurturing childhood she has had, and arranges for her daughter, at the age of twenty, to undergo a past life regression.
The girl during regression experiences a life during 17th century England in which she is married, against her will, to a much older man, He physically abuses her and keeps her captive in his manor, far away from friends and family. He is jealous of any man who looks at her and flies into a rage if she is seen speaking or laughing with any male not of his choosing. For appearances, she must entertain her husband’s guests without seeming to enjoy the conversation or company too much. As she is a friendly and gregarious person, this is difficult to do. The long months and years of separation from family and friends begin to weigh heavily and the lack of attention and warmth from her husband begin to affect her.
One day the husband is called away to serve the king and since he will be absent for a prolonged period, hires a guard to protect her from the world, and to keep her imprisoned until his return. The guard is a handsome and personable young man who has witnessed the young wife’s cruel treatment at her husband’s hand. The inevitable happens and they fall in love. They are clever and discreet and are able to keep the affair a secret even after the husband’s return. The wife manages to persuade her husband that the child she bears in the year of his return is his heir. Life, though far from perfect, is better for her. She has her son and she has her lover, who she sees only when the husband is absent.
One day, though, the rumor of the affair reaches the husband’s ear and he vows to discover the truth of it. He prepares to leave again, but returns unexpectedly the following night and discovers his wife in the arms of her lover. Enraged, he shouts at her, throws her against the stone wall, then draws his sword and runs the lover through, ending his life and destroying the only real love she has ever known. Knowing that she will be next, the wife picks up her lover’s sword from the floor and in a red rage, plunges it into his back, killing him. The servants rush in to investigate and find the wife, bloody and hysterical, cradling the body of her dead lover and cursing the soul of her husband. She is taken to the Tower of London, as both she and the husband were of royal lineage, and then beheaded.
In the present, the young woman resonates to the truth of the regression. She has seen pictures of Traitor’s Gate at the Tower of London and recalls arriving by boat there to be executed. The hypnotist has given her a post-hypnotic suggestion that she will be able to forgive the husband and to clear the emotional remnants of that lifetime from her soul. Shortly afterward, the woman visits a local restaurant with her family and sits at the table while the others go to the salad bar. A man approaches and gruffly asks her to move so that his rather large party can sit together. She begins to shake and recognizes him as the husband from the regression, though he shows no recognition at all. She recalls all that happened and is filled with an almost uncontrollable rage. But as she sits there waiting for her family to return to the table, she understands the need to forgive and release that lifetime in order to move ahead in the present one. She takes a deep breath, speaks to him from her soul, and asks his forgiveness as well as granting him hers. A feeling of peace envelopes her and the irrational, inexplicable anger dissipates, never to return.
- Ann wants to have children someday. Her real desire is to be a stay at home wife and mother making a home for her family. But even as a teenager, she does not feel comfortable with other people’s children. She has a deep fear of being the sole caretaker and babysits children only in the company of her older sister. She even gets uncomfortable holding her nephews as infants and refuses to take any sole responsibility for them. She loves them dearly, but has a deep seated fear of being solely responsible for them. She seeks a regression to find the answers. In regression, she relives the second world war in London. She is a teenager who is responsible for taking the children on her building down to the air raid shelter during the German bombings. One night, a bomb hits the next building and the resulting fire destroys the entire block. Although she has rescued two of he children, six others perish in the fire. She has carried the guilt of those deaths within her soul for all those years, affecting her ability to have a normal and comfortable relationship with her nephews and her friends’ children. Once she understood the root cause of the fear, she was able to release it and forgive herself, knowing that no one could have saved the children under those circumstances.
These are only two of the hundreds of thousands of people who have been helped through the use of past life regression. They are valid and valuable tools in the investigation of the cause of problems and phobias that cannot be explained by events in the present lifetime. If you are interested in past life regression, please contact one of the hypnotists listed at the end of the article or consult the Yellow Pages for more listings.
Please email me if you have questions about this, or any other metaphysical subject that you would like for me to cover in a future article.
Those who are doing:
Certified Hypnotist Renee Sakr discusses her work with cancer patients:
“When I work with cancer patients, the first thing I do is help them to get over the moment when they heard the bad terrifying news from their Doctor telling them they have cancer. The moment the Doctor said that sentence; their mind instantly went back and saw a negative picture about somebody they know who has cancer, or somebody who died with cancer etc. Because great states of fear or happiness are like hypnosis, they create quick and lasting programming. If they do not let go of those pictures, then they become a part of their new programming and it is something that they remember many times during their day. It lives with them in their days and in their nights, even in their dreams; it becomes a part of them. So we work on the triggered pictures that happened in their minds when they knew the bad news. Then accepting the fact and deciding to take charge and deal with it, we are giving ourselves hope messages of "Live" instead of a "Die message" which is very destructive and does not in any way help the healing process.
I also work with them on finding their spiritual connection with the world and the universal energy. A good connection with spirituality, and I am not saying religion, helps people have more hope and accept their situations and put it in the hands of the universal power they themselves chose. That by itself is life changing.
After all that is done, they become more powerful because they take charge of their disease and they decide to live their life the way they want, not the way the cancer might take them. Taking charge helps people physically and mentally start acting with self-confidence. Some people decide to do their own research to find out which way they want to lead their life; some others adopt some of the things that are offered or suggested to them, like changes they need to implement in their lives to help them deal with the situation.
I help them create new eating patterns and new eating programs to reinforce their blood and hormone biology and give them all the energy and nutrients they need to fight the cancer. I help them help themselves to shrink the cancer, improve the immune system and strengthen it with visualization and guided imagery (visualization & guided imagery have been proven by a lot of medical researchers and scientists to be very effective in diseases and life improvement and enhancement).
I work with them with Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy to reduce the side effects of the chemotherapy and radiation, including keeping their hair rather than losing it. I also help them control their sleeping patterns to prevent insomnia, because lack of sleep affects people's health in a lot of negative ways by interfering with re-generation and rejuvenation. Both of the latter happen during deep sleep or R.E.M. (Rapid Eye Movement).
I help them replace their old programming with new positive ones. New ways of thinking and perceiving have changed the lives of many people.”
Renee N. Sakr, BCHT, CI.
You can call Renee for an appointment for a private session at (904) 434-2728, or visit her web site
www.GoldliteHypnosisInstitute.com/
Other hypnotists:
Ben Edmondson, 387-4489
Lynn Groves, 514-0380
Diane Hansen, 642-8150
Linda M. Moore, 771-1110
Dale Starr, 403-6132
