Power In Your Hands

Past Life Regression is a technique used to take a person back through time using hypnosis, so far back in time that the memories of previous lifetimes are rediscovered and explored. This technique is recommended for repressed traumas carried from a previous life time, healing, historical obsession, interpretation of recurring dreams, spiritual connection, karmic debt and association with familiar people – often regarded as “soul mates”.

Reincarnation to me is a theory, a philosophy, a belief system and a way of life – no end without beginning, no beginning without end . . .

My Interpretation
It explains many of the unexplained occurrences in life and can also justify the inequalities and suffering some individuals experience on the earth plane. As a Spiritualist, it provides me with a model of behaviour and living based on personal responsibility. I personally believe in life plans that are devised with assistance of our spiritual guides before we return to Earth. As master of your own future destiny “what you are today is the result of your past and that what you will become tomorrow is determined by how you will live today” (Ted Andrews).

I believe that each of us possesses a soul that exists after death of the physical body and that it returns time and time again to other bodies in a progressive effort to reach a higher plane of development. It has been debated that the soul knows every thing there is to know (so further knowledge is not necessary), but needs to experience. Therefore, Earth is a learning zone of experiences. The soul needs to experience to progress by overcoming karmic debt/misdemeanours and develop. Michael Newton puts forward a good debate that on rebirth, conscious amnesia stops souls from carrying baggage from past lives over into the current one to enhance opportunities, life experiences and development of the soul. Conscious amnesia is not as proficient in children – whom may often talk of “other families” and certain individuals may carry trauma between life’s as well has having conscious flash backs.

Personal Responsibility
The study of reincarnation and past lives can help us identify patterns beyond the immediate. It can help us become more responsible with our choices, whether it is a choice to create a new life or to behave in a particular manner. In order to change behaviour effectively, we must root out its source. Once information or knowledge of past lives is uncovered, it can assist in opening new depths within your own psychological make-up. It can then provide greater insight into your present circumstances.

Past life information cannot be interpreted simply. Psychology is not an exact science and many aspects of the mind and its functions are still a complete mystery. Science investigation of past life recall has been impressive enough to support a belief in the possibility of reincarnation yet critics would argue the evidence is insufficient to prove it conclusively. Other explanations of past life recall suggest that the memories are not images of past lives but are produced by telepathy, spirit possession, inherited memory, collective consciousness and cryptomnesia (information that is forgotten or repressed but which comes to the surface in via a mediumship).

Regression is a trip in time to an earlier period – either an earlier period in this current life or a past life. Hypnosis has proved an excellent tool for making this trip (alongside many other therapies). In terms of regression, any self discovery process can be scary. However, if we wish to take a more conscious control of our lives and set new patterns, we must be able to identify those old patterns at their roots. Only then is it possible to progress forward.

There are 3 alternative theories to what Past Life Regression could be: -

REINCARNATION - One school of thought is that we each return to this world over and over again in order to experience, learn and evolve. I believe that each of us possesses a soul that exists after death of the physical body and that it returns time and time again to other bodies in a progressive effort to reach a higher plane of development. It has been debated that the soul knows every thing there is to know (so further knowledge is not necessary), but needs to experience. Therefore, Earth is a learning zone of experiences. The soul needs to experience to progress by overcoming karmic debt/misdemeanours and develop.

A VIVID IMAGINATION - Perhaps we just make it all up? Of course, everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. However, over the years there are many individual cases that can be documented through historical research, which can prove the accuracy of the information, far beyond the chances of random imagination.

SOUL MEMORY - This theory embraces the idea that an individual can access the memory of another soul by way of the 'Akashic' records - the spiritual record of everything that has ever happened. To some people this theory is quite acceptable, but it cannot account for the continuance of character traits which would appear to pass from one life to the next.

The language of the subconscious mind is images and symbols. Imagination is the faculty of imaging, or forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses, and the action or process of forming such images or concepts. It helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process.

The Process of Regression
To activate imagination we use visualisation – creating images, pictures and colours in our mind. It is believed that every life experience encountered; emotion and thought is stored as data in the sub conscious mind in image form. Subjects need to be stimulated initially by visualisation into deep relaxation (after focalised breathing exercises and progressive muscle relaxation). It is therefore more of an emotional response, breaking down and understanding what they are seeing/experiencing and names/dates are usually the first name or spontaneous answer (first thing that comes into their head when asked the question).

The subconscious mind is like the hard drive of a computer where all the personal data (or information) that you have ever experienced is created and saved. Past Life Regression is the program used to access data. It is the role of the Therapist (me) to activate memory or retrieve the data with your assistance. The language used to communicate from the subconscious to the conscious mind via images. The subject and therapist must then decipher their meanings by asking questions and asking about emotions.