Hypnosis For Past Life Regression: Is It Any Good?
If you are fascinated by the idea of previous lifetimes and wonder if past-life regression therapy would reveal something that might explain your current life experiences, then this article is for you. I’ll explain what happens during a past life regression and discuss whether it’s a good idea to undergo hypnosis for a past life regression session with an actual hypnotherapist.
I have been a qualified hypnotherapist for the past fifteen years and have conducted over 100 past life regression sessions over the years. Most of them have been conducted completely safely and had the desired outcome for the client. There were three sessions I have guided over those years that have resulted in the client needing more sessions to deal with the unexpected negative emotions that some of their experiences caused. So should you do it, or not? If you’re wondering if hypnosis for past life regression is any good, read on!
What Happens When You Do A Past Life Regression?
Past life regression is fascinating for most people. There are varying opinions and beliefs about PLR. Some people believe the past life actually exists. Other people use it as a metaphor to help them let go of some problem or issue that they have. My opinion is to keep an open mind at all times. With past life regression clients over the years, I have had wildly different results. With some, I reckon they were definitely imagining their past life. A couple of clients left me gobsmacked, such as the story of Jane which you will find a little later on in this article.
As regards what happens, a typical past life session will have a number of parts
- Deep Relaxation: The relaxation experienced during a past life session is typically deeper than that experienced for any other issue. This will feel like you are in a deep dream world. I’ve never had a client who didn’t find that state very pleasurable and enjoyable.
- Guided By An Expert: Doing past life regression is not something that you should do by yourself. Typically, a past life regression session is done with a qualified and experienced hypnotherapist. Past life regression therapy needs to be overseen by someone who understands the concept of “clean language”. In other words, the past life regressionist has to be careful not to use wording that might cause the subconscious mind to produce false memories of past lives. I always explain to my PLR clients at the first appointment that the most important principle for an effective past life regression session is to identify any negative patterns of thinking and behaving in memories of a previous life to understand better what’s going on in your present life. When PLR sessions are used in this way, past life memories can be an effective tool in helping to solve emotional problems in current lives.
- Why It’s Useful: Many people want to find out about previous lives just to have a good laugh or to impress their friends, while others will seek out past life regression therapists because they feel it will help them with health issues, physical symptoms, relationship issues, childhood traumas or irrational fears.
How Do You Find Out Who You Were In A Past Life?
I think that the human race has a fascination with past life regression because of a completely different question. We are all fascinated by what happens when we die. Because none of us have ever died and come back to tell everyone what it was like, we are left with religious beliefs or skepticism. The idea of doing a past-life regression session and finding a past life memory that would confirm that you definitely lived a former life would give most people a sense of reassurance that we carry on after death.
If you are really interested in past lives, then here are some things you can do before contacting a hypnotherapist who specializes in past life regression:
- Attraction: What buildings are you attracted to? What places have special meaning or significance for you? What person are you drawn to? Write down anything you find curious about places or people that seem to attract you.
- Dreams: Do you have any recurring themes in your sleep? Keep a journal next to your bed and the moment you awaken, jot down some information about what you were dreaming about.
- Self Suggestion: Repeat an instruction to your unconscious mind before you go to sleep that it is to bring to the surface any details (if any) it stores about past lives. Given time and patience, this may reveal something.
Finally, seek out a good, experienced, and qualified hypnotherapist who has experience in this area. A question to ask them is if they know how to use “clean language”. An example of “clean language” would be saying “Tell me where you are now” instead of “Tell me where you are in this past life”. The latter assumes it is a past life and is subtly leading your unconscious mind. This is something a good therapist would not do.
How Do You Know If You Have Past Life Trauma?
These are some of the main indicators of a past life trauma:
- Unexplained Problems: If you have emotional problems or patterns of behavior that you just can’t seem to find a rational explanation for, these could be an indicator of past life trauma.
- Unexplained Triggering: Certain places or people trigger negative emotions but you just can’t seem to understand why.
- Detachment: If you feel emotionally detached but you just can’t seem to figure out why, then you might find the answer in a past life.
To deal with and resolve these issues, you can do traditional psychotherapy or counseling, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Hypnotherapy, EFT, or any one of many possible therapies. I would suggest attempting these routes first. Doing a past life regression may seem like an obvious route to a solution for you, but it does contain some pretty sizeable risks which we will discuss below.
How Do You Clear Past Life Trauma?
There are a number of steps to this:
- Acknowledge The Trauma: A good therapist will help you to recognize and acknowledge the trauma. We first have to accept that what the experience was, it was traumatic for us at the time. If this trauma relates to a current lifetime problem, we have to understand and acknowledge that connection.
- Let It Go: An experienced therapist will guide you through a number of techniques that will help you to let those emotions go as you are re-experiencing the traumatic event during past-life hypnosis sessions. This is achieved by creating a safe space within your experience of the past life so that if anything threatens to overwhelm you in that experience, you can always retreat for a minute or two to your safe space to gather yourself.
- Aftercare: Your PLR therapist will advise you about how to deal with the aftermath of a PLR session if it has uncovered a memory that is in some way disturbing.
Remember, there is no guarantee that the trauma you discover in a past life can be healed quickly. You may just have opened a can of worms that may necessitate further sessions to resolve properly.
Benefits of Past Life Regression Hypnosis
Have you ever felt a certain affinity with a certain era or historical period? Or have you ever felt that a certain experience was like a deja vu experience? More importantly, is there something in your life today that you just can’t seem to get beyond? Maybe a past life holds the key to finally resolving that issue and moving on. Here are a number of ways in which discovering your past lives can help you:
- Healing: Resolving some trauma in a past life can help you to overcome some unresolved issues in this life. You can also recognize negative patterns that may be similar to what you do in your current life and maybe understand better where they originated, allowing you to finally discontinue those negative patterns.
- Relationship Style: You may find some insight into your current relationship style by observing your style in a previous life.
- Self Awareness: The experiences you uncover in a past life may help you to have a better relationship with your higher self.
Side Effects Of Past Life Regression
There are some potentially serious side effects that have to be understood before having a past life regression session. They are:
- Flashbacks: It is possible that, during your past life session, you may have a traumatic experience. Not all experiences during a past life regression are guaranteed to be pleasant ones. For instance, you might witness, or be the victim of, a violent death in your past life. Experiencing something like this while in hypnosis, makes the whole experience seem totally real. In real life, people often suffer from extreme PTSD after witnessing such an experience. The same can be true of a past life experience, in that it may trigger disturbing flashbacks to that event.
- Strong Emotions: What you experience may also trigger anxiety or depression.
- False Memories: Memories are part of how we construct our sense of reality. When we experience a past life very vividly in hypnosis, it can be stored in the mind as an actual memory and alter our perception of reality.
Case Study: IBS And The WWII Pilot
A lady came to see me about 10 years ago. She told me she suffered from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and would like some help with it. This lady (who I shall call Jane), also told me she was fascinated by past life regression. She couldn’t pinpoint any reason why she should have IBS and wondered if it might have its roots in a past life.
I always try to maintain an open mind, so I did not share my belief about the existence of past lives. She did ask if I believed and I responded by saying it was best if I remained neutral on the topic. On the allotted day, she arrived, excited about discovering her past lives. I helped her to become deeply relaxed and the journey began.
She immediately found herself working as a nurse during WWII. Based in a hospital in London, she really loved being a nurse. On one particular night, she and some friends were out socializing. Someone introduced her to this American guy. As they got talking, her curiosity got the better of her and she asked him what he worked at. He was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. She was intrigued by him and, later that night, they kissed for the first time.
Very quickly, they fell in love. The next scene she recalled was of being at the air base as he took off with his other squadron members on a mission to bomb Berlin. When I asked how she felt, she said “Oh, my stomach is in such a knot, I feel like I need to rush to the toilet.” I replied, “Now that you know that feeling in your stomach has nothing to do with your current life, would it be ok to leave it back there where it belongs?” She nodded in agreement. That was the last time she experienced IBS symptoms.
Case Study Conclusion
Jane’s case was very straightforward. While this led to an easy win in her case, there is no guarantee that it will turn out like that in your case. For instance, in one of the past life regressions that didn’t go so well, the client, Alison, experienced being murdered by her husband in her past life. It was a particularly gruesome murder and left her with trust issues in her relationship and nightmares for quite a while after the past life session. No hypnotherapist can guarantee that something like this won’t happen to you. I think that should mean you should proceed with extreme caution!
Self Hypnosis For Past Life Regression
I generally recommend not doing self-hypnosis for past life regression. From everything you have just read about the possible negative side effects that can happen, I think you’ll agree that this is something that an untrained person should not dabble in. This is why you will not find a self-hypnosis audio for past life regression on this website. I genuinely do not believe it is safe for you to experience past life regression by yourself at home. If you really want to proceed with a past life regression session, please find a qualified hypnotherapist in your locality.
If you are curious about self-hypnosis, by all means, try a sample recording. I have an excellent free recording that you could start with called “Deep Relaxation”. You can download it right now by going to my homepage and looking for the FREE GIFT section. Simply enter your name and email address in the appropriate boxes and click on the “Send Me My Freebie Please” button. I will send you an email with a link where you can instantly download that track and enjoy listening to it.
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