PLR & Depression

Depression a state of low mood and aversion to activity, may make a persons feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, guilty, irritable or restless. It may lead to loss of interest in activities that once were pleasurable, of appetite, or problems in concentrating, remembering details or making decisions. The depressed person may also contemplate suicide. Insomnia, fatigue, loss of energy, or digestive problems that are resistant to treatment are some of the symptoms that may also be present. It can be termed as a malady that usually has a reason in the emotionality and yet medical science does not have too much of a solution this.

Past life Regression makes it possible to explore reasons for depression and to resolve them.

I had a patient who was in love with a girl and wanted to marry her. His father however, was totally against this relationship. To resolve the issue, he tried to reason with his father and when that did not work, tried to break his relationship with the girl where again he failed. Due to this situation, his being torn between two people he equally loved, he was very depressed.

On being regressed, he found himself as the son of a rich father who was a horse breeder. When he was 20, he falls in love with a girl from another community and here also, his father is dead against the relationship. Uncannily, this girl has the same looks as the girls with whom he is in love in the present life.

His father gets him married to another girl and they have a son. He subsequently dies at the age of 80 much after the death of his wife. Being able to establish a link and break it in his previous life, he was able to resolve his current life problem and his depression.

PLR & Suffocation

Fear of suffocation during sleeping is a phobia that affects a number of people the world over. These sleep panic attacks could be a continuation of the panic disorder experienced during a previous life time. Sleep apnea occurs when breathing during sleep becomes shallow or there are pauses which disrupt the regular rhythm and means there is not enough oxygen reaching the lungs. These pauses can number from 5 to 30 per hour and cause a shift from deep sleep into light sleep.  Each time breathing stops, the level of blood oxygen drops and the heart rate increases which leads to a sudden release of stress hormones. None of which is conducive to a good night's sleep and all of which could cause the sudden panicked awakening characteristic of nocturnal panic attacks.


Past Life Regression therapy helps in retrieving memories of previous lives through hypnotherapy.  By reliving or discovering previous experiences or traumas, a person can identify the origin of his/her problem, understand them, and finally let go forever.  


For example, a lady came to see me who used to get up every night feeling suffocated. When regressed to a past life, she found herself as a man who was constantly mistreating his wife. When he was about the age of 60 years, the wife fed up with him finally gathered up the courage and suffocated him to death with a pillow during his sleep. After realizing the origin of her fear, she was able to sleep better without getting up constantly as she was doing till now.                              

PLR & Phobias

While history provides only limited accounts of PLR, the Hindu scholar Patanjali has written a great deal about it. He says the soul is always burdened by its Karma or past life memories. According to Patanjali a subject will revisit those memories to uncover issues in his/her present life with a technique called “Prati-Prasay” – or reverse thinking – which is currently being practiced in Yoga.


When one considers that reincarnation is accepted in practically all religions including Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism to name just a few, then we are forced to acknowledge the fact that the belief in past lives is extremely far reaching.  Most people are only curious about their prior lives. The idea of changing anything now is unfortunately a foreign idea to them. Past life, regression therapy or PLR can be a great therapy for making positive change in our present lives.


Past life regression therapy or PLR is based on the principle of re-incarnation. It means that all of us have had many past lives and that life and death are a part of a constant cycle. According to the believers of past life regression therapy a lot of our present problems may result from the cellular memories of our past lives. Phobia attributable to such instances, is an intense irrational fear that is usually caused by an event in the past where fear was experienced. Using our imagination, the stimulus of the phobia (spiders, dogs, heights, flights, water) gets blown out of proportion over time. Phobias are very real for many, many people. They are seemingly unexplainable, irrational fears that can put a person in the grip of terror – sometimes for years. There are times when that fear takes over and dominates a person’s life. Past Life Regression is a means of allowing us to deal with such past issues and issues within this life. We are often holding on to a situation that we had centuries ago and when we recognise the true cause of that phobia we can release it and let it go. For instance a phobia of water could be the result of death by drowning in a past life. Unexplained pains and aches in the body, a variety of psychological problems, negative relationships and sometimes even some diseases could be the result of painful or troubled past life memories.  Past life regression is a means of exploring these possibilities and with the use of hypnosis it allows us to travel back and open doors from one's past life so that  problems that are causing difficulties now can be resolved.

PLR & Pain

Past life regression can benefit those who are looking for reasons for their ailments or problems in life. For example, someone with a bad back pain which cannot be medically explained or cured, might seek answers via the past life regression process. Often, the reasons can be traced back to a past life experience. Regression therapy brings to light the body of experiences the soul has traversed throughout its eternal life journey as an incarnated being   and its effects on your life today.  


My most memorable experience was with a 19 year old client who came to me with a chronic back ache off and on for many years. Although he had been to many doctors and specialists, they could find no physical explanation for his pain.


He regressed into one of his lives in which he was a soldier in the year 1941 and recieved bullet injuries in his abdomen with the bullets exiting from his back - the place where the pain was in this life. Subsequently he died due to these injuries in that life..


This client achieved a complete healing of the pain in his back, by sorting out exactly what happened and understanding the nature of his death in that prior life. 

Emotional Freedom Technique

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a form of alternative psychotherapy that manipulates the body's energy field by tapping on acupuncture points while a specific traumatic memory is focused on, in order to alleviate a psychological problem. The principle behind EFT is that negative emotions can cause disturbances in the body's energy field. EFT theory derives from similar principles behind those of acupuncture.


EFT is based on the premise that the body’s energy system is linked to energy circuits, or meridians, that run throughout the body. The state of these meridians is directly affected by your emotional and physical health. By analogy, think of the meridians as rivers. Upsets in emotional or physical health lead to the equivalent of blockages or overflows in the rivers. By setting right the meridians-- i.e. restoring the body’s energy status--, the emotional/physical disorder is righted.

Using EFT involves 'tuning into' the issue and then tapping with ones fingers on specific acupressure points.  For example if you still carry anger towards someone who has hurt you in the past, you would be asked to think about them, and notice how you feel. But you do not have to relive past events. You just have to be aware that the negative feeling is there. Having therefore 'tuned in' to it, you are shown which acupressure points to tap, and what words to say as you do so. (Saying a few things also helps to disperse the emotion from the system).


Having done that you are then asked to think about the person or situation again and check how you feel. Typically you will notice a significant reduction in the intensity of the feeling. If it's not completely gone then the EFT practitioner repeats the process, bringing the intensity down each time until full balance is restored.

Insight into benefits of Past Life Regression

Past life regression has a number of valuable therapeutic purposes. 
• Cycles of Behavior - Viewing the cycles and patterns of behavior recurring throughout many lifetimes grants       greater perspective on our unique quirks,     habits, struggles, fears, choices, hopes and dreams. 
• Physical Healing - In many cases, the health issues we experience in this life have roots that extend into other lifetimes. For this reason, past life regression can provide information important to healing physical symptoms. 
• Unexplained Pain - Unexplained pains and syndromes, chronic pain and illness, birthmarks, and other health-related phenomena frequently have their     roots in other lifetimes. 
• Phobias - A regression can also reveal the roots of phobias or other emotional blocks. Sometimes simply having knowledge of the relevant past life experience will be enough to shift the energy, allowing a breakthrough or healing to occur.


There are many other often unexpected benefits including:
• Overcoming the fear of death. If you experienced death and knew for certain that you lived on, would you still be afraid? 
• Staying connected to our loved ones. Experiencing crossing over affirms the continuity of life. One of the hardest things about death is losing the connection and presence of those whom we love. One of my happiest sessions was with a client who had recently lost a child. To experience a former lifetime with this child's soul and to know that they will meet again was so healing for this client. There is so much reassurance and relief to see our loved ones there on the other side and to know we have not truly lost them. 
• Discovering your inner strength. All souls have lived at least a few (usually many) difficult lives. Sometimes we suffer. When you re-experience prior struggles and come to realize that you have survived so much already, current challenges become more bearable. You recognize that "this too shall pass." 
• Tapping into your inner wisdom. Even in our present life, the intensity of a lesson can fade with time. Revisiting past life events can awaken hard-earned yet buried wisdom. As you connect with and integrate all the pieces of your whole self, you can reclaim greater energy and awareness. 
• Accessing skills and abilities from former lives. You have transferable skills from your past life. You do not lose the talents developed or awareness gained from former lives. Sometimes these talents can be active at an early age, in which case society might label this child a prodigy or a genius. Other times these skills might lie dormant and can be triggered through reliving past life experiences.