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.