Past Life Regression Therapy - An overview ...cont.

The more unpleasant the experience or painful the emotion, the stronger the memory trace. Any experienced traumatic event triggers the reaction termed the traumatic event sequence. Perceptions of each succeeding moment of any event are registered in the conscious mind then stored in the subconscious mind.

It is from these perceptions that we form the beliefs which become the basis for the creation of unwanted random events and behavior patterns in our lives. The collection of unexamined data stored in your subconscious mind is today called your perceptual reality and is responsible for the bias from which each person individually perceives the world around them. External data is not actually perceived just as it is without going through the critical faculties of judgments and labeling thus we are responding to our own beliefs about the event not the event. In addition there are the pre-established unconscious filters such as love, hate, fear, and hostility sourcing from the perceptual reality itself coloring our internalization of the event. Both of these factors create an involuntary response to the data rather than experiencing the data itself. Thus having been programmed into the subconscious, your auto pilot, these perceptions and skewed viewpoints automatically keep creating what they think is the direction you want your life to proceed in and show up as. Almost all defense mechanisms stem from the erroneous conclusions and misperceptions stored in the unconscious that are triggered automatically and intercede with the correct interpretation of current sensory input.

Past Life Regresion Therapy seeks to unravel the distortions, clear the perceptions, and experiential understanding of the truth of what actually happened in past traumas. This leads to the healing of the residues.

 

Past Life Regression Therapy - An overview ...cont.

Past Life Regression Therapy brings to light the body of experiences the soul has traversed throughout its eternal life journey as an incarnated being, and thus seeks to heal present life conflicts which stem from traumatic events in prior lifetimes.

In the clinical framework of reincarnation, the being or spirit is eternal. As part of the spiritual journey, many beings choose to incarnate in the earth plane; that is, to take on the form of a physical human body. In the course of lifetimes of human interaction, the being accumulates mental, emotional, and physical residue, which is carried from lifetime to lifetime influencing the person's existence. Past Life Regression Therapy is about identifying and removing these residues so that the person may be fully present in the moment and fully free to make decisions based solely on current lifetime information.

The subconscious mind contains the memory of everything a person has ever perceived and experienced. Each perception and every experience is recorded in the memory, including biographical material from this life, the birth and pre-natal period, other lifetimes, and the non-physical experiences between lives.

The memory bank includes the perceptions of every past event; the surrounding circumstances and conditions; all physical and sensory input, including subliminally received data; the thoughts, emotions, feelings, and perceptions associated with the event.

The mind, while receiving the present and immediate perceptions of the senses is constantly alert to real or imagined threats to survival, based on and compared with past experience. This means that every adult interaction, every childhood event, every pre-natal experience is recorded and compared for validity at a subconscious level. The mind is living in the past in a very real sense. In this way a person experiences selective hearing and seeing as well as selective memory. Once a memory is triggered the person no longer hears anything that is being said but is automatically and often unconsciously regressed to the time frame of the triggered event. Thus suspended in a less than mature adult age frame they respond from the developmental stage they are currently functioning in, usually the childhood stage the trauma or upset occurred in. This is confusing to the regressed person as well as the adult interacting with them.

 Using Past Life Regression Therapy to regress the person to the time frame of the childhood trauma and the reframing and removal thereof, these triggers disappear and cease to interrupt the smooth flow of adult rationality thus taking with them lifelong dysfunctional patterns.

Past Life Therapy - An overview ...cont.

In Past Life Therapy,  thoughts and emotions, at the center of any particular complex are uncovered and then used to follow backwards through time to find relevant present and past life formative experiences. This happens through a review of different areas of their life such as the history of relationships, upbringing or work. This also serves to identify core themes together before starting regression work.

Guided Imagery is a directive process that allows a past life memory to arise spontaneously, where a scene is set in the imagination intending to lead to a past life. This could be the suggestion of imagining crossing a bridge and coming into a past life scene, or walking down a hallway with many closed doors and choosing one, opening it and walking into a past life scene. There are myriad variations of the initial imagery used to get to the past life.

The mind is not located in the brain but permeates our entire being, including the body. The principle at play is that our current life bodies are recreated from a subtle energy body that is a part of the soul’s memory. ‘Cellular Memory’ is the term often used to describe subconscious body imprints. Thus a chronic neck pain may come from a past life hanging or beheading that has been traumatically imprinted and carried into the current life body.

Past life memories can arise within the dream state, often this imagery is fragmentary, but a particularly charged scene in a dream can be explored for past life content. An example of this could be a dream of being chased by wolves, exploration of this may lead to a literal past life where that happened or it may be a metaphoric image that leads to a different past life memory of being a child in the forest running from invaders.

Present life fears, such as those that seem to not be connected with any current life cause, are often found to have their root in past life traumatic deaths. Such as fear of water or heights for example, is often caused by past life drowning or death by falling. 

Past Life Therapy - An overview

 

Past-life regression therapy rests on the premise that evidence of our past lives is everywhere. Why do you have a sore throat? Because in a past life you were hanged, choked or even strangled. Why do you have a bad knee? Because in a past life you were in a car accident, trod on by a horse, or prayed too much. Do you have a good voice? Yes, because in a past life you were Judy Garland.

 However, this evidence is often buried beneath our consciousness, and we need a PLR therapist to help us get it out. It is much like uncovering traumatic stress in a current life, as those who suffered abuse as a child, for example, might suffer panic attacks as an adult.

PLR has also been given credence by Dr Brian L Weiss MD, a Columbia University trained psychotherapist and graduate of Yale Medical School who was "surprised" when one of his patients began recalling past lives. Another therapist, Dr Michael Newton,  has written extensively on past lives. He uses the term "life-between-lives" therapists, or people who help us mere mortals learn what our souls were doing between past lives.

As per Dr Newton , "This technique offers you an opportunity to experience a trance-induced 'superconscious' state of awareness that brings a deep sense of love, compassion and an understanding of your life purpose. Everyone's experience is unique and personal so you can be confident of a spiritual journey that will fulfill your own needs and wishes. "

People who benefit from PLR say it helps them build stronger relationships, be more creative and feel more satisfied with life overall. Similar to having counseling for post-traumatic stress, they say that PLR can also help some people deal better with panic attacks, insecurity, feelings of shame, worthlessness and guilt, alcoholism, insomnia and other often emotionally-related disorders.