The word regression means to go back to or to return to something. If you were a student of statistics, you would know that a regression equation shows the probability of the occurrence of a future event based upon past behavior. Past Life Regression is a trans-disciplinary field related to hypnosis but not dependent upon it. Actually, Past-Life Regression Therapy is the retrospection of the soul's journey. It is a reflection (or several reflections) on the past that can bring meaning to present life activities and can indicate a vision for the future. The history of every soul is stored in the unconscious mind. Gaining access to that record, at least to the section related to the present, could prove to be quite significant in understanding the root cause of certain behavior. The recall of such events, along with insights from the current perspective, can have a direct and profound impact on the desire to improve one's well-being.
Past Life Regression was first used by Dr. Pierre Janet in Paris in the 1890's. Dr. Janet collaborated with Sigmund Freud, experimenting with past life regression as a therapeutic tool. Subsequently, for sixty years the subject was taboo, till an American hypnotherapist called Morey Bernstein brought the therapy back to life in 1960’s when he published "The Search For Bridie Murphy,” an account of one of his clients who went back over two hundred years -to when she was an Irishwoman called Bridie Murphy.
About the same time Arnall Bloxham, an English hypnotherapist of high repute, collaborated with the BBC in making a Television program of a housewife called Jane Evans, who was regressed, live on screen, back to a life as a twelfth century Jewess called Rachel who lived in York in 1189 in the reign of the bad King John. Live on television, she recalled how she was the wife of a wealthy moneylender called Joseph. In great detail she described how she and her family and other members of the Jewish community were hounded by a mob led by a nobleman called Richard Malebisse to whom her husband had lent money and who had refused to repay. They and their two children tried to take refuge in York Castle but were ejected by the constable of the castle, and eventually found their way to a crypt of a church just outside the gates of York. It was here that the family was put to death by the sword.
Freud believed that behavior has a cause which usually is hidden from the conscious mind. He wrote, "Amnesia lies at the base of all neurotic symptoms. Our goal is to reveal the forgotten memories through yet to be learned methods." One of Freud’s yet to be learned" methods seems to be that of Past Life Regression Therapy. Over the years, it has followed the general procedure of experimentation which led to research which, in turn, led to application. Today, Past Life Regression Therapy has become a therapeutic tool employed by many people to enhance the quality of life.
