Case #6 Migraine and Past Life regression

The word Migraine is derived from the Greek word ἡμικρανία (hemikrania)  which means "pain on one side of the head" - ἡμι- (hemi-) "half" and κρανίον (kranion) "skull".

Medical professionals are still baffled by what causes migraines in the first place often attributing it to stress or even genetics. With tests and MRI scans usually coming back negative and medication only providing moderate relief, conventional treatments rely on lifestyle changes and pills yet many patients still struggle with the symptoms. 

For many years it was thought that these headaches were the result of a dilation of the blood vessels, caused by stress and tension. Present-day research now tends to favor alternative explanations. In some cases the emotional circumstances of the patient's life, past and present can influence the situation. Old memories or unresolved trauma can surface. Migraine headaches that stem from a past lifetime will cease to exist once the trauma is identified and resolved or removed through past life regression therapy.

Sushma* came to me with a case of extreme migraine which she had been suffering for the past 20 years.

On undergoing past life regression, she found herself in the year 1656 as a soldier on board a Spanish ship engaged in battle with the English. During the course of the battle he gets hit on the head and subsequently succumbs to his injuries and dies.

* Name changed to protect patient confidentiality

Case #5 - PLR and Pteromerhanophobia

Pteromerhanophobia  or fear of flying may be a distinct phobia in itself, or it may be an indirect combination of one or more other phobias related to flying, such as claustrophobia (a fear of enclosed spaces) oracrophobia (a fear of heights). It may have other causes as well, such as agoraphobia (especially the type that has to do with fear of open spaces). It is a symptom rather than a disease, and different causes may bring it about in different individuals.


The fear receives more attention than most other phobias because air travel is often difficult for people to avoid.  A fear of flying may prevent a person from going on vacations or visiting family and friends, and it can cripple the career of a businessperson by preventing them from traveling on work-related business.


The fear of flying may be created by various other phobias and fears: 
* fear of crashing which most likely result in death.
* a fear of closed in spaces (claustrophobia), such as that of an aircraft cabin
* a fear of heights (acrophobia)
* a feeling of not being in control
* fear of vomiting, motion sickness can make the person vomit, thus making flying hard.
* fear of having panic attacks in certain places, where escape would be difficult and/or embarrassing (agoraphobia)
* fear of hijacking or terrorism
* fear of turbulence
* fear of flying over water or night flying


A previous traumatizing experience with air travel or somehow connected to flying can also trigger a fear of flying. 


Rahul* a 13 year old young man was brought to me by his parents due to his fear of travelling in an aircraft. As the family was bases in U.S. and travelled to India at least once a year to look up  the aging elders, this travel initially was done by sedating Rahul, but as he started growing up was becoming a difficult proposition.


On being regressed, Rahul found himself in Europe in the year 1934 as a successful businessman, who used to travel a lot all  over Europe. During the course of one of these travels, he had to take a flight from London to Paris for concluding a business deal. However, the flight never reached Paris and crashed into the sea taking him and the other passengers down with it.


His parents subsequently a couple of months later called me to tell that Rahul now seemed to have got over his fear and could now travel by air without any problem.


*  Name changed to protect patient’s identity. 

Addiction and Past Life Regression Therapy

Addiction is the state of being abnormally craved to or being dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming. It means badly yearning for something and be prepared to go any extents for doing or having a particular thing. The term addiction encompasses those activities or behavioral habits that are hard to resist or do away with. Doctors roughly classify addiction into two kinds – object addictions and event addictions. Object addictions are those which deal with addiction on any particular external object or substance, like narcotics, fancy costumes, chocolates, women, alcohol etc.  Event addictions are those that involve addiction on performing a particular activity like gaming, watching television, shopping, gambling etc. In certain cases, object or physical additions lead to event addictions. For example, if a person addicted to a particular item or person and doesn’t get to enjoy it, he could switch to drinking or taking drugs and get addicted to it.

Deep-lying wounds that dwell in the mind due to horrific events in the past are one of the major reasons for being addicted to drugs and alcohol. The addicted person obtains a feeling of solace as the mind forgets all the worries and sad moments of the past. This forgotten feeling is temporary as the hypothalamus region of the brain becomes anesthetized by use of drugs or prolonged use of alcohol. Once the effect of the drug or alcohol wears off, the sadness begins to haunt the victim until the next doze. This forms a vicious cycle and engulfs the person into addiction.

Rarely is smoking addiction only about smoking. To simply say “just stop smoking,” won’t solve the unconscious reasons of this addiction, and superficial attempts at quitting may result in transference to another vice. If panic, anxiety, and confusion are present at the time of death, the same feelings are continued in the next incarnation. This may include the unconscious attraction to an overly anxious mother or father and life experiences that encourage ailments, drugs, and unease, until confusion isn’t necessary to feel alive.

There are a multitude of reasons that individuals smoke, ranging from self-medicating for anxiety to serving as a pseudo-friend that keeps them company when they’re feeling alone. Smoking or other drug usage is usually an attempt at managing as opposed to dealing with unresolved pain and/or anger. Instead of pain or anger management, one must feel the discomfort in their body and direct it to its source in past life therapy.

The Past Life Regression Therapist assists in taking the person to one of their past lives, where perhaps lies the problems or worries that led to the addiction. Once the source is identified, the therapist will try to eradicate the link between the problem of that life and the addictive feeling in this life for rehabilitation.

The deep unconscious mind has a crucial influence on the person’s behavior and when properly directed, can work wonders in getting the person out of addiction.

 

Karma cont....

When people are happy and contented, they tend to take life for granted. It is when they suffer, when they find life difficult, that they begin to search for a reason and a way out of their difficulty. They may ask why some are born in poverty and suffering, while others are born in fortunate circumstances. Some people believe that it is due to fate, chance, or an invisible power beyond their control - Karma. In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve. Usually, men of ordinary intellect cannot comprehend the actual reason or reasons. The definite invisible cause or causes of the visible effect is not necessarily confined to the present life, they may be traced to a proximate or remote past birth.

The Pali term Karma literally means action or doing. Any kind of intentional action whether mental, verbal, or physical, is regarded as Karma. It covers all that is included in the phrase "thought, word and deed". Buddhism teaches that one's present condition, whether of happiness or suffering, is the result of the accumulated force of all past actions or karma.

Karma is the law of moral causation. It is action and reaction in the ethical realm. It is natural law that every action produces a certain effect. So if one performs wholesome actions such as donating money to charitable organizations, happiness will ensue. On the other hand, if one performs unwholesome actions, such as killing a living being, the result will be suffering. This is the law of cause and effect at work. In this way, the effect of past karma determines the nature of one's present situation in life.

It is a concept in Hinduism which explains causality through a system where beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions, creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul's reincarnated lives forming a cycle of rebirth. The causality is said to be applicable not only to the material world but also to our thoughts, words, actions and actions that others do under our instructions. When the cycle of rebirth comes to an end, a person is said to have attained moksha, or salvation.

 

The theory of karma harps on the Newtonian principle that every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. Every time we think or do something, we create a cause, which in time will bear its corresponding effects. And this cyclical cause and effect generates the concepts of samsara, birth and reincarnation. It is the personality of a human being - with its positive and negative actions - that causes karma.

According to Buddhism, rebirth takes place at the end of this life. Rebirth is regarded as a fact. There is evidence that each person has lived many lives in the past and will continue to live more in the future. Rebirth therefore for the Buddhist is a reality although one may not be aware of it. Those who have developed their minds through meditation have confirmed the existence of past lives. Meditators who have attained powers of concentration have been able to recall their previous lives in great detail. In the same trend, Buddhism teaches that birth, death and rebirth are part of the continuing process of change. This is similar to the continuous process of growth, decay and replacement of cells in one's body. According to medical experts, every seven years, all body cells are replaced.

At the moment of death, when this life is over, and the body can no longer survive, the mind is separated from the body. At that time, the craving for life causes one to seek a new existence, and the previous karma determines the place of one's rebirth.

Every person is responsible for his or her acts and thoughts, so each person's karma is entirely his or her own. Occidentals see the operation of karma as fatalistic. But that is far from true since it is in the hands of an individual to shape his own future by schooling his present. Hindu philosophy, which believes in the doctrine that if the life after death, holds karma of an individual is good enough, the next birth will be rewarding, and if not, the person may actually devolve and degenerate into a lower life form. Therefore in order to achieve good karma it is important to live life according to dharma or what is right.

We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate.

Past Life Recall

At birth, you had the gift of two types of memory, current life and past life. You also had the gift of having a veil dropped over the past. That veil can be lifted, should you choose to do so.

 

Perhaps it is easy for children to recall past lives because their minds are not cluttered by confronting the lessons and challenges of their current lives. By the time children reach adulthood, they will have experienced many things that might cloud past-life memories, including admonishment by some adults that those memories are only creative imagination. A wise parent who realizes that a child is recalling past life memories can provide encouragement by asking the child to make up a bedtime story. Your child's reaction can be surprisingly straightforward. Your child might ask, "Do you remember when I was the mommy (or daddy) and you were little like me?" In a playful way, s/he might describe a past-life event as a personal story. By talking with your child just before sleep, you can learn much about the past-life experiences that went into the making of that soul's character--your little child.

 

Parents who punish their child for play-acting what the child believes to be real could damage or stunt the emotional and spiritual life of that child who is simply remembering the past. Such an unwise approach on the part of the parents could cause serious problems to develop later as the child develops and must deal with issues rooted in a past life. The freedom to remember is essential. 

Past Life Regression

Past Life Regression Therapy involves going back to a person's past in order to find healing or to find reasons for current behavior and thinking patterns. Perhaps you are one of the people who think that it is unnecessary to 'dig around in the past'. In many cases you would be quite right. However, very often it is the one thing that will bring about the most permanent healing, simply because we carry the scars of our past around with us until they are dealt with.

In counseling and psychotherapy therapists will dig around in a client's past to find the root of their problems. This information is then dealt with at a cognitive (conscious) level. Hopefully the client is eventually able to move on with a different and more positive outlook. There is no doubt that healing at this level can, and does, take place.

One thing that psychotherapy cannot do, however, is to find those memories which have been buried deep in the psyche and are no longer remembered by the client. The subconscious mind protects us in numerous ways. Firstly, it will protect us by burying a painful experience so that it's memory no longer causes conscious pain. Secondly, it protects us by helping us to avoid being hurt in the same way again. A problem occurs when this 'avoidance' is no longer appropriate and is preventing us from living whole, healthy lives, or from having fulfilling relationships.

This is where Past Life Regression Therapy, comes into the picture. Whilst the client is relaxed and in a perfectly safe environment, we are able to access the root of their current problem. Imagine having a small splinter in a tender part of your body. Now imagine that splinter being ignored and left to fester. Eventually there is a large infected area. You can treat that area as much as you like, but until the original little offending splinter is removed, there will never be complete healing. Regression therapy allows us to go directly to that little splinter, without painfully digging around it. Unlike psychotherapy, we don't have to spend years digging for the root causes. We ask the subconscious to show them to us immediately, and there is usually instant healing.

Case Study 3

A lot of people suffer from a fear of losing someone in a relationship. There have been so many cases, where people do not find a rational as to why they have this fear. Often, even after going through various treatments, and psychologists, they still are not able to get rid of this fear, and this at times leads to a case of extreme possessiveness on their part.

Mrinalini* was one such case who came to me for Past Life Regression and help. She was under the constant fear of losing her children, which when they were younger made her go paranoid if she did not see them inside the house or for a period of time. As the children grew older, they started resenting this attitude of their mother as besides other thing restricted their movement and life.

On being regressed into one of her past lives, she found herself belonging to a very rich family, where her children were kidnapped and despite all efforts could not be traced. It was only with the arrest of one of her husbands competitors and enemy that the crime was solved and the mutilated bodies of her children recovered.

Once confronted with this, she was able to come to terms with the situation in her present life.

*name changed to protect patient confidentiality

Regression Therapy

Regression therapy is based on the belief that the mind is divided into 3 states of consciousness that affects their physical and mental well being.

Active conscious

Sub conscious

Super conscious

Active conscious state is the state which dictates what one does, fully aware of the implications of one’s actions. The sub conscious mind is what one actually is while the super conscious mind is the soul.

In regression therapy, it is believed that all the three states should be in coherence in order for the person to be well physically as well as mentally. Positive emotions like love are good for the physical being of a person while negative emotions like fear that leads to other negative emotions like guilt, jealousy, anger and hatred are detrimental to one’s physical being.

A person is born with negative and positive emotions, more emotions are imprinted on the child till about 5 years of age.  It is believed that these re-enforcements can lead to physical ailments later in life. Sometimes it may take even up to 10 years. According to the beliefs of regression therapy the following ailments are caused as a result of negative emotions experienced.

Emotion                                               Physical ailment caused

Extreme anger or hatred                         Frequent pain in the head , migraines

Bitterness harboured                              Arthritis, pain in the lower back

Emotions that result from                       Hip, leg or knee problems

a lack of support or excessive

restrictions imposed.

Shame                                                 Psoriasis

Feelings of rejection                              Diabetes

  

Emotional upheavals or stress               Multiple sclerosis

Extreme anger                                     Cancer

The presence of these intense emotions creates a negative feeling that is reflected in one’s physical condition. When these physical emotions are controlled or completely alleviated, then the physical system will be able to recuperate and get back to normal functioning.

In order to set right the emotional aspect of one’s character, it is necessary to understand the root cause for the emotion. Emotions are generally triggered by specific situations. The reaction towards such situations could have been negative, positive or neutral. By choosing the negative way of reacting to a particular situation, the person is exposed to the negative impact that causes the various physical ailments. While attempting to set this right, the situation that acted as the trigger should be re-lived and the best positive outcome should be chosen. The subconscious mind should then be used to re-live all the experiences that would have taken place if the positive outcome was chosen.

Hypnosis is generally used to help the individual re-live his/ her past experiences and replace all the negative reactions with positive ones. This will completely erase all the negative feelings that have led to the physical ailments. A single session of hypnosis under a trained regression therapist has been shown to change as many as 10-12 negative experiences, replacing them with positive ones. Regression therapy, therefore, focuses in creating a positive feeling that leaves one feeling light and extremely happy. This will create a sea change in their physical state and improve their condition.

Past Life Regression and Clautrophobia

 

Past life Regression, a process of retrieving memories of previous lives or incarnations, which by reliving or discovering previous experiences or traumas, can benefit those who are looking for reasons for their ailments or problems in this life, and which cannot be medically explained. More often than not, the reasons can be traced back to a past life experience. Past life Regression can also be applied to psychological ailments such as unexplained fears, phobias and mental blocks towards certain things in life. For example, a person who in this life has no logical or scientific reason for claustrophobia, may find answers which link back to a trauma from a particular past life.

Sheila (name changed) came to me afflicted with claustrophobia. She would feel extremely uncomfortable when being in a closed space. If she was in a room, and heard a door locked, she would panic which made it very difficult to have a locked door in hotel rooms, as also with being in an elevator, or flying. 

During her Past Life Regression, she discovered that she was at the age of 50 mistakenly declared as dead by the doctors and buried alive.

By releasing this traumatic event experienced  from her memory she experienced a dramatic and total release of the symptoms enough to experience a catharsis or a healing.

 

 

Introduction

Unlike other regression therapies in Past Life Therapy it is not necessary to believe in past lives. Instead, all that is required is an open mind and the willingness to use metaphor as a way to bring unconscious processes to light.


The regression therapy works on the basis that "the body remembers" and that our physical body today may be carrying memories of trauma from previous lives. The process uses psychodrama to enable clients to release the "unfinished business" that they may be carrying in their body, thus enabling healing to take place more quickly than with other therapies.It is a creative synthesis of Jungian active imagination, psychodrama, spiritual psychology, Shamanic healing, Reichian body therapy and transpersonal psychology.


This can be an effective way to deal with physical pains in the body that seem not to respond to other treatment. It can also deal effectively with phobias of many different sorts as well as with obsessive behaviour and with patterns of behaviour that recur throughout our life.