Addiction and Past Life Regression Therapy ...cont.

Addiction is a compulsion that makes an individual yield to addictive causes unmindful of the hazardous consequences. There are no specific causes of any addiction aside from use of a substance or activity, and there is also no way to predict who will become dependent on use.  Any substance or activity that has the capacity to be pleasurable can provide the conditions for addiction, as all addictions impact various neural circuits of the brain, including those related to reward, motivation, and memory.

Our addiction theories and policies are woefully outdated. Research shows that there are no demon drugs. Nor are addicts innately defective. Nature has supplied us all with the ability to become hooked—and we all engage in addictive behaviors to some degree.

Millions of people are "hooked," not only on heroin, morphine, amphetamines, tranquilizers, and cocaine, but also nicotine, caffeine, sugar, steroids, work, theft, gambling, exercise, and even love and sex, despite every kind of addiction treatment from psychosurgery, psychoanalysis, psychedelics, and self-help to acupuncture, group confrontation, family therapy, hypnosis, meditation, education and tough love.

Scientists have learned that every animal, from the ancient hagfish to reptiles, rodents, and humans, share the same basic pleasure and "reward" circuits in the brain, circuits that all turn on when in contact with addictive substances or during pleasurable acts such as eating or orgasm One conclusion from this evidence is that addictive behaviors are normal, a natural part of our "wiring." If they weren't, or if they were rare, nature would not have let the capacity to be addicted evolve, survive, and stick around in every living creature.

Our brains didn't develop opiate receptors to tempt us with heroin addiction. The coca plant didn't develop cocaine to produce what we call crack addicts. This plant doesn't care two hoots about our brain. But heroin and cocaine addiction certainly tell us a great deal about how brains work. And how they work is that if you taste or experience something that you like, that feels good, you're reinforced to do that again. Basic drives, for food, sex, and pleasure, activate reward centers in the brain. They're part of human nature.

One of the methods of curing a person from addiction is Past Life Regression Therapy, leading to the question as to what transpires during Past Life Regression Therapy ? And how does this help.

When the person is taken into one of his/her past lives by the therapist, the subconscious mind begins to pour out the deepest emotions, wounds and sorrow of that particular life. This pour out in itself is considered a big step in rehabilitation because grief shared is grief halved. It is found by research that more than 10 percent of the addictions are because of moments of sorrow in the child hood whose causes could be very trivial. Once those trivial causes are treated through Past Life Regression Therapy, the addict can easily do away with addiction. Reliving events of the past can also give the subconscious mind a better picture of the sequence of events. Any misconceptions could also be cleared because of this pour out.

 

 

 

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.

 

Past Life Regression and Dreams

The question often asked  is, are Past Life Dreams just dreams or are they memories of past life experiences that are buried deep within the recesses of our mind?

Originally the dream was held to be the voice of God. Most indigenous cultures hold that the dream is sent by the Great Spirit and serves to offer advice and instruction. This idea of the divinity of the dream can also to be found in the ancient Egyptian and Greek cultures. There existed temples where one would go to dream and receive healing or instruction from the gods. Homer's Iliad (8th century BC) tells the story of Agamemnon who receives instruction from Zeus through a dream. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, used dreams as a diagnostic aid.

In the Middle East the dream was considered to be a source of divine inspiration. Mohammed, the founding Prophet of Islam, is said to have received much of what is written in the Koran through his dreams.

We all dream. Every night – as we dim the light of consciousness – we enter the realm of the dream. In this dream state our imagination runs free with little or no interference from our conscious mind. In the morning, when we wake and return to consciousness, we may bring with us a recollection of the wanderings of our imagination – we remember the dream.

To dream is natural, it is a universal experience. All people of all cultures enter into this dream state when they sleep. As sleep research has shown even animals dream. How we regard the dream, however, varies from culture to culture and from person to person.

Unfortunately most of us remain unaware of our dreams. We fail to remember them. Even if we do remember a dream it is typically dismissed as meaningless and unimportant. For those of us who do place an importance on the dream it still remains a mystery. 

The dream world is a world which has found fascination with many people, as dreams can tell us so much. There are many different types of dreams, and many different reasons for them. It is actually amazing how many people remember aspects of their past lives through dreams. What is also fascinating, is how often they start to have the recurring past lives dreams just as they have met someone or as someone has become a part of their lives here and now that is somehow connected to that past time. Often past life dreams show more and more as time passes, and as the current life relationship that has brought them grows. Although, it is important to note, past life dreams do not always coincide with the entrance of others connected in that time period. They may also coincide with life situations that parallel.

When you find yourself dreaming about historical people, places, and things that is the surest sign you are in the process of tapping into your past lives. You may see yourself as other than we are during our waking hours. Meaning that in dreams we see someone who we know to be ourselves, but maybe a different gender or race.

In Past Life Dreams, we are not able to change the sequences of events no matter how hard we try. Just as the events in the past life cannot be changed, neither can the replay of those events in your dream be changed. Our minds do register the logical sequence of events in our dreams but are unable to alter them because they are replays of past.

Our past life dream may display talents, skills, and abilities that we have not acquired in our present life. We might have the ability to speak and understand a foreign language. 

One of the tragedies of modern life is that sleep is often regarded as unproductive down time… an annoying habit that cannot be broken. Since sleep cannot be avoided, it is often minimized, to "get it over with" and to get on with life. And yet, from a spiritual standpoint, sleep is incredibly productive. 

For while our body sleeps and our mind rests, they and "we" are put in touch with the healing and regulating currents of the universe. It is the longest part of the day that we - all of us - spend in touch with the inner worlds of God. 

If you think nothing happens while we are sleeping, why is it that we can go to sleep upset about a problem and wake up feeling better about it? Nothing in our situation has changed… so if nothing had gone on while sleeping, how could this happen? Yet, it is dreams that are the real evidence "something is going on" while we sleep. And part of what dreams are used for is to work through past life karma.

Millions of people have reported past life memories, many of these in Past Life Dream or Karmic Dream.

At the edge of dreams, at the fringe of memory, where body, mind, and spirit become one, there lies a bridge across time. It is a bridge which connects who you were with who you are with who you will be. It is a bridge as close to you as your breath and as far away from you as it must be to keep you safe and sane. It is a bridge that at some point in our lifetimes we all must cross.

The dream serves as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind. For the dream belongs to the twilight zone of consciousness – where the ego and the unconscious meet.

The conscious element of the dream lies in its remembrance, the unconscious element lies in its mystery and perplexity. Half conscious, half unconscious, the dream unites the known and the unknown.

To listen to the dream is to listen to the unconscious. Through doing so one relieves the need for the unconscious to force itself.