Past Life Regression

Most cultures believe that once a person dies, their spirit goes through a series of processes with the purpose of spiritual growth and soul development. Some believe a soul can be rebirthed only after paying their karmic debts. 

Some believe PLR works by accessing the collective unconscious, a concept introduced by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. The collective unconscious is the shared storehouse of archetypes and symbols that all humans share, regardless of culture or upbringing. By accessing this collective unconscious, practitioners believe that they can tap into the memories of past lives that are stored in the unconscious mind. 

There are several ways to recall your past life. Sometimes it could be spontaneous while watching a movie or reading a book. However, under a trained regression therapist, you enter a past life spontaneously through a hypnosis session.

How does the session go?

First, your therapist will try to build a rapport with you through positive energy, environment, eye contact, and body language. Playing soft, neutral music in the background could also be helpful in some cases. 

After setting an ideal environment, your therapist will discuss your goals for the session to approach the language for induction and session accordingly.

Finally, you will be asked to establish a safe place in your imagination before approaching your past life. This safe place would be your ideal bet to return to your reality if the past life memories are frightening or painful. 

Hypnosis marks the start of the journey to past lives. This crucial tool in PLRT helps individuals enter a trance-like state where they can access memories from past lives. During hypnosis, therapists employ relaxation techniques and guided imagery to elicit statements and memories about an individual’s past life history and identity.

Past life regression sessions can vary in duration, depending on the depth of exploration. Short sessions might last around 15 minutes for surface memories, while deeper exploration into soul memories and experiences beyond physical death can require over 45 minutes of trance induction.

Therapists often employ an interesting technique - bridging from current issues to past life stories. Here, the emphasis is on the relevance and potential resolution of present life challenges rather than the literal truth of the recalled experiences. This approach reinforces the therapy’s ultimate goal: to facilitate personal growth and healing in one’s current life.

Anyone who is carrying unresolved emotional burdens or facing specific life challenges can find an avenue of innerstanding and healing through PLRT. By journeying into their past lives, individuals can gain a deeper innerstanding of their behaviors and personality traits, which can help them make positive changes in their current life.

Intriguingly, past life regression therapy can also offer insights into the dynamics of one’s relationships. The exploration of past lives can often lead to the discovery of soul groups or mates, providing a sense of solidarity.

Additionally, exploring past lives, previous lives, and prior life spans can offer explanations and relief to those struggling with unexplained pains or chronic symptoms, potentially stemming from a past life memory or past life experience.

For those pondering their life’s greater purpose or why they face a series of misfortunes, past life regression can provide context and insights that lead to a more meaningful innerstanding of their current existence.

The role of a certified therapist is to bring you into a deeply relaxed and hypnotic state to access your subconscious mind and uncover deeply rooted information about your past life. Since the process could be emotionally challenging for you, the primary goal of your therapist is to create a safe and comfortable environment. 

You are at your most vulnerable state when you are hypnotized. Your therapist will likely gently push you from going too far in a trance. 

Once you are in the proper hypnotic state, your therapist will ask you guided questions, gradually letting you explore your past life and answer the questions more precisely. The next step of the therapist is to note down all the details. It is typically common to audibly record the PLRT session. Then analyze and interpret your past life memories related to your current life.

They work together with you in finding solutions to your current life issues by using the findings.

Past Life Regression Therapy is helpful in healing patients burdened with unexplained traumas, fears, and behavioral issues that have no link to their current life.  With the help of a certified therapist and guidance, Past Life Regression Therapy can benefit you in the following ways:

• Healing past traumas
• Gaining insight into relationships
• Exploring spirituality
• Increasing self-awareness
• Overcoming fears and phobias
• Finding purpose and direction
• Deepening personal and spiritual growth

Healing past traumas

Past life regression can help individuals uncover and heal past traumas that may be affecting their present lives. By exploring past lives, individuals may gain a new perspective on their current struggles and find new ways to cope and heal.

Gaining insight into relationships

Past life regression can provide insight into past life relationships that may be affecting present relationships. By exploring past relationships, individuals may gain a better innerstanding of why certain relationships are challenging or why they are drawn to certain people.

Exploring spirituality

Past life regression can provide a new perspective on spirituality and the nature of existence. By exploring past lives, individuals may gain a deeper innerstanding of their soul's journey and purpose.

Increasing self-awareness

Past life regression can increase self-awareness by uncovering patterns and behaviours that may be rooted in past lives. By innerstanding these patterns, individuals may be better able to make changes in their current lives to break negative patterns and create a more positive future.

Overcoming fears and phobias

Past life regression can help individuals overcome fears and phobias that may have originated in past lives. By exploring the root cause of these fears, individuals may be able to release them and move forward with more confidence.

Finding purpose and direction

Past life regression can provide insight into an individual's life purpose and direction. By exploring past lives, individuals may gain a better innerstanding of their strengths, passions, and talents, and find new ways to apply them in their current life.

Deepening personal and spiritual growth

Past life regression can be a powerful tool for personal and spiritual growth. By exploring past lives, individuals may gain a deeper innerstanding of themselves and the world around them, leading to a greater sense of inner peace and fulfillment.

A PLR session can range from 30 minutes to 5 hours. It is recommended to book at least 2 to 3 hours per session to ensure adequate time for the therapy process.

The concept of rebirth after death (reincarnation) is deeply rooted in various cultures and religions worldwide.

For instance, Hinduism and Buddhism believe that a soul can inhibit multiple bodies through different lifetimes before attaining moksha (nirvana). It’s also a belief in Hinduism that our actions in this life influence the circumstances and experiences of our next subsequent life- the universal law of cause and effect (also known as karma).

Past life regression can offer a helicopter view of our past choices and their consequences to gain insight and resolve any karmic imbalances in our present life. 

Despite its potential, past life regression therapy, like any therapy exploring the subconscious mind, does not lack critics. The argument often revolves around:

• The lack of evidence-based support for PLRT
• The susceptibility to creating false memories
• Critics also question the concept of reincarnation, pointing to conceptual challenges such as explaining population growth.

An interesting case that stirred controversy was the Bridey Murphy case, which demonstrated the possibility of cryptomnesia influencing supposed past life memories. Here, subjects recalled actual memories, believing them to be from past lives, and sometimes mistaking such memories for a past memory.

Despite skepticism, reincarnation belief remains prevalent among a substantial population segment, and practitioners acknowledge the potential for personal growth and healing through subconscious exploration. Furthermore, there is a wealth of anecdotal stories and researched cases that support that regression and reincarnation are worthy of exploration.

One cannot ignore the surge of interest in past life regression therapy following the accounts of Eben Alexander (Proof of Heaven) and Anita Morjani, (Dying to be me) who shared their near-death experiences and subsequent explorations into past lives in their books.