“Life is the train, not the station.” Paolo Coelho
On our soul’s journey home to a state of infinite love and wisdom, a journey filled with mystery and miracles, we rest, recuperate, and reflect at the stations, in between lifetimes, until it is time to board again: another train, another body. There is only one home and eventually we will all return there. It is a place of bliss.
Past life regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what we believe are memories of past lives or incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions or a type of confabulation. Past-life regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit of a spiritual experience, or in a psychotherapeutic setting.
The technique used during past-life regression involves the subject answering a series of questions while hypnotized to reveal identity and events of alleged past lives, a method similar to that used in recovered memory therapy and one that, similarly, often misrepresents memory as a faithful recording of previous events rather than a constructed set of recollections. The use of hypnosis and suggestive questions can tend to leave the subject particularly likely to hold distorted or false memories. Hypnosis you see in movies, it is just concentration in relaxed state.
Past-life regression therapy is a form of with guided meditation or hypnosis. The therapy essentially suggests that we carry evidence — emotional, psychic and occasionally physical — of our past lives into our current one. (You have to accept the idea of pseudo-reincarnation or past lives, period, to get with it.) By accessing those memories and talking through them, past-life regression can help us confront issues in our current life.
This therapy has been developed since the 1950s by psychologists, psychiatrists and mediums. The belief gained credibility because some of the advocates possess legitimate credentials, though these credentials were in areas unrelated to religion, psychotherapy or other domains dealing with past lives and mental health.
We unconsciously carry forward experiences, attitudes, and relationship dynamics from prior lives into our current lifetime. By bringing these memories into conscious awareness, we can release or diffuse the energy and emotional blockages that keep us stuck.
We can debate the metaphysics of past-life regression until we’re all blue in the face, but the point is that it’s a form of therapy regardless, albeit a nontraditional one. If you’re able to uncover, deal with, and feel better about issues you’re facing via past-life regression, then it’s a success, and probably a more fun one than your usual therapy session.
Those who have not had a past-life memory can attain understanding and an enhanced perspective by witnessing or reading about the experiences of others. An empathic identification can be a powerful transformative stimulus. This is an alternative route, where the direction of progress is more important than the speed. We will all eventually reach a state of enlightened awareness.
