I personally don’t consider past life regression, where people go back using hypnosis and visit experiences they had in a previous life, to be a real hypnotic phenomenon. I do believe and know that people have experiences in hypnosis that they often think are past lives. They are undoubtedly experiencing something, but I believe that it is the unconscious mind playing out the scenario for them, and not a real ‘regression.’
I have never really had anyone in hypnosis experience being a refuse worker or a sewer worker in their past life. They always seem to be kings and queens or famous people on a mission. Often, upon further questioning, their past life is usually someone that they presently admire or would aspire to be like. For instance, someone who has an experience of being a missionary might have always dreamed of doing that in this life. Whether the past life experience is real or imagined, I believe that this kind of hypnosis therapy can actually be helpful. I know it can certainly help produce a profound positive shift for some people.
If someone came along to me and said “I’ve got this problem and I believe it comes from an experience in my past life,” then I might go down that road with them and help them to explore in hypnosis. It doesn’t matter if I personally believe this to be true, because they do. What’s important is that this is part of their belief system.
There are plenty of stories and books written on past life regressions achieved through hypnosis. People often use facts they learn of during their “regression” to validate and prove their claims. However, I’m still not convinced. I’ve done a lot of work with hypnosis and I’ve had a lot of clients that believe they’ve had past life experiences, but they never seem to give enough facts or information to back it up for me.
Again, in a one-to-one hypnosis session I will guide someone through one of these experiences if I believe it will help them, but I would never consider doing this in a recorded self-hypnosis session.
I know there are others out there who do produce such self-hypnosis sessions and it’s their choice; however, people’s beliefs about past lives can bring up very deep emotional issues and experiences for them and that’s something I believe is best suited for professional guidance.
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