All Are One Therapies

As posted on www.past-life-regression.co.uk Sept. '08

Past Life Regression offers an opportunity to become more familiar with an eternal part of yourself. Re-experiencing a time when you have lived a different life can bring a changing perspective to your present life. This in turn can offer a greater sense of the immortality of your soul coexisting with the unavoidable mortality of your physical life.

Yet, to work as a therapy, is there more to Past Life Regression than this alone?

Let’s have a look.

Firstly we can look at human life complete with an aura running through and around the body. Each experience that a person has, registers as an imprinted pattern within the aura according to the nature of the experience. This can show as variations in colour and pattern (when the aura can be seen), with strong experiences registering as a highly charged energy. For instance anger may register in one way with its own colour and pattern, typically red and jagged. Love may form in a different colour and pattern, possibly violet and harmonious.

Normal experiences that register and pass will settle down to a relatively low level imprint that may not appear significant. If the strong experiences do not find resolution then they can remain highly charged and become stored and ingrained within the aura as a deeper impression. This can be especially so in the case of a traumatic event that does not find resolution. When a person reaches the end of their life any unresolved issues stored as highly charged energy in the form of thought, emotion or physical (body) memories within the aura can be transferred as an imprint within the soul as it leaves the body.

Recent research indicates an understanding of the soul as being in a kind of holographic form. The hologram contains different impressions according to the different experiences from different lives, which accumulate from life to life as new experiences are gathered and others are resolved. Unresolved issues remain as deeper imprints which can show up in a new life especially when an early life trigger sets it all off again. At some point the soul that you are will reincarnate in a new life, complete with these past life experiences embedded in this imprint. Going back to the source of an issue whilst in a safe, protected environment and seeking to resolve and release any of these highly charged energies can invoke healing which has a corresponding affect on your current life.

Let’s take an example, a soul that experiences a life as a soldier in mediaeval times ending that life in battle, from a wound to his stomach (physical memory). In the last moment of that life he has the thought that he has failed his family in his inability to protect them ‘I have let them down’ (thoughts). At the same point his feelings are for the family that he loves, of yearning and regret (emotional memories)

So a person that has unexplainable stomach pains may find they originate from an event such as this mediaeval soldier experienced. (NB Do not assume this to be so without seeking appropriate medical advice.) At the same time a person that has irrational thoughts of letting others down without any real basis may also find the origins in such an event. Alternatively a person that has powerful feelings of yearning and regret without being able to make sense of them may also find the origins in such an incident.

As an adult, if you have an opportunity to go back and find resolution and forgiveness for either childhood incidents or earlier life relationships that have caused hurt, then you may find that you are much more able to continue your life in peace and with a sense of acceptance once the new understanding has been achieved.

This commonly occurs for those that seek counselling for difficulties they encounter presently which originate from incidents or relationships they experienced in the past. Consequently this can leave you in a position where you can look forward and devote your energy towards whatever you choose for yourself for now and the future.

As an adult, you may know that the person that you are now is built upon your childhood experiences, ie if you did not have those particular experiences then you would be a different person with different learnings gathered from different experiences.

In a similar way, each life that you experience is built upon a previous life. Each of the experiences of each of those lives contribute to the character of your soul, in turn making you the person that you are today. Finding resolution and forgiveness for unresolved past life experiences can bring about a deeply profound form of healing at a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level that many other therapies cannot achieve.

Past Life Regression Therapy is aimed at getting to the root of a problem. Remembering the events, releasing the energetic blockage and transforming the experience, within a safe and protected environment can bring an outcome that promotes healing which in turn, impacts on the person you are today.

© David Graham
All Are One Therapies

As posted on New Age Journal Website Dec '07

The realisation that we have all lived before can be a hugely liberating experience for many of us. In accepting reincarnation as a natural part of the way in which life works can lead to an expanding of the mind and an acceleration of our spiritual development. It can also be a great challenge to the cultural values that we assume to matter so much.


If we have lived before, and this is just one of many incarnations on this earth, then is there a way for us to remember any of them? Is remembering a past life helpful to us in our current life? To remember a past life is to become reacquainted with a part of ourself . This part of ourself has contributed to us becoming the people that we are today.


In western culture, probably the most common method to attempt to become aware of a past life is for a hypnotherapist to relax a client sufficiently and offer suggestions that allow the memories to surface. Using similar techniques a hypnotherapist facilitator can work with a whole group of people, all engaged in the common purpose of accessing our own individual memories of one of our own previous physical lives. For some of us, working within a group all engaged in the same objective, all taking the same risks, is a safer experience. So, we all relax, standing, sitting or lying down wherever appropriate


Feeling safe, connected and engaged are important parts of the process for participants. Establishing a connection with our higher mind and thus enabling access to our own greater wisdom is important especially regarding our ability to select an experience that is most suitable for us to re-experience now. Another important aspect of the event is in inviting the attendance of our spirit guide to assist in the process.


In a workshop setting, we can set our own joint objectives by inviting ourselves to focus on the purpose of the workshop. A short talk on the evidence to support reincarnation helps to focus our mind on the objectives of the session. This engages the rational, critical mind in assessing the merits of reincarnation and past life therapy. This rational critical mind is then invited to take a back seat whilst we engage in exercises designed to stimulate the intuitive parts of ourselves. If we are used to listening to our rational thoughts and dismissing intuitive impulses then how can that be altered so that the intuitive part is allowed to express itself? Progressive relaxation techniques can enable the tension in the body to dissipate and for the conscious mind to stand at ease. We can achieve this firstly by relaxing and allowing the conscious thinking self to loosen its need to control. The relaxation can happen at a physical level and also at a mental and emotional level. Once relaxed, then our focus can turn to the stimulation of our intuitive abilities.


Stimulation of our intuitive abilities can often be helped when we are reminded of our own potential to access these memories. We often do this in dreams, meditation or even daydreams. The most powerful factor that often stunts our potential is this critical mind which dismisses or represses the internal experience that surfaces spontaneously. Often dismissed as imagination or fantasy. Whether some of them are fantasy may be so, yet the action of dismissing these experiences tends to leave our intuitive selves relatively underdeveloped and underused. For some of us it is almost like a part of ourselves that cannot be trusted. When we allow ourselves to take note of these intuitive thoughts, images and feelings, simple acknowledgement is often enough, then a pathway begins to open which makes access to our past life memories so much easier. We can engage in exercises to enable this.


It is important for our imagination to be engaged for these exercises. Imagination that is focussed on a task can be a powerful stepping stone to gaining access to past life memories. Yet when our imagination drifts it can be reeled back in without breaking the flow. Just allowing any distraction to go and refocussing without being self critical over a minor aberration.


So, exercises designed to stimulate our intuition can be employed in several ways. Visually, tuning into another person and noting any differences in that persons face, do any other images come to mind. Using each of our senses; becoming aware of any vague impressions; noting the feelings that seem to go with it; any words that may pop into our head; or even just our sense of knowing. Allowing ourselves the confidence and courage to express whatever we sense. Our concern is not whether we are judged to be right or wrong, our only concern is whether our intuition is being stimulated by the exercise.


We can save the why’s and wherefores until after the exercises have been completed. These engage the rational side of our brain which likes to take over and in doing so the intuition becomes subdued. It encourages conscious interference which would prefer to control our experience. If the conscious mind can be encouraged to take a back seat and just enjoy the ride then all the better. So, we can let the conscious mind off from the task of trying to make sense of it all until the end of the exercises at least. Above all, the exercise is in trusting our own experience. In this way we start to find insight and healing for the people that we are today


So, can any of us access memories of a past life from within a group setting?…..

Yes, as long as we allow ourselves to.



Dave Graham

Billy was at a crossroads in his life when I first began working with him. He had reached his late forties, finding himself with no career, no job and dealing with the affects of a close bereavement. He had expressed such a strong interest in the concept of reincarnation, that it seemed only natural to offer ‘past life regression’ to help him to make sense of his world. This seemed to work well for Billy. In this particular session he asked if regression could help him to work through a confusing and difficult relationship he was having with a friend, Debbie, who was suffering from an alcohol dependency. Using suggestions to enable him to relax, I asked Billy to choose the most relevant past life for this purpose. This appeared to be a memory of a life in Mediaeval England. This is how the session continued:-

BILLY: There’s a village… it’s being attacked by soldiers…I am one of the soldiers

THERAPIST: You are attacking the village

BILLY: Burning…burn the villages….it’s just what we do! They do it to us and we do it to them. It’s better to do it to them than have it done to us

THERAPIST: So what happens next?

BILLY: We take the women…one of the women is Debbie (feels like the same person) …she’s a wise woman of the village…she’s a healer, a midwife…helps women give birth

THERAPIST: now that you have taken these women. What happens next?

BILLY: I kill her (Debbie)


Billy started to tell me more about the incident and how it almost seemed to be a way of life for those in the army at that time. Then I asked him about his feelings in the aftermath of the event


BILLY: Feels wrong…and now I feel guilty … I’m shocked that I feel guilty!…. I can’t tell anyone else how I feel ....if I told anyone I would just be seen as being weak. You can’t be seen as being weak in the army…the other soldiers would make your life a misery


I took Billy forward through the rest of his life where he described it as being full of guilt and remorse, haunted by this event. He tried to atone by making items of beauty, metal works and railings for the cathedral. Praying in a chapel daily for forgiveness yet never feeling as though he was forgiven. Years later as a white haired elderly man, he took his own life in an attempt to escape those feelings that he had never been able to share. After his death I asked if he was able to find his spirit guide, (in an earlier session, Billy had formed a strong connection with his female spirit guide, who he knew as Ali) so they could review that life together.

BILLY: I am watching the incident again with her

THERAPIST: How do you feel about it

BILLY: I feel even worse….shame!

THERAPIST: What does Ali say to you?

BILLY: She says that I need to be aware that I am not the only one to suffer….she wants me to see that it wasn’t only Debbie that suffered either, but also her children, her family and more…(long pause)... I have to make good, I have to help her

THERAPIST: In what way do you have to help her?

BILLY: When she asks for my help, I have to be her friend… I’m asking Ali if I have helped Debbie before…she is telling me that I have helped her in many lives…I have been a good friend and confidante….this is our third life since… and she is telling me I have a choice whether to continue to help her in this life….she won’t tell me if this is my last life with her….I’m asking if my karma will be paid off if I help her in this life and she is telling me that it is not for me to know…

THERAPIST: No

BILLY: She is saying make sure not to harm her… need to be very gentle…she is vulnerable…she needs friends….I’m not going to be able to solve all her problems but I can help her…(pause).. Now she is saying that I am learning to forgive myself!

THERAPIST: Ali is saying that you are learning to forgive yourself for the actions you took with Debbie

BILLY: Yes…(pause).. there have been many steps forward in learning to forgive myself in the previous two lives….but I have not been aware …I haven’t been allowed to know …but now Ali is being told that it is ok to tell me

THERAPIST: Is there more about forgiveness for you to learn?

BILLY: She is saying that I am mature enough to know that is what I am doing…in the two previous lives I was not ….I helped Debbie when other people thought I was mad … Debbie was destitute…people thought she was mad, but I helped her, brought her food, tried to calm her down….people saying that she doesn’t know that I am helping her because she has lost her mind…but I helped her anyway… felt like the right thing to do

THERAPIST: Has Debbie agreed to take on this life in order to enable you to forgive yourself?

BILLY: Yes…(pause)…..she needs a lot of help, I can do my bit but I don’t need to be responsible for her….Ali is saying to me that everybody is happy for me that I am mature enough to be told this….Debbie is very gentle…she is the way she is for her own reasons, but I am not allowed to know what they are


THERAPIST: ...but you are allowed to know what your role might be

BILLY: I am allowed to know what my role has been

THERAPIST: I see…it’s for you to decide what your role is for the future

BILLY: Ali is telling me that I know what is wise for the future …


I brought the session to an end shortly afterwards and so we began to work through some of the material that surfaced. Billy realised that he would never be able to tell Debbie about this, but continued to meet her and helped her over the following months. Then Billy reported to me that he had a feeling inside him that something had shifted and that his work with Debbie now felt complete. As for Debbie, she was not my client and I can only accept that, as Ali pointed out, she is the way she is for her own reasons.

This was a powerful session for both Billy and myself. On the one hand none of this could be proved to be real. On the other hand it was relevant and far reaching in its implications. The session supports the idea that karma works by ‘gaining experiential understanding to fulfil the souls need for growth’ rather than a system of ‘hard lives for bad actions’. It also demonstrates that souls can arrange to work together to help each other with that life’s tasks.

It raised a lot of questions for each of us.

What was happening when Ali was ‘told’ that it was ok to let Billy know?

Who was ‘everybody’ that was happy for Billy?

How come a 'wise woman' and healer in one life is deemed mad in another, and is alcohol dependent in yet another?

I was a novice therapist when I first worked with Billy. Sessions such as this inspired me to focus my work in Regression Therapy.

© Dave Graham
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Names Changed