A Past Life Regression Therapy Session
“All the world ‘s a stage,
and all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts”
As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII). William Shakespeare.
The experiences that a person has around the end of a past life will often have particular significance for the issues that a person faces in another life. Exploring the thoughts and feelings can yield powerful insights into unresolved issues, and thus the challenges that the person may face now. The following example illustrates this.
Jane was a 33yo single woman when she came to see me. She told me that her life felt stuck. She had suffered bouts of depression, feeling suicidal at one point. Her relationships with men always seemed to fail leaving her feeling very alone. Her relationship with her family was also difficult at times, especially in clashes with her brother, Mark. Her attempts to push on with her career and her ambitions were going nowhere. She felt that she was losing her dream of a happy and fulfilling life.
We set an intention for her to go to the time and place that lay at the root of her issues. This turned out to be around Eighteenth Century Europe.
The following transcript shows what happened.
KEY C: CLIENT T: THERAPIST
C: I’m just getting an impression of a battle. Horses, swords, fire, noise, the smell. I am a soldier, but not an ordinary soldier, I seem to be leading them in battle, but it’s not going well. We lose, I am captured.
T: and then what happens?
C: I am at a harbour, we are chained together. There is a crowd there and they are jeering and shouting at us. I am scared! We are all scared! These people have a reputation for brutality. Now we are boarding a ship. I think we are below decks. It’s dark, like a dungeon!
T: Just notice your body. What are you doing there?
C: It feels like I am sitting down. I have chains around my wrists, they are tied in front of me and up in the air. Chains around my ankles, as well. There are others here with me….. Somebody is hitting me across my back with a stick. His clothes look like Napoleon’s
T: How do you feel?
C: Angry! How dare he? I’m pulling on the chains. I’m shouting, although I don’t even know what I am shouting! I am desperate, I feel alone.
T: Ok, go forward now to the next significant event.
C: Nothing happens. I’m still there, nobody comes. I’m realising that nobody will come. No food, no water, no rescue.
T: Angry?
C: No anger now. Just despondent. I cannot fight, I cannot get away. It feels more and more hopeless.
T: Go forward till something changes
C: Nothing changes, I am just resigned to my fate. I have always fought to win but now I have fought and lost. My strength is slipping away from me. No matter how I try I cannot win, I cannot escape. Nothing I can do. This is defeat, and death is close now. I have had enough, I want it to end.
T: Go through to the point when you are ready to leave your body. Tell me what you become aware of
C: Feeling light, it is all light above me. I am moving upwards…… Oh, this is better!….. Oh! This is beautiful!…………. There’s my Nan!
She enjoyed a reunion with her Nan, before we reviewed her past life experience from the spirit realms, searching for the meaningful aspects that affect her now. Jane realised how the thoughts that were with her in that final period of the soldiers life were thoughts that she held about herself now. ‘No matter how I try, I cannot win’ and‘Life is more and more hopeless!’
She also realised that the way the emotions played out then were also familiar to her now. How the drive to make her life succeed would change to despondency and hopelessness, feeling alone. This would often end in a resignation that she did not have the strength to achieve what she wanted out of life.
We revisited the scene to exhaust the energetic charge that originated from that incident. She no longer needed to be governed by her sub conscious thoughts ‘No matter how I try, I cannot win’ ‘Life is more and more hopeless!’ We allowed the emotional charge held there to play out and exhaust itself.
We then revisited the scene again and used body therapy to release the energy that was lodged at the cellular level in her physical body. In this way Jane’s body was able to experience the sensation of breaking free from the chains that held her. This enabled her to reconnect to her own sense of power. The energetic blockage was being released at each level; mental, emotional and physical.
Note that Jane was simply invited to go to the time and place that her issues came from, her sub-conscious wisdom took over at that point. She intuitively went to the place she needed to, and then gained her own understanding of the effect of the past life on her life now. She no longer needed to simply react to patterns set up in another lifetime, she was now free to move forward with her life.
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Yet within all this, there was even more happening at a spiritual level.
In the period following the end of the past life, I invited the ‘spirit’ of the prison warder to come to her. This section shows what happened
C: He is sat down in front of me. He has his head in his hands, crying. He is distraught. ……….. I don’t feel scared now, I don’t feel angry. I feel for him, I am putting my hand on his shoulder
T: Then what happens?
C: Oh! His face! He looks just like Mark! I think it is him! Oh, I just feel such compassion for him now. (Mark is Jane’s brother in her present life)
The session continued with them rekindling the bond that they held between each other at soul level. It is not unusual for souls to incarnate at the same time in order to help each other with life challenges. It can be as family, friends and also as enemies.
Jane was able to make a connection with her spirit guide. This relationship helped her to understand that she took on that life as an opportunity to develop her capacity for compassion –even towards those that would do her harm. The negative feelings that she experienced got in the way of that, until she was no longer in a physical life. She also realised that this has been a task that she is working on in this life.
In another session, she connected with her spirit guide in the period between lives, as below.
T: Tell me what is happening
C: He (her spirit guide) is holding a large heavy bag out in front of him. It looks like it is a bag full of rocks.
T: Ok, what is he doing with it?
C: He just lets go of it…. Oh! He is showing me that the weight has been dropped! I don’t have to carry it any more.
(Names changed)
The following article was published in Mosaic Lifestyle Magazine.