What happens when I experience a past-life regression?

In hypnotic regression, you may evoke apparent past-life memories that seem very real and authentic to you. These impressions or re-lived memories may include dreams or waking visions, experiences in reflective meditation, spontaneous recall through active imagining, or certain triggering events in your life. Once relived, they can be released through personal insight and self-healing by bringing them to light in the awake state of consciousness.

What is the purpose of regressing to a past-life memory?

Past-life memories are becoming increasingly more common in the general population. Whether you believe in reincarnation or not, the subjective experience of recall can be very unsettling and even disturbing if you do not know or recognize it for what it is. Past-life regression therapy is a nonpsychotherapeutic process that specializes in assisting people with typically unresolved traumas or phobias, sometimes viewed as having occurred in a previous lifetime. These unresolved, traumatic memories can interfere with everyday working consciousness and may be viewed as a spiritual emergency.

What if I don’t have a trauma but feel I have lived before?

Increasingly, a few individuals experience nontraumatic previous-life recall. These spontaneous occurrences may be experienced in brief snatches of memory or glimpses of a hitherto unexplained event, or they may arise gradually as a process of inner-knowing evolved over the lifespan. Often if an individual has had a particularly powerful spiritual awakening or an intense subjective experience, say through meditation, they may feel they have had a flash of another existence, memory, or realization. These are much less documented in the literature on past life, but they are becoming more and more recognized as an area of potential research and therapeutic interaction.

If you feel you have experienced another consciousness, another body, or have visions of another time and place, you may be experiencing a spiritual emergence. These can be clarified in hypnotic regression, much like the traumatic or phobic regression work, but they are often much milder, without intense traumatic content, and much less verifiable as an actual past-life recall experience.

When is it appropriate for me to do a past-life regression?

It is appropriate to attempt a past-life regression when you feel that something more than a neurosis or current-life problem remains consistently unresolved. It is also appropriate to do regression to clarify an already recognized lifetime or to work out karmic or hangover details that continue to trouble you. You may also develop a pattern of regression that assists you in clarifying spontaneous sequences or flashes of previous-life memory or events.