Past Life Regression
by Randi Botnick, CHT

Have you ever experienced déjà vu when you were somewhere new and you are certain that you've been there before? Do you regularly have repetitive dreams in which you always awaken at the same point? Are there certain people to whom you are drawn and not to others?

Past Life Regressions are a way to explore the answers to these questions and more. Often we find ourselves in patterns or acting in a certain ways. We may feel as if we have no control or there are other reasons that this is occurring. For some, this pattern is not from this lifetime, but from previous lifetimes, and doing a past life regression can often identify the cause.

Past Life Regressions can be achieved through hypnosis, and it’s a good idea to have a trained practitioner on hand during your regression. Often times, the regression is accomplished through deep progressive relaxation followed by guided imagery. Once you reach the designated place for the story to unfold, a good practitioner will ask you the necessary questions to help you move through that lifetime.

Other techniques to project a past life include automatic writing, dream interpretation, connecting to your higher consciousness, and visiting the Akashic Records. All of these are possible for all of us, but, of course, some are more adept at moving into these altered states of consciousness more proficiently than others. For some, it takes a few tries before achieving success at a level of deep meditation.

It is possible to remember our past lives because the physical body holds the memories of feelings from this lifetime and other, past lifetimes. However, it is not the body, per se, that holds emotional memory, but the soul. When the soul fully embodies the body, it fills it with all of its memories, knowledge, and wisdom, as well as its trials and shadows. Thus we move through life. Each lifetime of experience adds more of the story, of the complete picture.

Experience has shown that accessing past lives can lead to the release of tensions, fears, anxieties and other powerful feelings that seem ungrounded in our current realities. For example, you may wonder why you are drawn to a particular person in your life or why you have a certain phobia. Or perhaps you may have a particular skill or a penchant for a certain field of study or work and want to know why.

Once the lifetime in question in accessed, fears can be understood and released, or knowledge can potentially be carried back into this lifetime. It has been found that the mere act of understanding what happened in that lifetime can clear the feelings associated with it. Other times the past life regression can just help you understand yourself more clearly.

Are you one of the seventy-five percent of the world’s population that assumes that we have all lived many lives? Would you like to remember one of yours?

June 2004