Understand These Before Starting the Past Life Regression
First Guideline
In order to have a successful Past Life Regression experience, the first guideline is for the client to feel relaxed, safe, and open to fully participate in the Past Life Regression process. Interestingly, I have done Past Life Regressions on some people who did not believe in prior lives. The process still worked and they reported past life events, just as the believers did. In one case, a professor from Stanford University agreed to do a Past Life Regression, even though he did not believe in past lives. For approximately 30 minutes, he described vivid details of living and dying in a previous lifetime. After the session he said, "That was really interesting, but I still don't believe it."Regardless of personal beliefs, the important first guideline -- relaxation -- simply provides permission for the client to access the information which he or she needs. The outcome of a Past Life Regression is not dependent upon belief or disbelief in past lives or in any spiritual path.
Second Guideline
Following the first guideline, the second guideline involves the client's ability to stop analyzing and/or judging his or her Past Life Regression experience. The goal is for the conscious mind to function as a non-judging observer/witness. I use hypnosis techniques to induce a light-trance, relaxed state of body/mind, which works well to quiet the conscious mind while opening the subconscious mind. The client is not "asleep" like some stage-hypnotized people appear. At all times, the client is in full control of himself or herself.While in the deeply relaxed state I gently direct and encourage my client to be open and to report whatever comes to his or her awareness. Usually, memories from the past are easily recalled from the subconscious mind. The conscious mind will still be "awake," but is quietly relaxed and -- optimally -- willing to be a nonjudgmental observer.
With just a little assistance, many people can go quickly back to a past life, once they are willing and the conscious mind is quiet. At the beginning of our PLR session, our purpose is to go back to the source experience which is the cause of the problem or situation. Usually the source experience is found either in the client's present lifetime or in one or more past lives.
Third Guideline
In the third guideline the client is encouraged to verbally describe whatever comes up as images, sensations, or "thoughts" when guided back to the source experience. The PLR process is sometimes blocked when the client thinks privately to herself or himself, "Oh, those images are probably not real or not the ones I want, so I won't mention them." THAT IS NOT THE THING TO DO! It is vitally important for the client to describe whatever comes to mind, as it arises, without judgment or editing.
In one case I told a woman to look down at her feet and tell me the first thing she senses or sees. She exclaimed, "Oh no! I'm a horse! I see horse's hooves." I said, "Now scan up your legs and body and tell me what-else you see." She replied, "Oh thank goodness, I'm riding a horse!" Once she accepted the first brief images, the rest of her past life events flowed into place for her. We continued the PLR process, and she recalled her untimely death. As the horse she was riding jumped over a wall, the horse tripped and fell on her. She died under the horse. If she had allowed her conscious mind to "edit" the first doubtful image, then the rest of the past life story would not have unfolded.
So in summary, to begin a successful Past Life Regression these three guidelines are offered:
- Be physically relaxed, comfortable and safe.
- Have a quiet conscious mind, and be just a non-judgmental observer. After those two conditions are met, a light hypnotic trance can create the conditions for accessing the subconscious mind.
- While in the light trance, the client is encouraged to verbally describe whatever comes up as images, sensations, or "thoughts" when guided back to the source experience.
