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According to our eastern philosophy, we’re souls traversing since, well, forever; through one life after another. Who we are today, how we think, emote, or react to certain stimuli, events, places and people and even how we perceive ourselves, is through the prism of our samskara; the summation from the massive input of experiences from all past lives, encoded in the memory chip of our soul. We easily dismiss déjà vu – that eerie familiarity with a place hitherto unvisited or the instant dislike for someone we just met or a sense of a lifelong camaraderie as coincidence.
But for some, certain stimuli bring on intensely crippling fears and phobias, which hypnotic therapy offers to eliminate by taking the person back to face the trauma which now, no longer poses a threat. Regressing into the past lives, also helps bring some understanding and a closure to the current toxic relationships, some of which are unescapable, like that of parent and child. Through the trance, one can let go of certain damaging habits and emotions, such as excessive gluttony, which could be traced back to starvation in some past life, or a horribly low self-esteem coming from many lifetimes of verbal abuse.
It’ll need grit and gut to face a past of long ago; the following are my senior friends’ thoughts on regression therapy:
What’s happening is ideal; He has my back.
Books have long piqued my interest, so I requested a session, hoping to understand connections with friends, family, and lost loves, life’s repeated patterns, and why we do what we do. However, the therapist felt that I was neither prepared nor strong enough.
Knowing the past might help understand the current situation, which isn’t necessarily changeable. So, I’d rather face whatever life throws at me with acceptance and gratitude.
I wouldn’t want to give the reins of my mind over to someone else, even for the session’s duration.
I’m not a good candidate for it; I’m very emotional and not so stable.
I’ve tried past life regression, hoping for insights into the subconscious to find new paths for self-discovery, to evolve and to heal. But throughout the multiple hypnosis sessions, I remained too aware and conscious and couldn’t enter the trance state.
Might try out of curiosity, but not sure how it can be therapeutic.
Was very keen to go through hypnosis therapy to find out why so many people had been involved in bringing me up through my childhood years, and in vastly varying degrees of conservativeness or strictness and freedom. Somehow, it didn’t come about, by the time I moved on, I didn’t feel the need for explanations.
I don’t question the process; everything happens for a reason; I live it, love it, and learn from it.
It’s always been of utmost interest and deep curiosity for me, I’ve had these strange premonitions standing at the tombs of Pharaohs in Egypt or in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra, wondering if I was one among the thousands who helped build these monuments. But one has to be very brave to hear/know what one is going in for and I am well prepared, as I know it won’t shake my present status.
It’s best to leave past life traumas where they belong: in the past.
Why go back to make life harder and more complicated? It’s like opening Pandora’s box and not meant for everyone. But to each their own. To some, it might help to bring some understanding, while others might get complacent and blame the present on the past. Also, the current life’s inputs from genetics, culture, religion, parenting, and childhood experiences cannot be disregarded.
I’ve lived more than 70 years in an ever-changing world and looking back is useless unless it teaches me a lesson. It might have a detrimental effect on my life and aggravate and compound the present fears, phobias, and obsessions. So, it’s better to try to overcome weaknesses and phobias by ourselves.