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Past Life Regression

Have you ever been hypnotised and taken back to a former life? Was the experience positive or did it cause you distress? How did you feel about the retrieved memories and how do they compare to the 'you' in this life? Please use this thread to discuss and share your regression experiences.


See also the section of our website about Past lives and reincarnation:
http://www.psychics.co.uk/pastlives

[stacy]

Hi! I have a deep interest in past lives at the moment. I once had a regression in which I have memories of being a oriental lady, I felt oppressed and remember having a yearning to have more freedom, in my regression I remember that I wasnt able to leave as 'dragons guarded the gates'. Maybe this was symbolic about the dragons, or maybe in those times there was a real belief in that. The experience didnt frighten me in the slightest, although I shelved it away in my mind until recently, when I have developed a longing and fascination for Chinese culture and traditions, and met someone sparked the memories of my regression. I LOVE talking about past lives so this is a great topic! :lol:

[jacquit]

Hi, i had a past life regression about 2 yrs ago. I found it to be an interesting and enjoyable experience and hope to do it again soon. What i found strange was it did have some similarites with my present life. firstly i married young, i had 2 children one of each sex, and i lived in a mill workers cottage, but apart from that it was a very different life to the one i have now. During this regrression my husband had died and i felt a very strange feeling, at the time i didn't understand what this was, all i could say was that this feeling consumed me, since then i have felt this but in a lesser way, and i now understand that i was consumed with grief. Another thing i found interesting was that i have a male friend who i spent a lot of time with, although we are "just friends" everytime we parted i felt the need to ask when i would see him again, what time etc, and even i found this annoying as i don't do it with anyone else even my husband? but during this regrression i realised i was married to this man, and after he died at 32 (coinsidently that was his age when i met him in this life) i just spent the rest of my life waiting for him to return, although i knew he couldn't.
Jacqui

[psyrebel]

I did this once, 13 years ago, and have an audio-tape of the session. It was strange in that I didn't feel I was hypnotized at all or in an altered state of consciousness. Yet all the things I came out with, in response to the hypnotist's questions, came from somewhere. Whether from my vivid imagination, or from real recollections of past lives, it is impossible for me to judge.

I would like to check the information I came out with, but it is far from easy. Although I have a rough birthdate for the main past life I was regressed to, I understand records for Scotland, the place of birth, are kept in Edinburgh, and I live in London.

If it came from my imagination it is puzzling why. I saw myself as an old man named Adrian Howard living in the Stirling area of Scotland. It is not a name that means anything to me in this life.

I was also regressed to other lives - Else, an Austrian woman killed in a bunker or basement air-raid shelter in 1941 when the roof caves in, presumably from a bomb.

The other past life I mentioned briefly when the hypnotist took me back to 1550 B.C. was that of a female slave in Egypt, coming from the Mesopotamia area originally. I perish in this life in some religious ritual killing, after getting pregnant probably by the son of the household I work for.

The last two regressions could have come from my imagination, I guess people killed in air-raids in the last World War and Egyptian slaves would be quite common themes for people regressed to these time periods. But why on Earth I should come up with the name Adrian Howard living in Stirling, Scotland I have no idea.

If the opportunity arises I would like to undergo another hypnotic regression and see if I come up with the same or similar info, though this wouldn't prove anything either as these 'past lives' are now in my conscious memory because of the previous regression session.

I do believe in reincarnation, though obviously not in the idea that there are several thousand 'Marie Antonette's' walking around today. I think we should always be very suspicious of those who claim to be reincarnations of famous people.

[Wolfie]

Hi, I havent had past life regression therapy, but these things I have had in haunting visions! I have known for many years in my current life that I drowned in a past life; as far as I know I fell off a ship and drowned in the beginning of the 80's I reckon. This may sound ridiculous, I am scared of ships and deep water; and always have been and I could never put my finger on why that is. I never go swimming, or on ships. It only became apparent to me when I was a teenager, if I ever came near to a vessel of water or ship that looks similar to the one I died on I get this horrific feeling and flashbacks.

As for the time, I have no idea why it was in the early 80's. Just a feeling or imagination adding to it.

[hemen]

Hi
I am pretty sure what I am about to post probably appears on the site's FAQs page somewhere, but I thought it worthy of posting here to give my viewpoint purely from the knowledge and experience that I have as a professional hypnotherapist.

I work a lot with people who wish to enter the hypnotic state to view perceived possible past lives. I always put the process in those terms because the process of regression is subjective; by this I mean that what is contained within your sub-conscious belongs entirely to you as an individual and the experience of regressing during hypnosis to a possible past life comes entirely from your sub-conscious mind.

Nobody can give you absolute proof that you have lived before or, if you feel that you have, who you were.

However, some of the experiences and information that I have gleaned from clients during regression sessions do yield names, dates, places, addresses, characteristics, events and all manner of information that I record for them so that (if they wish) they can investigate further to establish any factual historic information for themselves to substantiate their experience.

I have to say that in my experience so far, the majority of people who wish to be regressed do so because they feel that the issues in life MUST have been caused by something very negative in a previous possible existence as they find it very challenging to honestly look at the cause and effect factor in THIS life.

However, I think it is important to understand that by and large the vast majority of people lead extremely good lives (perceived past and present) and therefore to consider that we must have done something bad in a former life suggests that we undermine our sense of worth in this one; which really could be the issue at hand.

Past lives is a fascinating subject as we delve more and more into what our sub-conscious actually contains about us as an individual - whether that be our suppressed way of handling our negative emotions and experiences or indeed an actual previous existence.

It is a sensitive issue too and not to be entered into lightly or by untrained hands - that is a word of caution I put only as a professional person who deals with sensitive and highly emotional people on a daily basis.

In my humble opinion it is THIS life we do not pay enough attention to and that we do not try and understand and get to grips with.

The majority of people that I have facilitated past life regressions for bring out emotions and feelings very relevant to their current life events that they have chosen to suppress. Therefore on a psychological level the process is useful for them to look at those feelings safely and to seek the additional support in the here and now that they require.

I hope that this makes some sense and does not put you off exploring the essence of you further as that is not my intention. If you want to try past life regression then all I would say is make sure you go through the process with someone who is qualified and professional who is willing to firstly build a relationship with you to understand your need to explore self further. That way you will gain the best possible positive and safe experience. And don't you deserve that?

The books of Dr Brian Weiss, particularly Many Lives, Many Masters, provide good insight to what can occur during regression therapy and also give a good account of a professional Psychiatrist's experience of "stumbling upon this form of therapy.

Namaste
Caz

[Wolfie]

well said indeed, it is not what lives we have lived or will live. its the life we are in now that we do not pay attention to, and seem to confuse such instances that we presume are past life experiences.

[meow]

I have two memories that are not from this life, one positive and one negative. I will only tell you about the positive one.
The first memory came to me through meditation. I was going through a difficult time and didn?t feel a strong connection to the earth or even my own body. My friend gave me some hematite and told me to hold it close to my solar plexus and concentrate on my breathing and body. As I did this I began to feel and see childhood memories.
This was the result I wanted because it took me straight back to my happy childhood. I tried to clear my mind again but did not realise that I was regressing myself, delving into my subconscious.
I felt so alive, in love and excited. I could smell the earth, it had just been raining, I was so in tune with everything and my senses were tingling. I was close to the ground and could feel movement in the distance. I had to provide but felt very confident in my abilities so I would go and investigate the movement later. I can?t explain how powerful these senses were but I knew where the creature was all the time and it was some distance away. I could feel it all down my left side and even see where it was hiding through my third eye. I couldn?t wait to take my catch back to my loved ones. I then felt overcome with love and looked up at the silhouettes of the black spiky trees against the twilight sky. This is a long paragraph but I felt and saw all these things at once in a flash.
It didn?t register at first because it felt so familiar, like when the smell of a penny chew reminds you of childhood but you don?t think about it, its just familiar. It took a few hours for me to realise that these memories were real but are not human memories.
I became obsessed with trying to remember more about my animal life and tried to regress further. I had a nightmare about another life that wasn?t quite so good. This reminded me I?m here for a reason and it is very important for me to concentrate on this life now.

[preston]

Life is a never ending circle of experiences, some good some not so good, but all part of the learning process.
There is no beginning and no end, are we in our past or our future.
For each individual we are in the here and now.
Regarding this topic it is quite complexed and has as everything else many facets.
Whilst undergoing an experiment with regression on a certain level i was taken back to the 1870's once again and as i stood watching from a distance, this trail of woman and children walking along a wide open vast area.
I knew exactly what was going on and why there were no grown men amongst the tribe, i felt more like an onlooker at that moment.
Through this Annie Fitzgerald's eye's and consciousness i was witnessing her life and felt a rapour with the content.
I believe i may have inhabited her earth bound body at this point in time in the 1870's.
The experiment was to go much further, meaning that when Annie passed away, what happened next.
Almost at once i realised who and what i was and how much i felt at home in the the reality of being part of the whole thing.
Guided by others to understand what we are capable of when free of our earth bound body's, which we inhabit so as to function on this earth.
It was pure logical, reality in itself,no nonsence.
The more i learned, the more sense it made. no religiousness about it.
I really did not want to return but knew i had no choice in the matter.
On the other hand the hypnotherapist was very shaken up over this experiment.

Regards Preston

[bigmumplum]

I have never had regression therapy or been hypnotised in any way but this subject is very interesting to me. As a young girl at school we had a project on Native Americans, I instinctively knew about the whole subject even though this was my first encounter with it in this life. I began to have flashbacks of being in a Native American encampment but I didn't feel I was Native American as I felt I was learning about them. Many many years later my husband and myself had a psyhic reading with a medium, she told me she could see me in a past life with pilgrims in America and I became very close friends with the Natives! She also told my husband that he had been a task master in Eygpt when the pyramids were being built. This didn't mean much to us until some time later when we were watching a programme about Eygpt and the pyramids with our very young son (who knew nothing of the reading we had been given) when our son started crying uncontrolably we had to turn the tv off and eventualy he told us that he was a slave building the pyramid and "daddy"(my husband) had hit him with a whip! we were all a bit shook up by this! My son has also spoken of another life when I wasn't his mum and his mum was called Deedee. He pointed to a picture of a victorian woman in very fine dress with a large hat and told us that was what his mum deedee looked like. My other children have talked of past lives also. My eldest daughter told me she remembered looking out of her window in her "old" bedroom and watching the elephants, monkeys & tigers (I guess that could be India or maybe she lived in a zoo!) She also told us she remembered dying alone in a house after being left by her old mum & dad (this was very sad as she described it in detail and was very tearful) My younger son has talked a lot about visiting a church (not the we go to now) and described trying to save a cat in a tree and falling out and not waking up again! Another medium told my husband and me that we had been together in past lives and would be together in future ones if we wish to be but our souls are entwined for always! There were a lot of odd "coincidences" that brought us together in this life & we felt as if we knew each other and talked endlessly like old friends who hadn't seen each other for years and had to catch up! :lol: What do others make of our experiences? Do you think they are past lives or just stories that our minds have made up? I would some feedback on my children's experiences especially?