Past-Life Regression / QHHT

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WHAT TO EXPECT DURING A PAST-LIFE REGRESSION SESSION

When you have your Past-Life Regression session, we will first sit down to discuss what you are interested in learning about yourself, how hypnosis works and overall get you prepared for the hypnotic state. I will then guide you into hypnosis where you will be kept between a deep alpha and light theta brainwave state.

The hypnosis portion of the session is when the Past-Life Regression happens, and it usually lasts between 1-2 hours depending on where the process takes us. During this time, I will use suggestions to guide you to a past-life and will ask you to verbally describe what you are experiencing.  For this reason, we will record audio of your session so that you have something to refer to in the weeks, months and years after our session. We might explore just one past-life or a few, and you might experience visuals, impressions or just a knowingness of your past life/lives. It really depends on where the process takes us, so it’s important to stay flexible and not to have set expectations about your session.

I will then guide you to your higher self to do a body scan and ask your most pressing questions (details about what to bring to the session are listed below). I will then guide you out of hypnosis and you will have time to gently resume activity at a relaxed comfortable pace. During this time, we will discuss your session to help you assimilate what you experienced.

The average session lasts about 2-3 hours in total (including the beginning and end discussions), although in some cases it can take up to 4-5 hours total. If possible, please block off at least 4 hours for your session just in case. Your soul’s innate wisdom will take you where you will glean the most important information for you, so it’s important for us to flow with the session without any expectations.

 

WHAT IS HYPNOSIS AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Hypnosis is a calm state during which one remains alert and aware of what is going on around them. In terms of brainwaves, hypnosis happens when brainwaves slow down to the alpha and sometimes even theta levels. It is similar to a meditative or trance-like state, and it is the ideal state in which to learn new information. For this reason, hypnosis is often used to help people to let go of certain habits and instead replace them with healthy behaviors.

Because eyesight accounts for the largest portion of external stimuli to the brain, the eyes are closed to help allow the person to remain relaxed and focused within. This allows the hypnotherapist to help guide the person beyond their critical mind into the subconscious mind, wherein lies our personal programming. All of our automatic learned behaviors, all of our beliefs about the world and ourselves, reside here. The subconscious mind is an incredibly powerful resilient part ourselves and who we are. For this reason, it is impossible for a hypnotherapist to make someone do something that they would not typically agree to doing in a normal waking beta brainwave state. If a hypnotherapist asks you to quack like a duck, you would only do it if you decided to do it. In hypnosis, the person in a hypnotic state remains in complete control and can even choose to come out of the hypnotic state themselves anytime they wish. For this reason, it is also impossible for anyone to stay in a hypnotic state indefinitely. If you decide you want the session to end early, just open your eyes and calmly allow yourself to resume normal activity.

While there are several techniques to get a person into a hypnotic state, in truth, we naturally experience hypnosis in our day-to-day lives multiple times a day. If you have ever been driving somewhere and missed your exit because your thoughts were elsewhere, that was a form of hypnosis. Watching movies and television series works in a similar way. Although we know we are watching actors playing various roles and that what we are watching is not real, for that period in time, we suspend our reality and allow ourselves to be transported to another world.

While in hypnosis, people feel relaxed and are usually completely aware of what is going on around them. The majority of people can also later recollect their session. In rare instances, some people feel so relaxed that they go into a deep theta brainwave state, which is the state that we go into right before we drift off to sleep, and so they have no recollection of their session. For the purpose of Past-Life Regression, I will get you just deep enough that you are still able to verbally communicate  what you are experiencing without falling asleep or forgetting the session (between a deep alpha and a light theta brainwave state), which is why it is more likely that you will have the more common former experience rather than the latter. 

It is important to note that not everyone is able to visualize in their mind’s eye and that is completely fine. People that are not able to visualize will instead experience impressions or an understanding of what’s going on in their potential past life. This is completely normal, and in fact even highly visual people may at times also experience impressions or just a knowingness of what is going on whenever visualizations are faint.

 

IS PAST-LIFE REGRESSION REAL?

With regards to Past-Life Regression, a theory has been posited that somehow in our subconscious mind is also the ability to access memories of our past lives. In all honesty, however, we don’t really know. We cannot confirm that what you are seeing in your minds eye or experiencing while doing a Past-Life Regression session is real. Regardless, however, research has indicated that there appear to be therapeutic benefits to the Past-Life Regression experience. For this reason, PLR is widely practiced by psychiatrists, psychologists and hypnotherapists that have witnessed its therapeutic power.

If there is indeed a connection between the mind and the body, it stands to reason that if a person were to discover that a potential past-life trauma is somehow being reflected their present life, the person can then more easily release that trauma and thereby heal its impact on this life. After all, the traumatic source is in another lifetime, not in this one, so it should not hold any power in this life. So, in this way, the person undergoing PLR acts as the healer of their own subconscious mind and body through the PLR experience. The hypnotherapist is just the trusty guide that goes along for the ride.

 

WHAT IF I GO BACK TO A TIME IN MY PRESENT LIFE WHILE IN HYPNOSIS?

In rare cases, it can happen that you might go back to a supposed past memory in your existing life, however I am trained in techniques to safely take you out of there. Going back to an earlier memory in your life while in hypnosis is known as Age Regression. While it used to be widely practiced by hypnotherapists, intentionally pursuing Age Regression is now considered a big no-no in the well-trained hypnotherapy community because human memory is notoriously flawed. In hypnosis, if we intentionally do an Age Regression, we may accidentally convince ourselves that we have gone back to a past memory or trauma we never actually experienced in real life, and this new belief that it really happened can have a negative impact. After all, you have a strong connection to this life because you are still living it, and a new faulty negative belief about the past or people you know will not benefit you or them in any way. For this reason, I will never intentionally guide you to the past of your current life, and should you accidentally jump into a supposed memory, I will safely take you to a more productive place. Most importantly however, remember that while in hypnosis, you are in control. It is excellent that you are doing this research now before your Past-Life Regression session because you now know not accept any supposed memory from the past at face value while in hypnosis. Just allow it drift away.

It is important to note that Age Regression should not be confused with other techniques, such as Inner Child Work or MER, which are actually healthy effective techniques to help address emotional baggage from the past.

 

IF AGE REGRESSION IS A NO-NO, WHY IS PAST-LIFE REGRESSION OK?

In order to best explain why Past-Life Regression is safe, I would like to describe one of my own experiences with it. I was in a deep relaxed state listening to a recording that was guiding me to a past-life, and in my mind, I jumped into the body of a Mozambican boy around the turn the of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the scenario, I was no more than 8 years old and dressed in rags, and one night I happened to encounter a drunk colonizer who, for no reason other than my skin color and that I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, shot me dead. It was a jarring scene, and I felt every bit of the injustice and lack of dignity with which I was disposed of, as if my life meant nothing. What is interesting as well is that I could simultaneously feel the guilt felt by the man that shot me in the days following the event, although he obviously never suffered any legal repercussions for what he did. And then a faint understanding of that experience and its overall meaning for my soul’s development followed, a knowingness so to speak entered my mind that I still find difficult to phrase into words.

You see, in this current life of mine, my experience is as a light skinned woman that has accepted the female gender, born in the US to an immigrant family. That potential past-life memory, of what a horrifying injustice I had suffered still lingers within me, but I am simultaneously distanced from it because I am living in a different body, different time and under a different set of circumstances. As someone that never felt like I was allowed to feel American growing up, I can somewhat relate that past-life memory to the hatred I have felt directed at me from others in the past for having been born into my ethnicity in this life.

I look in the mirror today, and I am not that boy now (nor do I know for certain if I actually ever was). That potential past-life memory of when I perhaps was that boy instead now helps me to sympathize and to some limited degree empathize with communities that are still undergoing violence for no other reason than the skin they were born in. It is not a trauma like it would be if I had survived the same or a similar injustice in this life. Instead, that past-life memory informs me as to why, since I was 2-3 years old in this life when I started noticing the existence of racism, that I despised it so much and never fully understood why it existed. It now makes sense to me why out of all of my values, the most important value I have is that all of us humans are more similar than we realize, and it’s fundamental that we approach each other with this understanding rather than with faulty assumptions and polarizing mindsets. This is why Past-Life Regression is safe and can in fact be quite beneficial. It has the potential to help us to better understand ourselves and each other.

 

HOW TO PREPARE FOR AN IN-PERSON PAST-LIFE REGRESSION SESSION

• Remember to fill out any paperwork you have been sent well before your session.
• Remember to complete the Suggestibility Questionnaire no later than one day before your session.
• The primary reason anyone usually wants to do PLR is to make their current life more intentional, more joyous, and more conscious. Write out your intention for your PLR session.
• Prepare a short list of questions you would like to ask your higher self. This can be about anything, such as your life purpose, what you are supposed to learn in this life because of X situation, why you are repeating patterns of behavior in a particular relationship, etc. 
• Refrain from alcohol and recreational drugs at least 24 hours before your session.
• Get a good night of sleep the night before.
• On the day of your session, wear comfortable and breathable clothing.
• If possible, ensure you have enough space on your smart phone to record the session. If not, the session will be recorded for you and you will be sent the recording digitally.

 

HOW TO PREPARE FOR A REMOTE PAST-LIFE REGRESSION SESSION

• Remember to fill out any paperwork you have been sent well before your session.
• Remember to complete the Suggestibility Questionnaire no later than one day before your session.
• Write out your intention for your PLR session.
• Prepare a short list of questions you would like to ask your higher self. This can be about anything, such as your life purpose, what you are supposed to learn in this life because of X situation, why you are repeating patterns of behavior in a particular relationship, etc. 
• Refrain from alcohol and recreational drugs at least 24 hours before your session.
• Get a good night of sleep the night before.
• In preparation for your remote session:
  • Ensure that you have a quiet space where you will not be disturbed.
  • Ideally have a set of earbuds or headphones that have an attached microphone to connect to your computer.
  • Ensure that the camera on your computer is working.
  • Ensure you have a side table or place to position your computer in such a way that you will be well seen by the computer camera.
  • Have a comfortable place to sit or recline in a way that supports your neck and lower back. This can be an arm chair, a recliner, or even a couch or bed. If you decide that you would prefer to lie down, just ensure that you have enough pillows to elevate your torso while supporting your neck and lower back, as well as a pillow to place under your knees.
  • Have a warm blanket to cover yourself with.
• On the day of your session, wear comfortable and breathable clothing.
• If possible, ensure you have enough space on your smart phone to record the session. If not, the session will be recorded for you and you will be sent the recording digitally.