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Who among us is not attracted to the idea of reincarnation? And what a blessing it would be to be able to plug in at will to a past life and watch ourselves years, even centuries ago, starring in our own real-life bio-pic. Well, some people do just this, with the aid of hypnotherapy.
Every day, in consulting rooms around the world, ordinary people are transporting themselves back to a past life where they might experience an amazing range of events. It’s called Past Life Regression (PLR) and it can be a powerful healing aid for people with a variety of neurotic conditions. On the other hand, it can just be a really interesting thing to do.
Many major world religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism believe in reincarnation. Although its nature and purpose can vary enormously from one to the other, in essence it is the belief that we are reborn again and again, often in the expectation that we will finally reach a state of perfection.
In PLR, a client is encouraged while in hypnosis to travel back in time to a memory which may hold the key to a current problem. The difference between this and conventional hypnoanalysis is that the client is encouraged to travel beyond their present life into a more distant past, perhaps centuries earlier.
The fact that people do recall events, often in vivid detail, is indisputable; the debate is over whether these events are real or imagined. There are a number of theories for PLR, ranging from the existence of genetic or ancestral memory, to the recent idea that DNA is stored in our genes and that memories are passed on in this way.
There is also the possibility that the mind of a client seeking relief through PLR will invent a false memory as a sort of metaphor to avoid the recall of an unpleasant memory in their current life, which may have been the real cause of the problem.
A popular theory is that the mind is a vast repository of information and images culled from books, films, television, and personal experience and that PLR is simply a process of recalling such information from the subconscious. Whichever is right, there is no doubt that PLR can be the catalyst for relieving sometimes painful mental trauma.
In terms of its being simply a very pleasant and interesting way to spend an hour or two, well, why not? If you can’t get a life, get a past life.
Copyright: Adrian Walker 2008
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