The
Soul is immortal. So no matter who you
are today, you have been different people,
and lived different lives... lives that
may have moved on something unresolved
from them into your present one as a result
of imbalanced karma. Your physical or
psychological ailment may have been caused
by a trauma that you experienced in a
previous existence, or a personal ordeal
buried deep in your subconscious.
Past Life Therapy (PLT)
or Past Life Regression
(PLR) is the phenomenon by which you retrieve
the memories of previous lives to pin-point
the source of your present suffering and
fight it in the unconscious state. “If
you’ve gone through all the medical
procedures and the problem is still not
going away, it maybe a result of your
past life”, says Dr Blossom Furtado,
Clinical Hypnotherapist who heads the
Delhi branch of the famous California
Hypnosis Institute.
“Some people suffer from severe
Asthma and allopaths have not been able
to find any cure. What we have found after
thorough research and documentation is
that this disease comes from past life,
and when we regressed a patient, it was
found that all her three past lives contained
the reason- she had been drowned, beheaded
and hung, which caused her to choke”,
she exemplifies, adding further that “every
time there’s a problem or an emotional
surge, the memory comes back subconsciously,
and the mind says you’re going to
choke”. Now ofcourse, the patient
is fine, thanks to this mystical therapy.
Practitioners of PLR use hypnosis or acupuncture
to delve into the unconscious mind. This
is the first phase of this process, identified
as the ‘realistic- cathartic’
stage by world famous psychotherapist
Roger D Woolger. The second ‘symbolic-archetypal’
step needs the patient to project his
present self onto his past personality.
The third ‘integral-mystical’
stage is where the person has to come
to terms with what has been relived through
regression. The therapy is effective only
when the patient acknowledges and accepts
past trauma and is ready to move beyond
that.
Transpersonal psychology, the arm of psychology
that deals with the spiritual aspect of
the mind, explains the therapeutic basis
of this phenomenon in terms of parapsychology
and altered states of consciousness and
brain activity, combined with metaphysical
energies. The healing that occurs as a
result of freedom from one’s past
is based on the belief of reincarnation
and the cycles of karma and rebirth.
“It is about diving deep into your
consciousness and finding all the memories
buried deep inside...the practitioner
took me into a deep state of relaxation
and slowly I stepped down...step after
step...and went back and saw things in
great clarity”, remembers Tanya,
a 25-year-old IT professional who got
herself regressed about a month back after
she started experiencing paranormal incidences.
“Everyone should go through this
experience”, she recommends.
When I got myself regressed, I gained
a deep insight into myself... the whys
and the hows and the mystic secrets of
those haunting thoughts. This is something
you have to experience for yourself, and
you’d know why its not rubbish as
your ‘sensible’ friends might
have suggested before!
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