Past Life Regression Therapy

Past Life Regression and Child abuse

2012-11-25T13:29:00.001+05:30

Few of us get out of childhood without some trauma, no matter how loving our caretakers were. It may have been an accident, an animal attack, or witnessing a trauma like war or abuse. It could, as we know, be a trusted adult who acts incredibly selfish and irresponsibly towards a vulnerable child.

When a trauma occurs the young child makes a decision that, at the time may be a useful survival strategy, and later becomes a part of his or her unconscious operating system. The trauma event is long over but the early decision still operates in the adult's life creating difficulty.

All childhood abuse leaves emotional scars in the mind and these play out through ones life in a multitude of ways. Low confidence, aggression, relationship troubles, sexual problems, self-sabotage, guilt, anxiety, depression… all are common symptoms one may experience as a result of abuse as a child.

When the child experiences the abuse, it is like an “emotion overload”, and when the subconscious mind just cannot cope at that moment, it uses a process called “repression” to protect the child from being emotionally overwhelmed. The downside of this process is that emotions become “trapped” back there, and cause problems and symptoms in ones present day life.

Memories of abuse as a child are often repressed through the very mechanism, which enables the child to survive the horror - dissociation. He or she gets through the betrayal, the physical assault, the pain and the helplessness by mentally separating from the body. It seems as though the abuse is happening to someone else.

Sometimes this dissociation can be so effective that all conscious memory of the abuse is lost. Sometimes memories surface later, in adulthood. Often as flashbacks or nightmares.

All childhood abuse leaves deep scars, affecting your beliefs about yourself for the rest of your life. And even though the abuse may have happened a long time ago, it may still be affecting your life today. Many abuse victims admit to having low confidence, exhibiting higher than normal levels of aggression, having relationship difficulties, experiencing sexual problems, indulging in self-sabotage or even self-harm, harboring guilty feelings, and feeling generally anxious.

Individuals are imprisoned on the ‘evidence’ provided by memories that come back in dreams and flashbacks. What type of impact can repressed memories have on someone's overall life?

"Unconscious behavior and unexpressed emotion from repressed memories can create uncomfortable patterns in ones life. These patterns tend to keep reappearing and create difficulties, like addictions and their consequences. It may also show up as a strong reaction to a situation, a sudden eruption of anger, or obsessive thinking. As in the case of young children who have been subjected to sexual abuse will exhibit symptoms of increased autonomic arousal in their later life which can be recognized when they:

· experiences sleep disturbances which can magnify symptoms and can encourage psychoactive substance abuse

· becomes irritable or prone to explosive outbursts of fear, panic or anger particularly when the original trauma is recollected or re-enacted

· experiences difficulty in concentrating or remembering

· is continually hyper vigilant and employs survivalist tactics or victimization mechanisms of relevance to the original trauma

· exhibits an exaggerated startle response and increased hypersensitivity.

Past Life Regression Therapy addresses these problems by going to the root cause which either occurred in a previous life or in an earlier part of this life memory of which has since been repressed.

Past Life Regresssion through the ages

2012-07-26T17:38:00.001+05:30

The belief of Reincarnation and Past Life has existed for centuries in various civilizations and faiths .Oral traditions and written legends around the world make it evident that reincarnation has been an integral part of human worldviews from the early days of civilization.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961) wrote ‘My life often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end. I had the feeling that I was a historical fragment, an excerpt for which the preceding and succeeding text was missing. I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.’

In Tibetan Buddhism’s Bardo Thodol or Book of the Dead which was said to have been written by Padma-Sambhava, an Indian mystic who introduced Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th century, it is stated that a soul passes through many nonphysical worlds before reincarnation on earth.

The main difference between Hinduism and Buddhism is that Buddhism feels there is no permanent soul, just a pulsating subconscious that goes from life to life learning lessons until enlightenment is reached. In Buddhism, there exist three fires of craving, ill will, and ignorance which cause rebirth. To achieve nirvana these fires must be extinguished. Hinduism on the other hand believes in a permanent soul.

Spain was a great center of philosophy, and Solomon ibn Gabirol שלמה בן יהודה אבן גבירול or Avicebron(1021 – 1058), a Spanish Jew, brought Plato's teachings (who believed in a soul) to the European thought.

In Egypt, transmigration was the accepted mechanism of reincarnation. After a person died, he or she would reincarnate as an animal for as long as 3000 years until purified. Only then, would he or she return to the human form. The Books of Hermes states "From one soul of the Universe are all souls derived. The soul passes from form to form".

Elsewhere, in ancient Greece, Orpheus (Ὀρφεύς) the founder of Greek theology was used by both Pythagoras and Plato as a source for their own philosophies. Pythagoras (582-507BC) stated and recalled many memories of his soul's incarnations (in Troy etc.). Plato (427-347 BC) stated every soul is immortal. In every succession of life & death you will do and suffer what like fitly may suffer at the hands of like.

The Roman poet Ennius introduced Karma to the Romans. In his "Annals", he tells how Homer appeared to him in a dream and told him their two bodies had the same soul. Virgil (70-19 BC) in the Aeneid says, "All souls return again into living bodies".

According to these teachings all human souls have a common origin from Adam Kadmon. Adam's original sin brought higher and lower souls into confusion. As a result every soul passes through a series of incarnations before returning to God. Ancient Jews believed that Moses was the reincarnation of Abel, the Son of Adam. The Messiah was the reincarnation of Adam himself, who had already come a second time as David.

Past Life Regression and Bhagavad Gita

2012-06-03T19:38:00.001+05:30

Past Life Regression Therapy is based on the principles of cause and effect also known as the law of Reincarnation / Karma. An action that has been set in motion at a specific time in the past resulting in a corresponding effect on a person’s present emotional, physical, mental or spiritual well being, at this moment. This cause may be a past desire, past promise, past talent, past thought, past feeling, past vow, past emotion, past decision, past evasion or past traumatic experience.

As very appropriately quoted in the Gita, the soul of a person is immortal and through the process of Past Life Regression one can tap into these memories of his/her soul’s experience in different lives before the present. As the present is the sum total of the past, the Law of Karma or Reincarnation allows you to re-live and release the issues by awareness and realization with the help of Past Life Regression.

Past live regression therapy also incorporates Age Regression which is a time travel technique that makes one travel backwards in time in the present lifetime to unravel hidden powers and uncover and release blockages created to embrace a fulfilling and beautiful life ahead.

In the Bhagavad Gita 4:5, Lord Krishna told Arjun “Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!”

This life is a University where we come to learn our lessons & evolve spiritually. Until and unless we evolve spiritually we can neither be happy nor can we transcend the cycle of birth & death.

The soul has lived many lives. This life is one page or one life of the endless life’s our soul has lived. Our real self is ‘Atman’, the supreme consciousness. Only when we know our true self, can we be free from this vicious circle of birth & death.

Each soul, by his own choice, passes through many earthly sojourns and is given a chance to develop spiritually. In the process, mistakes may also be made, and actions may be taken that move us farther away from God; but in each lifetime we are also free to act so as to make up for those errors.

It is through our actions that we create many of our own rewards and punishments. Of course, it is up to us to alter or redirect our lives at any time. It is through various experiences that we grow and develop. All experiences are for our good and sometimes it takes what we would consider a negative experience to help develop our spirits. We chose many of our weaknesses and difficult situations in our lives so that we could grow. We were very willing, even anxious, as spirits to accept all of our ailments, illness, and accidents on earth, to help better ourselves spiritually. Our most sever challenges will one day reveal themselves to be our greatest teachers. Grief is growth. Soul cleansing can come through illness. We should not consider ourselves to be the unfortunate victims of the circumstances we are in. Some of us have come to earth to unite in a cause to change certain things, some to strengthen a course already set and to pave the way for those who may follow. Some come to earth for a short time, living only hours or days after birth.

Each lifetime is another opportunity to move the transmigration of our soul forward through the accumulation of positive Karma. We must strive over onward through many cycles until we achieve sufficient perfection to rejoin God. It is the law, for no imperfect thing will ever have the opportunity to become a part of Godhead.

According to the Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krishna said man's real self or soul is immortal and independent of the body, it neither kills nor is killed. It is indestructible, imperishable and inaccessible to the sufferings, which afflict the body. Eternal, omnipresent, fixed, immovable, everlasting is the human soul. “He is not slain when the body is slain”. Bhagavad Gita (2:20)

As laying aside worn-out garments, a man takes on other new ones, so laying aside worn out bodies, the embodied (soul) enters into other new ones. Rebirth is under the control of karma or "actions" and salvation is through ultimate release from the round of rebirths. All creatures are composed of two distinct elements, namely soul and body. The body including what are called "psychic" elements, is material; is subject to evolution, devolution and changes of all sorts; and consists of a blend of various elements or qualities. The material body, upon other material bodies or substances performs all action. The soul neither acts nor is affected by action. It has only contemplative powers.

Any action, good or bad, must normally have its effect in continued existence for the doer. According to the Bhagavad Gita, this is due not to the action as such, but due to desire underlying the action.

Case #6 Migraine and Past Life regression

2012-05-11T11:41:00.001+05:30

The word Migraine is derived from the Greek word ἡμικρανία (hemikrania) which means "pain on one side of the head" - ἡμι- (hemi-) "half" and κρανίον (kranion) "skull".

Medical professionals are still baffled by what causes migraines in the first place often attributing it to stress or even genetics. With tests and MRI scans usually coming back negative and medication only providing moderate relief, conventional treatments rely on lifestyle changes and pills yet many patients still struggle with the symptoms.

For many years it was thought that these headaches were the result of a dilation of the blood vessels, caused by stress and tension. Present-day research now tends to favor alternative explanations. In some cases the emotional circumstances of the patient's life, past and present can influence the situation. Old memories or unresolved trauma can surface. Migraine headaches that stem from a past lifetime will cease to exist once the trauma is identified and resolved or removed through past life regression therapy.

Sushma* came to me with a case of extreme migraine which she had been suffering for the past 20 years.

On undergoing past life regression, she found herself in the year 1656 as a soldier on board a Spanish ship engaged in battle with the English. During the course of the battle he gets hit on the head and subsequently succumbs to his injuries and dies.

* Name changed to protect patient confidentiality

Journey of the soul to Moksha

2012-04-16T17:35:00.001+05:30

Past life regression has its foundations in the belief of reincarnation, and consequently in the 'Law of Karma'. This is a theory which states that a soul is on a journey to merge with what is termed as 'Universal Consciousness' or 'Supreme Power'. On this journey, the soul takes on a physical form in a body, so that it can learn certain lessons along the way, and naturally, meets and encounters other souls on different stages of their cosmic journey. It interacts with these souls to create 'Karma'. This journey entangles the soul into the consequences of the actions and keeps bringing it back to interact with the same and different souls, again and again. Naturally, this means that the soul has to take on a physical form, again. Thus begins an unending cycle. The soul has to eventually understand that this cycle is endless, unless it breaks away totally and merges into the Universe, never to be caught up in this cycle again. When this happens, the soul can then say to have attained 'Moksha' or 'Becomes Enlightened'. This theory also states that there are those evolved souls who choose once again to come back in a physical body so that they may guide others towards this knowledge. These bodies are termed as 'Enlightened Leaders' or 'Bodhisattvas'.

Case #5 - PLR and Pteromerhanophobia

2012-03-13T15:54:00.003+05:30

Pteromerhanophobia or fear of flying may be a distinct phobia in itself, or it may be an indirect combination of one or more other phobias related to flying, such as claustrophobia (a fear of enclosed spaces) oracrophobia (a fear of heights). It may have other causes as well, such as agoraphobia (especially the type that has to do with fear of open spaces). It is a symptom rather than a disease, and different causes may bring it about in different individuals.

The fear receives more attention than most other phobias because air travel is often difficult for people to avoid. A fear of flying may prevent a person from going on vacations or visiting family and friends, and it can cripple the career of a businessperson by preventing them from traveling on work-related business.

The fear of flying may be created by various other phobias and fears:
* fear of crashing which most likely result in death.
* a fear of closed in spaces (claustrophobia), such as that of an aircraft cabin
* a fear of heights (acrophobia)
* a feeling of not being in control
* fear of vomiting, motion sickness can make the person vomit, thus making flying hard.
* fear of having panic attacks in certain places, where escape would be difficult and/or embarrassing (agoraphobia)
* fear of hijacking or terrorism
* fear of turbulence
* fear of flying over water or night flying

A previous traumatizing experience with air travel or somehow connected to flying can also trigger a fear of flying.

Rahul* a 13 year old young man was brought to me by his parents due to his fear of travelling in an aircraft. As the family was bases in U.S. and travelled to India at least once a year to look up the aging elders, this travel initially was done by sedating Rahul, but as he started growing up was becoming a difficult proposition.

On being regressed, Rahul found himself in Europe in the year 1934 as a successful businessman, who used to travel a lot all over Europe. During the course of one of these travels, he had to take a flight from London to Paris for concluding a business deal. However, the flight never reached Paris and crashed into the sea taking him and the other passengers down with it.

His parents subsequently a couple of months later called me to tell that Rahul now seemed to have got over his fear and could now travel by air without any problem.

* Name changed to protect patient’s identity.

Past Life Regression and Freud

2012-02-13T12:46:00.001+05:30

The word regression means to go back to or to return to something. If you were a student of statistics, you would know that a regression equation shows the probability of the occurrence of a future event based upon past behavior. Past Life Regression is a trans-disciplinary field related to hypnosis but not dependent upon it. Actually, Past-Life Regression Therapy is the retrospection of the soul's journey. It is a reflection (or several reflections) on the past that can bring meaning to present life activities and can indicate a vision for the future. The history of every soul is stored in the unconscious mind. Gaining access to that record, at least to the section related to the present, could prove to be quite significant in understanding the root cause of certain behavior. The recall of such events, along with insights from the current perspective, can have a direct and profound impact on the desire to improve one's well-being.

Past Life Regression was first used by Dr. Pierre Janet in Paris in the 1890's. Dr. Janet collaborated with Sigmund Freud, experimenting with past life regression as a therapeutic tool. Subsequently, for sixty years the subject was taboo, till an American hypnotherapist called Morey Bernstein brought the therapy back to life in 1960’s when he published "The Search For Bridie Murphy,” an account of one of his clients who went back over two hundred years -to when she was an Irishwoman called Bridie Murphy.

About the same time Arnall Bloxham, an English hypnotherapist of high repute, collaborated with the BBC in making a Television program of a housewife called Jane Evans, who was regressed, live on screen, back to a life as a twelfth century Jewess called Rachel who lived in York in 1189 in the reign of the bad King John. Live on television, she recalled how she was the wife of a wealthy moneylender called Joseph. In great detail she described how she and her family and other members of the Jewish community were hounded by a mob led by a nobleman called Richard Malebisse to whom her husband had lent money and who had refused to repay. They and their two children tried to take refuge in York Castle but were ejected by the constable of the castle, and eventually found their way to a crypt of a church just outside the gates of York. It was here that the family was put to death by the sword.

Freud believed that behavior has a cause which usually is hidden from the conscious mind. He wrote, "Amnesia lies at the base of all neurotic symptoms. Our goal is to reveal the forgotten memories through yet to be learned methods." One of Freud’s yet to be learned" methods seems to be that of Past Life Regression Therapy. Over the years, it has followed the general procedure of experimentation which led to research which, in turn, led to application. Today, Past Life Regression Therapy has become a therapeutic tool employed by many people to enhance the quality of life.

Addiction and Past Life Regression Therapy ...cont.

2012-01-03T15:31:00.001+05:30

Addiction is a compulsion that makes an individual yield to addictive causes unmindful of the hazardous consequences. There are no specific causes of any addiction aside from use of a substance or activity, and there is also no way to predict who will become dependent on use. Any substance or activity that has the capacity to be pleasurable can provide the conditions for addiction, as all addictions impact various neural circuits of the brain, including those related to reward, motivation, and memory.

Our addiction theories and policies are woefully outdated. Research shows that there are no demon drugs. Nor are addicts innately defective. Nature has supplied us all with the ability to become hooked—and we all engage in addictive behaviors to some degree.

Millions of people are "hooked," not only on heroin, morphine, amphetamines, tranquilizers, and cocaine, but also nicotine, caffeine, sugar, steroids, work, theft, gambling, exercise, and even love and sex, despite every kind of addiction treatment from psychosurgery, psychoanalysis, psychedelics, and self-help to acupuncture, group confrontation, family therapy, hypnosis, meditation, education and tough love.

Scientists have learned that every animal, from the ancient hagfish to reptiles, rodents, and humans, share the same basic pleasure and "reward" circuits in the brain, circuits that all turn on when in contact with addictive substances or during pleasurable acts such as eating or orgasm One conclusion from this evidence is that addictive behaviors are normal, a natural part of our "wiring." If they weren't, or if they were rare, nature would not have let the capacity to be addicted evolve, survive, and stick around in every living creature.

Our brains didn't develop opiate receptors to tempt us with heroin addiction. The coca plant didn't develop cocaine to produce what we call crack addicts. This plant doesn't care two hoots about our brain. But heroin and cocaine addiction certainly tell us a great deal about how brains work. And how they work is that if you taste or experience something that you like, that feels good, you're reinforced to do that again. Basic drives, for food, sex, and pleasure, activate reward centers in the brain. They're part of human nature.

One of the methods of curing a person from addiction is Past Life Regression Therapy, leading to the question as to what transpires during Past Life Regression Therapy ? And how does this help.

When the person is taken into one of his/her past lives by the therapist, the subconscious mind begins to pour out the deepest emotions, wounds and sorrow of that particular life. This pour out in itself is considered a big step in rehabilitation because grief shared is grief halved. It is found by research that more than 10 percent of the addictions are because of moments of sorrow in the child hood whose causes could be very trivial. Once those trivial causes are treated through Past Life Regression Therapy, the addict can easily do away with addiction. Reliving events of the past can also give the subconscious mind a better picture of the sequence of events. Any misconceptions could also be cleared because of this pour out.

Addiction and Past Life Regression Therapy

2011-12-30T16:52:00.001+05:30

Addiction is the state of being abnormally craved to or being dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming. It means badly yearning for something and be prepared to go any extents for doing or having a particular thing. The term addiction encompasses those activities or behavioral habits that are hard to resist or do away with. Doctors roughly classify addiction into two kinds – object addictions and event addictions. Object addictions are those which deal with addiction on any particular external object or substance, like narcotics, fancy costumes, chocolates, women, alcohol etc. Event addictions are those that involve addiction on performing a particular activity like gaming, watching television, shopping, gambling etc. In certain cases, object or physical additions lead to event addictions. For example, if a person addicted to a particular item or person and doesn’t get to enjoy it, he could switch to drinking or taking drugs and get addicted to it.

Deep-lying wounds that dwell in the mind due to horrific events in the past are one of the major reasons for being addicted to drugs and alcohol. The addicted person obtains a feeling of solace as the mind forgets all the worries and sad moments of the past. This forgotten feeling is temporary as the hypothalamus region of the brain becomes anesthetized by use of drugs or prolonged use of alcohol. Once the effect of the drug or alcohol wears off, the sadness begins to haunt the victim until the next doze. This forms a vicious cycle and engulfs the person into addiction.

Rarely is smoking addiction only about smoking. To simply say “just stop smoking,” won’t solve the unconscious reasons of this addiction, and superficial attempts at quitting may result in transference to another vice. If panic, anxiety, and confusion are present at the time of death, the same feelings are continued in the next incarnation. This may include the unconscious attraction to an overly anxious mother or father and life experiences that encourage ailments, drugs, and unease, until confusion isn’t necessary to feel alive.

There are a multitude of reasons that individuals smoke, ranging from self-medicating for anxiety to serving as a pseudo-friend that keeps them company when they’re feeling alone. Smoking or other drug usage is usually an attempt at managing as opposed to dealing with unresolved pain and/or anger. Instead of pain or anger management, one must feel the discomfort in their body and direct it to its source in past life therapy.

The Past Life Regression Therapist assists in taking the person to one of their past lives, where perhaps lies the problems or worries that led to the addiction. Once the source is identified, the therapist will try to eradicate the link between the problem of that life and the addictive feeling in this life for rehabilitation.

The deep unconscious mind has a crucial influence on the person’s behavior and when properly directed, can work wonders in getting the person out of addiction.

Past Life Regression and Dreams

2011-11-22T20:00:00.005+05:30

The question often asked is, are Past Life Dreams just dreams or are they memories of past life experiences that are buried deep within the recesses of our mind?

Originally the dream was held to be the voice of God. Most indigenous cultures hold that the dream is sent by the Great Spirit and serves to offer advice and instruction. This idea of the divinity of the dream can also to be found in the ancient Egyptian and Greek cultures. There existed temples where one would go to dream and receive healing or instruction from the gods. Homer's Iliad (8th century BC) tells the story of Agamemnon who receives instruction from Zeus through a dream. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, used dreams as a diagnostic aid.

In the Middle East the dream was considered to be a source of divine inspiration. Mohammed, the founding Prophet of Islam, is said to have received much of what is written in the Koran through his dreams.

We all dream. Every night – as we dim the light of consciousness – we enter the realm of the dream. In this dream state our imagination runs free with little or no interference from our conscious mind. In the morning, when we wake and return to consciousness, we may bring with us a recollection of the wanderings of our imagination – we remember the dream.

To dream is natural, it is a universal experience. All people of all cultures enter into this dream state when they sleep. As sleep research has shown even animals dream. How we regard the dream, however, varies from culture to culture and from person to person.

Unfortunately most of us remain unaware of our dreams. We fail to remember them. Even if we do remember a dream it is typically dismissed as meaningless and unimportant. For those of us who do place an importance on the dream it still remains a mystery.

The dream world is a world which has found fascination with many people, as dreams can tell us so much. There are many different types of dreams, and many different reasons for them. It is actually amazing how many people remember aspects of their past lives through dreams. What is also fascinating, is how often they start to have the recurring past lives dreams just as they have met someone or as someone has become a part of their lives here and now that is somehow connected to that past time. Often past life dreams show more and more as time passes, and as the current life relationship that has brought them grows. Although, it is important to note, past life dreams do not always coincide with the entrance of others connected in that time period. They may also coincide with life situations that parallel.

When you find yourself dreaming about historical people, places, and things that is the surest sign you are in the process of tapping into your past lives. You may see yourself as other than we are during our waking hours. Meaning that in dreams we see someone who we know to be ourselves, but maybe a different gender or race.

In Past Life Dreams, we are not able to change the sequences of events no matter how hard we try. Just as the events in the past life cannot be changed, neither can the replay of those events in your dream be changed. Our minds do register the logical sequence of events in our dreams but are unable to alter them because they are replays of past.

Our past life dream may display talents, skills, and abilities that we have not acquired in our present life. We might have the ability to speak and understand a foreign language.

One of the tragedies of modern life is that sleep is often regarded as unproductive down time… an annoying habit that cannot be broken. Since sleep cannot be avoided, it is often minimized, to "get it over with" and to get on with life. And yet, from a spiritual standpoint, sleep is incredibly productive.

For while our body sleeps and our mind rests, they and "we" are put in touch with the healing and regulating currents of the universe. It is the longest part of the day that we - all of us - spend in touch with the inner worlds of God.

If you think nothing happens while we are sleeping, why is it that we can go to sleep upset about a problem and wake up feeling better about it? Nothing in our situation has changed… so if nothing had gone on while sleeping, how could this happen? Yet, it is dreams that are the real evidence "something is going on" while we sleep. And part of what dreams are used for is to work through past life karma.

Millions of people have reported past life memories, many of these in Past Life Dream or Karmic Dream.

At the edge of dreams, at the fringe of memory, where body, mind, and spirit become one, there lies a bridge across time. It is a bridge which connects who you were with who you are with who you will be. It is a bridge as close to you as your breath and as far away from you as it must be to keep you safe and sane. It is a bridge that at some point in our lifetimes we all must cross.

The dream serves as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind. For the dream belongs to the twilight zone of consciousness – where the ego and the unconscious meet.

The conscious element of the dream lies in its remembrance, the unconscious element lies in its mystery and perplexity. Half conscious, half unconscious, the dream unites the known and the unknown.

To listen to the dream is to listen to the unconscious. Through doing so one relieves the need for the unconscious to force itself.

Reincarnation

2011-11-14T10:34:00.001+05:30

The word "reincarnation" derives from Latin, literally meaning, "entering the flesh again". The Greek equivalent metempsychosis (μετεμψύχωσις) roughly corresponds to the common English phrase "transmigration of the soul" and also usually connotes reincarnation after death. Reincarnation may be said to be a repertoire of states of consciousness which guides our behaviour in productive adaptive ways.

Some southern European Christians believed in reincarnation until the Council of Nice banned such beliefs in 553 A.D. In The Republic, Plato described souls about to be reborn as choosing their future lives. Schopenhauer took it seriously, and Voltaire's observation that it is no more surprising to be born twice than once is well known. In Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Carl Jung wrote that as a boy he remembered in great detail being a very old man in the eighteenth century. Yet most scientists nowadays do not believe in survival after death. Presumably Darwinian ideas contributed to a sort of dethroning of the soul.

However, more than half the world’s people believe in reincarnation. What is the basis of this belief? Is it rooted in delusions or wishful thinking? Or, is there a tangible basis for such ideas?

The philosopher David Hume said, in his essay ‘Of the immortality of the soul’ – Metempsychosis is …. The only system of this kind that philosophy can hearken to. Some philosophers, psychologists and thinkers admit that reincarnation is a very sensible idea, because it would answer so many questions and problems about human existence.

Charles Darwin had concluded that that human facilities are a result of their evolutionary history. Neurotheologists have further expanded on this, saying - If reincarnation is true and Darwin right, then isn’t reincarnation evolutionary adaptation that contributed to the survival of our species.

A human being has a bio-plasma body, which the evidence tells us must contain a structure of consciousness - the soul. The soul has structured the bio-plasma by recording the essence of a person’s life experience. Because bio-plasma is a property of living matter an unborn child would also have a bio-plasma, but would not yet have had any concrete experiences that would form a soul structure in the bio-plasma. At a certain stage the unborn human child, in short, does not yet have a soul. Therefore, when a person dies, their soul must be transmitted to an unborn child, which then structures the bio-plasma of the child with the bio-plasmic pattern of the dying person’s soul. The death and transfer are part of the method of the evolution of consciousness.

If child psychologists and psychiatrists, as well as paediatricians, family doctors, and parents, would listen to children and observe them with reincarnation in mind, they would make valuable discoveries. Children often seem to express memories of previous lives in their play and sometimes in their drawings.

Dr. Ian Stevenson, an academic psychiatrist, led the study of reincarnation in the United States until his death in 2007. The lab, which later became known as the Division of Perceptual Studies, focuses on examining children who remember former lives, near-death experiences, apparitions and after-death communications, out-of-body experiences and deathbed visions.

Dr. Stevenson, who often called reincarnation the "survival of personality after death," saw the existence of past lives as a potential explanation for the differences in human condition. He believed past experiences plus genetics and the environment could help elucidate gender dysphoria, phobias and other unexplained personality traits.

To sum it up, the question often asked is, if rebirth is possible, is there any scientific basis for believing in rebirth? Since time immemorial, man has been struggling to find a solution to this mystery but conclusive evidence has thus far eluded him. Can science uphold the belief in rebirth? It is beyond the current tools of science to definitively prove the general theory of reincarnation to a sceptical public. Likewise, it is also beyond the tools of modern science to disprove it.

Karma cont...

2011-10-26T22:46:00.001+05:30

Karma does not necessarily mean past actions. It embraces both past and present deeds. Hence in one sense, we are the result of what we were; we will be the result of what we are. In another sense, it should be added, we are not totally the result of what we were; we will not absolutely be the result of what we are. The present is no doubt the offspring of the past and is the present of the future, but the present is not always a true index of either the past or the future; so complex is the working of Karma.

Just as every object is accompanied by a shadow, even so every volitional activity is inevitably accompanied by its due effect. As we sow, we reap somewhere and sometime, in this life or in a future birth. What we reap today is what we have sown either in the present or in the past. Karma is a law in itself, which operates in its own field without the intervention of any external, independent ruling agency.

Thus on the one hand, one could infer that if the present life is totally conditioned or wholly controlled by our past actions, then it could be said that Karma is tantamount to fatalism or determinism or predestination. If this were true, free will would be an absurdity. Life would be purely mechanistic, not much different from a machine. Being created by an Almighty God who controls our destinies and predetermines our future, or being produced by an irresistible Karma that completely determines our fate and controls our life’s course, independent of any free action on our part, is essentially the same. The only difference lies in the two words God and Karma. One could easily be substituted for the other, because the ultimate operation of both forces would be identical.

However, from a Buddhist point of view, our present mental, moral intellectual and temperamental differences are, for the most part, due to our own actions and tendencies, both past and present. Although Buddhism attributes this variation to Karma, as being the chief cause among a variety, it does not, however, assert that everything is due to Karma. The law of Karma, important as it is, is only one of the twenty-four conditions described in Buddhist Philosophy. Thus refuting the view that "whatsoever fortune or misfortune experienced is all due to some previous action".

Every mainstream religion teaches us about the consequences of our actions. The explanations may differ, but does it really matter in the end whether the law of karma causes us trouble or God himself in his final judgement?

When we meet with big problems; disease, loss of family or friends, getting trapped in a war or natural disaster. At those times, we suddenly wonder: "Why me?" The law of karma does not look for a reason outside ourselves for our good or bad fortune, it simply explains our own suffering as a result of our negative deeds towards others, and our happiness as a result of our actions to help others.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Case No.4 - PLR and Topophobia

2011-10-12T22:09:00.001+05:30

Phobia , derived from the Greek word φόβος - Phóbos, meaning fear is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer goes to great lengths in avoiding. In the event the phobia cannot be avoided entirely the sufferer will endure the situation or object with marked distress.

It is generally accepted that phobias arise from a combination of external traumatic events and internal predispositions. Many specific phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at an early age. It is believed that the brain chemistry combined with life-experiences is one of the factors playing a major role in the development of phobias.

Among the various types of phobias, is Topophobia, which represents the fear of certain places or situations. The origin of the word topo is Greek- meaning place.

Sheila* a young mother, came to me with an affliction towards Taj Mahal. Though she had so far never visited the place, the mere thought of it used to cause her immense discomfort, and she was interested in knowing the reason for this.

On being regressed, she found herself as a young man in the year 1632 in Agra, where she was one of the labourers brought in from various surrounding places, Jhansi in her case, for the construction of the Taj Mahal. Through the next fifteen years all she did on a daily basis was carry huge stone in the construction site. That to suffering immense misery and pain throughout the period of her stay. Finally, when she was incapable of doing any meaningful labour, she was sent back where she found the rest of her family since dead. Subsequently she also died a short while later.

*name changed to protect patient confidentiality.

Karma cont....

2011-10-03T12:51:00.001+05:30

When people are happy and contented, they tend to take life for granted. It is when they suffer, when they find life difficult, that they begin to search for a reason and a way out of their difficulty. They may ask why some are born in poverty and suffering, while others are born in fortunate circumstances. Some people believe that it is due to fate, chance, or an invisible power beyond their control - Karma. In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve. Usually, men of ordinary intellect cannot comprehend the actual reason or reasons. The definite invisible cause or causes of the visible effect is not necessarily confined to the present life, they may be traced to a proximate or remote past birth.

The Pali term Karma literally means action or doing. Any kind of intentional action whether mental, verbal, or physical, is regarded as Karma. It covers all that is included in the phrase "thought, word and deed". Buddhism teaches that one's present condition, whether of happiness or suffering, is the result of the accumulated force of all past actions or karma.

Karma is the law of moral causation. It is action and reaction in the ethical realm. It is natural law that every action produces a certain effect. So if one performs wholesome actions such as donating money to charitable organizations, happiness will ensue. On the other hand, if one performs unwholesome actions, such as killing a living being, the result will be suffering. This is the law of cause and effect at work. In this way, the effect of past karma determines the nature of one's present situation in life.

It is a concept in Hinduism which explains causality through a system where beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions, creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul's reincarnated lives forming a cycle of rebirth. The causality is said to be applicable not only to the material world but also to our thoughts, words, actions and actions that others do under our instructions. When the cycle of rebirth comes to an end, a person is said to have attained moksha, or salvation.

The theory of karma harps on the Newtonian principle that every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. Every time we think or do something, we create a cause, which in time will bear its corresponding effects. And this cyclical cause and effect generates the concepts of samsara, birth and reincarnation. It is the personality of a human being - with its positive and negative actions - that causes karma.

According to Buddhism, rebirth takes place at the end of this life. Rebirth is regarded as a fact. There is evidence that each person has lived many lives in the past and will continue to live more in the future. Rebirth therefore for the Buddhist is a reality although one may not be aware of it. Those who have developed their minds through meditation have confirmed the existence of past lives. Meditators who have attained powers of concentration have been able to recall their previous lives in great detail. In the same trend, Buddhism teaches that birth, death and rebirth are part of the continuing process of change. This is similar to the continuous process of growth, decay and replacement of cells in one's body. According to medical experts, every seven years, all body cells are replaced.

At the moment of death, when this life is over, and the body can no longer survive, the mind is separated from the body. At that time, the craving for life causes one to seek a new existence, and the previous karma determines the place of one's rebirth.

Every person is responsible for his or her acts and thoughts, so each person's karma is entirely his or her own. Occidentals see the operation of karma as fatalistic. But that is far from true since it is in the hands of an individual to shape his own future by schooling his present. Hindu philosophy, which believes in the doctrine that if the life after death, holds karma of an individual is good enough, the next birth will be rewarding, and if not, the person may actually devolve and degenerate into a lower life form. Therefore in order to achieve good karma it is important to live life according to dharma or what is right.

We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate.

PLR - Goal and Methodology

2011-09-28T11:21:00.001+05:30

The goal of past life regression is to heal blocks from your past lives that are interfering with your present day physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual well being. Just as people carry the pain they suffered earlier in their current life to their later years, people carry unresolved pain with them from one life to another.

In Past life regression, people can recall past life memories regressing into past life experiences, a process that is similar to hypnotism. Learning about a past life can be an amazing process. Is it really possible to have lived before, and for the soul to still carry at least some of those burdens into your current incarnation?

At one point, the subject of past lives and past lives stories were the stuff of a skeptic's dream. However in recent years, this controversial subject has seeped into what Carl Jung termed "the collective unconscious", to the point where even Dr. Brian Weiss, a respected therapist, was featured on Oprah to discuss the topic.

While there are many ways that you can recall past life memories, the number one factor, common to almost all methods, is relaxation. In order to let your mind wander deeper into the past, your body must be as relaxed as possible so that you are not physically or mentally distracted by your present carnation.

The second factor is to not over analyze or stress about what you might possibly experience. Over analysis prevents you from relaxing completely, and it also causes you to judge your past memories. At this point, you are simply observing past events and are unable to change them. It is important to avoid judging past life experiences if you want to learn anything new from them.

The third factor is to open your mind to the possibility that what you are seeing is true. If you begin seeing flashes of memory, but automatically dismiss them, what's the point? In order to make any progress in past life regression, you need to be open to what you see and prepared to take it seriously.

Past Life Regression - Cause and Effect

2011-09-23T12:35:00.001+05:30

Our mind is divided into two main parts: Conscious and Sub-conscious. The Conscious mind is the reasoning, thinking, logical and creative mind that we use all the time when we are awake. The Sub-conscious mind is a repository of all our experiences and memories of all lifetimes. It is part of the core of the human being, and hence survives after death, taking with it every memory of that lifetime.

Upon rebirth, this core reincarnates, bringing with it memories both good and traumatic of all the lifetimes in its repository. These memories ultimately manifest themselves at various levels of our current existence and cause problems which could be either physical, psychological or both combined resulting in among other things, blocks in relationships, business, financial and spiritual growth.

Past Life Regression allows us to retrieve these past life memories, and in so doing address the current life problems. Through Past Life Regression, the sub-conscious mind goes back in time and accesses the origins of old patterns or emotions thus enabling release and healing. Past Life Therapy helps in clearing emotional blocks and bringing a greater sense of inner peace. It also assists in unraveling the deep mysteries that can lie within and simply explain the sometimes inexplicable.

Past Life Regression Therapy is most effective in cases of:

Physical problems where the medical tests do not reveal the cause and no traditional medical procedures work.

Problems that the traditional medical world may consider untreatable.

Behavioral problems, like obsessive-compulsive behavior, which have no diagnosable cause in the current life.

Fears & phobias that have no known origin in the current life.

Relationship problems which are totally unexplainable.

Spiritual likes or dislikes (usually extreme cases).

Weight reduction problems.

Cases of stammering or stuttering. - These cases always involve a trauma in childhood, in the current life, where the child wanted to say something but was so afraid that he could not talk.

Past Life Recall

2011-09-18T18:39:00.001+05:30

At birth, you had the gift of two types of memory, current life and past life. You also had the gift of having a veil dropped over the past. That veil can be lifted, should you choose to do so.

Perhaps it is easy for children to recall past lives because their minds are not cluttered by confronting the lessons and challenges of their current lives. By the time children reach adulthood, they will have experienced many things that might cloud past-life memories, including admonishment by some adults that those memories are only creative imagination. A wise parent who realizes that a child is recalling past life memories can provide encouragement by asking the child to make up a bedtime story. Your child's reaction can be surprisingly straightforward. Your child might ask, "Do you remember when I was the mommy (or daddy) and you were little like me?" In a playful way, s/he might describe a past-life event as a personal story. By talking with your child just before sleep, you can learn much about the past-life experiences that went into the making of that soul's character--your little child.

Parents who punish their child for play-acting what the child believes to be real could damage or stunt the emotional and spiritual life of that child who is simply remembering the past. Such an unwise approach on the part of the parents could cause serious problems to develop later as the child develops and must deal with issues rooted in a past life. The freedom to remember is essential.

Past Life Regression

2011-09-08T11:22:00.001+05:30

Past Life Regression Therapy involves going back to a person's past in order to find healing or to find reasons for current behavior and thinking patterns. Perhaps you are one of the people who think that it is unnecessary to 'dig around in the past'. In many cases you would be quite right. However, very often it is the one thing that will bring about the most permanent healing, simply because we carry the scars of our past around with us until they are dealt with.

In counseling and psychotherapy therapists will dig around in a client's past to find the root of their problems. This information is then dealt with at a cognitive (conscious) level. Hopefully the client is eventually able to move on with a different and more positive outlook. There is no doubt that healing at this level can, and does, take place.

One thing that psychotherapy cannot do, however, is to find those memories which have been buried deep in the psyche and are no longer remembered by the client. The subconscious mind protects us in numerous ways. Firstly, it will protect us by burying a painful experience so that it's memory no longer causes conscious pain. Secondly, it protects us by helping us to avoid being hurt in the same way again. A problem occurs when this 'avoidance' is no longer appropriate and is preventing us from living whole, healthy lives, or from having fulfilling relationships.

This is where Past Life Regression Therapy, comes into the picture. Whilst the client is relaxed and in a perfectly safe environment, we are able to access the root of their current problem. Imagine having a small splinter in a tender part of your body. Now imagine that splinter being ignored and left to fester. Eventually there is a large infected area. You can treat that area as much as you like, but until the original little offending splinter is removed, there will never be complete healing. Regression therapy allows us to go directly to that little splinter, without painfully digging around it. Unlike psychotherapy, we don't have to spend years digging for the root causes. We ask the subconscious to show them to us immediately, and there is usually instant healing.

PLR and Karma cont.

2011-09-03T12:34:00.001+05:30

There are many bodies that a soul can take after death, and the astral body is one such form. This is also referred to in the Hindu puranas as Sukshma sarira - the link between the nervous system and the cosmic reservoir, which is invisible to human eyes, but can be sensed by animals. That’s why dogs bark sometimes without any reason

However, the Bhagavad Gita says that the soul doesn’t carry any karma or doesn’t attach itself to anything. Then how is human karma carried from one life to other?

During death, the mind merges all the sense into itself, storing all memories of that particular body, and gets itself attached to the soul, thus making it an aspect of the soul, in the sense of being both divine and immortal, linking human thinking with the un-changing ordering principle of the cosmos itself.

The soul however, doesn’t want this burden with it and it tries to get rid of this karma carrying mind, and so looks for suitable conditions where it can reincarnate itself into a body where that existing karma can be balanced.

It is these past life memories in the reincarnated body that Past Life Regression helps in unraveling to help solve current day issues.

Case Study 3

2011-08-31T16:14:00.001+05:30

A lot of people suffer from a fear of losing someone in a relationship. There have been so many cases, where people do not find a rational as to why they have this fear. Often, even after going through various treatments, and psychologists, they still are not able to get rid of this fear, and this at times leads to a case of extreme possessiveness on their part.

Mrinalini* was one such case who came to me for Past Life Regression and help. She was under the constant fear of losing her children, which when they were younger made her go paranoid if she did not see them inside the house or for a period of time. As the children grew older, they started resenting this attitude of their mother as besides other thing restricted their movement and life.

On being regressed into one of her past lives, she found herself belonging to a very rich family, where her children were kidnapped and despite all efforts could not be traced. It was only with the arrest of one of her husbands competitors and enemy that the crime was solved and the mutilated bodies of her children recovered.

Once confronted with this, she was able to come to terms with the situation in her present life.

*name changed to protect patient confidentiality

Case Study 2

2011-06-30T19:21:00.001+05:30

Aditya* a young college boy in his late teens, came to me along with his mother with a complaint of a constant inexplicable pain in his middle back, which despite consumption of a variety of medications both allopathic and homeopathic a series of doctors and physiotherapists over a period of time was not cured.

During a session of Past Life Regression with me, he found himself in one of his lives, in South Africa in the year 1900 as a Boer soldier fighting against the British. During one of the battles at a place called Elandslaagte, he was shot in the back at the very same spot where he had the pain in this life, and died.

Once identified, subsequent to his PLR sessions, over a period of time, the pain that had been bothering him for such a long time gradually subsided and ultimately vanished.

*name changed to protect patients confidentiality

Case Study 1

2011-06-28T18:42:00.001+05:30

Radhika*, an executive with a MNC suffered with a case of extreme claustrophobia. She found it extremely difficult to stay in a closed room, travel in lifts or attend parties where there were a number of people present.

She visited my clinic to see if I could help her rid of her phobia so that she could lead a normal life.

On being regressed she found herself in a village in Rajasthan. At the age of 20 she fell in love with a boy from the adjoining village who unfortunately was not of the same community, and hence neither did her parents or the village elders approve. Despite this she was adamant to marry the boy and threatened to elope.

One night, her father and elder brothers caught hold of her and took her out to the fields where they buried her alive.

After this, when Radhika got over her session of Regression Therapy she was able to conquer her phobia and lead a normal life once again

*name changed to protect patients confidentiality

Regression Therapy

2011-06-06T15:23:00.000+05:30

Regression therapy is based on the belief that the mind is divided into 3 states of consciousness that affects their physical and mental well being.

Active conscious

Sub conscious

Super conscious

Active conscious state is the state which dictates what one does, fully aware of the implications of one’s actions. The sub conscious mind is what one actually is while the super conscious mind is the soul.

In regression therapy, it is believed that all the three states should be in coherence in order for the person to be well physically as well as mentally. Positive emotions like love are good for the physical being of a person while negative emotions like fear that leads to other negative emotions like guilt, jealousy, anger and hatred are detrimental to one’s physical being.

A person is born with negative and positive emotions, more emotions are imprinted on the child till about 5 years of age. It is believed that these re-enforcements can lead to physical ailments later in life. Sometimes it may take even up to 10 years. According to the beliefs of regression therapy the following ailments are caused as a result of negative emotions experienced.

Emotion Physical ailment caused

Extreme anger or hatred Frequent pain in the head , migraines

Bitterness harboured Arthritis, pain in the lower back

Emotions that result from Hip, leg or knee problems

a lack of support or excessive

restrictions imposed.

Shame Psoriasis

Feelings of rejection Diabetes

Emotional upheavals or stress Multiple sclerosis

Extreme anger Cancer

The presence of these intense emotions creates a negative feeling that is reflected in one’s physical condition. When these physical emotions are controlled or completely alleviated, then the physical system will be able to recuperate and get back to normal functioning.

In order to set right the emotional aspect of one’s character, it is necessary to understand the root cause for the emotion. Emotions are generally triggered by specific situations. The reaction towards such situations could have been negative, positive or neutral. By choosing the negative way of reacting to a particular situation, the person is exposed to the negative impact that causes the various physical ailments. While attempting to set this right, the situation that acted as the trigger should be re-lived and the best positive outcome should be chosen. The subconscious mind should then be used to re-live all the experiences that would have taken place if the positive outcome was chosen.

Hypnosis is generally used to help the individual re-live his/ her past experiences and replace all the negative reactions with positive ones. This will completely erase all the negative feelings that have led to the physical ailments. A single session of hypnosis under a trained regression therapist has been shown to change as many as 10-12 negative experiences, replacing them with positive ones. Regression therapy, therefore, focuses in creating a positive feeling that leaves one feeling light and extremely happy. This will create a sea change in their physical state and improve their condition.

Emotional Freedom Technique - cont....

2011-05-08T19:10:00.001+05:30

Emotional Freedom Technique is a simple yet remarkable healing system that reduces the stress that underlies much disease. It has proven itself successful in many scientific studies. It works on a variety of health issues, psychological problems, and performance issues, even those that have been resistant to other methods. It can be learned and applied rapidly, which has contributed to its popularity among millions of people.

The use of this technique is relatively new and may be a part of the beginning of a complete revolution in the way we handle our emotions. In many cases, difficulties that have persisted in spite of years of work using the methods of traditional psychology may be relieved in minutes. If, not, relief is generally possible within days or weeks rather than years.

The Emotional Freedom Technique was developed early in the 1990's by Gary Craig, whose academic training includes a Stanford Engineering Degree. While personal healing has been his passion for over 30 years, Gary is neither a licensed therapist nor a trained psychologist. Many of the concepts underlying Emotional Freedom Technique came from Gary's training in Thought Field Therapy under the tutorship of Dr. Roger Callahan.

While Thought Field Therapy involves the use of 10 or 15 individualized tapping routines, Emotional Freedom Technique differs in that it employs only one comprehensive tapping routine which is used for all emotional and physical problems. Because of this, it is easy enough to be mastered by most people.

Past Life Regression Therapy - An overview ...conclusion.

2011-04-25T12:30:00.001+05:30

If you've ever felt that certain experiences are preventing you from achieving your true potential - but you're not sure exactly what they are - then past-life regression therapy could help.

Past Life Regression is a New Age therapy where people probe into what they think is their past to find answers to questions plaguing them in the present. A therapist puts clients in a state of deep relaxation, in an attempt to delve into their "pasts" and find clues about their previous lives. Uncovering a traumatic event in a previous incarnation, they say, can help us understand why we have psychological - and even physiological - problems today.

The stages that occur in regression illuminate much about the psychology of the soul. Even though a lifetime may be in the distant past, it can be very present in the current life psyche. These circumstances from the past shape who we are today. The past and the future are tied together by the present, and the choices we make now affect both. Self knowledge of where we have been, and resolution of any limitations from the past allows us greater freedom in the present and subsequently the future.

Examining these "lives" can reveal why we harbor certain fears, behaviors or habits, or even why we experience deja vu from time to time. Past Life Regression can not only help us understand our own character better and why we act the way we do, but also explains why we are drawn towards specific individuals - because we have met them before, of course!