past life regression

[Rockchick26]

I recently bought a book about this but still have a hard time believing it. What do you guys think about it? This book is saying you can get some clues about your past lives by looking at what you're into,what you are drawn to,like another time and place,say China in the 1800's. But what if you don't have ANY interest in any other time or place? And how can that be true anyway,because according to this book,you reincarnate over and over again,so why would you only have interest in ONE time or place,if any at all!? This is just not adding up.

And it says that if you have a strong interest in something (that turns out to be from a past life),you AREN'T suppose to persue it in this life! Well so they're telling me since i have a strong interest in music,that means i probably used to be a musician but i'm not supposed to do it NOW? So now we're supposed to do something we DON'T have an interest in?

And it says children still remember their past lives and can see dead people,etc. so then why cant ALL children do this?! And why can't we remember (even after self hypnosis,etc.)? It just seems to me that this is too elusive to be true,cuz it shouldn't be this hard for everyone to figure out their past lives. Or maybe it's all untrue. So i need some feedback from you guys to help me sort this out. I talked to one guy i know about this and he claims they have proven that it can make you remember memories that never happened at all,so it can't be trusted.

[Anagogy]

Sounds like you need to read some better books on the subject. For starters, read Journey of Souls, and Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton.

Afterwards, read 20 Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation by Ian Stevenson.

When you have multiple subjects who unknowingly corroborate each others details, it tends to take the "hypnosis giving people fake memory" theory and flush it down the toilet.

The true statement is: an inept hypnotist could give you a false memory of an event. But even so, I will make a bold statement and say, the "true" memories can always be recovered, save in instances where it is detrimental to your current learning process.

Brian Weiss' books are also a good read on the subject.

Another thing I'd like to add is that there is a relatively large group of people who simply don't want to believe memories obtained from hypnosis are accurate. Materialists DON'T want to consider that things like reincarnation, souls, and aliens actually exist. It threatens their belief system. Thats not to say ALL memories recovered by hypnosis are accurate, but understand that oftentimes rejection of hypnosis as a reliable means for obtaining information happens precisely because the memories are too fantastical for the materialist to consider "real" so in their way of thinking, they are "obviously made up". To maintain their belief system, they have to rationalize it.

[Acting Like Godot]

I've done past-life regression hypnosis. One of the strangest experiences in my life ..... But I am left in no doubt about past lives, reincarnation etc.

Actually, my PLR experience led me to LOA. Because first you see that your major thoughts and deeds in the past life, affects your current life.

Then you see that your current major thoughts and deeds must affect your next.

Then later you see that it's all just a continuum - your major thoughts and deeds are always affecting what comes next, and if you die before they manifest, the effects simply carry on to your next life.

Then you see that it's not just your major thoughts and deeds. It's every thought and deed, major or minor.

And then you get this idea that hmmm, if you deliberately alter your thoughts and deeds, lots of interesting changes should happen in your reality.

.... and when I reached this point in my understanding ....

.... ta-daaa, the synchronicity arrives in perfect time ...

.... and for the first time, I heard of "The Law of Attraction".

[Rockchick26]

lol Maybe i should quit buying "A Complete Idiot's Guide To _____" (meditation,past life regression,psychology) But i figure these books are a good place to START,and then if i want to continue farther then i go with recommendations. Yeah i'm reading this book right now and i just read the line "Remember that there is no scientific proof up to this point that indicates that you are in fact having a past life experience". So that's great...they show you how to do it and then they admit in so many words that it could just be your imagination!

I would like to read more books on this,but more i would really like to actually have one done,but how do you find a good one that you know won't make up some stuff that you were saying and get you to believe it? And it says here that one experience could be different from another depending on how relaxed you are...so you kinda have to go more than once in case the first time you weren't relaxed enough? I don't imagine it's cheap to have this done.

[Acting Like Godot]

The hypnotherapist I went to charges on an hourly rate. Doesn't matter what kind of hypnosis you want - eg to stop smoking; to lose the fear of public speaking; or to recall a past life. It's the same hourly rate.

The hypnotherapist did not suggest ANYTHING whatsoever to me about any of my past lives. Once I reached the hypnotic state, she merely asked open-ended questions like:

"Where are you?"
"What do you see now"
"What can you hear?"
"Where are you going?"

Etc. In other words, she merely guides you with her questions. She does not actually know what you are seeing. As a matter of fact, I saw and heard some things during my PLR session, which I did NOT want to tell, and did NOT tell, the hypnotherapist.

"One experience could be different from another" - well, yes, I can definitely see how this could be the case! You have so many past lives. And most of it is mundane trivia actually, when viewed from your current perspective. People usually only do PLR when they have specific issues in their current life, and they think that those issues could have something to do with a past life. So they'd want to zoom to the specific past life, and the specific events in that past life, to understand what happen. That's it.

If you just want to traipse from one past life to another, well, it would be very time-consuming, probably not very constructive .... although your hypnotherapist would certainly grow rich, on an hourly basis.

[Rockchick26]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

The hypnotherapist I went to charges on an hourly rate. Doesn't matter what kind of hypnosis you want - eg to stop smoking; to lose the fear of public speaking; or to recall a past life. It's the same hourly rate.

The hypnotherapist did not suggest ANYTHING whatsoever to me about any of my past lives. Once I reached the hypnotic state, she merely asked open-ended questions like:

"Where are you?"
"What do you see now"
"What can you hear?"
"Where are you going?"

Etc. In other words, she merely guides you with her questions. She does not actually know what you are seeing. As a matter of fact, I saw and heard some things during my PLR session, which I did NOT want to tell, and did NOT tell, the hypnotherapist.

"One experience could be different from another" - well, yes, I can definitely see how this could be the case! You have so many past lives. And most of it is mundane trivia actually, when viewed from your current perspective. People usually only do PLR when they have specific issues in their current life, and they think that those issues could have something to do with a past life. So they'd want to zoom to the specific past life, and the specific events in that past life, to understand what happen. That's it.

If you just want to traipse from one past life to another, well, it would be very time-consuming, probably not very constructive .... although your hypnotherapist would certainly grow rich, on an hourly basis.

LOL well,to be honest,i dont think i need to know about my past lives for any benefit in this one,i am just curious. I also didnt realize that you are aware of what you are saying while you are hypmotized,i've heard of people who had this done and when it was over they had no clue what just happened. So i guess i thought they were all that way.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Rockchick26

I also didnt realize that you are aware of what you are saying while you are hypmotized,i've heard of people who had this done and when it was over they had no clue what just happened. So i guess i thought they were all that way.

Actually, AFAIK, in hypnosis, the person is always quite aware of what's happening. And in fact can simply choose to end the trance state at any time.

In many ways, the hypnotic state is similar to a meditative state. You could be in very deep meditation, yet you still know what's happening around you.

[Beloved]

I have Doreen Virtue's Past Life regression cd - though I've not had much luck with it, keep falling asleep and not remembering anything. I'm probably blocking it after the first or second session I did with it, scared me a little. Finding out I took a sword to the liver would do that, at least I know why I have liver disease in this life.

I've been listening to Denise Linn (Soul Coaching) on .hayhouseradio. She does short regressions during her radio show and I have found those are really effective. I'm finding out a lot about myself during these short sessions. You need to join up to get into the archives to access past shows, best thing of all it's all free. Denise Linn also has longer regressions available at her site.

[Rockchick26]

I have Doreen Virtue's Angel Kit which worked really good for me (at least i believe in it). I'll have to check out her past life regression cd!