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REGRESSION THERAPY

What is the difference between Age Regression Hypnosis and Past Life Regression Hypnosis?
By June Milligan

These two types of hypnosis are similar in that they take you back to find the cause of your current blocks and to clear past traumas.

Age Regression is an effective way to go back to a previous time in your current life to the incidents and traumas that may have left an indelible imprint on your personality. In this way you can finally deal with them and move on.

Past Life Regression is Age Regression taken further back to a previous life. Reincarnation is a belief that we have lived many times before and that our spiritual development evolves with each lifetime. In some religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, reincarnation is part of the belief system. Millions of people in India and Asia believe in reincarnation but in America, it has started to gain acceptance only in the past 100 years.

In an altered state, you can access your subconscious mind, which is similar to a vast video tape library. Everything you’ve ever experienced is stored there, along with all the associated sounds, smells and emotions. As a child you may have sat on your dad’s lap, feeling his love and having his attention, while he was smoking. Another memory might be when you were included in your big brother’s gathering of friends for the first time, and were admired because you began smoking with them. You felt “big” and self-assured. When these and many other incidents reinforced your link between smoking and a feeling of love and acceptance, it becomes very hard to stop. Understanding that link through Age Regression hypnosis and exploring the many ways of being loved and accepted today would help you to stop smoking.

The subconscious mind remembers behaviors that we have used to protect ourselves and repeats them until we tell it not to. The problem is, we’ve consciously forgotten why we needed these behaviors, or that we ever “did without them.” By allowing our subconscious mind to surface, through hypnosis, we can re-frame our outmoded behaviors and realize that we don’t need them anymore.

Past Life Regression adds the assumption that you have had past lives and that by going back to view one or more of them you will understand your soul’s path in the past, present and future. This type of regression is used to discover causes of fears, repeated dreams, undesired tendencies, even “psychosomatic” pains. Some people have found their “aha” moments when seeing or reliving a past life incident. Current problems can be understood and dissolved by seeing where they originated. During a Past Life Regression you are guided to “be” a past personality, and experience or view the incidents from that era that have influenced you in your current life. In this way you resolve issues and integrate the experience into the present.

The subconscious holds emotional memories from past traumas, which we are mostly not aware of. Through hypnosis you can choose to access that emotional memory and deal with it. You can get to a point where you see the big picture. You learn how you created the situation you are in, and can then see how to get out of it. We all want to change and move forward, clearing whatever is blocking us. We want to see our future path clearly. Age Regression and Past Life Regression are two methods to achieve that goal.