Past life regression therapy is based upon the theory that we are eternal beings who carry forward learning and experiences from one human lifetime to another.  As eternal souls, we experience physical life on Earth in a series of human bodies with personalities.  On a soul level, we choose each life and *come back* as a means of learning the lessons.  If you believe we only live one human lifetime, the stories elicited by this therapeutic approach serve as marvelous symbolic metaphors for the issues and situations being faced in the present time.  Whether uncovering “real” past lives or not, this approach has helped many people resolve issues and get past stuck points that were resistant to other healing modalities.  In addition, it’s a fascinating way to experience other aspects of your self and personality.

Of course, not all problems and issues are rooted in experiences from prior lifetimes. It is important to distinguish when we have a current life issue that needs to be addressed through other means. Some of the more significant areas in which past life therapy has traditionally been used are:

   •    Troubling behavior and attitude patterns that have persisted over time, despite     attempts to change
   •    Relationship dynamics, such as intense attraction/aversion to another person,     deep-seated issues that defy resolution        
   •    Phobias – intense fears, such as fear of heights or fear of water, that seem         unconnected to an experience in the current life
   •    Some chronic physical ailments, sensations and pains
   •    Dominant attitudes or emotions that seem to persist throughout your life

Newer techniques in past life therapy are quite exciting and rewarding. Rather than going after traumatic or troubling memories, we focus on positive experiences. These areas include:

   •    Accessing strengths and accomplishments from prior lifetimes that can be         brought forward to increase confidence and effectiveness in the present
   •    Re-experiencing a happy, successful life can bring a sense of balance and peace during difficult times, enabling us to work through our temporary difficulties
   •    Clarifying direction and life purpose by viewing our blueprint for this lifetime
   •    Finding prior lifetimes shared with current loved ones, bringing a great sense of reassurance that we are indeed never parted from those we love
   •    Accessing the wisdom, peace and guidance that is available from the "Life         Between Lives"  where our higher mind and/or Guides can assess our progress and     give direction to us for our current lifetime
   •    Strengthening the clarity of the spiritual nature of our existence

Past Life Regression sessions last about two hours and the fee is $180 USD. Your first regression session will require some paper work and discussion, so please allow an additional 45 minutes for this in your schedule.

Most of us have had the experience of meeting someone for the first time, and falling immediately into a comfortable relationship "just like old friends," or visiting a new part of the world, and find it feeling very familiar to us. Instances like these may be examples of re-encountering people and places we have known in prior lifetimes.

We unconsciously carry forward experiences, attitudes, and relationship dynamics from prior lives into our current lifetimes. Many times this is beneficial, when we have a "knack" for numbers, or seem to master a new skill or area of study as if we already knew it. Other times, traumatic experiences (like a violent death or loss of a loved one) are left unresolved, relationships are left unhealed, or attitudes and decisions may be carried forward from a past lifetime that are detrimental to our current life. That is where regression therapy has traditionally been used, in resolving these experiences from the past that are blocking our progress and happiness now. (Most regression therapy today is applied to carry forward strengths and positive experiences.)

Trauma and issues from the past can be reactivated by events in our current lifetime without our conscious awareness. We might react to people and situations in ways that seem counter-productive, or we have a problem that we can’t seem to resolve no matter what we try. It may be because the problem is actually rooted in dynamics set up in prior personalities/lifetimes.

In past life therapy we regress clients (to regress means to go or move backward) to the time and place where the original activating event occurred. This can be achieved through hypnosis, guided imagery, or other states of deep relaxation where memories that are normally unconscious can be accessed. Similar techniques can be used to access early childhood memories from the current lifetime that may be underlying present-day problems and issues. By bringing these memories into conscious awareness, we can release or diffuse the energy and emotional blockages that keep us stuck. Typically, the therapist guides the client through the significant events of the lifetime, through the death experience, and then a "life review." This is where the purpose of that lifetime, the lessons learned, and decisions made are examined from a higher, spiritual perspective. We particularly look at what is most important about that prior life in terms of the client’s current personality and situation.

Re-experiencing the key events of a past life and reprocessing the impact helps to bring closure to the events of that lifetime. This enables us to move forward more freely in the present. The process is similar to conventional therapy: we trace issues to their origin, reprocess the experience, emotions, and decisions made, and find completion. Past life regression work merely extends the time frame further into the past for the deeper origins of issues. Even if one believes these "memories" are not true past life experiences, they function as symbolic stories and are equally as effective in resolving current issues.

Once considered a "new age" gimmick, regression therapy is becoming accepted in the mainstream as an extremely useful therapeutic tool. It can be a rapid way to bring up material in a single or just a few sessions, that might otherwise take many months of traditional counseling to address. And it can be useful, as well, for those who would not otherwise consider themselves in need of counseling or therapy service -- people who want to expand their experience, draw upon inner wisdom, and connect with loved ones across the ages.

Have you ever looked for something and could not find it? You searched and searched. You even looked in places you had already looked, all to no avail. Going on to other things and, quite suddenly, you discovered the very thing you were seeking earlier. Memories are sometimes like that; you cannot force your memory; you just allow it to happen. Perhaps you have found that if you give your mind a break, your relaxation will do the work for you.

Childhood Memories
Do you remember playing as a child and making up things? If you think back, you might realize that some of those made-up playtimes seemed as real as the life you were living every day.
Were you "imagining things", or reliving memories? Where do such memories come from?

Children's play is a type of trance state. As you played and acted your parts, alone or with other children, who were you? What were you doing? Were you cooking a meal or rocking a child? Were you a queen on a throne or a cowboy on a horse? Did you live in a castle, in a cabin, or in a thatched hut? Were you young or old? Was your skin dark or fair? Were you happy or sad? Perhaps, sometimes, you might have acted the part of a boy or a man; at other times, you might have played the role of a girl or a woman. It is common for children to switch roles as they play. It seemed real, didn't it? Perhaps it once was.

Children, particularly those under five years of age, are able to recall past lives easily. Many people have dreams and flashes of memory about other times and other places. Such activity is normal and can be very helpful. If you are recalling a past life, you can learn from it. The experience you had at that time can teach you a lesson now, if you will let it happen.

Learning from Memories
If you accept the idea that you might have had past lives, then it makes sense that those lives, the life you are living now, and future lives are all one very long life. You awake (are born), sleep (die), and awake again to learn and to grow. All of your lifetimes are connected as part of a greater life.

If you allow yourself to remember those past lives or segments of the whole journey, and if you take from them the lessons, skills, talents, and gifts which they contain, each separate life will be enriched  and your current life will be more fulfilling and rewarding to yourself and to those around you. Past, present, and future are all interconnected. They are ONE. If you choose not to learn your lessons, you might have to face them over and over again--in this life and in others--until you learn. Life seems to be about learning, changing, and growing.

Using Two Types of Memory
Since, as a child, you might have been remembering and re-enacting past lives during play, you might begin to think that memory is strong. There are two kinds of memory. Your short-term memory tells you what is happening to you in your current life and moment by moment, this is the type of memory you use. (Over the long journey of the soul, a single lifetime can be called short-term memory).

Long-term memory reminds you about things you learned long ago--even thousands of years ago. From short-term (current life) memory, you can learn lessons now. Long-term memory reminds you of events and feelings from the past and you can grow through learning the lessons.
From an exploration of the past, you can find talents and special skills which you can bring forward to use now. It is like being an explorer. You are exploring one or more of your lives as an adventure in time! When you explore past lives, you can use a professional guide to help you to find your way and to help you to appreciate what you find.

There are two ways to use what you find in past-life exploration. One way is to take what you see and to use it as a form of spiritual discovery for personal development or personal exploration. You might find special knowledge or talents that you can use now to help you to become a better person and to add more joy to your life. People around you might benefit from your personal exploration because what you learned from the past allows you to discover new ways of expression. You influence friends, family, and acquaintances because you become a happier, healthier, more successful individual. Your prosperity increases and your relationships blossom because you are able to bring forward beneficial aspects of yourself which may have been hidden in the past.

A second way to use what you find in your long-term memory is to look deeply for healing lessons. Time is a great teacher and a great healer. Everything you have learned is stored and waiting to be rediscovered. The answers to problems you are experiencing now might be found by exploring your past-life memories for the wisdom you once had in consciousness but, now, it is stored, seemingly forgotten. Painful issues, anxiety, and confusion--lack of harmony--in the present life can be readjusted or eliminated by remembering a lesson from a past life. The way you handle things now will depend upon how much you are willing to learn from the past and how deeply you are willing to go to discover those answers.

Recalling Past Lives
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.

Traveling through Time: Three Steps
Since the work of memory involves collection and distribution, you should use what you have collected. As an adult, you might have difficulty in recalling scenes because your mind is occupied with many current issues. Somehow, you recall and use the feelings but the precise events seem to escape you. With the help of a trained professional, significant experiences from past lives can be brought to conscious memory. There are three steps involved in looking back at the journey.

The first step guides you back to any age in the current life. It is called age regression. Regression means examining past behavior to determine its influence on current issues. Your facilitator will ask you to select any age and to recall a memory from that time period. Usually, when working with a specific issue, you will be asked you to select a time when a similar event occurred or to recall the earliest memory.

Should the source of the issue not be located, you will be guided to go to the second step. After examining the birth process for possible trauma, pre-natal memory, the womb experience is reviewed. Often, you need to go back beyond the womb and to look for a memory of something which happened before that time. What is recalled at that stage is past-life memory.
 
Regression guides encourage you, the traveler, to speak without thinking. Such spontaneously uttered memories can be clues which will take you deeper into past- life memory. The results of the experiences in time travel can be amazing. The healing memories which you discover can make your life more meaningful.

At first, when you begin to reach back into the past, you (as many other people do) might believe that you are just imagining things. It seems so because the conscious mind claims to know nothing except that which it has gathered as sensory information in the current life. Sometimes current-life memories seem unreal or unclear. The inner mind always remembers. You might have to start with creative imagination because it can serve as a doorway to deep memory. Start with whatever pops into your mind and then let the story tell itself.

Analyzing the Data
Many people wonder if they were famous in a past life. Only occasionally do we find famous personalities who made significant contributions to society. Past-life work has been criticized by people who say that everybody reports being Cleopatra, Napoleon, Jesus, or Mary. Perhaps the people who report the experiences actually believe that they have had true memories. Much depends upon the way in which the session is guided. If you are told to go to a past life in which a certain feeling was experienced, then, you might go to any past life, not necessarily your own. Lately, hearing so many past-life stories of people who report a sense of having been Mary, the mother of Jesus, has led facilitators to be more specific in guiding clients through their own souls' journeys .

Your journey is important in understanding your spiritual development. You have the right to learn about your past and to use the knowledge in a positive, helpful way in your current life. When you explore your past lives, you often find that you have reconnected with someone in the present life. Sometimes the roles are reversed; sometimes they are the same. You might recognize friends or relatives.

Past-life regression can lead to many happy and interesting discoveries. There can be surprises, too. The soul, the part of us which lives and journeys on after the close of each earthly life, might travel from country to country and from continent to continent.

In past lives, you have had other roles, other professions, and other relationships . You might have been involved in activities other than your current interests. You might have done hurtful things; you might have harmed other people. If so, perhaps your role now is to heal that relationship. A soldier in a past life might return as a doctor who saves lives. Enemies in past lives might become friends. You might have attained a high level of spiritual development; if so, perhaps your role now is to help other people by your example of the positive human attributes. It is all part of the rich adventure of soul learning and soul growth.

When exploring past lives, it is encouraging to know that you can build upon past accomplishments and you can make amends to reconcile past negative behavior and attitudes. You can rekindle past friendships and you can heal old wounds. All possibilities work together to create a more harmonious and fulfilling lifetime.

Nothing is lost. All that you have learned and gained from past lives travels with you through time to make each lifetime the best you want it to be. Memories can be triggered by what you see, hear, taste, feel, and smell. The sense of smell seems to be one of the strongest doorways. Memories, the records of your experiences, are available to you and they serve to remind you of your past thoughts, words, and actions. Memory is eternal.

Appreciating the Value of Exploring the Soul's Journey

Over the past fifteen or twenty years as the Veil has thinned, people have become more aware of the existence of their past lives and are very curious, wanting to find answers regarding their life purpose and relationships with other people. Here are six virtues which are prominent in regression work.

Regression Work Is Holistic: It Addresses Wholeness
The aim of regression work is to assist you in achieving wholeness. There is therapeutic nurturing of all aspects of life to effect or to maintain an integrated whole. Although each part of the body---and the brain---seems to have a separate function, all parts are coordinated by the central nervous system. Since one part can be affected by another, we are beginning to realize that, for wholeness, all areas of life need to be addressed and united in a meaningful way. All parts contribute to the highest welfare.

Regression work goes beyond the addressing of the physical and mental symptoms; it goes into the heart of deeper reality. Not only is it a key to accessing the amazing capacity of the integrated body-mind-spirit to heal wounds and to maintain the ongoing process of healing, it accesses the soul's journey.

The term holistic indicates wholeness or unity. All parts of the individual are meant to be integrated and to function as a unit. The Holistic Movement started about a century ago with the mystical and psychic work of Edgar Cayce who used a self-induced, altered state of consciousness for the purpose of helping people with various problems. Cayce is recognized as the Father of the Holistic Movement which aims to unite body, mind, and spirit for healing, harmony, and happiness. Nowadays, the regression therapist guides the client in entering an altered state of conscious for the purpose of going to the root of the issue, going beyond the physical or mental manifestation to identify the cause in the emotional attitude or the spiritual belief system. From there, all parts are integrated and, through forgiveness, alienated fragments and unconscious expectations based upon past lives are purged and restored to wholeness.

Taking a leading role in holistic healing, regression work provides guidance and procedures for the optimal interrelating of conscious goals with unconscious ideals in the creating of improved quality of life and spiritual growth. The goal is an emotional wellness which can lead to physical health, mental well-being, emotional fulfillment, and spiritual advancement.

The essence of each individual is wholeness. Separation into parts, is separation from the Source of life. In regression work, the person is guided to wholeness and connection to Source. That which appears to be separation is actually another expression of oneness but, until viewed from a higher perspective, it seems to be fragmented into dualism (opposites) and other multiple parts. Trying to analyze a whole unit by analyzing only one factor is similar to the story of the blind men and the elephant; each has a different perspective. In examining a part, the effect of a hologram is applied. The connection to the whole must be recognized. The part has no life unless it can be viewed as an aspect of the whole person.

Each person can have many qualities, many energy outlets, and many perspectives on the universe. Energy is maintained at the center of transformation.

Regression Work Is Natural and Is Safe
Regression work is one hundred percent natural and one hundred percent safe. Coming from your inner self, it is as natural as sleep. The inner- work part of the regression session is like a dream; at the end of the trance (experiencing) part of the session, the processing is similar to that of dream work. As a result of observing patterns and symbols, you become aware of possibilities for living a better life and ready to explore ways of making significant changes.

The procedure in regression work is natural and is safe because, in most cases, you are aware of everything happening around you. Your body feels relaxed and your mind is alert. All of the senses are alert. The unconscious mind, for the most part, tends to respond to words and images which evoke feelings and emotions. Through such feelings and emotions, I will set an atmosphere for you to make a connection with the goal of the session. Regression work is a way of providing emotional nourishment for the mind. It is safe because it is done by your Self in a methodical manner. The side-effects are blessings.

Regression Work Is Positive
Regression work uses a positive approach for positive results. It has evolved from a history of reaction, which involved fixing a problem, to action, where you are assisted in creating a more productive life and greater spiritual growth. The difference between reaction and action is powerful and subtle. Reaction will always fail because there are so many things which demand responses, e.g., the many areas of symptom alleviation in which the fixing of one symptom often allows another to surface until the cause of the problem is viewed from a higher perspective and neutralized. Positive views lead to action. Negativity lives in denial and lack of action.

Usually, a client arrives with a concern regarding a specific area of life and the problem/symptom must be addressed. In the session, the therapist tends to guide the client by using positive, uplifting terms to counteract the client's negativity. The positive approach involves helping the client to reframe or to rephrase the issue by viewing it from a larger perspective of life and in a positive manner for the purpose of healing the concern. Temporary, personal, secondary gain is noted; catharsis is reviewed; and the overall spiritual lessons are presented for learning. Cayce reading 1163-2 states, "Always constructive, never destructive."

In the regression session, after the past-life is reviewed and you identify patterns of behavior, insights, and lessons to be learned, I'll usually give you some positive suggestions or affirmations which you will prepare with me during our consultation. Suggestions which come from the client to the client indicate that you are willing to work for self-improvement. Formulated with tender care, positive affirmations are delivered with calmness to be imaged distinctly for positive results.

Regression Work Uses Creative Imagination
Regression therapists honor and respect creative imagination as a building block of reality. It is an inner adventure which opens a door to the deeper mind where reality (the Platonic concept) exists. In past-life work, the client sometimes uses creative imagination to get the process started.

When it happens, in a first session, that a client has difficulty in recalling a past life, a common procedure is to recommend that the client pretend and just make up a story---any story. Imagination is another word for the concept of pretending and is a valuable process in creating anything. Children love it because it is a getting-started process for learning to participate in the adult world. The client starts to pretend and, soon, the process begins to flow. Whether the
story is an actual past life or a parable which provides insight and understanding into the resolution of current life issues, it has validity because it comes from the client's deeper realms.
To the unconscious mind, imagination/pretending is a valid part of accomplishment. The act of pretending that something will happen indicates a high probability that it will happen. When the positive affirmations are viewed by the client as accomplished, the inner mind (and the neurological system) perceives the image and acts accordingly. Thoughts and images can
change reality. Cayce reading 281-39 states, "For thoughts are things and the mind is the builder."

On another level of understanding, such pretending or imagining is called planning. Creative imagination adds a new dimension to logical thinking. It helps the client to develop ideas to achieve positive results, thus determining the outcome before taking action. When plans are formulated, or created, in terms of the highest ideal and with a sense of purpose and responsibility, success is assured. When used to manipulate life for the purpose of self-
aggrandizement, a warning is issued. The mind can create reality. The designer of reality is creative imagination. All of the creative resources of the universe are to be found within the individual and regression work provides access to that realm of creative, spiritual insights . Creative imagination is a pathway from the possible to the tangible.

Regression Work Is a Doorway to Deep Memory
Regression sessions are always memorable and the work is a doorway to deeply-stored memory banks. Regression provides a method for exploring inner space in the mind and in the uncharted sanctuary of the deeper self. The distant past---through the eons of time---is recalled, bringing to remembrance information and emotions which are stored in the unconscious mind. The regressionist simply assists the client in drawing out that which already exists.

Through regression sessions, people are able to fit together the pieces of a puzzle past. When a past problem, with its ingrained patterns, enters conscious awareness, it can be encountered honestly and then neutralized. When the pattern is changed, the problem is resolved.

As well as resolving problems, the regressionist is able to guide the client to discover the positive patterns of the past, the eternal gifts . The client begins to realize that there is far more depth to the human mind than previous knowledge indicated. Many people believe that only mystics and poets have such esoteric experiences. Regression therapists work in a way similar to that of detectives; they guide the client in assembling and deciphering clues which are buried in the territory of the mind. With time and effort, the puzzle pieces of the past can be put together to make a complete picture. in memory retrieval, the client can recall the whole history---events,
struggles, foibles, creations, accomplishments, adventures, and anything which is desired. With new information and insights, answers to old questions can refrained for better understanding. In regression work, when sincere questions are posed, the mind stands ready to open its storehouse. Each mind is like a time capsule, a vast treasure trove of wonder, experience,
and expression.

Using modem regression techniques, the client is able to search for convincing answers to mystifying questions. The search, with appropriate preparation, can reward the seeker with higher-level understanding and insight. It is a magnificent work of dignified responsibility requiring total integrity for mending hearts and minds and for the healing of ancient wounds.

Regression Work Has Universal Application
Regression work is common to all people, of all ages, of all cultures, and of all nations. Many children, all over the world, have spontaneous past-life regressions. In sessions, the narrow and sharp focus of attention has wide applications in physical, mental, and spiritual expressions.
Cayce reading 349-4 states, "For the spirit is life; mind is the builder; the physical is the result."

Spiritual (Life): accessing higher consciousness, creating a new vision of existence, developing spiritual ideals, and understanding meaning and purpose in life. Mental (Builder): accessing
unconscious memories, developing new perspectives through the analysis of patterns, developing self-discipline.

Physical (Result): discovering unrecognized skills, healing physical infirmities as a result of cleansing at the root of the problem, transforming undesirable behavior. Regression work
opens a door to the higher spiritual realms. The wider, universal potential is achieved through connection with the inner essence of life, the life energy .

The awareness of the application of benefits in helping a client to live a better quality of spiritual life has led to the elevation of regression work as a dignified part of clinical professionalism. The work has evolved beyond reacting to the need to fix physical and mental health issues and has become active in the need to address the wholeness of a client who is encountering a
critical issue.

Regression work has shown impressive value in raising human consciousness from the level of desired knowledge of the existence of past lives to the higher-level epistemology of gaining wisdom. The client who learns how to use the safe and natural, positive, holistic, regression work in a creative manner to confront memories and unconscious expectations, soon recognizes its universal application. When the door to the spiritual area---the highest ideal---is open, there is universal application of regression work.

You are about to be born. You will have a spirit and a house, called your "body".Take care of this house and it will shelter you for many years. In your body-house, upstairs, there will be a brain. Your mind will use your brain to guide you though life. Train your brain and your body to do their very best. Start early. Strong healthy thoughts build strong healthy lives.

Your citizenship on Earth will begin at birth. You will be part of a great family called "humanity". Be responsible to this family and respect its members. You will be respected in return.

At birth, God will give you a special map. This map will show the best way to travel along the road of your new life. It will remind you of the good things you have learned in past lives. It will warn you of danger ahead and will help you steer around them. Pay attention to this memory map, your birth chart. It will guide you safely along life's highways.

Another gift from God is your own free will.  Even when you use your road map, you need to decide which way to turn. Make good choices and learn good things along the way, such as kindness, patience and forgiveness. Learn to be joyful and generous to others and everything you need will come to you.

As a child, you perhaps will recall events from previous lifetimes. Those memories might fade as you get older as you become more involved in your current lifetime. This process called "life" is like a road that winds from the past and into the future. On this road you might see signs and reflections of your past lives. Your deepest memories. You will discover your strengths, weaknesses and talents. You will understand how to build your life into a good experience. While traveling on the road, you might meet people you have known before. Perhaps you will recognize them. 

As you grow in your life on Earth, you will be given many chances for adventure. Make the most of these opportunities and learn from them. Your world will be filled with the beauty of nature, the mountains and valleys, rivers and seas. Travel. Go forward and meet people, and meet people in many different lands.

As you grow and learn about yourself and the God inside you, you will find there are ways that you can change the world for the better. By using your free will, you can make choices and take actions that will bring more love, kindness, understanding and wisdom to your human family and to the planet on which you live. 

Appreciate and serve your human family. As you serve humanity, you will also be serving God. Loving and helping your Earth family will bring you closer to God who created everyone. Soon you will see God in all things, including yourself.

Heal yourself first. When you are a better person, the world will be a better place. Others will see you as an example of what can be done when healing comes from inside. They will be encouraged to do the same. The best teachers learn by doing and then teach by example.

Be kind and patient. How you treat others will be important to you. Be kind to others and kindness will come back to you. What you do to others, sooner or later, walks through the doors of your own house. And remember to be kind and patient with yourself. 

Be a friend. Others will respond by being your friends. Show honesty and respect to your friends and they will do the same for you. Good friends help to make a happy and successful life. 

Enjoy your life. What you think, say and do will determine how interesting your life will be. You can create your own destiny. You can design your future lifetimes.