I've not had any past life regression and have always been curious about it.
I once trialled hypnotherapy via a friend who works as one (not for past-life regression, just as an introduction to hypnotherapy) - and find yes - it is like a deep meditation.
However I've always doubted hypnotherapy would be a good "fit" for me and have been to hypnotherapy-type workshops were I'm the last one to react to "treatment". Something in me resists.
But, I can recount 3 past-life experiences for your interest here:
1) In a crystal healing and psychic development class (in Surrey, England, many years ago) we were practicing scrying in crystals or crystal balls one time. Now - I am rubbish at scrying... And was really intent on having successful attempts at it. Especially as I had just been gifted a beautiful new orange calcite crystal ball - about hockey ball sized.
That night when I went home I had this dream:
-I was practicing scrying in my orange calcite crystal ball, with the guiding voice of my tutoress in the background... I "fell" into my crystal and found myself...
Walking down a dry desert river valley with very high canyon sides. Carved into these rock faces on either side where cave dwellings. As I walked along and gazed at the cave dwellings, I recited to myself the "who's who", of who had lived in all these caves.
The next morning I thought - I must have been making things up about Egypt! Seeing as I've always loved and been drawn to all things ancient Egyptian - and read a bit about it.
But then - 3 days later whilst shopping for calendars in a bookshop... I looked at the back of one calendar and voila! - there was the dry desert river valley photographed EXACTLY as I had seen it in my dream. The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.
This place, is in the Grand Canyon, USA, a valley where the Peublo Mesa Indians used to live in those caves. I'd never heard of or seen it before this.
2) Quite some years ago I went to see a body therapist who worked whilst one floated in a warm water tank. I don't remember the name of her therapy, just that it was highly enjoyable to float around in that warm water tank. And that once, she told me after my treatment, that the birthmarks on my upper inner forearms were related to a past life of abuse by a partner. i.e the marks were "patterns" of the bruising of being held down by my arms.
Such an interesting notion - I thought at the time.
After her set of sessions were complete - the mark on my right arm disappeared.
The left one is still there. ... And this coming Samhain/Halloween I intend to have my 3rd and final (self-designed) tattoo placed over it.
3) In a psychic development/meditation class (at the College of Psychic Studies, London) one night, we were practicing psychometry using a tray of sand.
As I put my hand into the sand to make the hand-print that my "partner" would then attempt to "read", I had a vision (it occurred like a memory re-play):
-I was in a desert and in front of me on-the-sand lay a black child of about 7 years. He had been poisoned by a scorpion and I was looking at him and thinking "I'm too late, I'm too late, I'm too blooody late... what can I do..." And all the while in the background, was the horrendous high-pitched wailing of his mother...
I was then - a "poison mistress" - if you like (Nubian, I think). Knowledgeable about the treatment for poisonings (and the use of poisons, woohoo!).
I found this vision quite disturbing and was apparently fairly pre-occupied with it for the rest of the class - because at the end of the lesson my tutoress took me aside and said "what's going on with you? - you have been inordinately quiet tonight". I described my "vision" and told her I'd been trying to figure out where I might have seen or read about this idea...
when she smiled and said "probably a past life memory - it's fairly common in this sort of environment".
So - there we are - a victim of abuse, a poison mistress, and a resident of a Pueblo Mesa Indian village.
Weird!
I would say that knowing about the abuse did from that point on, make me vigilant and quickly recognise when other people have attempted abuse (mostly mental - I've thankfully never experienced any physical abuse in this lifetime) in my direction and corrected it swiftly (whatever form that "correction" takes - sometimes it's telling the person to get lost). i.e I was empowered in some way to always "put my foot down".
The poison mistress well wow! I've had some interesting past lives as a therapist, huh? (I'm certain I've lived many lives as a therapist of one type or another). I kind of like that.
And the Peublo Mesa Grand Canyon? - I wish I could go visit, but doubt I'll ever brave the journey due to present health issues.
(Hurry up and invent your "transporter" Scotty!
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