Do Past Lives Really Exist?

For the person that can guarantee me the real existence of past lives, I would be thrilled to hear from you.

Before I got started in hypnosis, I never put much thought into whether they existed or not. Since some religions base their entire belief around past lives and other religions strongly suggest that past lives are not possible, this controversy began to peak my interest.

Once I got into hypnotherapy and began doing some deep emotional healing with clients, I started wondering just why certain people had such horrible illnesses as small children.

Then one day a colleague of mine told me about a success story she had with a client.

Her client was 35-years-old and every time she saw a dog, she began to panic and felt like she would have a heart attack. The doctors couldn't figure what it was but they were going to put a pace-maker in to help her heart function properly.

A pace-maker at 35-years-old, when the doctors didn't even see anything wrong. Can you imagine the terror this young woman must have been going through?

Luckily, one of her doctors recommended hypnosis before surgery and so this young woman flew out to Calgary from Ontario to see if hypnosis could help her.

Upon regression, she spontaneously entered into a past life where she had been staked to the ground and left for dead. There were dogs all around her and she was afraid they were going to eat her dieing body.

Healing was done in this past life, the cellular memory was left behind and re-programming to feel safe and secure around dogs was achieved for her current life.

After just one session, she could see a dog across the street and feel calm and relaxed. After three sessions, she bought her own dog. This young women was grateful for her doctor recommending hypnosis rather than having a pace-maker at 35.

Whether past lives actually exist or whether the subconscious mind simply puts together symbols that allow us to heal, I could care less which is true.

To me, as a Hypnotherapist, I am here to help my clients heal and however that is done, is fine by me as long as it works!

At this point, in my career I have clients who come in specially for past life regression. Since the subconscious mind has all the answers, we go in and explore the country, time period, people around. What is interesting is that most of the people we know today have been with us in a past life too.

My research shows that if indeed past lives are true, that we bring forward the cellular memory from these previous lives. This is good for us, if we bring forward knowledge and life experience however not so good if we bring forward fear, trauma and illness.

Back in February of 2005, my colleague, Glenda Jordan from Inner Soul Hypnosis asked myself and our colleague, Nadine Shenher to participate in a study on past life regression.

Glenda works in Cochrane, Alberta and specializes in past life regression. For more information on Glenda, click here. Nadine works in Calgary, Alberta and specializes in a combination of massage, reiki and hypnosis. For more information on Nadine, click here.

As a child, my mother would take me horse-back riding once a year for my birthday, until at the age of 13 I was bitten by a horse and dragged. Never again was I even remotely close to a horse. Nadine had also been around horses as a child up until she was bucked off at the age of 12. We both felt very uncomfortable about horses since these events.

The first test for us was to video tape Nadine and I around a horse and gage how we felt for the first time in over 15 years. Not a good feeling to say the least. At one point, a horse got loose and began coming towards us in what we thought was a little faster than a walk. Both of us ran for safety with our hearts beating through our chest.

Once we had the starting point of how we felt, Glenda regressed both Nadine and I back into a past life where we had been around horses before. We experienced the comfort and confidence of riding a horse. In hypnosis we could even feel our bodies moving with the horse as we remembered riding for hours, with the wind blowing against us and our feet in the stirrups. We remembered and felt it in our bodies as if it was really happening.

While in hypnosis, Glenda asked us to bring the cellular memory back from that experience into our current life.

The next step was to re-evaluate our comfort level around the horse. To all of our amazement Nadine and I felt much more comfortable and confident with just one session. We could actually stand near the horse and even get on it this time.

Upon finishing our study in September 2005, we had numerous hypnosis sessions and numerous taped riding sessions. By the end, Nadine and I felt comfortable enough to ride on our own.

And then the ultimate test - on our final day of riding and filming, something happened on the farm where Nadine and I were left holding a horse out in the field by ourselves. All of a sudden about nine other horses started running towards us and the horse we were holding began bucking.

And you know what - we were fine! Hypnosis works and so does past life regression whether it is true or not.

If you would like more information on how past life regression can benefit you, please contact anyone of us, as we would be happy to offer you a free phone consultation.