Past Life Therapists
Past life therapists help you access and transform past life memories that have been causing unwanted thoughts, emotions or explainable pain in your current life and can provide a profound transpersonal experience.
Past life therapy can be done in a therapy room or by using the internet and is available internationally including the UK, Europe, Australia, USA, Singapore, Asia and Africa.
Expert Insight
by Andy Tomlinson founder of the Past Life Regression Academy, psychologist, psychotherapist and past life therapist for 27 years
There are two different ways you can experience a past life. The first is to explore parts of your past life in a past life regression that I call past life tourism. And therapists with any level of training can do this. The second is called past life therapy and this requires a high level of therapy skill to fully explore the past life and help you transform it.
When past lives are resolved symptoms will be reduced but sometimes associated current life wounds may need to be resolved as well for the symptoms to be completely cleared. This is called regression therapy.
In the absence of state controls of standards for past life therapy there is regulation within the profession itself to create an international standard. In past life therapy you are recommended to have a therapist trained to this standard that are members of the Spiritual Regression Therapy Association or the International Board of Regression Therapy.
What is Past Life Therapy and How does it Help​?
The way the soul grows is to experience difficult situations and to master the associated emotions as if the Earth was a classroom for the soul. The soul is perceived as being immortal and endowed with all the divine attributes of its Creator. Unresolved issues in one life are taken into the next one.
A headache may be connected with a past life of intolerable mental challenges or a head injury. A stomach pain may be related to a past life experience of hunger or a wound from battle. A neck pain may relate to a past life death of hanging, strangling or beheading.
Irrational fears of all sorts are often rooted in a past life. Hydrophobia may be related to drowning, claustrophobia to death from suffocation, acrophobia to death from falling from heights and phobia of snakes from past life of being bitten.
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Eating disorders in the current life are often re-created past life memories of starvation, poverty and famine. Sexual difficulties may reflect underlying past life experience of sexual abuse and rape. Depression may be related to past life memory of unfinished grieving from the loss of a loved one, or despair from war and starvation. Unexplainable feelings of insecurity may from a past life memory of abandonment or being orphaned.
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Past life therapy is effective for many physical, emotional and behavioural disorders you may have. This includes relationship problems, low self-esteem, loss of self-love, low self-worth or a struggle to find your life purpose.
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Costs are typically £70 to £110 an hour and sessions one to two hours in duration.
What Happens in a Past Life Therapy Session?
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The initial interview enables the therapist to understand your issue, if past life therapy is appropriate, explain about hypnosis and past life experiences, and the process and logistics. And also for you to ensure that you have a therapist you want to work with.
Past Life therapists generally use hypnosis or an altered state of consciousness. You will be asked to lie down or rest comfortably on a reclining couch and gently guided through a breathing and relaxation exercise. As the trance deepens, guided imagery is used to lead you into a scene of a past event.
Many techniques besides guided imagery are used for connecting the mind to a past life. One approach is to let you focus on a recent memory related to your symptoms. Frequently an emerging emotion or thought becomes a “bridge” that connects with the relevant past life.
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The past life story emerges naturally. Professionally trained past life therapists ask simple non-leading commands or questions such as, "What are you aware of around you?”, "What happens next?" or "On the count of three, go to the next significant event." In this way they help you uncover information about the context of the events at the source of your challenge.
An important part of past life therapy is helping you transform the past life by finding forgiveness, having a new spiritual perspective and being able to integrate it in your current life. Factors that have previously maintained the symptoms in the current life lose their influence and the therapy restores you to wholeness and peacefulness and the symptom often completely disappear.
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Are Past Lives Real?
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A believer in reincarnation takes the view of the soul having lived many lifetimes in many other bodies previously on a learning journey in the current body. People believing they only have one life may view the past life phenomenon through the Jungian concept of the “collective unconscious” into which they have dipped into the vast collective memory of mankind. Or they may take the view the experience is a metaphor, but importantly it comes from their own subconscious mind and metaphors are a powerful way of allowing people to heal themselves.
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A past life can appear to be real to you because of the unexpected way it emerges with associated emotional and physical sensations. Some have proven verifiable when previously unknown events or details have been researched and confirmed.
However, with past life therapy the therapist's intent is not to prove the truth of the story that emerges but to use the powerful healing ability of the transpersonal experience.
When is it Not Right for me?
If you have a serous medial health issue such as psychosis, or are taking strong medication such as chemo-therapy for cancer its best to wait until that treatment is complete.
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What Scientific Evidence is there that Past Life Therapy will resolve my Issue?
Hazel Denning analysed the results of over a thousand past life therapy case studies. Many sought this therapy having tried other therapies without success. Of these 24% reported that their symptoms were completely gone, 23% reported significant improvement.
Heather Rivera worked with 180 clients using past life therapy and found 74% reported their life was more meaningful and 80% found death no longer held any fear.
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More evidence comes from the research by the SRTA members and others
What is Its History?
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The idea of reincarnation seems to have its origin in the ancient speculative philosophies of India and is common in Eastern philosophy and views life as a repetition of eternal cycles and the physical world as illusion.
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Denys Kelsey a British psychiatrist was an early pioneer of past life regression therapy and worked with Joan Grant to publish their exploratory work on the value of past life therapy in Many Lifetimes in 1967. It was in the 1970s that past life therapy really took off. Peter Ramster began his pioneering work in Australia, while Hans TenDam led the way in Europe. In 1978, four further books on past life therapy were published: Reliving Past Lives by Helen Wambach; You Have Been Here Before by Edith Fiore; Past Lives Therapy by Morris Netherton; and Voices from Other Lives by Thorwald Dethlefsen. These four books had one thing in common, in that they dwell on the symptomatology rather than the spiritual implications of illness. Roger Woolger in the 1980s introduced the importance of working with the body to clear deep trauma from past lives with what he called Deep Memory Processing.
In 2008 the international Spiritual Regression Therapy Association was founded to establish professional standards in the field of past life therapy. It works with similar associations including the International Board for Regression Therapy and the Life Research Academy under the leadership of medical doctors Dr. Newton and Dr. Lakshmi to promote past life therapy training in India.
Key Take Aways
Past life tourism is exploring part of a past life and past life therapy involves fully exploring a past life so it can be transformed to resolve a current life issue.
Past life therapy resolves a wide range of intrusive thoughts, unwanted emotions, explainable pain and spiritual issues in just a few sessions
Finding a past therapist trained to the right standard is important and the main past life therapy associations are the Spiritual Regression Therapy Association and the International Board for Regression Therapy.
