Past Life Regression as an Agenda
Today I received a call: "Hey, do you do Past Life Regression?" "Sure." "Sure?" She did not sound convinced. "Well, yes, but not as an agenda in and of itself. Here's what happens. You come into see me with an issue, and if I feel the situation warrants it, I may regress you to the first time you experienced that problem. If you spontaneously go into another life, then that's where your healing needs to happen. And that's just perfect. As far as I'm concerned, as long as no harm is done, it doesn't matter HOW the healing happens. But you're not going to hear me say: Okay, now were going to go into another life. It just doesn't work that way with me."
But since Past Life Regression was HER agenda, she asked if I could refer her to someone else. I said sure. I told her to email me with her requirements and I would send them to my hypnotherapy group. I know a few people that are specialists (I told her about Michael Pollack, but the idea of going all the way to San Francisco was a little far since she's in the East Bay - but he may hear from her yet since I told her he was an expert).
I guess I could have regressed her as an agenda, but that just isn't the way I do things. Maybe I should, but it's just not who I am.
Maybe I get it from a past life, or something.
Love, Steph
But since Past Life Regression was HER agenda, she asked if I could refer her to someone else. I said sure. I told her to email me with her requirements and I would send them to my hypnotherapy group. I know a few people that are specialists (I told her about Michael Pollack, but the idea of going all the way to San Francisco was a little far since she's in the East Bay - but he may hear from her yet since I told her he was an expert).
I guess I could have regressed her as an agenda, but that just isn't the way I do things. Maybe I should, but it's just not who I am.
Maybe I get it from a past life, or something.
Love, Steph
1 Comments:
Brian David Phillips said...
Stephanie, one way I handle such requests is to frame it that I do NOT do pastlife regression as a stand-on-its-own therapy approach. If one comes up spontaneously in a session, I will deal with it. However, I don't see any good reason to seek one out in therapy (there are a LOT of reasons not to). I will do pastlife regression with folks as a recreational trance activity (using a very open-ended non-leading protocol to clean out the possibilities of leading) . . . but I am very careful to point out that just because one has a pastlife experience in a hypnosis session, it in no way proves that such an experience is genuine rather than phantasy or confabulation. Likewise, the lack of such an experience in hypnosis doesn't prove they aren't valid. There are more things in Heaven and Earth than dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio, and all that. At our current state of technological development, science can neither prove nor disprove reincarnation. It's a matter of faith. If someone wishes to just experience a pastlife regression out of curiousity, I do a pretty thorough pretalk and then do the session. However, if they want to do therapy based upon a pastlife regression, I just won't do it. When I do therapy, I use a pretty solid therapeutic protocol that an intentional pastlife regression frame could contaminate. It's for recreation or spirtual meditation, but not for therapy. In my opinion. - Brian
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