Søren Kierkegaard once said, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

Past life regression can be extremely helpful in offering insight and spiritual understanding about how past life factors into your current one. This in turn can lead to greater insight and greatly enhanced therapeutic work and healing.

During my 30 years experience in Counselling and hypnotherapy I have guided and facilitated 1000’s of people on their past life regression journeys using transpersonal and / or spiritual hypnotherapy

I have also often been called on to undo the harm that other therapists have perhaps even unknowingly done. Below are some of the reasons why its important to choose your therapist carefully. !!

Memories are Not Infallible

It so happens that memories are not to be relied on. Considering that most of us forget stuff that did occur or we recall things in a different manner from which they actually happened, some of us even remember people we have never met or places we have never been to.

Experimental evidence revealed that people can indeed remember events that never happened or perhaps they did happen but to someone else which can be very confusing as to whether or not memories are infallible or not.

Young children heavily rely on their memory as an invaluable tool for learning with those memories created before they had their second birthday being discarded by the brain in blurry childhood amnesia.

As we carry on with our lives, the memories we have accumulated over time help us to predict and prepare for future experiences, actions, and encounters, and even though by itself it is not as valuable, it allows us to easily adapt to the different situations we face in our day to day lives.

Memories Can Help Define Personality

Memory is the medium through which we create our individuality and even when we regale our friends with our interesting stories, we can be heard saying something like ‘I am not the type who does that kind of thing’, showing that you are using your memories as a reference point or as the basis of the conclusion you have made concerning the nature of your personality.

Memory also creates the notion that our lives are coherent and that nothing is either added or missing from it; the reality is that our lives are irrational and incoherent.

This can be proven, when we are swapping stories with each other and we realize that lying is inevitable because most of the time we tend to omit a lot of information and invent things to make our stories seem more consistent; over time, we continuously remember the stories we told and start to believe them as being true.

False Memories Research shows that our earliest memories are highly suspect, with experiments revealing that a toddler’s memories are better than those of an older child.

This is because when we are five years of age, we can remember some of our childhood experiences where as a toddler’s memories are more likely have been conjured up from the stories that they were told, they internalized them making them their own.

Memory is a dynamic process; it requires recalling events or experiences which requires a lot of construction considering that there is no portion of the brain dedicated to storing memories.

We create our own history as we carry on with our lives, and every time we come across some new information, we reconstruct the latter merging it with our pre-existing memories.

It has also been know that if incorrect or leading wording is used when taking a client into the trance state required for regression or past life regression work that clients have in order to please the therapists make up identities