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Not All Past Life Regressions Go As Planned

3/2/2016

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Have you read Journey of Souls by Dr. Michael Newton? It is a great book on spiritual regression that explores what happens after a client has been regressed into a past life, then moves to the last day in that lifetime. Without a body, where are you?

Dr. Newton uses hypnosis to help the client find the past life memories. He’s performed so many of these sessions driven by a desire to further research and understand his findings.  The book is written in a dialogue fashion between hypnotherapist and client.

So back to the question: Without a body, where are you? Eventually you return to the Spirit Realm. Dr. Newton does a fantastic job of mapping out these inner worlds.

The only problem with this book, and others like it, is that every session that makes it into the book is a nice tidy package - bow included.

As a hypnotherapist specializing in Past Life Regression, Life Between Lives, and Spiritual Hypnotherapy, I get a vast amount of clients who have read Journey of Souls and other books like it. Many arrive full of nervousness, fear, excitement, and expectation.

I always tell clients, "I cannot guarantee you will go back to a past life (although most do), or get to the Spirit Realm. What I can guarantee is you will get exactly what you need."  Sessions are as unique as each individual, and often not a neat, tidy and predictable package.

I'm writing this article in the attempt to help people seeking the wonderful benefits of Past Life Regression to process their experience if it doesn't follow the typical pattern laid out in past life regression books. And to encourage them in finding the healing and transformation in a not-so-typical session!

Several weeks ago I saw Jill, an engineer who had lost her father years earlier.  She was still suffering with grief. She had read Journey of Souls and was concerned about being able to let herself go deeply enough into trance.  Despite spending much of her days in her left-brain thinking as an engineer, intuitively I knew she wouldn't have a problem going deep, but that she would end up fighting her experiences.

We went back in time to revisit happy childhood memories and then through a tunnel with the intention of traveling to the perfect lifetime to assist with her present life, moving forward.  Jill struggled to get to a past life. On the other side of the tunnel, it was black.

She was disappointed and her mind began to fight the process. Intuitively I could see the black wasn't bad. As a matter of fact, many of my clients go to a black when they skip the past life and go directly to a higher realm. More on that later.

I asked Jill to go deeper and trust what was happening, turning her attention to the feelings. She said she was feeling a pulling, floating sensation. We spent several minutes in the darkness which became outer space and eventually pulled her home to her soul group. She was met by her father in this life. The experience was quite emotional and ultimately profound.

Everything in my intuition told me that this reunion was the entire reason this session had occurred. I also felt she would need to process all that she experienced before the next session, you know the one that would provide her more of what her logical mind wanted to happen in the first place.

After coming out of session, Jill admitted her disappointment for not being able to reach a past life or her guide. I asked her to trust the process, keep her thoughts positive, and allow what she experienced to settle in.

She did. She followed up with a letter the next week. Here is an excerpt:

"I walked into your office with hopes for past life visions of locations like Europe during WWII, or Egypt during the time of the pharaohs. When I left your office I had nothing like that. Instead, what I left with was something infinitely more valuable: A connection with my Dad and a new found feeling of peace and joy.

I can’t put into words how it felt, but it was the single most spiritual experience of my life. I was enveloped and filled with joy, love, happiness, relief, peace, and home. Long pulsating waves of love, pure love coursed through my entire body. It was electric. Try to imagine the most meaningful embrace you have ever felt in your entire life and multiply it by the largest number you can conceive…that was how it felt."

I've seen a few clients take their session and react negatively, belittling their experiences just because they didn't get to a past life. This makes me very sad.

Typical Life Between Lives or Past Life Regressions are not always a tidy little package, like a 30 minute television show containing a clean beginning, middle and end. So, if you are thinking about undergoing a past life regression, try to keep your mind open and release any expectations.  Your hypnotherapist should help you through this as well.

Clients who walk away with expectations dashed have a choice to find the healing in the process or go to the negative and dismiss the experience. My hope is for them to find the healing and beauty in their experiences.



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Hypnosis in Layman’s Terms

10/10/2013

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What is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis is focused concentration with relaxation. It is a natural state we go in and out of several times a day. Most people are not aware of this true definition of hypnosis.

Examples of our natural hypnotic state include:
  • Watching a movie and focusing so intensely that you are not distracted by external sensation
  • Being at dinner, reaching for the salt and so engrossed in a friend’s story that you stop yourself in mid-reach
  • Driving a car and day dreaming
  • Reading a good book and not hearing the kids playing in the next room
Another word for theses states of being is trance, and the trance state varies in depth. Hypnosis is a word that has many negative connotations and yet it is a natural and totally safe opportunity to focus inward. A therapist can stimulate the trance state, but only with the individual’s agreement. If you are not in agreement with moving into a trance state, you will not get there. And you will only go as deep as you desire. No one can make you go there.

Alternative Labels for Hypnosis include:
  • Guided Imagery
  • Guided Meditation
  • Deep Relaxation
  • Visualization



As a Clinical Hypnotherapist, I help clients intensely focus inwardly while deeply relaxing. I believe that there is all you need to help you “be the best you,” within your own subconscious. The hypnotherapist can guide you in accessing your own power to heal from within.

Who is In Control in Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy?
Because your consent is the cornerstone of allowing yourself to go to this deep level, your trust in the hypnotherapist is extremely important. Without trust, your subconscious will block you from accessing important and often immediate transformational information.

Will I know What is Happening During Hypnosis?
There is a great misconception to hypnosis and that is while in a state of trance, you are unaware of what is going on. This is absolutely not true. Just like when watching an enthralling movie and you block out the phone, or the kids next door you may not consciously be aware of the possible distractions but if the kids came in the room with a bloody lip, you would immediately stop what you are doing. It is the same with being hypnotized. If the hypnotist asks you to do something that is out of alignment with your wishes, you will immediately be aware and can choose to comply or not.

Subconscious Mind

The subconscious mind has a natural protective ability.  For example, another hypnotherapist tells a story of before he became a hypnotherapist, he was going to a hypnotist and while in the deep trance state, she told him to update his look by shaving his beard and moustache and getting rid of his glasses. He was not in agreement with directive and suddenly was fully alert and told her that that was a wrong thing to do. I could not agree more! It IS wrong and unethical to direct clients where it was never their intention to go. Luckily your subconscious protector, sometimes called “the overseer” is always at work.

Will I Remember During Hypnosis?
Another misconception is that you won’t remember. Many times people will say “I wasn't hypnotized, I remember everything you said.” Unfortunately, there is no signifying bell that goes off telling you, “now you are hypnotized.” Most of the session will be remembered.

After a session with my clients, we do a review where I go over my notes of what happened and my assessment. By going over what occurred, most people then recall any missing details.  Sometimes information comes in so fast that remembering anything, without a review with your Hypnotherapist can be a blur.

Hypnosis helps with many issues such as:
  • Stress
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Sleeplessness
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Career Guidance
  • Pain Management or Removal
  • Enhancing Relationships
  • Bring Out Latent Talents
  • Reconnecting with Happiness
  • Weight Loss



Is Hypnosis Safe?
Hypnosis is natural and completely safe. While some results may come in the first session, it may take several sessions depending upon how deep the pain and your ability to open yourself to the process and to the hypnotherapist. As long as you are able to trust your Hypnotherapist and your desire is in agreement with your deepest self, you WILL see results.

There is great healing available from within yourself, we all have it. You can access it yourself through meditation a good hypnotherapist is simply a vehicle to open this access to your highest self.

The more you are able to practice meditation on your own, the more you will be able to open up to the deeper parts of yourself and thus allowing the Hypnotherapist to take you to an even deeper place of self-healing. The access is within you and the healing comes from you.

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    Marcella McMahon is an Intuitive Life Coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist specializing in past life regression.

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