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Something I learned about this topic that most surprised me was how popular this belief actually is. People have dedicated their entire lives to helping others search through their past lives in order to heal something that is possibly effecting them in the present. I found this topic to be interesting for me because I have a lot of very interesting dreams, in some cases I am dreaming in third person and in some cases I cannot see what I look like or I look like someone else. Having these types of dreams has made me curious about Past Life Regression and whether or not it is real. The research I found most interesting was the video on a young man’s first Past Life Regression hypnosis which he did on his own at home. I found this to be the most interesting because there were so many connections between what he claims to have seen versus his present life. I found it very interesting that in his past life he was locked up in a mental institution for having different beliefs and in his present life he is a young gay male where in the past that was something you would be locked up and treated for. From this research I am most likely to remember the images and quotes that I found. I found these to be more memorable than the research because it was a small tidbit of information rather than entire stories about Past Life Regression. The “Cycle of Life” was very interesting to look at and I think that of all the images I will remember that one the most.

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Past Life Regression - Paranormal Encounters

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Past Life Regression - Paranormal Encounters

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Below you will find a video of a young woman who is put under hypnosis by Joanne McMillan, a past life regression therapist. I believe this video contains Ancient Wisdom because Past Life Regression is more commonly known in the past rather than in the future, it is possible that even though she is not sure that she believes in this hypnosis it is possible that her subconscious does. I believe that this video also contains Emotional Connection because on a certain level this young lady has now bonded with who she believes she was in her past lives.

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Paranormal Encounters Episode 3 Past Life Regression

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Nathan Hughes and Karen Hassan investigate the world of past life regression in episode 3 of Paranormal Encounters. Watch Karen Hassan enter into her past lives and speak as another person. Produced, edited and directed by Nathan Hughes. Special thanks to Joanne McMillan LINK TO EPISODE 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHZTZD8QPE

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Past Life Regression - 5 Signs of Your Past Life

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Past Life Regression - 5 Signs of Your Past Life

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Below is a video of a young man speaking about 5 different signs about your past life as well as giving a cultural background on where these beliefs came from. I believe this video contains Ancient Wisdom because within the first few minutes of the video the man speaks about where Past Life Regression came from and how it became so popular. I also believe that this video contains the reason for belief Unexplained, I believe this because there is so much information offered up in this video that it is extremely hard to tell whether or not it is true, and whether or not he firmly believes these things to be true.

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Past Life Regression - My First Past Life Regression

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Past Life Regression - My First Past Life Regression

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Below you will find a YouTube video about a man who did his own personal Past Life Regression hypnosis via a video, in his past life he was a young woman named Chloe who was in a mental institution. I believe that this video contains Emotional Connection because in his hypnosis he was misunderstood and locked away for being different, in his present life he is a young gay male where it is still sometimes looked down on. I believe this video also contains Perception and Observation, it is possible that the life experiences this young man is having in his present life has caused him to believe that he was another misunderstood young woman in his past life.

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Past Life Regression - Mira Kelley Quote

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Past Life Regression - Mira Kelley Quote

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Below you will find a photograph of a sunset surrounded by a quote from Mira Kelley, a Past Life Regression therapist. In this quote Mira speaks of how all of our lifetimes are connected and how they are part of our path, our nature, and our heritage, I believe this to be Ancient Wisdom as this is a belief that originated years and years ago, there is no proof that our lifetimes are intertwined, left alone what happens to us after we die. I found that this picture also represented Emotional Connection as the more you start to think about whether or not your life has been once before, it starts to blur your rational thinking allowing you into a deeper train of thought. Finally I found that this picture represents Patternicity, the calming sunset and waves distracts you from what is being said and the beliefs that are involved in this quote.

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Past Life Regression - The Cycle of Life

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Past Life Regression - The Cycle of Life

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Below you will see a photograph that is a chart depicting the "Cycle of Life", this cycle has no end and no beginning, it ranges from "Life Between Lives", "Pre-Birth", "Birth", "Incarnation on Earth", "Death" and "Post-Death". I believe that this picture shows Patternicity because the way the picture is shown and the fact that there is no dominant beginning or end causes an element of distraction away from the original idea that this is possibly something that is just a belief rather than real. This leads me to believe that this picture also represents Ancient Wisdom because all of the dimensions in each segment of the cycle come from a belief that was popular an extremely long time ago but is still being valued today. I found this picture as well represents Observation, I believe this because there is certainly a lot of things to take into this picture, however, looking at a photo like this make trigger what you think are memories but in fact are just your sense of observation.

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Past Life Regression - Keanu Reeves Quote

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Past Life Regression - Keanu Reeves Quote

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Below you will see a photograph of the actor Keanu Reeves followed by a quote that he has made. This photo clearly represents Appeal to Authority as someone has put together a quote regarding "karma" that Keanu Reeves may have said, however it might not have been directly related to Past Life Regression. Karma is a form of Ancient Wisdom, it is something that has always been believed in spanning to millions of years ago, it is a belief and something that could in any case be cracked up to coincidence. Karma is also a Red Herring, I found that seeing the word "karma" took my mind away from Past Life Regression and allowed me to start thinking about whether or not I believe "karma" to be true. Finally I found that this photograph represents our Perception, there are many way to view a photo like this and when you are viewing it, it can cause your mind to start wandering to different places and allowing you to doubt what you believe.

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Are Past-Life Regression the next wave in spirituality?

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Are Past-Life Regression the next wave in spirituality?

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Below you will find a link to an article written about a girl who went to a hypnotherapist to seek out her past lives. In the first paragraph of this article I found a relation to Emotional Connection, this girls' friend had explained to her that by going to this therapist she would get to "visit" her past lives, who wouldn't find that intriguing? In the following two paragraphs I found a relation to Mystical Energy because she states when she enters into the office the Dr. put her to ease with her "beautiful, kind energy". As well in these two paragraphs I found Proof of Verbosity as she stated that the therapist was asking her numerous questions about herself which could in turn more than likely help her cause her patient to believe what she is saying is true. Again, in the same two paragraphs I found Appeal to Authority, this Dr. is just that, a Doctor, she could very well be using her position as a way to cause her patients to believe what she is saying to be true. Finally in the fourth paragraph I found a Confirmation Bias,  when she is in her state of "hypnosis" the Dr. begins to ask her what she sees around her and what she is looking at, we have no idea what the Dr. has said before and after this, so how can it be proven that her description is real and not just something the Dr. put into her mind prior to the hypnosis.

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The other week, my friend sat down with me over lunch and told me that he'd just had a past life regression session with a local healer.

"Past life what?" I asked.

He then explained that past life regressions allow you to "visit" your past lives through a combination of deep relaxation and hypnotherapy. They provide deep insights into the root of who we really are, so we can more effectively navigate the life we are currently living.

As someone who was raised Mormon, all of this was new to me. I'd heard about reincarnation but had never thought about approaching it in such a tangible, direct way. Over the past several years, though, I'd opened myself up to learning about different religions and exploring my own spirituality, so I decided to give it a shot and schedule an appointment with the healer my friend had recommended.

I was a tad skeptical walking into the session, but the healer immediately put me at ease with her beautiful, kind energy. During the first part of our three-hour session, she asked questions to get to know me and then guided me into a very deep state of relaxation. Once my eyes were closed and I was totally relaxed, she had me subconsciously enter what is known as the "hall of records," where I saw many doors.

I immediately felt drawn to the third door and found a serene landscape behind it. Once I approached this space mentally, the healer asked me to describe myself. I felt the words flow out freely, with more specificity and emotion than I'd ever been able to conjure before. She spent the next couple of hours guiding me through various scenes from my past life-each one filled with vivid detail.

The experience rocked me down to the core, and I vibrated for days afterward. Here are some take-aways from my first past life regression session:

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Are Past Life Regressions The Next Wave In Spirituality?

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Past life regressions allow you to "visit" your past lives, through a combination of deep relaxation and hypnotherapy. They provide deep insights into the root of who we really are, so we can more effectively navigate the life we are currently living.

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Past Life Regression - What Past Life Regression Really Is

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Past Life Regression - What Past Life Regression Really Is

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Below you will find a link to an article about a therapist who has spent 12 years guiding clients through past life regressions and wanted to show how the process unfolds. To begin this article has big time Appeal to Authority as the therapist is the one telling the story. Proof of Verbosity is apparent in the second paragraph as tons and tons of information is being thrown at you within seconds of reading the article, thus allowing everyone to be completely distracted from logical thinking and having the information appear to be true. Once the article gets into the process there is a lot of Ancient Wisdom coming into play by the therapist bringing up how the soul is anchored to the body and eternal beings. Confirmation Bias is shown through the hypnosis aspect, in the article it states that as you experience the information and you sense your body wisdom mental pictures, emotions and intuitive thoughts will occur. Finally as connected to above, Emotional Connection comes largely into play as a lot of the information has to do with you being connected to your inner self.

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To many people in our Western culture, past life regression can seem far-fetched. I understand this. Growing up as a pastor's son, we didn't talk much about reincarnation, much less about past life regression. The purpose of this article is to explain the process in a way that makes more sense, not only for those whom the concept of reincarnation is new, but also for those who are considering doing a past life regression someday. This article is even for those who have already experienced it, because anyone who has ever gone deep into a past life regression knows that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to fully describe it in words - and there's a good reason for that.

After 12 years of guiding clients through past life regressions, I want to articulate how the process unfolds.

In Western culture, our primary identity is a body that has a soul. Yet, it would be far more accurate to think of you as a soul who is using a body. If you've ever witnessed a dead body that had his or her eyes open, you'd notice that something seems obviously different than when they were alive. The life, energy and consciousness is missing; the animating light called the soul is gone from their eyes. The body appears like a shell, and who and what they really are is no longer attached to their body. The part of you that lives on after you leave the body is pure energy. You can't harm or destroy a soul, because it is outside of this physical dimension. The energy particles are vibrating at a much higher frequency and consequently no longer visible to our sight, similar to a fast-moving fan blade.

So, this is what you are now as you read this - a soul attached to a body. Just because you're alive doesn't mean you're not a soul. Therefore, the "relatively real you" never dies. The body is released and you transition to a higher vibrational state, and then you eventually return to a different body to continue your soul's mission (usually). Perhaps the strongest evidence of this is the multitude of cases in which people remember intricate, personal details of past lives and then later verify them. I won't go into that here, but for those who are interested, there's a website dedicated to many of these cases: Iisis.net, especially note Ian Stevenson's research. The point is that as a soul, you are eternal, indestructible and transcendent of this dimension of time and space.

Anchored in the Body
What keeps you anchored in this realm of time and space? Your identification is with the body, along with your full focus and attention being placed on all of the objects in this physical dimension, such as another person, a tree, a cat, etc., rather than on the life energy behind these forms or even between the space of objects. Not only that, but at a young age you begin to subtly identify with all the mind programming and conditioning from each life experience that goes along with the growing up of this body. So we take the body and its mind to be who and what we are, rather than the life energy force that animates the body and transcends this existence. It is why awakened sages have compared the human experience to "the greatest slight-of-hand card trick."

If you're already this eternal being, you should be able to tune into what you already are, the part that lies beyond this realm of time and space. How? You begin by withdrawing your focus and attention from this outside, material world and turn it inward. Hypnosis is a great tool to do this, quickly creating the effect of an extremely deep meditation. To the degree that you set aside your left-brain or analytical mind, and instead focus entirely on the right-brain's intuitive flow of information, is to the degree you begin to tune into and resonate with this eternal part of yourself. The logical left-brain is an important tool to navigate and live in this physical dimension, but it certainly blocks you if you want to experience the higher vibrational dimension, and the soul aspect of yourself.

Past life regression is an efficient means to "tune into what you already are," because it offers a slow, steady, systematic method: You first allow yourself to "un-identify" with the dominant thoughts surrounding your current body. Then allow yourself to identify with a different body/mind personality that begins to form in your awareness. It is important to focus your full attention on the intuitive information that drops into your consciousness regarding this different body/mind, while simultaneously letting go of your left-brain's analytical tendency to comment on that information.

Your Body Wisdom
Another way to say this is to experience the information that comes to you by sensing and feeling it with your body wisdom. As you do so, a slow unraveling of information regarding that life will drop into awareness piece by piece in the form of mental pictures, emotions or intuitive insights as the journey of that life becomes increasingly clearer. The information may alternately come to you from the third-person or first-person point of view. The life may take unexpected turns, but eventually you'll get an impression of the end of that past life. This is the point where you begin to slowly identify with the lighter dimension of your soul-being that experiences a variety of lives for its own journey of growth, evolution and awakening.

As you continue to focus your full attention on the experience of tuning into and moving deeper into soul identification, you'll notice: A deep sense of well-being; the continual mind chatter in the back of your mind completely stops and is replaced with a vast, expansive, calm awareness that feels like "you"; information "drops into" you in a very different manner than usual. The reason words cannot describe it is because words belong to the realm of our mind, and now information comes from beyond the mind in what can best be described as a "telepathic download" of simultaneously occurring pictures, sense impressions, insights and/or instantaneous intuitive "inner knowings." Clients notice that words feel inadequate to describe what they're experiencing, as if words capture merely the tip of an iceberg.

As you continue to tune into and resonate increasingly more with the soul aspect of self, the above characteristics become more pronounced, and insights that drop into you are permeated with love, clarity, wisdom and selflessness, because there is no more sense of self that is lacking anything. From this higher state of vibration, you have access to all the love, joy, peace, security and creativity that was ever lacking in the human experience, should you choose to place focus and attention on it. At this point, there's a deep sense that your "real" self is actually never separate from these qualities. Most clients will feel this higher dimensional aspect of themselves towards the later part of the session. And if they go even deeper during a Life-Between-Lives session, they may notice that there is very little information that they do not have access to.

Spiritual Aspect of Self
Keep in mind that we are multidimensional beings. So past life regression is ultimately an exercise in tuning into the spiritual aspect of self that is vibrating at a faster rate, a rate that allows you to move closer in resonance with the spiritual dimension of guides and departed loved ones, as well as accessing information that will enable you to grow, evolve and awaken.

From the soul's higher vantage point, it becomes clearly evident which subconscious thoughts and beliefs are holding you back and limiting you, as well as who gave them to you and which life experiences caused them to take hold. Most importantly, you know beyond words that they don't belong to the "real" you, so they can be released. It's an exercise in awakening to a more conscious aspect of self. Carl Jung said that healing is about becoming conscious of that which is unconscious, and our unconscious, limiting beliefs hold a strong grip on us, negatively impacting the way we move through life.

When you come to the session with an intent to gain a sense of another existence that you've had as an eternal soul being, especially with the intent to gain insight, clarity and resolution with any sort of problematic issue, your inner guidance system will show you a life that will be precisely for your benefit to see, and it will contain one or more soul lessons that will perfectly pertain to your present life situation. However, the process will be blocked if you try to consciously direct or analyze the session, because the information can only be accessed by tuning into a different, more subtle, intuitive stream of information.

Gateway to the Soul
The mystic Edgar Cayce once declared, "Imagination is the gateway to the soul." This is true for past life regression. Your imagination launches this inner journey. The past life information then starts coming to you slowly and feels like you're making it up. However, research shows that it may be an actual past life, a metaphor, or a mixture of both. To the degree that you focus on whatever impressions your intuitive guidance shows you without analytical mind commentary, is to the degree that you'll move deeper into the experience. Roughly ten minutes after the first past life images begin to come, the session kicks into a "higher gear" and information begins to drop into your awareness in that "telepathic download" of images coupled with "intuitive knowing" described above. It later begins to feel "more real" as emotions may suddenly emerge out of nowhere, followed by the reasons behind the emotions five to thirty seconds later.

Paradoxically, even though the session begins by feeling like you're making it up, it usually ends at a level of consciousness that feels more "awake" and "aware" than your ordinary, everyday level of consciousness.

Tuning in Deeper
Trying to describe this state creates a conundrum. How do you describe a state of awareness that makes your normal, everyday level of waking consciousness feel like it's asleep? What goes along with the process of tuning in deeper with your soul self is becoming increasingly anchored in the present moment. As this happens, it becomes more apparent that our ordinary states of waking consciousness rarely consist of being completely present; we're usually lost in the world of our minds, subtly pulled into the future or past, along with the mind's endless commentary, which according to sages is exactly where all of the suffering resides. When you are free and separate from all of the mind's negative self talk, limiting beliefs, continual chatter, etc., a vast, calm clarity replaces it, along with a "knowing" beyond words that you are never separate from this clear, awake, peaceful awareness. This cannot be comprehended by the mind, because it's a state of consciousness that is best described by Eckhart Tolle as "above thought."

Thus, past life regression ultimately brings you to the truth of your being, the truth of who and what you really are, which can only be experienced when limiting thoughts and beliefs from the past are no longer part of the equation and your mind is silent. This truth can only be felt, sensed and known as a direct experience in the "eternal" here and now moment, as it is unknowable by the mind; words can only point to it. Past life regression is an exercise that connects and anchors you in this higher level of consciousness. The vast majority of clients experience this understanding by the end of the session.

Beyond Words
After the client emerges, I often hear: "Wow! That wasn't what I expected." Indeed, it is an experience that is literally beyond words. There are few experiences as sacred, profound and holy as tuning into your own wholeness and completeness.

Approximately 95 percent of the time, clients emerge from a past life regression with a greater understanding of themselves and their present life experiences. The degree of positive impact ranges from subtle to profoundly life changing, depending on the essence of the person, and the ripeness and readiness for change. There is a theme to this work: As you go within, your inner guidance gives you precisely what you need, usually to the degree that you are urgently seeking answers or resolution. Problems tend to dissolve into solutions when viewed from the vantage point of our higher spiritual Self.

Eric J. Christopher has a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a certified hypnotherapist. His life passion has been to spiritually awaken and help clients do the same by guiding them connect to their inner wisdom and higher self that can uncover and heal the roots of limiting fears and beliefs. He specializes in past-life regression therapy, life-between-lives therapy, and also present-life deep emotional healing of the body and subconscious mind. He has a private practice in St. Paul. To learn more, visit www.ericjchristopher.com.

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To many people in our Western culture, past life regression can seem far-fetched. I understand this. Growing up as a pastor's son, we didn't talk much about reincarnation, much less about past life regression.

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Past Life Regression - Oprah and Dr. Weiss

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Below you will find a link to an article between Oprah, Dr. Oz and Dr. Weiss who is a past life regression therapist, this article is about three young women who underwent hypnosis for past life regression. It was hard to sum up this article but in more than one way it speaks about Emotional connection, almost all of the stories are related to a childhood fear between the three young women. This article shows nothing but Confirmation Bias after Confirmation Bias by having Dr. Weiss throw tons of information at these ladies allowing them to be distracted by their real memories and thoughts. Finally and most obviously this article contains Appeal to Authority which includes Oprah, Dr. Oz and Dr. Weiss.

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Dr. Brian Weiss uses his past-life regression therapy to help three women understand the roots of their overwhelming fears.