Past life regression - anyone else try it?

[ebayfool]

I just saw where another DUer mentioned having tried it & that got me wondering if many here had also done it?!

I'll go first:

Tried it once, got as far as Civil War. I was apparently a 'nurse' of some type, working in or very near the battlefields. We didn't get very far - I wanted out as fast as I had gone in (under). It was extremely upsetting - I was inundated w/flashes of blood, gore, hands grasping my skirts, smoke, you get the idea. All too real, all too much, all too frustrating because there were so many & not much aid to be offered - I couldn't handle it (felt like again). The woman I was working with said this was why I had trouble w/touching in this life, but still was compelled to try to take care of everyone that needed help. I must admit she's pretty on-target there - I'm good at the very thing that makes me most uncomfortable, although not at all queasy w/loved ones that need physical care.

Even with my not going into it very much, the experience still let me come to terms w/some of the phobia @ physical contact w/others. It's still there, but I've come to accept it as part of me & have learned to make myself lower some the barriers that I put up w/the ones that count. All in all, a beneficial experiment I think!

Takers?
Anyone?
I'd really like to hear from others ... how'd it go for you?

[NMDemDist2]

1. i did a weekend on "Basic Assumptions" that did a bit of that

it has been extremely helpful in clearing away blockages when i'm 'stuck'

just the regressions don't seem to help, it has to be followed up with some action in your higher mind

DH had an experience much like yours, he's allergic to pine and reacts strongly to woodsmoke. a past life regression showed he was caught in a forest fire in a Native American lifetime, but sure didn't help with the allergies.

my many lifetimes as a doctor make me a pretty good medical intuitive since i have so much information in that arena but what does it really do here and now to know "HOW" i got the information? not much in my mind..... but if you are really stuck somewhere, the info may be helpful on what you need to release to move forward I'd guess

i'll be interested in other's experiences and wonder how you have used the info yourself to move past the contact phobia

and here's a hug for you so you can practice :)

:hug:

[ebayfool]

4. LOL - TY for the practice hug!

I think just becoming more aware of the tendency to pull back made the experiment worth it. It didn't cure any phobias, but at the very least, it did give some insight as to where they might have started. With that as a starting point, it was up to me to recognize whether I wanted to stay in that mode - or work to step out of it.

I began to understand that it didn't just deprive me, but also the people I loved - so I (still!) make a conscious effort to try to step outside of the boundaries that make me feel safest, & give as well as receive that touching that nourishes the heart. It's comfortable w/my kiddoes, w/anyone else it's still an act of will.

I'm still an incomplete soul at 51, but I'm working on it! This physical touching/boundary hang-up was a biggie for me, I figure it is one of my major life lessons to work out.

For me fellow travelers, what my grandkids call huggins' - :hug:

[I Have A Dream]

2. I tried it once with very little success. I felt as though I was...

making up what I was saying.

However, I'd like to try again with another person to see if it makes a difference. (I think that the person with whom I did it the first time was really good. However, maybe someone else would have another method that would work better for me.)

[suziedemocrat]

18. Me too - I felt like I was just "day dreaming" the past lives.

I read "Destiny of Souls" and "Journey of Souls" by Michael Newton and was blown away. I had a past life regression and visited two lives. Then I had a "Life between Lives" session to visit "heaven" or whatever you call where we go between lives on Earth. In the LBL, I had a glimpse of two more lives.

The "Life Between Lives" session was somewhat disturbing, it seems my "Council of Elders" is disappointed at me because of my lack of self-confidence and the way I keep sabotaging my career over and over.

It did make me feel good about being a single woman. It seems I usually incarnate as a woman, and I was married in one of the lives I visited and I was incredibly bored! I was pregnant and also had a toddler, who irritated me and I really felt nothing for the child. Weird. My husband was very good looking and nice, and we got along well but rarely communicated. I felt bored and asleep being married with children. I think that's why I don't seem very interested in getting married in this life, or any of the lives I visited since the life where I was married.

It's weird you said you were a nurse, because I was a nurse in WWI.

Also, a psychic told me I have spent a lot of lives in monasteries, however, I didn't see any of those lives under hypnosis.

Who knows if it is true - or just my imagination????

[LWolf]

3. I don't know how one would go about that.

I've twice had past lives described by self-labeled psychics. The first described some interpersonal relationship "karma" that would make sense, given the way relationships have played out in this life time, but I didn't resonate with what she said at all. I didn't feel like she was describing me, I didn't feel like I had any place in the scenarios she discussed.

The 2nd was an aquaintance; I won't say "friend," because while she was eager for friendship and acceptance, the way my shields popped up when whe was around warned me off. I felt unbalanced, chaotic, "negative" energy.

She spun a long, amusing tale that included another close friend. We both laughed a lot. We never doubted that there was a past life connection, but we'd never felt called on to explore it. This life was "good enough." The scenarios described were, in some cases ludicrous, and in others quite believable. Almost like she could actually get a glimpse now and them through the swirling craziness around her.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. I've had a few memory blips

I remember I had a dream once of a past life. Two actually. One was me at some cabin and you could tell it was in the settler times by the outfits we were wearing. I was coming down some stairs and someone killed another person and I could see blood on the wall. Than another dream was a past life dream and I was falling out of a building from an office where I worked. This was apparently maybe around the 1950's. I was to be married to my soul mate (who is now my guardian) but somehow got pushed out the window. I feel it was just a bad accident for some reason. The strange thing is right before my body hit the ground I, as my spirit self, rose out of my body. It was as if I was re-dying again. I could see my soul mate running to me. He apparently was meeting me at the office either for lunch or to walk home together. The cars were like those in the 50's-70's. The old Cadillac cars. I remember seeing yellow and a teal color.

[Quakerfriend]

6. Great thread idea!

It's funny, because I think that I too was a medic during the civil war. As a child I was totally taken up by the scene during Gone With the Wind where Charlotte is walking through the rows and rows of soldiers who need medical assistance.

I tried past life regression just once, and even tho it didn't seem to go very smoothly, I did get a great deal out of it. I was taken back to one lifetime during the 1800s when I was a young man. My beautiful wife died very young and left me with the children. I was very bitter about her dying. I was so bitter that I would not allow my children to have much fun after my wife's death. The most amazing thing was that I could feel the emotions of that person TOTALLY.

I have memories of 5 other lifetimes, as well. These have just come to me thru dreams.

What's sort of neat is that I often know when I have been in a past life with those I meet now, in this lifetime.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Neat

I don't know if anyone I've met here in this lifetime is from that. So sad about the wife. I have a memory of me in the settler times and I lost a baby I remember. :(

[OnionPatch]

19. I had a similar memory

It was in the 30's though, and I got hit by a bus. And the same thing happened: just before it actually hit, I was suddenly above my body. I remember looking down as a crowd gathered around my body.

[Bluestar]

7. I've been regressed and regressed others lots of times

I was particularly fascinated with past life regression about 10-12 years ago and I got certified as a hypnotist so I could use the tool to do my own regressions and to regress others.

A couple of points--you ALWAYS feel like you're making it up. The key is to trust the information that is coming in to get the most out of it. Also, most people will go to the past life that they need to see at the time they do it--in other words, they will see the issues they most need to clear. After they move through these issues, then they can regress to other lives as they are ready.

My experience has been that very few people can clear the issues that come up just by seeing them. That's because we actually retain issues at the cellular level in our bodies. You need to clear them through some type of cellular energy release method so that you can release the issue at a body, mind and spirit level. But the regression is very helpful in identifying those issues.

I was so afraid to do this the first time that I was unable to have a one-on-one session. I did it the first time with a hypnotist leading a ballroom full of 300 people (being in a large room full of people helped me hide). I was blown away that I got any type of a past life recall, and the one that came up turned out to be very important for me. My husband did it at the same time--he was reduced to tears within minutes. And my husband never cries.

[NJCher]

8. I've read that the crying thing is a sign

...that the person is in touch with their blueprint, so to speak. It's not just that; it's much more but I can't recall it all now. I experience it often.

These are fascinating experiences! I want to hear more! Great thread idea.

I've never purposely tried to do a regression, although I've wanted to. I have had some spontaneous experiences, thought.

The most vivid past life flashes I've had are about the house I live in now, which is an old carriage house. The first one I had was before I even found the house. I had this flash only a couple months before buying it. I had been standing at my kitchen sink, finishing up the kitchen clean up, on a nice, bright summer afternoon. All of a sudden I had this vivid experience where I was walking through a stable (read carriage house?) and I could see my feet walking down the center. I recall in detail the boots I was wearing. Best of all was that I could feel and smell the horses in their stalls. I loved these horses--oh, how I loved them. I felt almost as one with them.

There is a mansion on this old estate that I now live on. The next flash that I had, some time later, was also extremely vivid. It was of ummm, ahem, shall we say a close encounter on the stairs.

About three or four years ago the mansion underwent an ownership chamge and the people who purchased it have become very close friends. I know that old mansion now like the back of my hand. It is very familiar; this whole place is.

In the last week, because the weather has been so warm, I have been planting more bulbs in my garden. I cover them with a mulch of straw. When I pick up the straw to put it over the beds, I inhale the scent and it just takes me away to another place and time. I cannot even describe how entranced I am when I sniff this. It brings back such emotions of love, happiness, and warmth and a feeling of oneness with the earth and the universe. Just complete and total happiness.

Quakerfriend, I do agree these experiences have something to do with recognizing others with whom we've had associations in other lives.


Cher

[DemExpat]

9. I have had enough regression therapy on this life's experience

(called Primal Therapy) which took me back to childhhood, babyhood, a traumatic birth process, and even pre-birth (in the womb)...... which contradicts Astrological theories of soul's incarnation....but, what the heck, I can deal with uncertainty....:evilgrin:

My psychiatrist at the time was very interested in spiritual factors of suffering besides dysfunctional families, abuse and traumas, so I felt safe enough to go into what I felt were past lives as well - what came to me were intense feelings of fear on being butchered in a Bedouin tent in the desert, and several sessions of being transported, imprisoned and murdered as a Jew in a death camp. One of my best girlfriends is Jewish, and I do feel we have been through other lifetimes together as well.

I also completely accept my suffering as part of me - took this lifetime to reach this point - but have no idea if I have worked it through completely (for this life)....

DemEx

[Digit]

10. I've come to believe I had a life during the Civil War

I have always had a fascination with the Civil War, which I guess may have had something to do with my eventual hobby of relic hunting in later years.
What really surprised me was my reaction when I watched the PBS series, "The Civil War" years ago. I found I could not sit for long before I was up pacing, crying, and almost becoming sick at some points. It was quite an intense experience.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Aw

:hug: I know I had friends who were killed in the Salem "witch" trials. I, in that life, was a witch and never was sought out. I guess all the hype was over with.

[Desertrose]

11. Have had a few....

back when I had my little metaphysical shop in PA, I was lucky enough to have friends do private sessions. I've always been a good hypnotic subject ( found out about that in a most unusual & humorous way!) so I usually went pretty deep pretty quick.

One session was rather traumatic- for me and my friend doing the regression ( she was a trained hypnotherapist)...I was regressed to my "spirit" hovering over my recently killed body...that was trippy...but not as trippy as the rest of the memories of that lifetime.( I am actually working on a novel from my pastlife memories if I EVER get time to finish.) That particular lifetime was as a Native American who had lost his most beloved wife and children and went into battle knowing he wasn't going to come out of it alive. I thought at first I was making it all up but felt everything so deeply- even after I came back I kept remembering, and everytime I remembered it , things were always the same...the scene didn't change as a dream would.

It certainly helped me understand a lot about my issues....have had other regressions as well as some spontaneous recalls....

One thing that always triggers those distant memories for me is a "smell" or "scent". Everytime I would smell basil, I would get these intense images of soldiers or men all battle bloodied and in grave condition all lying in rows on the floor in brick buildings with straw on the floor. I could never figure that one out. Then one day as I was reading something about medical conditions during the Civil War, they mentioned how they would spread basil everywhere in the hospitals to try to cover or mask the odors of the wounded!


Long as one doesn't get caught up in the "past"....it can be fascinating to visit those lives.... and hopefully there is also some degree of enlightenment for this one.
:hug:
DR

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[davsand]

12. I 've had a few memories, some were not terribly fun.

I have always been quite loyal to whoever I am with. As a product of the late 70's and 80's I was viewed as being kind of old fashioned for my views on fidelity, actually. I have never had any interest in other men whenever I was seeing someone--it just didn't feel right to me.

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In one past life memory I was a woman in China. My husband was convinced I was having an affair with a man from another village. In the memory he was chasing me and he knocked me into a ditch then began beating me.

I watched my own blood drip into the dirt. I knew I was dying and I felt each blow (the impact--not the pain of it, thankfully.) I also knew that my husband was wrong--that I'd not had an affair. I had only returned another man's smile in the market...

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I am terrified of heights. Literally, I am the kind of person that can't deal with towers or skyscrapers except from the bottom.

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Another memory:

I was someplace out in what is now the western US, and I was a teen boy. I was walking along some bluff or high bank with a fairly long drop to a creek.

I remember looking up and seeing large group of people running toward me and they were all screaming in some language I didn't know. Some wore beaded buckskins and feathers while others did not.

I saw they were splattered with what looked like blood and I was afraid. I jumped off the bluff to get away and I died when I hit the bottom.

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I seriously think that a lot of our phobias and fears in this life are directly related to what we have lived before. Call it cellular memory or call it the eternity of the human soul--either way-- we do not forget when we die.

I'm working now on why I am so incredibly claustrophobic. Somehow I expect this one to be the worst of them all...



Laura

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Interesting

:hug: Sad you have so many bad memories. I have one where I lived somewhere in the southeast or something like that. I'm not so sure. But wherever it is fishing is a big thing there. When I was a little girl the father I had used to beat only me up in all sorts of ways. Maybe that's why in this life I've always been shy around people and with guys. There's only been one guy where I've been totally opened to and it happened really fast too. I've mentioned him on here in another post and he's the one I've fallen in love with a few years ago. I don't know why with him but he feels so familiar and comfortable to me like nobody else has (too bad we don't talk anymore). :blush: I had an older sister who cared for me and the mother sorta did. She didn't really have much to do with me. :shrug: When I got older I did move out of the house and got my own life and fell in love with my soul mate in that life and we had two children (twins). I remember a scene where I was pregnant and this doctor we went to tried to rape me but nothing happened I don't think because I remember the guy who was my husband came back from being somewhere else. :shrug: We both died by poison because the doctor was planning on just killing the husband but he gave my husband some wine with poison in it and we both ended up drinking it and dying. This doctor took in one of the girls (one of them died as well I think) but she died young too. Some things are blury.

[davsand]

17. Not all the memories are bad ones.

Most lives really are mundane ones, if you stop and think about it. Yes, people have times that they are hurt and afraid, but for the most part, I think that the events that leave impact in later lifetimes are probably the really shattering ones.

You remember the bad Doc in that previous life-and I'd say that level of betrayal probably would leave a pretty serious hurt on your psyche--ya know? My guess is that you had at least some good days in that lifetime--yet all that you remember thus far is the painful stuff.

My memories of those two lives before are similar--they were things that impacted deeply, and they are still hanging out there for me, evidently.

To be fair, past lives and how they impact me now (in this incarnation) is something that I spent some time working on at one point in my life. I would guess that, given the nature of my work at the time, I was probably gonna see the most negative stuff.

Somehow, scrubbing the skillet or making the beds just doesn't impact me enough to see that kind of stuff in past life memories. :)


Regards.


Laura

[PinkTiger]

14. My past life regression was really strange and really unspectacular

Years ago I tried this; I even had the name but I no longer remember it. I was living in the 1930s in Detroit, and I was a heavyset white man who lived with his widowed mother. My brother had died in WWI; he was a fighter pilot and a hero, and I endured a lot of listening about my wonderful younger brother, whom I loved, by the way, and how if he had lived things would have been so different, etc.
I ran a very successful bookstore in the downtown area; it was an old building, with lots of nooks and crannies, and I specialized in rare, old, out of print books. The place was wall-to-wall bookshelves, with those old ladders on wheels, fitted with brass accents. I had a very old Parrot. In this life I wore very thick glasses and was not very attractive.
My mother died of old age and I died of a heart attack a few months later. I never married and I never had children.
This was before the internet, so I had no way to check out my story. I wish I could remember my name in that life now.

The thing was, that life made me realize how lucky I am today, to have a husband and a daughter and stepsons; I love books -- I always have -- and I have a room in my house that I added on that is a library with wall-to-wall books.