Regression Information

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Regression InformationBy: Svoboda

The root cause of a client's recurrent psychological problem may well lie in some incident that at the time inspired extreme fear, disgust, or shame. To recover from the problem, the client - within the peace and security of a hypnotic trance - has to revisit that incident and be able to understand the way in which his or her mind has since dealt with it (the "survival response"). That, after all, is what is currently preventing the client from living life to the full. Equally, hypnosis may reveal that as a child the client had ideas about his or her character, aptitudes, and abilities implanted by adults. Subconsciously he or she feels "useless," "hopeless," or "a failure," for example.

There are various methods by which a therapist may take a client under hypnosis back into earlier years. One is simply to suggest that it is at this very moment a year that is known to be critical in the client's life history, and to ask for a response. Another is "free association," in which an entire series of memories is elicited, each one somehow evoked by the last.

In true regression, the client relives the experience, feeling again all the emotions of the time, with all the perceptions of a younger person or perhaps even of a child or a baby. Releasing these emotions, examining the material recovered (as relayed by the therapist or as recorded), and then reviewing the situation from a present-day perspective are all important parts of regression therapy.

Some healing work - reframing a negative incident in the client's past so that it has a currently positive outcome, for instance - can also be done by looking at the incident under hypnosis.

Past-Life Therapy

Since the 1960s, the ability under hypnosis apparently to remember past lives has been the subject of systematic research. Hypnotherapists who work with regression sometimes find that their clients regress not toward their own childhood but into another lifetime altogether, maybe centuries earlier. Moreover, it may appear that in that other lifetime they were of any age, and either male or female, regardless of their age or sex now. They may even speak a different language, or perhaps one that is incomprehensible. Most can also tell how and when that life came to an end.

Some authorities consider this regression to be a genuine memory of an earlier incarnation, while others view it as metaphorical (a mindset referred to another context). In either case, contact with a deeper layer of meaning and associated connotations brings insight into present feelings and behavior.

All therapists have encountered clients who seem "stuck" in their development: who are unable to account for why they feel irrationally wretched about themselves, or who remain stubbornly terrified, even after counseling and/or psychotherapy. Finding the cause of the trauma does not necessarily remove it, but after past-life regression, such clients often say at once, "Now I understand," and start to feel free from the crippling emotion that has dominated them, free from a pattern of behavior that is ultimately destructive.

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