{"id":2148,"date":"2016-06-08T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T07:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/past-life-regression-therapist-reincarnation\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T07:51:33","slug":"past-life-regression-therapist-reincarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"How I Became a Past-life Regression Therapist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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n the year 1999, my father <\/span>passed away<\/span><\/a>. His last words to me were ominous. \u201cThere is too much light in the room,\u201d he said, just before he died.<\/span>\n<\/span>\n<\/span>The next night, when I was lying in bed, I saw him. Not as a physical form, but as a body of light. I could see every illuminated cell of his body. It was like seeing a hologram of the man I had dearly loved. He wore a pearl necklace and a peacock feather on his head. The sight of the peacock feather was surreal, mainly because he was bald. He was spread across the ceiling. Huge, enormous, and lit like the night sky on <\/span>Diwali<\/span><\/a>. I could hear his voice. \u201cI\u2019m there to guide you from now on,\u201d he said. That\u2019s all. Just once.<\/span>\n\nAs soon as he spoke, he started fading away and the whole room was filled with light. I tried opening my eyes, believing I was in a dream. They were already open. My sleeping husband turned to me and said, \u201cLight off karo.\u201d I had been wide awake for the entire encounter. <\/span>\n\nI wasn\u2019t hallucinating.<\/span>\n\nI\u2019ve been an occupational <\/span>therapist <\/span><\/a>for most of my life. A person of science who spent her time on research and counselling, including psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioural techniques, and Rorschach tests. I started practicing after completing an MA and MPhil in psychology.<\/span>\n\nThis scientific background engendered in me a healthy scepticism of metaphysical branches, of knowledge that was unsupported by empirical evidence. But over the the years, through encounters with patients and my own experiences, I\u2019ve come to accept the idea of our past lives influencing the ones we lead in the present.<\/span>\n\nOne of my earliest encounters with the idea of transmigration of the soul was when I practiced in a psychiatric hospital in the Mumbai <\/span>suburb <\/span><\/a>of Versova. There was a woman who told me she dreamt obsessively of having sex with God, because of which she was unable to get intimate with her husband. It was a case that baffled me and I resorted to hypnotherapy. Under hypnosis, the girl started shrieking, and talking about being a gypsy woman who was raped by a soldier. She told me she had a knife under her pillow, that she\u2019d taken it out and stabbed him. In the tent, where she was being assaulted, there was a picture of Mecca. <\/span>\n\n

Some people come to me because they want to know why they\u2019re gay. Others want to know why they can\u2019t maintain a relationship<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nThis was completely new for me. The woman started sweating, and I brought her out of the trance. She was completely shaken. I didn\u2019t know what to tell her. She went away, but called me 15 days later to tell me those thoughts had completely disappeared. I hadn\u2019t gone according to any plan.<\/span>\n\nAfter the session with this woman and my father\u2019s episode, I began to question my beliefs. Could the idea have a grain of truth? Was I willing to put my faith in something that is considered by most people to be on the <\/span>periphery <\/span><\/a>of science? <\/span>\n\nI decided the answer was to know more. <\/span>\n\nI read the works of Dr Brian Weiss, an American psychiatrist and author, who has appeared on <\/span>Oprah <\/span><\/i>speaking about past-life regression. Eventually, I even travelled to London to attend a course he was teaching. At the end of this period, I was willing to believe that there was something in the idea of the soul that science still had to catch up with. <\/span>\n\nAs a clinical psychologist, you don\u2019t speak about soul, atma, astral bodies, or outer bodies. You create behavioural change through thoughts. In our lingo, we say \u201cWhen you relive, you relieve.\u201d The answer to why something is happening to you is locked within your soul, which is so intelligent, it\u2019ll open only that folder where the memory needs to be visited. Past-life regression therapy takes you to the root of your present problems, back to the lifetime where it all began.<\/span>\n\nIt seems preposterous, and perhaps only first-hand experience can condition a rational mind to accept something for which there is no tangible proof. Indeed, experiments were conducted by the professor of psychology and leading sceptic Robert Baker in 1990 that indicate that perhaps past-life regression is merely a cocktail of suggestion, imagination, and confabulation. But how do you cling to studies from the musty past when evidence of the phenomenon is right in front of you?<\/span>\n\nAn early client of mine had a psychiatric condition called Somatisation Symptom Disorder, in which you experience severe aches in your body, but there is nothing wrong with you physically. It\u2019s very debilitating, because the psychiatrist can\u2019t do much. And there is no physical diagnosis.<\/span>\n\nDuring her session with me, she saw a lifetime where she was a man, scrawny and tall, with long hair. She looked like Christ, but in reality was just a priest who would go from village to village talking about <\/span>Christianity <\/span><\/a>(she is a Hindu in her current life). People in the village were against this, so they tied him to a wooden board, strapped his eyes, and threw him into the village well to drown in blindness. After this session, she called me and told me that the pain in her eyes had ceased to afflict her. It never came back.<\/span>\n\n

As a clinical psychologist, you don\u2019t speak about soul, atma, astral bodies, or outer bodies. You create behavioural change through thoughts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nWe did one more session. She saw herself as a young girl living in the 19th century in a Rajasthani haveli. She was being raised by her father, since her mother had eloped with another man. As she grew into adulthood, she began to resemble her mother more with every passing day. The jilted father couldn\u2019t tolerate this. He had her stabbed to death. After this session, her stomach pain went away. And oddly, her relationship with her father in her present life improved.<\/span>\n\nWhen you see a past life, guilt turns to compassion. The soul contract is between two people. The woman had a contract with her father. The same soul decided to play her father again, because in this lifetime they would resolve their differences.<\/span>\n\nAnother client had had a very difficult childhood with his father. My session with him was very kinesthetic — he was feeling everything in his body. As the session began, he started to feel like his stomach was expanding, like a pregnant woman. He felt like an incision had been made and a baby came out. He started crying; the baby was stillborn. He said, \u201cI\u2019m never going to become a woman in my life ever again.\u201d I said, \u201cLook at the stillborn baby, does he remind you of someone in this lifetime?\u201d He said, \u201cYes, my partner.\u201d That\u2019s when I realised he was <\/span>gay<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\n\nOnce he came out of his trance, he told me nobody knew he was gay except his partner. He had kept it a secret for a long time. Within one year of our session, he came out to his friends and family and migrated to Germany, where he now lives with his partner. <\/span>\n\nSome people come to me because they want to know why they\u2019re gay. Others want to know why they can\u2019t maintain a relationship. A few want to understand what happens to the soul after death. Whether they\u2019re spiritual or therapeutic, past-life regression sessions are journeys into realms that science is yet to fully explore. Perhaps one day, I\u2019ll see the practice become more widely accepted as a way of helping people overcome problems beyond the reach of traditional medicine.<\/span>\n\nOr maybe in another life.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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