Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 1 Issue 12, (1 june 2017) | Page 7

Our Journey – ‘Never Meant to End’
Past Life Therapy: An Overview
“I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries
and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that
I had to be born again because I had not yet fulfilled the task that
was given to me." - Carl Jung (Swiss psychologist & pioneer of
psychotherapy, 1875-1961)
For several decades now an increasing number of therapists
have found that a host of human ills are treatable through past-life
regression. The list includes eating disorders, alcoholism, drug
addiction, allergies, asthma, depression, fears, phobias,
obsessive/compulsive disorders, psychosomatic pain, relationship
problems, sexual dysfunctions, even financial issues … the list
goes on and on.
One theory holds that our character today represents a
culmination of all the experiences we’ve had over numerous
lifetimes. These past life events affect many aspects of our
behavior and, in some instances, deeply emotional or physical
traumas can cause psychological or physical problems, which,
may resist cure through conventional medical or psychological
treatment. Past life therapy can release the effect of these
repressed thoughts, events, emotions or situations and bring about
a beneficial change.
What’s really exciting is that, in many cases, the simple
unearthing of the memories responsible for these disorders
alleviates them to such an extent that with a small amount of
conventional therapy afterwards the issue or problem is
permanently resolved. It isn’t always a magic wand but for some
people it can be the first step to letting go of a problem.
Past life memories can bring a person much more than the
resolution of specific current problems. By exploring prior life
experiences one can recall physical and mental skills they might