Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue 1, (July 1, 2017) | Page 6

Traumas or the effect of Past Lives Hans VanTiem, author of Exploring Reincarnation and a researcher in the field, posits a number of what he calls “Karmic Repercussions”. A Karmic Repercussion can be defined as a consequence or an effect of an event or situation in a Past Life that is influencing the present life. However, this plethora of repercussions can essentially be reduced to two fundamental ones; traumas and hangovers. Let’s look at them: Traumas. These are unhealed wounds left by a terrible experience of physical or emotional pain. The repercussions of traumatic experiences reveal themselves in psychosomatic complaints, phobias, complexes, nightmares, compulsions and obsessions. The worst, most extreme traumatic experience is that of being slowly tortured to death or of watching a person whom you love being tortured to death. Less terrible traumatic experiences are frightful and painful deaths, such as being attacked by a wild animal, dying in combat and violent accidents. Other horrors might be the sudden loss of a family member, a spouse who dies in flames, a child hit by a car, a sister who is sold into slavery. Some recurring traumas in Past Life Regressions are witches and