"GOING BACK TO THE ROOT CAUSE"
Dominique Glaub, Ph.D.
"Transpersonal hypnotherapy and past-life therapy go beyond the personal level to address and heal any unwanted life pattern, emotional behavior, physical challenge, or current habit. It is a form of hypnotherapy that recognizes the soul-mind, the nonphysical part of you, as playing an intricate part in the therapeutic process, and uses the client's inner wisdom to go to the root cause of a current condition and direct the healing. Depending on the case, the hypnotic process involved in transpersonal hypnotherapy will take you back to life situations in either this life and/or other lifetimes. Unresolved issues from previous lifetimes often have a direct effect on your present one; those issues are usually related to the learning of soul lessons that keep reemerging lifetime after lifetime until mastered.
Examining the karmic patterns of present and past lives makes it possible to trace a recurring condition or trauma like physical pain, difficult relationships, money problems, and depression in order to understand the connection a certain lifetime has with the current issue. The healing process is initiated once this connection has been established.
Jason's Case
Let me illustrate how transpersonal hypnotherapy and past-life regression have helped a client of mine 1) understand and change a physical condition he had for a long time 2) do some soul learning Some time ago Jason (not his real name), 51, a former officer in the Marines, came to see me to address his excessive perspiration. Quite naturally, Jason thought that this was a residue of his childhood and his constant fear of his stepfather, an alcoholic man who used to beat him regularly, as well as his Vietnam combat experiences. I offered Jason the option of examining the situation under hypnosis so that he could tap into the source of his excessive perspiration and eliminate it. When I first talked to him about hypnotherapy and past-life therapy, he was very skeptical. He insisted on telling me that he knew exactly where the problem was coming from, but he eventually decided to give it a try. When we began the regression, he had no idea that what he was to discover would shift his entire perception of the problem, or that it would lead him to get in touch with one of his soul lessons.
As soon as Jason was under hypnosis, he regressed back to age eight in this lifetime. He found himself standing on a metal bridge, unable to move, afraid of falling in the water, his feet and hands sweating. His stepfather hadn't come to pick him up at school that day, and hed had to walk back home alone. He was upset at his stepfather and blamed him for having to cross the dangerous bridge all by himself. At that point, Jason regressed back to being a fetus in his current mother's womb. He described the environment as being "warm, wet, and slippery." This experience was very emotional for him, and very comforting too. I suggested that Jason (still under hypnosis) get in touch with his higher self, the part of him that has all the answers, can transcend space and time, and know past, present, and future. From the perspective of his wise self, Jason was able to instantaneously get an understanding of his excessive perspiration. Without hesitation, he related to me that at times of stress his body would automatically perspire so as to reconnect with the wet, warm, and slippery feeling once present in the womb of his mother. The wetness of his excessive perspiration was for him a physical link to his mother's womb, a place where he felt safe. Contrary to what Jason initially thought, his excessive perspiration during times of stress was not the fear or anxiety triggered by his stepfather's violence or by some painful memories from Vietnam, but his essential need to reconnect with his mother's wet womb in order to feel safe! Jason was quite surprised and deeply touched by this newly found information. This immediately brought peace to him. It allowed him to see his excessive perspiration as being connected to his mother, whom he dearly loved, and not to his stepfather, whom he deeply hated. This began the healing. However, this was not the end of it.
During the same session, Jason went back to a past life. He was Gerard, a young boy in France. His parents and he were being kidnapped. The scene he relived was one of his kidnappers throwing him out of a car, leaving him injured, scared, and alone in the middle of a forest while his parents were taken away. He eventually died in the forest. In that lifetime, he blamed his parents for abandoning him. Each time Jason regressed back into the past (in this lifetime on the bridge, as Gerard in the forest, and later on in other past lives), he had an opportunity to see one of his present and past karmic patterns: his tendency to blame others during difficult times. Because his soul was trying to learn not to blame others, it kept choosing over and over difficult lives, such as the ones we explored during the regression, for the purpose of healing and soul learning. Although at a human level there was no justification or excuse for the stepfather's abusive behavior, for example, the fact remains that Jason needed to face his soul lesson. If not, he would probably continue to attract or find himself involved in similar negative situations, which eventually would force him to learn his lesson.
After the second regression (the first one being hindered by his disbelief and left-brain interference), Jason's perspiration decreased due to his new understanding and to the reframing of the trauma under hypnosis, which in turn changed the energy. It was quite a relief for Jason. Although significantly reduced, the excessive perspiration didn't fully disappear, reminding Jason that there was still work to do. Further regressions were necessary in order to get to the original root cause of the excessive perspiration as well as to resolve Jason's need for an external sense of security. The excessive perspiration began to disappear as he began to get in touch with his true self and manage his soul lesson better.
Looking back now, it certainly appears as though Jason was unknowingly ready for this experience, even if he was critical of hypnotherapy and past-life regression to begin with. Whether Jason believed in past lives or not didn't matter. What mattered is that his excessive perspiration decreased and the connection between his physical condition (excessive perspiration) and his emotional need (to feel safe) was being brought to his consciousness. More importantly, his thinking changed, enabling him to live a more conscious and fulfilling life. Transpersonal hypnotherapy is not a fix, but a proven tool enabling anyone to look for deeper insights about traumas, conflicts, or soul lessons so as to release old behaviors that have created emotional pain, confusion, or physical discomfort, as in Jason's case. Rather than treating symptoms, it provides opportunities to find the original source of a problem and rebalance one's life accordingly. As in any holistic or body/mind/spirit approaches, the healing comes from within the individual and requires him or her to actively participate in the process. It works better for those willing to take responsibility for their own healing and apply themselves to it.
Understanding your major challenges or life lessons enables you to gain awareness and clarity about yourself. The more quickly you address them, the sooner you will enjoy your life and your relationships with others, and the more profound and meaningful your existence will be. Knowing yourself, getting to the root cause of a recurring condition, finding out your soul's reasons for incarnating in a particular life, and living and growing in accordance with your soul's purpose is what's behind a transpersonal approach."
(article published in New Times magazine, Seattle, WA, 2002)
Other articles on past-life therapy and healing:
"Nordyke on the battlefield"
"Past-lives, Present insights"
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