Finding Deep Love Within Complete Devastation
I’ve practiced past life regression and life between lives hypnotherapy for over 25 years. I never tire of the profound shifts it can make in people’s lives, especially when they need it the most. The following past life regression case example demonstrates the power of this modality to gain insight, clarity, wisdom and healing from the soul’s vantage point. Client permission was granted and names were changed for confidentiality to share this experience.
Rachel, a woman in her early 30s, came to my office feeling overwhelmed by sorrow and devastation. A few months earlier, she had experienced a stillbirth at 37 weeks after her unborn son, Michael, became tangled in the umbilical cord.
She was filled with questions. “Why did I have to go through that experience? What am I supposed to be doing? What is the point of my life? What is the point of life in general?” She wanted to do a Past Life Regression and a Life Between Lives session to hopefully gain answers to some of these questions. Spiritual hypnotherapy has a way of helping a person see tragedies from a higher perspective.
During the past life regression, she initially saw herself as a boy named Paul in a very loving family. He had a father, mother and a younger sister. Life was good until his dad got sick and died when Paul was around 12 years old. He felt a big burden of responsibility to help take care of his mom and his younger sister, so he quit school and went to work to support the family.
A few years later, his mother also fell ill and died. Several months after that loss, his sister also died in a tragic accident, leaving him all alone. He emotionally shut down and sought solace by frequently going to a pub. He made several surface-level friends, but had no interest in connecting deeply or having a family or any type of relationship, not wanting to take on responsibility to provide for anyone or even open up his heart to anyone for fear of getting hurt again.
Rachel described Paul’s feelings: “I have a combination of my mom’s worry and my dad’s habit of keeping everything inside. I feel like I’m wandering, moving without an anchor. I don’t want responsibility. Things are hard, and I struggle to take care of myself. I’m just trying to focus on one day at a time. The only thing that lifts my spirits is the pub.” Paul ultimately drank a lot of alcohol to cover up his pain and eventually died in his mid-50s of an illness.
After Paul’s death, the soul did not stay around the earth realm, but rather was pulled quickly up to a very high vibration in the spirit realm, moving toward a huge, bright light. As the soul moved closer to that light, it became more clear that this bright light was actually a high-level spiritual being that the soul recognized as Jesus.
Through tears, Rachel described, “He’s so full of kindness and love, and he’s enveloping me with his light. I can feel my heart opening more. He makes me feel very safe. This is pure love and acceptance!”
Eric: “Just be fully present with his essence and feel that, and then let me know what else you’re noticing.”
After a few minutes of soaking in that light, the soul’s vibrational frequency rose higher, became more love-based and began to share wisdom and perspectives about the life left behind.
Rachel: “I closed myself off. I was protecting myself from deep connections and attachments. I didn’t want to experience the hurt and loss and responsibility that came from attachments. But guarding against them brought a deep loneliness.”
Eric: “If you were going to live that life all over again, only with the soul awareness that you have now in this moment, would you go through that life in any different way or do anything different?”
Rachel: “I would be more open to having close relationships with others and form deeper connections, so we could support each other, especially when I needed it. The soul lesson was about opening myself up after a loss and not avoiding relationships. I don’t need to be afraid of attachments. It’s more helpful to have them.”
Then Rachel saw another soul next to Jesus. As she focused deeply on that soul, her soul intuitively felt and recognized it as the soul of her stillborn son, Michael. She asked him, “Why did you come only to not be a part of our lives?” He answered telepathically, and after a few moments, Rachel shared through deep emotion and tears, “He’s got such deep love. He is a very high-level soul. He came to help me and my husband grow. The loss provided an opportunity to deal with loss in a healthier way than I did last life, and move past it and choose life again. His loss sparked my spiritual journey of learning more about myself as a person and as a soul and in the life beyond this one. It helped me grow in understanding and awareness. And I can connect with Michael when my mind is quiet.”
As we quiet the thinking mind and go within and connect to the eternal part of us (which we cannot separate ourselves from) we usually get what we need, especially when we need it the most. There is nothing that anyone could have said to Rachel to give her the same level of insight, peace, wisdom, solace and clarity that her inner journey provided for her.
It seems these Earth lives are our testing ground to put into practice what we already know as souls. After 25 years of guiding past life regressions, one of the most common soul lessons I’ve discovered is about how we are going to deal with loss. Loss is built into the human experience. But it’s not part of the soul’s experience. Why is that? That question cannot easily be answered from the vantage point of the body, but from the vantage point of the soul that doesn’t deal with loss, it seems the growth of the soul has to do with how we respond to human challenges such as loss and adversity. As Eckhart Tolle said, “We tend to grow the most as people and as souls on the heels of tragedy and loss.” Life Between Lives regression is one of the most effective and profound methods with which to deal with challenges and the loss inherent in the human experience.









