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Finding Deep Love Within Complete Devastation

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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.

Each session impacts the client differently, according to what they are needing at a personal and soul level. I contacted Rachel again over 3 1/2 years after her session to see how the session impacted her. This is what she wrote to me: “The session was certainly a surprise for me. I didn’t take religion or Christianity very seriously at the time. Since then, I have made an effort to have a relationship with God that has been really life changing for me. I feel almost unrecognizable compared to who I was just a few years ago. I definitely feel like I am a part of something bigger and that I have a reason for being here and for experiencing the things I’ve experienced in my life. I feel I can see myself and my motivations more clearly- good and bad- and I am still trying to navigate what to do with those insights. It is quite the journey.” 

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.

Healing Negative Emotions

A New Look at Regression Hypnotherapy

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You are more than your body.  You are also far more than your thoughts about yourself.  Who you truly are surpasses and transcends any limitation you could ever conceive of placing on yourself.  Most people who have had out-of-body or near-death experiences have had direct and often unexplainable experience of this concept.  How does this relate to regression therapy?

Regression therapy is based on the premise that beneath all of our emotional issues lie self-limiting thoughts.  We are aware of some of these thoughts, while others remain at the subconscious level.  In either case, we shed these thoughts about ourselves like a cloak when the time comes when we no longer need our body.  Still, you may ask, what does regression therapy have to do with this?  All our self-limiting thoughts began somewhere, sometimes from harmful past events and sometimes from seemingly benign, yet hurtful mundane events.  Past events no longer exist, but we keep them alive by continuing to carry the dense, heavy energy of these events with us in the form of thoughts and feelings, specifically in the form of fears or limiting messages about ourselves and/or the world.

These limiting beliefs and thoughts underlie nearly all problems, especially depression, anxiety or any fear.  Each of these thoughts is also inaccurate, false and a gross misperception from the vantage point of your soul.  Most of these self-defeating messages that we took in were given to us by people who were hurting and feeling incomplete themselves.  Regression therapy, when properly done, taps into the very wise and adept part of ourselves beneath the conscious level.  The regression process then neutralizes the originating cause of any self-limiting belief by doing two things:  (1) Giving us the insight that any hurt we received had very little, if nothing to do with us but rather had to do with the abuser’s own fears and feelings of lack of power, strength and control, due to their own previously programmed subconscious mind and the pain they were carrying; (2) Replacing the feelings of lack or hurt with the direct opposite feeling, thus reprogramming the subconscious mind with a thoroughly empowering experience and thoughts of complete wholeness from the eternal part of you.

This process paves the way for forgiveness of self and others, which is a key ingredient for self-healing.  It is effective energy work because we are beings of energy, and thoughts and feelings are forms of energy that serve to either strengthen us or weaken and block us.  (This is demonstrated by using muscle-testing with various thoughts and feelings.)  Thus, negative energy can be released and subconscious beliefs easily reprogramed. The process is thought and life transformation as we begin to release our fears and self-imposed limits and focus on our strengths and passions.  Science has proven that as we change our thoughts, our bio-chemistry changes.  Therefore, regression therapy is a rapid and powerful means to reclaim our true selves, realize our true potential and begin to create what we choose for ourselves in our life. We thus put into action the truth that we are indeed beings of pure creative potential.

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Case Study: Catapulting Straight into the Healing Wisdom of the Afterlife

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“At the center of your being you have the answers. You know who you are and what you want.”   – Lao Tzu

 

The above quote by the sage Lao Tzu could not have been more applicable the day my client Paul (name changed) came in for a past life regression session. He arrived feeling overwhelmed, depressed and extremely stressed because he was in the middle of a bitter divorce with his wife. He had experienced some suicidal ideation in the past, and did not want to slide down that path. They had two children under the age of 7 and he felt very protective of them. Both of his parents had a challenging life growing up in the inner city, and he wanted a better life for his kids. He lamented, “I wanted so badly for my kids to have a great life experience. I need to come to peace with my emotional pain. I want to grow through it and make sense of it. I need to calm my heart.” This was Paul’s first time doing any type of hypnotherapy.

I like to have my clients make a statement of intent for their inner journey session. Paul’s request to his higher guidance was, “Show me a life or lives that can most help me understand and heal my pain, calm my heart and move forward with clear direction in life.”

In my experience, a client will nearly always be shown a past life on earth before moving deeper into the spirit realm after the death of that life. A few minutes into Paul’s past life regression, however, I sensed that he was not describing an earth life.

Eric: When I play the tone, you’ll be standing in front of the dwelling that you live in. (singing bowl tone) What does it appear like, and what is it made of?

Paul: It’s a large, glass structure. The floor is the same material.

Eric: Notice a doorway, and move through it, allowing your eyes to adjust to the inside. How would you describe the furnishings?

Paul: The furnishings seem very plush.

It’s often at a mealtime setting that a lot of information about that life can come into awareness. When Paul began to describe the mealtime scene, I realized that he was describing life in a much higher dimension.

Paul: My meal just appeared out of thin air. I live by myself, but I don’t feel alone. I feel immense peace. My body is translucent. I am in tune with everything. I am in harmony with everything. I am part of everything. There is no pain here, only love. There really is no need here for food to survive.

Soon Paul began to notice other beings around. He focused on them and began to describe them.

Eric: Do you sense that you are familiar to them?

Paul: Yes, we know each other.

Eric: Do they seem male or female in appearance, or just like energy beings?

Paul: There is no gender. We can float and fly and greet each other. There’s a beautiful anticipation of wanting to connect, yet we know we’re intrinsically connected. There’s hundreds of them.

Eric: Are there any beings there that you are especially bonded with?

Paul: I don’t feel a closer bond with anyone in particular. I’m intimate with them individually and with all of them. We’re all ultimately the same and a part of everything, and we all know this. There’s no pain or suffering here. We have tremendous peace and love for ourselves and one another. It’s all so peaceful and full of love here. (long pause)

Eric: What else can you tell me about this place?

Paul: There’s no reason for pain or jealousy here like on earth. That is so juvenile. People on earth are so innocent. They just don’t understand yet. The interconnection is there on earth, but it’s covered up and no one sees it. There’s really no need for people to worry themselves about different things. It’s all about love, that’s what truly matters. There’s no need to take things personally.

It had been only about 45 minutes since we began the regression, yet Paul was experiencing a far different set of emotions and a much higher level of consciousness than when he came in. Neither one of us could have predicted that. And the awareness of his innate wisdom and bliss continued to grow as he moved deeper into his soul home and higher in the vibrational frequency of the spiritual realm. He began to describe some of the crystalline structures that he was seeing, yet seemed to focus more on the overall feeling of the place he was in.

Paul: The crystalline structures here have every color in it. And I can hear very beautiful sounds of nature. There’s a playful fun to experience this. This place is home. Everything makes sense here. There’s nothing to fear, no pain and no worry. It’s the most silent, immense peace. It’s pure joy. You can’t even call it rejuvenation because there’s nothing to rejuvenate, pain doesn’t exist here. There is no boredom…everything is extraordinary to experience. There’s nothing to seek or do, you just are.

Eric: What advice would this part of you want to give the Paul part of you?

Paul: There’s nothing to be afraid of. No need to spend so much time in your head. My children have their own soul lessons and earth challenges to grow from. I cannot protect them from everything. What seems so important on earth is not. Let go of what seems so urgent. One day I’ll be back here again. There is a knowing about that. Earth is a learning or testing ground, and not everyone gets it. They play off each other and learn, kind of like kids. It’s very hard on earth, but it’s truly love that saves the day. Forgive them because they don’t really know what they’re doing. The connection is always there, nothing is lost. There’s no need to go anywhere, and there’s absolutely no judgement. We’re trying to live on earth with this knowing. You already are whole and we are all One. Earth life has certain lessons to learn to help bring us back to what we already are. Earth has precious moments, gentle touches, but so many distractions. We need to learn to see through all the distractions to the beauty that’s always there.

There is a theme with past life regression and life between lives hypnotherapy work: As you go within, you get what you need, often when you need it the most. At a time in his life when Paul could most use it, he received the most beautiful and helpful gift of love, wisdom and reassurance…from his own higher self!

Perhaps the most profound message that Paul received was that he was not separate from the love, peace, joy, wisdom, understanding and interconnection that he was experiencing. He was part of it, and it was him…simply at a higher dimension within his multi-dimensional being. To have a felt, tangible, palpable experience of this was a life-changing experience for him.

After his session, Paul reflected on the perception shift that his inner journey brought him. It was immensely valuable while he continued to live with the challenges of his earth life. But now he could live life with a new perception based in a higher truth…and that changed everything for him.

In closing, I will refer to Paul’s own words towards the end of his session: “Happiness is already here. The Truth really does set you free!”

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Case Study: Deep Healing – A Perception Shift Away

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Emily came to me at age 65 in need of healing as well as answers as to why she would incarnate into her abusive current life family. She was a therapist herself who had experienced a lot of healing modalities in her life ever since intense memories of trauma surfaced in her early 30’s. She felt bitter, angry and in a dark, stuck place from growing up in a home saturated in physical, emotional and sexual abuse. She had an abortion at age 12 after being molested. Her words were, “I feel a deep sense of hopelessness. My life was taken from me. How do I get it back? I’ve never felt supported ever. I feel I’ve pushed myself through my lifetime, and I have no push left. Why is it like this?”

She set the intention to see a life that could most help her heal before going into the life beyond. She saw her past life as a young girl named Elizabeth who was raised in a very loving family. She felt confident and excited about being in the world. She loved school and eventually became a teacher before marrying a loving and supportive man and having two children. They ultimately moved in with her own parents who were there to help raise her children while Elizabeth and her husband took over the family farm.  After her death she was struck with how bonded her family was…”such connectedness – communication was always there!”

As she drifted deeper into the spirit world, she was surrounded by loving beings and then soon after, a sense of oneness.

T: (therapist) What are you noticing or experiencing in this moment?

C: (client) I’m surrounded by different energies, and I am being filled up….now I’m diffusing into formlessness. There’s a symphony of beautiful colors and sounds, and I’m all of it…not even separate…pure beingness…being with that which everything arises! I see sacred geometry and feel the different energies of these shapes, and I am the space within which it all happens – a universe unto myself. I am Home!

Eventually Emily was in deep communion with her main guide. I asked what could be known about her decision to incarnate into her current family. Her guide responded to her, and then Emily shared her insights.

Guide: “In order to achieve what you did and will do, you had to experience the worst of humanity. Otherwise you would have settled for bread crumbs.”

C: Emily had to lose herself in order to gain herself back again. She would have settled for so much less. Someone in the lineage had to make a bold move. I committed I wouldn’t pass on the abuse. I had to swim in the toxicity until I figured a way out. I chose it – someone had to – in order to heal the generational line. With awareness I can now be a conduit to send the healing energy up and down the line.

T: What will it look like and feel like to live your life from this new level of consciousness?

C: Wholeness. I can now bring the energies of Home back to my current life. I won’t feel empty anymore. I will be filled with something that sustains me and enlivens others. There is more than enough substance of my True Self to fill me and everyone else in my life so it will no longer feel like I never really existed.

Two days after the session, Emily shared in an email how healing and shifting it was to feel the effects of growing up in a loving and supportive family…quite the opposite of what she lived through in her current life: “A door has been opened that was never available to me. I tapped into what it felt like to experience the effects of being raised in a family where mom and dad radiated love and acceptance to each other and their children, where my thoughts and feelings were hopeful and anticipatory of good because of the prevailing trust between me and my parents, where the looks in the eyes of my family beamed ‘I am here for you – I am hearing you – I am listening’ and the sense of being a whole person onto myself who got to have her own ideas and beliefs, and experiment with what was possible. It was as familiar as having blood flow through my body. A life experience of that is now available to me.”

Ten days after the session, I received an email from Emily. She wrote, “My life has been altered in a miraculous manner – there’s no other way for me so say it. I was guided to a miraculous outcome. I thought there was no way out. I’ve been liberated and have come to know how to love, forgive and accept myself.”

Four months after the session, Emily again wrote to me: “I replayed the recording of the LBL session again and felt the energies of ‘Home’ flood through me again.”

We are multi-dimensional beings, and so deep healing can be a perception shift away. Sometimes all it takes is to awaken out of the hypnotic experience of identifying solely with the body/mind personality by going on an inner journey into the higher dimensions of the spirit realm and of our own “more permanent” being. Emily described her Life Between Lives experience as one of the greatest gifts she could ever experience.

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Case Study: Releasing Lifelong Anxiety

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A client came to me last summer (I’ll call her Amber) with anxiety so intense that she had to go on a leave of absence from her job at a hospital where she drew blood from patients. She shared that she had experienced depression and anxiety her whole life, but lately her anxiety had become much worse at work. She described a recent incident when she was drawing blood from a patient who was hooked up to various machines that were making beeping noises. Suddenly, panic came over her for no apparent reason, and she had to leave work in the middle of her shift. Her anxiety was so severe that she had to take a leave of absence from work and she was starting to have panic attacks at home. This is when she sought me out to help her understand and heal the source of her anxiety and depression, as well as feelings of guilt and undeserving.

We began to explore the source of her anxiety in her present life, but she intuitively felt that the source of her anxiety and negative feelings started so young and it felt much deeper than anything that had occurred in her present life. We shifted gears and did a past life regression which ultimately turned into a deep healing session within the life between lives realms.

In the past life, she initially saw herself as a young boy living with his mother in a home with a very challenging environment.

Me: What does your home life feel like for you as you grow up?

Client: Life feels like tar…gross, dirty and stuck. I don’t have a dad…I never knew him. My mom is a drunk. She’s very mean and abusive physically and emotionally. I don’t feel loved. I never know when she’s going to lose control and what will happen. She scares me and I feel like I have to take care of her. I’m embarrassed at school because my clothes are bad, so I don’t go often. The only good thing I have is my dog…he’s a yellow lab.

We moved ahead in time a couple of decades, to a scene after he is married with children. He is having a meal with his wife, their baby and their 8-year-old son. Initially, it seems like a happy time, but as we relaxed deeper into the scene, more depressing feelings and information began to emerge, revealing repeating dysfunctional generational patterns.

Me: How would you describe what your wife is like?

Client: She is a good wife, and she loves me, but it’s hard. I don’t feel deserving of her. I’m not a good spouse. I have some mental health issues and I drink a lot at home at night when I’m not working. My son is my pride and joy, but I scare him sometimes when I’m drinking.

Me: What do you do for work?

Client: I fly planes. I feel successful at work, but at home, I drink too much and I’m not present with my wife and kids.

As we moved further ahead in time, his depression has worsened. We arrive at a scene where he is visiting his mother in the hospital because she is dying.

Client: I feel bad and sad and guilty. I haven’t had much contact with my mom. Life is depressing. I made it with a good career and a family, but I’m not happy with life. I feel scared and desperate…like if I can’t be happy now at this stage of my life, I’ll never be happy. 

As we move ahead to the next scene, he sees himself flying an airplane, and he immediately knows that this life is coming to a close and it isn’t going to end well. He is feeling extremely depressed and suicidal. He purposely crashes the plane into a mountain while there were passengers on board.

Me: Go to the precise moment your soul leaves the body.

Client: The plane is turbulent. There is a lot of beeping sounds from the controls. I leave the body and watch the plane crash into the side of the mountain. There is so much smoke. The plane is busted up. I’m above the plane crash. My heart hurts that everyone died.

Me: Do you stay around that scene very long, or do you get a sense of pulling or drifting away at some point?

Client: I stay there.

Me: (long pause) As earth time goes on and on, do you eventually drift away, or does it more feel as though you continue to stay there?

Client: I stay there. It feels like part of me is still stuck there.

On rare occasions, clients do not move higher into the soul realm after death. These may be times when they die in a traumatic way, or are experiencing very heavy emotions at the time of their death, or perhaps they feel a strong responsibility or desire to stay around the earth for a while. In these cases, I have that client energetically release the heavy trauma from that life from the physical, mental and emotional energy bodies, and ask them to visualize a shaft of light to move into as an energy current that can bring them to a higher vibration in the spiritual realm. In shaman terms, this is called a soul retrieval. Alternatively, we can simply call upon higher guidance. In Amber’s case, she called upon her guardian angels. She could immediately sense them, and began to describe what happened next.

Client: Their essence feels like a light of source energy and I soak it in. It feels so loving and good. Now they’re bringing me to a beautiful waterfall. It’s purifying and cleansing. It feels like a relief. I’ve had reoccurring dreams here of this place. One of the angels is a male. His name is Luke. I feel safe. He says, “Let it all go, you’re ok now.”

Amber began to tear up as she released all of the fear, depression, sadness and feelings of undeserving that had carried over from that troubled past life to her present life. She then got back a part of her that was lost and covered up while she was carrying that heavy emotional energy. She described the feelings and vibrations that came back to her.

Client: It feels like pure whole and completeness, like energy is being restored. A refreshing rebirth. So calm.

While she rested in the high vibrational healing energy, her soul began to clearly see how the depression and anxiety in that past life had its roots in unresolved trauma from a very turbulent childhood of living with an alcoholic mother. These heavy, unresolved, fear-based emotions had snowballed into a stronger force of depression and anxiety, which in turn, led to the traumatic suicidal ending of that life. The fear and guilt of this trauma had carried over to impact her present life. She then saw how the beeping noises of the hospital instruments where she was drawing blood had triggered the unconscious memories of the beeping noises of the controls of the plane as it crashed into a mountain, creating the fear and panic that had paralyzed her at work.

Three weeks after her session, Amber emailed me an update. She wrote: “Right after the session, my anxiety was nearly all gone! So many insights came to me. I was able to go right back to work, and I’m feeling so much better. Thank you so very much!”

We have physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy bodies. When we die with intense, heavy pain or emotions, this energy can sometimes carry over to impact a present incarnation. Within ourselves lies not only the source of our trauma, but also the solution to our trauma. Since we are multi-dimensional beings, we have the capacity to move to higher vibrational realms to connect with our eternal soul selves and higher guidance to receive insight, clarity and healing.  We can then move forward in our present life, free from the heavy traumas of the past that hold us back in this life. Then we can more easily allow the brilliance of our soul selves to shine through.

Case Study: Uncovering the Source of a Mother’s Fear

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This case study reveals how past life regression can be very healing on multiple levels. This modality often has a “trickle down” effect of alleviating all kinds of subtle fears, even ones that you cannot pinpoint and articulate, because it’s all about allowing the innate wisdom of your Higher Self to guide you. It knows precisely what you need to heal, evolve and move forward…more than your conscious mind does.

Client Background

A young mother (I’ll call her Beth) came in for past life regression therapy to deal with anxiety, depression and some anger. Whenever her 1½ year old son cried, especially at night, she would get chest tightening fears and anxieties about being a bad mother and not doing a good job.

Client Experience

Beth regressed to a life as an English military officer in WWI who gave orders that resulted in the death of many soldiers. As a decorated officer after the war, he visited the families of some men who had died in battle, and felt guilty and responsible for the grief and struggle that he caused in these fatherless homes. Here are Beth’s words from the session: “As I grow old, I become mean and grumpy because I ruined so many people’s lives under my orders, and bitter because I had no choice. I don’t talk about it. I think a lot about Jesus and I hope I go to heaven. I didn’t treat my wife well until I started to die.”

The soul stayed around until after the funeral because it was only after death that he was finally able to take in the love that people had for him. Here are some of the reflections from the vantage point of the soul: “People are proud of those medals, but I had to do a lot of bad stuff to get them. I wanted to let them love me in that life, but I thought if they knew what I did, they wouldn’t have loved me. I can take in that love now and it feels so good. I can be at peace…Time to go…If I come back I want to make a happy home.”

In the soul realm, the soul apologized to the souls of the families who were affected by his orders. We can do this because everyone and everything is ultimately interconnected – especially where there are unresolved issues between beings. But, as so often happens in that realm, a knowing response came back that apologies are unnecessary since everyone was blindly role-playing on earth, and everything ultimately turns out fine in the end. Human struggles become opportunities for soul growth. We then could easily release the unresolved thought-form energy of guilt, anger and fear that the military officer died with, and thus got carried over into this incarnation, resulting in Beth’s chest-tightening fears when her baby cried. She then got back warm, bright love…the natural replacement. This resulted in a higher vibration, and then insights began to drop in: “I need to be with my son from love, not fear. It’s ok to have feelings and feel frustrated at times, it doesn’t mean I’m a bad mother. I know I’m a good mother. It’s safe to be myself and be the loving, great mother that I am.” We then let her body fully feel that truth at the cellular level which allowed it to sink deeper in her subconscious mind.

Client Results

Six weeks later, Beth wrote this in an email: “The session was a big help to me. I felt better right away regarding my son and his crying at night. As the weeks went by, I slowly started feeling less anxious on deeper levels. Not sure how to explain it, but it was just a sense that this life is just one life among many. I knew that before, but after the session for some reason it took a lot of the anxiety away from my everyday life.” When I saw Beth again 5 years later, she reaffirmed that the deep-seated anxiety and anger remained gone ever since the session.

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Sometimes we can understand things intellectually, but it doesn’t resonate until we really know it at a deeper “body” level. Beth believed intellectually that her present life as a mother was one of many lives, but towards the end of the session, she was able to feel and experience her “eternalness” while steeped in the freedom, peace and clarity of her soul self. The immortality of her true self “upgraded” from a belief to an inner knowing, thus integrating more deeply into the body/subconscious mind. Then she could more easily feel and live from the truth of her soul instead of conditioned fear-based beliefs.

The feelings of deep inner assurance are within all of us. In fact, we can’t escape them because they are an aspect of who and what we are as a soul, but they do get covered up in this human experience. What I’ve noticed over the years is that for some people, the wisdom and insights of the soul can easily sink in deeply after only one session, while others may need another “reinforcement” session or two, depending on their essence. Whether a person experiences a past life regression, a Life-Between-Lives or an Emotional Healing and Awakening session, each one or a combination of them will deepen and strengthen the integration of the soul’s perspective. This, in turn, can loosen and heal life-long mental and emotional patterns that hold one back in life and thus bolster one’s identity as a multi-dimensional being.

Case Study: A Mother’s Love

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Past Life Regression would probably be better understood if we changed the name to “Higher Self Therapy” because as you go within, the process consistently gives you precisely what you need to help you move forward in the way that you most need, especially if you ask for it.  The following case study is a perfect example of how past life regression can work. The name of my client is changed.

Client Background

Mary, a woman nearing 60, had tears in her eyes as we talked about the passing of her mother just prior to her past life regression. “I just need to know if my mom really loved me,” she cried. Although she may have intellectually understood that her mother probably loved her, there were no words that could reassure her at a deeper level because her subconscious mind didn’t fully believe it because of a hurtful growing up experience of feeling rejected and neglected. Fortunately, past life regression connects a person to their higher self, and this part of her knew exactly what she needed in the session.

Client Experience

Mary saw a past life of a happily married, wealthy woman with several children. “Home feels good…there’s nothing to want for.” But a few years later, her 9-year-old daughter suddenly became ill and died. She was too grief-stricken to nurture her other children. “It feels like part of me is gone…the other children need me but I can’t be there all the way. I never got over the loss of my daughter.” In the soul realm after the past life was over, she said, “I couldn’t give my children what they needed…the love was there but couldn’t be expressed.” Then the insight began to sink in that Mary’s mother in this life was carrying so much pain from her own past that she couldn’t express the love for her children that had always been there underneath the many stressors of her life.

Client Results

A week after the session Mary wrote, “It’s the most unusual thing, as a result of my past life regression, I know my mother loves me. It always felt that she didn’t love me because I thought she saw something in me that was not lovable, not worthy of love…I was given a gift from my higher self. It’s a gift of knowing I was loved by my mom. Up until now, I was unable to “know” this deep down. Knowing is the only word I can think of to use, yet it doesn’t feel like the same knowing as in everyday terms. I am so grateful. This is a gift more valuable than any gift.”

Eric’s Comments

Past life regression is an effective means to help you understand and know at a deep core level the truth of your value and worth, as well as helping you to become more acutely aware of the love within a family that is always there beneath the hurts and misunderstandings. This is because the process bypasses the intellectual mind and trumps the subconscious mind’s beliefs of unworthiness which are based in life’s hurtful experiences. The process connects you to a higher soul dimension of yourself that not only is based in love, but can also see through the subconscious mind’s programming and conditioning from the earth life. You begin to understand and experience your wholeness and completeness beneath the ego mind’s negative thoughts, feelings and beliefs that arise as the result of early challenging circumstances in earth life.

Healing Intense Fear and Abandonment

Case Study: Healing Intense Fear and Abandonment

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Carl Jung said, “Healing is about becoming conscious of that which is unconscious.” As we see through our limiting blocks, we become freer. One way to help us awaken is to place full focus and attention on whatever holds us back.

Client Background

Mike (name changed for confidentiality) came in with a “gripping, intense fear of rejection and abandonment” that was dampening the potential of his current relationship, causing misunderstandings, as well as social anxiety. Most intense, negative feelings are the result of old, stuck emotional energy in the body that gets replayed in different circumstances with other people throughout our lives. So, during his session, we allowed these specific fears to show him when they first occurred.

Client Experience

The fears brought us to a scene of Mike as a 5-year old boy in this present life, a common starting age for most issues. His mom and dad played an innocent trick. They pretended to leave the house and go on a family outing while Mike was sitting in a chair backwards with his legs caught in the wooden slats of the chair. While the adult mind can laugh it off in retrospect, the 5-year old child’s brain is not developed enough to process intense emotions, and so he could only feel the panic and fear from the abandonment of his caregivers.

Since this small child was unable to adequately express, articulate, or discharge these emotions from the body, these feelings became stuck energy in his chest and stomach area. Then, through the Law of Attraction (like vibration attracts like vibration), the vibration from this fear-based energy formed repetitive patterns with similar emotions which replayed in various times throughout this life for the next 40+ years.

An unconscious part of us finds and attracts circumstances and people into our lives that replay these stuck emotions in the body, which often relate to one of our soul lessons. However, once the origin of this fear is discovered, the mind can process the information and then release the negative energy from the body, replacing it with one’s own source energy or potential. This healing process lightened Mike’s vibration and heightened his perspective. Then, as he began processing and releasing the stored energy of past trauma, his consciousness spontaneously showed him a different lifetime.

In this one, he had died in a car accident at night, alone on a dark road at the age of 20. This past life death scene related to a lingering sense in this life of being alone and lost, as well as a feeling of impending doom that surfaced within his consciousness every time he drove across the state late at night to visit his parents. It also explained why he had the persistent thought in high school, “I just want to live past 20.” As the origin of these thoughts and feelings entered his awareness, they could be energetically released, which also freed him of perplexing physical ailments on the right side of his body. Once we uncovered the first layer of fears from his childhood, the second layer revealed itself.

Client Results

After the session, Mike wrote this in a review: “My session with Eric was very enlightening. I was able to see the event with a clarity that I never have before. I saw details that I had not remembered before and we were able to go through it step-by-step. I was never afraid or upset, but able to understand and release all the complicated elements of it. I have even been able to talk about it with friends now without fear.

Throughout the next day after my session, I became increasingly aware of a physical change in my body. The center of my chest felt oddly solid. As I thought about it, I realized that for as long as I can remember, I had a hollow trembling in my chest at the base of my sternum. It was only the absence of it that made me aware of how serious it was. I had even gone to see a doctor to have my heart checked, but he said it sounded normal. I’ve had several stressful things happen since and was able to handle them in much more rational ways.”

Eric’s Comments

Although these were two different lifetimes, they were very connected and similar in emotional content. Mike’s feelings of abandonment, rejection and aloneness became much less, and the relationship with his partner improved and became closer and deeper. This is an example of how we can liberate ourselves from the pain and suffering that occurred in the past, bit by bit, layer by layer. Then we can begin to live more easily from our authentic selves which are unclouded by limiting fears.

Relief from Depression and Unwanted Emotions

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Depression and anxiety often go hand in hand, so we work with depression much the same way as with anxiety – by looking at the feeling under the microscope of hypnosis and discovering the subtle, negative thoughts that make up the heavy, stuck feeling of depression. Uncovering these subconscious thoughts and limiting beliefs is the first step in diminishing their power to impact your life. They are nearly always untrue, and belief in these false thoughts gives them their power to affect the way you feel and live your life. Dr. Bruce Lipton wrote a book called The Biology of Belief which demonstrates this. When these false beliefs are fully seen through at a higher and deeper level of consciousness, beyond the conscious and even subconscious mind, we can replace these thoughts with empowering ones that are based in a higher truth from the vantage point of your eternal soul self.

While anxiety involves subconscious thoughts that are often future-focused while based in the past, depression tends to be predominantly past-focused, often including the emotion of anger or resentment. Resentment or anger is often about having to put up with something unwanted, or not getting something that was wanted, such as a sense of being loved, wanted, valued, safe and secure, etc.

Sometimes, depression or anxiety can be passed down unconsciously through the generations, like an “unconscious virus”, in the form of thoughts, feelings and emotional patterns such as the way in which love or anger is expressed or not expressed. As children, we not only depend on our parents for food and shelter, but also for a sense of worth and safety. Sometimes parents of past generations were too absorbed in survival or else their own issues to be fully present with their children or to give their children a sense of being loved, wanted and valued. If these core feelings of value were not felt, a person may feel a subtle sense of unworthiness and the seeds of depression and/or anxiety are sprouted in the belief and emotional system of the person…And if this subconscious emotional energy is never allowed a chance to be “emoted” through us, by being directly articulated or expressed, it can remain as trapped energy in the body/mind system, and years later have a subtle “pressure cooker” effect on the body/mind by negatively affecting the way we view ourselves, thus clouding our experience of ourselves and the world. This is why there’s often plenty of negative subconscious self-talk beneath depression or anxiety, and this is what can unconsciously be passed down through the generations. In the Present Life Emotional Healing session, we can become aware of this passed-down thought-form energy and stop it at the unconscious level, as well as ceremoniously heal the past generations. You release this unbeneficial thought-form energy and replace it with your own source/potential that was lost when you took it in.

Also, we examine all other contributing factors to depression or anxiety, such as the food that is fueling your body. Since there is a food/mood connection, certain foods will contribute to a lighter or more grounded feeling. Exercise is also scientifically proven to help the neurotransmitters fire across the chemical serotonin in your brain.

Relief From Anxiety, PTSD and Phobias

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When we put the feeling of anxiety under a microscope (which hypnotherapy does), we see that it is usually made up of subtle, subconscious fear-based thoughts. These thoughts have a beginning point in a past situation, event or circumstance. Anxiety occurs when these outdated, subtle subconscious belief programs are still operating in your present mind and affecting your life in a negative way, even though they are typically not relevant or even true. Fears are designed to keep us safe and protected, not block us from living a fulfilling, enjoyable life. Anxiety happens when the fear that’s trying to keep you safe is working way too hard, far beyond when it’s no longer necessary. The root of the problem is not you – it is the subconscious thought programs in your head. One of the first, and most profound leaps a person can make on their healing journey is to know that you are not your negative beliefs or fears. These outdated beliefs will begin to lose their power and can be changed and corrected once we put the spotlight of attention and awareness on them from a higher soul perspective. Carl Jung said about healing: “That which is unconscious must ultimately be made conscious.”

Anxiety can also be due to strong emotional energy from the past that is stuck in the body/subconscious mind system. Once we tune into this strong emotional charge in the body, it can be energetically released by our present moment consciousness. It is especially effective while simultaneously tuning into an eternal part of yourself that has no fears, which is what we can easily do with spiritual hypnotherapy. It is easy because, try as you might, you cannot separate yourself from the eternal consciousness that is animating your body, so when we go deep within we can experience a level of your consciousness that has no fears and is already whole and complete.

The subconscious mind operates like a computer program that hangs on to old, outdated messages that no longer serve you. A subtle yet powerful shift occurs when you begin to see that you are not your thoughts, you are the eternal consciousness that can witness and change your thoughts. A session is about releasing the stored trauma in the body/subconscious mind while empowering you to change the thought programs that no longer serve you and replace them with those that benefit and strengthen you. Each session provides empowering and noticeable shifts in you. To gain a more thorough understanding about anxiety, please read about the Present Life Emotional Healing session and also the article Relief From Depression and Unwanted Emotions.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is an example of a past stressful event being kept alive in the body/mind system. As mentioned above, we can energetically release this stored trauma in the body while connecting to the eternal part of you that has no fears and is whole and complete. In addition to this powerful method, another means to relieve the effects of PTSD is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Visit www.eftuniverse.com to learn more about this effective method. It is a self-applied acupressure tapping technique that calms and soothes the body and mind’s fears while you focus on the root of the problem – the past stressful event itself. This also releases the stored fear/panic energy in the body, or anything with a strong emotional charge. Another way of looking at it is that the subconscious mind program gets reset – the thought pattern that pairs this past event with panic thoughts and feelings gets reset. The result is that you can focus on the past stressful event and finally feel relaxed, with the same emotional charge as though you were remembering a relaxing afternoon picnic.

The problem with past stressful events is that the more we try to run away from it, and at times cover the pain of it with chemicals or other addictions such as work, food etc., the more it will subtly impact your life in a negative way. Oddly enough, trying to get away from the past stressful event actually fuels the fear of it and thus its adverse effects. Paradoxically, the key to putting out the fuel of the stressful past is to fully face it and release the energy of it. It is painless and only takes minutes, and you typically don’t need to do it ever again.

EFT, when applied skillfully, is a powerful method. To relieve strong PTSD, I often combine EFT with spiritual hypnotherapy to re-program the subconscious mind and the body which holds and stores the fear-based thoughts and feelings.

Phobias

We work with phobias in the same manner as PTSD. A combination of EFT with spiritual hypnotherapy is highly effective. Typically, one or two sessions are all that are necessary.