Healing and Hypnotherapy Special Mega Annual Issue 21 June 2017 | Page 67

One woman’s life-long fear of water kept her from swimming.
She went back to a recent past life where she drowned in a fast-
flowing river and lost her two (2) young children when the boat they
were in capsized. After feeling the terrible pain of this loss (not only
of her own life, but her children’s as well!) she moved forward to
experience her death, and the decision she made at the time was:
"I'll never go in the water again!"
Past Life Therapy is based on the Law of Karma. Karma
means action. It’s the principle of cause and effect. Taken
simply, it means that for every action there is a consequence. Say
bad words in front of your parents and you’ll get your mouth
washed out with soap. Drive your car 80 miles per hour in a 60
miles per hour zone while thumbing your nose at the cop you just
passed and you’ll get a ticket - nothing really magical, mystical or
even very spiritual about this. Remember Newton’s Third Law of
Motion? For every action, there is an equal and opposite
reaction.
What’s been put into motion in the past has effects in the
present. Karma, however, is both subtle and complex.
Thoughts and attitudes can create karma just as strongly as can
tangible deeds and actions. Famed American psychic Edgar
Cayce, considered by many to be the true founder of the New Age
Movement and a principal source of its most fundamental beliefs,
had this to say about the subject. “Whatever we think, that
thought
makes
an
impression
on
the
Universal
Consciousness. Nothing is lost or done in secret. Everything
is done within the Universal Consciousness, and the Whole is
affected by it (as well as all others within the Whole).
Reactions to past thoughts and actions become our destiny
and karma. Our destiny is simply the rebounding effects of
previous choices remembered by the soul”.
So, what we set in motion in a past life, and our motivation, is
influencing our current life - physically, emotionally, mentally,
financially, or spiritually. What we set in motion now, and our