Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue 2 (August 1 2017) | Page 21

PAST LIFE THERAPY FOR: “Phobias, Eating Disorders, Addictions, Illness and Disease, Sexual Dysfunction. 1. Phobias Many people consult past life therapists about phobias or chronic anxiety states of one kind or another. I shared the story of a client who suffered from a fear of water who, in a past life, had drowned in a boating accident with her children. A common phobia such as fear of snakes, for instance, may well go back to death from snake bite, or being lowered into a pit of snakes (sometimes as punishment, sometimes as part of an initiation rite). I’m familiar with a case where fear of birds went back to a person being very badly injured in a battle and then regaining consciousness to find a flock of vultures pecking away at their apparently dead body. I’ve seen cases of claustrophobia caused by being buried alive or fear of heights being generated by falling to death off a cliff. Once the past life cause is discovered and healing done at that point in time, the phobia may completely disappear or at least sig