Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue 2 (August 1 2017) | Page 23

introduced to opium by the British government who controlled the opium trade and thus had a vested interest in maintaining the addiction. 4. Illness & Disease Illness and disease is an enormous subject when looked at from a past life perspective. Past Life Therapy will not eliminate the need for medical treatment, particularly when a physical condition has already damaged the body, but those suffering from illness and disease are oftentimes found to have a psychological need for their condition. And many times this need may be rooted in a past life. Old attitudes such as “hard-heartedness” can affect the present life, hardening of the arteries and other cardiovascular disorders being common manifestations. Old emotions, injuries and traumatic experiences may create physical disease and illness. Take the woman who had constant heartburn for which her Doctors were unable to find a cause. During a Past Life Regression she relived drinking a cup of poisoned wine given to her by her lover. The heartburn was cured when the therapist “erased” the memory of the poison by having her imagine drinking the antidote. 5. Sexual Dysfunctions Sexual difficulties can stem from varied past life causes. One of the most common problems are vows, such as celibacy or everlasting faithfulness taken in other lives and subtlety interfering with current life relationships. Frigidity and impotence can be found among people who have taken a vow of celibacy in a past life. The subconscious can simply switch off sexual arousal when confronted with the deep inner conflict of desire for another person versus an eternal vow of celibacy. Women may have had such awful experiences in labor or with a primitive abortion that they