Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue - 8, 1, February 2019 | Page 19

Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Past Life Regression had long intrigued me and a few years ago I gave into
my need to understand my past, so to speak. Having a past life regression
typically means utilising hypnosis, or perhaps even a deep form of
meditation, to re-enter your past lifetimes and experience them once again.
While one way of undergoing PLR is to have a therapist guide us, but many
people who meditate regularly are able to self-hypnotise or meditate. The
Sanskrit word for this is Samadhi.
I have undergone multiple sessions so far, and have became a trained PLR
therapist. But to go back to my first session, it was very vivid and the
images have stayed with me. I saw myself in multiple bodies and realised
that the soul remains same despite the multitude of lives we go through.
This ‘theory’ became reality for me in that very first session.
Over the next few episodes, I began channelling my teachers. I began to
realise that our teachers or spiritual guardians guide us through lives in
ways most of us do not consciously realise. I recognised that my guardians
had been ‘tweaking my software’ and helping me prepare for eventualities
before they happened. My preparedness for the 2008 recession is a good
example of this.
PLR helped to expand my consciousness and becomes conscious that life
is a dream of a kind. Think about it… there are two kinds of dreams. One,
where you feel it is real and is really happening, and the second, where you
know it’s a dream and one is bound to wake up soon. PLR made me realise
that life is like a dream and in this dream I am called Varun Talwar; but there
have been other dreams where I have been other people – Chinese,
Caucasian, Arab, Roman – and perhaps there will be others in future. When
you realise the reality of this dream, you achieve ‘stith-prgya’ or equanimity.
Several verses in the Gita talk about this notion. This does not mean there
is no emotion but that emotion is tempered.
Some positive aspects of PLR are:
1 In the sub-conscious mind, the past, the present and the future are all
available. This means that sometimes you can ‘see’ the future if one
meditates often enough and is able to train the mind
2 Sometimes teachers come to us in our meditative state and guide us
to find our path
3 In deep meditation, often a memory from the past emerges to help us
deal with a present situation or problem
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