Background:
My nine year old son wanted to try a regression after seeing how easily the details of a past lifetime came to his older brother. He tried with the CD and would get frustrated and stop. I decided to give him a real regression myself. He obviously needed to get deeper than a CD could take him. I shooed the other kids upstairs with their Daddy and asked him to sit in the recliner. He was excited! I was excited too and wondered if I could actually make this happen... This early in your coursework as a hypnotherapist, most people can't get their subjects hypnotized even and here I was only a month in and attempting a past life regression! I decided to play it by ear and to ask safe questions, etc. Luckily I had been through a few myself now and if I found myself not knowing what to say I would just mimic "the voice" that led me back in time.
His First PLR:
I led him through relaxing his entire body from head to toe. I told him to nod when he felt his breathing begin to change and after about twenty seconds he nodded. I asked him to nod when he felt the need to swallow or clear his throat and again he nodded right away. I asked him to nod when he felt his eyelids start to flutter and I watched as they began to flutter as he nodded. I continued to help him relax and watch as his body indicated that he was going deeper. We descended a sturdy wooden staircase with intricate wooden rails beginning with his left foot as I counted down from 20 to 0. I told him that when we got to zero that he would allow himself to go even deeper inside. I watched as his toes wiggled as he imagined walking down the staircase with the sound of my numbers. It had been nearly thirty minutes and I could tell that he was very deep. At count ten I told him that he could see a doorway with beautiful, safe, comforting, and inviting light coming around it. I told him that it was the light of a past life and that once we got to 20 that we were going to go through that door into a past life. I continued with my counting, the whole process just coming naturally to me as a hypnotist. Before I knew it he was in a past life, answering questions without the usual "Um uhhhs" that usually precede his sentences. I told him that if he didn't know an answer to simply say that he doesn't know, and we began.
"Look down at you feet..." I instructed, knowing that this would ground him in that lifetime. "What is on your feet if anything?"
His head tilted down and he again wiggled his toes. He kind of squinted his already closed eyes, trying to make it come into focus. "Boots."
"Okay good," I couldn't help but smile a little. "What do you look like?"
Without any hesitation he said, "I have orange hair and a beard."
"I guess you're a man then?"
"I'm a man. I am tall and I have on a button up shirt and dark pants Brown ones." he explained.
"Where are you? What do you see around you? Are you alone or with someone?" I prompted, making sure that he could explore the area around him.
"There are lots of trees. I think I'm on a mountain. I have a gun!" he seemed proud of this fact. "It is a big long one."
"What are you doing there?"
"Hunting. I am hunting for food to eat." he said knowingly.
"Are you alone?"
"Yes. I'm alone in the woods." his eyelids were fluttering rapidly, almost like they do when you sleep.
"Do you know your name?" I asked.
His mouth moved a bit like he was trying to find a name and after awhile he just shook his head.
"Do you want to walk down the mountain and see if you can find your house or if you see any people?" I asked, knowing that there wasn't much we could find out if he was alone in the mountains.
"Okay."
I led him down the mountain, he pointed out a stream along the way. I told him to simply walk home and to tell me when he saw buildings or people, assuring him that he was doing a good job.
"I see houses." he offered. "A little town."
"Tell me about it. Tell me about the houses..." I was very curious to hear what he would say.
"They are plain looking, wooden ones. They are little."
"Do you see your house? Can you go inside?" I asked.
"Yes it is over there. I will go in..." He then proceeded to describe the inside of his home. "It is little. The kitchen is a fireplace with a pot and a table beside it."
"Do you have a family? Are they there?"
"Yes my wife is sitting over there. She's an Indian!" he seemed surprised.
"Tell me about her..."
"She helps us. She taught us how to plant things and to find our way around." he sounded more like an adult than a nine year old.
"Are there other Indians in your village?" I wondered if he lived only with Indians or if he was with other settlers.
"No. We sent them away..." he paused. "Across the Mississippi... they are all going to a state named.... Well I see a map and it starts with O-R."
I knew he must mean Oregon, but I didn't want to offer any information, I just wanted to gather information from him. "And your wife stayed behind with you?"
"Yes we have two kids. A boy and a girl." he kind of smiled.
"Do you recognize your wife or children from this lifetime?" I wondered if they were incarnate with him now.
"My wife is Daddy I think. They seem alike." he was doing such a good job!
"What about your children? Do you recognize them? What do your children look like?" I wondered what a child with a redheaded father and Native American mother would look like.
"My kids are dark skinned and hair. They look like my wife. I think my little girl looks like my sister." he used her name, but I haven't used my kids names yet and haven't decided yet about whether I will use their names or not.
"Okay, well let's move forward a few years. Let's move forward to a significant or important event in that lifetime."
"We are celebrating something. We have a fire and everybody is outside and eating. My wife is dressed like the other ladies." he said.
"What are you celebrating?" I asked.
"I don't know."
"Is your wife happy here with you?"
"She wasn't at first. She married me because she was scared. But she loves me now. That's my daughter, she is grown now." he obviously saw his little girl in the distance.
"Let's move forward to the morning of your death. It may be just another normal day. Remember you are going to stay distant from any pain, and you are completely safe. Move forward to that day now..." I felt a little nervous about how he would have died and how he feel about witnessing it, but I went ahead with it.
"I'm old and sick." he said.
"Do you know you're going to die?" I asked.
"Yeah," he said matter of factly.
"Is anyone there with you?"
"No..." he paused for awhile. "My wife is already dead."
"Oh, well move through the passing and tell me what you see or feel."
After a few moments he said that it felt like he was sucked out of his body with a straw. That he was asleep when he died. I instructed him to review that lifetime and tell me any lessons he had learned. I was almost brought to tears by what he said next. "It was wrong for me to send those people away from their home land. I feel bad about doing that now. It was wrong to steal their homes from them. A lot of them died on the way to where we sent them and that cause my wife great pain."
"Is there anything good from that lifetime that you can bring into your life now?"
"I don't know. I was nice and I was happy."
"Those are good things to keep being." I said, feeling some motherly pride wailing up in me.
"Yes, I can keep those things."
I proceeded to bring him up from hypnosis and talk a little with him about what he had experienced. He remembered it all very clearly and when I asked him if he felt like he was making it up he explained how the answers would just pop into his head and that he didn't feel like he could have made it up. I agreed with him!
Reflections:
I learned a lot about my own budding skills as a hypnotherapist through this regression. It came very naturally to me and I felt like I had done a good job for my first regression. I enjoy seeing the good qualities and lessons that we can all find in our past incarnations. I could tell that my son was proud of himself and felt like a part of the club now! Someday I will write about his regression where he was a dinosaur. He was not deep enough and just decided to make something up. It was totally different from the regression that you just read and his mannerisms and answers to questions were noticeably different. It was quite funny! It was just another piece of confirmation for me that when done right and when the subject is able to get deep enough, that their subconscious/higher self answers the questions and explores that life for them.
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