Stephanie Rothman is wondering about Past Life Regression as an Agenda.

One way I handle such requests is to frame it that I do NOT do pastlife regression as a stand-on-its-own therapy approach. I would agree, that having an agenda – pastlife, alien abduction, childhood sexual abuse, or any other agenda – isn’t going to end in clean therapy. The process becomes contaminated and one may end up doing more leading than guiding which stymies progress.

If a pastlife experience comes up spontaneously in a session, I will deal with it. However, I don’t see any good reason to seek one out in therapy (there are a LOT of reasons not to).

I will do pastlife regression with folks as a recreational trance activity (using a very open-ended non-leading protocol to clean out the possibilities of leading) . . . but I am very careful to point out that just because one has a pastlife experience in a hypnosis session, it in no way proves that such an experience is genuine rather than phantasy or confabulation. Likewise, the lack of such an experience in hypnosis doesn’t prove they aren’t valid.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth than dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio, and all that. At our current state of technological development, science can neither prove nor disprove reincarnation. It’s a matter of faith.

If someone wishes to just experience a pastlife regression out of curiousity, I do a pretty thorough pretalk and then do the session. However, if they want to do therapy based upon a pastlife regression, I just won’t do it. When I do therapy, I use a pretty solid therapeutic protocol that an intentional pastlife regression frame could contaminate. It’s for recreation or spirtual meditation, but not for therapy.

In my opinion.

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