My Progress Shown in a Past Life Regression
How seeing a past life helped me see this life differently
I am not convinced that the past lives are actually in the past in the way we think of time, but let's put that aside for the moment. As part of the experience, we set an intention to see/experience something of a fairly general nature. In the example I am using today, I set the intention to see a life where I felt free. I chose this intention because at the time, I was feeling like I was living according to others’ expectations, or perhaps outdated expectations I had set for myself. There is a certain amount of trust required going in that you will see a life that will help you in some way in this life.
While I had seen some pretty dramatic lives in other hypnosis sessions, such as fleeing from Conquistadors or even as a different type of being on another planet, this one was pretty ho-hum at first glance. In this life, I was a woman in my early 20s, in the late 1970s, and in the first scene I was on a cruise ship, all dressed up (think of the original Love Boat). The man I was with approached me and I immediately got bad vibes. He proposed and then we joined the other people at the ship’s nightclub to celebrate, but I felt uneasy. In the next scene, several years later, we were married and had 2 young kids. He had become abusive, and I knew I had to get away. In the third scene, I was in the kitchen and my 2 kids were playing and having lunch at the table. I was feeling pride and contentment at seeing the calm, stable environment that I had created for my children, having gotten a job that could afford me an apartment. My kids looked happy and I felt at peace.
In the final scene, the death scene, I had spent time with my grown kids earlier in the day, and died peacefully in my sleep, an old woman. I saw this life in a group hypnosis over zoom, so there wasn’t an individual conversation to gather insights, however, I wrote down all that I could remember seeing, thinking, and feeling in that life. At first pass, it didn’t look super compelling. In fact, there were resemblances to this life that put me off a little. But I trusted that there was a reason I saw that life.
A week or two later, I was cleaning the kitchen in the home I have provided for myself and my son (the older two being out of the house now), and it came to me. The freedom I felt in that life. It was the absence of any resentment or continuing hurt about the trauma. In that life, I wasn’t carrying any of that harmful and weighty energy with me after getting away from him. Whoa! I realized that in this life, even after I secured a home for myself and the 3 kids, I was carrying a boatload of resentment and therefore not fully free to enjoy the peaceful home I had created for us. Fast forward, and as I was cleaning the kitchen in the home I now have with my youngest, I realized that I felt free. Somewhere in my healing journey, I had shed all of that resentment: at him, at myself, at my family of origin for averting their eyes, at society in general for not believing women. And I was free and at peace just like the woman in the life I saw.
What a gift to be able to acknowledge that growth! We are so hard on ourselves that we don’t often stop to say to ourselves “Hey, I see all that work you have done on healing. Look at where you are now! Thank you, self.” In this way, hypnosis enables self-love. We are so much more than the traumas and challenges we have faced. Sometimes we just need it shown to us.
