Past Life Regression on Oprah's Show

Past Life Regression on Oprah's Show
by Rifa Hodgson Vancouver, British Columbia

Finally PLR goes Mainstream! The mystery surrounding the process of PLR is lifted. This is great news for the PLR community. It is also a confirmation for all who are just warming up to the idea of a continuity of life.

Two weeks before the date of the show I had phone calls and emails from friends and relatives letting me know about the upcoming Past Life Regression show. Unbelievable!

The show marked the 20 year anniversary of Dr. Brian Weiss’ book "Many Lives Many Masters." Dr. Weiss then a prominent psychiatrist and a professor at the University of Miami put his name, professional license and reputation at risk when he went public with this book. This is the story of his patient, Catherine, who suffered from nightmares, phobias, panic attacks and fears and documents her road to recovery.

After conventional treatments did very little for her, Dr. Weiss decided to use hypnosis. At some point during the sessions Dr. Weiss asked Catherine to go to the origin of her pain and to his shock and disbelief Catherine started to describe the events from a previous life. With each new session Catherine revealed more past lives and to Dr. Weiss’s surprise her symptoms started to disappear. She began to heal.

During the Oprah show there was a demonstration of a private and a group regression for the whole audience. Private regression brought numerous insights, understandings and emotions. It showed that when conducted by a professional Past Life Regression Therapist it is safe and a very much result oriented, straight to the point therapy. Accessing the memories is a learning experience and with each session the client’s level of comfort and trust in their ability to retrieve the information grows tremendously. For some people it takes 1-2 sessions to experience visions of past lives. For others it takes longer to learn how to relax and quiet their mind and to allow themselves to receive whatever the subconscious mind will choose to be the most relevant information to bring up.

After a Group Regression when some members of the audience shared their past life experiences, they found themselves a different race or gender which is very common. Dr. Weiss comments -"We change race, we change religions because we have to learn from all sides. Souls don't have those characteristics. We're all connected. It's not about color or race. Sometimes we have to be nuns because we learn to live spiritual lifetimes. We've all been black, we've all been white, we've all been brown, we've all been red. We've been everything because we have to learn from all sides... You have to learn from all sides, and that's part of our learning here on this planet."

There are different methods of accessing Past Life memories. For example, in Dr. Morris Netherton’s and Dr. Roger Woolger’s approaches, Past Life memories could be achieved without hypnosis with great results. Dr. Weiss uses hypnosis in his approach. He says, "It stops the clutter, the everyday mind, from getting in the way. You go right to the subconscious. You can go right to where the memories are. You're still here, you're safe, and you don't go anywhere."

I was also very pleased to hear Dr.Oz on Oprah’s show give a medical explanation for this phenomenon. "What's happening is this part of your brain, the cortex—the part that's doing all the executive function—it's continually repressing your reptilian brain—the deep part of the brain that has our most ancient memories in it. But if you can free that part of the brain, you can express yourself and find out minute details of your childhood or maybe things beyond that."

When the mystery, the secrecy, the unknown is lifted off, the concept and methods of accessing distant memories, whether it is your childhood, time in the womb or previous lifetime, becomes another modality with great healing potential.

Remember Reiki, Chiropractics or even massage 20-30 years ago? It was all controversial then. My friend, a massage therapist from Russia with a university degree in Physical education couldn’t open his own practice. He had to obtain consent from every business owner in the neighborhood, then have a legal hearing. Massage was perceived as something "dirty and illegal." How many of you are now enjoying great benefit from massage as a supplementary holistic treatment?

This show wouldn’t have been possible 20 or even 10 years ago. The Mass Consciousness is changing. We are all changing. We live in an exciting time. There is more evidence of past experiences and memories coming to light from ordinary people and young children.

As a Past Life Regression therapist I see it every day my practice. I see clients of all walks of life from the late teens to golden age. If, in the past, my clients were "the spiritual seekers and healers" and were mostly women, now more and more men are coming to investigate "why they are the way they are." In fact in the last year I had more men clients than women. Men are searching for answers and understanding and Past Life Regression Therapy is providing it.

A retired professional man "George" came for a PLR session out of curiosity. He found himself in the Western wilderness of the 19th century. He realized that he was a woman, an upper class woman from New York City, who was travelling to meet her fiancé in a carriage filled with much luggage and a female companion. She was dressed very elegantly in the tight restrictive fashion of the day. As they traveled through a desert area the carriages left back wheel broke. She had the opportunity to go ahead with the driver to get assistance, but she chose to stay with her precious belongings. Nobody returned. After a period of time she found herself lying in the dirt under the carriage, exhausted and dehydrated, contemplating her own death.
She took out all her diamonds and spread them in a semicircle on the sand in front of her watching the sand slowly claiming her priceless possessions. She realized how useless they were when she was dying of thirst. Material possessions meant nothing.

In his present life "George" never clung to material things, while at the same time he never experienced the lack of anything. When the lesson is learned it’s not repeated. "George" obviously had mastered that lesson.

Oprah’s Show opened the door for millions of people to consider experiencing Past Life Regression and Exploration. It allowed the curious ones to start investigating. "Was I here before? Who was I then? How does it affect or enhance my life now? Am I learning what I came to learn?"

Are you ready for the answers?

Contact Rifa Hodgson for more information on Past Life Regression.

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