There’s really no way to prove whether past life sessions are a reality or not. Despite the famous Bridie Murphy case, most participants can’t go back and document the prior life because they don’t always get that much detail from the session.

In my experience, clients typically know whether they are male or female and approximately how old they are during the various scenarios they remember. But they may or may not know: where they are living, what year it is, and their name.

However, regardless of the amount of information that is retrieved, in my experience, clients almost always come away feeling “more integrated” or “whole.” These are invariably the words they use in describing to me the shift in their thinking.

Why would I recommend past life therapy? Here are a few good reasons: (1). You feel stuck in some area of your life, but no one can find the reason anywhere in this lifetime. On countless occasions, I have found the roots of a client’s depression or anxiety in another lifetime: inexplicable worry about a child (a child who was lost to them in a previous lifetime); fear of dying at a certain age or by some terrible means (it happened then or that way in another life, or it keeps happening); weird fascination with a certain person, personality type or place (unrequited love or unfinished business in another lifetime.)

(2). You have a prodigy’s ability with some craft or trade that you have never tried before and need desperately to understand why. One of my hypnosis students was a natural when he picked up woodcarving. Other wood carvers told him he carved like someone who had been doing it for 20 years. Upon regressing him, we discovered that he was a coffin maker in France in the 1800’s and did beautiful hand-craved doors for the churches where he lived. The benefit of reliving the experience for him was that he remembered and released the grief of carving coffins for all his family members. This cathartic experience allowed him to release even more creativity and to integrate that “stuck creativity” into his present personality.


(3). You have pain or illness that cannot be explained from this lifetime, or you were born with a birth defect. In my own case, I was born with a staph infection in my left breast and knew from a very early age, for no apparent reason, that I did not want to and would not have children in this lifetime. In one of my earliest past-life sessions, I went back to a place called Lucerne in the 1600’s. I was a monk in a monastery orphanage, a place surrounded by beautiful golden trees that looked like aspens. We were besieged and all the children were died. I died from an arrow through my left breast. Several years after that experience, I had a client tell me about a place they had visited on a favorite vacation, a place called Lucerne, with beautiful golden trees.

(4). You suddenly are behaving in a way totally foreign to you. A few years ago, I suddenly felt suicidal for no apparent reason. I am an unusually happy person almost all the time, so the experience was rather confusing for me. I knew instinctively it had nothing to do with this lifetime, so I asked my friend and fellow hypnotist, Ed, to do a past-life session for me. This session actually turned into a progression. I was a medical officer on a space ship. We were taken over by an alien race and were told to conduct life-threatening experiments on the crew. Rather than agree, we made a suicide pack.

Above are some valid reasons for having a past life regression. However, many clients experience them initially just out of curiosity and that is okay, too.

A word of warning if you are considering it: Don’t try too hard.
Let your imagine run free.
Don’t censor yourself.

Describe whatever comes to mind even if it doesn’t make any sense at first.

The more you open yourself to the experience the more powerful and beneficial it will be for you.