Age Regressions and Reincarnation
There have been many books published over the years dealing with reincarnation. There are compelling arguments both for and against believing whether we live more than once. Whatever you may believe, the fact is that given the right conditions, some people can remember events from another life and time.
In the world of hypnotism, the psychologist who hangs out a shingle and claims to be professional hypnotist may use age regressions to aid in finding root causes of problems in their clients. Early behavior or experiences can and will mold the future person in some way that can always be explained with 20-20 hindsight.
This section is about using hypnotism for age regressions. We will provide the basic patter for this for readers who want to explore the early years of a subject's life. Then we will take to next step and provide the basic patter for regressing (and in some cases, progressing) hypnotized subjects to other lives.
Once in awhile a hypnotized individual will slip back further than the hypnotist intended them to go and begin reliving events unconnected with the subject's early life. Quite often they will be relating events that occurred from another life. To the unbelieving hypnotist following a narrow definition of what we are capable of and lacking any true spiritual vision, the subject is just using their imagination to generate these events. They cannot admit or believe that our spiritual being may move through many different physical forms on the road to perfection.
Even if you don't believe in multiple lives for the spirit, and perhaps think the person is drawing on the imagination or even a genetic memory to create the world they are relating to you during a hypnotic session, the fact is that pre-natal age regressions can be one of the most fascinating explorations of your life.
We are going to skip any long discussion of the whys of pre-natal memories and go right for the meat of the subject. My suggestions to you would be not to try any regressions until you are very proficient at the relaxation and deepening sections of the material presented here or some other information source of your choice.
The basic technique for regressing a person requires a lot of thought. You must be prepared to move the person through time with the snap of your fingers. You must know when to quit and bring the person back to "now". You must know when not to take a person beyond their present life. You must be an accomplished hypnotist.
If you have studied and practice the other sections on Relaxation and Deepening and feel you can handle any situation that might arise, you may still not be ready to do justice to a pre-natal age regression. Take some time to practice regressions of this life. Learn how to react to the many different emergencies that may occur. After several months of practice and study, make you move to the prenatal stage.
We are ready to begin learning the basic patter for regression and it will require on your part more fast thinking than any experiment you can try. Each person's life is different. The events presented to you require different questions and guidance. Go very slowly.
What you will ask and what the actual patter contains is really very basic and very simple. You relax the subject very deeply. Go through a long deepening patter to insure that the subject is in a very deep state of hypnotic sleep. Next, ask the subject's age, then follow this basic patter to continue.
BEGIN BASIC REGRESSION PATTER:
Now you are ____ years old and you are going to grow younger as I count from 1 to 3. When the count is 3 you will be ___ years old. 1, you are growing younger and younger. 2, younger and younger, and hearing and understanding every word I speak. 3, you are ___ years old. What do you see? What are you doing?
As I count from 1 to 3 you will become 5 years younger. 1, you are becoming younger and younger. 2, anytime I snap my fingers you will be 1 years younger. 3, younger and younger. You are ___ years old. Where are you? What do you see?
Now as I count from 1 to 3 you will become older. When the count reaches 3 you will be ___ years old. 1, you are becoming older and older. 2, growing older now. 3, you are ___ years old. As I count from 1 to 3 you will become older and older. When the count reaches 3 you will be ___ years old. 1, you are becoming older and older. 2, older and older now. 3, you are ___ years old. You are here on this date with the group of people that you know.
END BASIC REGRESSION PATTER:
Allow plenty of time after you questions for the subject to answer. People in a deeply relaxed state may appear to be slow in responding. Give them plenty of time. Let's bring out some important points to remember about performing regressions.
1. Ask the person's age. You must know where you are starting from and where you want to end up.
2. Suggest that the subject always hear and understand you. If a person was born in a foreign country, you may reach an age in which he did not understand English. In the case of a sudden pre-natal regression, the subject may regress to a life in which he does not speak English.
3. Suggest that when you snap your fingers the subject will be 1 year younger or 1 year older. Occasionally someone will land at a time of death, deep sorrow, or some emotional point that would present an uncontrollable problem to you. Snap you fingers and move 1 year away until you can gather your thoughts before and ease back to the bad time.
4. Move the subject only 5 years or less at a time. I believe it is less jolting to the memory banks this way. I have seen hypnotists move people 10 or 20 years at a time without problem so this isn't a hard and fast rule, just a suggestion.
Pre-natal age regressions can be startling the first time you achieve success. I want to re-emphasize the point about suggesting to the subject that he speak and understand English at all times. Subjects will land anywhere from 50 to 5000 years back in time. Care must be taken in suggestion giving when you want the subject to speak the language of the times they are living. They must always understand English even when speaking their native tongue. Never do a pre-natal regression without a tape recorder turned to catch a language that you may have an interpreter translate for you.
Take the subject back to the day they were born using a general regression patter. Be very patient with the subject at all times. One last point that may be of interest. I have heard of "progressions". In other words, people move to a future life, indicating that the spirit may move across the boundaries of time in both directions.
Now you are ready to explore the most fascinating area of hypnosis.
BEGIN BASIC PRE-NATAL REGRESSION PATTER:
Now you are going to go back beyond this day as I count from 1 to 5. You will go back in time to another life as I count. 1, you are going back through time and will hear and understand English at all times. 2, searching for memories from another time. 3, going back further and further. 4, feel the power of the past pulling at you. Anytime I snap my fingers you will be 1 year younger. 5, all the way back now. All the way back. What do you see? Where are you? What is your name? What is the date? How old are you?
END BASIC PRE-NATAL REGRESSION PATTER:
Go ahead and treat the pre-natal regression pretty much as you would a normal regression. The questions you ask will be dictated by the circumstances found in the life. In some groups I have been involved with, people have been regressed to the time of Christ, to Ireland in the 15th century, to a monastery in the 16th century, and to a child dying in a snow bank early in the 20th century.
You have the basic information before you now to explore for several months. For a fresh approach to awakening, practice the following patter with your regressions.
BEGIN AWAKENING PATTER:
Now I am going to awaken you. I am going to slowly count from 1 to 20 and you will move back into this life in 20__. As I count you will gently and pleasantly move forward to this date. (Give the date) 1, moving forward with pleasant memories. 2, slowly moving back to the present. 3, 4, 5, moving slowly through time. 6, gently now. 7, 8, 9, 10, back to the present. 11, pleasant memories only. 12, 13, 14, feeling the life forces begin to flow through your body. 15, 16, beginning to awaken. 17, you will be wide awake on the count of 20. 18, feel your breathing return to normal. You will awaken feeling wonderful and relaxed. 19, almost awake now and feeling perfectly normal in every way. You are ___ years old on this date of ___ ___, 20__. 20, wide awake now and perfectly normal in every way.
END AWAKENING PATTER:
As you begin you study of regressions you might want to suggest to your subjects that they recall pleasant things only. This keeps you from encountering rough situations until you really have a change to get your feet wet.
Whatever you beliefs may be, this avenue of exploration is an exciting one. Good luck.
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Pete Jefferson