Regression therapy is based on the holistic view that our body, mind, emotions and spirit have a fundamental interconnectedness. All disharmony has a cause and overcoming any disharmony involves a reconnection with the root cause of the problem and allowing the client to understand deeply the issues associated with their problem before they are resolved at both a physical and emotional level. The disharmony may stem from recent events such as the loss of a loved one or a relationship issue. Sometimes the root cause is a traumatic experience below the level of conscious awareness that has been affecting the client's well being. It could be from childhood abuse, or life threatening situations.
Client experiences may go back beyond early childhood into prenatal experiences and into past life stories. As a hypnotherapist working with regression therapy, I treat any client experience in an accepting and authentic way.
The symptoms dealt with by regression therapy include low energy levels, emotional outbursts, anxiety, anger, guilt, depression, panic attacks, nightmares, unexplainable physical pain, blocked feelings, loss of life focus and difficulty forming personal relationships. Often these are problems that keep being repeated. Regression therapy allows the therapist to reach further and heal deeply at the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.The process of regression therapy is based on the premise that everything the individual has ever experienced is recorded and retained in the sub-conscious mind. Your conscious mind is what you do and your sub-conscious mind is what you are. The conscious and sub-conscious mind functions independently of each other simultaneously.
Everything we experience contains a certain amount of emotions, positive or negative. Love and fear are the two basic emotions. Love always affects the physical systems in a positive way. Fear is basic to the negative emotions of anger, guilt, resentment, hate and other negative expressions that offend the physical systems. During regression therapy, the origins of any emotions connected to your issue are determined and then the individual is directed to re-live the experience. The individual will then choose to reconstruct the experience with a positive emotion. When the original negative emotional imprint is changed all of the following experiences that connect to the original negative emotion have to re-evaluated and reconstructed. This is done by using the imagination to create a different reality to the experience at the sub-conscious level of the experience.
The mind records information similar to a tape recording. A tape recorder records a sequence of events in the exact manner that they are received through the microphone. When a tape is replayed it plays back exactly what was recorded. The mind also records a sequence of events that we call experiences. When we recall a previous experience the mind can play back the experience exactly as it was recorded, including the emotions. If something is recorded on the tape that is not wanted or is in some way offensive, it cannot be altered by adding a change at the end of the recording. The unwanted material has to be erased or taped over. The mind works the same way. If something has been recorded in the mind that is offensive to the physical systems it cannot be changed by trying to add a different attitude or emotion to the end of the conscious experience. The change has to be made at the point it was originally recorded and stored in the sub-conscious. In making these evaluations the individual is made aware of the instant of choice and that a better more positive way to respond to the experience is possible.
Freedom of choice is always involved. The individual can choose to keep the offending emotions, and the physical deficiency, rather than change the emotion. Some do make this choice. Some of the benefits of resisting change are the desire for control, revenge, financial security, emotional security, getting attention and security of the familiarity with the present state. Suffering (believing that punishment is deserved) is also a resistant benefit. When there is no change in thought habits, there is no change in the condition.
The mind in its response to hypnotic regression will express an awareness that appears to have its origin prior to birth. The concept of reincarnation is present in the mind regardless of the belief in reincarnation, religion, sex, age or nationality. The individual will sometimes relate to an experience that appears to have occurred in a prior lifetime. The emotion of the experience was so strongly impressed it carried over with the spirit to become offensive to the same physical system that was originally offended.