The soul has a former history. It has already experienced a whole series of incarnations, and everything that it experienced in the various lives, the good as well as the bad, is stored in the subconscious. Thus when we see the light of the world as babies, it isn’t for the first time. Even though we have to learn everything all over again, the soul is already many layers deep.
I often begin a regression session in order to help the client perceive his/her present-day problem on a physical level. This guiding feeling is known as the core emotion. If we are in good contact with ourselves and can physically feel our pain as an inner core emotion, this feeling will then take us back to where the cause of the problem can be found. This can be in this life, or also in a past life.
Showing the following excerpt from a regression session should illustrate this:
This client divorced her husband after having been together for more than 20 years. She had built her whole life around him, took care of the family, and supported him in his professional life. The divorce was associated with considerable strife and many conflicts. But what hurt her in particular was the feeling of lack of appreciation, of worthlessness. The client was also willing to be taken back to a past life, should the core emotion take us there. After a trance induction and the search for this core emotion, I started with the actual regression, first back to her childhood.
RH … From the last few days, weeks, or months, I would like you to choose a situation relating to the issue for which you are here, one in which you experienced this issue yourself. The situation is merely representative of many others... have you got something – Yes, okay. Now first I want you to visualize this situation internally, with everything that goes with it... how are you perceiving it physically?
K Stomach… and cold outside.
RH Cold outside and stomach. What is in your stomach, how does it feel?
K It is very painful.
RH What situation are you in?
K In the mediation. About six months ago. My husband and I are sitting at a table with two mediators.
RH Okay, good. Six months ago in the mediation. Now, visualize the feeling again, it will then guide us.
In the course of the regression we examined a few situations from her adult life a little more closely. This was very important for her. But the core emotion took us back further and further…
RH You are five, six?
K I am six. I am so alone. My first day at school, I looked stupid. Such ridiculously short bangs. Dreadful. My father had gotten me a very nice red leather pencil case from Switzerland. It was a real treasure. And I had a red, Bordeaux-colored leather backpack. It smelled so fine. But my father wasn’t there.
RH First day of school. Is the feeling still there at four, three? ... Three… two … one.
K Yes, it’s there.
RH Okay. When I say birth, is the feeling still there?
K Yes, I have the feeling, it is unfolding and taking form.
RH When I say womb, is the feeling there as well?
K It is even stronger.
RH Even stronger, okay. Are you ready to go back further?
K Yes, I’m curious.
RH Then imagine a time before this life… And we will see what comes… And then focus only on the feeling. What is the feeling like right now?
K Right now it is just like it was, but right now it is also like there’s brightness in front of me, and over there it’s dark, like I’m at a..., somehow two different regions are there.
RH That’s okay… Now I’m asking you to go back even further, and give yourself the inner order to go back to a time before this life, this can be an immediate past life or several past lives, it doesn’t matter. With the inner order for the psychic guides to show you where the source of this issue is... We will both let ourselves be surprised at what comes… If you perceive anything, a feeling, an image, a thought, please share stuff.
RH Okay, where are you?
K I am in America - New York. I am right in the midst of it all.
RH Right in the midst of it all. How old are you?
K Early twenties. A woman, really chic. I’m in a lounge, and I am smoking cigarettes with one of those long holders. (giggles)
RH Okay, what are you doing there? Do you work there? Or are you a customer? Are you alone or with others?
K I’m enjoying myself. I don’t work there.
RH Look again, closely. (grins)
K No, not at all, no. I’m not a hooker. No, I am actually well-educated, I am engaged in a conversation. I am talking with three gentlemen.
RH With three gentlemen. Aha…
K And all of us are smoking. Mmm. It’s wonderful, so naughty …
Other scenes then followed. It was a carefree and easy life. But also one in which she passed up opportunities that came her way.
RH Leave the life now… And go back up, to the light…
K Yes, I still need to separate myself a little bit more from this body.
RH What is making it so hard for you to separate?
K I never really lived, as it were, and now I’ve got to go again, that’s really stupid. There is still some unresolved business...
RH … Are you back up now?
K Yes.
RH Take another look at the life. Do you see a connection between that life back in New York in the early 20s, is there a connection between that life and your life today? Can you see it? That was a very carefree life, wasn’t it?
K First it was very easy and then very hard. Because I didn’t have the courage to follow that inner voice, to go along, to get in a plane and fly to Paris or to Rome, to see the world. I saw others coming and going and I remained on the sidelines – I have no idea why. I would’ve had the money, I would have ..., I don’t know why I didn’t do it. Well, alone obviously presents some problems, it would have been nice if I could’ve flown with a husband. I don’t believe it ever occurred to me that I could do it alone. And that’s regrettable.
RH Can you see what plans you actually had for this life?
K (laughs) You don’t mean, you don’t mean maybe I should try it without a husband?
RH I didn’t say that.
K No you didn’t, but…
RH I’m still trying to figure out why you are being shown this images now?
K Yes. Man, I’m so close, you know? The plane’s out there, my purse is full, why not go? Smoking on board was even allowed then. (laughs)
RH Those were the days, weren’t they?
K Why not go? And live? Why not live life, instead of just being an onlooker? Because I’m a woman? Because I may not? Why can’t I? Because it isn’t proper? Because I am less than complete without a partner by my side? What happened back in the 20s must not happen again.
During this regression the client received a clear message: to live her life and not make it dependent on whether or not she has a partner by her side. The regression brought her back precisely to the life in which she acquired the attitude towards life that she needs today. But this life also showed her why she developed such a strong dependency on her husband today and why she defined herself only through him. At the end of her past life, she was lonely and finally died after a long-lasting disease. Her soul did not want to go through that again in this life and went another way. Her task is now to win back her independence and – in a figurative sense –become the woman again that she once was in the 20s. Or to put it another way: In this life she should seize the opportunities that she passed up in her past life.