What is Regression Therapy?

Past Lives and Past Life Regression Therapy covers past lives, and also current life memories some of which may be below the level of our conscious awareness. It enables the conflicts from the past that have been distorting our mental, emotional and physical well-being to be resolved. An example from the current life may be a phobia and a more complex one post-traumatic stress from childhood trauma or a life threatening situation. The symptoms may include panic attacks, emotional outbursts, blocked feelings, self-harm, numbness, unexplainable physical pain or recurring relationship problems.

The therapy works by going to the root of the problem and includes body therapy and inner child therapy to transform it in a way that is both safe and structured. It also includes cleaning the energy field of intrusive energy which has been affecting health including spirit releasement, curses and energy fragments. Regression therapy reaches further and heals deeper at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels than most other therapeutic approaches.

Spirit Release relates to how the spirit/soul operates through the mind and body and the therapeutic issues that arise when imbalances occur. These imbalances can happen when a person has experienced trauma to the extent that part of themselves has ‘cut off’ from the rest of the psyche. This happens when experiencing an overwhelming level of fear causing the person to go into ‘freeze’ but still holding the feelings that caused them to cut off. This part of the self is held in limbo within the person’s unconscious but causes difficulties in the everyday conscious life. The person experiences high levels of negative feelings for no apparent reason due to the old feelings being triggered by a relatively insignificant event. When this happens it is commonly called soul loss. This will continue until healing is brought to the traumatised part of the self.

A further issue is where energies external to the individual can sometimes attach themselves to the 'cut-off' part or sub personality. Through these sub personality connections the external energy can influence the person and intermittently take partial possession of the mind and body. Spirit Release therapy works with healing the personal circumstances - such as negative core beliefs of the sub-personality - that have allowed the attachment and to facilitate the removal of these unwanted intrusions.

Body Therapy releases and clears all types of trauma locked in the body including sexual and physical abuse. It works with deep body patterns from the current or a past life.

Past Life Regression

Who were You in a past life....?
Ever have that deja-vu feeling for people or places?

Through Past Life Regression I can help you explore your past … your journey as a Soul through different incarnations.

Past Life Regressions are wonderful gifts to be able to give ourselves. By accessing the deeper memories held within our souls, so much more understanding and perspective of the world around us - and our lives - is gained; a bigger picture is seen as we uncover more of the jigsaw pieces. Through this wonderful therapy we can understand more clearly ourselves and our present life path.

Regression therapy creates a peace and clarity and a deeper wisdom within us, it allows that letting go and relaxation - life is wonderful and perfect just as it is. By knowing and accepting ourselves more fully and completely as spiritual beings, we come back into balance, into the Now, we learn self-love and acceptance and through that more compassion, and the 'joy of being.' In regression therapy we can often integrate past wisdom, resolve any current issues, and look at choices you made in a past life which might be pertinent to the choices you have made in your current life.

We can do any of the following and more . . .

find a past life to explore, for your highest and greatest good
explore the past life root of any current life physical/emotional illnesses, traumas or phobias
understand and resolve any current life relationships and challenges
see how the past can have influence over current life patterns and events
eliminate or reduce any fears around dying
identify a life you may have lived in any particular country, place or time period that you feel drawn to
uncover any past life talents and skills
find someone from your current life that you feel you have known previously
gain a more spiritual perspective and purpose, to your current life path and choices

Sessions cost £50 per hour, after 6pm and weekend charges £70 per hour

Most Past Life Regression sessions will last 2-3hrs

Healing the Inner Child

Taking you back in your current lifetime, to discover and resolve any issues or traumas that may be holding you back from feeling healthy and happy now

This is a current life regression, which aims to get to the very root of an issue. When we are very little and a trauma occurs there can be a part of us that 'fragments.' Some events can be very painful & often we shut away the memories as a self-coping mechanism to stop us from feeling further pain.

Working with the inner child is done in a sensitive, caring and very gentle way, reaching the core issues and then transforming them by empowering and freeing that inner child part of us which has become frozen and unable to move on. These sessions are empowering and transformative. By looking at Soul contracts and life lessons for this life, a huge new understanding of the whole life-plan can be found.

Price: £50 per hour, after 6pm and weekend charges £70 per hour

Regression Therapy

“Absolutely mind-blowing, before it happened I never thought that amount of change could come from doing what I did, I wouldn’t believe it was possible.” Jan

What it is?
Regression Therapy involves going back to the root cause of a problem which is usually stored deep within our subconscious mind. You may find that the root cause lies in your current life, perhaps even way back to the time you were in the womb or to some point in your childhood. In these cases the therapy will involve healing around those current life events and a beautiful and transformative process called ‘Healing the Inner Child’. It could be that the root cause goes all the way back to a ‘story’ that resembles a past life and then the healing will be around those events. It really doesn’t matter if you think it is real or not as it is the wonderful healing that results that is important. Either way, it is a very powerful and quick way of getting to the source of problems that you may be facing in your life now and the healing that can occur can be quite miraculous. I will ensure that you get to the appropriate root cause of whatever it is you want to work on and that way the healing will be lasting.

There are no boundaries to help you reach your goals. It could be that there may be a few layers to work through and this will usually incorporate both Past and Current Life work as well as some energy work.

A little more about Past Life Regression
Past Life Regression is the key to unlocking our oldest memories. Have you ever wondered if you've lived before? Perhaps you've experienced strong feelings of knowing someone you've only just met, or felt a strong connections to a place you've never been or even arrived somewhere for the first time and instinctively felt you'd been there before although you knew you hadn't... not in this lifetime anyway. Through Past Life Regression you can discover the answers along with so much more.

Regression Therapy has been developed over the last thirty years by a variety of professional psychologists and psychiatrists. Today it is being increasingly recognised as a powerful and relatively brief alternative to psychotherapy. You do not need to believe in reincarnation to enjoy the full benefits of Regression Therapy. You only need to be open to your own experience.

How it works
Regression Therapy involves being guided to a current or past life experience or ‘story’ to give you an opportunity to see patterns beyond the confusion and illusions of your current life and to bring this awareness into your life now. You are given the opportunity to relive and resolve scenes or conflicts from the past that have been unconsciously blocking your mental, emotional and physical well-being. A migraine, chronic lower back pain, knee problem or sore throat may be telling a story from an old accident or trauma. These traumatic memories are re-created in our current life often making little sense, and keeping us from living peaceful lives. They may be brought to our conscious awareness by anxiety, panic attacks, anger, depression, phobias, obsessions, nightmares and unexplainable physical pain. Regression can be the key to unlocking so many mysteries about ourselves, whilst taking a wonderful journey at the same time.

Regression therapy works with the somatic, psychological and spiritual residues from our past that are at the root of our present problems. It transforms them in a way that is both safe and structured. No belief in reincarnation or past lives is necessary. Extensive research has shown that whether you believe in past lives or not, the healing is the same. Regression Therapy can be explained as healing the problem in the subconscious memories with creative visualisation and imaginative stories that resemble a past life. All that is needed is an open mind and a willingness to co-operate as you are guided safely through the process. You can go back to previous lifetimes for the purpose of understanding and learning, pure curiosity or even to discover talents, values, feelings and gifts you possessed in other lives. It can be a transformative and insightful process for anyone.

How it can help you
Regression Therapy is a wonderful way of clearing emotions and issues. It reaches further and heals deeper at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels and gets results much quicker than most other therapeutic approaches. It allows you to discover more about who you really are and can offer extremely powerful and life changing healing with the following:

Disturbing thoughts, such as obsessions or repeated nightmares
Any emotional problem such as fear, anger, guilt, sadness, loneliness, anxiety or depression
Unexplainable physical symptoms such as muscle tension, pain, numbness, panic attacks or blocked feelings
Phobias
Relationship issues with parents, family, work or social contacts
Clients who are ‘stuck’

Regression Therapy is an amazing experience that belongs to Holistic Therapy Category and it involves going to the root of our problems by recalling, reliving and processing situations that were traumatic in our life and are interfering with our ability to function well in the present.

By discovering, reliving and understanding those causes we may find deep healing. It includes body therapy, inner child and current life work to transform it in a way that is both safe and structured.

Some of the problems that can be resolved through Regression Therapy are:

Fears and phobias
Depression
Stress
Blocked feelings
Childhood trauma and abuse
Chronic neck and back pain
Issues of unworthiness and guilt
Insecurity and poor self image
Obsessive thoughts
Insomnia
Alcoholism and other addictions
Sexual intimacy
Fertility and pregnancy
Self-confidence

Testimonial from Laura Maat (Italian Language)

Regression therapy reaches further and heals deeper at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels than most other therapeutic approaches. It unfreezes dense emotions and memories in a holistic safe way so life changing healing can begin from within.

Some of the benefits of Regression Therapy may include:

Breaking habits and continuous pattern
Mental clarity
Mindfulness and inner calm
Self-confidence
Improved empathy and positive emotions
Increase in energy levels
Improvement of physical conditions such as pains, aches, asthma, skin conditions, etc
Align with our inner wisdom and have a clear life purpose

Regression Therapy is a journey to heal the scars of the soul. Nothing is left out in uncovering the truth. The therapist is the guide, the client a companion in the journey into the inner wisdom and memories of the client. (Baldwin 1991)

The Regression Therapy session – what to expect

Before the session you will be asked to give a history of the problem and then discuss your goals for the therapy. All the information from the client will be regarded as confidential and will not be divulged without the full consent of the client.

During the sessions, which usually last between 2 and 2.5 hours, I will invite you to close your eyes and listen to my voice while I guide you to a deep state of relaxation. Then I will take you through a guided meditation and will invite you to engage in a conversation of what you are experiencing. Your eyes will be closed and you will be relaxed, but aware of what is happening around you. If you do fall asleep, the important thing to remember is that your unconscious mind remembers everything.

After a session you may feel uplifted, lighter and very relaxed. Often changes take place on different levels and result in a positive shift in how you are feeling.

Past Life Regression is a therapeutic tool that can uncover and resolve events and patterns in past lives which influence a person’s behaviour, attitudes, relationships, phobias, addictions and virtually every aspect of hi present life.

Presents-life conflicts and problem areas nearly always stem from traumatic events in earlier lives. The person’s present-life experience is contaminated and influenced by mental, emotional and physical residues retained from traumatic episodes in past incarnations.

Resolution of past-life trauma traumatic events and their residues can ease or even eliminate present-life issues and conflicts. The therapeutic values of Past Life Regression is to go to the root of present-life symptoms and problems, and eliminate residues and energy patterns from previous lives. The energetic release resulting from conflict-resolution can lead to healing of unreasonable anger and resentment, fear and terror, sadness and loss, guilt and remorse, victimisation, undelivered communication, unfulfilled expectations, attitudes and behaviours of other differences of all sorts.

Therefore, the objective of Past Life Regression is to enhance harmony in the present life by locating these past life traumas, unfinished business, and incompletions and eliminate any energy residue. Consequently the current life can be lived more fully and freely without the interference from the memories of past life experiences contaminating and distorting present experience, achieving and restoring prefect peace of body, mind and spirit.

Past Life Regression Therapy session – what to expect

Before the session you will be asked to give a history of the problem and then discuss your goals for the past life regression therapy. All the information from the client will be regarded as confidential and will not be divulged without the full consent of the client.

After a session you may feel uplifted, lighter and very relaxed. Often changes take place on different levels and result in a positive shift in how you are feeling.

Past life Regression Therapy

Using Hypnosis a client can be taken back to a past life to find the root course of emotional, mental or physical issues that are affecting the current lifetime. Memories and events can be revealed from previous lives which can be transformed and healed. Old blocks can be removed, current relationships can be understood and you can gain a spiritual understanding of your life. Healing can take place for physical issues in the current lifetime. You can discover fascinating insights about your current life and understand from a soul prospective what your soul has come to experience.

How long does a session last?

A past life session will be 2 hours and the cost is £140

Current life Therapy and Inner Child Therapy can be used to enable a client to heal emotional, mental and physical symptoms.

During the first 7 years of our lives we develop our internal belief patterns based on the information and behaviour we observe from those around us. Our parents, siblings, carers and teachers can influence and teach us beliefs and thoughts that are untrue. If we are told we are stupid or worthless then as a small child we can form that belief. We can grow up thinking that we deserve to be treated with abuse or that we are unlovable. Like wise, if we are brought up in a loving caring environment then as adults we believe that we are worthy of love and are loveable.

Using Hypnosis and current life regression the source of any phobia that has developed can be transformed by accessing the subconscious memory. The memory can be visited and observed. Once this connection has been made to our inner self we can see without judgement how we took on unhealthy beliefs.

Inner Child Therapy is very helpful in dealing with internal beliefs that we formed when we were growing up. These beliefs that can affect us as an adult and by using our adult prospective we can renew and change these beliefs. It is a wonderful therapy that can be life changing when we have an understanding of how as a child we believed certain things about ourselves which as an adult we can see are unfounded. In the safety of Hypnosis, new beliefs can be created and this can truly enhance our lives.

Depending on the issue but usually within 1- 3 sessions, clients will feel a positive shift in how they feel and also have a greater optimism and understanding for their future.

Inner Child Therapy and Current life Regression will be a 2 hour session and will cost £140

Inner Child Therapy

During the early years of our lives we absorb many things in our environment, both consciously and unconsciously; and consequently we develop many of our internal belief patterns based on the information and behaviour we observe in the world around us and from the people in it. These people might be our parents or other members of our family, but they can of course also be our teachers, our neighbours, our friends and the people and ideas that we see on TV.

Unfortunately for some of us, the unconscious part of our mind that creates our internal belief systems and programmes often doesn’t judge whether the incoming information is right or wrong and so it is possible that any given thing that we experience, whether good, bad or indifferent becomes a part of our belief or value system.

Sometimes these can be very simple everyday phrases that we don’t even think of as damaging. I had a client who has tremendous problem regarding money. She had a couple of challenges in that she found it difficult to find jobs that paid her well for her efforts and she found it incredibly difficult to spend the money that she did earn on anything other than essentials, and especially difficult to spend on herself. She came from a family that had struggled to get by when she was a child and she was easily able to remember her parents’ beliefs were that you had to work long hours in tough jobs in order to get by. In trance she also remembered quite clearly that a common phrase in her childhood was “Money doesn’t grow on trees, you know”. Both the core belief and the phrase were deeply entrenched in her unconscious behaviour. Two sessions later and the old belief was replaced with a new positive one, and then a couple of months down the road she found herself a new job that paid her well for her efforts, and equally importantly she was able to start spending some of the extra money on a few little rewards for herself.

Sometimes the beliefs and patterns that we inherit may be even more serious. If our parents show us a lot of love at an early age, then it is easy for us to believe we are loveable and worthy of good things. However if we are not shown that love then we may grow up thinking a different truth about ourselves. Early comments from people that we are no good, stupid or abuse may hurt deeply at the time, but may be easily forgotten, however they may also lead us to live lives where we actually believe that we are no good and stupid and in some case we only believe we are worthy of (and thus attract) abusive partners or friends.

How Does Inner Child Therapy Work?

With many of these early beliefs and patterns it is possible in hypnosis to regress right back to the very first time our Inner Child developed this belief. Using our adult perspective we can reframe this belief, and then develop a new understanding and perspective about the circumstances of our childhood and replace the old belief with a new and empowering belief. We can start to remember that we are deeply loveable and create a new positive belief patterns about ourselves at a deep unconscious level that will start to manifest into our external reality i.e. our everyday lives. We also use the hypnotic trance to state to integrate some special qualities that are inherent (but sometimes forgotten) within us, such as feelings of self-confidence, strength and self-acceptance amongst many others.

Inner Child therapy is a simple and safe process which often results in powerful life changing transformations.

How Many Inner Child Therapy Sessions Do I Need?

Often one session of inner child therapy will produce a tangible shift for clients, however sometimes we may need more than one session. The number of sessions is assessed and agreed on an individual basis depending on the nature of the issue. Most people notice a huge change which is very noticeable in their lives after 2-3 inner child therapy sessions. .

Prices for inner child therapy are £150 for a two hour session

Past Life Regression

You meet someone for the first time and feel as if you know them already. You are in a town that you’ve never been to before, yet you recognize streets and buildings. You start a new activity and amaze yourself at your natural abilities and intuitive knowing of it. We often describe such experiences as déjà vu. i.e. the experience or feeling that a new situation has happened to us before. However, the possibility exists that we have actually lived these experiences in the past or, rather, in another lifetime.

Many spiritual practices believe that reincarnation is real. Our souls return to this earth over a series of lifetimes to evolve, learn, grow and transform. And when we reincarnate, we tend to travel through different lives with many of the same people. Often these traveling companions are the ones we enter into relationships with. Because we work through unresolved issues together so that we may heal.

When you struggle or keep finding blocks that keep you from reaching your goals, there may be a specific lesson that we are meant to learn in this lifetime. Being naturally blessed with a musical talent or another gift can be a special ability that you worked hard to develop in a past life. You may even have lived before as another gender or as part of a different social or economic class. Each lifetime brings with it specific learnings that are necessary for our spiritual evolution.

Explanations

There are several possible explanations for “past lives”. You may choose to believe that the mind creates a dissociative experience where it’s safer to deal with and gain insight to an issue. Or perhaps that part of the mind accesses Jung’s collective unconscious. Others reason that past lives are simply genetic memory or encoded in our DNA. And of course you may genuinely believe in reincarnation and that we have all lived many times before. All of these beliefs are valid and which one is true is to some degree irrelevant.

The fact is that past life regression therapy can be a very transformational and empowering process for anyone. When you allow the mind to follow its own path, the majority of people who experience past life regression therapy find resolution, healing and insight in ways that they simply had not expected and had certainly not experienced before and their lives change in extremely positive ways.

Why Past Life Regression?

Past life regression offers us valuable insights into our past, present, and future lives or it can be for those who are simply curious. The knowledge of how we lived before can help us overcome present obstacles, understand and overcome phobias, fear and habits and resolve relationship issues.

When you look back at your past lives it is exciting and enlightening. However, it is important to remember that the answers you are seeking to this life can only truly be found by living this one. An important part of past life regression is to see how the journey parallels into this current life. Then you can discover how to find and apply wisdom and insight into this life in a beneficial manner.

The only true validation of anything is one’s own personal experience. If these few paragraphs arouse your curiosity and you have any questions or interest to experience a past life journey then contact meto discuss this further.

Sessions

One-off past life regression sessions for curiosity or to look at specific lives last approx 2 hours. If you are considering regression to resolve a particular issues, ailment or behavioural pattern then you should consider regression therapy. It is a similar process where we go to the source of your issue. Plus you are likely to need to have a series of sessions.

All sessions are recorded and CD and/or mp3 recordings of the past life regression sessions are supplied afterwards.

Regression therapy

Go to the source

The aim of regression therapy is to go to the source of a problem and release the energy associated with it. This is made possible by using a light hypnotic trance that allows you to return to the very first time you experienced an issue or problem you wish to address. The event is then revisited and transformed by releasing the emotions, physical sensations and thoughts associated with the event and reframing its significance.

Transformational metaphor

Regression therapy looks for the source of a problem or issue in the past, but it does not define where in the past this experience lies. Most of the time, clients return to events they have experienced in childhood or in the womb, however sometimes they return to a life that is not their current life. For some, this is perceived as a past life. For others, it is an other life, a construct created by their sub-conscious mind, like a metaphor, to help them make sense of their experience. From a therapeutic point of view, the process is the same. People of all beliefs and cultures can benefit from regression therapy, the transformational process is the same whatever your beliefs.

How many sessions does it take?

Regression therapy is a brief therapy where we treat one symptom or issue at a time. Clients often observe an improvement after the first session but it can take four or five sessions over several months to resolve a specific issue. Sometimes symptoms disappear altogether, sometimes less so... Results will quite naturally vary with each client.

Inner Child Healing

Imane Kurdi PhD

Ct. Hyp., Dip R.Th., Ct.LBL

tel : + 33 4 93 96 46 67

email: luteahypnose@gmail.com

Triggers and emotions

Perhaps you sometimes experience emotions or behaviour that seem a little out of place or inappropriate. You may feel overly anxious when someone fails to show up for an appointment; or raging anger when someone lets you down; or deeply sad when you notice certain smells. Perhaps you observe in yourself automatic physical reactions that don't entirely make sense to you, for example a sharp headache whenever you enter a hospital or a choking feeling when you hear a particular word or phrase. Or perhaps you have an on-going feeling that you can't quite shake off, a feeling of exclusion or abandonment, rejection or loneliness... Sometimes, these kinds of reactions or behaviours are due to events or experiences in your childhood that you may have forgotten.

Forgotten trauma

Events experienced in childhood or adolescence, or even in the womb, mark us for life. When a child experiences an event that triggers fear or anger or another strong emotion, this may become so unbearable that the child blocks the memory. However, the memory still exists and the body retains it. The result is a form of conditioning: we react emotionally and physically to triggers associated with the source event, despite having little memory of it. It is as if a child is trapped within us, unable to grow and learn from our experience.

Heal the child within

Inner child healing allows the adult that we have become to heal the child within. These sessions are often deeply moving experiences that enable clients to release long-held physical and emotional pain and in so doing resolve a large range of issues that may be troubling them.

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Return to the womb and re-experience your birth

Perhaps you are reading this because you are curious to re-experience your birth or you are intuitively drawn to this experience. Perhaps you were born prematurely or experienced some form trauma during birth. Whatever the reasons, returning to the womb to relive our first moments in life is a deeply meaningful experience.

When you feel it may be time for you to have this experience, please go ahead and contact me by phone on +33 4 93 96 46 67 or by email at luteahypnose@gmail.com and I will delighted to arrange a session for you.

Regression Therapy & Inner Child Healing:

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung

I hold a Diploma in Regression Therapy from the Regression Academy in Dorset. This training is accredited by the International Board of Regression Therapy (IBRT) and the General Hypnosis Standards Council (GHSC).

Regression Therapy entails going back to the root cause or source of a current problem which is invariably inaccessible, for whatever reason, to your conscious mind. This approach provides a powerful opportunity to revisit, review and resolve these events and memories in a supported and safe therapeutic environment. It is possible to observe earlier life events from a different perspective and to be guided to a clearer perception and understanding. It is often a very liberating experience as you are enabled to let go of or desensitize specific past experiences that may be causing you mental, emotional or physical disharmony.

One of the added bonuses of being in a safe, inwardly focused state during a Regression Therapy session is the opportunity to connect with your own inner wisdom, creativity and awareness. By working with your hopes and expectations of positive change, new ideas, possibilities and learnings are more easily accessed.

One particularly beautiful aspect of Regression Therapy that I offer is ‘Inner Child Healing’. As babies and children, all of the activity, events and people in our life were perceived subjectively. All of our experiences, perceptions, thoughts and feelings created beliefs about the world and our place in it. These beliefs become deeply internalized and - mostly subconsciously - inform who we are, what we do, how we communicate and how we react right now. Inner Child Healing is an opportunity to meet the aspects of yourself as a child when you had perhaps felt amongst other things, confused, hurt, belittled or misunderstood. These parts can often still feel hurt and stuck - and sometimes feel disenfranchised or even rejected by our adult self. The aim is to explore, understand and bring compassion to these past experiences and lavish these aspects of ourselves with the understanding, attention, love, care and resources that were perhaps missing or withheld in earlier life. We are looking to bring all aspects of our self into alignment and harmony.

'Past Life' Therapy

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- Shakespeare

This therapeutic approach involves entering an inwardly focused state of awareness and deep relaxation in order to access the story of another, different life – with a view to understanding, transforming and healing it. The client accesses the experiences of this other personality - observing the story of their life, as their defining relationships and experiences unfold. It can feel like stepping into their shoes – you may have a strong sense of their personality, their emotional state, their struggles, their physicality and their choices.

Evidentially, the insights and transformations gathered during this process of journeying in another’s shoes can lead to sometimes profound change in your life. Interestingly, you can resolve an array of issues and conflicts during this 'other life' journey that correlate to issues, phobias and problems in your present situation.

Whether you believe in the possibility that you have had/are having other lives, or not – as a therapeutic tool, it can be a very powerful way of dealing with current issues in your life. In fact, you may not even go to a life that most people would term a 'life from the past' - i.e. during a historical setting pre-21st Century - although most people do. Both observing and playing out this ‘other’ life whilst in a safe and secure therapeutic setting can bring about a remission in the problem you are bringing to therapy. These issues can be as diverse as inexplicable fears, phobias, relationship issues, ill health, physical, emotional and mental disharmony to name but a few.

For some clients, they have experienced strong feelings or thoughts about other lives lived; an unequivocal sense that they have existed during a specific period in time, or can remember certain places or people even though they have not been there or met them before. For other clients, there is a sense that this 'other life' recollection has allowed them to tap into their Ancestral heritage - possibly via genetic transmission. For some, the journey is one of connecting with what Jung termed the 'collective unconscious' - where the memories, instincts and experiences common to mankind are held. By doing so, they are witness to a story or metaphor that might be helpful to them. And finally, some clients may feel that they are experiencing their active imagination creating the perfect story – which helpfully mirrors or relates to what they are going through at this time. Many clients express surprise at how lasting and impactful the experience is, however – the vivid details, how unexpected the story is, how physically and emotionally touching it is on many levels. Whatever your view, each way of experiencing it is valid and has the potential to bring about a desired transformation. What is crucial to the success of this work is a willingness to engage in the process and to keep an open mind. In my experience, whatever your belief system, the healing can be the same.