PAST LIFE REGRESSION
Published in Whitelight Magazine September 2009


Past Life Regression has been in the spotlight thanks to Dr. Brian Weiss the renowned psychiatrist who 25 years ago published the best selling book Many Lives, Many Masters which detailed the case of his client who presented with various fears and phobias and lifted by her viewing the past lives where her blocks started.

In the mid 2000’s I felt I wanted to help people but was not sure how and my working background was in administration and IT. During my quest I studied and attended courses in various modalities including astrology, massage and tarot. The universe took over and synchronicities lead me to Mary Malady, a meditation teacher in Melbourne who told me to read Many Lives Many Masters. I did not ask what it was about all I knew was that I had to read that book. Clarity, ahhh, it was immediately clear to me how I would help people.

First I had to help myself by lifting my own blocks, they included, intuition, fear of people reading over my shoulder and reading what I write, fear of speaking in front of people (my entire body from head to toe would heat up and leave me feeling sweaty and as though I would faint). Those were not the only issues I dealt with using regression, I have seen where my feelings of guilt stem from and why I struggled to communicate choosing instead to retreat.

The first week after completing my training with Mary, I began facilitating Past Life Regression sessions. I have since professionally trained with Dr. Brian Weiss in the US.
Each person has a unique experience as lives are extremely varied. Clients go back in time and see themselves from all walks of life, colour, race, nationality and circumstances. Sometimes they are male and other times female.

Anyone can regress. I feel that those who come for regression are guided to have a session as I am so often told that a friend gave them Many Lives Many Masters to read and then they saw Brian Weiss on Oprah on the one day they were not at work.
The symptoms which can shift are diverse, ranging from emotional healing such as understanding where jealousy and control stems from, staying in unhealthy relationships, physical symptoms which don’t make sense and can not be explained by modern medicine. Occasionally clients tell me that they don’t have issues and then at the end are assimilating why they have been shown certain events in past lives.

Clients can gain access to knowledge and skills they have had in previous lifetimes. Perhaps you always felt you could play the piano, or in my case write, or you may have been a healer or teacher. Epiphanies abound and healing takes place. The weight that lifts after some sessions is profound and turns client’s lives around for the better.

One client in her 40’s came for regression in an attempt to relieve the anxiety and panic attacks which she suffered almost constantly since she was a child. She was shown a life as a little girl with a violent father whom she lived in constant fear of. She told me a few weeks later that she felt like a new person.

Another client was shown a life where her mother had pressured her to marry the town banker so that she would not be a spinster. The whole arrangement was a cover up for his devious behaviour and my client always felt ill when at home with him though she stayed to please her mother. In this life my client has a strained relationship with her controlling mother (the same mother in the previous life) and has always struggled to be peaceful with her. Seeing that this was a continuing lesson for her she was able to better understand their difficult relationship and begin to change things between them.

Some clients see happy and loving lives they have lead which are joyous and derived from a very simple existence, some see soulmates whom they do not recognise as they are yet to meet them in this life, though they can always feel the intense feelings of love.
During regression you feel the emotion during the scenes you view and you are guided through healing as well. Healing is not by suggestion from the facilitator, they guide and you are told what your lessons are and often feel your energy being moved around to heal you in a case of anxiety or physical aliment. This is why issues lift following a regression making people feel like a weight has lifted.

Toni Reilly 21/10/2009