Can Hypnosis Help You To Access Past Lives?

When people find out that I am a hypnotherapist, they often ask if I can help them access their past lives. "Maybe" is all I can reply. I have been a clinical hypnotherapist for several years now, and have performed past life regressions on numerous occasions. I have even experienced one myself. However I am yet to be convinced that hypnosis can actually helps us remember a 'real' past life experience.

What I notice about most people's details of their past lives is that the information usually comes straight from a history book. The details are usually things that are widely known. They may have been a soldier in the battle of Hastings, or painted pictures of Henry VIII. I have never heard people talk in foreign languages that were unknown to them, or different accents. I have never seen anyone demonstrate any 'lost' skills that they had in a past life.

Despite these warnings, people are still intrigued. In my mind the jury is still out as to whether we even have past lives. Many think that we do, which they are perfectly entitled to believe. I understand that to these people, they will see hypnosis as a possible way of assessing this missing time on earth, which can be comforting and therapeutic.

I experienced a past life regression several years ago. This was during my training as a clinical hypnotherapist. After being guided into trance, I was regressed backwards through my life, making me younger and younger. Eventually I was regressed back further, to a point before I was born.

I recalled being a hunter gatherer in a forest, providing for my family. I remember being aware of sporting a beard, and using a wooden spear, and bow and arrow. It was all very Robin Hood, but did seem quite 'real' at the time. I did not have to put any effort into these details, they just flowed into my mind. I simply relaxed my mind, and allowed these thought to come, no matter what they were. I do know that the subconscious part of the mind is very creative, and more than capable of making these sorts of details up, without any conscious effort at all. However I was still a little intrigued.

I was then took to the point just before dying in that life. I remember lying on the forest floor with a wound to my right shoulder, slowly dying. I knew I was dying, but was in no pain. I realized that I had been attacked by some animal that had horns or antlers, although I did not see this happen. As I led there staring up at the trees, I felt a sense of loneliness. I was dying on my own, without anyone to comfort me. I knew my family were not far away, but I could not go to them for comfort. This made me feel a tinge of sadness.

When I woke up, I was fairly convinced that I had experienced some memories from a past life of mine. It was so vivid, and so emotional. However as time passed, I became more sceptical, thinking that it is very possible that it was all fabricated by my subconscious mind, in order to satisfy what was expected of me during the session. This is very possible, but who knows?

I cannot say for sure whether hypnosis can help you access a past life, or even that we have had a past life. Perhaps this does not really matter. It was a worthwhile experience. I somehow felt a little wiser because of this. I remembered how lonely I felt as I stared upwards from the forest floor, yearning for the comfort of my family. This made me realize how precious people in your life are, and how I should not take people for granted. The experience of being a bearded hunter taught me this lesson several years ago, which I will never forget. To this day I bear this in mind, and I am grateful to him whoever or whatever he is.

Jon Rhodes is a very experienced UK clinical hypnotherapist. He runs a free hypnosis site at http://www.freehypnosistreatment.com Click to visit a free hypnosis site, or here for hypnosis downloads

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Forget Willpower, There is a Better Way to Quit Smoking or Lose Weight

Most people believe that smokers and overeaters lack willpower. But what if it is the power of willpower at work that makes smoking and eating such powerful addictions?

The common use of the word willpower has come to mean "self-control." This common definition means that a person should be able to use willpower to win a battle against the urge to smoke or overeat over a lifetime. Wouldn't it be a better strategy to just eliminate the urge to smoke or overeat completely?

Nothing can make you do what you truly do not want to do. This is a universal law: nothing can force you to change your will. As you believe you're receiving benefits from smoking or overeating, you will resist stopping. While you hold onto the desire behind your addiction, there will be an internal struggle that stirs up internal conflict. Willpower against inner desire is a poor strategy. Willpower seems to disappear at times of stress, tragedy or worry. The willpower struggle can be summarized like this:

My addiction may kill me, so I should stop,
But I enjoy it or it can serve me well right now,
So deep inside, I still prefer my addiction (I'll take my chances).

So, smokers and overeaters do not lack willpower, the problem is they currently will to smoke or eat because of inner belief system built up over a lifetime.

The better way than willpower

Jim was driving his pregnant wife, Jill, to the hospital. Jill was urging him to hurry because the baby was definitely on its way. As Jim sped down a single-lane country road, he spotted a mule up ahead, blocking his way. Jim honked his horn, to no avail. He jumped out of the car and started pushing and pushing and grunting and grunting. The mule would not move. Jim came back to the car, defeated. Jill said, "Maybe I can help." Jim laughed, "How could you possibly help? You can hardly move." She replied, "Reach into my lunch bag there and grab a carrot."

Jim finally got the mule to move with no effort at all. The carrot was a better plan. Effort is not always the best solution. Using willpower is like pushing the mule--you can keep pushing and pushing, but failure usually occurs, and you get exhausted and frustrated. Is it hard to move a mule? If you do it the willpower way, it certainly is!

You have in your mind a list of reasons, beliefs and desires to keep your addiction. Once you bring these reasons to light, when they are brought to your awareness and honest scrutiny, these thoughts and beliefs become weak and even ridiculous. Isn't it a much better strategy to convince yourself you no longer want to smoke or overeat and really BELIEVE it? Wouldn't this make it easier to stop? If you realized you did not have to sacrifice anything, but that you actually prefer to stop, wouldn't it be easier?

One of the most common reasons I hear when I ask smokers why they want to stop is, "I have to stop." My immediate response is, "You do not have to do anything." Let's face it--you can depart this world in any way you choose. Nobody has to stop smoking even if it is killing him--we have the right to choose cigarettes over life. It's a free world.

People will tell you it is impossible to move a mule because they are so stubborn, yet a better plan is all it takes. When you DECIDE fully to stop smoking, with every part of your mind, you will no longer need strong willpower. When you truly DECIDE, there is an Energetic Finality, and the conflict subsides. When you DECIDE to change your mind about smoking and realize it does nothing for you, then you no longer have to stop. Instead, you really want to stop. When you realize that bingeing does not serve you and only hurts you, you can also begin to curb your eating problem. Sheer willpower says, "I will stop doing something that I really want to do." A shift in perception says, "I just don't want to or need to anymore." In other words, you can smoke or overeat if you choose to, but you now just choose not to. This is a much more powerful position than, "I have to". This shift in perception overrides the willpower struggle. It is an Energetic Finality that ends the conflict completely.

What is willpower, anyway? In my opinion, the word "willpower" has gone quite awry. My favorite definition is the one found in the 2003 edition of Webster's Dictionary: "energetic determination." The same dictionary also defines the word "determination" as "ending a controversy" or the "resolving of an argument--this is exactly what needs to happen to end addiction, both an argument and a controversy needs to end. The way to end a conflict is with finality--a final DECISION that cannot be reversed. Too bad this definition of willpower was replaced with "self control".

It takes guidance to reach such a change in perception and it also takes some good change techniques. To reach a level of DECISION that releases the power to quit struggle-free is attainable and happens spontaneously but this is also where a good hypnosis professional can help.

An Energetic Finality to end smoking or overeating can be assisted by Hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). When you use hypnosis, the experience of shedding your addiction can literally be struggle-free because the willpower battle becomes unnecessary. You can reach a conflict free state called congruence, and your your brain will rush to your assistance with an energy that frees you from your old thought patterns.

One scientific explanation for this is top-down processes of the brain discovered in 2005 by neuroscientists. Both overeating and smoking are conditioned, or learned, behaviors. And scientists have discovered top-down processing power in your brain 10X stronger than your learned behaviors. Hypnotic suggestion has been proven to activate these powerful processes in the brain, so hypnosis can be very useful in breaking addiction instantly and struggle-free.

Excerpts included from the doctor endorsed book Stop Smoking for the Last Time. To purchase this book or to find a hypnosis professional virtually anywhere in the USA visit www.HypnoEdge.com.

George Wissing, author of the book, Stop Smoking for the Last Time, is a Hypnosis/NLP Professional, Inter-Faith Counselor and Life Coach. He has helped clients quit smoking or change eating habits in as little as One Hour. His office is in Larchmont, NY and can be contacted on 914-937-5460 or through his website http://www.HypnoEdge.com/ He offers a free stress reduction program on his website and has a special landing page for smokers on http://Hypnosis4Smokers.com

For more information on Top-down processes and hypnosis, search the NY Times archives for the article This is your Brain Under Hypnosis by Sandra Blakeslee.

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