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7 FAQ's about Past Life Regression

I am thoroughly enjoying my new skill as a PLR Hypnotist, and in fact had another regression this morning.  I have thought it would be a good idea to put together some information for clients and prospective clients and decided to share my first FAQ page with my In Repose readers.

Please do feel free to post or email any question you might have to help me flesh out my list.

1. What is Past Life Regression?
A Past Life Regression (PLR) is a way of accessing information that seem to come from other lifetimes. The information can come in several ways, such as vivid imagery, strong emotions and viceral "knowing".

2. Why have a regression?
These sessions afford my clients unique opportunities for greater understanding of patterns of behavior, relationships, health issues, life purpose, talents and interests and recurring challenges. Exploring other existances can expand your perspective, of you, your soul, your family and the world at large.

3.  Are you a psychic who can tell me about my past lives?
No, that is not how a regression works. I facilitate you going into the trance state to help you to move through time by asking questions. Whatever information you get will come directly from you, not from me.

4. Is it safe? Do I "lose control" of myself?
Hypnosis is perfectly safe. You are normally in a light hypnotic state at various times during every day. When you daydream or even sometimes while you drive your car your brainwaves move into the same pattern as being under hypnosis. Hypnosis is not like it is typically portrayed on tv or in the movies. You cannot be made to think or do anything you do not want to think or do in your normal mind state. You might even remember most or all of the entire session. You will not lose yourself at all. You can think of our session as an elaborate guided daydream where we have a conversation about what is happening and what you see going on around you while you are in an exceptionally relaxed state.

5. What if I don't believe in Reincarnation?
Belief is not required. As long as you have an open mind and a willingness to explore you will benefit from the session.

6. Is it possible that my imagination will just "make up" a story?

Many people feel during or even after the session that they might have "made it all up". This is fairly common and exactly how I felt the first few times I had my own past life regressions. The human ego is very strong and will insist upon asserting itself and suggesting other realities, other than its own, are bogus. Just open your mind and "go with it" during the session. At the end of the day, the goal of a regression is to self-explore and gather information, not to "prove" one way or another that reincarnation is a reality for you or for anyone else.

7. What can I expect if I book a session?
First, we will sit down together and I will ask you a few questions to get to know you a bit better. I will find out what your goals for the session are, what you are interested in, what questions you might have. This part can take 45 minutes to an hour. Then, I will have you lie down and get comfortable and we will begin the hypnotic regression.

We will do a short progressive relaxation and then we will explore whatever life or lives your subconscious deems to be the most important for you to learn from that day. The regression typically lasts one hour, but can be slightly shorter or somewhat longer.

I will digitally record the entire regression session, and you will get a cd of the session mailed to you later, or if you'd rather, an MP3 to download. You may or may not remember the details of your regression on your own, and listening to the recording days, or even months afterward can be very revealing.

One Last Wish

My good friend Cristy writes a blog called Horse Stories Illustrated. Besides being a remarkably talented photographer, Cristy stretches her creativity and includes lovely considered stories to accompany her images. Today, her entry is called One Last Wish.

I find it amazing, just mind boggling, how many horses suffer the same horrible treatment by people here in the United States. Collected (and for what?) and then left to starve in pastures or paddocks it is not unusual for weeks or even months to go by before someone notices and is able to intervene. The law here makes it quite easy to abuse animals, unfortunately.

But One Last Wish is mostly the story beyond the shameful treatment by the original owner. Its lovingly told with dignity by Cristy, which mirrors the care the mare received in her final months, weeks and hours.

This story is so poignant to me now as I still am providing "hospice" care to my little Cielo. Every morning I hold my breath and am ready to find a still and cool body, but again, not yet this morning. Sometimes I wonder if I am nuts. Caring as I do, committing the time as I have been, every day, to care and keep this boy alive. My friend Marie says she would not let her animals suffer. I too, of course, do not want that for any of my creatures. I look at Cielo every day and ask him, and myself, are you suffering? So far the answer is "no".

No, he is not normal, he is certainly not healthy. Even without his stroke he would be a geriatric rat. But he is alert, has a great appetite, is able to groom his face, and he is affectionate towards me and his brother Dante.  He does not cry or seem to be in pain. So we have yet another day to be together, here, deep into October, when the odds were so great that he should just slip away early last May.

Here is Cielo grooming after his breakfast.

I am really hoping I don't have to make the decision to decide his last day. I am hoping Cielo decides that for himself.

The Cardinal's Funeral

 A high school history teacher was discussing the funeral of the Pope with his class. Once student asked how they chose the new Pope.

The teacher explained the process, finishing with, "So the Cardinals pick him."

A student in the back of class asked, very seriously, "Why would they let a baseball team pick the next Pope?"

Courtesy of my friend Mike Franklin, (and published for all the Catholics and Cardinals fans in my family.)

Reincarnation Station

A lovely new friend of mine just sent me a link to the Reincarnation Station.

Its a fun, answer about a dozen multiple choice questions interface that rewards you with a photo of what sort of life form you might end up in your next incarnation.

Happily I will be an owl in my next life.

That's great because I love the wind in my face and to feel lighter than air.

What sort of creature will YOU be?

(Thanks for the link Joy!)

Dolores Cannon on the "New Earth"

Some of the things Dolores told our regression class in July, was tough for many to wrap their heads around.

I really should begin this post by first mentioning that in a Dolores Cannon regression session, whether performed by Dolores herself or a certified student, the goal is first and foremost to help the individual client. A regression is a type of therapy and healing for each client who is looking for answers to issues in their individual lives.

However, sometimes when Dolores's clients are in the deepest level of hypnosis, where they are connected to "collective" thought, after the issues with the client are taken care of, this collective consciousness seeks to directly speak to Dolores herself.

Carl Jung called this voice the collective unconscious. It not a new concept, but the idea of conversing with it directly and so "matter of factly", is likely a new idea to most people.

So what has been happening that is nothing short of mind boggling to most people, is that this collective unconscious has been known to begin a conversation with Dolores during a session in one person, and then it continues that specific conversation, in time, in other sessions with other clients!

For instance, Dolores can regress a housewife in Arkansas who when connected to that collective unconscious, begins a dialog with Dolores...and then, it can and HAS continued then, right where it left off, when days later she then regresses a medical student in China and then, later still, maybe a farmer in Australia. None of these people would ever have contact with each other and sessions are always private.

So how is this possible?

Do you have an open enough mind to consider that it is?

Many people do not. Dolores herself states in her first answer to the interviewer's question that she could not possibly have understood this information when she herself first started her research and discoveries many years ago.

But really, the concept of a collective unconscious is just a high def or expanded version of that notion we describe as intuition...or a gut feeling...things we describe when we get information in some other way than our five basic senses. You have gut feelings, don't you? Well of course you do. Everyone does! Sometimes they are like punches to the stomach they are so powerful. How often do you go against your gut feeling? Aren't you usually sorry if you do?

So why is it so terribly difficult for some people to acknowledge that minds, perhaps many minds or groups of minds can connect and communication can occur between them without direct physical contact through the five basic (everyday) senses?

Don't think you can get information "through the ether"? Really? Think you are too grown up, too logical, too grounded in science and reality to believe any of that  woo-woo new age hooey? (I'll leave the quantum physics science argument out of this post, just this once...ha)

Well, consider this: Have you ever been in a crowded room, and suddenly know, beyond any doubt, that  someone behind you is staring at you? Sure, you have, your neck hairs might even stand up. Well, how did you know in your gut, that this was happening? If you did not see, hear, smell, taste or touch this person who was boring his eyes into your back, just exactly how was that information deposited into your brain? I suggest that you were plugged into that collective unconscious, just long enough for the information to be downloaded directly to your conscious brain. You called it a gut feeling or intuition. Bottom line is that communication did occur on some level and it landed in your brain without you using any of your five "regular" senses.

So back to Dolores. She has been speaking with this collective human thought group for many years. Most of her 14 books are in the main, actual transcriptions of the conversations themselves. Dolores does very little analysis or pontificating on the information she receives. She just plain presents it in her books, as it was presented to her. She calls herself an explorer and someone who recovers lost information.  Much of what she has been learning about has been the concept of the New Earth.

photograph by Candace Craw-Goldman

The following is an excerpt from a 2005 interview.

What were you feeling when you first received information on the New Earth and the ascension of humans into a higher dimension of reality?
Cannon: I have been receiving strange and unusual information for many years and am only given what I can digest at a given time in my life. The material I am receiving now I could never have understood when I started this work more than 30 years ago.

The material on the New Earth has been coming through many of my clients who live in various parts of the world. Earth is going through a transformation and time is speeding up. If you are sensitive to physical changes, you will notice that your body is also changing at the same time the earth's vibrations and frequencies are changing. As the earth shifts, people will notice their diet changing and will gradually get to the point that they will not want heavy foods, allowing the body to become lighter in order to make the shift to the New Earth.
 
Tell us what the New Earth in the new dimension will be like. Will all humans make this ascension?
Cannon: The New Earth is going to be lighter, beautiful and peaceful beyond your comprehension -- with colors you cannot imagine. At first, you can choose to continue with the physical body but then your body will eventually become lighter and lighter to where you will turn into a light being, because there will not be any need for a physical body.

The new earth will have no room for any negativity at all. People who choose to stay on the old earth will not even know that anything has happened. They will stay on the old earth to finish their karma and then will reincarnate to somewhere else.

All of the universe will be watching when we make this ascension into the new dimension, because this is the first time an entire planet has ever done this.

Some people think the shift will either start or be completed by the year 2012. If you haven't yet heard of that year likely being pivotal in the history of this planet, just wait...you will.

But....How Did it Get There?

Southern Serbian residents in an apartment complex called police recently to report a terrible smell. When officers arrived the odor was so bad they ordered the building to be evacuated because of fears that the overpowering fumes could be lethal. After searching the structure and examining the air vents they found the decomposing remains of a horse, stuffed into one of the vents.

It was twelve stories up.

None of the residents could explain.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month

2008 annual fund drive header With the Month of October being recognized as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, The Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation holds its Annual Fund Drive for six weeks starting in mid-September and ending in October.

President Ronald Reagan enacted Proclamation 5890 in October of 1988 to recognize that each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States alone end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of a newborn child. 

Reagan stated, "A national observance offers us the opportunity to increase our understanding of the great tragedy involved in the deaths of unborn or newborn babies.  It also enables us to consider how, as individuals and communities, we can meet the needs of bereaved parents and family members... "

To read the full Proclamation signed by Reagan,  CLICK HERE.

If you are in a place to make even a small contribution to NILMDTS, please know that doing so will continue to allow the organization to provide improved resources, training, communication, and other tools necessary in support of our amazing contingent of professional photographers who provide the gift of free remembrance portraiture to families in need. Our next project we are working on is an online, interactive webinar version of our Formal NILMDTS Training taught by Co-Founder Sandy Puc' allowing anyone in any country with access to a computer to complete the course online. 

Donations help make programs like this a reality!

Your Donations Support the Organization in Many Ways -

• * By supporting the continued education of our volunteer photographers
• * By allowing us to further our outreach to hospitals and hospices across the world
• * By offsetting the costs associated with outreach efforts including Formal NILMDTS Traingin Seminars
• * By supporting the Family Forum which creates a productive and supportive haven for healing
• * By supporting the Photographers' Forum which provides a helpful environment for our member photographers to express their feelings and receive advice on the various issues that they face in this noble work
• * By supporting the day to day operations of our Headquarters Offices

What do the Dead See?

Faithful reader and occasional author at In Repose, Jamie Sue Austin, sent me this link: Skull Camera.

To be sure, in the main, the first observation is to peg the art as gimmicky.

But objects DO carry energy, make no mistake about that. Bones contain the once living cells of a human soul and I have no doubt they influence the resulting photographic work in some way.

Jamie Sue called the photographs hauntingly beautiful.

Agreed.

Changes are Coming...

In Repose, the blog, started out as a support to the online business of In Repose.

That online business is no longer, but In Repose, the concept remains alive.

I am still exploring and writing about transitions, especially as they relate to end-of-life issues. (I am most active in my infant bereavement photography.)

I have recently been certified by Dolores Cannon in her Past Life Regression Technique and have practicing that new skill.  I have been doing much reading, meditating and studying related metaphysical subjects.

As my focus is evolving and changing, so should this blog. During my OWN past life regression, it was made clear to me that I was to begin to write books about my experiences and discoveries. I have already begun some of that writing here, but I think its time to tighten my focus and refresh the goals, and the look and presentation of In Repose as a blog.

Stay Tuned boys and girls!

Capturing a Short Life

CAPTURING A SHORT LIFE will screen at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Hot Springs Arkansas, October 22 & 24th, 2008 and the 16th National Perinatal Bereavement Conference, October 18th, 2008 in
Clearwater, Florida

Filmmaker tackles tough subject matter and comes up with a compelling and intensely emotional
film about what happens when parents experience the beginning of their child’s life, collide with the
end of it. Dimestore Productions Inc. in association with CBC Newsworld have just released a new documentary film called Capturing A Short Life, by noteworthy Toronto director, Sheona McDonald.
This beautifully photographed film uses verité footage, interviews and still photography to tell intensely
emotional, poignant film about the tough, and often taboo, subject of infant loss. It hits right to the heart of the matter and allows the viewer access to situations rarely experienced.

“You, as parents, form a bond. And the moment that you feel that baby move inside you, you’re attached and you’re talking to it and you’ve got a relationship, you have hopes and dreams and wishes...and it all just shatters, right in front of you”

- Amanda, Hailey’s mother, Capturing A Short Life

For many, the idea of even talking about the fact that babies die, may seem disrespectful or inappropriate. Sometimes, however, the opposite is true. In many cases, parents want to talk about their babies to acknowledge that they existed. Few people are aware that in North America every year, tens of thousands of families are having to say goodbye to children they’ve only just met and millions more lose babies to miscarriage or stillbirth. When a baby dies, it is not only an infant that is lost, but a toddler, a child, a teenager and an adult. An entire life, an entire future, disappears. There will be no first birthdays, no first steps, no first report cards, no first loves…instead there is an intense, impossible, few moments to say hello and goodbye.

Capturing A Short Life is not a film about death, it is a film about how critical it is to remember and
celebrate the beautiful babies who are only with us for a moment, and how impossible it is to forget them.

Capturing A Short Life received a Jury Award at the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival.
This is a must-see film about a subject that we, as a society, need to learn to talk about.