Karma and Lessons

Karma and Lessons

We have debts that must be paid. If we have not paid out these debts, then we must take them into another life . . . in order that they may be worked through. You progress by paying your debts. Some souls progress faster than others. If something interrupts your ability .. . to pay that debt, you must return to the plane of recollection, and there you must wait until the soul you owe the debt to has come to see you. And when you both can be returned to physical form at the same time, then you are allowed to return. But you determine when you are going back. By determine what must be done to pay that debt.There will be many lifetimes .. . to fulfill att of the agreements and all of the debts that are owed.

 I have not yet been told about many of the other planes, but this plane, involving "debts that must be paid," evokes the con￾cept of karma. Karma is an opportunity to learn, to practice love and forgiveness. Karma is also an opportunity for atonement, to wipe the slate clean, to make up to those we may have wronged or hurt in the past.

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Karma is not only an Eastern concept. It is a universal idea, embodied in all the great religions. The Bible says, "What you sow, that is what you reap." Every thought and every action has inevitable consequences. We are responsible for our actions. The surest way to reincarnate in a particular race or religion is to be manifestly prejudiced against that group. Hate is the express train carrying you to that group. 

Sometimes a soul learns to love by becoming what it most despised. It is important to remember that karma is about learning, not about punishment. Our parents and the other people with whom we interact possess free will. They can love and help us or they can hate and harm us. Their choice is not your karma. Their choice is a manifestation of their free will. They are also learning. 

Here are some passages from the sacred writings of some of the world's great religions. These quotes demonstrate that there is really only one religion, when you transcend the surface rituals and reach the spiritual treasures lying beyond. In this section on the unity of all the great religions, I have been benefited by the wonderful book Oneness: Great Principles Shared by All Religions, by Jeffrey Moses.

Responsibility for One's Actions

Buddhism

It is nature's rule, that as we sow, we shall reap.

Christianity

Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. . . . God will render to every man according to his deeds.

Hinduism

Thou canst not gather what thou dost not sow; as thou dost plant the tree so it will grow.

Judaism

A liberal man will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Not accidentally or coincidentally are we born into our families. We choose our circumstances and establish a plan for our lives before we are even conceived. Our planning is aided by the loving spiritual beings who eventually guide and protect us while we are in our physical bodies as our life's plan unfolds. Destiny is another name for the unfolding dramas we have already chosen. There is considerable evidence that we actually see the major events in the life to come, the points of destiny, in the planning stage prior to our births. This is clinical evidence, gathered by myself and other therapists from our patients who have experienced pre-birth memories while under hypnosis, during meditation, or through spontaneous recall.

 Mapped out are the key people we will meet, our reunions with soulmates and soul companions, even the actual places where these events will eventually occur. Some cases of deja vu, that feeling of familiarity, as if we have been in that moment or that place before, can be explained as the dimly remembered life preview coming to its fruition in the actual physical lifetime. The same is true for all people. Often, people who were adopted wonder whether their life plan has been somehow disrupted. The answer is no. Adoptive parents are chosen as well as the biological ones. There are reasons for everything, and no coincidences exist on the path of destiny.

Although every human being has a life plan, we also have free will, as do our parents and everyone with whom we interact. Our lives and theirs will be affected by the choices we make while in physical state, but the destiny points will still occur. We will meet the people we had planned to meet, and we will face the opportunities and obstacles that we had planned long before our births. How we handle these meetings, however, our reactions and subsequent decisions are the expressions of our free will. Destiny and free will co-exist and interact all the time. They are complementary, not contradictory. 

The consensus of evidence from my regression patients is that the soul appears to make a reservation for a particular physical body around the time of conception. No other soul can occupy that body. The union of body and soul is not completed, however, until the moment of birth. Before this time, the soul of the unborn child can be both in and out of the body, and it is often aware of experiences on the other side. It may also be aware of events outside its body and even outside the mother's body.

The soul can never be harmed. Neither miscarriages nor abortions harm the soul. When a pregnancy does not come toterm, it is not unusual for the same soul to occupy the body of a subsequent child of the same parents.

We choose when we will come into our physical state and when we will leave. We know when we have accomplished what we were sent down here to accomplish. . . . When you have had the time to rest and re-energize your soul, you are allowed to choose your re-entry back into the physical state.

We are born with a considerable memory of our true home, the other side, that beautiful dimension that we have just left in order to enter a physical body once again. We are born with a tremendous capacity to receive and to give love, to experience pure joy, and to experience the present moment fully. As babies we do not worry about the past or the future. We feel and live spontaneously and completely in the moment, as we were meant to experience this physical dimension.

 The assault on our minds begins when we are very young children. We are indoctrinated with parental, societal, cultural, and religious values and opinions that suppress our inborn knowledge. Should we resist this onslaught, we are threatened with fear, guilt, ridicule, criticism, and humiliation. Ostracism, withdrawal of love, or physical and emotional abuse may also loom. 

Our parents, our teachers, our society, and our culture can and often do teach us dangerous falsehoods. Our world is evidence of this, as it staggers recklessly toward irreversible destruction. If we allow them, children can show us the way out. There is a well-known story in which a mother enters her infants room and finds her four-year-old child hovering over the baby's crib. 

"I must tell me about heaven and about God," the toddler implores his sibling. "I am beginning to forget!" We have much to learn from our children before they do forget. In this life and in all of our others, we too have been children. We have remembered, and we have forgotten, and to save ourselves and to save our world now we must remember again. We must courageously overcome the brainwashing that has caused us so much grief and despair. We must reclaim our capacity for love and for joy. We must become fully human once again, as we were when we were young.

You can ask your young child if he or she remembers when they were "big" before. Listen to the answer because it may be more than the product of an active imagination. Your child may actually provide details of a past life. Observing the joy and spontaneity of children at play is always rewarding. Many of us have forgotten how to have fun and enjoy the simple pleasures of life. We worry too much about concepts such as success and failure, what kind of impression we are making on others, and about the future. We have forgotten how to play and have fun, and our children can remind us. They remind us of our earliest values, of those things that are also really important in life: joy, fun, mindfulness of the present moment, trust, and the value of good relationships.

Our children have so much to teach us.

Healing the Grieving with Regression Therapy

Healing the Grieving 

Most physicians and therapists know very little about death, dying, and grief. Those who have a personal experience of their own with grief understand it a bit more, but, in essence, most members of the healing professions do little more than describe the stages of death and dying and the symptoms of grief. 

They do not explain what happens to those who are progress￾ing from dying to death and beyond. They do not provide all of the tools to assuage grief. Clearly, we do not pretend to know everything about the spiritual process of dying, but experiences begin to provide such tools.

Grief therapy has to incorporate psychic events as well as spiritual thoughts. People who have had near death experiences, regressions to past lives and the in-between-lives state, out-of-body experiences and certain psychic phenomena dealing with life or consciousness outside of the body, usually do not grieve as deeply or as profoundly. They know something more than the rest. They know that consciousness never dies. People who know that they are going to die often go through the process of mourning their own death. This process can begin as soon as the diagnosis of a terminal illness, such as metastatic cancer, is made. The dying person may experience feelings of denial, anger, and despair. Family and friends may also begin to grieve well before death occurs. 

Grief can easily become clinical depression. Th e dying or grieving person feels despondent, hopeless, and beyond help. Psychological pain becomes acute and omnipresent. Sleep patterns, the ability to concentrate, appetite, and energy levels are all dis￾rupted. Friends try to cheer the grief-stricken, to distract them from their despair, but to no avail. Yet the grief of both patients and their families can be healed before death. As they learn about the wonderful experiences of others, such as those told in this book and elsewhere, they can begin to feel more hope. Th e dying and the grieving can be encouraged to communicate their experiences and insights to each other. They can talk about the possibility of being together again. 

They can express their love. They can more easily and more calmly accept death. A dreaded experience can be transformed into a time of honesty, sharing, love, and sometimes even humor.

Occurrences  are often so compelling and extraordinary that frequently the patient is afraid that a counselor or physician who hears about the event will trivialize or dismiss this precious experience and consider the patient odd or strange. When the patient is reassured that it is safe to discuss these experiences, doctor-patient communication reaches a new level. The healing bond is strengthened. Take the time to talk with and listen to their patients and their patients' families. Feel a responsibility to be with their dying patients, not only to provide excellent technical medical care, but also to offer psychological support. This provides immense satisfaction to them, gives comfort to the others, and has taught them a great deal.

We are on the frontiers of a new form of helping, one in which those in the helping professions are not merely able to identify the stages of grief but are also able to communicate a more spiritual, open, and enlightened understanding of the actual death experience. Hopefully, this frontier is one in which the dying, the grieving, and the caretakers will all be able to learn and grow together.

According to a 1990 poll by the Gallup Organization affiliate, The Princeton Religious Research Center, roughly half of all Americans believe in extrasensory perception. Like the extraordinary experiences that can occur during the dying process, psychic experiences concerning a departed loved one can also induce profound changes in a person's life and his or her attitude toward death and dying. Healing and growth can occur as these lifealtering events are integrated. Profound grief and fear of death diminish, especially when the psychic experiences seem to be connected to "the other side." 

I have learned in interviewing patients and conducting past life regressions that it is not rare for those suffering a sudden and violent death to cling to the earth plane and to be confused and in a state of limbo for a while. Eventually, though, they do find their way to the wonderful light and the spiritual presence of a guide or universal love and move onward. 

Several other people who have come to my office have described similar visits shortly after the physical death of a loved one. Some have even described receiving phone calls from the recently deceased, calls that have sent shivers down their spines. In my professional opinion, the descriptions above and many others that I have heard come from normal, nonhallucinating people. 

It seems that a primary purpose of experiences like these is to encourage the living to heal their grief through understanding. 

Like my patients, those who have these experiences come to understand that they will never die, that only their bodies will die. For death is inevitable. Death is how we grow, how we move from lesson to lesson, from lifetime to lifetime. We will all die, and based on what I have learned from past life regression therapy, most of us have already died many times before this lifetime. 

This is good news. This means that most of us have grown significantly, have been allowed to savor new life experiences while retaining former strengths, talents, and even loves. It also means that we will continue to grow even after our deaths. 

Critics may comment that reunions such as these consist of nothing more than fantasy or wish fulfillment. But fantasy and wish fulfillment do not produce the powerful healing forces that can take place as a patient reconnects with the eternal nature of the soul and experiences bonds with departed loved ones. Patients felt dramatically better after their trance experiences and all reported that ongoing symptoms of grief and anxiety lifted as a result. 

Everyone has learned that death is not absolute. Ultimately, it is this knowledge that is the great healer. The loved one is not lost. After death, a connection to that person remains.

People who have this experience or knowledge learn that death is less of an ending than a transition. It is like walking through a door into another room. Depending on the level of spiritual or psychic development or interest, communication with someone in that next room may be very clear, or intermittent, or there may be no communication at all. Nonetheless, whatever the nature of the basic connection, it can be improved as long as the grieving understand that the separation is not permanent or absolute. They and their loved ones have probably been together before, and separated before. Yet, they were allowed to come together again.

This gives the grieving great hope for the future, hope that they will meet again. Of course, they may not meet within the same relationships or circumstances that prevailed in the current lifetime. For example, a father and daughter might meet again as friends or siblings or grandfather and grandchild. Nevertheless, souls do continue to meet again and again. In a way, the grief of the dying is a grief over loss of self, and in that sense, the past life regression experience can also be very helpful. Those who experience it or learn of it understand that death doesn't mean a disappearance of the self into oblivion or blackness. Patients have shown me that it simply means that, in the wisdom of the soul, the body is no longer needed. The time has come for the soul to pass out of the body and to exist in a nonphysical, spiritual state. Awareness is immortal, and so are aspects of the personality. 

Often the soul returns to a new lifetime with the same talents and abilities a person exhibited in a previous lifetime. Sometimes, people even access unknown talents in the current lifetime after recalling the existence of these talents in previous lives. 

There are so many different levels of the self. We are wonderful, multidimensional beings. Why must we limit ourselves mentally by restricting our definition of ourselves to the personality and body that exists in the here and now? The entire spirit is not encapsulated in the body and the conscious mind. The part of the self that exists here is, in all probability, just a fragment of the entire spirit. 

No doubt the potential exists that even as Philip met his children in the meadow, another aspect of his son's and daughter's souls could be growing and expanding further in a new incarnation. The versatility and potential of the soul are limitless, infinite. The ideas and experiences outlined in this chapter are probably just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the ability to account for the full dimensions of the soul. 

The mystic Yogananda has said that life is like a long golden chain floating deep within an ocean. It can only be pulled out and examined one link at a time while the rest glistens beneath the surface , alluring and unobtainable. What we now know of death, indeed of life and the soul, is probably just one link in this golden chain . As we integrate our grief into growth, we will be able to raise more and more of this golden chain of joy and wisdom from the ocean of being and into the light.

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Healing the the Sources of Obesity with PLRT

Healing the the Sources of Obesity and Substance Abuse

In my experience, the need to protect the physical body from a previous experience of pain, starvation, sexual abuse, or violence is a cause of obesity that often originates in past lives and that can thus be ameliorated by past life regression. - Dr. Brian Weiss

Some people think that they can use obesity as a kind of magical protection against certain types of wasting illnesses. For example, people who are afraid of cancer often put on weight because they think that being heavy means that they are healthy.

Others feel that added weight provides an insulating layer between the self and the body, dulling awareness of any perceived danger (real or imagined) and appearing to protect the heavy person from the "hard knocks" of the world. 

When sexual abuse is the cause of the obesity, past life therapy can successfully treat both the symptom and the cause, the cause being as severe psychologically as the physical burden the symptom places on the body. The whole person is treated. There is no need to regain the weight, to repeat the process again and again. The causative trauma is no longer hidden. Simultaneously, both the inner and outer selves are healed.

For some patients, regression to childhood in the present lifetime can be enough to cure chronic and health-threatening obesity.  I interviewed patients suffering from severe obesity preliminary to their entering a research program that involved an invasive procedure to promote weight loss. 

When the real reason for obe￾sity can be uncovered by regression to the source, whether to childhood in this lifetime or to past life sources, the excess weight seems to simply drop off. Most of my regression patients have been able to resist any significant subsequent weight gain. If a patient does start to gain weight again, a session in which the memory is reexperienced or reviewed is often enough to reverse this trend.

This method also works for patients who have inherited ten￾dencies toward obesity. These days, much attention is being given to the possibility that some of us may inherit certain genes that predispose us toward becoming chronically overweight. While such a genetic inheritance may indeed exist, it is important to remember that a tendency is just a tendency—it is not a certainty. 

Past life regression gives patients the strength and also the tools to overcome any sort of tendency. Tendencies are not inevitable, irresistible, or irreversible. With past life regression and the subsequent understanding, a physical tendency can be reversed just as easily as possible.Perhaps knowledge of the source of this cure is already deeply embedded within us. Whenever I ask an obese person how long he or she has been overweight, the answer is usually "forever." 

Substance abusers are also often deeply aware of the "foreverness" of their problem. Sometimes the tendency toward substance abuse itself is one that has been carried over from previous lifetimes. Or, the problems that a person hopes can be masked by using alcohol or drugs may be the issues that have been carried over from another lifetime, giving the feeling of timelessness and eternity. 

In either case, patients facing the challenge of recovery often have an underlying need in common with the obese. And that need is the need to protect. Like excess weight, drugs and alcohol can seem to provide a layer between the person and his or her feelings, fears, and the hurts inflicted by others. Drugs can also insulate an addict from taking responsibility for his or her life because the addict can always blame the drugs or alcohol for problems. It is easy to use addiction as an excuse for failures, disappointments, or mistakes instead of accepting such setbacks realistically and using them as opportunities for growth. 

In contrast to obesity, the motivation for substance abuse be￾havior often involves an element of escapism or avoidance. Substance abuse typically provides a method of suppressing memories or feelings.

In this sense, the dulling of awareness with drugs and alcohol can be a form of slow suicide. Like suicide, substance abuse is a way of avoiding or escaping intolerable issues. Substance abusers who undergo past life regression therapy sometimes discover that they have committed suicide in other lives and that the issues they wanted to escape from previously have resurfaced with a ven￾geance. This time the need to escape has been translated into the slower suicide and escapism of addiction.

In some cases, the opportunities for growth in a past lifetime were "wasted" when painful issues could not be confronted. Perhaps in that previous lifetime, significant issues were avoided through the veil of altered states induced by alcohol or drugs. Although the issues might now be different, the temptation to use the same "escape hatch" to avoid pain may have recurred. 

Either way, the only way to get rid of both the core issue and the trap of substance abuse is to meet them both head-on and solve them in a spiritual and realistic manner. Once acute intervention is accomplished, past life therapy can treat the underlying causes of addiction, which may have roots in challenging family relationships and/or prior childhood abuse. For some patients, the core issue may revolve around a theme of anger or violence, since the expression of these qualities is facilitated by alcohol and drug use. For others, core issues may involve problems in courage or self-love. Alcohol can provide a pseudo-confidence. 

I rarely treat patients who are in the acute stage of an addiction to alcohol or drugs. Hypnosis is not effective when a person is under the influence of these substances. In this acute stage, a substance abuser should seek help from an inpatient intervention program or from a support group such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Those who come to my office have usually completed the detoxification process and are interested in healing core issues in their lives. Often, they have come to recognize that substance abuse is a symptom that has blotted out or provided escape from painful life traumas. These patients frequently recognize that their substance abuse was much more painful than the original traumatic event. Inner child work and past life regression therapy provide a method for releasing both the primal pain and the maladaptive behavior. From the perspective of the inner child, harmful habits seem worth the price of alleviating such enormous pain. But from the adult perspective, the pain can be made to appear manageable. It can be released, and with it the need for dulling, desensitizing, and protective habits is also released. Recovering addicts can make excellent candidates for past life therapy, because the problem of alcoholism or substance abuse is so often at the heart of a spiritual path. The reward for over￾coming substance abuse is a precious one. The process may provide an accelerated path of spiritual growth. It is through understanding, faith, and wisdom that alcoholism and drug abuse are overcome. 

I have found that the experience of regression therapy can be supportive of the Alcoholics Anonymou s Twelve-Step recovery process. For your information, here are the Twelv e Steps of the AA program:- Dr. Brian Weiss

Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable

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Step Two: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step Three: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him

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Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves

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Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 

Step Six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 

Step Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 

Step Eight: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 

Step Nine: Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, ex￾cept when to do so would injure them or others.

Step Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Step Eleven: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 

Step Twelve: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. 

Many of the issues addressed in past life therapy correspond to these Twelve Steps. Th e basis of both is spirituality. Both rec￾ognize the primacy of a higher power or plan. This does not imply a formal religious context. Th e power can be discovered within.

Spirituality is a vitally important force. Lives change because of it. Values change. People become less violent, greedy, self￾centered. They become less afraid. Having had these experiences, they tell others, who in turn carry the same message to many more. Ultimately, in both obesity and substance abuse and really in any form of suffering, the mechanism of healing involves the process of getting rid of fear.

The core healing mechanism of past life regression therapy is the transmutation of fear into love. This is the message of healing that those who have experienced past life regression carry to others and, hopefully, practice in all their affairs. How do you do it? By knowing yourself. By looking within and seeing clearly. By understanding and acquiring wisdom. By becoming more joyful and peaceful. This is the essence of any past life healing.