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PAST: -LIFE REGRESSION ANCIENT HEALING TOOL Ancient Indian teachings refer to reincarnation as well as to techniques that can heal disorders or traumas resulting from previous lives. These past-life healing techniques are gaining wider acceptance in the West. RELIVE THE PAST AND RELIEVE SUFFERING! ast-life regression (PLR) is the practice of journeying into one's past lives during a state of hypnosis. Though past-life regression has found popularity in western cultures only in the last five decades, techniques to regress an individual to his (or her) past lives have been around for considerably longer in the East. Ancient Indian teachings refer to reincarnation as well as to techniques that can heal disorders or traumas resulting from previous lives. These past-life healing techniques are gaining wider acceptance in the West. Past-Life Wisdom in Hinduism In India, past-life regression is widely accepted as a healing therapy because it resonates with Hindu beliefs about death and rebirth. Kondaveti Newton, MD, founder of the Life Research Academy’ and a past-life therapist based in Hyderabad, quotes (Lord) Sri Krishna's words from the Hindu holy text, the Bhagavad Gita, to explain this better: "As a man, casting off worn- out garments, takes new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others that are new." The Gita also reads: "The misdeeds of our past lives torment us in the form of illnesses or ailments." Dr Newton points out that every ailment, whether of body or mind, has its root cause in the actions of past lives. That is why past-life regression makes sense: it is a means to tap into the human psyche to unearth the reasons for its present discomfort. Bringing the cause and effect together with appreciation for the association between the two helps the soul nullify the effects of past deeds (karma). The practice of past-life regression is clearly mentioned in the Upanishads, a set of sacred Indian texts dating back 5,000 years. It is also discussed in detail in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a Hindu scholar of the second century BCE. Hinduism proposes that the soul takes rebirth again and again until it experiences detachment from worldly ties and thus goes on to achieve salvation. Patanjali believed that the soul's journey through birth after birth becomes progressively harder as it is burdened with the memories and the karma of its previous lives. He wrote about prati prasav, literally meaning "reverse birthing", as a means to be born again in the memory of past trauma in order © understand and address problems in the current life. Past-life-regression healing therapists in India understand that healing appens when the individual goes back to the cause and understands that problems experienced in the present life stem from the unfinished business of previous lives. They use prati prasav, or past-life regression, to help individuals resolve conflicts carried forth from past lifetimes and experience ealing. Though this aspect is not practised so much in modern-day India, herapists believe that prati prasav could also be used to remember our past earnings and skills (sadhanas, in Hindustani) to pick up from where we left off in a previous life. Website: http://www.charubahri.com JUNE - JULY 2011 NEXUS ° 41 by Charu Bahri © 2010 Email: charubahri@gmail.com www.nexusmagazine.com