Past life regression
Past life regression
Is there anything in it? Or is it just nonsensical quackery designed to exploit and profit from people who happen to believe in rebirth.
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Good question.
Kevin
Kevin
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I am a qualified hypnotherapist (amongst other things) and a number of years ago I asked my late Tibetan teacher about the practice of past life regression hypnotherapy. He said he wouldn't advise doing it because he said that its very unreliable and "people can make things up." ....meaning that people can imagine things that happened the past.
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He had an interesting opinion.Aloka wrote: ↑Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:32 pm I am a qualified hypnotherapist (amongst other things) and a number of years ago I asked my late Tibetan teacher about the practice of past life regression hypnotherapy. He said he wouldn't advise doing it because he said that its very unreliable and "people can make things up." ....meaning that people can imagine things that happened the past.
Kevin
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That's what I think too. You hear people describing who they were and it sometimes sounds like a character from a period drama on tv.Aloka wrote: ↑Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:32 pm I am a qualified hypnotherapist (amongst other things) and a number of years ago I asked my late Tibetan teacher about the practice of past life regression hypnotherapy. He said he wouldn't advise doing it because he said that its very unreliable and "people can make things up." ....meaning that people can imagine things that happened the past.
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I have a friend who is thinking of doing this. He has been having a lot of trouble dealing with the death of his relative, and he asked my opinion on it since he knows I am a Buddhist. I thought about it before answering, and even read a book on the subject, but I came to the opinion that If you aren't meditating or doing any kind of concentration practice, your mind is going to be all over the place during hypnosis, making it very unlikely, in my opinion, anything you come up with can be trusted or utilized. Its likely made up. There is also a significant Judeo-Christian overlap to a lot of this past life hypnotherapy stuff-- new agey, etc. In other words, there is a significant skewed lens through which the hypnotherapy is done. So I told him that he really should try to meditate and engage with his grief. To my great surprise and pleasure, he began a daily meditation practice (!).
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Good for him! It was probably cheaper and more effective.dharmacorps wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:58 pm I have a friend who is thinking of doing this. He has been having a lot of trouble dealing with the death of his relative, and he asked my opinion on it since he knows I am a Buddhist. I thought about it before answering, and even read a book on the subject, but I came to the opinion that If you aren't meditating or doing any kind of concentration practice, your mind is going to be all over the place during hypnosis, making it very unlikely, in my opinion, anything you come up with can be trusted or utilized. Its likely made up. There is also a significant Judeo-Christian overlap to a lot of this past life hypnotherapy stuff-- new agey, etc. In other words, there is a significant skewed lens through which the hypnotherapy is done. So I told him that he really should try to meditate and engage with his grief. To my great surprise and pleasure, he began a daily meditation practice (!).