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Your Physical Health and Your Other Lives

"My friend says I can do a regression to a past life and see why I have the pain in my back. Is this true? Can it help my back pain?"

Seeing your past lives is seeing other facets of your self. The whole point of past life regression therapy is to know yourself. By doing so, your are more able to realize your potential, to love yourself, to forgive yourself, to see the oneness you share with all other people, and to love and forgive them as well. What does this have to do with back pain? The back, or any other part of your body, is also a facet of yourself, not only as a physical part of you, but as a metaphor for a part of your mind. Your back pain tells you something different than your right ankle hurting, and different again from your left ankle hurting, and all of these tell you different things about your Mind. By bringing it to consciousness, you know to look into the subconscious Mind and ask, "What’s the root cause of my back pain?"

Doing regressions and visiting other lives come into it at this point. Your back may be hurting because of karma, previous actions and experiences in this or other lives. These come to the surface again now to give you opportunity to balance the previous experience. If you caused suffering in others, you now have an opportunity to cleanse that karma, or balance it. This isn’t about payback, or punishment. It’s about balance. If you were the victim of some event in another life, you have the opportunity now to balance that with new understanding or a change in your actions. This isn’t about getting even, because it’s not about who made you the victim. It’s about your own experience.

Again, you ask, "What does this have to do with back pain?" When your body speaks to you in metaphors about the Mind, it’s a way of the Mind saying to your conscious brain, "Pay attention. I need to bring something to light and balance the karma." A hypnotherapist trained to do past life regression therapy can walk you through a process to take you to the root cause of that back pain. Sometimes it’s an obvious solution, e.g. a memory of a past life with an arrow in the back. Other times it’s more complicated. For example, the back pain may represent a burden being carried, and that burden could be guilt, grief, or the suffering of another family member. That’s not something you have to figure out ahead of time, because your regression hypnotherapist will help you determine the root cause by guiding your mind through the experience. In fact, your hypnotherapist can help you let go of the burden or the arrow.

What happens next? Two things can happen. The first, and most important, is that your subconscious thought patterns change, sometimes in subtle but profound ways. Think of our example, and a lifetime spent carrying a burden of guilt. Imagine the quiet, persistent feeling of guilt underlying all of your other thoughts. Even without you knowing it was there or why it was part of your thinking, that guilt could affect your happiness every day, and affect all of your actions. Now imagine that because you and your hypnotherapist investigate your back pain, you now see this guilt, you understand how it has pervaded your life, and then you let it go. What would your thoughts be like then? Would you experience greater freedom? Think of that: regression therapy giving you greater personal freedom, all from back pain.

The second result of the regression is that your back pain may resolve if your mind doesn’t have some other reason to keep it in your life. Like what? That is for discussion another day. But simply put, the back pain is there because your unconscious Mind needs it for some reason. When the reason is fulfilled, then the pain is no longer needed, and your experience changes. That’s the day the pain resolves.

What burdens do you carry? Are you ready to release them? Talk to your regression therapist.

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Charles Knoll, MD, is a graduate of Yale University, the Medical College of Virginia, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and The Institute of Thought. He is board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Dr. Knoll currently practices medicine, hypnotherapy and regression therapy, and lectures in San Diego and throughout the country specializing in Chronic Pain, Hypnotherapy, and Regression Therapy. He is on the board of the International Association for Regression Research and Therapies.

Dr. Knoll is a co-founder of the Altered States Research Group (ASRG), an organization dedicated to investigating the Mind and its impact on physical health.

For more information on Dr. Knoll and his work, visit www.AlteredStatesResearch.com or his professional page on this IARRT website.