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Releasing Lifelong Anxiety

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A client came to me last summer (I’ll call her Amber) with anxiety so intense that she had to go on a leave of absence from her job at a hospital where she drew blood from patients. She shared that she had experienced depression and anxiety her whole life, but lately her anxiety had become much worse at work. She described a recent incident when she was drawing blood from a patient who was hooked up to various machines that were making beeping noises. Suddenly, panic came over her for no apparent reason, and she had to leave work in the middle of her shift. Her anxiety was so severe that she had to take a leave of absence from work and she was starting to have panic attacks at home. This is when she sought me out to help her understand and heal the source of her anxiety and depression, as well as feelings of guilt and undeserving.

We began to explore the source of her anxiety in her present life, but she intuitively felt that the source of her anxiety and negative feelings started so young and it felt much deeper than anything that had occurred in her present life. We shifted gears and did a past life regression which ultimately turned into a deep healing session within the life between lives realms.

In the past life, she initially saw herself as a young boy living with his mother in a home with a very challenging environment.

Me: What does your home life feel like for you as you grow up?

Client: Life feels like tar…gross, dirty and stuck. I don’t have a dad…I never knew him. My mom is a drunk. She’s very mean and abusive physically and emotionally. I don’t feel loved. I never know when she’s going to lose control and what will happen. She scares me and I feel like I have to take care of her. I’m embarrassed at school because my clothes are bad, so I don’t go often. The only good thing I have is my dog…he’s a yellow lab.

We moved ahead in time a couple of decades, to a scene after he is married with children. He is having a meal with his wife, their baby and their 8-year-old son. Initially, it seems like a happy time, but as we relaxed deeper into the scene, more depressing feelings and information began to emerge, revealing repeating dysfunctional generational patterns.

Me: How would you describe what your wife is like?

Client: She is a good wife, and she loves me, but it’s hard. I don’t feel deserving of her. I’m not a good spouse. I have some mental health issues and I drink a lot at home at night when I’m not working. My son is my pride and joy, but I scare him sometimes when I’m drinking.

Me: What do you do for work?

Client: I fly planes. I feel successful at work, but at home, I drink too much and I’m not present with my wife and kids.

As we moved further ahead in time, his depression has worsened. We arrive at a scene where he is visiting his mother in the hospital because she is dying.

Client: I feel bad and sad and guilty. I haven’t had much contact with my mom. Life is depressing. I made it with a good career and a family, but I’m not happy with life. I feel scared and desperate…like if I can’t be happy now at this stage of my life, I’ll never be happy. 

As we move ahead to the next scene, he sees himself flying an airplane, and he immediately knows that this life is coming to a close and it isn’t going to end well. He is feeling extremely depressed and suicidal. He purposely crashes the plane into a mountain while there were passengers on board.

Me: Go to the precise moment your soul leaves the body.

Client: The plane is turbulent. There is a lot of beeping sounds from the controls. I leave the body and watch the plane crash into the side of the mountain. There is so much smoke. The plane is busted up. I’m above the plane crash. My heart hurts that everyone died.

Me: Do you stay around that scene very long, or do you get a sense of pulling or drifting away at some point?

Client: I stay there.

Me: (long pause) As earth time goes on and on, do you eventually drift away, or does it more feel as though you continue to stay there?

Client: I stay there. It feels like part of me is still stuck there.

On rare occasions, clients do not move higher into the soul realm after death. These may be times when they die in a traumatic way, or are experiencing very heavy emotions at the time of their death, or perhaps they feel a strong responsibility or desire to stay around the earth for a while. In these cases, I have that client energetically release the heavy trauma from that life from the physical, mental and emotional energy bodies, and ask them to visualize a shaft of light to move into as an energy current that can bring them to a higher vibration in the spiritual realm. In shaman terms, this is called a soul retrieval. Alternatively, we can simply call upon higher guidance. In Amber’s case, she called upon her guardian angels. She could immediately sense them, and began to describe what happened next.

Client: Their essence feels like a light of source energy and I soak it in. It feels so loving and good. Now they’re bringing me to a beautiful waterfall. It’s purifying and cleansing. It feels like a relief. I’ve had reoccurring dreams here of this place. One of the angels is a male. His name is Luke. I feel safe. He says, “Let it all go, you’re ok now.”

Amber began to tear up as she released all of the fear, depression, sadness and feelings of undeserving that had carried over from that troubled past life to her present life. She then got back a part of her that was lost and covered up while she was carrying that heavy emotional energy. She described the feelings and vibrations that came back to her.

Client: It feels like pure whole and completeness, like energy is being restored. A refreshing rebirth. So calm.

While she rested in the high vibrational healing energy, her soul began to clearly see how the depression and anxiety in that past life had its roots in unresolved trauma from a very turbulent childhood of living with an alcoholic mother. These heavy, unresolved, fear-based emotions had snowballed into a stronger force of depression and anxiety, which in turn, led to the traumatic suicidal ending of that life. The fear and guilt of this trauma had carried over to impact her present life. She then saw how the beeping noises of the hospital instruments where she was drawing blood had triggered the unconscious memories of the beeping noises of the controls of the plane as it crashed into a mountain, creating the fear and panic that had paralyzed her at work.

Three weeks after her session, Amber emailed me an update. She wrote: “Right after the session, my anxiety was nearly all gone! So many insights came to me. I was able to go right back to work, and I’m feeling so much better. Thank you so very much!”

We have physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy bodies. When we die with intense, heavy pain or emotions, this energy can sometimes carry over to impact a present incarnation. Within ourselves lies not only the source of our trauma, but also the solution to our trauma. Since we are multi-dimensional beings, we have the capacity to move to higher vibrational realms to connect with our eternal soul selves and higher guidance to receive insight, clarity and healing.  We can then move forward in our present life, free from the heavy traumas of the past that hold us back in this life. Then we can more easily allow the brilliance of our soul selves to shine through.

Join the Past Life Regression Workshop!

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You are an incredible, magnificent soul being that is eternal, indestructible and outside of time and space, and you are using your human experience to grow, learn and evolve. I love sharing the evidence of this with people in the past life regression workshops that I facilitate. I also love sharing fascinating case studies that not only demonstrate our multi-dimensional nature, but also how we can easily connect to our “more permanent” self for healing, wisdom and clarity in our present life.

One of my favorite teachers, Paramahansa Yogananda, often emphasized the value of community, especially when embarking on the spiritual journey. At this event, you will have the opportunity to enjoy time with like-minded souls who are focused on spiritually evolving which can have a profound effect on your growth. We can all benefit from more high-quality, joyful connections that open our heart. I hope you will join us at this unique event on March 23, 2024.

There will be plenty of time for questions as well as experiencing a group-guided past life regression. For more details or to register, visit https://www.ericjchristopher.com/workshops/.

I look forward to seeing you there!

 

Life Between Lives Transcription

Save the Last Dance for “All That Is”

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Every couple of months I receive a newsletter from the mystic spiritual teacher, trance channel and karmic astrologer, Joan Pancoe. I’ve always enjoyed her sense of humor intertwined with spiritual teachings, which always reminded me of Ram Dass. It’s no wonder that she is a big fan of Ram Dass. Her spiritual teachings are pretty consistent with what I’ve read from many other spiritual teachers, as well as my own experience from guiding over 4,000 past life regressions. Her latest newsletter succinctly shares our soul’s perspective behind the many incarnations we take, and explains the diversity of human lives we may experience here on planet earth. I wanted to share her latest teachings with all of you because it is worth reading. Please enjoy these words by Joan Pancoe by clicking on this link to read her latest teaching.

 

Case 1: Awakening to the Light and Love Inside of Us

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Our problems, personal as well as global, can be clear pointers to what no longer works for us, and therefore, they can be the starting point to reclaim our power. And even while we as individuals are stuck in a limiting pattern, there is a part of us that remains free from the constraints of our mind programs, and offers a clearer way of perceiving. This internal wisdom is available and can offer guidance that is based in a more permanent reality, the soul state, which is motivated from a background of love and safety rather than a background of fear, which is common in the human state. I see examples of this in nearly every session. Here is an example of the insights that come from this truer reality.

Client Background

Jane’s initial reason for doing a past life regression was to gain clarity on her life purpose and whether or not she should relocate to another state. But what can happen in a past life regression is that a person’s higher self may have a different agenda and want to give insight and clarity on something else in a person’s life that it deems is more important.

Client Experience

Jane’s regression began as a woman in a blissful marriage with children, until her husband died suddenly. She grieved for a long time after her husband’s death, overwhelmed with loneliness and guarding her heart from further emotional pain.

Jane suddenly recognized that she was repeating the same pattern in her present life. But then as the past life personality grew older, she was shown another perspective. She began to pour love into her children and grandchildren, which in turn, came back to her, creating a full, rich life. It was important for her to see how she could overcome her hurt and loss by giving love to others. In the afterlife, she experienced her soul self, a higher level of consciousness free of the learned, limiting, egoic mind patterns. This is usually the most healing part of the session as insights drop in as a result of a larger perspective and higher vibration state. The eternal part of her was able to reconnect with the eternal part of her husband in the past life, whose loss had created years of stuck anguish. She was then able to experience the truth that love transcends all loss.

Client Results

A week after the session, Jane shared in an email this wisdom: “You know that deep love I described feeling for someone else? I am now feeling it for the beautiful essence that lives in me. My heart feels full, complete, and perfect just the way it is. This morning I felt a deep comfort with the person I truly am and was able to begin experiencing what it is like to BE THAT person inside of this body.  And, I love it.  The answer isn’t “out there” as to where I need to move or what I need to do.  It is being at home in me where ever the path leads.  My fear was that in the regression I would run into a real YUK of a person from another life.  That was only my shame and guilt that is so made up.  The real person in all of us is so beyond the denseness we humans can so easily sink into.

When I return for another session, it is not so much about going thru past lives as it will be staying in touch with the beautiful love energy I feel for ME. That kind of love will only radiate more of the same in others. Right now, I am so enjoying for the first time having a sense of who I am and it is with deep gratitude for your skillful way of bringing me home to myself. THANK YOU.”

Eric’s Comments

One of the greatest benefits of past life regression is tuning into the permanent self that transcends these lives. You can actually experience this higher dimensional self to be deeply anchored in the present moment and free of the subtle, subconscious thoughts that hold us back in life. It’s a great respite to become rooted in the clarity of your true self, free of fears and lack. This part of us is always available and lies just beyond our thinking mind. As we become more acquainted with our soul while here on earth, we will begin to awaken from the human condition of “egoic sleepwalking.”

Case 2: Uncovering the Source of a Mother’s Fear

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This case study reveals how past life regression can be very healing on multiple levels. This modality often has a “trickle down” effect of alleviating all kinds of subtle fears, even ones that you cannot pinpoint and articulate, because it’s all about allowing the innate wisdom of your Higher Self to guide you. It knows precisely what you need to heal, evolve and move forward…more than your conscious mind does.

Client Background

A young mother (I’ll call her Beth) came in for past life regression therapy to deal with anxiety, depression and some anger. Whenever her 1½ year old son cried, especially at night, she would get chest tightening fears and anxieties about being a bad mother and not doing a good job.

Client Experience

Beth regressed to a life as an English military officer in WWI who gave orders that resulted in the death of many soldiers. As a decorated officer after the war, he visited the families of some men who had died in battle, and felt guilty and responsible for the grief and struggle that he caused in these fatherless homes. Here are Beth’s words from the session: “As I grow old, I become mean and grumpy because I ruined so many people’s lives under my orders, and bitter because I had no choice. I don’t talk about it. I think a lot about Jesus and I hope I go to heaven. I didn’t treat my wife well until I started to die.”

The soul stayed around until after the funeral because it was only after death that he was finally able to take in the love that people had for him. Here are some of the reflections from the vantage point of the soul: “People are proud of those medals, but I had to do a lot of bad stuff to get them. I wanted to let them love me in that life, but I thought if they knew what I did, they wouldn’t have loved me. I can take in that love now and it feels so good. I can be at peace…Time to go…If I come back I want to make a happy home.”

In the soul realm, the soul apologized to the souls of the families who were affected by his orders. We can do this because everyone and everything is ultimately interconnected – especially where there are unresolved issues between beings. But, as so often happens in that realm, a knowing response came back that apologies are unnecessary since everyone was blindly role-playing on earth, and everything ultimately turns out fine in the end. Human struggles become opportunities for soul growth. We then could easily release the unresolved thought-form energy of guilt, anger and fear that the military officer died with, and thus got carried over into this incarnation, resulting in Beth’s chest-tightening fears when her baby cried. She then got back warm, bright love…the natural replacement. This resulted in a higher vibration, and then insights began to drop in: “I need to be with my son from love, not fear. It’s ok to have feelings and feel frustrated at times, it doesn’t mean I’m a bad mother. I know I’m a good mother. It’s safe to be myself and be the loving, great mother that I am.” We then let her body fully feel that truth at the cellular level which allowed it to sink deeper in her subconscious mind.

Client Results

Six weeks later, Beth wrote this in an email: “The session was a big help to me. I felt better right away regarding my son and his crying at night. As the weeks went by, I slowly started feeling less anxious on deeper levels. Not sure how to explain it, but it was just a sense that this life is just one life among many. I knew that before, but after the session for some reason it took a lot of the anxiety away from my everyday life.” When I saw Beth again 5 years later, she reaffirmed that the deep-seated anxiety and anger remained gone ever since the session.

Eric’s Comments

Sometimes we can understand things intellectually, but it doesn’t resonate until we really know it at a deeper “body” level. Beth believed intellectually that her present life as a mother was one of many lives, but towards the end of the session, she was able to feel and experience her “eternalness” while steeped in the freedom, peace and clarity of her soul self. The immortality of her true self “upgraded” from a belief to an inner knowing, thus integrating more deeply into the body/subconscious mind. Then she could more easily feel and live from the truth of her soul instead of conditioned fear-based beliefs.

The feelings of deep inner assurance are within all of us. In fact, we can’t escape them because they are an aspect of who and what we are as a soul, but they do get covered up in this human experience. What I’ve noticed over the years is that for some people, the wisdom and insights of the soul can easily sink in deeply after only one session, while others may need another “reinforcement” session or two, depending on their essence. Whether a person experiences a past life regression, a Life-Between-Lives or an Emotional Healing and Awakening session, each one or a combination of them will deepen and strengthen the integration of the soul’s perspective. This, in turn, can loosen and heal life-long mental and emotional patterns that hold one back in life and thus bolster one’s identity as a multi-dimensional being.

Case 3: Overcoming the Deep Grip of Shame

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“Just as our body’s instinct is to breath, the soul’s instinct is to evolve.” These words came from a spirit guide of one of my clients. Such beautiful and succinctly simple words of truth perfectly sums up what is evident in past life regressions…it’s all about growing, healing, evolving, and gaining clarity and insights from a higher vantage point.

Client Background

This case example involves a common human experience…shame. Mary was not even aware that she was carrying shame, and she didn’t come to her session with a clear issue to work on. She simply wanted to do a past life regression. It’s helpful with past life regressions to make a statement of intent for the inner journey, even if you don’t know what you want to work on. So, in Mary’s case, her intent for the session was a good one given that she didn’t have an issue to work on. It was: “To become aware of patterns, behaviors and beliefs that are keeping me from growing, learning life lessons, and spiritual growth.”

Client Experience

During the regression to her past life, Mary saw herself as a young boy in his very early years growing up without a father. Then, around the age of 6, he also lost his mother. Living in a rural village, he was cared for only by various “volunteers” from the village who did it out of obligation, which he could sense. He never developed a strong bond with anyone and felt alone and isolated early on in life, feeling ashamed about not having a family like other kids. As the years passed, he grew into a quiet, gruff, lonely man who never had a relationship and whose only job was the monotonous, laborious job of clearing rocks from fields. His only entertainment was drinking in a pub, usually by himself, listening to the stories of other people’s lives. “There’s laughter and joy, but I don’t feel it. I wish I did. I feel sad when I leave the pub.” He lived alone, and then ultimately died alone.

After the life was over, he moved into the higher consciousness of the soul realm. From the lighter vibration of the soul, Mary reflected upon the life: “It was a sad, lonely, stuck life from the start, with too much shame to even seek help when I was young.” It was clearly evident how the early shame from not having a family expanded into a growing, dark cloud of isolation and loneliness that greatly impacted his view of himself and his experience of life. Mary then understood the lesson of that life: “To realize that I am worth being helped and saved, and it takes courage to take that step. I had to let go of the shame I held.” She then saw and felt the joy, peace, freedom, strength and empowerment that would have come, and does come, from releasing shame. After the regression experience was over, it became clear (as always) that she had received from her higher self/higher guidance precisely what she asked for in her statement of intent — shame was what she needed to release from not only her past life, but also from her present life as well.

Eric’s Comments and Further Healing

It might be more accurate to say that shame isn’t so much “released” as seen through and no longer believed, thus the energy of it dissipates. Shame is a deep-seated belief of lack about who you are…it cannot be easily released from the logical mind, so the antidote is to go to a higher level of consciousness, where it can be seen through. Albert Einstein suggested you cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it, but you can at a higher level. Shame does not make sense from the vantage point of the soul. So, in her session, while immersed in the higher dimension of her soul self, Mary experienced the expanded vibrations of her truer “unconditioned Self”, free of the programming and conditioning of her past life and also this present life that contributed to her shame, and therefore she experienced the freedom and clarity that comes from being harmoniously grounded in the truth of her real eternal Self.

Mary’s higher self had showed her that particular past life and its lessons so that she could apply it to this life. She had certainly released a layer of shame, but sometimes releasing the sticky beliefs of shame from one’s present life requires a bit more present life healing work, and this was the case with Mary. She reported that after the session, heavy, negative feelings began to surface which she soothed by eating sugary foods. I explained that when you are in a higher vibration state of the soul, you are in pure freedom, and freedom calls anything to the surface which is not free. So, when you come back to your earth life, negative feelings, thoughts and beliefs such as shame can rise to the surface if and when they are ripe and ready to be released from your body/mind system. We carry much of this toxic thought-form energy in the cells of our body. Keep in mind that this negative thought-form energy often gets passed down through the generations like a virus, so when you heal it, you are also helping to clean up mass consciousness from many generations. It is interesting to note that those negative feelings and beliefs of shame are low vibration and they want to be fed low vibration food like processed sugar and fast food, etc. The energy of shame doesn’t quite like fresh pressed juice and smoothies nearly as much. A by-product of healing the unconscious shame patterns that have been passed down through the generations is that it feels so much easier and more natural to eat healthier.

I explained that the past life session was all about pointing out what she needed to do, because she asked for it in her statement of intent. So, Mary came back when she was ready to begin the process of releasing the thought-form energy of negative feelings and beliefs from the traumas and challenging experiences from the early years of her present life. We released that limiting thought-form energy from the cells of her body and subconscious mind with the Present Life Emotional Healing session…a safe, easy process of releasing trauma and limiting beliefs from the body and subconscious mind while connecting to the freedom and wholeness of one’s soul self.

Client Results

A few weeks after her Present Life Emotional Healing session, Mary wrote to me that her second session had been a profound cathartic healing, and she felt so much lighter. Some repressed negative emotions would occasionally arise, but they were not overwhelming or frightening and she was easily able to let them go as they came up. Her chiropractor was even amazed saying that her body was checking completely different after her session.

Eric’s Comments

This is a good example of how a past life regression and the Present Life Emotional Healing session can work powerfully and effectively together to help a person leap forward in their personal and spiritual evolution. The emotional healing session may sound scary and difficult because, after all, who wants to look at a swamp of negative feelings? But what keeps it stuck is subtly avoiding it, and the keys to release it involve giving it your full attention for a few minutes in a safe space. Then you will feel much lighter after the session. It is very rewarding. People tend to see, feel and experience noticeable results after each session.

I am reminded of Paramahansa Yogananda’s quote: “As you heal yourself, you do your part in healing the world.” Everyone benefits from your healing…from loved ones to strangers to even your ancestral generational line. You will also find it easier to love people, especially those close to you, because the repressed emotions within you which they previously triggered have now been dissipated. And you will experience that this is a much more free and harmonious way to live!

Healing a frozen shoulder

Case 4: Healing a Frozen Shoulder

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Client Background

A retired medical doctor (I’ll call him Jim) came in one day with a frozen left shoulder. He could not lift it very high at all. It had been bothering him for many years, and he had been to the Mayo Clinic several times and had tried a lot of alternative healing techniques for it, but nothing helped very much. He decided to try past life regression.

Client Experience

Jim regressed back to a life as a large, stout Roman soldier who had a strong sense of duty to his country. He was very good at what he did, and that was killing people and putting down peasant uprisings. He described carrying a big shield with his right hand, and with his left hand he carried a large, sharp sword and was a killing machine with his left arm. After his death in that life, his soul moved up into the high vibration of the spiritual dimension. It was then that Jim became emotional with tears of guilt, as he suddenly became aware of all of the fatherless homes he had created. He said, “We didn’t always have to fight, we could have settled conflicts verbally. I’m having trouble forgiving myself.” Then it dawned on him that that guilt might have something to do with his frozen shoulder. I suggested that while he was connected to his higher soul self, he should call upon all of the souls that he killed or negatively affected in that past life. He sensed many souls come around and he gave a heart and soul-felt apology. The answer that came back was that all was forgiven…he was simply acting as most humans do while lost in the human experience. He then experienced a flood of light and what felt like healing energy come into his energy system. Insights about his soul lesson began to drop in, and he said, “I needed to listen to my heart more, there’s a price to pay for blindly following the duty for country if the leaders are not necessarily on the right path.”

Client Results

After the session, Jim had a big smile on his face as he effortlessly raised up his left arm and shoulder. I saw him again at a talk by Dr. Larry Dossey three years later. Jim walked up to me and raised his left arm and shoulder saying, “You know Eric, that session we did was the only thing that ever really worked for this shoulder.”

Eric’s Comments

As we go within, our higher guidance system will show us a life that is having a strong impact on the present life, especially if we ask for it. At a deep level, there was something that needed resolution…and that something was affecting the physical, mental and emotional energy bodies of Jim’s present life. Once we got that resolution, the healing could happen at a very deep level. Quantum science tells us that we are energy beings. We are also multi-dimensional, and part of us lies outside of this time/space continuum. Unresolved thoughts, feelings and perspectives from a past life can affect a person’s present life. As one tunes into their eternal soul mind for solutions, their innate wisdom will very often show them the source of a particular problem or issue. Interesting to note that Jim became a doctor in this life to help people heal and live a better life, perhaps to make up for the life in which he took life away from people.

Case 5: A Mother’s Love

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Past Life Regression would probably be better understood if we changed the name to “Higher Self Therapy” because as you go within, the process consistently gives you precisely what you need to help you move forward in the way that you most need, especially if you ask for it.  The following case study is a perfect example of how past life regression can work. The name of my client is changed.

Client Background

Mary, a woman nearing 60, had tears in her eyes as we talked about the passing of her mother just prior to her past life regression. “I just need to know if my mom really loved me,” she cried. Although she may have intellectually understood that her mother probably loved her, there were no words that could reassure her at a deeper level because her subconscious mind didn’t fully believe it because of a hurtful growing up experience of feeling rejected and neglected. Fortunately, past life regression connects a person to their higher self, and this part of her knew exactly what she needed in the session.

Client Experience

Mary saw a past life of a happily married, wealthy woman with several children. “Home feels good…there’s nothing to want for.” But a few years later, her 9-year-old daughter suddenly became ill and died. She was too grief-stricken to nurture her other children. “It feels like part of me is gone…the other children need me but I can’t be there all the way. I never got over the loss of my daughter.” In the soul realm after the past life was over, she said, “I couldn’t give my children what they needed…the love was there but couldn’t be expressed.” Then the insight began to sink in that Mary’s mother in this life was carrying so much pain from her own past that she couldn’t express the love for her children that had always been there underneath the many stressors of her life.

Client Results

A week after the session Mary wrote, “It’s the most unusual thing, as a result of my past life regression, I know my mother loves me. It always felt that she didn’t love me because I thought she saw something in me that was not lovable, not worthy of love…I was given a gift from my higher self. It’s a gift of knowing I was loved by my mom. Up until now, I was unable to “know” this deep down. Knowing is the only word I can think of to use, yet it doesn’t feel like the same knowing as in everyday terms. I am so grateful. This is a gift more valuable than any gift.”

Eric’s Comments

Past life regression is an effective means to help you understand and know at a deep core level the truth of your value and worth, as well as helping you to become more acutely aware of the love within a family that is always there beneath the hurts and misunderstandings. This is because the process bypasses the intellectual mind and trumps the subconscious mind’s beliefs of unworthiness which are based in life’s hurtful experiences. The process connects you to a higher soul dimension of yourself that not only is based in love, but can also see through the subconscious mind’s programming and conditioning from the earth life. You begin to understand and experience your wholeness and completeness beneath the ego mind’s negative thoughts, feelings and beliefs that arise as the result of early challenging circumstances in earth life.

Case 6: Discovering the Roots of Anxiety

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Many of us are just beginning to understand and identify ourselves as multi-dimensional beings. Yes, we are human beings, but we are also spiritual beings using a body. This means that as we go deep within, we gain a respite from the busy world of our lives and of our minds. As we go deeper, we tune into a built-in inner guidance system that is invested in our growth. Deep peace and clarity can be experienced, as well as answers and solutions to long standing problems. Here’s a case example that demonstrates this.

Client Background

Shelly was curious about experiencing a past life regression and decided to focus on a feeling of anxiety that was always beneath the surface, particularly in large crowds. She had a vague fear of not trusting people and was often on edge, even at home, as though an intruder might break in. She also had a phobia of having anything around her neck.

Client Experience

As Shelly allowed her consciousness to go deep within, she became aware of a life of an African male slave brought to America on a ship, feeling confused, scared and angry. Here are a few descriptive excerpts from the session: “Fields… cotton…I bond with others, but feel alone. We don’t laugh…always a sadness…I run away…there’s overwhelming fear, I’m going to be caught. I’m running as fast as I can go…starting to hear dogs…run through a stream…feet cut…they’re closer…caught me…whip me…going to hang me. I leave the body just before they hang me…I watch it from above…I’m free…”

In traumatic deaths, the soul often leaves before the body is actually dead. As we progressed further into the freedom of the soul realm, we released the fear and confusion that was left over from that life and replaced it with energy of the soul — happiness, playfulness and joy — the part that was lost when the fear energy covered it up. Because we are all energy beings, dense, fear-based energy can become like a sticky residue on our physical, mental and emotional energy bodies, particularly after traumatic deaths, and thus impact the current incarnation. During a session, a person’s inner guidance will often show them a life that is most impacting this life.

Client Results

A few weeks after the session, Shelly shared this: “It wasn’t until after the session that I really realized how anxious I was. Immediately after the session I felt different, lighter, like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I couldn’t believe how great and relaxed I felt! I was curious to see if the change was permanent or if my anxiety would slowly creep back. After a week or two, I realized looking back that I had been anxious all the time, not just in ‘certain situations’. I had never felt as relaxed as I did after the session, nor for that long a period of time. What turned out being something I wanted to do out of curiosity and for fun, ended up being the most positive life changing experience and the best money I’d ever spent!”

Eric’s Comments

The healing part of the session occurs in the peace and clarity of the soul realm. Not only do we experience a higher vibration, but we are actually tuning into a higher dimension of ourselves. We are multi-dimensional beings, so an aspect of us is already steeping in what we are looking for at a conscious and subconscious level. Within ourselves lies tremendous resources for insights, releasing of limiting feelings and beliefs, and discovering the truth of our being. Once we have experienced it, we know it. But it’s easy to forget in this dense physical reality…the veil is strong. We all need gentle reminders of our inner resources.

Healing Intense Fear and Abandonment

Case 11: Healing Intense Fear and Abandonment

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Carl Jung said, “Healing is about becoming conscious of that which is unconscious.” As we see through our limiting blocks, we become freer. One way to help us awaken is to place full focus and attention on whatever holds us back.

Client Background

Mike (name changed for confidentiality) came in with a “gripping, intense fear of rejection and abandonment” that was dampening the potential of his current relationship, causing misunderstandings, as well as social anxiety. Most intense, negative feelings are the result of old, stuck emotional energy in the body that gets replayed in different circumstances with other people throughout our lives. So, during his session, we allowed these specific fears to show him when they first occurred.

Client Experience

The fears brought us to a scene of Mike as a 5-year old boy in this present life, a common starting age for most issues. His mom and dad played an innocent trick. They pretended to leave the house and go on a family outing while Mike was sitting in a chair backwards with his legs caught in the wooden slats of the chair. While the adult mind can laugh it off in retrospect, the 5-year old child’s brain is not developed enough to process intense emotions, and so he could only feel the panic and fear from the abandonment of his caregivers.

Since this small child was unable to adequately express, articulate, or discharge these emotions from the body, these feelings became stuck energy in his chest and stomach area. Then, through the Law of Attraction (like vibration attracts like vibration), the vibration from this fear-based energy formed repetitive patterns with similar emotions which replayed in various times throughout this life for the next 40+ years.

An unconscious part of us finds and attracts circumstances and people into our lives that replay these stuck emotions in the body, which often relate to one of our soul lessons. However, once the origin of this fear is discovered, the mind can process the information and then release the negative energy from the body, replacing it with one’s own source energy or potential. This healing process lightened Mike’s vibration and heightened his perspective. Then, as he began processing and releasing the stored energy of past trauma, his consciousness spontaneously showed him a different lifetime.

In this one, he had died in a car accident at night, alone on a dark road at the age of 20. This past life death scene related to a lingering sense in this life of being alone and lost, as well as a feeling of impending doom that surfaced within his consciousness every time he drove across the state late at night to visit his parents. It also explained why he had the persistent thought in high school, “I just want to live past 20.” As the origin of these thoughts and feelings entered his awareness, they could be energetically released, which also freed him of perplexing physical ailments on the right side of his body. Once we uncovered the first layer of fears from his childhood, the second layer revealed itself.

Client Results

After the session, Mike wrote this in a review: “My session with Eric was very enlightening. I was able to see the event with a clarity that I never have before. I saw details that I had not remembered before and we were able to go through it step-by-step. I was never afraid or upset, but able to understand and release all the complicated elements of it. I have even been able to talk about it with friends now without fear.

Throughout the next day after my session, I became increasingly aware of a physical change in my body. The center of my chest felt oddly solid. As I thought about it, I realized that for as long as I can remember, I had a hollow trembling in my chest at the base of my sternum. It was only the absence of it that made me aware of how serious it was. I had even gone to see a doctor to have my heart checked, but he said it sounded normal. I’ve had several stressful things happen since and was able to handle them in much more rational ways.”

Eric’s Comments

Although these were two different lifetimes, they were very connected and similar in emotional content. Mike’s feelings of abandonment, rejection and aloneness became much less, and the relationship with his partner improved and became closer and deeper. This is an example of how we can liberate ourselves from the pain and suffering that occurred in the past, bit by bit, layer by layer. Then we can begin to live more easily from our authentic selves which are unclouded by limiting fears.