Releasing Pain with Past Life Regression

Some people spend hours dreaming about their past life or if they even had one. Maybe you are someone who wonders if you used to be a princess or if you fought in a war. Finding out about your past life might be exciting for you, and you might choose to get a past life regression therapy session. This can allow you to remember memories from your life. This experience can be exciting, and it can help you to let go of past trauma that you might still be holding on to.

If you’re someone who is spiritual, finding the truth about your past life can be a big deal. Reincarnation might make sense to you, and you might see that your consciousness changes once you understand that your soul will leave your body at some point or another.

Your soul might want to have another chance in life and will settle into a new body with a new path, new goals, and new thoughts. Each time you reincarnate, you get more karma in your life. Karma may have you dealing with things from your past life in your present life.

When you consider the decision to have a past life regression therapy session, you might wonder if there are things in your current life that can be explained by your past life. Could some patterns be holding you back? What kind of karmic patterns might you find? These memories that are deep can be part of your subconscious life, and this can help you to figure out your real purpose. By understanding who you were in your past life, you can remember who you have become.

Understanding Past Life Regression

What Is Past Life Regression?

Past life regression is a unique kind of healing that invites you to explore where your soul has been before this life. While some people turn to hypnosis or guided meditation to access those memories, the heart of the practice is about connection—connection to experiences you might not consciously remember but that still echo in the background of your current life.

Origins of the Practice

It wasn’t always called “past life regression.” What we now know as this healing method happened almost by chance. Back in the 1980s, a well-known psychiatrist began using hypnotherapy with one of his clients. During a session, she began to recall scenes from what appeared to be a different lifetime—memories that didn’t match her current experience at all. But somehow, they resonated with her emotionally. She also shared information that she had no way of knowing, details that would leave anyone questioning the limits of logic. That experience changed the course of his work and helped shape how we understand soul memory and regression therapy today.

Emotional Symbolism and Healing

The beautiful part? You don’t have to be a full believer in reincarnation for this to be helpful. Whether or not you view past lives as literal history, many people find comfort and healing in the symbolism that emerges. It can feel like opening a hidden book inside yourself, one that helps you understand why certain fears, emotions, or patterns have followed you for years.

Looking for Clarity

Before booking my first past life regression session, I spent time researching different hypnotherapists until I found someone who felt like the right fit. I connected with a practitioner over Zoom, and before we even started, she asked me some thoughtful questions about my life, what I was carrying emotionally, and what I hoped to uncover.

I explained that I’ve always felt this deep sense of loneliness and a fear of being abandoned, the kind that feels almost too big to make sense of. Even though my upbringing was loving and stable, with both parents still together, that lingering ache had never really gone away. I didn’t know where it was coming from, but I wanted to find out.

Slipping Into the Past

Using calming breathwork and guided meditation, my practitioner slowly helped me into a relaxed state, a light trance. She gently led me back through some of my earliest memories, including a moment from a childhood vacation. Then she asked me to recall what it felt like in my mother’s womb. The feeling that came over me was so strong and filled with warmth and love that I cried. From there, she said it was time to go even further back—to a lifetime before this one.

A Different Lifetime

As the images began to unfold in my mind, I found myself somewhere unfamiliar. I saw gray wooden buildings with old-style windows and a dirt road turning into cobblestone. Looking down, I noticed scuffed brown leather shoes and a black-and-white outfit that reminded me of something from colonial America. I realized I was a little boy, maybe 7 or 8, alone in this old town.

That intense, overwhelming feeling of abandonment hit me like a wave. I didn’t have anyone- no parents, no caretakers—and it was obvious they had left me there. I didn’t want to believe it, but deep down, I knew they weren’t coming back. I wandered through the streets, hoping to find a church because I knew that’s where I’d be sleeping. That memory didn’t just sit in my mind—it clung to me, like it had always been there.

A Life of Emptiness

My practitioner kept guiding me, gently encouraging me to follow the thread of that life. I saw myself growing up, living in a coastal city somewhere in New England. I had a lovely home and a family with two healthy sons and a spouse, but none of it made me feel proud or fulfilled. The joy never quite reached me. I carried this heavy, nagging shame, a feeling like I didn’t belong or deserve any of it.

When we moved forward to the moment of my death, everything felt muted and dim. I couldn’t see all the details, but I knew I died alone, by the side of a road, isolated and emotionally drained. I pushed everyone away. I had lost everything I once had. There was no one left.

The Shadow It Left Behind

That past life, if that’s what it truly was, was wrapped in deep loneliness. That was the part that echoed into this life. The emotions didn’t feel like a dream or a story. They felt lived-in. Real. That constant undercurrent of feeling unwanted, unimportant, and unnecessary—but it all started to make more sense.

Going back to those memories helped me name the heaviness I’d always carried but couldn’t explain. That alone was a breakthrough.

Final Thoughts

Your past life regression session might have caused you to change. You might be able to see that being an outsider is okay, or that fearing things like being abandoned came from your past life. The experience can teach you to be kind and compassionate with your feelings and your thoughts.

You can learn to love yourself, and you can get past the worst memories that your soul has for you. You might be surprised at how emotional you are after a session, but if you can release these emotions, then you can see that they don’t have the power over you that they once did.

One great thing is that you can live your life like you never did before. The life that you can live can be loyal, full of love, and full of goodness. If you’ve spent your whole life carrying and holding on to things that you can’t explain in your body, your mind, and your emotions, past life regression therapy can help you to figure out the pain that you’re feeling and help you to let go of it.