Past Life Therapy - A hope from the Past

Past life therapy or reincarnation therapy is based on the karma theory and on ancient Hindu Scriptures but the therapy has come in from the west. We know that the west does not believe in reincarnation but for many years now Dr. Brain Weiss has given it a new face through his book Many Lives Many Masters. Many psychiatrists and healers have done some amazing work and through this column I am going to share the many real life stories of people from all over the world. It has been a fascinating journey for me with my work here Bombay which I will share with you through my patients reliving their lives and in effect relieving themselves from their medical and emotional symptoms.

  Let me begin with the case of Santosh (name changed).  He was a 41-year-old man who called for an appointment, as he felt that what was happening to him could not have a rational explanation. He had visited a psychiatrist who had prescribed some tranquilizers for his anxiety and depression but they were not helping his condition except making him drowsy. Someone gave him the book I mentioned above and he decided to visit me.

  On the first meeting he told me that he had shifted from Delhi in 2005 for vocational reasons with his family. This was the first time that he was in the city. He lived in the suburb and would travel every day in the AC bus to Worli. He used to catch the bus from a certain stop, which was near his home. A few days later in July he decided to catch the bus from its starting point. That day everything changed for him. He walked to the bus stop and while he waited at the bus he saw a woman aged 35 years. She was someone whom he had never met, heard of or seen before. Something happened to him. He felt he knew her and wanted to help her. He felt that he was meant to help her. A couple of days went but he could not shake this feeling that he had to help her and that he had to see her face. He started catching the bus everyday at the same time and the day the woman would not come he would be inconsolable. He began to have crying spells and depressive symptoms. He could not sleep, eat and work. He just didn’t know what to do? He shared this happening with one of his colleagues who joked and said that he was in love and thus behaving like a love lorn person. Santosh refuted this and said this woman troubled him as if he had done something to her and now will have to pay for it. Every moment he felt that he had to see her face. This continued for more than 10 months. Till his friend gave him the book. Everything changed for him when he went through his sessions.

  Santosh was put in an altered state of consciousness which is like hypnosis though here the therapist does not give suggestions but guides the person where the source of the problem lies in this life or in the past many lives that we have lived.

 Santosh was a good subject and was able to relax and follow the instructions well. He regressed into a life that he had led in 1925 where the woman he saw at the bus stop was his wife and they lived in a quiet mountainous place which we can infer as he saw them living in a wooden house. They were happy and loved each other. Suddenly one night there was a sound and he went out and encountered a tiger. In this fateful moment the tiger killed him. Thus the life that opened for him was not from infancy onwards but he was guided by his soul to see and re experience the moment of death so that the answers to his question, which had been troubling him, can come to him and insight can be developed. Santosh during the session cried and shouted in pain. He also felt and saw that when he dies and his soul left his body his wife was crying with her head bent down. As he was leaving her and moving upwards the only wish and thought he had been – ‘I want to see her face’. This was the same thought that had made him crazy the whole year.

 After this he regressed further in the next session in a life Britain that was a life in 1892 where he was married to the same woman and then saw his present son as his younger son and his brother in this life as his elder son. He saw his father who was not involved with the family and spent time reading the newspaper. There was no relationship with him and in this life too he lost his father early and did not have nay relationship with him. This is how the soul carries forward relationships that you have not been able to cope with but have still not chosen to do anything about it. In this life too Santosh dies young leaving his wife to look after the children. He is so upset that he decides to be around and we know that the soul can visit the earthly planes when it desires too especially when he has left things incomplete or undone. He sees his elder son harassing his mother and she is thrown out of the house. This life opened further the reason why she had not chosen him in this life. It is important to know that when a soul chooses another person it is in the hope that by being with the person the karmic lessons will be learnt. The woman who was seen at the bus stop had already had two lives with this person who somehow had left her to fend for herself and she had learnt her lesson to live on her own from being with Santosh in both the lives and hence did not need to choose to be with him again. Santosh on the other hand has not had enough of her and would like to help her, as this is what his soul felt in both the lives. So Santoshs soul created a situation at the age when he passed away in one of the lives so that he could see her and develops insight into his pain and grief of leaving her. He needs to see that she is all right and being looked after.

This is a unique case as the regression yielded results really fast and all his symptoms of pain, sleepiness, crying spells disappeared. He says that he is free of the agony and can feel normal again.

Santosh had other symptoms like back pain and fear of heights which were also relieved when he visited two other lives where he was a warrior who was unmarried and died when a sword was pierced in his back and magically the pain receded. Living a life of a priest during the Roman times and spreading the message of Christ he angered the Romans and he was tied in net and thrown down the mountains. Here too he was unmarried and old. Miraculously the fear of heights disappeared and he was able to look down from the 16^th floor of a building.

Santosh is today free of the symptoms for which he visited me earlier and within 5 sessions he has been able to function normally.

He is still traveling by the same bus but now it is twice a week.  He has learnt to distance himself from her, as it is not right to interfere with her decision that has been made in this life.

There are many things that are beyond science and we need to respect the soul and what it is showing us to evolve us further. A little prayer of thanks is always done after every session for my personal spirit guide who helps me.