Past life regression

Reincarnation Therapy or Regression Therapy is the name of a method from the field of esoteric and alternative medicine. This is not to psychotherapy in the scientific or legal sense and is not an approved medical treatment. Nevertheless, the method is popular among followers of the esoteric. Reincarnation therapy presupposes the belief in reincarnation ( rebirth). The aim is usually either a gain in knowledge, or attempt to overcome psychological injury, the cause of which should be in a past life. This could be achieved by re-experiencing and subsequent catharsis. Often this hypnotic techniques are used.

Reincarnation and therapy

The concept of reincarnation ( rebirth) is rejected in Christian, Jewish and Muslim cultures in general and devalued as superstition. Nevertheless, it is an integral part of two world religions, Hinduism and Buddhism. Thus, about 1.5 billion people believe in reincarnation. However, the concept of recycling therapies as a healing therapy for mental disorders or diseases not common rite of traditional cultures. That people past and future lives as well as have the concept of karma, but is a normal part of the self-understanding of the faithful of these religions.

The reincarnation therapy is a relatively new discovery and enjoys especially in the Western world some popularity. It is practiced by alternative therapists, health practitioners or esoteric institutions, but also one of the practices of some new religious groups and sects. American reincarnation therapists are Michael Newton, Morris Netherton, Brian L. Weiss, Bryan Jameison, Maxwell Maltz and Roger J. Woolger, Dutch representative is Hans Tendam ( Minister of EARTh - European Association for Regression Therapy ), German representative example Thorwald Dethlefsen, Jan- Hendrik Gunter, defiance Hardo, Jan Erik Sigdell, Christoph von Keyserling and Baldur Ebertin, a Swiss representative, for example, Alexander Gosztonyi.

Reasons for returns

From a regression therapy a mere return is to be distinguished. There are deals to be experiencing repatriations without therapeutic targets and therapeutic skills even without the return leader. In a regression therapy a return is performed with the intent to cure problems in the current life or relieve by rogue Remembering experiences before birth or from past lives. A regression hypnosis is used in particular for the retrieval of memories in life to date to integrate concrete unresolved childhood experiences.

Spiritual basis

The most directions of reincarnation therapy, assume the following from:

• There is a reincarnation connected to a further development of the individual through various life ( Western conception of reincarnation ).
• In actual life of man is given the opportunity from his actions in previous lives to learn ( west interpreted doctrine of karma ).
• Mental and physical problems can be caused by experiences in earlier incarnations.
• A memory of past lives is possible.
• Through forgiveness and love entanglements can be dissolved in earlier situations and greater freedom can be achieved.

History

Already in early hypnosis appeared imaginations of returns in past lives. Other forerunners of today's regression therapy were psychiatrists as Alexander Cannon in the UK and Inácio Ferreira from Brazil, today's problems trying to explain with distant trauma. The first psychiatrist who began to treat people this way and also made ​​publications, Denys Kelsey was from the UK, who published the first book on regression therapy 1968. But the methods he used were still the classical hypnotherapy. In Germany Thorwald Dethlefsen was the pioneer of reincarnation therapy. In the 1980s, published and taught people how Winafred Lucas, Roger Woolger, Trisha Caetano and Hans Tendam about this rapidly expanding field. Since the late 80s to the term regression therapy, or regression therapy, imposed on the practitioners. Alexander Gosztonyi began to treat clients with repatriations mid-1960s in his practice in Zurich. His findings from over 40 years of regression therapy he has stated in several works. From 1966 to 2005, followed by several publications of the living in the U.S. psychiatrist Ian Stevenson. He investigated and documented many reports of children who reported past-life without hypnosis of " memories ". His lectures and publications contributed significantly to the fact that the idea of reincarnation, and reincarnation therapy has been known in the western world.

Techniques

The requirement to learn a return, is a light trance. In this, the client is guided by the individual therapists in different ways:

• The trance can be produced by hypnosis
• It can also be caused by breathing Holotropic
• Other therapists work with meditation
• There are also people who have learned or who are predisposed to himself to put into this trance, without applying such techniques.
• Using binaural beats in the Hemi-Sync method and Mind Machines.

Careful preparation of a regression therapy begins with a detailed preliminary discussion with the client, in which the issues are discussed, which will clarify in its return to the client. Questions on the following areas are frequently asked:

• What is the life's work of the current incarnation?
• Are there reasons for relationship problems or diseases that could be in the infancy of the current life or in previous lives?
• Contact with deceased loved ones
• Just curious to know more about past lives
• Some regression therapists, for example, Dr. Brian Weiss also offer travel into future lives, to see how the still forthcoming incarnations are designed and how they can take in the current life on impact.

In the actual return of the client is usually performed only in his own childhood. We also find the experience of birth and the time can be remembered during pregnancy. Then the therapist leads the client to the site within the past life to which he would like to travel, to get answers to his questions. After viewing some past lives also view the time in the afterlife between the individual life is possible.

Many regression therapist emphasizes Zeil in therapy is not to review the fantasies of a client on their veracity. Rather, it related to the detection of complications, which are anchored in the subconscious mind and to affect the free development of personality. If it were possible to resolve these complications, this would have a beneficial effect for the client. Reincarnation can also be used purely as a working hypothesis. Some vendors, such as Brian Weiss leads his clients even in future lives as a category of a pure hypothesis.

Criticism

Risks associated with the method

Criticism of the reincarnation therapy depends often against the belief in the concept of reincarnation as such. Due to the idea of repatriation of critics the skeptic movement is in the ridiculous drawn ( " bullshit ", " post-mortem Wiederverfleischungs quark "). However, this criticism approach misses the point of the real risks and depends also to a widespread belief or against widespread religious beliefs, to have every man is free. Such criticism from skeptics movement is a logical deduction from their naturalistic worldview, but distracts from the actual risks.

The actual dangers of reincarnation therapy lie in the fact that some of its methodological core elements (eg regression under hypnosis ), especially with mentally unstable persons, as highly risky apply. Return therapies are therefore not recognized by psychotherapeutic professional associations as a method of psychotherapy. In particular, the dangers of uncontrolled regression are considered particularly sensitive. Reincarnation therapies are, especially when they are applied for the purpose of treatment of mental disorders, an indisputable unscientific procedure with significant risks (eg malignant regression, complications in hypnotic states, psychotic derailments, pathological collusion, loss of self- control ability of the patient continued suggestibility and the omission of the exploration of doctors and licensed psychotherapists).

Risk of healers with insufficient medical knowledge

Since the terms ' reincarnation therapist ' and ' repatriation therapist ' not protected terms, these services are also offered by people who have no medical training in many cases. There is a risk that medical contraindications are not recognized or resulting psychological problems from the repatriation experience are not treated with due care. Anyone who wants to protect Germany against healers with a lack of medical knowledge, should ensure that the repatriation therapist, the one entrusted to a license to practice as a physician, psychotherapist or authorization as a medical practitioner or medical practitioner for psychotherapy.

Cryptomnesia as explanation

Critics of reincarnation therapy cryptomnesia is put forward as a possible explanation. This refers to the recollection of hidden in the memory of experiences.

Organization

Organizations that are involved in the development of this discipline, the International Association for Regression Research and Therapies, the International Board for Regression Therapy, the World Congress for Regression Therapists and the Association for Regression Therapy EARTh EARTh.