An important decision was to be made.  The people in the crowd were refugees who sought to settle in the land of the king.  The king rose from his throne, walked down the steps and said:

“Anan shatlan temuk.”

It was not a language they understood and no one knew what the king said. They were all murmuring nervously amongst each other.  Soldiers surrounded them and the refugees were scared that they would kill them. However, their lives were spared and they were allowed to settle in the outskirts of the town in a separate, designated area where the land was not fertile.  Not much grew there and they mostly raised animals to survive.  It was hard living.  I asked Mario to go into his house and see where he lives.  Tears began rolling down his eyes.

M: My mom is telling me … I am a girl by the way, teenage girl.  I came home and my mother is telling me how hard life is.  Always is and always will be for us.  She loves me very much and she is telling me that life is always hard for us wherever we go.  And I believe her. I listen to her and I nod.  I agree.  We have to work so hard.

R: Is she distressed?  Does she have a heavy burden on her heart?

M: No.  She is not distressed.  She is just telling me how it is for us.  This is our lot in life.

The girl accepted these statements without questioning.  She was experiencing it and seeing it with her own eyes and she never questioned her mother’s attitude.

M: Our lives are really hard.  They always are.  They always will be.

The girl was an only child.

R: How does your mom call you?

M: Anash.

R: And how do you call your mom?

M: Lilia.  She is my mom.  She is my current mother.  She is a lot tougher in this [the ancient] life than she is now but she is the same soul.

Her father was a tall, balding man who had a beard.  The skin of the father was lighter and he looked different than the girl and her mother.  He was her second father.  One day, soldiers came and killed the father with spears right in front of their house.  The mother must have suspected that something could happen because when the solders came she was very organized and quickly hid her daughter inside the house.  He had stolen something the mother knew about.  The mother was not that sad when her husband passed away.

M: The significance of this event is not my father’s death but my mother’s reaction to it.  It confirmed everything that she believed in and has taught me – that life is pain and suffering.  That is our lot in life.  And that is what my mother still tells me today.

The girl got married to a younger man who lived in the town. The older folks refused to integrate but the younger people from Anash’s tribe over the years slowly integrated into the town by marrying and working there.

R: Do you visit your mother often?

M: Yes. I bring her oranges.

Tears rolled down Mario’s eyes and his voice betrayed the emotions he felt. She was often able to sneak away flat round pieces of bread and oranges and bring them to her mother.  Anash’s husband was not well off but he was a miller, which gave them a stable access to food. Life was a little better for Anash now. The house she lived in was an actual house.  It was not a tent or a shack it was an actual home.  There was still no money, or very little but Anash had access to food. He was a Jew and even thought he too was part of a minority group Jews were more integrated in the society than Anash’s tribe.  Mario, as Anash, began saying things in another language and said, “There is all these Hebrew words I know now.”

The next important moment in Anash’s life was the death of her mother.

M: My mother is old.  She is old and sick.  I am touching her face. She is dying.  I am saying that I love her.  She is weak.  She is bony… I was very close with her.

R: How do you feel?

M: I feel very, very upset.  I just feel like she was right – that life is so hard.

The subconscious told us that Mario needed to see this lifetime in order to understand the perception of life being a struggle because he continues to believe that life is difficult. Life is not all pain and suffering.  Changes happen in ways one could never predict.  Things happen in ways one could never expect.  And this is a very important lesson for both Mario and his mother to learn.   She continues to believe really deeply that life is a struggle and her religious believes and everything else in her life confirms that perception.  Life is full of potential.  Miracles do happen and they both need to know that.

In this life, Mario grew up hearing from his mother the very same thing she taught him when they were previously known as Lilia and Anash.  She perceives everything as a problem, nothing works out for her even though through the eyes of an outsider she has a great life.  Mario carried the same attitude in him and while describing the difficulties he was met with he really spoke of his life as something that needed to be constantly fought and survived and he often used the word “struggle.”   This attitude that life is a battlefield had spilled in every corner of his life – his career, his finances, his relationships and his creative expression as an artist.  That belief was the foundation of why he attached to negativity and constantly worried that things were out of his control.

After our session, Mario chose to dissociate from the belief of life as a struggle.   He realized that the circumstances that created the belief do not exist in his life, that he is a different person now.  He realized that he has the power to choose and that he does not need to perceive the world through his mother’s eyes.  He chose to be grateful for everything good that he is given instead of ignoring it and focusing on what is wrong.  To support his new vision every day he writes a positive though on a sticky note and places it on his computer so that the intent of it carries him through the day.

It has been a week now since our regression.  From speaking with Mario I see that the shift in him is permanent.  The understanding that our session brought him freed him from the need to recreate constant struggle in his life.  Just like his higher self said, life is full of potential and miracles do happen.

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What is a spiritual regression session? When you need guidance making decisions, want to resolve emotional and health issues or want to understand your purpose in life and the events that surround you you can turn to a spiritual regression.  It is a truly transformative session during which you will explore a past life and will receive answers to the questions you have from your subconscious, from your Higher Self.  You may have a spiritual experience in which you communicate with your deceased relatives or receive guidance from your angels and teachers.

The power of the subconscious to heal and provide the answers we need is astounding.  I have seen it and have experienced it myself and want to give people the same opportunity to better their lives. 

Does it work? Absolutely.  Even if you are a bit skeptical and uncertain you should give the spiritual regression sessions a chance.  And here is the beauty of it – the sessions work even if you do not believe that the experience was real.  All you need is an open mind and intent to receive the healing and the answers you are looking for.  In most cases the healing and the release of physical symptoms is instant.  Then and there people free themselves of emotional and physical traumas and the answers they receive are authentic, appropriate and wise.

Are you certified? Yes.  I have studied with Brian Weiss and Dolores Cannon.  They are wonderful teachers and I deeply respect them and love their work.

Where do you hold sessions? I hold spiritual regression sessions in New York City and in the Berkshires, Massachusetts.

Why revisiting a past life will help me resolve current issues? We carry over traumas, vows and unresolved issues through lifetimes and they affect us presently.  We also tend to reincarnate with the same souls so that we can work together on lessons, resolve karma, gain understanding and grow spiritually.  Through revisiting a past life you look to experience where the problem began — to see the lifetime and understand the dynamics that originated the issue.  The most miraculous thing about every regression is the instantaneous healing. Just re-living and re-experiencing creates the kind of understanding that is really transformative. The spiritual regression session is unlike regular psychotherapy sessions where people go to a therapist for years and years and nothing gets resolved, and there could come a point where even the therapist becomes part of the problem.

What should I expect? The sessions usually last about four hours.  We will begin by talking about you, your life, the challenges that you have encountered and the reasons that lead you to having the session.  This part of our work is very important because it will give me the information needed so that I can ask your subconscious the right questions and it will allow you to get to know me, feel comfortable with me and assure yourself that you can trust me.

Next, we will proceed with the actual regression. With my guidance you will relax and be in a state of focused concentration.  You will experience your inner reality by moving your focus away from everything that destructs you every second of every day, quieting down and allowing any and all images that come to you to develop.  The subconscious is an amazing, amazing thing.  It will always take you to what is most appropriate for you to see and know at that very specific moment of your life.

During our session you will need to allow all images and senses that come to you to develop. No matter how insignificant or nonsensical they may seem you should not brush them to the side and disregard them.  They could be the thread that pulls you in and allows for the story to develop.  Remember, no movie is delivered to you in a single second.  The storyline develops in a scene after scene and it is only at the end of the movie that all pieces come together.  You should never be concerned if what you see is real.  You need to allow it and flow with it, which is really easy to do.

After we experience a lifetime or two we will reach out to your subconscious and ask that it gives you guidance, answers the questions you have and heals you physically.  The body is a magnificent machine that can repair itself in the most miraculous ways.  We will use your intent for physical healing and the power of the subconscious to heal your conditions, diseases and discomforts.

After you come out of the deep state you were in we will spend some time talking about the experience and how it impacted you.

Will you record the session? Yes, I will provide you with a recording of your session.

How should I prepare for the session? I will ask you to give me the names of the people who are most important to you in this life and their relationship to you.  I will also ask you to prepare a list of a few questions, which you would like to receive guidance on.  In this list I will also ask you to include the health issues that you have.  There may be health problems that you are not aware of, therefore, when you contemplate what you want to accomplish during our session, I will ask that you state to yourself that you have a general intent to heal, even diseases that you are not aware of.

This work is really meaningful and rewarding for me and I look forward to assisting you on your path to growth and understanding.

If you would like to have a spiritual regression session email me at Rethnea{at}yahoo.com.

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In one of the regression exercises we did with Brian Weiss the image of a group of people crawling up a small slope emerged.  I wondered what could this image be and if it is something I needed to brush to the side in my mind in order to get to something more valid.  However, I decided to stay with it and see if it develops.

The picture came into focus.  The group of people was a band of Native Americans.  I wondered which tribe they belonged to and in my head popped the answer that they were with the Plain Indians.  Next, I began searching whether I am among the group of people.  And there I was.  How did I identify myself?  I was drawn to the person I was in that lifetime.  I just knew who I was.  In an instant I knew that my name was Ananachimo.  I kept on repeating the name to myself so I can remember it.  Ananachimo was a young man with an agile, lean and muscular body.  He was tall with long black hair and a strong square jaw.  Around his neck he wore the tooth of a white bear he had killed in a hunting trip up north.

The band of Indians was very careful when ascending the slope.  On the top of the slope there was a flat area where a house was built.  They were spying on the settlers who lived in that house.  The settlers have been invading the lands of Ananachimo’s tribe.

I saw him standing on a hill looking across a valley and other hills as far as the eye can see.  Ananachimo lifted his left hand in front of his shoulder and gave a vow to protect his land and his people from the settlers.

Ananachimo was greatly attuned to nature.  Nature spoke to him.  He heard the whisper of the trees when their leaves were swaying in the wind.  Every flower, bush and blade of grass carried a message that he was able to read.  Ananachimo was also a healer who used herbs to bring back into balance the health of his people.

At the age of 37 an important event occurred in Ananachimo’s life.  He had captured and bonded with a mustang with big red and white spots.  The name of the horse was The Red Lightening.  The white people have somehow taken possession of his mustang.  Ananachimo tried to free it and they caught him and accused him of stealing the horse.  To punish him, the white people tied his hands above his head and whipped him.  I did not see the horror of every whip falling on his back.  I only saw that as the white people began whipping him the horse, which was near by, watched everything and shared Ananachimo’s anger and sense of injustice.  It was raising its front legs, kicking, making terrible noise and trying to free itself.

However, it was all futile.  This event broke Ananachimo’s spirit.  He lost his horse but he also lost faith in his own ability to protect his land and his people.  He felt that great injustice was being done but he was powerless to bring any change.

As time went by things got worse.  His tribe was driven towards the northwest.  They were far away form their hunting grounds.  On a cold day, at the age of 42, Ananachimo died.  He was laying down in his tepee feeling defeated for he could not protect his people, for he could not save them, when his spirit left his body.  Outside mostly women and children form his tribe, as most men have died, were going about their day.  They were cold, hungry and were feeling completely lost.

As the regression was nearing its end I began searching for the soul lesson of that life.  The lesson was about allowing.  I had to learn to allow. I blamed myself for having failed to protect and save my people but the truth was that I could not have saved anyone or protected them from the painful historic events.  I must allow for people’s lives to unfold as they are meant to, because their souls need these experiences.  They have agreed to go through challenges to learn their own lessons and find their own enlightenment.  I have seen the big injustice caused by the white men as an evil I have promised to fight. Yet, I have failed to really be of help in times when I was most needed.  People do not need saving.  People need love, support and encouragement that they can withstand any trials and will always come out stronger, wiser and more compassionate.  I cannot shelter anyone from the storms of life because they will never grow, learn and expand.

But how do you allow?  How do you maintain the balance of being loving, kind and wanting to help against wanting to save people form the injustice of the world or their own silly mistakes? As you have guessed already, this lesson continues to be a challenge for me so many years later.  Even though I changed my gender, my name and my appearance I still want to rush in and shield people.

I left the class session and headed to my room that night with these heavy questions on my mind.  The cabin we are in has two rooms in it.  As we entered we met one of our neighbors who was on her way to the bathroom.  A moment later she realized that she and the other roommate, who was showering, have locked themselves out since both their keys were in their room and the door has locking itself when she pulled to close it.  It was pouring outside and our neighbor was barefoot.  What a situation to find yourself in!  I offered to help.

As I walked in the rain trying to find an Omega staff person I instantly recognized that this little crisis unfolded because of me. It delivered to me the final piece of my lesson.  We should always help people in every way we can.  We should spare no effort when assisting them on their path.  Yet, we should never try to alter the course of their lives by shielding them or trying to save them from their troubles.

I was so grateful to our lovely neighbors.  My lesson has crystallized for me.

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I had my first regression many, many years ago.  I was 13 years old when I read Brian Weiss’ book “Through Time Into Healing”.   In the book he describes different cases, the symptoms each client has, the past life recall which provided the answer to the different ailments and the cure that followed.   At the end of the book there was a script which a person could record on a tape (back then it was a tape ), later play it and experience regression.  I was intrigued by the concept of healing through remembering past lives so I decided to make my own recording.  While doing the recording I was well aware that there is really nothing wrong with me – no phobias, no anxieties, no ailments but I was very curious and wanted to try.

Looking back it is very interesting that I did not question the concept of reincarnation even though it was not part of my upbringing and I even doubt it was ever discussed in my presence.   It just seemed so natural, no normal, as Voltaire says, “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once.”

It was a quiet afternoon during summer break when I had my first regression.  In an instant I was transported to the time of World War II and had the most vivid and absolutely indescribable experience.  It was a short but very emotional sequence of events that lead to my death.  Even now as I am writing my heart begins to pound as I remember the heart-wrenching scenes.  And then the moment of death came.  It was such a peaceful, loving moment that I want to share it with you.

Me, as the observer, as Rethnea, had risen above the commotion that was going on around the former person I was.  Everything was black around me — peaceful, eternal, quiet.  I was observing the scene below me when I saw how at the moment of death my soul lifted from that previous body and began moving upward.  There was a path of light and what looked like an entrance from which the light was emanating.  Next to the entrance was standing a beautiful being of light, waiting to welcome my soul.  I observed how my soul flew towards the light and a feeling of divine tranquility overcame me.  I came out of the regression knowing that death was not something to be feared.

Hypnosis offers the path to recalling past lives.  Because of stage performances at country fairs and TV shows people believe that hypnosis allows for mind control.  This is so far from the truth.  Hypnosis is focused concentration.  Each one of us has experienced hypnosis on so many occasions.  For example when we are driving and all of a sudden we find ourselves having reached a certain point in our trip without knowing how we got there – how we made all those left turns or stopped at traffic lights.  We were just on autopilot while our mind was completely focused on something else.  Hypnosis happens to us when we read and are so engulfed in the story and become part of it that we completely forget that our world is all around us.

There is no harm or danger in hypnosis.  And most importantly you are fully present throughout the whole experience and can get out of the meditative state at any moment if you choose.  Your analytical mind is working just like in your waking state and you can censor and not share with the therapist what you see.  You cannot get stuck in the past life because what you are experiencing is a memory.

I am a great advocate and a believer in using past lives to heal and to achieve a deeper comprehension.  I have gained precious insight into understanding myself and understanding why I am here.  We tend to reincarnate with people with whom we have shared previous lives.  Therefore, revisiting past lives provides a way to understand the connections you share with people and the lessons you are teaching each other.

Revisiting traumatic events in past lives magically does away with present-day aches and pains in your body or phobias and anxieties people have.  Another very important benefit of past-life therapy is that people realize that they are eternal and they loose their fear of dying.  This creates a whole new way of perceiving life and gives them a newfound sense of joy and liberation.

For me personally another added benefit is that I become very psychic.  I believe that all that focusing inward allows for my sixth sense (my intuition) to come forward and take center stage.  Living in the noisy, crowded and busy New York City my intuition gets muffled often, so being fully guided by my psychic senses is something I cherish and look forward to.

Some people wonder whether what they experience is real, whether what they see is an impressive product of their active imagination.  I do not believe it could be.  When one has a real past life recall they know it.  It feels real and meaningful and no one can convince you otherwise.  There is no authority which can confirm the authenticity of your experience, therefore, I cannot offer any hard evidence to those who doubt their regressions.  Yet, here is the beauty of it – It works even if you do not believe in it.  It really does.  Nothing can deceive your soul and when it experiences an authentic healing and a reminder of itself it knows.

I will be blogging from Omega over the next 8 days and will continue sharing with you the new discoveries that regression will lead me to.

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