The Past Life Perspective: Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Lifetime

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Previously published as: Nine lives (and counting).

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A unique, insightful, and practical look into the enormous power of past life regression therapy to unlock a healing pathway that can help you resolve enduring personal issues, enrich your life, and answer burning spiritual questions about your purpose on this earth.In this rare and fascinating intimate glimpse at past life regression therapy, licensed therapist Ann Barham invites us into her office as she helps her clients mine their unconscious memories for the key past life experiences that can provide specific guidance for their current situations. No longer simply the stuff of new age practitioners, past life regression therapy is a powerful tool that can improve your understanding of your personal challenges and deepen your connection with the world around you. Barham demystifies this intriguing phenomenon, sharing her client's astounding stories, each a clue to the profound influence the personalities of the past have on our thoughts and actions today. As modern science and technology advance at overwhelming rates, many of us crave the healing insights and feelings of eternal love that survivors of near death experiences frequently report. Through past life therapy, everyday people are able to experience prior lifetimes all the way through their deaths, tapping into abiding spiritual truths and answering essential questions about human existence.

Author Biography

Ann C. Barham is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified regression therapist with training in transpersonal psychology, hypnosis, therapeutic imagery, and trauma release modalities. Throughout her nearly twenty year career, she has evolved her practice to merge her interest in spirituality with her counseling work, now focusing almost exclusively on past life regression therapy, which she believes has the greatest healing impact for her clients in the shortest amount of time. She lives in California.

Review

"A wonderful book that helps the reader understand the eternal nature of our existence, as evidenced in fascinating past life stories from actual clients. The spiritual advice that comes through clients' higher guidance rings true! It is a must read if you are interested in matters of the spirit and how we embody our souls in human form."

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"A wonderful book that helps the reader understand the eternal nature of our existence, as evidenced in fascinating past life stories from actual clients. The spiritual advice that comes through clients' higher guidance rings true! It is a must read if you are interested in matters of the spirit and how we embody our souls in human form."

Excerpt from Book

The Past Life Perspective CHAPTER 1 Out of the New Age and into the Mainstream MY COUNSELING career started out fairly conventionally. I earned my master''s degree in counseling psychology from Santa Clara University--a Jesuit university, no less--in the world-famous Silicon Valley of California. And I became licensed as a marriage and family therapist by the state of California in due course. In the midst of my studies, I took a course entitled Therapeutic Imagery. My professor, the late Dr. William Yabroff, was highly regarded but seen as just slightly eccentric within the very conventional Santa Clara faculty; his specialty was the use of guided imagery to deal with psychological and physical symptoms. To my surprise and curiosity, toward the end of the course he introduced the idea that at times clients experience imagery that could be interpreted as past life memory. He claimed he wanted us to be familiar with what this might look like, just in case we encountered it. I learned later that he was very much involved with the regression community at large; this was his way of quietly introducing his passion into the straitlaced Santa Clara program. My professor described the issues that might be related to a past lifetime--some recurring physical ailment, an unresolved relationship dynamic--and asked for volunteers, as he was going to demonstrate a past life regression right there in class. I immediately raised my hand. I recently had undergone surgery on both of my pinky toes due to a condition known as rotated hammer toe, which means the toe lies a bit on its side and slips partway under the neighboring toe, causing the joint to point sideways and rub painfully against the sides of one''s shoes. This had given me some trouble for a few years, but despite surgery and ultrasound treatments afterwards, I was still experiencing pain that interfered with many of my favorite athletic activities. I lay down on the carpet in the front of a class of about a dozen people. My professor used a gentle hypnotic induction to put me in a relaxed state, then directed me to the time and place where the problem with my feet originated. I was startled to find myself seeing/sensing an adolescent girl with Asian features and identifying with her. Then the story just began to roll out from there: she/I was extremely upset because my family had insisted on binding my feet. Not only was it painful, it limited my ability to move about and do things! Unusual for that culture and time period, I was a rather strong-willed young girl, and I decided to defy authority and tradition. With the help of a household servant, I made a plan to run away, but I was caught in the act. This defiant action was considered a terrible disgrace for my family and particularly for my father, who had some position of note in the community. He eventually disowned me and sold me into servitude. I saw images of me walking barefoot and in rags over rough and rocky terrain to a place far from my home. I knew that I was in eternal shame for dishonoring my father. I worked for some time as a kitchen servant, and eventually I used one of the kitchen knives to take my own life because I could no longer bear the disgrace of my position. Dr. Yabroff moved me through the death experience and into a brief life review, looking at the key lessons, decisions, and attitudes carried forward from that lifetime. Some of these focused on the conflict between loyalty to the family versus following my own path--playing it safe versus rocking the boat. Challenging paternal authority seemed to be a pattern that I had carried forward and continued in my current life, along with the belief that I really had to fight for what I believed. The most amazing part of the experience, however, was the fact that my legs quivered uncontrollably as I lay in front of the classroom. It wasn''t painful, however. It was as if my legs were releasing some sort of energy that had been stored in them since that prior lifetime. (I can''t totally explain how this works, but I''ve also had clients shake during sessions as energy is being released. It seems that the physical body can hold on to trauma in some representative manner, a little like birthmarks that we sometimes see that are related to injuries in prior lifetimes.) To my astonishment and that of my classmates, I was back on the tennis court the following day with no foot distress, and those toes have never bothered me again in the twenty-plus years since then. I am in no way claiming that past life work will cure a myriad of physical complaints in one fell swoop, but from this personal experience and from my own private practice, I have seen that it can sometimes make a real difference when modern medicine has hit a block. And as you can imagine, after this first experience with regression in front of the class, my interest to learn more about past life therapy was sparked. The next occasion I had to delve deeper into this unconventional therapeutic approach came after I had started my private practice. Two of the world''s renowned past life experts of the time, Dr. Brian Weiss and the late British Jungian therapist Dr. Roger Woolger, came for weeklong training workshops at a retreat center near my home. Each workshop was uniquely different from the other, and each was a truly marvelous experience. As participants in the workshops, we watched demonstrations given by true masters in the art of past life regression, each with his own distinctive style. I was fortunate enough to have Dr. Woolger work directly with me on a theme I described as "being intolerant of ignorant men," which the rest of the training group voted as the issue they found most enticing. Dr. Woolger regressed me first to a lifetime as a natural healer in the early American colonies, accused of witchcraft by the doctors and community leaders ("those ignorant men"). I was eventually shipped back to France, where I''d come from. The issue linked back further to a lifetime as a Viking raider who died from an axe through the skull in a skirmish over a woman. (I had been quite a thickheaded and ignorant man myself, it appears!) Of course, as workshop participants, we also had many opportunities to practice leading regressions on each other. Afterwards, I began to experiment with friends and open-minded clients in my practice, continuing to gather techniques and knowledge from other past life therapists as I went along, eventually building my own distinct style. A hallmark of my approach to past life work is the amount of time I spend processing prior life experience and lessons with the client so that he/she can integrate these realizations into daily life. I found the work exciting and rewarding, and the lack of dependence that traditional clients sometimes develop in conventional therapy was quite refreshing to me. Gradually my practice has evolved to the point where I focus almost entirely on past life work. Demystifying Past Life Therapy Although the public perception of reincarnation or past lives used to evoke jokes about Shirley MacLaine "hanging" Out on a Limb (well, at least for those of us over a certain age), millions have read books on the subject. Its public image doesn''t accurately reflect what people believe in private: a Gallup Poll taken in 2001 showed that 25 percent of adult Americans admitted anonymously that they believed in reincarnation.1 An online Harris Poll in November 2013 similarly put the overall number of believers at 24 percent, an increase from 20 percent in 2009.2 In both polls, an additional 27 percent of Americans admitted that they didn''t disbelieve in reincarnation; they just didn''t know. And a 2010 article in the New York Times written by Lisa Miller, a religion editor for Newsweek magazine, explored the growing Western belief in reincarnation. The article quoted a Spanish bishop who indicated that a growing number of Catholics (28 percent) had adopted a belief in reincarnation.3 In the general public, there are a growing number of popular films and books about reincarnation that have gained much recognition. The Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was awarded the Palme d''Or, the highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival, in 2010. And the 2012 film Cloud Atlas, based on the book by best-selling author David Mitchell, was highly acclaimed. We also see expanding conversation about the afterlife and near-death experiences that has bridged both communities of skeptics and believers as a result of best sellers such as Dr. Eben Alexander''s Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon''s Journey into the Afterlife and Anita Moorjani''s Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. Dr. Wayne Dyer''s final book, Memories of Heaven: Children''s Astounding Recollections of the Time Before They Came to Earth, coauthored with Dee Garnes and published just after Dyer''s death in 2015, is filled with children''s spontaneous recollections relating to our ongoing existence, and has two sections devoted to reincarnation. These films and books, along with many others, not only demonstrate the general public''s hunger to learn more about the mysteries of our existence but also show our increased openness to expanding our beliefs. Whether a client is somewhat of a skeptic, a confirmed believer, or something in between, he/she does not have to believe in reincarnation or any other particular belief to have a successful regression session. What I have found is that,

Details ISBN1982107693 Author Ann C. Barham Pages 256 Language English Year 2018 ISBN-10 1982107693 ISBN-13 9781982107697 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-12-04 Short Title The Past Life Perspective Subtitle Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Lifetimes UK Release Date 2018-12-04 DEWEY 133.90135 Audience General Series Spiritual Healing Self Help Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Simon & Schuster Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2018-12-04 We've got this

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