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32 Past Life Regression 32 Past Life Regression Past Life Regression SUPERSTITIONS Past Life Regression subject is not asleep, just very intensely SUPERSTITIONS focused, a trance state everyone has experienced when totally absorbed in a book or a movie or a sports event. A client experiences FINDING A FOUR LEAF CLOVER two past lives personally in a typical session, The belief that four-leaf clovers are with all the emotional intensity that is involved. good luck comes from the Druids, ancient For instance, a client who in this residents of the British Isles. Several times a lifetime has never had a child, experienced not year, they gathered in oak groves to settle legal only having a baby daughter but also losing that disputes and offer sacrifices... then they ended child to an early death. The purpose of this their rituals by hunting for four-leaf clovers. therapy is to heal the past-life trauma which is Why? They believed a four-leaf enabled its very often at the root of unexplained phobias, owner to see evil spirits and witches - and birthmarks, illnesses, accidents, or recurring therefore avoid them. self-defeating patterns of behaviour. For example, a client who came to see THROWING PENNIES INTO A WELL me because she had developed a fear of Ancient people believed spirits living in highway driving , relived a time in the 1700's springs and fountains demanded tribute - when she(then a male)was a stagecoach driver usually flesh. Young Mayan girls, for example, who had been killed by a highwayman-at the were sometimes tossed into the Well of same age when in this lifetime she had Sacrifice (where they would “marry” spirits.) developed this incapacitating fear. Today we just toss the spirits a penny or two for Once one knows the past life roots of a luck. by Christine Nightingale fear it can be released. (For example, the client by Christine Nightingale who had always had a fear of swimming in the KNOCKING ON WOOD "Past Life regression?" I am often asked. ocean, had previously perished when the sailing In the Middle Ages, chruchmen insisted "How long have you been doing that?" My vessel she was in sank in the north Atlantic that knocking on wood was part of their immediate response is, "All my life!" I was one during a storm. ) tradition of prayer, since Christ was crucified on of those (very many) children who remember One lady who came in to find out a wooden cross. They were right... but the their past lives from babyhood on." whether she had known her boyfriend before tradition started several thousands of years There have been many books on the found out, as a bonus, why he had a fear of earlier, with a different deity. Both Native subject; and I have certainly spoken to three and ladders- when re-living a previous life when Americans and ancient Greeks developed the four-year-olds who still remember their past they were married, she described how he had belief (independently) that oak trees were the connection to their parents. One was the four- fallen off a ladder and died. domain of an important god. By knocking on an year-old girl who told me, "Before when I was It is the therapist's sacred duty to help oak, they were communicating with him and big and my daddy was little, he was my baby the client with the forgiveness and asking for his forgiveness. The Greeks passed and he was in my tummy." A three-year-old boy understanding which will help them to move their tradition on to the Romans, and it became I know well asked his parents, "Do you forward in this lifetime. part of European lore. The oak’s “power” was remember before when we were all children and It is also true that knowing one's eventually transferred to all wood. played together?" His mother, who was raised strengths and abilities from previous lives can Hindu, thought that was perfectly natural. Many help clients to return to their true path. One NAILING A HORSESHOE OVER A religions, of course, do accept reincarnation as a example is the client who came in with severe, DOOR given. unexplained back pain, which turned out to be This “good luck charm” is a We have all had dozens or hundreds of linked to his having given up his true path in combination of two superstitions: past lives. I remember about 20 of mine. My this lifetime, as clarified by the fact that he had 1. In early times, horses were considered pattern was to meet a new person, look into their had two past lives as an artist, in one case dying magical. Because they can find their way in the eyes, and realize that we had a past life together. for his craft. dark, for example, people believed they could The specific memories would then come within No two past-life regressions are the foresee danger or could guide souls through the seconds or weeks or months, as I was ready to same. I have done hundreds and never cease to underworld, so anything connected with a horse accept the implications of our karma. be amazed at the depth of learning, emotion and was lucky. As a teacher, therapist, wife and mother, growth which can be facilitated by making 2. Horseshoes are made of iron, which was I always thought it would be wonderful to be contact with these somewhat-hidden aspects of considered protective. The Norse god of battle able to help others with that sort of very useful our souls. wore iron gloves and carried an iron hammer. information, which makes it easier to make Romans nailed pieces of iron over their doors, informed choices in this lifetime. Christine Nightingale can be reached at believing it could ward off evil spirits. About ten years go I became aware that (905)453-8095 or by e-mail to In the 10th century, Christians added I could channel this information for anyone if I nightiangel92@hotmail.com their own twist to the superstition - the tale of a had their name and birth date. I could do it as blacksmith named Dunstan, who later became easily through e-mail as in person. I also found Archbishop of Canterbury. Dunstan had an that during a Reiki session, information about unusual customer one day, a man with cloven the client's past lives, particularly as they related feet who requested iron shoes. But he knew who to current issues, would sometimes be present in the fellow was - he shackled the Devil to the the client's aura. wall, treating him so brutally that Satan cried For people who can visit me personally, for mercy. Dunstan released him only after I feel that it is most useful if they can actually extracting a promise to never enter a dwelling re-experience the past lives. with a horseshoe on the door. So I took formal training in Past Life Regression Hypnotherapy at the Ontario OPENING AN UMBRELLA INDOORS Hypnosis Centre. The client is helped to enter a state of One of the few superstitions that isn’t deep meditation, a tape is put on, and the person ancient or irrelevant. In the 18th Century, is asked to relive and describe a couple of spring-loaded, metal-spoked umbrellas were childhood memories. They are then asked to go new and unpredictable. Opening one indoors was courting disaster - it could flu out of control still further back in order to find the answers to and damage property... or people. It was a their questions. Almost all can do so. The practical impulse to regard it as bad luck.