Past-life regression is a controversial subject. A number of books have been written by psychiatrists who were trained in hypnotherapy and came face-to-face with their patient's "memory" or a lifetime before this one. The question for many is: "Is reincarnation real?"

Cathy did not believe in reincarnation. It is not in the Catholic Christian teaching. She had seen articles by theologians who said that reincarnation was being on a wheel never achieving salvation. A friend of hers who was raised Hindu and converted to Catholicism talked about reincarnation being God's way of giving us multiple chances at growing closer to God. Christian teaching talks about God forgiving us time and time again. Jesus said that we must forgive "70 times 7 times." With reincarnation God forgives lifetime after lifetime.

Her mother is the one who introduced Cathy to reincarnation. She gave her Brian Weiss' "Many Lives, Many Masters." Cathy remembers being angry when reading it because it made so much sense. Why was she angry? She didn't want to do this (life) again.

Not only does she now believe in reincarnation and do past-life regression, but she has had many personal healing experiences when she has "recalled" past-lives relevant to aspects of her present life. She has now seen many people receive healing through this powerful form of therapy. You, also, may experience healing.

How do I know I am not just making up the experiences?
That is a question that has no firm answer. I can sense your energy and am able to tell when you are using your mind or are tapping into a part of you that is in your other than conscious mind. Even if the event is not historical reality, the very fact that you brought it up is symbolic of how you are feeling. It can be examined from an archetypal perspective. For this reason it does not really matter if you are making it up or not. The process is therapeutic and healing can occur.

I have done past-life regressions before. All I get are vague images.
Most of my own past-life experiences have been gathered through what you are probably calling vague images. For me the images come slowly, especially at first. I have also found, that if the past-life had a strong relationship to what is going on in my own life, I will often continue to have images or "knowings" about that past life-time.

I don’t get images at all. Sometimes I just have something pop into my mind. Why can’t I get images?
Not everyone has a natural aptitude for imaging just as not everyone has a natural aptitude for singing. I am one of those that does not have a natural aptitude for either. As I have used imaging I have improved. Some people describe seeing things like watching a video. I wish I could do that, but I can not. I still have a knowing of what is happening and have achieved deep healing in the process.

Would you give an example of how getting in touch with a past-life can help me in this life-time?
The most powerful experiences I’ve witnessed are when someone is afraid of another person. When we go back to the past-life most affecting this situation, we often go back to a time when the person was harmed, killed or betrayed by the other individual. If that is not presently occurring in this lifetime, there is an easing of the tension between the two in this lifetime. Most of the time the fear is significantly decreased or even eliminated.

In your experience, what is helped most by past-life regression?
Fears and phobias are helped tremendously. I take the individual back to the source of the fear. I work with the client to resolve the "stuck" energy of the incident that has been carried over to this life-time. The fear or phobia is almost always dramatically reduced or eliminated.

How does energy travel from one lifetime to the next?
I can only give you my perspective on this. Each one of us is one soul having different experiences from lifetime to lifetime. We play many different roles. Whatever happens to us in whatever time frame leaves an energy imprint. If something horrible has happened in one lifetime, e.g. drowning, we have an energy "memory" of the drowning that carries over. This "memory" may be activated with our first bath or later first swim. What we do in a past-life regression is find the source of the energy "memory" and free the energy trapped there. I also use the Soul Healing process to bring an even deeper healing.

How can freeing the energy of a past-life change things in this lifetime?
We are made of energy. It becomes blocked or stagnated when we do not allow the energy of feelings to pass through us. Since we are energy, energy blockages will move with us. By freeing the energy it is no longer trapped within us. Our energy flows freely easily. The energy "memory" is eliminated.

This happens in this lifetime. We experience fear. We don’t want to feel the fear so we might hold our breath and try not to be afraid. This process keeps the energy stuck within us and forms an energy blockage. We then carry the energy blockage, known as fear, with us wherever we go. To be free of the fear we need to release the energy of fear.