Throughout the book I'll be giving you examples of regression therapy sessions I've done, like the one you're about to read.

During a session I have to ask a lot of different and varied questions to assist or guide the client look at the incident. In the summaries I've given you, I don't include a lot of my part of the session, since the meat of the session and what you'll be pointed to is what the client experiences, not the process of the session itself.

While it may look like all the therapist does is sit there and say "Continue" and "What's happening now", please understand that sessions are much more involved and it takes great attention on the part of the therapist to pick up on facial expressions and fleeting comments that can be key to helping the client. Since this book doesn't really aim to teach the process of regression therapy, please forgive me if I minimize the participation of the therapist in these summaries in favor of expanding on the client's experience.

Here is a pretty general example of a regression therapy session. This particular session does not go into a past lifetime, or any unusual phenomena; it is just an example so that you can see the mechanics of it and how returning to the past can affect us in the present.

The sessions are not given verbatim, although they are kept to the original session as much as possible. One should note that a session can and usually does last several hours, with long pauses and great repetition. The examples I give will be as concise as possible to give the most information in as clear an order as can be done while keeping the integrity of the session.

This is a brief section of a session I did with a client who had poor hearing. He did not come in to handle any one specific thing; he just thought regression was a good idea and thought he'd try it. This is quite common.

(RT = Regression Therapist, C=Client)
RT: What do you hear?

C: Pounding. I hear loud pounding, and it's like water moving. (Client looks visibly distressed. Face evidences pain.)

RT: What do you feel?

C: It hurts. My whole body hurts. I'm in a lot of pain. The pounding is in my head. My ears hurt from it.

RT: Continue

C: I feel like I'm drowning. My body hurts. I don't know where I am. (Client is moving restlessly, still looks pained and begins breathing heavily)

RT: What do you see?

C: I don't see anything. It's dark. I think I'm drowning. I don't know. The pounding is loud. Like the water is throbbing, or pounding, I can't explain it. (Client's voice rises slightly, as if he can't hear his voice as loudly anymore and thinks he needs to compensate in case I can't hear him as well either)

RT: Continue through the incident. Make sure you tell me anything you perceive as you go along.

C: I see a light. A bright light. There are voices. People. I'm going to the light. It hurts.

RT: What do you hear?

C: 'He's drowning. Get him out. He's drowning. Don't you hear me? Get him out of there, can't you hear? Hurry up.' People are upset.

RT: How do you feel?

C: I'm afraid. I'm scared. I hurt a lot, and people are yelling. Someone is crying, like a woman. And I feel like water is rushing in my ears and pounding loudly.

RT: Continue

C: I'm being born. Damn, this is hard! I'm being born. There seem to be lots of people in the room. In white. They look afraid. My mom is crying. Something is wrong. I'm drowning. In blood maybe. They can't get me out. (Client goes through what seems to be major discomfort, then rests, more, and then rests. Continues this for about 30 seconds. Client begins to evidence sadness.) I'm not going to be born. I can't fit. I can't hear what they're saying. It's muffled. I can't hear.

RT: Repeat the phrase 'I can't hear' and tell me if you get anything else.

C: I can't hear. I can't hear. I can't hear. I can't hear you. I can't hear you. What's wrong? Is it going to be alright? What is happening? It's my mom. She's upset, and she can't hear the doctors. She thinks I'm going to die. (Client starts to cry) I'm hurting her. She's hurting. She's crying.

RT: Continue to say 'I can't hear.

C: (Client continues to repeat the phrase 'I can't hear'. Begins moving his head strangely) my ears feel like they're unclogging. My ears feel like something is coming out of them. Like they're unclogging. Like the water isn't rushing or pounding anymore".

RT: Repeat what your mom is saying, and tell me if you hear anything else.

(Client suddenly goes through what seems to be a great heave, his entire body almost comes off the chair, pain is evident, then relief) I'm born! That's it, I'm out. *&%$, that hurt!! (Client starts coughing heavily, nothing comes up, but client keeps coughing. Coughing subsides and client is more relaxed. Takes on an air of curiosity, looking around although his eyes are closed.) Okay. It looks like it's over. My mom is okay, but they're doing something. I think she's being cleaned up. She's still crying. I hurt her. (Client evidences sadness) Ugh! They have the nose-sucking thing. (Client screws his face up. This goes on for a while. Then client subsides. Seems fine.)

We went through this incident several times. Each time the client remembered more and more of his birth. Each time he went through the incident, he picked up more information. When he came out of the session, he was amazed at how well he could hear. According to him it was like he could "hear right for the first time" in his life. Everything was "clear". It was "really, really weird".

The client left session with a great attitude and was surprised and pleased at what he'd experienced. While he is no longer a client and I don't get to speak to him that often, I do know that his hearing improvement continued after session and did not diminish.

When, in an incident, something like "I can't hear" is said, even if it is said by someone other than the client, what gets recorded in the mind is "I can't hear" and it acts like a post-hypnotic suggestion. What was an innocent phrase becomes a direct command to the client's subconscious. His mind kicks in and tells him 'I can't hear', during incidents throughout his life whenever he is subconsciously brought back to that traumatic incident. When the client consciously recalled the part of the incident where his mother was saying, "I can't hear", it released the post-hypnotic suggestion and no long affected his hearing in the present time.

I think one of the reasons this session was such a success was because the client didn't come in to handle any certain thing. He didn't have any expectations, which tend to get in the way in a session. He was totally open to the experience, and was willing to go with whatever came up. (Incidentally, this session lasted 4 hours.)

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