The Many Faces of You: Revealed with Past Life Regression.
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Everything you need to know before embarking on your own personal past life journey of discovery.
Written by the Chairman of the Past Life Therapists Association having drawn from his own personal experiences as a recognised authority in this field, The Many Faces of You is considered to be the definitive guide to Past Life Regression. Every aspect of this captivating subject is covered in depth with many case studies and explanations to convey the wonderful diversity of experiences available for those who wish to explore their past.
It is the ultimate form of personal time travel enabling you to remember who you were in your previous lifetimes. Exploration and discovery are the most popular features of this fascinating technique but it goes far beyond just finding out what lives you have led. This discipline provides a powerful therapeutic benefit by uncovering emotionally-charged past life events which can affect your present lifetime. You can also visit the spiritual world between past lives and your future lives too.
Along with a full and detailed explanation of this fascinating subject there are step-by-step guides for you to experience your previous lives for yourself.
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The Many Faces of You - Andrew Hillsdon
The Many Faces of You
Revealed with Past Life Regression
Andrew Hillsdon
The Many Faces of You
Revealed with Past Life Regression
Andrew Hillsdon
Copyright 2013 by Andrew Hillsdon
Smashwords Edition
Dedication
To Tina.
My wife, my world.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: The Past Life Journey
Chapter Two: The Spiritual Side
Chapter Three: Therapy
Chapter Four: Returning Home
Chapter Five: Into The Future
Chapter Six: Journeys Into Far Pre-History
Chapter Seven: The Weird and the Wonderful
Chapter Eight: Regress Yourself
Chapter Nine: Final Thoughts
Introduction
My present life began in 1955 and I was born and bred in Buckinghamshire, an area which had seen generations of my family.
In 1987 my wife and I moved to West Devon, and we now have a beautiful farm which we have developed with nature conservation in mind. We planted 20,000 broad-leaved trees which have now developed into wonderful established woodland, teeming with wildlife.
I have always had an interest in spiritual matters and as a child my character formed in ways which were different to the norm. I have never been psychic, that's my sister's forte, but it has never been a requirement for the work that I do now.
Before my career as a Hypnotherapist and Past Life Therapist, I was a telephone cable engineer and an insurance salesman, hardly the most orthodox grounding for my present vocation, but these previous occupations did teach me some useful skills such as communication and rapport, crucial for therapy. I became a Hypnotherapist so that I could practice Past Life Regression, as it is regarded as a special branch of hypnotherapy, although I actually feel that Past Life Therapy is a discipline in its own right, as it encompasses all things spiritual.
My role? I see myself as a stepping stone, helping others onto their spiritual path and this is the purpose in writing this book - to bring to you a detailed insight into this fascinating world. As, to understand who you were will help you to know who you are and, if you wish, to know who you will be - as well as taking a journey into the past, you can just as easily explore the future.
Any of the students who have taken my courses will tell you that they found the information easy to understand and written in a jargon-free plain English style. This book will be the same.
By the time you have finished this work, you will have a good understanding of past and future life exploration and therapy, along with the skills to regress yourself. There will be many spiritual matters discussed and all I ask is that you keep an open mind.
The topics covered are not necessarily my own views or beliefs and have been gathered from research, experience and many conversations. I never impose my ideas upon anyone nor do I judge others for those they adopt. I am not at all comfortable with these self- appointed so-called gurus and I never wish to be regarded as one. The best way for each of us as we travel our spiritual path is to take a brick from every wall, and build our own. Accept only what feels comfortable for you at this time as none of us have all the answers.
Chapter One
The Past Life Journey
I opened my eyes and that wonderful gifted lady guiding the meditation circle was staring right at me. She knew it had all gone a bit weird, I thought to myself, but to be honest I had no idea what had just happened.
There we were, a handful of like-minded people sitting in a circle in our cosy little thatched cottage, just visualising whatever we were being instructed to do, but while everyone else was exploring crystals I found myself floating away from a crashed aeroplane.
This was my first past life experience. When a person meditates they connect with the greater part of themselves. Some call it the Higher Self, others the soul. A hypnotherapist calls it the subconscious, the part of us that carries all the memories of our whole existence. I see now that my subconscious had to provide a bit of a nudge in the direction of a whole new occupation, that at the time I knew nothing about. My life plan was designed for me to become a past life therapist, but at that time I was in a very different industry, and those older readers may be able to identify my job if I tell you I was the man from the Pru.
She knew. That lady sitting across the circle from me knew what I had experienced and she confirmed it when I tried to omit this oddity during the little report we each gave after the meditation. There's something else isn’t there?
She said with all the knowledge and wisdom of a guardian angel. It's just as well I didn't deny my meditation had gone pear-shaped otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here now telling you about it.
She explained to me that I had regressed briefly to a past life and this was all I needed to embark on my new journey of research and discovery. This was before the internet so it was quite a task to find out about past life regression.
Around the same time, my cousin Nick, more than a cousin, the closest thing I have to a brother, found a couple of books about past lives, totally unaware at that time of my own developing interest. Nick is always full of energy and enthusiasm and wanted to have a go at regressing my wife and me into a past life. Another nudge from the universe - what are the chances of someone so close to me suddenly having an interest in something neither of us had ever heard of only a few months earlier. There is a word for these universal coincidences - synchronicity. And that is probably the biggest word you will find in these pages, I am not here to thrill you with my literary skills, I haven't got any.
Nick was very good - he tried his amateur hypnosis on me and soon confirmed my original experience as I found myself flying an old-fashioned biplane in World War One. I was German. Taken to the last day of that life I experienced the terror of bullets hitting the engine, causing it to explode into flames, more bullets tore into my left knee. The horizon disappeared as my ‘kite’ took a nosedive towards the ground. I knew my time was up, no parachutes were used by pilots in those days. I felt the fear.
So that was the first glimpse into one of my many past lives. I explored that life further, both with Nick and through my own self regression and I found out my name, the type of aeroplane I flew and how many others I had shot down. I took on an arrogant persona during the regressions into that particular life, quite different to how I am in this life.
This story was told to illustrate the fact that there is more than one way to discover previous lives. The main way is by using hypnosis so let’s see exactly what that is. Let’s start with a big word misconception - here’s one: how much honey does a single bee produce in its lifetime? The answer will be found later on in the book. Here's another: Three, two, one, you’re back in the room.
No it's nothing like that, you don’t fall asleep, you cannot be forced to act like a fool and you remain fully aware of your actions. It is merely a relaxation technique which allows you to focus your mind, it is a natural everyday occurrence. Any time that you are so engrossed in something that you become slightly oblivious to your surroundings, you are in a light form of hypnosis. Reading a book is a good example or daydreaming - you are doing it right now in fact. Just look up from this page for a couple of seconds … there, did you notice how it took a split second to register your surroundings? Just then you snapped out of hypnosis.
People never really feel hypnotized even though they expect to ‘go under’ because in reality there is no ‘under’ to go. The feeling of hypnosis is relaxation while focusing the mind. Later you will learn how to take yourself into self - hypnosis but first I'm sure you will want to know why hypnosis is needed to explore your previous lifetimes.
There is a part of us that holds all these memories, that's pretty obvious. Normally we can't remember our past lives, so there must be something we have to do to allow us to access this locked away chunk of our psyche. This storage space in our mind is called the subconscious, or unconscious or Higher Self, or our soul - let's call it Cuthbert for all it matters. It is the greater part of us and it holds a complete record of our whole existence. What a lot to fit in the brain I hear you say. I never said it did, all that data would soon short-circuit if it had to be kept there by little electrical impulses and miniscule chemical changes. No, I personally believe that the brain is just a converter to change thought into action. Sorry to the men in white coats in their labs with test tubes in hand!
The subconscious has these memories and they can be accessed and retrieved from wherever they are stored by slightly altering your state of consciousness - going into hypnosis.
It is usually understood that the hypnotic state allows us to sneak past the conscious mind, the bit of us that we are aware of and actually thinks. We can then meet the subconscious sitting there behind it. Quite a logical and mechanical concept, but knowing the universe, I'm sure it is much more complicated than that - more likely to do with frequencies and vibrations. It doesn't matter, the point is that it works, so let's not get too involved about the theory, you want to get to the fun bit, after all why do we need to know how a jumbo jet works to enjoy our exotic holiday?
Now the subconscious, Cuthbert, whatever, functions a little differently to the conscious. For a start it doesn't question, filter or rationalise and it has no ability to fabricate or make things up, it just is, like a huge database of experiences and wisdom waiting to be tapped into. It stores memories in a different form too, in visions, feelings and emotions by whatever our five senses record. It is a little vague about accurate dates and names, but that's how memory works. Try to recall your first day at school, think about how it felt, but can you remember the date?
The subconscious communicates with us in a special part of our mind where it can project past life memories and feelings. So what is this weird and wonderful hidden space within us? Our imagination. Go on, look it up in the dictionary and you will find that one of the explanations illustrates that it is a part of your mind where you can see images. Not necessarily where you make things up, because when you are hypnotised the subconscious is dominant and it cannot make things up.
So hypnosis is a state of being deeply relaxed and using your imagination.
Just about everyone can remember their past lives, the only restriction being themselves. There is nothing like the doubt of it working to stop it working. One or two struggle because they work too hard at it and cannot seem to grasp the simple concept of using their imagination, they say they see nothing. How hard can it be to imagine nothing? Go on, have a try - imagine nothing, think of nothing, oh and especially try very hard not to think of the colour blue.
Those clever clogs who think they have won because they didn't think of the colour blue because they were concentrating on the colour red should remember that I said think of nothing.
I have mentioned meditation once or twice and it needs to be discussed as it really is just a form of hypnosis. Others will disagree, but I would say that it is hardly any different at all. If you really want to separate the two you could say that with meditation you are led from outside, guided by whoever is running the circle (or whatever), you are told where to go. With hypnotic regression, although you are basically guided by a therapist the journey comes from within, guided by the subconscious.
The sort of meditations I am discussing are the ones where you visualise. Actually I don't like the word visualisation, it suggests that you have some wonderful cinema screen inside your head and you can just sit back and watch. No, you have to imagine and work at it. Visual type meditations, sometimes called pathway meditation, provide a guided journey in the mind where you have the opportunity to connect on a higher vibration with the spirit world, meet spirit guides and angels, connect with the natural world with its little elves and divas, climb hills, explore caves and get symbolic messages and guidance You can work with energy, fine-tuning yourself, or channel it for healing. Regular meditation launches you on a spiritual path and you can become intuitive, clairvoyant, psychic and sometimes slip into a past life. I love it when I get a new client for Past Life Regression who meditates because I know they will be able to regress very quickly and have a wonderful vivid experience.
Hypnotic regression and pathway meditation are so similar that it is fair to say that Past Life Regression is a blend of the two.
The first time you try to meditate it is really difficult to concentrate and you might get very little out of it. Practice is the key because it is a learning experience for your mind. You are awakening new parts of your soul which have been dormant, in a way, so it takes time and focus. It is exactly the same with regression into previous lifetimes and at the beginning of the first session you try you may be a little disappointed. By the time you get to the end of the session you will see that things have improved. Practice, practice, practice, just like with anything we do. An Olympic gold medallist is not perfect from the word go, they need to practice.
The reason I am stressing this point is to save you from being despondent should your first past life exploration be a little disappointing. It may not be, most of my clients have a great first session, but at least you know it will get better with practice.
Some of the top past life therapists are not Hypnotherapists and provide past life meditations. Explore past lives without hypnosis
they say yet the methods they use are exactly the same. In fact, let's worry no more about hypnosis - it's just a label, it is what happens when you close your eyes, relax and use your imagination.
Oh, did I say? It's perfectly safe as well. I sometimes hear things like I'm scared because the bloke down the pub says it's dangerous and I'll get stuck in a past life
. What twaddle! If I ask you to remember what you had for lunch last Friday, would you get stuck dreaming of a ham salad? I don't think so. Regression is just a clever way to recall memories, that’s all, so it's perfectly natural and safe.
Every Past Life Therapist, or if you prefer to use an Americanism: Regressionist, has a different style when they take their subjects into their past lives, but there is a strict structure that most follow.
Here are the steps:
1. Close eyes
2. Breathing exercise
3. Relax the body
4. Imagine surroundings
5. Descend steps
6. Find a ‘safe place’
7. Enter a past life
In step four your imagined surroundings take the form of a journey of some sort and a theme is employed. This gives uniformity and familiarity which helps to build confidence in the past life explorer. My usual theme takes the form of a garden, as it is an easy thing to remember and has all the elements to stimulate the senses, but you can choose from numerous visual journeys such as buildings, lifts, tunnels and even time machines. Once the garden has been explored a little in your mind’s eye, steps are then descended which symbolically guide the subject into a deeper state of relaxation. The area at the bottom of the steps has some form of resting place, usually a reclining garden chair, and this is known as the safe place. It is somewhere of familiarity to return to if you get lost or wish to rest.
Within the parameters of the garden theme, access to previous lifetimes is via a row of doors built into a garden wall, each one taking you to a different period of time within all the past lifetimes that can be explored. Each door is a year apart and the further you go down that path, the further back in time you go. This will be elaborated on in greater depth in chapter 8.
There are many reasons to have a Past Life Regression, apart from just seeing who you were. We can carry issues into our present lifetimes which have their roots in events experienced in earlier incarnations. For instance there are many souls incarnated at present whose past lives were in the concentration camps during the war under the Nazi regime. Many were gassed to death and now they are seeing therapists to deal with all sorts of symptoms such as breathing difficulties, fear of enclosed spaces, or weight problems because of the malnutrition back then. People also come for regression to see if they had shared a past life with someone they are close to in their present life, others just want personal proof of reincarnation. Then there are those characters we bump into who look like they are stuck in the past, the eccentrics dressing in a style and fashion more akin to their grandparents. When a 20-year-old man feels comfortable in a trilby hat, perhaps he is still carrying the energies of his past life back in the 1940s or 50s. This can go a stage further too in some people. What about the individuals who are absolutely fascinated with a particular historical period? Perhaps they build model ships like HMS Victory and read everything they can about sea battles and strategies. Others may have a fascination with the English Civil War and join re-enactment societies such as The Sealed Knot. If they were to seek regression to help them understand their obsessions I think there is a good chance