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How do we make sense of the fact that some people, often children, seem to clearly recall past lives? An investigation of the phenomenon has unearthed stories too convincing to dismiss.

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Stephen B.

Emotional Researcher at Happiness Is No Charge

1mo

5/ cont. --- "It is the Charge we are after. We do not care if it was actual or not actual. We are after the emotional charge as that is what is actually bothering the subconscious and thus the person, even if it could not possibly seem real, why? Shock conditions confusion. Dissociation is the avoidance of Reality and Fear and Shock can cause that. Sooo…Target it. Now, regardless of your belief, and a “past life” comes up when going back in memory, do not dismiss it; Process it. What emotions are there? Do the technique on them: Simple." ---- It is a fairly long subsection, and I go into how the Emotional Charge Technique can get at this phenomena... I have seen this in action. This has to do with MEMORY. And much is sub/unconscious. I am a 15 year emotional researcher who had this as part of my training. I have seen this in action. If it is dismissed and neglected, your client may run into problems. I suggest you SERVE your client's subC... THIS is where the CHARGE is coming from... BYPASSED Charge. It was not processed, it then manifested... Process it like a DREAM if you must, but don't balk... PROCESS IT!!! And then ask... "Is there an EARLIER, SIMILAR episode?" See 6/

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Stephen B.

Emotional Researcher at Happiness Is No Charge

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2/ AND PEOPLE FELT BETTER, GOT BETTER. This does not require "belief" or "acceptance". This was observable results. This is from my book, "Target Your Emotions", I present some of this subsection: ---- " Spiritual Mind and Memory I considered taking out this section, but left it in. It is a legitimate phenomenon people can run into with memory work. Probably millions of people have run into this subject at one time or another. So… let’s discuss it. You do not have to believe a word I say about this, but it can be something you might run into. I would like you to be at least aware of that possibility, and more importantly, KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. You do not have to believe anything in this subsection on “Spiritual mind and past lives”. To Freud a “past life” was childhood. It was so far back in time, it seems like another lifetime ago. Fine. Well…this is a phenomenon that you can run into in research. It is also something we ran into in our studies in the 70’s. I still run into it. What are we actually dealing with? There are a couple of possibilities." ----- See 3/

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Stephen B.

Emotional Researcher at Happiness Is No Charge

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1/ Believe it or not, it is sometimes a thing a person can run into in THERAPY. "Is there an EARLIER, SIMILAR episode?", and you are already at very early childhood, and, WHAM!!! The anser is "YES"!!!! ??? What???? What indeed, and especially what do YOU do about it, the subconscious mind just gave up a blocked out, hindering upset. What do you do??? You RUN IT!!!!! We used GSR meters. This incident is SHOWING up on a METER!!!!! Imaginary or NOT!!! Ran into it myself... Also with People in the 70s when I was learning. We were TAUGHT not to INVALIDATE the person if this came up.. we confronted it with equanimity... It is something that can contain highly emotionally charged content of trauma. So we got at it right then and there, it was our JOB to get at sources of trauma, regardless of SOURCE!!!! If that is a stuck representation in the subconscious mind, and it is causing unknown psychological symptoms and problems... BANG!!!!! You target them. I go into this as part of my research as it is a phenomena that can come up in processing. The sub/Unconscious is a storehouse of negative, traumatic content, that was NEVER processed, so it got stored up... Bottled up... Emotional Charge by definition! See 2/

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Stephen B.

Emotional Researcher at Happiness Is No Charge

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4/ continued ---- "2. Past lives are not before this life, never have been, and are a sheer delusional fantasy of the subconscious, like any dream episode. Yet, the subconscious is bringing up emotional content and shock and even physiological manifestations. Fine… What emotions and shocks are there? Fine… Do the technique on them…until the subconscious is not fixated on them, and things clear up on that as that was “Delusion Charge”. See? Get at the delusion itself and the fixated emotions of the delusion powering it. If an obsessive/compulsive emotional state is causing a person “delusional thinking” and delusions, don’t you have to get at them for the person to get better? BETTERMENT IS THE GOAL, NOT “BELIEF” OF SOMETHING. When a person ran into this back when I was studying, we did not evaluate the actual-ness of the experience. We targeted it. We processed it. The subconscious is giving this up to us because it contains negativity. It was our job to get at that. We did it like a professional. We got at it." See 5/

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Stephen B.

Emotional Researcher at Happiness Is No Charge

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It is interesting about the kid who had been shot down at Iwo Jima as a WW2 pilot. I was doing a session on a guy about my age at the time, we were both born in the 1950s.... I have him on a GSR meter. We go back .. he recounts being an RAF pilot in "The Battle of Britain".... Shot up, and died in his plane ... Talked out, discharged episode, he felt better.... Win. Ended off, went to lunch, came back for another session. Blew off some more Trauma.... He felt better. GSR meter SHOWS, no remaining "charge on that". He's cheery. This was common. Spirit is the mechanism for this ... You don't find it in THIS body's physiology... But THIS spirit mind. Get a GSR meter with a Sensitivity Dial. You can watch an emotionally charged episode ramp up on the dial as a person talks about their past live episode. Don't invalidate your client's WIN.... You can hinder their case ...

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Stephen B.

Emotional Researcher at Happiness Is No Charge

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3/ Continued... ---- "Now, it does not matter, nor is it required, that you believe one word of this. It is a subconscious problem either way and it contains emotions and shock, WHICH IS THE ONLY THING THAT CONCERNS US. The subconscious is bothered by something. It is the purpose of the technique to get at that, no matter the source, since it can bother a person, we are here to use the technique to rid ourselves of “sources of negativity”, if that is in a “past life”, we target that, Ok? If a person were having a delusion, would you not have to go at the source of that to help them get better? What if that delusion was from, or caused by, a so-called “past life”? Right…we target the emotions of the past life. Now, let’s see… there are several possibilities here: 1. Past lives as “before this life in times past and different bodies as different people”, actually exists. Fine…what emotions and shocks did a person experience in that lifetime? Fine…Do the technique on them…it is observed that things can clear up.The person can move forward not being fixated by that “past”. That is a benefit, not being fixated." See 4/

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Stephen B.

Emotional Researcher at Happiness Is No Charge

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6/ And process that one til you find the FIRST ONE!!! And process it so FLAT it has no energy left! Your client will be sitting there with a GRIN, and cheery.... End Phenomena.... End session on that WIN!!!! "Move up to present time... Good... We'll stop there for the day... Good job". Person will have sooooo many realizations, feel greatly relieved, you won't get a read on a meter usually for several DAYS.... They are flying, and have a ton of positive energy, until it smooths out. I hope that helps. Put "belief" aside... Help your client. Have any of you run into this with clients? I don't have a podcast on this, but here is my podcast and ebook page: Podcasts: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-barham "Target Your Emotions" is where this quote is from: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Stephen_W.Barham Sorry for the long comment, it's a big subject. Blessings...

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Marty Bashinski

~My Heart beats for Yours only~

1mo

There are no past lives. What is the theory, whereby we are even able to have a past life, and then recall it too.

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Angel Gavilanes, LCSW

Psychotherapist | Mental Health Skills Trainer

1mo

Imagination is incredible.

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