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The following is a description of a physical, psycho-spiritual healing that occurred in connection to a past-life therapy session that I facilitated for a client. I have noticed through the years that it does not matter whether or not you believe in the validity of past lives, nor does it matter what name you give to this work. You can call it past lives, the archetypal realm, collective unconscious, or make-believe. The fact remains that insights do emerge and the holistic health benefits speak for themselves. I have witnessed remarkable transformations time and again. In the case described below (as with others) the presenting health concern was fully alleviated, confirmed by a doctor and lab tests. I would also add that a return to wellness is experienced holistically, not only in the physical realm.

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A Case History

Physical Healing: a cathartic past-life memory with somatic release

A woman in her thirties asked to work with me to address a combination of emotional, relational, and physical concerns. She began by describing unhappiness in her marriage, as it turned out though, the most pressing issue for her was that her medical doctor had discovered cellular changes in her cervix. He described unhealthy cell growth and the response that would be needed to treat it.  In addition, almost as an aside, this client mentioned something that she had no logical understanding of. She said that for as long as she could remember she had been “seeing” something she described as colorful blurry balloons. She had seen this image since her childhood, something that looked very much like out of focus blurry balloons, this was the best way she had of describing the image.

We worked together for about 9-months. Our sessions involved dream-work, somatic breath therapy, imagery, healing trance, creative art, releasing pent-up emotions, plus health and lifestyle adjustments. I also encouraged her to meet with a constitutional homeopath. At a certain point in our session-work we came to a natural opening to explore the mystery of the “blurry balloons.” We had developed an ease and rapport with each other and she entered into a deeply focused trance rather quickly. She lay on her back on a comfortable thick mat in my therapy room for the duration of the session. This is what emerged.

She described seeing herself as a young girl of 12-years living in a cabin in the wilderness with her parents. As the story unfolded she said that something happened to her mother and now she was alone with the father. She began to feel his energy had changed toward her, she no longer felt carefree, safe, or comfortable. As she described the images unfolding in her minds eye, her voice changed too, she sounded younger and much more anxious, a few tears began to fall.  She described seeing, sensing, and feeling that the father was becoming sexually aggressive toward her, when she refused his advances he became physically violent. As she told her story the intensity and emotion increased, I could clearly see visible kinesthetic responses. She was now fully into the experience, showing signs of fear, sorrow, and anxiety, her tears were streaming too. She described running out of the house to get away from him, running as fast as she could into the field. But he was faster and caught up with her, pulling her to the ground and pinning her by sitting on top of her chest. 

I am seated right beside her as she lay trembling face up on the mat, a pool of tears forming around her. She begins to cough and choke at the moment she tells me that he has his hands on her throat, choking her -- she says he hates her for rejecting him!  At this point in the therapy session I wished I had a video camera to record what was occurring.

As she described the scene unfolding from inside, I witnessed from my external vantage point what she was going through. I began to see physical bruises and finger-marks appear on her body, marks consistent with strangulation that were clearly manifesting on her neck! -- There was no doubt that I was seeing what she was experiencing. A long buried psycho-spiritual wound was making its way out of her body through this powerful catharsis. Much of what she had associated with this story, conscious or not was being released in that moment.

 I reminded her with a soothing voice that I was close by, that she was safe, and that if she could carry on just a little longer she would discover something of great importance for her healing…  And then it all became clear. She said that she could not fight him any longer and as he was choking the life out of her she felt her head turned and her eyes caught site of all the flowers in the field, the field she was dying in… And as her vision faded she thought to herself, the flowers looked so much like beautiful colorful blurry balloons!

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Afterward, we integrated the session with specific healing methods and then moved into gentle post-care. I showed her the bruises with a mirror, and we watched together as they faded a little while we completed the session. The bruising took a couple of days more to completely disappear. We continued to integrate this session when we next met, tying together many threads, including various fears, the image she had carried all her life, the connections between the remembered abuse and the current cervical health, plus her marriage, and self-autonomy. Soon after this session she contacted me with great news, her pap test had come back normal and clear. There were additional positive shifts that came together for her as well.

Note: I had seen this before and since, the physical appearance of certain markings that can sometimes emerge on the body during past-life therapy. In one case the image of a dagger materialized on a woman’s body just as she described a death by stabbing.

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Case histories yet to be told…

Catatonic No More: The story of a man hospitalized with bouts of catatonia, referred to me after his release from a psychiatric ward. Incredible story of insight and healing!

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