Scared of flying? Maybe you died in an air crash many years ago before you were born. Can’t concentrate at work? You might have suffered abuse in a previous birth.
Past life regression therapy (PLRT) has become the hottest treatment for upwardly mobile Indians demanding answers to all their life’s problems, a report in the Times of India newspaper said.
First uncovered by psychiatrist Brian Weiss in his bestseller Many Lives, Many Masters, PLRT is now the ‘it’ treatment for anybody who visits a shrink.
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All data pertaining to our past lives are stored in our brain, the main computer. Malathi Kuppuswami, Mumbai-based hypnotherapist |
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“The human soul is eternal and only keeps changing the body it inhabits.
“In PLRT, the idea is to take the soul back to the symptoms — sometimes centuries back — and deal with them,” explains Delhi-based psychiatrist Sanjay Chugh, who learnt the art and science of regression therapy from Weiss himself.
Retrieve and reboot
Mumbai-based hypnotherapist Malathi Kuppuswami uses cyber lingo to explain the merits of past-life regression.
“All data pertaining to our past lives are stored in our brain, the main computer,” she said.
The key, as far as she is concerned, is to “get the patient to relax” enough to be able to retrieve the “lost-to-memory data”.
“Once the person makes the connection between his past and present lives, problems can be erased.”
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