Recurring patterns are common. A person may hold a degree and still feel inadequate. Another keeps entering relationships with partners who are emotionally absent. Others cannot hold on to money or live with a physical complaint that no conventional or alternative treatment has resolved. Talk therapy, coaching and self-help books sometimes leave the pattern untouched, because the origin of the pattern sits outside the reach of ordinary memory. Past life regression therapy works with that origin directly.
At Healing Light in Moreleta Park, Pretoria, past life regression is offered in person and online. This article explains what a regression session involves, what clients report, and why a belief in reincarnation is not a requirement.
What past life regression therapy is
Past life regression is a guided hypnotherapy process. The client is brought into a relaxed, focused state and then directed to memories, images or feelings that appear to belong to another lifetime. The material that surfaces is then connected to the situation the person is dealing with today.
Regression therapist Mira Kelley describes the work as a process that allows people to connect with other lifetimes, see the wider picture of their soul’s journey, address problems they may be having, and apply what they learn to their present life.
One of her cases illustrates the method. A woman came to her with migraines so severe that she had to spend at least one day a month in a darkened room. During the regression, she experienced a lifetime as a soldier who received a sword blow through the eyes, at the exact position of her current migraine pain. She lived through her death in that lifetime, and the migraine pain did not return.
Is belief in reincarnation necessary?
No. This is the question asked most often by people considering past life regression in Pretoria, and the answer is consistent across practitioners. Mira Kelley puts it plainly: she does not need the person to believe in reincarnation. She needs them to arrive and to be open.
A Catholic schoolteacher came for a session at the urging of her adult daughter. She was sceptical, although willing to try. She had never fully recovered from a marriage that ended when her children were small. During the regression, she experienced several lifetimes, among them one in which she had been abandoned. The session was emotional. Afterwards, she said that she felt changed. She was able to move on, and she later remarried.
Why the lifetimes that surface are relevant
The lifetimes a client experiences are seldom random. According to Kelley, they are connected to what is happening in the present, and they carry a lesson that the soul has not yet completed. Once the conscious mind understands the source of a pattern, better choices become possible. Emotional release is a second benefit. People feel lighter and freer, and they permit themselves to close a chapter.
The purpose of human life, in this view, is to learn how to handle thought and emotion. In earlier lifetimes, a person may not have understood that thought and emotion were creating the circumstances of that life. Revisiting the events that held us back allows a person to step out of the repeating cycle and to take an active role in the present.
How a session works
A deep trance is not required. Mira Kelley notes that most people enter hypnosis within two minutes. She describes hypnosis as focused concentration and nothing more. The state is familiar to anyone who has been absorbed in a film, a sunset or a book. Attention is simply moved from the outside world to the inner world, where the answers are held.
Music and spoken guidance are used to relax the body, in the same way as meditation. The therapist may then suggest an image such as a staircase, a lift or a carpet to help the client move through time. Once the client arrives in a lifetime, the therapist asks where they are and what they are aware of. The client stays conscious throughout. A session can be paused for water or a bathroom break, and it can be stopped at any point if the client chooses.
People do not all experience past lives in the same manner. Some see colours, places and faces. Some hear sounds or feel physical sensations, and others simply know. There is no correct way to experience a regression.
Many regression therapists, including the practitioner at Healing Light, will guide a client through the death experience of a past life. This step allows the lessons of that lifetime to be understood and carried into the present. Clients who have been through it describe relief and freedom. In most cases, the fear of death is gone afterwards.
A first-hand account of regression
A writer who interviewed Kelley agreed to be regressed herself. She was taken to three lifetimes. In the first she was a young woman married into a tribe and bound to a domineering husband. In the second she was a young man cast out by his family and forced into labour on the family plantation before the American Civil War. Both were lifetimes of submission and isolation, so the therapist asked her to travel to a life in which she had felt valued.
She recalled life as a woman in Poland in the early twentieth century, married to a warm and cheerful man, surrounded by a loving family and a supportive community. Tears came during the session. The feeling of connection in that lifetime showed her, with unusual clarity, what she was longing for in her present life.
When the session ended, she felt, as many people do, that she might have invented the whole thing. Whether or not the story of the Polish woman was historically true, the emotions she experienced were real, and those emotions gave her a clearer direction.
Does it matter whether the memories are real?
Practitioners are honest on this point. It is often impossible to know whether a lifetime described in a session took place. Kelley tells clients that relevance is what matters: the aim is to reach an emotional experience that helps the person move forward.
The same principle applies to progression work, in which clients are guided to possible future lives or to possible futures within the present life. The future acts as a signpost. A client sees where a set of choices leads and can then decide whether to make those choices.
Past life regression at Healing Light, Pretoria
Healing Light offers past life regression therapy from its practice in Moreleta Park, Pretoria, and online for clients elsewhere in South Africa and abroad. Sessions are conducted by Neels Viljoen, a certified past life regression and Life Between Lives therapist with hypnotherapy and Usui Reiki Master qualifications.
Related services include Soul Talk, a Higher Self session, and Life Between Lives regression, which explores the period between incarnations.
Sessions can be booked through the online booking page. Anyone unsure whether regression is right for them can start with the free past life test.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a past life regression session take?
A session at Healing Light usually lasts between ninety minutes and two hours. This includes a preparatory conversation, the regression itself and time to discuss what came up.
Is past life regression safe?
Yes. The client remains conscious throughout and can stop at any time. The therapist guides the process, and nothing is done without the client’s consent.
Can past life regression be done online?
Yes. Online past life regression sessions are conducted over video call and follow the same structure as in-person sessions. A quiet room, headphones and a stable connection are all that is needed.
What if I do not experience anything?
Some people receive vivid images while others receive feelings or a sense of knowing. A small number of first-time clients find it difficult to relax fully, and a second session usually resolves this.
Do I need to believe in reincarnation for it to work?
No. Openness to the process is enough. Sceptical clients regularly report meaningful results.
Where is Healing Light?
Healing Light is at 690 Rubenstein Drive, Moreleta Park, Pretoria. In-person past life regression is available Monday to Sunday by appointment.
