I recently read about a study conducted over the last 25 years at the University of Virginia on children
who have past life recall.  Most of these children have clear memories from age 2 to age 7.  These kids
from around the world have quite a few things in common including shared verifiable traits of the
previous personality, memories of unnatural causes of death, recognition of relatives from the same
family circle, and birth defects or marks corresponding with injuries experienced in those past lives.  

The most interesting similarity for me as an EFT practitioner is that these children often have a
phobia that corresponds with the way they died in the last lifetime - for example a water phobia in a
child who remembers drowning in a past life.

The work of Dr. Brian Weiss in the classic book Many Lives, Many Masters, describes the case of a
woman with a severe phobia that was healed quickly when she was led through a past life regression
hypnosis session.  Dr. Weiss, a traditionally trained psychotherapist, documents case after case in his
subsequent books of how past life regression heals trauma, anxiety, phobias and more.

My hesitation in dealing with past lives with my clients who believe that their current issues stem from
past life traumas was due to my own theory that we are given all the knowledge we need to heal
anything with the experiences we have had in this lifetime.  This was confirmed for me over and over
again as each of those clients healed without the need for me to hear about their past life memories.  
Some of these “memories” were merely suggestions or interpretations of information from some third
party source such as a hypnotherapist or psychics and rarely did it come from personal dreams or
visions.

However my beliefs were challenged a few weeks ago when I worked with a client who had extreme
separation anxiety whenever someone came to babysit her daughter.  Her daughter seemed to be just
as affected by the temporary parting.  Their fear was irrational and had badly strained the family's
home environment.  In the middle of our session my client suddenly had a vision of standing in the
middle of a line in a death camp during WWII.  The baby she held in her arms was suddenly ripped
from her arms.  We tapped on the guilt that she felt at not having been able to prevent the tragic death
of her daughter as well as related aspects of the memory.  Her extreme anxiety immediately subsided
and then disappeared.

A second recent case was with a woman whom I was helping with infertility issues.  At one point in the
session she recalled a past life memory of a preverbal sexual assault which she described as a bloody
mess.  I got the hit that she had made a subconscious association with a bloody mess and birth because
after all couldn’t one, given the wrong viewpoint, interpret childbirth as a bloody mess?

The moral here is use what shows up and don't allow your own disbelief to get in the way of your
clients' healing.  If your client believes that the world is run by a red elephant and that elephant is
causing them insomnia then use it in your wording.  The most important thing to remember at all
times is to became a clear channel and recognize that the work is coming through you and not by you.


Alina Frank, EFT CERT-I
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