Akashic Record Reading vs Past Life Regression
June 7, 2009 by Akemi
Back in December, I had a chance to have a hypnotherapy for past life regression from a therapist who took workshops with Brian Weiss. As you know, I read people’s Akashic Records that often involves looking into their past lives, so this was quite an experience.
Which is a better way to learn about your past life, past life regression therapy or Akashic Record Reading? I think there are pros and cons to both approaches.
(For those of you who have been reading this blog faithfully — this was before my Ascension soul shift in mid January. So at that time, I had my first soul with past incarnations. 
) (Photo by mattieb)
Difference of your investment
With hypnotherapy, you need to be with the therapist real time, either physically in her office or talking with her over the phone. And one session may or may not get to the core of the issue — in my case, she could regress me only to my childhood, not my past life. She acknowledged this is quite typical, that you’d need several sessions to go back to your past lives. So you will be investing significant amount of your time and money with past life regression therapy.
With my Akashic Record Reading, I don’t need my clients to be with me when I do the actual reading so I do it by myself. I have certain criteria for the first comprehensive profile reading. I check if major energetic issues such as curses, spells, contracts, etheric implants, negative entity involvement, chakra damages, etc. etc. are in the client’s Akashic Records, and when I find any, I go back and see when and how it started. It may or may not stem from past lives. I gather all the relevant information, write the report, and then set up the phone session so that I can explain my findings to my clients. My actual work takes one to several hours, but the phone session is about 40 to 50 minutes. (I don’t charge by the time because I believe the value of the reading is in its accuracy and usefulness.)
Difference of directness of the past life experience
So I myself didn’t get to my past life in this hypnotherapy session, but if I did, the experience would have been very direct, as described in the books by Brian Weiss and Michael Newton. On the other hand, my clients of Akashic Record Reading don’t directly experience their past lives. Some start recalling their past lives using my reading as a cue, but that is not part of my service.
I think this is a significant difference, for better or worse. Let me explain by example. In one of my past life, I was persecuted. It was a time of religious conflicts, and I was demanded to either change my faith or die. I sticked to my belief, which resulted in traumatic death that caused some energetic issues.
I never consciously remembered this past life, but I could observe the effects. For instance, even though I was comfortable in public speaking when the audience was up to about 100 (I used to be a teacher), I got really nervous and almost scared when the crowd was larger. And I really HATED being held down even in horseplay.
In Akashic Record Reading, the past life experience is indirect. You just hear me explain what happened and how it’s affecting you today.
In past life regression therapy, the past life experience is direct. You would recall what happened in a dramatic, immediate way.
I guess there is something about vivid recollection. For one, you would have less doubt. With the indirect experience of Akashic Record Reading, the only way you recognize it as true is your feeling of resonance.
So if you want to hear the roaring scream of the thousands of crowd as you look down at them from the stage, or being tied to the stalk, you’d want hypnotherapy. If you just want the skinny of the critical past life experiences, choose Akashic Record Reading.
Difference in clearing work
Both the past life regression and my Akashic Record Reading aim to clear the energetic issues that affect the clients to this day. (There seem to be Akashic Record reader who only read the Akashic Records and don’t do clearing, so please make sure about this point if you are interested in getting a reading.) The way of clearing, however, is different.
My hypnotherapist explained that her clearing comes from the understanding of the past life. For example, when you understand that your fear of the big crowd is caused by the persecution in past life, you understand that was only in the past. You are living in the now and no one is after you to persecute you. So please feel relieved.
In my Akashic Record Reading, I do specific clearing work. The work depends on the kind of energetic issue, but typically, I get my clients involved by assigning them homework. It’s a simple work, but works very well.
Difference in credibility
Professional hypnotherapists are usually trained in the conventional psychotherapy as well. I understand this provides a sense of assurance to some people. With Akashic Record Reading, you are dealing with a psychic — there is no publicly accredited license.
In both cases, you might want to read the testimonials the practitioner has on their website, or even better, talk with someone who has worked with the practitioner you are considering to work with.
Bonus You Tube video
Here is a boy who just remembers his past life, which was trackable.
Do you have any questions about past life and reincarnation? Please share in the comments!
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My partner Karen does channeling, which can be about past life issues, and she’s worked with me a few times. I find that it’s really helpful when it’s past life issues that are affecting me. One time was when I had chronic, close to dibilitating back pain. She went back into a life where I was impaled by a raiding knight in medieval europe, severing the spinal cord and left to die over the next few days. Something emotionally resonated, then let go, and yes, things improved. Not magically, as there were physical things to work through as well, but now I pretty much don’t notice my back.
I haven’t worked with you but I’m sure you have similar stories.
The caviat is that discernment is need to see when it is a past life issue. Not everything is. The problem with all healing modalities is that not everything works for everyone – which is why it’s good to learn to use your intuition. There’s even lots of different frequencies of energy healing.
Hi Akemi – I tried past life regression but only using a book myself. I found it better to have an Akashic Record reading with you because it helped me to improve the life I’m living now. The regression just showed things that might have happened to me in the past.
Matthew,
Hey, it’s been a while since I talked with you. I’m glad you are doing well.
The soul condition and memories affect us physically, mentally and emotionally. I’ve had clients with certain physical conditions that were linked to past life experience, like yours was.
You are right that each person is different. We are blessed with various modalities and be able to make informed decision in our choices.
Cath,
Self hypnosis is just as good. And you are right, the potential pitfall of past life regression is it may not lead to healing. I’ve had clients who have had past life regression therapy but couldn’t figure out how all the experiences related to their current life. In that case, it only satisfies the curiosity.
[...] of joining the group and staying there. It carried hundreds of curses, among other issues.) Or persecution or witch trial. And sometimes it’s less dramatic — say, a life as a poor manual laborer [...]
I’ve had many past life experiences but the strangest thing of all if it was a person known throughout history than I have somewhat of a knowledge pertaining to certain lives I’ve known or in other words the Christ in me knew. The ones that are not documented in ancient and modern manuscripts I have little knowledge. 1000′s of years ago I could of banded together in small tribes and lives in holes and the rocks of caves. I remember a Hellenistic like war where the opposing team would drink strong wine and smoke all kinds of intoxicants and they would rush into battle I remember my friend Joe was a warrior for that opposing team. I was a Shaman.
[...] book is not only great introduction to past life regression therapy and the idea of reincarnation, but also contains fascinating messages from the [...]
That is the best explanation and comparison that I have seen yet. Even though you prefer a reading, you gave hypnosis a fair chance, even going so far as to experience it.
I am a believer in reincarnation, even though I have no memories of a previous life and have never been regressed. If I have lived before, I have no idea who I was or what I did. I’ve never felt I belonged anywhere in particular, except in Stockport, England, where I was born and lived for the first seven and a half years of my life. I still regard it as “home”, even though I left there fifty-seven years ago in 1954.
There are, however, a few clues to what I may have been like or what may have happened to me in a previous life.
When I was a child, I was an inoffensive little boy who wouldn’t harm anyone. When I was bullied, for instance, I just would not fight back, no matter how provoked I was or how much I was hit or punched by other boys. I would just roll up in a ball and take the beating without retaliating. Even as a little boy of five or six, I believed it was wrong to fight and to hit people and hurt them.
One day, I ran into the house crying to my father that this boy had been hitting me. My father strode out of the house and grabbed the boy and pinned him against him securely by his arms, so that the boy could not move out of my father’s very strong grasp. “He can’t harm you now”, said my father. “Go on, hit him! Hit him as hard as you can and keep hitting him!” Well, I just stood there, looking at this strange scene. But I could not hit the boy, even though he was totally defenceless and, physically speaking, it would have been easy for me to do so. My father just looked at me kind of disgusted and eventually let the boy go, who ran off, laughing. That was what I was like back then. These days, I would have killed the little swine. So my ideas in this respect have changed a great deal since I was little. What drove it out of me? Well, maybe life has dealt me just one blow too many since those days. But, if I did have a previous life, maybe one of the things I brought into this world this time around was that I didn’t want any more to do with fighting and violence. I’d had enough of it. Maybe such things that happen in our early childhood indicate that, although we may carry no conscious memories of a previous life into this one, we carry into this life the emotions we felt in the previous one
Ever since I can remember, from infancy, I have never been able to go to sleep when somebody else is in the same bed with me. I believed that if I was to fall asleep, they would kill me. Now where did that strange idea come from? Naturally, this has ruled out my ever being married or being in any relationship where I am required to go to sleep when someone is sharing the bed with me. By definition, it also prevents me from undergoing past life regression therapy, for I could never trust the therapist not to harm me while I was in a hypnotic trance. Also, on the subject of trust, which I believe is connected to the above and relevant to it, I have never known what it is to have complete trust in anyone but myself. I trust absolutely no one but me…no, not even God. So, if this complete lack of trust is connected to a previous life, or the end of a previous life, quite obviously something very traumatic must have happened to me back then for me to be the way I am now.
It’s a strange thing to understand, but I have had great difficulty becoming a so called adult. I feel myself to be no older than ten to twelve years old, even though I am 64. Someone I was talking to who reckons he knows a lot about reincarnation told me that I feel this way because in all my previous lives, I have died as a child no older than ten or twelve years and that this life I am living now is the first life I’ve had in which I have grown physically to adulthood…that this is something I’ve been unable to get used to and that it will take quite a few more lifetimes of growing into an adult for me to come to terms with it. Isn’t that strange?
There is just one other thing that I should have added that has bugged me all my life. It may be connected with a previous life and it may not…but I have a strong gut feeling that it is.
When I was five years old in 1952, we first had a television set installed in our front room. One summer evening in that year, I remember I was left alone in the room watching a play on the television. I can’t remember what the play was called now, but it was set in Russia during the revolution. For some reason while watching this play, I became very, very upset and began sobbing bitterly. My mother came into the room and hugged me and tried to comfort me and asked me what was the matter. But I couldn’t tell her why I was so terribly upset.
Twenty-one years later, in 1973 at the age of 26, I went to see the film “Nicholas and Alexandra”, an epic about the Russian revolution and the murder by the Bolsheviks of the entire Russian royal family, the Romanovs. In the last few minutes of the film, where the murders took place on screen, I became terribly upset in exactly the same way that I had done at the age of five and broke down and sobbed bitterly as the end cast rolled and the haunting ending music by Richard Rodney Bennett played. Even today, whenever I watch that film, I become very upset by the ending and I can hardly bear to watch it. I feel particularly drawn to Alexei, whom for some reason, I feel very deeply for and who was only 13 when he was shot to death by the assassins. What does it all mean? I really wish I knew.
I believe the things I described above are far more emotional memories than conscious ones. You feel them more than you think them. Sometimes, these emotional memories can be from more than one past life and are traumatic baggage we’ve carried forward to this present life in our personality and in our soul. I don’t know why the connection with Russia. I have no interest in the country; I’ve never been there in this life and I have no wish to go there (in fact, I was born in England and have never left this country).
Images of the type described above may be upsetting to me not because of what they are or where they’re geographically set, but because they represent something very similar that happened to me in a previous life and disturb me because they awaken very painful emotional memories in me. There is obviously a feeling of terrible loss and heartbreak associated with these feelings. Whether these things did happen in Russia at the time of the revolution, or at least in the First World War, is difficult to say. But there is clearly some connection.
I’m quite sure that reincarnation is a fact for some people (maybe not all), but it does appear to be some kind of natural phenomenon without a purpose and sometimes it goes wrong. I don’t think there is any kind of divine design behind it and we should disregard the popular image of a gray-bearded God in flowing white robes sitting on some celestial marble throne, speaking in Elizabethan English as being behind it all, because that doesn’t make any sense. After all, the popular idea of reincarnation as being one of a soul living many lives on the Earth plane until they are perfect enough to meet God seems very odd, when God could have cut out all the pain and suffering and heartache of our many lives on Earth by making us all perfect in the beginning…rendering reincarnation redundant. At any rate, the present state of affairs is a funny way to run things. It certainly makes no sense to our kind of logic. Then there is the question What am I here for? If I made some promises to someone high up in the spirit realms before I started out on this present lifetime to do certain things and learn certain lessons, what would be the point, as the main process of reincarnation has us forget such promises, as well as previous lives and the interval in between them? So, if anyone out there can tell me what on earth I’m doing here, I’d be obliged if they would inform me, as I’m damned if I know.