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Past Life
Regression

Your Complete Preparation Guide

Everything you need to know before your session — what to expect, how to set your intention, how the experience works, and what to do with what emerges afterward.

Before We Begin

You've already been here
more than once.

I've been doing past life regression work since I was seven years old — first as a subject, then as a practitioner. I've led thousands of people through this experience. And one thing is always true: the person who shows up for this session is ready for it.

Whether you believe in past lives literally, or simply find the metaphor useful, or are just curious — it doesn't matter. What matters is what shifts. And something almost always does.

This guide will tell you exactly what to expect, how to prepare, and how to get the most from your session. Read it once before we meet. Let it settle. Come in with an open mind and a clear intention.

That's all you need.

The Truth About Hypnosis

Not what you've seen
in the movies.

Pop culture has given hypnosis a bad reputation. Let's clear that up before we begin.

The Myth
You lose control and do whatever the hypnotherapist says
The Truth
You are always in control. You can open your eyes and stop at any moment.
The Myth
You go completely unconscious and remember nothing
The Truth
You remain aware throughout — transported, yet present. Dual awareness.
The Myth
You'll see a movie playing in your mind like a vivid screen
The Truth
Everyone experiences it differently — visual, felt, heard, or simply known.
The Myth
If you don't see clear images it isn't working
The Truth
I personally experience no images at all — and have had profoundly healing regressions.
"If it feels like you're making it all up — you're doing it right.
We use the same part of the brain for this as we use to write stories.
The making-it-up feeling means it's working."
How You Might Experience It

There is no wrong way
to experience this.

People receive past life material in four primary ways. All are equally valid. Most people use a combination.

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Clairvoyant

You see images, scenes, or impressions — like fragments of a dream or distant memory

Clairsentient

You feel it in your body — emotions, physical sensations, temperature, weight

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Clairaudient

You hear sounds, voices, words, or music from the life you're visiting

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Claircognizant

You simply know — information arrives as direct knowing without image or sensation

What Happens In Session

The journey — step by step.

No surprises. Here is exactly what will happen so you can arrive fully prepared.

01
Progressive Relaxation

We begin by bringing awareness to your breath, then moving a wave of relaxation from your feet all the way to the crown of your head. By the end you'll feel completely settled, open, and ready. This is not sleep — you'll remain aware throughout.

02
The Path

You'll become aware of a path beneath your feet. See it, feel it, hear it, smell it — or simply imagine it. What is it made of? What surrounds it? This path leads toward the hallway. I'll count you deeper as you walk it.

03
The Great Hallway of Doors

The path leads to a hallway with doors on both sides. They may look like traditional doors, portals, spots of light, or windows — however they show up is perfect. You'll allow yourself to be drawn — not forced — to the door that corresponds to your mission.

04
Through the Door

I'll count to three and you'll find yourself on the other side — in a life connected to the one you're living now. We begin at your feet. What do they look like? Are they bare or covered? Young or old? Male or female? Let the story unfold from there.

05
The Life and Its End

We move through the most important scene of that life as it relates to your mission, and then to the final moments. You witness from perfect safety. However this life ends — with peace, with struggle, with love, with loss — you are always safe and always the observer.

06
The Space Between Lives

You rise from that body into the space between lives — however you imagine it. And then your past life self walks toward you. They have a message, a gift, and a word — your talisman for returning to this life anytime you choose.

07
Return and Integration

We return through the door, back down the path, and gently back into the room. I'll bring you back counting down from ten. Take your time opening your eyes. Write everything down immediately — before you filter or judge it. Even if you think you made it all up.

Before Your Session

Set your mission
before we begin.

Your subconscious mind is wise. When you give it a clear mission it will pull up the exact lifetime most important for you to experience. Spend some time before your session sitting with this question:

Complete this sentence
"I'm going to find a past life that helps me…"

Examples of missions that have led to powerful sessions:

Write your mission down. Bring it with you. We'll use it to set the direction before we begin.

A Few Stories

What people actually
discover.

Most lives are ordinary — and that's where the healing lives. Here are a few examples from thousands of sessions.

Shanghai, 1930s
The Japanese Spy

A woman came to heal a feeling that her employees were stealing from her. She went back to gray — nothing visible. I asked if the light came from in front or behind her. She made out her shadow, stepped back, and saw a great gray wall. She was in Shanghai. A Japanese spy in the 1930s, watching industrialists in apartments furnished like Paris. Neither of us had ever heard of this. We looked it up afterward. The gray wall around Shanghai existed. The wealthy residents furnished their homes with European pieces. Japanese spies were real. The connection to her current-life fear became immediately clear.

American Civil War Era
The Woman Soldier

A woman discovered she was Black, formerly enslaved, disguised as a man and serving in the Union Army — chased into a swamp where she drowned. We searched afterward: are there cases of African American women serving as soldiers? Up came the story of Cathay Williams — the first documented African American woman to serve in the US military, disguised as a man. The client was not African American in this life. But the feeling of being a slave to obligation, and the connection to her military service in this lifetime, made the healing profound.

Petra, Jordan — 1600 BC
The Nabataean Princess

A woman found herself in the Middle East, daughter of a nobleman, sitting with men and negotiating trade deals on behalf of her father — knowing that plural marriages didn't exist in this culture and that women wielded real power. Afterward we typed her description into AI: where and when might this have been? It came back as Nabataean Petra in modern-day Jordan, 1600 BC. The name she thought sounded like Athena turned out to be an Arabic name given to daughters of noblemen. Neither of us had ever heard of the Nabataeans.

Egypt — Ancient
Rick's Own Past Life

When I first trained in hypnotherapy I kept feeling a strange fear come over me every time I placed my hands on someone for Reiki. I went back. I was in a temple in Egypt — an energy healer called to heal the Pharaoh. I healed him right into his transition to the afterlife. They thought I had killed him. They cut off my arms. I bled to death. That session, horrific as it was to experience, released the fear completely. I have never felt it since. That's what a past life regression is for.

After Your Session

Use AI to research
what came up.

After your session — once you've written everything down — take your notes to Claude or ChatGPT and ask:

"Where on earth and when in time might this have been? Here's what I experienced: [describe your life, the clothing, the landscape, the names, the events]"

The internet and modern AI can take a past life regression to a whole new level. You'd be surprised how often the details — the wall around a city, the furnishings in a house, the name of a soldier — turn out to be historically accurate. Even when neither you nor I had any prior knowledge of them.

It doesn't prove anything. But it opens something.

Ready to Begin?

Book your past life
regression session.

Private sessions go far deeper than any group experience. I can slow down when something important emerges, ask questions in real time, and guide you to exactly where you need to go. It's not unusual to visit two or three lifetimes in one session.

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