Jaclyn Beckerman Coaching

Saturday I took the bus to Philly early in the morning to attend a 10am-5pm workshop with Brian Weiss.  Dr. Weiss is famous for his work with past life regression therapy and has written a handful of books on his experiences with patients using this tool for healing.

Throughout the day he talked about some past experiences and gave background information for those who weren’t familiar with his work and did a few experiential exercises with us including a couple past life regressions.

They would turn the lights very low and put on some soft background music and he would guide everyone into a trance (hypnosis) which is really just, as he mentioned, relaxed focused concentration.

In the first regression I saw myself as a king.  I was a large man and had a full white beard.  I was sitting in my throne and people were lined up to offer me gifts.  There were people lined up facing inward on either side of this procession as well.  I was very pleased to receive the gifts but I was not very generous in giving to the people which made them resentful.  It was like it was all about me and I didn’t really care about the other people.  The lesson for me to learn was that of being generous and giving to others the way I’d like to be given to in order to foster love, respect and unity.  When we fast forwarded to my death I saw that my throat was cut by my brother (who was my brother Michael in this lifetime) who wanted the throne for himself.

Later, in the second regression, I saw myself as a pregnant wife who had had a lot of trouble conceiving.  When I had the child it was a girl and my husband was angry about this because he wanted a boy.  He then forced me to have sex with him against my will repeatedly until I got pregnant again.  I felt worn out and beaten down, and died in childbirth giving birth to another girl.  I didn’t get to look into the lessons of this lifetime as we moved on to look at another.  Looking back on this now I think the lesson to learn is to express myself fully – it’s okay to get angry and it’s okay to rebel against people who treat me badly or things I don’t agree with or am not happy or comfortable with.  I notice this theme in other past lives I’ve seen recently as well.  In the past (in this lifetime too) I’ve tended to be somewhat submissive about accepting what other people want and not standing up for myself because I don’t want to rock the boat. I need to trust my gut and follow my instincts instead of allowing others to influence or dictate my thought process or actions. At this point I was a bit stuck on the images I had seen and was aware of someone having fallen asleep and snoring next to me and had trouble focusing on the images.  We had spirit guides, who I saw as two children, a boy and a girl, come to take us to our next destination.  There were 5 or 6 doors, each leading to a different time period, we were to walk through the door that called to us the most.  I went through the 20 BC door and found myself as a thin woman named Genevieve in Egypt wearing a white cloth robe and sandals.  I didn’t see anything else about the lifetime though.

Dr Weiss said that Karma basically means that what you sow is what you reap.  Actions have consequences and they come back to you until you learn the lesson.  Karma is there to teach you not to punish you.  Once you learn the lesson, the karma dissolves because you don’t need it anymore.  This is why past life regression therapy seems to work so well for people to dissolve fears, phobias and even illnesses, because by learning the lesson you are meant to learn, you complete the karma.

Another thing we did was partner up and exchange a personal item with our partner.  We then went a bit deeper into trance and looked for what images or messages we got from holding the object.  For my partner I got that he had been a boy scout when he was very young and his father had been a bit indifferent and emotionally flat towards him.  I got that he just wanted to be loved by his father but didn’t feel like he had that.  I also got that his father had passed away and was very sorry and regretted how he’d been towards his son and wanted him to know he loved him very much.  I also saw that he lived in a house – at first I saw a two story house and then a single story and then the idea of an apartment in the house even though I knew it wasn’t an apartment building.  My partner verified that all of this was really accurate which was pretty cool.  He’d been a boy scout, his father had died 4 years ago and had terribly regretted how he treated his family because he was always busy and away doing other things.  He also said he lived in a two story house but his grandparents lived on one floor and his family lived on the other which explains the different imagery with the house.  While I’ve read some people and looked at future events I hadn’t really looked at anyone’s past in their current lifetime so it was awesome to be able to confirm the accuracy of what I saw.

We also did an exercise that has you have a dialog with some illness you possess (physical, emotional or mental) in order to heal it.  I did it with ‘laziness’.  You ask the illness a bunch of questions and it answers and then you switch places with the illness.  What I got from this experience was that I’m afraid of getting so busy and so caught up in doing things that I won’t have time for fun, play, relaxing or well being.  So if I make it a priority to include those things and even maybe schedule them in, it will be easier for me to be productive and do the activities or tasks I know are important to do.

It was basically the kind of exercises I’ve already been doing/working with now but it’s always a fascinating experience and I got a lot out of being there.