"Every morning, I've woken up with this feeling of wanting to die and talked myself out of it my entire life. It feels like this has been healed, and I feel great!"

This is what one of my clients reported at the end of a recent past life regression. In his session, he returned to a lifetime during World War II in which he had lost everything. His home had been bombed, his family, killed, and he was left all alone with the desire to die. This despair and hopelessness had dogged my client throughout his current lifetime; therefore, in our regression, I helped him to extend healing to the man he was in this previous lifetime, the man who had lost everything and who hated the Germans for destroying his life.

The result of this healing was an immediate sense of relief for my client as well as his awareness that you can hate someone's actions but not hate them. After the session, my client even looked different; his left eye, which would not open fully before, was completely open and bright, and his face was radiant.

His case, which he gave me permission to discuss in this column, demonstrates the powerful benefits of past life regression that I discussed briefly last month. While conventional therapy leads us to attribute our challenges, fears, and troubles to experiences in this lifetime, our issues often stretch much further back. Through past life regression, what has been stored in our bodies, minds, and spirits across centuries and even millennia can surface and be healed, freeing us to be clear, aware, and awake in this lifetime.

Barnsley Brown, M.Sc., Ph.D., and Reiki Master can be reached at Spirited Solutions™, 919-967-1164 or spiritedsolutions@yahoo.com. She offers past life regressions, wellness consulting, creative writing workshops, and Reiki classes and individual sessions.