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Friday, 19 November 2010
Radio Interview with Karen talking about Exploring & Healing Your Past Lives
Article written by Dublin Journalist on a session with Karen
A Past Life Regression session with Karen by Hazel Larkin - Dublin Journalist
Hazel Katherine Larkin is a writer and journalist who lived and worked in Asia for 10 years before returning to Ireland in 2004. A practicing Reiki Master, with an interest in all things spiritual, Hazel also holds an Honours degree in Psychology from NUIM.
Hazel had a Past Life Regression session with Karen in November 2010 - here is Hazel's article which is currently going to the Irish Press and was published in Mind, Body, Spirit Ireland :
For years, I have been very interested in past life regression (PLR). I have never doubted that all of us have been here on earth before and that our souls are learning lessons in every life time. One lifetime alone could not teach us all we need to know!
I had my first experience of PLR in Singapore in the early 1990s. I found it very empowering and very interesting – especially when I was able to verify, through contact with a Welsh university – that the person I had remembered being had actually existed!
Over the years since then, I have had a few formal regression sessions as well as a number of spontaneous rememberings. Initially, I used to wonder how to tell the difference between an ‘imagining’ and a real past life memory. Thankfully, I have discovered that differentiating between the two is not at all difficult. Imagination takes ‘effort’, while the memories of a previous life arise spontaneously. Also, they are often the kinds of things my imagination could never invent! Critically, though, my body experiences past life memories and the workings of my imagination differently.
‘How people experience memories from past lives varies. Often, I find that the experience depends on how they think,’ Karen E Wells, a Past Life Regression therapist, explains. ‘If a person is very visual, they will see everything. Other people might have a hazy picture and have a sense of feeling the experience.’
‘What makes it real is the feelings and the emotions and sometimes it can be a very intense experience. That’s what lets you know that it’s real,’ Karen further explains. ‘The conscious mind is so powerful that it will often come in and say “you’re making that up”. Forget what you think you think and go on what you feel.’
While I first investigated PLR as a matter of curiosity, I am now more likely to seek PLR in order to obtain clarification of a current circumstance, or a deeper explanation of a current relationship. Having experienced PLR therapists from various parts of the globe – as well as in various parts of the globe – I consider myself pretty hard to impress.
Last week, however, I was amazed by a session I had with Karen, who is based in the UK – but who will be in Dublin at the end of November. When she’s here, she will run a past life workshop, as well as to conduct consultations with individuals.
The difference between Karen’s approach and the approach of the eight or nine other PLR therapists I have encountered is that Karen is clear about her use of PLR to heal. Karen herself says ‘Past Life Regression can be a really amazing healing opportunity. Sometimes, when something is going on in someone’s current life, the roots are in a past life. It is necessary to go to the time in the past life when the difficulty first arose and heal it there. Once there is clarity around the issue in that life, it will often heal in this current life. The issue can be physical, emotional or both.’
Much to my surprise, I encountered just such a healing when I had my own session with Karen. When regressed, I visited myself in another life – Egypt during the Ottoman times. In that lifetime, I was married – against my will – to a man I wanted nothing to do with. To cut a long story short, he was very cruel and I decided he had to die. With the help of an apothecary, I slowly poisoned my husband and he died. I was aware of who that person has reincarnated as in this life – and he has made a lot of trouble for me, to the extent that I am currently locked in a legal battle with him.
Coming towards the end of that session, Karen asked me if there was anything that was said in that lifetime – any promise or feeling – that had carried on into this lifetime.
‘Yes,’ I told her. ‘He said, “I’ll get you for this” just before he died.’
Suddenly, I had clarity around the issue in my current life. I realised that I had been feeling guilty and carrying that guilt with me for centuries. That guilt was part of the reason that I had allowed this man to treat me so badly in this lifetime – on some level I felt that I deserved it. At the same time, though, I was able to see that the karmic debt had been repaid in that lifetime itself; he had behaved terribly and had paid the price – I had killed him.
It was over and done with and I had no reason to feel guilty about pursuing satisfaction through legal channels for the harm he has done me in this lifetime. To put it simply, we were quits at the end of that life in Egypt and the slate was wiped clean. What happened in this lifetime needs to be dealt with here and now.
The session with Karen, however, helped me to realise – on a very conscious level – that I don’t deserve what was done to me in this life by the person in question, that I have every right to pursue things through legal channels, and that I am entitled to satisfaction for what happened.
The relief I felt at the end of the session was huge. I felt as though I could relax about the issue for the first time ever. I also believed with every part of my being that I deserve to have the legal resolution I am seeking to the issue.
Interestingly, the Universe seems to have realised that I have made that change – as things have sped up considerably in the legal arena of the issue. It now appears as though I will have a satisfactory outcome within the next few weeks. Which, when you consider that I was originally told it could take up to three years, is not bad going!