A Comprehensive Guide
Preparing for your (current or past) life regression is an exciting and deeply personal experience. Whether you're doing this for personal insight, healing, or to explore deeper connections with a partner, careful preparation can significantly optimize your results. This guide will walk you through each step—before, during, and after the session—to ensure a successful and meaningful regression experience.
1. How to Optimize Your Regression Results
The mindset you bring into the regression is crucial to its success. Below are actionable steps to help you mentally and emotionally prepare:
Acknowledge Your Feelings
Before your session, take some time to reflect on your hopes, excitement, curiosities, and even fears. Write them down in a journal and give yourself permission to feel these emotions fully. Being aware of your mental and emotional state allows you to enter the session with greater openness and clarity.
Action Step: Spend 10-15 minutes journaling about why you're seeking this regression. Are there specific patterns or relationships you want to explore? What answers are you hoping to gain?
Build Trust and Rapport with Your Practitioner
A key to success in any hypnotic experience is trust between you and your practitioner. The stronger the rapport, the easier it will be to fully relax and access deeper parts of your unconscious or superconscious mind.
Action Step: If you have any concerns, no matter how small, express them to your practitioner in advance. Building this open dialogue will foster trust and make you feel safer during the session.
Prepare by Using a Custom Suggestive Hypnosis Recording (Ask your pracitioner)
If you identify as more analytical or tend to overthink, you might benefit from a suggestive hypnosis recording before your session. This can help lower anxiety, build trust, and improve sleep, easing you into a more relaxed state during the regression.
Action Step: Request a sampler recording from your practitioner. Listen to it daily leading up to your session, especially before bed, to help calm your mind.
2. Complete Your Intake Forms and Disclose Health Conditions
Your practitioner will provide intake forms that allow them to tailor the regression to your needs. These forms also ensure your safety.
Filling out your intake forms thoroughly is crucial to preparing your practitioner for your session. These forms allow them to personalize the regression based on your unique needs and ensure your safety.
Health Disclosures: Be transparent about any mental or physical health conditions, such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, epilepsy, heart disease, or chronic depression.
These conditions may affect how you experience the session, and it’s important for your practitioner to be aware of them.
Medications: If you’re on any medications, disclose these as well, as some may influence your ability to relax or access deeper states of consciousness.
Family History: If there’s a significant family history of the aforementioned conditions, contact your practitioner before the session. Having an open conversation about your health is essential for your safety and well-being during the regression.
Action Steps:
Complete all intake forms thoroughly. Provide detailed information on any mental or physical health conditions, such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, epilepsy, or heart conditions.
If you’re on medication, disclose this as it may affect your ability to relax during the session.
If there’s a significant family history of these conditions, contact your practitioner to discuss before your session.
3. Pre-Regression Reflection: A Few Days Before
It's essential to mentally prepare by reflecting on your intentions for the regression. Clear your mind by addressing some of the following questions:
What do I want to learn about myself or my relationship?
What patterns in my life feel stuck or repetitive?
What are my current beliefs about my soul, life path, or relationships?
Am I holding onto any limiting beliefs that could be causing me stress?
Writing down these thoughts in a journal will help clarify your goals for the session and allow you to approach the experience with a clearer understanding of what you hope to gain.
Action Step: Dedicate time 2-3 days before the session to reflect and journal on these questions. Revisit your entries the night before to focus your intentions.
4. Personal Preparations for the Regression Session
The day before your session, you'll want to focus on both physical and mental alignment. Here's a checklist of key steps:
Get a Full Night's Sleep
Being well-rested will help you enter a more relaxed state during the regression. Avoid late-night activities that might disrupt your sleep cycle.
Action Step: Plan to go to bed early the night before. Keep your evening routine calming—no caffeine or heavy meals close to bedtime.
Limit Caffeine and Alcohol, No drugs other than those prescribed by your doctor
Caffeine can overstimulate your system, while alcohol can dull your senses, both of which can make it harder to enter a deep, relaxed state.
Action Step: Begin cutting back on caffeine the afternoon before your session. Avoid alcohol entirely at least 24 hours before the session.
Eat Nourishing Meals
Instead of eating light, focus on meals that nourish and ground you. Opt for balanced, whole foods that energize without making you feel overly full or sluggish.
Action Step: The morning of your session, have a balanced breakfast or lunch (depending on session time) that leaves you satisfied but not heavy. Include proteins, healthy fats, and fresh vegetables or fruits.
Review Your Journaling Reflections
Revisit your journal to remind yourself of the intentions and questions you want to explore during the regression. This will focus your subconscious mind and create a stronger anchor for your experience.
Action Step: Read through your journal the evening before and spend a few moments meditating or relaxing with these reflections in mind.
5. Setting Up Your Environment for the Session
Whether your session is in-person or remote, your physical environment plays a critical role in creating the right conditions for success. Here's how to set yourself up for the best experience:
In-Home Remote Sessions
If your session is being conducted remotely, it's important to create a distraction-free space with strong internet connectivity.
Action Steps:
Ensure your room is private and free from distractions.
Pets and children should be kept apart: Make arrangements for your pets to be in another room or off-site entirely. Pets are intuitive and may attempt to interrupt you while you're under hypnosis, affecting your ability to fully relax.
Make sure your internet connection is strong and stable. Test it before the session and ensure your device is fully charged and plugged in for the duration.
Set up full visibility of yourself on camera so your practitioner can monitor your state throughout the session.
Create a peaceful atmosphere with dim lighting, calming music, or any other elements that help you feel comfortable and safe.
Have a pen and paper/journal available near you for thoughts post-session
In-Person Sessions
If you're attending an in-person session, the environment will likely be prepared by the practitioner, but it's still important to ensure you're comfortable and free from distractions.
Action Steps:
Wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing.
Arrive early to settle into the space and ensure you feel fully relaxed.
Let your practitioner know if any adjustments to the environment would help you feel more comfortable.
Have a pen and paper/journal available near you for thoughts post-session
6. Addressing Children During Remote Sessions
When preparing for a remote past life regression session, it's vital to ensure that your environment is calm and free from distractions, especially if children are present in your home. Children, like pets, can be naturally intuitive and may sense your deeply relaxed state, which could lead to interruptions. To optimize your regression experience, you’ll need to take specific steps to ensure you have uninterrupted time during the session.
Here’s how to manage the presence of children during remote sessions:
Plan Ahead for Childcare
Action Step: Arrange for childcare ahead of time. Ideally, have a trusted family member, babysitter, or friend take care of your children outside the home during your session. This will give you peace of mind and prevent any disruptions.
Alternative Action: If outside childcare isn’t an option, create a designated quiet space in another part of the home where children can stay occupied during the session. Ensure they have engaging activities, and inform them that you need quiet time.
Use Technology Wisely
Action Step: For older children who can entertain themselves with technology, set them up with a movie, educational app, or similar activity in a room far from where you’ll be. Make sure they understand that your time is not to be interrupted unless it’s an emergency.
Create a Clear Boundary
Action Step: Explain to your children, depending on their age, that you will be in a session where you need quiet and alone time. Set clear boundaries, perhaps using a "do not disturb"
7. Addressing Pets During Remote Sessions
Pets will naturally gravitate toward you when you’re in a deeply relaxed state, often interrupting the session. To avoid disruptions, it’s essential to make proper arrangements for your animals ahead of time.
Action Steps:
Ensure pets are out of the home or placed in a part of the house where they won’t disturb you.
If pets are nearby, keep them in a room where they cannot access you. No barking, meowing, scratching at doors, or trying to get your attention should occur.
If you can’t guarantee an interruption-free environment, the likelihood of a successful session is low. Be prepared to reschedule if necessary.
8. What to Expect During the Regression
Once your session begins, your practitioner will guide you into a deeply relaxed state through a combination of breathwork and hypnosis techniques. In this state, your unconscious or superconscious mind can access memories and insights from past lives or deep-rooted emotional patterns.
For Individuals:
Entering a Deep State of Relaxation: You’ll be gently led into a trance-like state through deep breathing, visualization, and suggestive language. This state feels like a peaceful, meditative place where your mind is still, but your awareness remains sharp.
Accessing Unconscious Memories: In this altered state, memories and experiences from past lives or from your current life’s subconscious come to the surface. These may relate to emotional patterns, unresolved traumas, or latent fears.
Experiencing Emotions: You might feel emotions associated with these past experiences, but the practitioner will guide you through them, helping you process any feelings that arise with ease and clarity. Some people describe these emotions as releasing old burdens or understanding deeply ingrained behaviors.
Guided Reflection: The practitioner will ask specific, gentle questions to guide your exploration. Your responses are drawn from the deep recesses of your mind, offering new perspectives and insights about your current life and soul’s journey.
Self-Discovery: Expect to gain a profound understanding of who you are and how certain beliefs, behaviors, or emotional patterns have shaped your present life. Often, clients feel an increased sense of self-awareness and a release from negative patterns.
For Couples: If you’re experiencing a simultaneous regression with a partner, this process may reveal relationship dynamics that transcend your current lifetime, offering new understanding and deepened connections.
· Joint Relaxation: As a couple, you and your partner will be guided into the same deeply relaxed state simultaneously. The focus will be on maintaining your individual trance while remaining aware of your partner's presence.
· Revealing Past Life Dynamics: As you both regress into your past lives, you may discover shared experiences or explore relationship dynamics that transcend this lifetime. These revelations often uncover deep emotional connections, challenges, or karmic lessons between you and your partner.
· Gaining Insights into Your Relationship: Insights from the regression may offer new understanding about your current relationship. These could manifest as lessons in communication, mutual healing, or balancing energies between partners. This shared journey can create deeper empathy and an emotional bond that might have been previously unexplored.
· Deepened Connection: Many couples find that a simultaneous regression creates a sense of shared understanding and connection, even in previously difficult areas of their relationship. This experience may also reveal how your souls have journeyed together over multiple lifetimes, adding depth to your current partnership.
· Reflective Discussion: After the session, your practitioner will help you both reflect on the shared experience, drawing connections between the past and present relationship patterns. This conversation will highlight how the revelations from the session can be applied to strengthen and harmonize your partnership moving forward.
9. What to Expect After the Regression
After the session, it’s important to give yourself space to process the experience. Here’s what you can expect:
Self-Grounding
Once the session concludes, you’ll be guided back to a grounded, present state. This transition is gradual, giving you time to reorient yourself.
Action Step: Spend 15-20 minutes post-session sitting quietly, sipping water, and reconnecting with your body and surroundings.
Reflective Conversation
After self-grounding, your practitioner will host a reflective conversation to help you make connections between your current life and the insights you gained from the session. Together, you’ll discuss how the experience impacts your understanding of yourself and your relationships.
Action Step: Be open and honest during this conversation. The more insights you share, the more your practitioner can help guide you to deeper realizations.
Journaling and Self-Care
Continue journaling about your experience after the session. Also, consider incorporating relaxing activities like spending time in nature, with loved ones, or with your pets (after they’ve had a break!).
Action Steps:
Dedicate time to journaling over the next few days to capture any additional insights.
Plan calming activities, such as walking in nature, to help ground and integrate the experience.
Suggestive Hypnotic Sessions
If you’re seeking specific behavioral changes (e.g., reducing anxiety), you can request a follow-up suggestive hypnosis session. These sessions are typically highly effective, with success rates as high as 93%.
Action Step: Discuss any desired outcomes with your practitioner to see if a suggestive hypnotic session is appropriate for you.
10. Post-Session Hydration and Reflection
Hydration plays an important role in recovery after the session. Drink plenty of water and spend time reflecting on your experience. Avoid immediate social interactions and give yourself time to process.
Action Step: Plan for at least an hour or more of quiet, introspective time after your session.
HeatherAnn Koehn
Founder, Divine Black Sheep
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