Past life regression is a method that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations.

Weiss is an extremely credible, knowledgeable psychiatrist who documents the past lives of patients whom he regressed through hypnosis.

Hypnotic regression is the process by which you enter a trance and recall material from deep inside that is normally not available to the conscious mind. Regression is the process by which the hypnotist guides you back through time to particular events that need to be examined.

76 years (November 6, 1944)

Personal life. Weiss lives with his wife Carole in Miami, Florida, where he writes and conducts public seminars and workshops on the subject of reincarnation.

Therapists who practice this approach believe people seeking treatment for phobias, depression, intimacy issues, and a range of other concerns can see improvement in their state of mind by revisiting and reliving the early experiences that influenced the development of these issues. …

Clinical. Age regression can be used as a therapeutic technique. Some mental health professionals use hypnotherapy and age regression to help patients return to painful periods in their lives. Once there, they can help them overcome the trauma and find healing.

The greatest risk in past life regressions is that the hypnotist may implant false memories in the subject, and due to suggestibility, the subject may come to feel them as quite real. This implantation of false memories need not even be intentional.

Although there is a widespread belief that hypnosis produces accurate memories, researchers found that hypnosis does not work well as a memory-recovery method. In addition, people who have been hypnotized tend to feel confident that their memories are accurate, contributing to the persistence of false memories.

Research explains why hypnosis doesn’t work for all. Not everyone is able to be hypnotized, and new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine shows how the brains of such people differ from those who can easily be.

It is a highly safe technique that can bring increased self-esteem and confidence, assertiveness, and relaxation. Self-hypnosis can also be used during difficult times to help improve symptoms of medical conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, pain and headaches.

In a new study, researchers showcased that the way our brain processes information is fundamentally altered during hypnosis. Researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, found that during hypnosis the brain shifted to a state where individual brain regions acted more independently of each other.

Adverse reactions to hypnosis are rare, but may include:

• Headache.
• Drowsiness.
• Dizziness.
• Anxiety or distress.
• Creation of false memories.

Hypnotherapy does have some risks. The most dangerous is the potential to create false memories (called confabulations). Some other potential side effects are headache, dizziness, and anxiety. However, these usually fade shortly after the hypnotherapy session.

For a small percentage of people, hypnosis can be life-changing. However, a single session does not generally change behavior. Just like other healing methods such as counseling, you will likely need to try several sessions before you see the impact of hypnosis. You can also try hypnosis on yourself.

Yet while hypnosis is helpful for a number of psychiatric conditions or conditions containing a psychiatric component, few psychiatrists use it.

Typically for anxiety and stress related issues, a minimum of 6 – 8 sessions are required, sometimes more to get you where you want to be.