Fear & Hypnosis
Dear Jeanette: If a person has a fear of something such as animals, height, water, etc., could the cause be found through hypnosis?
Dear : Very often the causes of such fears can be located through hypnosis. Especially if the hypnotist understands something about reincarnation. Such fears may originate from something which happened in this lifetime OR in a past lifetime. Those therapists, including psychiatrists and others who use hypnosis in their treatments, who deal only with the events of this lifetime will therefore fail to find the true underlying cause if it is karma from a past life.
Sometimes events in this life will reinforce a tendency (good or bad) which was basically caused in a past life. Then a therapist may find the reinforcing event and feel that the real cause has been found. Results will prove otherwise however because the patient may be helped but not cured. Then the indication would be to continue the search, eventually going into the past lives.
Incidentally hypnosis is not the only way to recover such memories. Psychography, which is the mapping of the forces feeding into this personality, can through the use of past life recall sessions get to the same memories without the necessity of hypnosis and with the patient in full control and consciousness.
Quite often today, it has been found that there will be several causes for many of our problems. This is partly because as we are moving out of the Age of Pisces, souls are wanting to clear up as many situations as possible which started during this Age.
Also this is a time during which many people are becoming consciously aware of the psychic and spiritual influences in a different way than has been true in the past. We can deal with many more situations (problems?) when both the conscious and the subconscious are working on them.
So in many instances, the soul has asked the personality to deal with more than would have been asked of a personality even a hundred years ago. This is probably one of the reasons many people yearn for the “good old days” when life was simpler. The cultural surroundings were simpler but of even more importance the tasks given to the personality were also simpler.
How important is it that the cause of such fears be located? This depends partly on how it affects the life of the person. If the fear keeps him or her from participating fully in the chosen life-style, then most certainly life would be more enjoyable if the fear were removed.
Even if a person is not consciously aware of problems which the fear causes, it might still be very helpful to find the cause. In locating that one particular event, you will usually learn many other things about your past which become helpful in understanding just who and what you are and why. This then brings understanding also of many of the things that we do or that happen to us.
Some of the “fears”, etc., will be eliminated from the soul simply by expressing them during this lifetime, but others may need to be dealt with on a conscious level and examined, treated, “cured”, before the soul is able to let go of them. In that case finding them now can prevent them being carried over into still another lifetime.