This form of energy therapy involves bringing memories of traumatic experiences into conscious awareness so they can be explored. These memories may relate to this life or to previous existences and may be interfering with or disturbing our present life.
Through this therapy, we uncover aspects of the unconscious and open ourselves to new perceptions that can help us find solutions.
Regression therapy revisits subconscious memories to relive the original traumatic event associated with a present problem—in other words, to explore its roots. When the person connects with the emotion and relives the experience, symptoms may improve or even disappear.
The issues addressed include phobias, fears, emotional blocks, difficulty with commitment, resentment, guilt, repeated setbacks in relationships or material matters, working through trauma, and more.
This approach is described as particularly effective for psychosomatic problems of unknown origin that affect health through pain, insomnia and other conditions.
Positive and painful moments may be revisited. The person connects with the emotion associated with the experience and becomes aware of attitudes, feelings, judgements and patterns that they still repeat, even though these no longer serve a purpose. Our reactions and responses to certain problems can be rooted in the past.
This process can bring an understanding of old patterns associated with suffering. The psyche can be compared to a computer hard drive containing a vast number of files, many of which we are unaware of. Their contents are not always helpful: they may include emotional baggage from painful past experiences, mistaken beliefs, value judgements, criticism that has undermined self-esteem, guilt and patterns of behaviour that no longer serve us.
At this stage, the therapist’s role is to help the person transform old patterns into new ones.
