Past life regression uses a guided hypnotic state to surface narrative material that the client experiences as memory from another life. It is among the most powerful techniques in this field and among the easiest to do badly. This guide is deliberately even-handed: what happens, what the evidence supports, who should not do it, and what proper screening looks like.

What Actually Happens

The practitioner guides you into a relaxed, focused state — the same broad territory as hypnotherapy, not sleep and not unconsciousness. You remain aware, you can speak, and you can end the session at any point. Anyone who tells you that you will be "put under" and lose control has misdescribed the process.

From that state the practitioner uses a bridging technique, usually anchored to a present-day feeling rather than to a request for a past life, and asks what arises. What typically emerges is a scene: a place, a body, a circumstance. The practitioner then guides you through it, including through its ending, and finally into a review of what it appears to be about.

A session runs ninety minutes to two hours. It is longer than most therapeutic sessions because rushing the closing stage is the main way regression work causes harm.

What the Evidence Does and Does Not Support

Being straightforward here is more useful than being persuasive. There is no scientific evidence that the material surfaced in regression constitutes literal memory of a prior life. The material is generated by the mind under suggestion, and hypnotic states are known to be conducive to confabulation — producing vivid, sincerely-believed content that is not historically accurate.

What is better supported is that the process can produce genuine therapeutic movement. Working through a coherent narrative that carries the emotional charge of a problem often shifts the problem, whether or not the narrative is historically true. Practitioners in the psychodynamic tradition would call this productive symbolism; clients frequently experience it as memory.

You can hold both of these at once, and the most useful stance for a client is precisely that: treat the material as meaningful without requiring it to be factual. A practitioner who insists on literal historical truth, or who uses the material to make claims about your present relationships, is overreaching.

Who Should Not Do This

Proper screening is the difference between a safe practice and a reckless one. Regression is contraindicated for several groups, and a practitioner who does not ask about these before booking you is not screening.

Who It Tends to Suit

Regression tends to help most with fears and aversions that have no traceable origin — a specific phobia with no incident behind it, a persistent aversion to a place or situation, a relationship dynamic that feels older than the relationship.

It also suits people who process through felt experience rather than through discussion. If you have talked a problem through thoroughly and understand it completely and it has still not moved, an experiential technique is a reasonable next step.

If you are unsure whether regression or a more conversational route fits, an Akashic Records reading covers similar territory without the altered state, and inner child healing addresses this-life origins with the same experiential quality.

Sessions and Training at Auviephy

Sessions run from Ghatkopar West, Mumbai. Booking detail and pricing are on the past life regression sessions page, with the location-specific page at Past Life Regression Mumbai. Screening is conducted before booking, not on the day.

Regression sits close to hypnotherapy and to NLP therapy in method, and clients often move between them. Where the material that surfaces relates to family pattern rather than personal history, ancestor healing is the usual next step.

This work is offered in person only. The altered state and the closing process both benefit materially from being in the room, and we do not consider it responsible to run regression remotely.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is past life regression?

Past life regression uses a guided hypnotic state to surface narrative material that the client experiences as memory from another life. You remain aware and able to speak throughout, and can end the session at any time. A session typically runs 90 minutes to two hours, with substantial time given to the closing and review stages.

Is past life regression scientifically proven?

No. There is no scientific evidence that material surfaced in regression is literal memory of a prior life, and hypnotic states are known to be conducive to confabulation. What is better supported is that the process can produce genuine therapeutic movement, because working through a narrative carrying the emotional charge of a problem often shifts the problem regardless of whether the narrative is factual.

Who should not have past life regression?

Regression is contraindicated for anyone with a psychotic disorder or history of psychosis, anyone in acute psychiatric crisis including active suicidality, anyone with dissociative identity disorder, anyone in active substance withdrawal, and anyone seeking to recover memories of suspected abuse. A practitioner who does not screen for these before booking is not practising responsibly.

What kinds of problems does past life regression help with?

It tends to help most with fears and aversions that have no traceable origin, such as a specific phobia with no incident behind it, or a relationship dynamic that feels older than the relationship. It also suits people who process through felt experience rather than discussion, particularly where a problem is fully understood intellectually but has not shifted.

Can past life regression be done online?

Auviephy Institute offers past life regression in person only, at Ghatkopar West, Mumbai. Both the induction of the altered state and the closing process benefit materially from being in the room, and we do not consider it responsible to conduct regression remotely.