A woman keeps herself fat because she was tortured to death for being too beautiful in a past life… a wimpy salesman reveals he was a virtual slave in a 12th-century lifetime… another woman's fear of heights stems from a plunge that snuffed out a past life.
These examples show how events in a person's past life can affect their present-day personality, said Bruce Goldberg, a highly regarded expert on hypnotic regression - the recollection of past lives while under hypnosis.
Here are some of his case histories: “A woman in her mid-20's came to me with a weight problem. She was bright and had a very pretty face, but keep herself 60 pounds overweight,” said Goldberg, author of “Past Lives --- Future Lives.”
“Incredibly, she told me she was afraid to be thin. She said, “I'm convinced that if I do get thin, somehow I'll be killed.”
“Under hypnosis I took her back into her past - to France in the 1700s, where she was the youngest of seven sisters whose parents had died. She was slim and very beautiful but her sisters were overweight and unattractive. The sisters tortured her. And one day, when she was about 17, they tortured her so badly that she died.”
“She learned in the past life that being attractive leads to pain. I convinced her that the past life was not destined to repeat itself.” After the therapy, she dropped the weight and hasn't put it back on.”
Another case involved a salesman who complained he was dominated by everyone - his mother, his wife, his customers, even his children. “Under hypnosis, he revealed a chilling past life,” said Goldsberg.
“The year was 1132. His name was Thayer and he lived in Bavaria. He was an apprentice to a master craftsman named Gustave, who treated him like a slave, and even chained him under the table to eat his meals.”
“Thayer was whipped and beaten mercilessly, sexually abused, humiliated and dominated at every opportunity. One day Thayer rebelled, and fought with Gustave who stabbed him to death.”
“Once I told the salesman what the past showed - and that he had nothing to fear in the present - he began building a better image of himself so people wouldn't walk over him.”
