Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression

by Michael Newton

Overview

Dr. Michael Newton is world-famous for his spiritual regression techniques that take hypnotic subjects back to their time in the spirit world. His two best-selling books of client case studies, Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, have left thousands of readers eager to discover their own afterlife adventures, their soul companions and guides, and their purpose in this lifetime.

Now, for the first time in print, Dr. Newton reveals his step-by-step methods. His experiential approach to the spiritual realms sheds light on the age-old questions of who we are, where we came from, and why we are here. This groundbreaking guidebook, designed for both hypnosis professionals and the general public, completes the afterlife trilogy by Dr. Newton.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738704654
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	05/08/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	134,254
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Michael Newton, PhD, held a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, was a certified Master Hypnotherapist, and was a member of the American Counseling Association. He was also on the faculty of higher educational institutions as a teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. Over many years, Dr. Newton developed his own intensive age regression techniques in order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their past life memories to a more meaningful soul experience between lives. He is considered to be a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death through the use of spiritual hypnotic regression. He trained other advanced hypnotherapists in his techniques.

Dr. Newton is the author of three best-selling books, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives, Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives, and Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression. Dr. Newton has an international reputation as a spiritual regressionist who mapped out much of our life between lives experience. He appeared on numerous national radio and TV talk shows to explain our immortal life in the spirit world.

For information about Life between lives Hypnotherapy (LBL) and how to arrange an LBL session please contact The Newton Institute for Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy at http://www.newtoninstitute.org

Read an Excerpt

The Initial Inquiry: Addressing Client Belief Systems
Before entering into the details of hypnosis methodology connected to the practice of spiritual regression, I think it is fitting to consider your approach to questions about the afterlife. As a spiritual regressionist, you will have clients who are in a personal quandary about their beliefs at the time of their first contact with you. How you respond to their respective concerns might well be the determining factor in their making an appointment.

While a large majority of the people who wish you to help them access their soul memories are comfortable with their beliefs, others are conflicted by religious teachings, concerns over the mechanics of hypnosis in reaching their life between lives, or they may have some skepticism about trusting themselves to you in facilitating their mental entry into the spirit world. I begin my sessions by explaining to the unsettled potential client that it will benefit them to enter their hypnosis regression with an open mind. I might even tell them that regardless of their belief system, their unconscious memories are probably going to reveal a home in the spirit world that will be consistent with the reports from everyone who has undergone spiritual regression. A skeptic could argue that this sort of reassurance is actually preconditioning the subject. Even so, after conducting thousands of life between lives hypnosis sessions, I am comfortable with making this statement to an anxious client.

When considering bias, there is also the fact that my books about the afterlife are already public knowledge. If a potential client raises the possibility of being swayed by having read these books, I explain that during the many years before my research was published I told most clients very little in advance. Either way, you will find it makes no difference. Once a subject mentally enters the spirit world through deep hypnosis, regardless of their ideology or what I have told them in advance, their reports are going to be similar to everyone who went before them.

I have been told by the LBL hypnotherapists I have trained that they have had clients who never heard of me or my books who, without prompting, have also been consistent in their reports of the spirit world. The differences are in the soul activities they see clearly and those that are hazy. No two sessions are exactly the same because each soul has a specific energy pattern for recovering stored immortal memories and their own unique history of existence.

If a potential client has reservations about metaphysical philosophy due to a rigid belief system, this may have created an inner turmoil that you must address at the outset. This person has contacted you because they do want spiritual information about their higher self and yet ideological reservations are holding them back. I often find in such cases that underneath this mental conflict lies unhappiness and dissatisfaction over how these individuals consciously view the world and their lives. Such people have contacted you because they have finally reached a point where they are willing to seek answers by a new approach. In these circumstances, an eclectic therapist can be a good sounding board for open-ended philosophical discussions that are reflective, interpretive, and encouraging to the potential client.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Introduction	xi
Part 1	The Initial Inquiry
	Addressing Client Belief Systems	3
Part 2	Preparation for Spiritual Regression
	Personal Demands on the Spiritual Regressionist	9
	Importance of Training and Experience	11
	Practicing Life Between Lives Hypnosis	14
	The Intake Interview	17
	Client Preconceptions	21
	A Client's Cast of Characters	26
	Final Instructions to the Client	29
Part 3	Beginning the LBL Hypnosis Session
	Induction with the LBL Client	33
	Stages of Hypnosis	35
	Deepening and Visualization	38
	Pacing and Voice Usage	42
	Final Hypnosis Instructions Before Regression	44
	Moving Backward in Time	46
	Inside the Mother's Womb	49
	The Transition Into a Past Life	52
	Checking Conscious Interference	58
Part 4	The Mental Gateway Into the Spirit World
	Past Life Death Scenes	65
	Desensitizing Trauma	66
	Initial Visualizations of the Soul State	68
	Instructions for Soul Departure	72
	Phrasing Questions at the Gateway	74
	The Unresponsive LBL Client	79
	Overcoming Specific Types of Client Blocking	83
	Blocking by the Client's Guide	85
	Visions of Light and Darkness While Crossing	92
	First Contact with Spirits	95
	Interaction with Welcoming Spirits	99
	Station Stops for the Incoming Soul	105
	Orientation with Guides	108
Part 5	Life Between Lives
	Returning Clients to Their Soul Group	117
	Identification of Soulmates	120
	Recognition of Soul Colors	125
	Gathering Information on a Soul Group	128
	Primary Soulmates	129
	The Inner Circle and Missing Soul Companions	133
	Soul Energy	135
	Examining Character Types in Groups	138
	Clients in the Intermediate and Advanced Levels	143
	Taking Clients Before Their Council	145
	Therapeutic Opportunities During Council Visitations	156
	Reviewing Past Life Incarnations	163
	Surveying Other Spirit World Activities	169
	Life and Body Selection	175
	Connections Between Body and Soul	181
	Therapeutic Benefits of Spiritual Regression	190
Part 6	Closing the Session
	Preparation for Embarkation	197
	Completing the Spiritual Regression	201
	Awakening the LBL Client	203
	The Exit Interview	206
	Conclusions	209
	Appendix	211
	Index	219

Editorial Reviews

"Life Between Lives is Newton's excellent textbook for hypnotherapists interested in spiritual regression therapy. Newton coaches regressionists on hypnosis sessions; dealing with client preconceptions and with unresponsive clients; desensitization methodologies; talking to guides; and therapeutic opportunities in soul-life explorations. Newton's explanations are outstanding. For aspiring spiritual regressionists, the detailed step-by-step format of this lucid book will be tremendously helpful."—New Age Retailer

"...a topnotch reading adventure...For a nice learning experience and an enjoyable reading journey, this is a fine way to spend an evening."—www.ghostvillage.com

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