Past Life Regression Hypnosis Research Paper

The concept of past life regression hypnosis (commonly referred to as PLRH) has become a very controversial subject in the world of therapy these days. People who believe that it has no scientific basis and proof regard past life regression hypnosis as a small minded method used by unprincipled amateurs with the aim of robbing and fooling an innocent audience. On the other side of the fence, the dedicated advocates of PLRH have provided volumes after volumes of data about the subject, in order to prove both the existence of past lives and the importance of clearing our subconscious minds of our past existence memories. But although the argument as to whether past lives are real or not creates a lot of heated debates, one important point is …show more content…
It is very possible that the memories being recalled by a particular person may just be a product of his or her imagination, and is not necessarily "real".

One way to identify the accuracy of a past memory, whether recalled spontaneously or under hypnosis, is by checking if the emotions evoked by the particular experience is more powerful than those evoked by a novel or a movie. When a person finds a particular experience of the past as more powerful than anything evoked by present life experience, it is possible that a past life memory is accurate. Although hardly scientific, this method is often used as a measure of the memory's validity.

Proving whether PLRH is an effective means of therapy or not is very difficult to answer. But one major concern in that field however, is that most PLRH therapists only have very little formal training. In that alone breeds a serious problem. Hypnotherapy itself is very difficult to master, how much more PLRH when it is a more specific specialty. So if you judge past life regression hypnosis based on the quality of training that its practitioners really get, it will be equal to mere quackery by any modern