Psychic Protection
Anyone exploring a past life, using path working or shamanic journeys or experimenting with the psyche should seriously consider psychic protection. This prepares us for the work in hand and helps to keep us ‘grounded’ afterwards. There are many ways that we can protect ourselves and I will show you a few of these, but the one we will use on our journey into the past is Stepping Into The Light. If you don’t feel comfortable with this then you can substitute for any of the other methods described, or your personal preference, but PLEASE do not take the journey unprotected.
Stepping Into The Light
Visualize yourself in a long dark tunnel. If you can’t visualize, just imagine, feel or sense yourself here. It’s a large tunnel with plenty of space and at the end of the tunnel is a small, white light. You are floating headlong through this tunnel, speeding towards the white light. It is somewhat cold, but that doesn’t bother you for you know that you are safe. And as you move down through the tunnel you draw closer and closer to the white light, and as you draw closer and closer to the white light, the white light becomes bigger and brighter, bigger and brighter, bigger and bigger, brighter and whiter, until you are right up to the bright, white light, the bright, white light just in front of you. You are no longer floating, you are standing, but if feels as though you’re stepping on soft, fluffy clouds which gradually evaporate into the path upon which you stand. Now, I will count to three, and at the count of three I want you to Step Into The Light.
One…Two…Three…(Pause).
You are now standing In The Light. It is a pure, white light. Feel the light streaming down through the crown of your head. Feel the white light being drawn downwards, through the body, the head, the neck, the shoulders and arms, the chest, the stomach and thighs and legs and feet. The beautiful bright white light is in you. You are In the Light. You are The Light.
The Light is Love and you are The Light. You are Love. You are protected by your own positive psychic energy field. Your beautiful white Light. You are In The Light and The Light is in you.
Feel the white light cleansing your whole body, your whole mind and your spirit. Feel the beautiful white light lifting away any impure thoughts or feelings. Feel the healing energy of the white light. This is your light. You are the light. You are protected by your own positive psychic energy, your light, your beautiful bright, white light.
Remain in the light for a little while longer, feeling the healing energy of the Light. Feeling cleansed and thoroughly protected from any negative thought forms which you may or may not encounter in your spiritual adventure or your physical life. You carry the white light within you to guide you through the journey you are about to take.
Re-birthing.
Every birth is a traumatic one…whether you were born naturally, with the help of forceps or by Caesarean section…the fact is that you left a warm and nurturing environment for a bright, harsh, cruel world. Birth and death are the two most momentous things that can happen to anyone or anything, and the conscious mind blocks out of memory the awareness of each of these events, in order to protect us.
Psychic Protection
The impact that birth has on a newborn baby affects each subsequent response that the infant has in life…starting off a chain of events over which the infant has little control. If we could go back to our birth and change our original response to our early entry into the world…seeing it as an outsider would and for what it actually was…rather than how we felt it was at that time…our whole perception on life would be altered. With the help of your therapist you can gain control of your life and choose how to live it to your maximum capacity. You can overcome fears and phobias, procrastination and panic. Re-birthers go back and re-experience their transition into the world. During the regression they will often writhe about, moving their shoulders from side to side in an effort to push through the birth canal. They can report squeezing sensations around the head followed by blinding lights and even feeling that they are being held upside down or spanked on the back. One would think that this traumatic experience would deter people from wanting to go through any form of hypnosis ever again.
What actually happens is that re-birthers feel completely different afterwards. In some cases its as though they’ve viewed life through a dim haze until now, but suddenly everything is crystal clear…they are looking at a new world and feeling and experiencing everything that happens to them…in other words they feel alive, for the very first time in their lives. It’s almost as though the in-vivo birth experience dissociates the self from the soul, and from the point of separation these two entities live a parallel existence until they are once again, through re-birthing, brought back together and integrated into a whole being. It is not uncommon for someone re-experiencing their birth process to be unable to find words to express how they feel. As a large proportion of the work is done through movement the re-birther needs to feel unrestricted and safe. Recorded heartbeat music or any other rhythmic loop sounds may be played in the background. The therapist offers a supportive environment and need not interfere with whatever the client is experiencing.
Each session is extremely personal and a detailed case history must be taken beforehand. You may gently ‘guide’ the client back in time by bringing forward memories of actual events that occurred in childhood or infancy. A few experiences can be assumed to be ‘safe’ for most people…i.e. nearly everyone has spent their first day at school; everyone learned to walk (Unless they were impaired in some way) most of us have ridden a bike at some time or another or lost a favourite toy or shared a secret that was later revealed. Remind your client of these experiences and allow him or her to elaborate as other, related or otherwise, memories, crop up. This opens up the mind and allows the memories to flow. Begin with any hypnotic induction that you feel comfortable with, but don’t take the client too deep, otherwise they may lose the ability to verbalize what they are experiencing. Assuming your client is in hypnosis and you have poked and prodded at early memories, you could continue as follows:
Now remember how you opened your eyes one day and saw the shape of certain objects and colours around you. Perhaps you were lying in your cot and already there was a certain familiarity about these objects. Remember a special face…a certain face that belonged to someone who cared for your welfare. Tell me… what do you see? Describe the face.
You are drifting further and further back in time now…you re going back to a time before time began for you. You are an embryonic life form, growing and developing…you are not aware of yourself as a life at this time yet…but still, you exist…existing in a warm and moist environment – completely aware of the sounds around you.
Psychic Protection
Introduce heartbeat music.
Coming forward now in time…moving slightly from side to side…all of your physical and mental needs are met…you have no wants…no needs…no desires… you are supported, safe, protected. In this world of yours your movement is now restricted. You instinctively know that the time is nigh. You must soon leave your safe cocoon and begin a new adventure. So come forward again in time…to the moment of birth. Feel the beginning of this end as you move down…ready to be born. Where is your head? Your shoulders? Your arms and hands? What do you feel? Describe to me. Show me.
Pause for a short while. Your client should now be well into the ‘rebirth’ and you can tell by expressions and movement how things are going. Just offer support and guidance. The client may cry out just after the time of birth, or experience a feeling of ‘totality’ in the body. They may be unable to put this feeling into words, but you will know when this is happening. There could be a ‘gasping for breath’ followed by a wail or a cry. If your client is able to tell you everything that is happening, use questions like ‘what happens next?’ or ‘now what?’. The birth experience can last anywhere between ten and twenty minutes – usually no longer.
When you or your client are ready to…end the session, offer some positive suggestions with reminders that they will continue to remember elements of the birth experience in their dreams at night.