In the term reincarnation therapy, the word
reincarnation implies that in this type of therapy the past is
defined broadly, meaning your past experiences encompass more
than your present life. Reincarnation literally
means ‘return to the flesh’, or somewhat less expressive, ‘re-embodiment’.
Another commonly-used term is ‘re-birth’.
Though this term is somewhat confusing because on incarnation seldom takes place during the physical birth.
Reincarnation means that an integral part of yourself (your consciousness, soul,
or spirit) survives each time the
physical body dies, and, sooner or later, takes on a new body
(the incarnation). Between two incarnations,
your consciousness undergoes something called an interlife
experience.
While
there are a great many opinions on just how many lives an individual soul or
spirit lives, our experience
leads us to believe it is something in the order of hundreds
of lives, not dozens or only a few.
Research
also shows that our memories store all the experiences from our past. These are
not just the things
we experienced yesterday or ten years ago, as a teenager,
toddler or baby, but also what it was like to be born,
what we experienced in our mother’s womb (the prenatal period),
the moment of incarnation in this life, all our
interlife experiences and all the previous lives we have
lived. Reincarnation therapy makes use of this memory,
Which is
often called your subconscious, or subconscious memory. Other therapists talk
similary about the
total self, the higher self, or the total memory.
Therapy
In reincarnation therapy, the word therapy
implies the re-living and, when neccessary, resolving of previously
unresolved experiences in the past. It finds the link between
problems in the present and unresolved
experiences in the past, and works through those experiences
until the problems disappear or are transformed.
The idea
that there is a relationship between unresolved events in the past and
spiritual, mental, emotional
and/or physical symptoms experienced now is by no means a new
or ‘alternative’line of thinking.
Nor is it the exclusive jurisdiction of reincarnation therapists.