Life's Lessons
... Kay, a 32-year-old woman came into the regression room with a very stress filled life. She stated that her mother, whom she was very close to, had passed away one year earlier. That loss had created a tremendous void in her life that she was still working on getting through. But, the loss of her infant son six months prior was just about more than she could emotionally handle. Adding to that, during her upbringing, her religion told her that if a baby wasn’t baptized, he wouldn’t get through the gates of heaven. Well, Kay’s baby died before she was able to conduct a baptism for him. So, she was beside herself with deep grief and fear that her beloved baby was floating around somewhere in limbo without the ability to get to god. How tragic!
As we began the pre talk to her hypnotic regression, I explained to Kay how as Gnostics we believe that everything we experience in life is by our own choosing. We make these choices on the Other Side before we ever come in to this life. There is nothing that happens without our prior “okay.” This is because on the Other Side we have great working knowledge of what emotion our soul needs to experience. Obviously, in Kay’s situation, it seems that loss is one of this life’s experiences she has charted to hone or perfect.
As far as her baby being lost because he wasn’t baptized? No way! We know that an all loving god would never put us away from His or Her light. That little baby went straight to the Other Side of this life to resume his true existence. An existence of pure love, without the negativity that we know so well in our earthly lives. I reminded her that there is nothing in this life that we will be faced with that we cannot handle. Nothing. Does that mean it will be easy to get through? Of course not! We are here, in this life, to test our mettle, so to speak. It is up to us to look at the glass half empty or half full. We can turn life’s experiences into an opportunity to help ourselves and others along this journey of life. Or, we can wallow in self- pity and not seize the opportunity to turn life’s lessons into a positive. This is the choice we have while in life.
Another point to be made during Kay’s session was to remind her that her mother chose to leave this life the way that she did and at the exact time that she did. This was a situation that was chosen by both Kay and her mother before ever coming into this life. This is a very new way of thinking for some people.
During the process of the regression itself, clarification of the ideas discussed in the pre talk is wonderful validation as to the true meaning of life. It helps to have an understanding of “why me?” Another way of thinking…Another way of putting the hardships of life in a place where we can deal with them much easier than we would otherwise…
Written by
Linda Potter
Published by Hay House, Inc - July / August 2001