Healing from the Wild West
by Linda Potter

When meeting Gail for the first time in the regression room, I was taken by how genuinely nice she was. It was evident that she had a kindness about her that ran, through and through. As we conversed before her hypnosis session began, it was also clear that Gail was dealing with self esteem issues and a bit of depression.

 Gail shared that her life, so far, has been quite even keeled without many of the hardships she has seen her peers experience. She grew up in a very loving family and yet, she cannot remember a time when she felt good about herself. She could see there was no apparent reason to feel as unworthy as she did. It was beginning to impact her life in negative ways, especially regarding her relationships with men.

 It was at a young age that Gail became quite promiscuous. She seemed to be seeking acceptance and love from all the wrong places. Her affairs were short lived as she could not find the emotional stability and acceptance that she was desperately looking for.  

 The friends that Gail had could not understand where this need to have one night stands came from. They could see the loneliness – the heartbreak in her eyes whenever she came home from one of her “dates”. Gail did not see herself as attractive and even though it wasn’t true and her friends told her otherwise, nothing anyone said or did made a difference. Gail’s sense of self was negative to the degree of depression.

 What brought Gail into the regression room was a conversation that she had with her group of friends. They decided since there was no apparent reason for Gail’s mindset of worthlessness, maybe there was a past life influence to consider. Just maybe Gail had a past life where her self esteem issue originated. Gail thought it might be an interesting experience to pursue. She would not be disappointed.

As Gail’s past life unfolded, it was a scene right out of the old Wild West. The dusty street was bustling with activity. The wooden sidewalks hugged the storefronts enabling the townspeople safer passage than the street would provide. Cowboys were riding through the center of town in record numbers as their cattle drive had come to an end. They were heading for the saloon and good times over the next few days to come.

 Gail saw herself in this western scene as a young woman named Virginia. She viewed the details of her past life with surprise and strangely enough a sense of comfort. Gail was about to understand her current life predicament so much more.

 From her bedroom window atop the saloon, Virginia would often peer down into the street. She would watch the women with their children enter the general store for supplies. She would notice the children’s excitement as they scurried around the skirts of their mothers for their trip to town was always special to them. They would often leave the general store with a piece of candy in their hands and smiles on their faces. To Virginia, they were the luckiest children in the world. She wished so much that had been her destiny as a child...but there was no turning back.

 Virginia was only 22 years old, but felt more than twice her age. She had been a saloon girl since the age of 15 when she was orphaned and then taken in by the saloon’s owner; Johnny B. Virginia never had a choice in the matter. She was told by Johnny B that she should be grateful for the room and board he gave her in exchange for what he referred to as, “her meager services.”

 He told Virginia that she was worthless for anything other than prostitution. And so with constant, negative, emotional nattering, he groomed Virginia into providing men with pleasure in order to line his pockets with cash. She felt trapped into a life of being used by men, but Virginia had nowhere else to go. She saw no future for herself beyond what she was enduring each day.

 In the beginning Virginia felt an emotional attachment to certain men, but it was very one sided. She came to realize that they were there for the physical pleasures she supplied and never anything more. This was a painful realization for her. She just wanted a man to genuinely care for her enough to spirit her away from the unhappiness she continued to live day after day. And as each day passed, the seed of rejection nestled deeper within her.

 Before her 23^rd birthday, Virginia plummeted into a severe depression. She walked mindlessly into the same street she often peered down upon. She didn’t notice that she was walking into the path of a horse drawn carriage. It was there; on that day that Virginia lost her life.

 Gail’s past life experience showed her a cause for the low self esteem she had in her current life. She realized she wasn’t a bad person because of her indiscriminate lifestyle regarding men. Her current life had simply become a mirror of her past life experience.

 Gail commented that the past life sense of worthlessness was the same feeling she was walking through her current life with. Visiting the past life gave her a sense of peace as it validated the reason she always felt that way in this life.

 Feeling worthless and depressed in the past life was understandable to Gail. But that was then, and this is now. She had just turned an important page in her life and was determined to actively address those issues. Her healing began with a new found sense of peace and a positive direction for her future.
 

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