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From Life Lines:
Q Magazine, March 2002
Meeting Shannon Andersen
is an inspiring experience. The past-life regression session with
the Florida-based transpersonal coach on her recent visit to Hong
Kong gave me a clearer idea of my mission, encouraging me to make
decisions that I had put off for a long time.
Andersen’s own past-life
regression in 1987 was equally potent, and at 32 convinced her to go
to graduate school to be trained as a mental health counselor and a
hypnotherapist. Since then she has been regressing people around the
world and has developed her own techniques called Conscious
Dreaming.
During my regression, I
was put into a very relaxed state and asked to imagine walking down
a staircase and through a series of doors. I saw visual images in my
mind. After going through the last door, I ended up in an unknown
place and saw myself wearing a pair of boots walking in a forest
overlooking snow-capped mountains. When Andersen asked for my name,
“David Honderish” came to my mind out of nowhere. With guided
questions, I discovered that Honderich lived around the turn of the
nineteenth century and used to work, probably as a carpenter, in
forests during his early life. Toward the end of his life, he became
a wise old man counseling the young.
Andersen believes that
past-life memories are not figments of the imagination. In her first
past-life memory she discovered she had been a doctor living in a
town in Indiana in the early 1800s. A few years later, Andersen went
all the way to that town and discovered that there really had been a
doctor of that name.
Andersen stresses that
even for those who do not believe in past-lives or who are unable to
document, regression therapy can still be beneficial. People can
learn from the experience and apply the lessons to their current
life.
“The material that you get
is useful even if it only acts as a metaphor for your own life,”
Andersen says. “It is a tool for the person having the experience
to get to know themselves better, and to look at issues that might
be holding them back from being all they can be.
“I always ask my clients
what the message is, so it comes from their subconscious. It is a
message they need and that they might not have access to in another
way. If there are issues in their lives they are not willing to
address honestly, they will come out in their past-lives.”
Psychiatrist Brian Weiss
recorded in his bestseller Only Love is Real how he
discovered that two of his clients who didn’t know each other at the
time, described the same past-lifetimes with a stunning similarity
of detail and emotion. He guessed they had been lovers throughout
the past centuries. The story had a happy ending: The two apparent
strangers were brought together again.
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