In today’s consumerist society, the problem of being overweight has reached epidemical proportions. Not only the affluent, but the middle class and even some of the poor people suffer from the malaise of overweight. The conventional wisdom states that weight is an input-output issue. That effectively means that ‘calorie in’ and ‘calorie out’ balance must be maintained in order to enjoy a slim and trim attractive figure. Since the extra calories get converted into fat cells these need to burn out by some external means. This belief has spawned an entire health industry, offering to take our weight off our bodies. There are gyms, weight reducing diets, herbal concoctions and what have you. If none of these works, you can go in for a surgery, where your stomach is either cut into half or some balloon-like stuff is placed in it to give you a feeling of fullness in order to reduce your craving for food. People go to ridiculous lengths and depths, to see themselves in a slim avatar. Does it all work? What do you think?

If it did, we won’t see so many over-weight people around. The fact is that all this works for a short while, but unless you keep up with your personal trainers and their latest whims, you will not see permanent results. Why is it so? Most of us and our medicos blame our genes, our heredity for it. When all other explanations fail, one can always blame one’s genes and resign to a fat present, and a fat future. But isn’t there a way out? In my experience, there is. And it is the safest so far.

I am a Past Life Regression Therapist. Have you heard of this Holistic therapy? Well, some have. For the benefit of others, let me explain PLRT. This therapy is based on the Universal Law of Cause and Effect. This law is also known as the Law of Karma. It is based on the simple theory of ‘As you sow, so shall you reap’.

Do you believe in the concept of ‘Re-incarnation’? Shri Krishna said in ‘The Bhagwat Gita’, “As a man, casting off worn-out garments, takes new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, enters into others that are new”. He has also said that the ‘karmas’ of our past lives determine our present life circumstances. This tells us that many of the root causes of our present day problems are hidden in our past lives, including the problem of over-weight. What are these root causes? How can we un-earth them?

In a PLRT session, a person is helped to experience or re-live past life memories, using a process of regression. Regression can be done using hypnotic or non-hypnotic techniques. It is like being in a deep meditative state where your subconscious memories are revealed to you. A person re-lives those past life memories that are helpful in resolving the present life problems and issues.

Over-weight is an issue that I deal with pretty often. Over a period of time I have realized that there are basically a few past memories that are linked with this major modern day problem. Let me categorize them for ease of understanding.

  • Starving in a past life

Incredulous as this may sound, many of my clients saw themselves as scrawny, bony, starving individuals in some past lives. These were generally periods of famine, drought, poverty, or imprisonments. All these people could ever think about was food. Even their last thoughts at the time of death were about food. In their life review, most of them were happy to be out of that existence. They were relieved that the ordeal was over. Now in their current births, the sub-conscious mind is still carrying those memories of lack of food, and of starvation. No wonder, they can’t stop eating now that they have access to food. The bodies have the inner fear of starving once again; however irrational that may seem in their current reality. They are asked to integrate this truth in their altered (most suggestible) state that the past is over, and they need not stuff themselves anymore; there is plenty of food in their present lives. Once they let go of the past, the need to protect themselves against starvation gets released. After that they somehow lose their voracious appetites and also the extra weight. It is amazing how this happens effortlessly.

  • Being molested in a past life

Most of the over-weight females that I have regressed saw themselves as beautiful women, being raped, chased, or molested for their beauty. Some of them committed suicide by drowning in wells and rivers. Their last dying thoughts were that their beauty and their svelte figures were their enemies. In their current birth, the subconscious is carrying these past memories. Their body wisdom has convinced them at a sub-conscious level that since they had suffered in their past because of their beauty, they should remain ugly in this lifetime. This desire to protect themselves makes them accumulate extra body weight. Does it sound like some fiction story to you? The truth is that many such women, after integrating this truth, have shed many kilos of weight without following any other weight loss regime. Yes, PLRT is a ‘soul therapy’ that works like magic.

  • Being frightened and distrusting

Surprisingly, some over-weight people saw themselves as being frightened of authority, or being betrayed by their near and dear ones. Such people felt the need to protect themselves by adding extra fat around them, as armor. They felt that they could not trust anyone else to protect them; that the only way to do so was by adding layers of fat around their bodies. In their subconscious wisdom, it was the least harmful way to gain protection. Once these people understood that the past is over and they do not need protection anymore, they shed their extra weight.

All this understanding has led me to believe that over-weight is an issue of trust. Trust that we have enough, trust that we deserve to be attractive, trust that we are safe. If these issues can be handled, over-weight will become a problem of the past.

Doctors today agree that over-eating is triggered by loneliness, boredom, suppressed emotions, lack of self-worth, and a need for protection. Food is an easily available, surrogate option. So what is the solution? PLRT, yes; but besides this, the understanding that the fat is there to serve a purpose! Our body is trying to communicate to us about its inner needs through accumulating weight. We need to connect with it and find out the root cause. This involves speaking your truth, confronting your fears, and openly expressing your emotions. As your body tissues start trusting you, they will start releasing the need to hold on to the fat around them. This may be a gradual process, but the effects are ever lasting.

Now every time you start feeling negatively about your fat, and start searching for a way to get rid of it, pause for a moment. Be grateful to your fat for reminding you to get in touch with your inner self. Ask yourself what deeper issues are lurking in your subconscious, and find a way of releasing them. The extra weight will be released automatically.

So what are you waiting for? Go, connect with the root cause, re-live it and re-lease it. Past Life Regression Therapy is there to assist you………..

 

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