my life

I was having a chat to my Mum and we were talking about regression. She was telling me how she had regresed a friend of hers the other day. She explained how this guy was talking in great detail about his childhood, not in a vague and generic sense, “When I was 5…” type way; but in a more specific sense. He was clearly saying “I am at a school disco, the song playing is X, I feel like Y, and I’m going to do Z soon.” – he was apparently relaying all this in a very excited and innocent way. Very unlike his normal persona, which is quite serious.

Now whether the whole idea of hypnotherapy is absolutely wonderful and great and really works, or is a complete load of horse shit doesn’t matter. It got me thinking about the fact that he actually felt like he was there, at that time and was experiencing all the feelings and emotions he felt on that day in his life.

That made me wonder whether I was, now, actually 65 years old and laid on a hypnotherapist’s couch somewhere, being regressed. Everything I am experiencing now are detailed memories of my past.

Sounds like that drug and alcohol-induced crap that someone always comes out with whilst sat starring at the stars doesn’t it!

But whilst I realise that’s not actually true, it does bring about some interesting things to think about: let’s say that it was true and that I was actually being regressed right now. This 65 year old man is being asked what he’s doing right now, where he is, how he feels to be this age again (I’m 29 by the way), and what this man’s aspirations and dreams are.

It started me imagining all of this, and it prompted the question which would inevitably come about in such a situation: “What did you want to be back then?”

Then you are woken up and the person doing the regression says something along the lines of “So you wanted to be X huh? Oh well, we can’t all be everything we wanted to be.”

Bugger. I wish this whole regression malarkey was a little more interactive; I wish that I could actually do something about the situations back then, to change my life the way it is now.

That’s my point. I can, and I’m going to. I am actually that 65 year old man right now, sat in a chair in some hypnotherapist’s house, being regressed. I’m relaying things back to him all the time, but this time it’s interactive. I can change things, move things about, tweak situations just the way I want them to be, so that when I wake up from the session I am in a better place, and in a situation I really wanted to be all those years ago. I’m going to start my interactive regression session now.

Let me tell you a story. It’s the story of the Hymn Beetle… actually, I’m going to tell this story another day.