Ch 12 - THE CONNECTIONS FROM PAST LIVES TO THIS ONE,How this therapy works by linking up to and aligning the lifetimes

CHAPTER 12:

THE CONNECTIONS FROM PAST LIVES TO THIS ONE,
How this therapy works by linking up to and aligning the lifetimes


Death as an issue is discussed in the next section. But, for the purpose of understanding the Netherton Method, here is a 'technical,' karmic reason why this death information is part of the scenario. While I have mentioned various elements of this aspect of the therapy, the following explanation will tell you a lot more.
All the many episodes of the patterns are linked in a chain. This is a key factor in knowing how to clear issues from people's unconscious minds. There is a system to this processing.

The first factor: By processing many people, Netherton found out that the way people die in one lifetime is "connected" to programming, or violent trauma, or deep sadness earlier in that same lifetime. So when he works with a client, he makes sure the person erases the time he or she died in a lifetime as well as the fights, or battles, or hopeless events that occurred earlier in that same lifetime. Sometimes, our minds are connected to experiences that did end in our deaths, so both are taken care of in that situation.

The second factor: Netherton also found out that the events, and trauma, as well as the words of the death are related to events, words and attitudes in the next birth, and even in non-life threatening circumstances in that next life. So a continuum from one life to another actually seems to exist, at least in the therapy.

Let me explain this. When people die, they go through a stage of unconsciousness where their soul, or mind, leaves the body. Their spirits even hang around the location for a while. This has been confirmed by reports from many people who have 'died' on the operating table or in car crashes, and then come back. It is also a very clear part of every past life death my clients and I have ever done.
During the unconscious period as we are dying, we are in an alpha state. So what is said around us goes right into our unconscious minds and is brought, via spirit, to the next life. As I also mention in other sections, people can see others talking about them in their minds eye as they process out these kinds of scenarios. Before this view is clear to the conscious mind of the person doing the processing, he or she thinks their own adult minds are having these opinions about that life, or that they, in that other life, were thinking it as they left the body.

This is, in fact, one of the investigations used to see if there is additional material from the life left to process. We don't always see everything that's in there on our own because sometimes we were unconscious and we don't remember what happened around us at those times, in past lives as well as this one. Sometimes these words at death also link us to unfinished material in the earlier episodes of that life, such as military battles, fights, or imprisonment and escape, that we've been clearing. This is one reason why we need a therapist to help. Even though I, myself, know how to process out material on my own, and have done so hours at a time with good results, I am not able to detect nor release material said by others when I've been asleep or unconscious, unless the 'door' has been opened in a session with a practitioner.

When the block of unconsciousness is processed off, see that it is, indeed, other people saying it in that old life. When these words and their energies are released, it helps to correct a person's problem.

In the prenatal, we have no conscious mind the way we think of it at ages five or six. While some of my metaphysical friends tell me there is awareness and volition there, they are talking about what the overall 'soul' is doing. On the physical, incarnate level, a fetus does sense and act, in a direct way with its immediate environment. We can even communicate to it with feelings and words, just as we can to plants, animals and insects. It has consciousness, but it does not have referencing knowledge about where it is and why it's there. In addition, in the way we think of having a conscious mind with intellect, we are short changed, because we have to learn in each lifetime how to speak and use language all over again. And that takes a few years.

Yet there are words that come out when a person processes conception, pre-natal events, birth, and things that happened in infancy. These words are mothers, or someone else’s. It is true that the infant has emotional feelings. And we must clear those experiences. But it does not yet have reasoning ability. The reasoning statements always turn out to be made by the adults in the room. Almost all of these are coming from Mother or the other predominant adult in the situation. I have found that underneath Mother's lambasting the child is a feeling of her frustration, remorse and sadness. Much of it has to do with her life situation, and may include difficulties in her relationship with Father. The words of fear and frustration that come out of these feelings are accurate to describe the emotional feelings of the infant at the time. Both can be expressed in the way that each individual would do it, for their age and educational background. Adults use words, infants cry and tense up or shake.

This same kind of pairing, or identity of feeling, also exists in past lives when we are dying or traumatized with fear and/or pain.

When someone has difficulty seeing who certain words are coming from, and it isn't coming from Mother, they often get the impression they are one's own. But it almost always turns out to be a bystander who was not seen before in the person's mind's eye because the process had been focused on the interaction between Baby and the primary adult involved in its experience. This bystander phenomenon also occurs in past lives, especially around the deaths. This is another key element to process; the bystander's words, which are usually related to pity, helplessness, and reflections about someone's life. At birth, these bystander words are often thought by a nurse.

In childhood, when you have a difficult encounter with mother, some of the words that are in your subconscious will now come out as your role, and others will come out as mother's role. This is especially important to recognize when a baby is knocked unconscious, either as the result of a mother's blow or shake, or because it fell. Whatever is said around the baby while it is unconscious goes directly into the sub-conscious programming locations.

In almost all cases, there's fear about whether the baby is still alive, or will live. If the unconsciousness is caused by Mother, she will usually feel great guilt and remorse. She may also have self-doubting thoughts about controlling her own anger. These words, thoughts and feelings go directly into the infant. And when the child gets older, it becomes aware of these very same thoughts, and thinks it's his or her own. Some clients have said they have thoughts about being bad, about being stupid, and especially about being unable to control their anger and rage. When asked how long they've had these thoughts, some of my clients say, "For as long as I can remember."

The same pattern exists in the past life, where words have been placed in someone's subconscious mind when they were asleep or unconscious. In general, whatever happened in infancy happened almost the same way in the past life. If you know of one because it came out, you can look for the other by using the words and special verbal instructions to the sub-conscious stack.

Some people I've met insist that their souls are thinking these words in the prenatal, birth and infancy time periods. But that is an incorrect view of the psychotherapeutic clearing. We are using a Gestalt therapy kind of technique to correct negative experiences that got stuck in people's bodies during their childhood development stages from conception through about age seven. While I, personally, believe souls do have intentions; the stuck energy we are releasing in this kind of process was created by the conscious and unconscious mind of the child and the people around him or her. While a soul may incarnate on the physical plane for all sorts of karmic reasons, once it is in this plane, the speech, thoughts and feelings are done through the physical body, including the physical brain and the physical/energic energy field.

To make all this clearer, I will repeat it in summary. The emotions and physical sensations that were 'imprinted' upon you along with other people's words and feelings at this birth, are the same as the words that you or other people felt or expressed while you were dying in a previous life. And the experiences parallel the events surrounding your most traumatic event in that life, whether it led to your death or was at an earlier time. The circumstances won't be exactly the same, but the kind of traumas and programming will. And the same words will be there.

The words are the link. They embody the sub-conscious belief statements that keep you believing, and acting out, a limited view of life. All the pertinent words from your past life experiences are repeated in the pre-natal, at birth and in infancy, even if they are there as part of your mother's (or someone else's) unconscious feelings, rather than enunciated thoughts or speech. These words connect us to all the pertinent lifetimes forming the matrix of our karmic issues we have come to handle. 'This time around' we've chosen to work out a subset of all we have. In the course of the therapy, we discover which lives are the pertinent ones.
Netherton says that these 'imprintings' link us up to our unfinished karma, to traumas and behaviors we actually had when we lived as other people in past lives. I described this in some previous chapters.

Here is how they link to this fear of death. During many of those pertinent lifetimes, we actually did die, or were hurt very badly, while we were engaged in behavior that directly relates to the kinds of circumstances we have the most trouble with in this lifetime. Logically speaking, we can understand that our unconscious mind is saying, "I don't want to do that because I died doing it before."

But it's even more direct than that. Since the unconscious records everything in present tense, the replay, no matter when it occurs, will also be in present tense. Your unconscious mind doesn't know those deaths occurred centuries ago. It can only give out the information that it's all going on right now. The real message is, 'I'm doing this and I'm going to die!" The unconscious mind is just like a tape recorder.

Add to this gut wrenching feeling your mother's fears and severe abdominal pain during your birth, or her worries for you in the prenatal when something felt 'wrong,' and you can see why you have such strong upsets when those events are triggered. In addition, as I said, there always seem to be at least one severe trauma in infancy and at least one in childhood that also adds a lot of energy to the pattern. And at this time, the great fears were yours as well as others in the episodes. People who were repeatedly threatened in childhood and were never wanted in the prenatal usually have a few significant episodes. Even people who were wanted might have underlying episodes where mother felt she couldn't go on with it, or felt something life threatening was happening to the baby. Although these might seem minor or incidental, they often come out as part of a person's stack.

Here is how we know what's linked up. As I've described, the words, emotional feelings and sensations are the connections to our earlier, formative experiences, the ones that put those words in the unconscious mind. The pattern or issue in our current life will be connected to a number of experiences, each from a different time frame. Some Netherton therapists prefer to work birth and pre-natal first. I prefer to work childhood first and go back into infancy. But sometimes I'll work birth, or start with adult or teenage incidents and then go into similar events in the prenatal. It all depends on what it sounds like, how much the person is committed to the long term therapy, how far they've gone into releasing, how open they are to begin with, and so forth.

And in all cases we remove the words. To get at them, we must necessarily clear the trauma because the words are intertwined with the physical and emotional experiences. So they all get erased together. And the therapist keeps a sentence-by-sentence 'log' of each session to make sure everything is covered.

To review: The words and phrases that were said by us, or around us, at the time of past deaths, are the very same words and phrases said around us at this birth. They are also the same as the words and phrases said by us, or around us, in additional traumatic events in our past lives and in this life. And they are also the words said or thought by our mothers and those around her in the significant events from conception through birth.

The words at birth and death, and even in some other traumatic events, are usually said 'around us' by other people, not by us as the newborn nor by the person we were in another life. But since the physical processes of dying and being born put us in a deep alpha state, the words and feelings around us are absorbed.

So the way to clear our psychological issues as adults in this present time, by using the Netherton method, is to make sure you erase the words, as well as the feelings, from the past experiences we are still stuck with. It's a very simple concept, and a very effective thing to do. This is why this therapy works so well as compared to regressions, rebirthing and other release methods. By erasing the words, which have become 'command statements' on how life should be, we pull the plugs on the old linkups. The events can still be seen in one's mind's eye, but after complete processing, there will be no more emotion involved.

One technique that is used to make sure a person gets the whole thing is as follows. After processing out a number of layers of emotion and physical feeling, by going through the scenario a number of times, the client is asked to scan the whole experience and share if there is any feeling, thought, idea or picture that pulls them back into that lifetime or early life event. If there is, more is processed. There are other techniques employed as well, to make sure it's all gone.

This pattern always exists in people's subconscious minds, whether they have opinions or beliefs about reincarnation or not. It is just there. And conscious dialogue about ideas does not affect it since it is located in another part of the body. All that is necessary for processing is a willingness to do it, no matter what we call it. Very good results can even be obtained by just working events from conception on.

The important feature of our minds that makes the therapy work, is that it doesn't matter what a person calls these time periods, nor even if the events really existed, even in childhood. If it comes out of somebody, because their mind connected their current experience with it, then it's appropriate to clear it.