Find out the Answer to the Age-Old Question of "Who am I?"

Today, many people believe in reincarnation and have connected with one or more past life memories through meditation or past life regression. The idea of past lives and the work around it, such as karma clearing, has become a vital part in the spiritual work that practitioners have to offer. But have you ever wondered about what will happen when we leave this life? Have you ever wondered what, who and where we were in between our last life and the current one? The concept of choosing our life and our lessons is well known, and bridging the physical incarnations and the eternal life in the spirit world allows you to answer the age-old questions of "Who am I?", "Why am I here?" and "Where do I come from?"

Through the techniques of Life Between Lives (LBL) hypnotherapy, which were developed by Dr. Michael Newton, author of the groundbreaking books Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, one can access soul memories while in a state of heightened perception and understanding. Life Between Lives hypnosis is both an extension of, and an evolution of Past Life Regressions. Connected to your eternal self, you can see the evolution of your karmic growth pattern, while staying in the world between lives. "Past Life is more about cause and effect (karma). But when you're unable to get over your problems after a few therapy sessions, then most probably the problem doesn't lie in Past Life," says Dr. Teoh Hooi-Meng from Malaysia, who has studied with the famous Michael Newton. "When you go into LBL, you realize that everything happens because you make that choice and not because of cause and effect."

During the regression one learns why specific body types and certain lives are chosen and the lessons they are connected to. "We're going back in this lifetime to understand why we're here now," explains Dr. Teoh. "We need to understand why we choose certain things, and then we can accept whatever is happening to us, and we become empowered. For example, if someone is overweight, that person might have accepted that he needs a specific body in this lifetime to work through certain things. The weight problem can be resolved if it's a past life issue. But if he's made this decision during LBL then he will understand that this particular body will serve a certain purpose and that it's not the right thing to lose weight."

Body issues are only one type of the pressing questions most people die to find an answer to. Others involve relationships, illnesses, and the million dollar question out of all: Our life mission. Why am I here? "Often people have very successful lives, a happy family, a good job, but deep down they always feel that there are certain things they are not doing, and they start to worry," says Dr. Teoh. "They need to go back and understand. ‘What is the reason why I am here?' If you're ignorant about what you need to do, then you are wasting this particular life, and in the next life you will repeat it again."

To prepare and get the most out of an LBL session, you need to come up with a list of questions for answers you have been looking for but have been unable to find. You will pass that to your therapist, and the practitioner will help you to get the answers while you're in the LBL state, guiding you to find your answers. The success of Life Between Lives hypnotherapy lies in part in the length of the session and the depth of the trance state. Sessions typically last between four to five hours. "The session begins with normal hypnotherapy where the practitioner leads the client into a very relaxed state," says Dr. Teoh. "From there we will lead them into age regression. It's like a memory warm-up. It lets the client get in touch with early memories. We don't take the client straight into LBL. If you can get your answer in this lifetime, then why not get it here? Once they have that, we move further back to the time before birth when they were inside the womb. There they will share some more information with us, before we then move into the immediate past life and the last day before they pass on. That is the transition for you to go back "home". Once you lift out of your body, you start to move back. After that you are already in the LBL state. That means you will go into the gateway where you will be met by your loved ones, the people who are important to you, and you will also meet your soul guides."

But how does this all sit with certain religions? "It empowers them," says Dr. Teoh enthusiastically. "Religious people see their masters there. But we ask them to look beyond that, and they just see coloured light. So they understand the true meaning of that figure, that it's just energy, a higher form of energy."

During the session one will enter something like a universal library, the akashic records, where you will be able to ask your questions and find out the answers to them. But some of the questions can't be answered in the library, in which case you would appear in front of councils, and each one will give you a message. "The councils will all have different messages," Dr. Teoh affirms. "Some of them represent authority, love or understanding." The session will also help clients to identify who their soul mate is. By knowing that, they can start to connect with them. Often practitioners use "soul mate" and "twin flame" expressions more as a marketing tool, but doubts here are brushed aside, as I'm reassured that the highly accurate information comes from one's soul. "We're communicating with the soul, not the client. What they are saying is actually what the soul is saying." Through the amazing information gained, people transform their entire lives, living more happily and alert. LBL assists individuals in realizing their own spiritual Self, not through belief, but through an actual conscious experience.

Dr. Teoh Hooi-Meng is a certified international LBL practitioner, as well as an international certified instructor in hypnosis and NLP. He also studied Energy Medicine and EFT. He conducts sessions regularly at his life coaching and training centre in Selangor, Malaysia. He travels between Malaysia and Hong Kong, visiting Reflections in Hong Kong again in June 2009.

Related links: Hypnosis Malaysia - Life Coaching and Training and The Newton Institute for Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy