Cigarettes, Regression Therapy, and Your Sacred Journey

Your own experiences with cigarettes probably have meaning as part of your spiritual journey through life. Today’s post tackles the tender topic of how Regression Therapy might enhance that part of your sacred journey.

Originally, cigarettes were brought to us — not by a TV sponsor or cartoon character Joe Camel – but by Native American spirituality.

Although I’m mostly ignorant of that path, in 1986 I did participate in a beautiful sacred ceremony to bless the land.

We sat in a circle among the majestic hills of that part of upstate New York. Toward the end, the man who presided over that ceremony, the friend of a dear friend, passed around a peace pipe.

Not until after I’d taken my puff did I recognize that the deep, hallowing taste. Years later, what I remember most clearly about our ritual was that shock of recognition.

This was tobacco?

OTHER SHORT AND SWEET CIGARETTE JOURNEYS

If you’re lucky, your sacred experiences with smoking have been short journeys, like these:

CIGARETTE EXPERIENCE #1: Stealing a pack of smokes, you and a friend tried out the grown-up habit. It made you sick and you never smoked again. No Regression Therapy needed.

AND THE SACRED LIFE LESSON: Cigarette smoking, like stealing, led to bad consequences, so you never did either one again. Quick, neat lesson in karma!

CIGARETTE EXPERIENCE #2: In high school, you and a friend would meet at a street corner, smoking and grumbling and generally feeling immensely sophisticated. Eventually you realized that you could feel just as sophisticated without numbing your senses of smell and taste. Therefore, it was easy for you to give up the habit. No Regression Therapy needed.

AND THE SACRED LIFE LESSON: Sophistication does not require props. Neither does anything about spiritual growth.

CIGARETTE EXPERIENCE #3: Cigarettes did become a habit for you. Eventually you decided to stop, and you did.

AND THE SACRED LIFE LESSON: What a powerful learning, that your free will can overcome any addiction! However you stopped, with Regression Therapy or otherwise, your triumph had consequences for the whole of your spiritual journey.

WHAT BIG SACRED DEAL?

Yet for some cigarette smokers, the beautiful sacred lesson with cigarettes doesn’t seem quite so obvious. You weren’t able to kick the habit. Well, what is that supposed to teach you?

• Now you’re scared about your health. Once proud smokers you know have… died.
• You want to improve your appearance.
• The once inexpensive habit is costly now, a ridiculous drain on your budget.
• Out of love for your kids, or your dogs, you want to stop passing along second-hand smoke.
• Smoking at work, and most other places, has become such a hassle. By now, your cigarettes bring the opposite of glamour. It’s more like a grubby habit shamefully done in a dark alley.
• How are you going to bear that international plane flight, hours without a single chance to light up?
• You’ve heard that one of the “joys” of not smoking will be gaining an extra five pounds. How fun is that?
• Having such a glaring lack of control is as annoying as the smoker’s smell that clings to your breath and your clothes.

HOW REGRESSION THERAPY CAN HELP

The main reason cigarettes seem sacred to me these days is that I have the privilege of guiding clients into smoking cessation with Energy Release Regression Therapy. The approach is to find the cause of smoking, remove the cause, maybe add some hypnotic programming and voila!

In my experience, causes of smoking can be more bitter than that first experience of smoker’s tobacco-mouth. Regression Therapy clients have gone through problems like these:

“When I was a kid, Dad ran over one of the other kids I knew. She was killed. My father wouldn’t even talk about it. I felt so ashamed, I had to do something, so I started smoking.”

“Dating was so hard for me. I felt like no guy would ever talk to me twice. So I turned to food and smoking. As if that was going to be the magic combo!”

“After the accident, I felt so guilty. I’d stopped smoking before, but before I knew what I was doing, I found cigarettes. I don’t even remember finding them, really. It was more as if they found me. Soon I was smoking like crazy and couldn’t stop. I felt out of control.”

SACRED HEALING

Energy Release Regression Therapy includes hypnosis and more. If your goal is to stop smoking, we’ll use the wisdom of your subconscious mind to find the most important causes. Gently, going at your own best pace, I’ll lead you to one of those causes after another.

Each trauma from your past has a little “shrine,” you know. Maybe not the kind of place where a person would choose to worship voluntarily; still it’s a definite place. Frozen blocks of energy stick in your body, at the level of cells. Left to themselves, those frozen blocks last a long, long time.

Energy Release Regression Therapy involves finding those places of stored-up energy, releasing the frozen blocks for good, and then helping you to move forward in the way you desire.

Even one session to stop smoking could do the trick. Some clients need more than one. Either way, every single session of Regression Therapy helps you to release something beyond just the smoking: Old fear, old pain, old guilt, old disappointment, old powerlessness, old feelings of inadequacy, old bitterness, even hatred.

Thus, every frozen block removed with Energy Release Regression Therapy amounts to spiritual progress. What could be more sacred than becoming the person you came to Earth School to be?

Some day, you might even thank the (former) cigarette problem as the incentive that got you growing in this particular way.

What about feeling powerless, and not being willing to give a chance to smoking cessation approaches — not just Energy Release Regression Therapy but anything? Fatalism, resignation, and inertia all slow down spiritual growth.

Could be that, ultimately, the reason that cigarettes “cause” illnesses like cancer isn’t the tobacco itself but the toxic emotions stuck, ignored, distracted from, lodged ever deeper, and denied.

Cigarettes aren’t necessarily sweet, by the time you are ready to give them up. But the process of healing, learning, forgiving, and moving on? Magnifique!

LINKS

I do Energy Release Regression Therapy in metro D.C./Northern Virginia. It’s convenient if you’re local, but rest assured that I have had clients drive here from many parts of America, or fly here from Europe or Asia.

Why? They want results and, I think, they also enjoy the way Energy Release Regression Therapy can be part of a sacred journey, not simply a way to solve problems.

Click here to learn more about my approach, using Regression Therapy to stop smoking.

For losing weight with Regression Therapy, read here. 

Part of your sacred journey might involve using Regression Therapy to heal conflicts over money.

Or to build more self-confidence with Regression Therapy.

Maybe you want to remove something, like anxiety. Regression Therapy can help with that because it’s a matter of removing the underlying frozen blocks.

Regression Therapy can solve many problems. Read about a whole bunch of problems, and how we could use Regression Therapy for your sacred journey of healing and growth.

Finally, I’d like to give a shout out to the use of Regression Therapy to heal sexual problems. Why? My latest radio interview in America lasted a few segments, so I got to hear radio commercials. Usually that’s fun, because it provides local color for me, the talking tourist. But this time, I heard a “Ralph Nader for President” commercial, which put me in the mood for the bizarre. Immediately afterwards, an extremely perky man gave a long sales pitch for “sex pills.”

They work for 24 hours, he said. Well, Energy Release Regression Therapy removes frozen blocks for a lifetime.