March 8, 2024 • 24 mins
Have you ever felt the stir of a familiar yet unplaceable memory, or the pull of a connection that transcends your current life? Well, strap in, because we're embarking on an odyssey into past life regression hypnosis, just a little skill I picked up in the past few weeks.
I will tell you what Past Life Regression is, how it can help a human discover more about their journey, and have a richer more satisfying experience in their current life. AND how it could relate to getting and (giving) tattoos.
Don't worry, hypnosis isn't what you think it is. And neither is this therapeutic modality. Past life regression can't hurt you.
Listen in, and if you'd like to try it, I am still in need of more practice sessions before I receive my practitioner's certification. Find me on the socials or on e-mail.
Micahtattoos (at) gmail .
Until soon, friends.
You can connect with me, Micah Riot, as well as see my tattoo art on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/micahriot/
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Micah Riot (00:04):
The Hello my darlings, micah Ride here with
(00:33):
another episode of Inc Medicinepodcast.
It's been a couple of busyweeks and today we're going to
be talking about past liferegression, hypnosis work.
Before I get around to it, acouple of personal updates.
First, the apprentice sailor iskicking ass and taking names.
(00:55):
They're doing so well.
Their work is looking so good.
They are starting to doslightly bigger work.
There are some snails in theirportfolio of flash that they
just started to do on skin inthe last couple of weeks.
They're very busy for March andtheir work is looking fantastic
(01:16):
.
I could not be happier.
If you want an apprenticetattoo very video straights,
very beautiful work does notlook like apprentice work.
You should hit them up Ifyou're local.
Let us know if you'reinterested.
A couple of weeks ago I had ahealth department checkup.
They do that every so oftenonce a year or so and it went
(01:38):
totally fine, really great.
It takes about a couple hoursevery time.
They really check everything.
They are looking at if we havehot water and working toilets
and if our disposal systems aregood and legitimate.
Basically, what that means isthat when we send away dirty
(02:00):
needles that we've used onpeople, that they get disposed
of correctly in medicalfacilities and you have to pay
for that service.
Proof of payment, essentially,is what the health department is
looking for when they come tocheck on such things.
Yeah, it went really well.
The agent said with thesechecks you either pass or fail,
(02:21):
and then, if you pass, there's acouple of different ways you
can pass.
There's passing with like kindof line colors, just a couple
little notes, and then there'spassing with more notes.
We got very few notes, so Ithink we passed with line colors
.
In other personal news, I'mturning 40 in about two weeks,
on Friday of two weeks from now.
(02:43):
So I'm turning 40.
It's new, of course.
I am in my last two weeks of my30s and I feel good about that.
I have some plans for this yearthat involve surgery and what I
think is going to feel like anew life in this body, a
(03:07):
different body, and I'm quiteexcited about it.
I've been thinking about it forabout 20 years and what I'm
talking about is chest surgery.
In case that's not clear, I'mready and it's taken me about 20
years to get here in differentways financially, of course, but
also emotionally andlogistically, getting my mind
(03:29):
wrapped around what that wouldbe like and yeah, just
physically, you know where Ifeel like this is the right
decision for my body and my soulat this time and for the rest
of this life, and that feelsexciting and I'm really hoping
it's going to happen this year.
And now let's go on to our topicof past life regression
hypnosis.
(03:49):
First of all, what is past liferegression?
It is a modality, a therapeuticmodality that is grounded in
the concept that people cancarry memories from previous
lifetimes and those memories canmake their current lives harder
.
And if you do this kind oftherapeutic work, by journeying
(04:10):
into your past lives and gettinginformation from that
experience, it can make yourcurrent life more rich, more
full, perhaps more useful.
Many, many cultures around theworld believe in past lives, and
what I personally believe isthat it's it can be very
(04:32):
comforting, whether or not youfully believe in it.
You don't have to fully believein it in order to find this
work interesting or useful.
The way that I came to this workis over the course of many
years.
In my 20s I was part of severalspiritual communities and I
read a lot of books on variousspiritual practices and
(04:55):
therapeutic modalities, and oneof the concepts I used to be
reading.
I was reading a lot aboutfascinated with is this concept
of in between, what happens inbetween lives.
One was a book called Journeyof Souls by a hypnotherapist, dr
Michael Newton, where hechronicles the experiences of 29
(05:17):
people that were going intothis deep hypnosis, trance-like
state, and talked about theirexperiences in between lifetimes
.
So there's a lot of bookswritten about past lives.
This was more specificallyabout in between lives and what
happens when you die and beforeyou are reincarnated again as a
(05:38):
being.
There was another kind of schoolof thought philosophy I don't
know what to call it likecommunity around another being
also named Michael, differentMichael, and they were books
written by a group of people whochanneled this being that they
(05:59):
named, or that named itselfthemselves, michael.
They channeled this being witha Ouija board in the 70s, like
somewhere here in NorthernCalifornia.
This being told them a lotabout a soul journey as well as
soul age.
Like the whole philosophy isbased around soul age and how
(06:23):
many lives.
Like there's a certain amountof lives that each being lives
in order to attain the highestlevel of knowledge and wisdom
and learning, and then eachperson is a part of a family of
souls that can be comprised of afew hundred to maybe a thousand
(06:44):
plus, and when all of thosesouls in that one entity have
lived enough lives to attainthis highest level of learning
and wisdom, then that wholebeing, that family of souls,
goes on to the next realm.
And this also talks about whathappens between lives.
So I was really fascinated withthis idea that there is this
(07:07):
other state of being in betweenlives.
That is kind of like yourneutral state, and every time
you're born you are taking on atask, or many tasks of things to
learn when you come onto theearth as a human being.
And this is the goal of life.
Right, like?
This answers the goal of likewhy are we here?
(07:27):
What is life about?
Well, is to learn and torestore karmic balance in the
universe by learning and helpingother people learn.
That this is kind of like thehighest thing we can do is to
learn and help other peoplelearn.
We make sacred contracts withother people that we care about
(07:50):
very deeply, whose souls, oursouls care about very deeply, to
learn and grow together on thisplanet.
And so, as a seeker in my 20s, Iwas very interested in these
concepts because I found them tobe extremely comforting and in
ways that ways in which I foundthem comforting were things like
(08:13):
if I choose not to havechildren in this life I have
done it before and I willprobably do it again.
This isn't an experience that Imust have in every lifetime.
Not every experience issomething to do in every
lifetime, because we learndifferent things in every
lifetime.
And this idea that a successfullife means you have a partner
and you have kids and you, like,raise a family and everybody's
(08:35):
healthy and you go on lots ofvacations and you have a
fulfilling job and this is likethe precursor, like the recipe
for that perfect life, and ifyou don't achieve these things,
then you failed somehow.
Something was not right withyou or wasn't enough with you.
If you haven't achieved thistype of life Like this, is what
we're prescribed as a goal, andthis philosophy goes around that
(09:01):
goal and says that we're allhere to learn different things,
so how can we all possibly needa specific life in order to be
happy?
Of course, that makes a lot ofsense to me, and so I took this
philosophy and ran with it, andnow it's been 15 years or so
(09:25):
since the time of when I readthose books and at some point
last fall I was driving and Iwas listening to a podcast and
in this podcast a young womantalked about grappling with her
aunt's suicide when she was 16.
So the girl was 16, the auntcommitted suicide when she was,
(09:46):
I believe, 39.
And this young woman spent allof her early adult life like
just struggling with you knowwith why.
Why did her aunt kill herself?
Her aunt was a very colorful,fabulous person.
She was a writer in Hollywood.
She seemed to have a lot offriends, a lot of community.
She achieved some fame in theyou know ranks of writers in
(10:08):
Hollywood and this young womanloved her and she spent
basically her whole lifewondering why and trying to
figure it out.
And she had moved to LA to getto talk to the people that her
aunt knew and she just couldn'tlet it go.
And it was one of the thingsshe did to help herself move
past this traumatic event.
(10:30):
She did a past life regressionhypnosis session and got to
speak to her aunt in thistrans-like space and ask her.
And what her aunt said wasthere was no why.
It just happened, it just is.
I did what I had to do and itreally helped this young woman
(10:52):
come to terms with this untimelydeath of her aunt and move on
and start to heal from thistraumatic event.
And when I listened to thatpodcast, I was driving, and I
get very intense ideas when Idrive, like I'll get an idea in
my head and I'll be like I mustdo this.
And that's how this podcastactually happened, because I
(11:13):
used to drive to LA a bunch tosee my grandpa, as he was not
doing super well, as he wasdying, and I would drive, I
think every week, and on thosedrives I was like I want to be a
radio DJ, I want to be a radiohost.
That was a bunch of years ago.
I was in 2017.
(11:34):
And here we are, I have apodcast.
So, anyway, I got to where I wasgoing and I started googling
past life regression hypnosiscourses, because I loved hearing
that this young woman got somuch out of this experience.
It really helped her find peaceand helped her move on in her
life.
And so I was like I would loveto help people experience that
(11:59):
type of peace and help them findpieces of themselves in their
subconscious slash in their pastlives.
And so I started googlingferociously and I went past the
first Google page of results,went past many pages and found
this course that looked morelegitimate.
The person who was running ithad gone to Naropa, had been
(12:25):
educated in Naropa, which is alegitimate, accredited
university in Colorado.
It's like a spiritualuniversity that I've heard about
.
So I was like, okay, thisperson also, I believe.
Yeah, she had some kind of aclergy title and she looked gay,
which really helped me too.
So I was like here we are.
(12:45):
I found the course, I thoughtabout it for a few weeks and
then I paid for it and thenwaited for the course to happen
and it just happened.
It was the end of February whenit happened.
It took five days off work andI sat in the Zoom room from 8am
until 4pm for five days.
(13:06):
It's not entirely true, it wasfour days.
That last day was short and Ilearned how to administer past
life regression hypnosis toother people and at this point I
have done four practicesessions and I need to do 16
more in order to get mycertification.
I have about a year at this alittle bit less at this point,
(13:30):
but I will do it, there's timeand I'll get my certification
and then I'll be able to offerit as a service.
And so how does this relate totattooing, you ask.
And the way it relates totattooing is that I have for a
long time now for years now,probably, since I was married to
(13:52):
a therapist for a few years andwhen my ex-partner was building
his practice, we talked alittle bit about how cool would
it be for people to dotherapeutic work with a
therapist and then to come outof that with some sort of
imagery or moods or something, atexture, something that can be
(14:15):
turned into tattoo work on theirbodies to integrate the intense
work they're doingtherapeutically.
And that could involvesubstances you know if you're
talking about ketamine therapyor something else or not and
this was sort of a dream of ours.
I don't know if it would haveever come true had we stayed
together, probably not becauseour paths diverged.
(14:36):
But I thought about this typeof combination of tattoo work
with spiritual work, becausetattoo work has always been
spiritual to me.
But not everybody is able toopen up in this way, not
everybody is able to go there.
I do believe that I have thegift of seeing what's on the
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inside and pulling it onto theskin.
There are several pieces ofmine, especially from the last
two years a couple years thatreally feel that way.
They really feel like deep soulpieces for the person that's on
and for me as well acombination of the two of us and
I want to keep doing that kindof work.
The work is only going deeper,it's not going shallower.
(15:20):
I know the trends are going alittle bit more surface, but
that's not where I'm at.
As we have discussed before,trends are not what I go after,
and so as I was doing a sessionfor somebody in class, in the
session, the person that I waspracticing with, who was my
client in the class, she hadgone into the space and she had
(15:43):
come out with this staff withfire on top.
She described it.
She was like I'm holding thestaff and it has this ball of
fire on top and it was thissymbol of power that she had
brought back from a past life.
She was like it's thisintricate wooden staff, it's
this long and it's verybeautiful, it's the type of wood
, it's this warm brown honeycolor and then there's this
(16:07):
powerful flame on the top andthe show was describing it.
I could see it.
It was so detailed and I couldreally see it in my mind.
I could see how I would draw it.
I could see how I would tattooit on somebody and it was super
cool.
I'm a really visual personSomebody describing something to
me.
I see it in my mind immediatelyand I was like this could be a
(16:30):
tattoo.
This person is in another stateand is not necessarily
interested in this, but it couldbe a tattoo.
It could be a service that Ioffer to people a combination of
past life regression work andtattoo work and I know there are
people who would go for that.
I know that In the othersession I got to.
(16:51):
I've now done four, as I said,and in each session there was a
symbol that people came out ofthe work with that they could
hold on to, to help them hold onto the experience and to help
them integrate the experienceinto their bodies.
It's kind of like part of theformat of the work and if they
(17:12):
were interested in that becomingart in their bodies or some
sort of memory that they in someway put into ink into their
skin, I would be the perfectperson to help them with that.
So this was my vision for how Icould integrate this work into
my tattoo practice and, ofcourse, it doesn't need to be
integrated.
They can be separate, this canbe its own thing.
(17:34):
I'm just excited to have theskills and to be practicing and
to be hoping to help people withthis modality in their work of
their integration of theirdifferent pieces of themselves.
And, yeah, I'm really, reallyexcited to have done this.
(17:56):
So before I wrap up, I'm goingto just speak to the process of
it, because I want peoplelistening to know, to be able to
visualize what type of processthis entails, because I have
also spoken to people who wereinterested but intimidated by
the idea of going through thisexperience, and the reality is
it's not that intimidating.
(18:16):
So first, hypnosis on TV iswhen people make you do things
that you wouldn't naturally dohop on one leg and click like a
chicken.
That's not what hypnosis is.
That's not what it is in reallife.
What it is is a state of deeprelaxation.
There really isn't anything aperson can make you do without
(18:38):
your consent.
So what that looks like is theperson who is the client is
laying down or sitting up insome comfortable position and I
am giving them kind of a visualguidance, let's say a visual
exercise, a meditation of sortsand I'm guiding them through
(19:02):
relaxing, deeply relaxing.
We'll go through a couple ofrelaxation exercises on our way
to this next piece, which isessentially a journey.
A shamanic journey is what it'scalled in some circles, but it
is again a meditation of sorts,a guided meditation.
So you get deeply relaxed asI'm talking to you and I'm
(19:27):
helping you relax.
I'm helping you visualize yourbody relaxing.
It takes a little bit of time,about 15 minutes or so, maybe 20
minutes, and then, when you'rein that state of deep relaxation
, we go through the process ofthe session and there's a format
to it that I'm not going toreveal right now because it's
(19:48):
part of the session, it's partof the process and it wouldn't
be super useful to you.
But essentially I'm talking youthrough and, as you are in this
state of a light trance, deeprelaxation, light trance,
induced trance you'll start tocome up with images.
I'll ask you questions and youwill have images pop up in your
mind and as I ask you questions,I will say what are you feeling
(20:10):
?
What are you seeing?
What does this look like?
You will tell me what you'reseeing and a picture emerges and
I will keep guiding you andkeep asking you questions until
you have a very complete almostcomplete picture of what is
happening for you in this otherplace in this past life and who
you are in this past life and ifyou are a human and if you are,
(20:31):
what gender you are and whatage you are and where you are in
the world and what is happeningto you, what is the context of
your life.
And then we spend a little bitof time in this past life
looking at a couple of differentscenes in this past life, and
then we talk about what thespiritual lessons are, your
stillness, state of deeprelaxation, and we do a little
(20:56):
bit of integration work, and allof that takes about an hour
plus.
And then I bring you back andyou come right back into your
body on this earth, in thisplane of existence, and you end
up feeling quite a bit morerelaxed and safe and content.
There is definitely a veryrelaxing element to this work.
(21:18):
So if you are in this space andyou see nothing, that's okay
too, but I haven't had thathappen, honestly, that people
saw nothing.
It's pretty cool I don't knowhow to describe it, but there's
people come back out of thatstate and they go.
Oh my god, I never thought itwould be like this.
(21:39):
I thought maybe I would go here, but I went there and I had no
idea this would happen and, wow,what a cool feeling.
I did know I could feel thisway and I didn't know this.
I couldn't imagine it.
So that's the kind of feedbackI've received in the last four
sessions that I've done withpeople.
So, if you are listening, it isFriday, march 8th of 2024.
(22:03):
If you're listening now or soonin the next few months and you
would like a free past liferegression hypnosis session, let
me know.
You can DM me on Instagram.
You can email me at MicahTatus,at Gmail.
I'm easily findable.
You can find me.
I'm not hard to find.
(22:24):
I have a website, micahriotcom.
Feel free to find me and let meknow, because I need to
practice humans and it's prettycool stuff and it's free and
it's free.
So there you go.
I wanted to explain what thiswork is and how it goes and what
it looks like, because I thinkI'll be talking about it a bunch
(22:46):
more in the coming months and Ithink I thought that I would do
this course and just kind ofkeep it in the back pocket for
some specific time when it wouldcome and come useful.
But of course, I need topractice, I need to get my
certification.
So it's pretty present rightnow for me and exciting, and I'm
(23:08):
going to keep doing this andkeep working on it until I get
my cert, and then I'm going tohave to keep my skills up, so
I'll have to keep practicingthem too.
I am excited about it now and Ibelieve it's going to be a part
of my practice and a part ofthe next part of my life, next
part of my career.
So thank you so much forlistening.
(23:31):
As always, I really appreciateyou being here and I hope you're
having a lovely week and a nicespring week.
Here in Northern Californiait's sunny.
I hope you're about to enter alovely weekend and I'll talk to
you very soon.
The Hello my darlings, micah Ride here with
(00:33):
another episode of Inc Medicinepodcast.
It's been a couple of busyweeks and today we're going to
be talking about past liferegression, hypnosis work.
Before I get around to it, acouple of personal updates.
First, the apprentice sailor iskicking ass and taking names.
(00:55):
They're doing so well.
Their work is looking so good.
They are starting to doslightly bigger work.
There are some snails in theirportfolio of flash that they
just started to do on skin inthe last couple of weeks.
They're very busy for March andtheir work is looking fantastic
(01:16):
.
I could not be happier.
If you want an apprenticetattoo very video straights,
very beautiful work does notlook like apprentice work.
You should hit them up Ifyou're local.
Let us know if you'reinterested.
A couple of weeks ago I had ahealth department checkup.
They do that every so oftenonce a year or so and it went
(01:38):
totally fine, really great.
It takes about a couple hoursevery time.
They really check everything.
They are looking at if we havehot water and working toilets
and if our disposal systems aregood and legitimate.
Basically, what that means isthat when we send away dirty
(02:00):
needles that we've used onpeople, that they get disposed
of correctly in medicalfacilities and you have to pay
for that service.
Proof of payment, essentially,is what the health department is
looking for when they come tocheck on such things.
Yeah, it went really well.
The agent said with thesechecks you either pass or fail,
(02:21):
and then, if you pass, there's acouple of different ways you
can pass.
There's passing with like kindof line colors, just a couple
little notes, and then there'spassing with more notes.
We got very few notes, so Ithink we passed with line colors
.
In other personal news, I'mturning 40 in about two weeks,
on Friday of two weeks from now.
(02:43):
So I'm turning 40.
It's new, of course.
I am in my last two weeks of my30s and I feel good about that.
I have some plans for this yearthat involve surgery and what I
think is going to feel like anew life in this body, a
(03:07):
different body, and I'm quiteexcited about it.
I've been thinking about it forabout 20 years and what I'm
talking about is chest surgery.
In case that's not clear, I'mready and it's taken me about 20
years to get here in differentways financially, of course, but
also emotionally andlogistically, getting my mind
(03:29):
wrapped around what that wouldbe like and yeah, just
physically, you know where Ifeel like this is the right
decision for my body and my soulat this time and for the rest
of this life, and that feelsexciting and I'm really hoping
it's going to happen this year.
And now let's go on to our topicof past life regression
hypnosis.
(03:49):
First of all, what is past liferegression?
It is a modality, a therapeuticmodality that is grounded in
the concept that people cancarry memories from previous
lifetimes and those memories canmake their current lives harder
.
And if you do this kind oftherapeutic work, by journeying
(04:10):
into your past lives and gettinginformation from that
experience, it can make yourcurrent life more rich, more
full, perhaps more useful.
Many, many cultures around theworld believe in past lives, and
what I personally believe isthat it's it can be very
(04:32):
comforting, whether or not youfully believe in it.
You don't have to fully believein it in order to find this
work interesting or useful.
The way that I came to this workis over the course of many
years.
In my 20s I was part of severalspiritual communities and I
read a lot of books on variousspiritual practices and
(04:55):
therapeutic modalities, and oneof the concepts I used to be
reading.
I was reading a lot aboutfascinated with is this concept
of in between, what happens inbetween lives.
One was a book called Journeyof Souls by a hypnotherapist, dr
Michael Newton, where hechronicles the experiences of 29
(05:17):
people that were going intothis deep hypnosis, trance-like
state, and talked about theirexperiences in between lifetimes
.
So there's a lot of bookswritten about past lives.
This was more specificallyabout in between lives and what
happens when you die and beforeyou are reincarnated again as a
(05:38):
being.
There was another kind of schoolof thought philosophy I don't
know what to call it likecommunity around another being
also named Michael, differentMichael, and they were books
written by a group of people whochanneled this being that they
(05:59):
named, or that named itselfthemselves, michael.
They channeled this being witha Ouija board in the 70s, like
somewhere here in NorthernCalifornia.
This being told them a lotabout a soul journey as well as
soul age.
Like the whole philosophy isbased around soul age and how
(06:23):
many lives.
Like there's a certain amountof lives that each being lives
in order to attain the highestlevel of knowledge and wisdom
and learning, and then eachperson is a part of a family of
souls that can be comprised of afew hundred to maybe a thousand
(06:44):
plus, and when all of thosesouls in that one entity have
lived enough lives to attainthis highest level of learning
and wisdom, then that wholebeing, that family of souls,
goes on to the next realm.
And this also talks about whathappens between lives.
So I was really fascinated withthis idea that there is this
(07:07):
other state of being in betweenlives.
That is kind of like yourneutral state, and every time
you're born you are taking on atask, or many tasks of things to
learn when you come onto theearth as a human being.
And this is the goal of life.
Right, like?
This answers the goal of likewhy are we here?
(07:27):
What is life about?
Well, is to learn and torestore karmic balance in the
universe by learning and helpingother people learn.
That this is kind of like thehighest thing we can do is to
learn and help other peoplelearn.
We make sacred contracts withother people that we care about
(07:50):
very deeply, whose souls, oursouls care about very deeply, to
learn and grow together on thisplanet.
And so, as a seeker in my 20s, Iwas very interested in these
concepts because I found them tobe extremely comforting and in
ways that ways in which I foundthem comforting were things like
(08:13):
if I choose not to havechildren in this life I have
done it before and I willprobably do it again.
This isn't an experience that Imust have in every lifetime.
Not every experience issomething to do in every
lifetime, because we learndifferent things in every
lifetime.
And this idea that a successfullife means you have a partner
and you have kids and you, like,raise a family and everybody's
(08:35):
healthy and you go on lots ofvacations and you have a
fulfilling job and this is likethe precursor, like the recipe
for that perfect life, and ifyou don't achieve these things,
then you failed somehow.
Something was not right withyou or wasn't enough with you.
If you haven't achieved thistype of life Like this, is what
we're prescribed as a goal, andthis philosophy goes around that
(09:01):
goal and says that we're allhere to learn different things,
so how can we all possibly needa specific life in order to be
happy?
Of course, that makes a lot ofsense to me, and so I took this
philosophy and ran with it, andnow it's been 15 years or so
(09:25):
since the time of when I readthose books and at some point
last fall I was driving and Iwas listening to a podcast and
in this podcast a young womantalked about grappling with her
aunt's suicide when she was 16.
So the girl was 16, the auntcommitted suicide when she was,
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I believe, 39.
And this young woman spent allof her early adult life like
just struggling with you knowwith why.
Why did her aunt kill herself?
Her aunt was a very colorful,fabulous person.
She was a writer in Hollywood.
She seemed to have a lot offriends, a lot of community.
She achieved some fame in theyou know ranks of writers in
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Hollywood and this young womanloved her and she spent
basically her whole lifewondering why and trying to
figure it out.
And she had moved to LA to getto talk to the people that her
aunt knew and she just couldn'tlet it go.
And it was one of the thingsshe did to help herself move
past this traumatic event.
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She did a past life regressionhypnosis session and got to
speak to her aunt in thistrans-like space and ask her.
And what her aunt said wasthere was no why.
It just happened, it just is.
I did what I had to do and itreally helped this young woman
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come to terms with this untimelydeath of her aunt and move on
and start to heal from thistraumatic event.
And when I listened to thatpodcast, I was driving, and I
get very intense ideas when Idrive, like I'll get an idea in
my head and I'll be like I mustdo this.
And that's how this podcastactually happened, because I
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used to drive to LA a bunch tosee my grandpa, as he was not
doing super well, as he wasdying, and I would drive, I
think every week, and on thosedrives I was like I want to be a
radio DJ, I want to be a radiohost.
That was a bunch of years ago.
I was in 2017.
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And here we are, I have apodcast.
So, anyway, I got to where I wasgoing and I started googling
past life regression hypnosiscourses, because I loved hearing
that this young woman got somuch out of this experience.
It really helped her find peaceand helped her move on in her
life.
And so I was like I would loveto help people experience that
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type of peace and help them findpieces of themselves in their
subconscious slash in their pastlives.
And so I started googlingferociously and I went past the
first Google page of results,went past many pages and found
this course that looked morelegitimate.
The person who was running ithad gone to Naropa, had been
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educated in Naropa, which is alegitimate, accredited
university in Colorado.
It's like a spiritualuniversity that I've heard about
.
So I was like, okay, thisperson also, I believe.
Yeah, she had some kind of aclergy title and she looked gay,
which really helped me too.
So I was like here we are.
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I found the course, I thoughtabout it for a few weeks and
then I paid for it and thenwaited for the course to happen
and it just happened.
It was the end of February whenit happened.
It took five days off work andI sat in the Zoom room from 8am
until 4pm for five days.
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It's not entirely true, it wasfour days.
That last day was short and Ilearned how to administer past
life regression hypnosis toother people and at this point I
have done four practicesessions and I need to do 16
more in order to get mycertification.
I have about a year at this alittle bit less at this point,
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but I will do it, there's timeand I'll get my certification
and then I'll be able to offerit as a service.
And so how does this relate totattooing, you ask.
And the way it relates totattooing is that I have for a
long time now for years now,probably, since I was married to
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a therapist for a few years andwhen my ex-partner was building
his practice, we talked alittle bit about how cool would
it be for people to dotherapeutic work with a
therapist and then to come outof that with some sort of
imagery or moods or something, atexture, something that can be
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turned into tattoo work on theirbodies to integrate the intense
work they're doingtherapeutically.
And that could involvesubstances you know if you're
talking about ketamine therapyor something else or not and
this was sort of a dream of ours.
I don't know if it would haveever come true had we stayed
together, probably not becauseour paths diverged.
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But I thought about this typeof combination of tattoo work
with spiritual work, becausetattoo work has always been
spiritual to me.
But not everybody is able toopen up in this way, not
everybody is able to go there.
I do believe that I have thegift of seeing what's on the
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inside and pulling it onto theskin.
There are several pieces ofmine, especially from the last
two years a couple years thatreally feel that way.
They really feel like deep soulpieces for the person that's on
and for me as well acombination of the two of us and
I want to keep doing that kindof work.
The work is only going deeper,it's not going shallower.
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I know the trends are going alittle bit more surface, but
that's not where I'm at.
As we have discussed before,trends are not what I go after,
and so as I was doing a sessionfor somebody in class, in the
session, the person that I waspracticing with, who was my
client in the class, she hadgone into the space and she had
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come out with this staff withfire on top.
She described it.
She was like I'm holding thestaff and it has this ball of
fire on top and it was thissymbol of power that she had
brought back from a past life.
She was like it's thisintricate wooden staff, it's
this long and it's verybeautiful, it's the type of wood
, it's this warm brown honeycolor and then there's this
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powerful flame on the top andthe show was describing it.
I could see it.
It was so detailed and I couldreally see it in my mind.
I could see how I would draw it.
I could see how I would tattooit on somebody and it was super
cool.
I'm a really visual personSomebody describing something to
me.
I see it in my mind immediatelyand I was like this could be a
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tattoo.
This person is in another stateand is not necessarily
interested in this, but it couldbe a tattoo.
It could be a service that Ioffer to people a combination of
past life regression work andtattoo work and I know there are
people who would go for that.
I know that In the othersession I got to.
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I've now done four, as I said,and in each session there was a
symbol that people came out ofthe work with that they could
hold on to, to help them hold onto the experience and to help
them integrate the experienceinto their bodies.
It's kind of like part of theformat of the work and if they
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were interested in that becomingart in their bodies or some
sort of memory that they in someway put into ink into their
skin, I would be the perfectperson to help them with that.
So this was my vision for how Icould integrate this work into
my tattoo practice and, ofcourse, it doesn't need to be
integrated.
They can be separate, this canbe its own thing.
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I'm just excited to have theskills and to be practicing and
to be hoping to help people withthis modality in their work of
their integration of theirdifferent pieces of themselves.
And, yeah, I'm really, reallyexcited to have done this.
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So before I wrap up, I'm goingto just speak to the process of
it, because I want peoplelistening to know, to be able to
visualize what type of processthis entails, because I have
also spoken to people who wereinterested but intimidated by
the idea of going through thisexperience, and the reality is
it's not that intimidating.
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So first, hypnosis on TV iswhen people make you do things
that you wouldn't naturally dohop on one leg and click like a
chicken.
That's not what hypnosis is.
That's not what it is in reallife.
What it is is a state of deeprelaxation.
There really isn't anything aperson can make you do without
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your consent.
So what that looks like is theperson who is the client is
laying down or sitting up insome comfortable position and I
am giving them kind of a visualguidance, let's say a visual
exercise, a meditation of sortsand I'm guiding them through
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relaxing, deeply relaxing.
We'll go through a couple ofrelaxation exercises on our way
to this next piece, which isessentially a journey.
A shamanic journey is what it'scalled in some circles, but it
is again a meditation of sorts,a guided meditation.
So you get deeply relaxed asI'm talking to you and I'm
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helping you relax.
I'm helping you visualize yourbody relaxing.
It takes a little bit of time,about 15 minutes or so, maybe 20
minutes, and then, when you'rein that state of deep relaxation
, we go through the process ofthe session and there's a format
to it that I'm not going toreveal right now because it's
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part of the session, it's partof the process and it wouldn't
be super useful to you.
But essentially I'm talking youthrough and, as you are in this
state of a light trance, deeprelaxation, light trance,
induced trance you'll start tocome up with images.
I'll ask you questions and youwill have images pop up in your
mind and as I ask you questions,I will say what are you feeling
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?
What are you seeing?
What does this look like?
You will tell me what you'reseeing and a picture emerges and
I will keep guiding you andkeep asking you questions until
you have a very complete almostcomplete picture of what is
happening for you in this otherplace in this past life and who
you are in this past life and ifyou are a human and if you are,
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what gender you are and whatage you are and where you are in
the world and what is happeningto you, what is the context of
your life.
And then we spend a little bitof time in this past life
looking at a couple of differentscenes in this past life, and
then we talk about what thespiritual lessons are, your
stillness, state of deeprelaxation, and we do a little
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bit of integration work, and allof that takes about an hour
plus.
And then I bring you back andyou come right back into your
body on this earth, in thisplane of existence, and you end
up feeling quite a bit morerelaxed and safe and content.
There is definitely a veryrelaxing element to this work.
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So if you are in this space andyou see nothing, that's okay
too, but I haven't had thathappen, honestly, that people
saw nothing.
It's pretty cool I don't knowhow to describe it, but there's
people come back out of thatstate and they go.
Oh my god, I never thought itwould be like this.
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I thought maybe I would go here, but I went there and I had no
idea this would happen and, wow,what a cool feeling.
I did know I could feel thisway and I didn't know this.
I couldn't imagine it.
So that's the kind of feedbackI've received in the last four
sessions that I've done withpeople.
So, if you are listening, it isFriday, march 8th of 2024.
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If you're listening now or soonin the next few months and you
would like a free past liferegression hypnosis session, let
me know.
You can DM me on Instagram.
You can email me at MicahTatus,at Gmail.
I'm easily findable.
You can find me.
I'm not hard to find.
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I have a website, micahriotcom.
Feel free to find me and let meknow, because I need to
practice humans and it's prettycool stuff and it's free and
it's free.
So there you go.
I wanted to explain what thiswork is and how it goes and what
it looks like, because I thinkI'll be talking about it a bunch
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more in the coming months and Ithink I thought that I would do
this course and just kind ofkeep it in the back pocket for
some specific time when it wouldcome and come useful.
But of course, I need topractice, I need to get my
certification.
So it's pretty present rightnow for me and exciting, and I'm
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going to keep doing this andkeep working on it until I get
my cert, and then I'm going tohave to keep my skills up, so
I'll have to keep practicingthem too.
I am excited about it now and Ibelieve it's going to be a part
of my practice and a part ofthe next part of my life, next
part of my career.
So thank you so much forlistening.
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As always, I really appreciateyou being here and I hope you're
having a lovely week and a nicespring week.
Here in Northern Californiait's sunny.
I hope you're about to enter alovely weekend and I'll talk to
you very soon.
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