Past lives helping future ones

MELANIE LAM speaks to us about how looking at past lives can help with current life problems. She changed careers and set up her company Healing Skies, which incorporates several tools including past life regression, reiki and hypnotherapy.

What led you to training in hypnotherapy?

I was in marketing for more than a decade – from start-ups to financial firms. Unfortunately, I was getting burnt out every three years; I knew I had to make a change. It started with learning Reiki, which led to past life regression and hypnotherapy.

What is hypnotherapy?

It’s a therapeutic technique that guides your mind into a state of deep inward focus. If you’ve ever been completely absorbed while watching a movie, it’s a similar state of mind. It’s also like being in a state of flow when you’re working on something.

This focus gives your mind more control, not less. The critical chattering mind is bypassed and it allows you to access your subconscious mind. Hypnotherapy works with the subconscious mind and can reframe limiting beliefs, values and habits deep in the subconscious.

What is past life regression, and how can it help someone?

Past life regression or transpersonal regression therapy, as I’m trained in, is a powerful technique that enables us to explore our current life or past lives to identify the source of issues and address the root cause. The root cause of a current issue could come from a past life; however, you do not need to believe in past lives in order for the therapy to work.

Getting to the root cause of an issue that’s been bugging you allows you to not only understand where the issue is coming from or why it’s an issue in the first place, but it also allows you to tackle it head-on. I work with my clients to find, explore and clarify past experiences. We go back to the origin of problems and decisions.

Whether that is in childhood or past lives, it doesn’t quite matter. The techniques used might be different, but the end result is the same: we heal and release what no longer works for us.

What does a session look like?

Every session is different and is a collaboration between the client and me. I’ve had the privilege to learn many different techniques, such as rapid transformational therapy, coupled with inner child work, hypnotherapy and transpersonal regression therapy. I’m able to address many of my clients’ issues with this wide suite of techniques.

You are also a mindfulness meditation teacher and a Reiki master teacher. Tell us about that.

These are all tools that have helped me, and they are practices I do regularly. While hypnotherapy and past life regression sessions can be transformational, mindfulness meditation and Reiki are very grounded, day-to-day practices that can make a difference in our lives. I have personally benefited from these practices greatly and so I teach them from not just trained knowledge but personal experience. There are a lot of benefits to bringing mindfulness to the corporate workplace, which I enjoy doing.

How has training in past life regression changed your life?

I started exploring and working on almost every issue I had from childhood to the awkward teenage years, right up to adulthood, past lives and soul work. There is a spiritual aspect to past life regression that I enjoy tremendously. It’s not just changed my life but broadened my horizons and expanded my universe in incredible ways.

At the same time, it’s probably important not to discount all the hard work that went into it. Working on all my issues meant processing past events or traumas, which can be difficult, but healing from them has a ripple effect that extends outwards to this day. It also provides a strong foundation for all the sessions I do. It’s an exciting world to be in!

What was it like starting your business, Healing Skies?

It was a big change – and daunting at times. I was looking for as many signs as possible to validate that I was on the right track. There were many personal obstacles to break through, such as the fear of putting myself out there, being seen, speaking publicly about what I do and so on, all of which I’ve worked through. Many women have a famously known “witch wound”, which is a fear of being seen or persecuted, stemming from past lives. Ultimately,

Healing Skies has just passed its four-year mark, and I think I have made the right decision.

What’s it like running a business in Singapore?

I was born here and lived some teenage years in Thailand. Many people have big college experiences but mine started in an international school in high school, which expanded my worldview and provided me with an international perspective. Singapore is expensive to live in, but it is having the multiple jobs that has kept me afloat.

I’m also really lucky to have strong support from my partner.

What’s next for you?

I’ll continue to work with and guide as many people as I can. The biggest impact, I have found, is still in one-on-one sessions. I enjoy all things spiritual and woo-woo, so working with people on their spiritual journeys and facilitating deep healing for them is incredibly fulfilling.

Making this career switch has also enabled me to relate to other people making this change, and I work with them on how to connect to their purpose. At the same time, my varied work experience in and out of the corporate world has helped me relate to many people who might just be exploring and dipping their toes into this new, exciting world of spirituality.

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