A profoundly transformative combination of therapies for individuals and families Past life regressions can add many dimensions to psychotherapy. They may release traumatic roots of current-life symptoms that have puzzled therapists and patients and have resisted more conventional psychotherapeutic approaches. They can be rapidly and profoundly transformative not only in dealing with psychological issues but also in opening patients to spiritual awarenesses that are in and of themselves transformative. As with any abreactive therapies, regressions may involve strong emotional releases. These can be distressing and sometimes even traumatizing to patients. Establishing a Place of Joy is a way to help patients deal with these and other traumas. Many patients start their past life regression therapy with an urgent desire to find the culprits, be it they themselves or others. Yet, they are not prepared for the depth of sensation and knowledge that confronts them once they have commenced their journey through the veils of time and hidden knowledge to potentially stressful and traumatic past life roots of current issues. When patients have found their Place of Joy to help them through their past life regression, they can travel through difficult times knowing that they can retreat to their peaceful, spiritual haven at any time. Regressions may be emotionally intense and deeply moving, bringing about rapid and profound transformations. They need not be as painful in ways that emotional and cognitive shifts are often experienced during conventional therapy. This induction technique allows them to go to a place and time earlier in this lifetime, or in a past or future lifetime. The only proviso is that they visit a place and time where they felt, or believe they would feel, peace, comfort, love and joy. Unlike many hypnotherapists, I use a very light level of trance to leave them in control and therefore able to access their resilience and maintain complete memory of the entire ex