I would like to understand whether Past Life Regression Therapy can provide any insights in the case of autism. Since autism is a neurodevelopmental condition with complex biological, psychological, and social factors. I want to understand from a spiritual and soul perspective, can PLRT help explore whether there are karmic lessons, past life influences, or soul contracts connected to autism? Could it also offer parents or individuals more clarity, acceptance, or coping resources through an expanded awareness of the soulās journey? I am curious if PLRT can provide a deeper understanding or perspectiveānot to ācureā autism, but to bring healing, compassion, and acceptance for those living with it and their families. Thank you 
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To add further, the parent/s who are struggling with the pain of āwhy my childā, āwhy meā, when they experience PLR and understand the deeper reason, I feel they will be able to accept the whole experience better and when they accept, the pain eases out and then they can focus well on the child and also take care of themselves. When taken care in the right way, autistic children are highly gifted and can have beautiful life.
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This is such an interesting question, Harmeet, and it has always deeply intrigued me too.
I havenāt personally worked with clients in these specific situations, but Iāve spent time exploring the deeper spiritual aspects of experiences like rape, Down syndrome, and autism. From what Iāve come to understand, souls often take birth within the same soul groups or families across different lifetimes.
Special children, for example, are often highly evolved souls who choose challenging lives out of deep compassion and love. At a soul level, they make an agreement with their parents or family members to support their growth, healing, or evolution in some way. They know their journey will be difficult, but they choose it consciously as an act of service and higher purpose.
In cases like Nirbhaya, I feel her soul chose that particular experience not as punishment or karmic repayment, but as a catalyst to awaken collective consciousness and social change. These are higher souls who come to bring transformation within families, communities, or even nations.
I once heard someone say that Nirbhaya suffered because of bad karma, but that never felt true to me. Later, when I read that such souls are deeply cared for in the spirit world and donāt take birth again immediately, it felt so relieving. Now coming to your question, may be we can work with people related to someone who is autistic and also the pain factor is important here. Hope this helps
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further to what @ramyaa has so kindly shared,
I too feel that Autistic children are gifted in their own wayā¦
but if it means the child being slow in learning and such thing, Iāve witnessed a surprising session where healing the mother, brought some tangible changes in her child.
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@ramyaa so beautifully explained!
My friend has a child who has autism, her struggles are unspoken. But she conducts her life with such grace, itās remarkable.
Totally agree with you on this. That itās equally important to recognize the immense emotional, physical, and mental load carried by the caregivers , especially the mother.
While all attention often goes toward supporting the childās growth and therapy, the motheās silent suffering can easily go unnoticed. The mother endures sleepless nights, constant worry, social isolation, and emotional exhaustion while trying to stay strong and patient. She manages therapy schedules, communication barriers, and societal judgment, often with little or no emotional outlet for herself.
This is where (PLRT) may become deeply supportive. Through PLRT, the mother can explore the deeper emotional roots of her pain, recurring patterns, and soul-level connections with her child. It can bring profound clarity ā why this journey was chosen, what karmic lessons may be unfolding, and how she can heal her own emotional layers while continuing to care for her child from a more balanced and compassionate space.
Because when the mother heals, the entire familyās energy begins to shift. The child senses that calm. The environment becomes softer. The healing becomes mutual.
May be I one day, can bring her on board!
Thank you
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Totally agree @Venu. Sometimes chronic health issues in children are their way of helping their parents (specially mother). Because they cannot do much, they carry the dis-ease, so that they mother can focus on the child completely and then has no time or space to worry about other stuff. āI suffer for you maā is the inner landscape of the child.
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Harmeetā¦ this is such a sensitive question
From both a therapistās space and a very human spaceā¦.. I see autism not as something āmissingā but something very differently wired at a soul and nervous system level.
Here are my real lived experiences which shifted my own understanding deeplyā¦
I once worked with a mother of an 8-year-old autistic child. She came with exhaustion, guilt, and the silent question ( as you also mentioned) which many parents carry āWhy my child?ā
During her regression, she accessed a lifetime where she was a caregiver to wounded soldiers..ā¦ but she emotionally shut down to survive. She functioned, but she stopped feeling.
When she moved into the life-between-lives space, something profound came up....a soul agreement. Her childās soul appeared as a very evolved, ą¤¶ą¤¾ą¤ą¤¤ presenceā¦.. almost like a teacher, a ą¤ą„ą¤°ą„ ā¦The feeling which came was not of burden, but of balance.
It was as if the child chose a form where verbal communication is limited..ā¦
So the mother is forced to feel againā¦ to connect beyond words..ā¦ beyond logic.
After the session, nothing āexternalā changed immediately..ā¦ but everything shifted inside her.
Her frustration softened into reverence. She said something I will never forget in my lifeā¦
ā He is not behind..ā¦ he is just not playing the same game.ā
In another case, a young adult on the spectrum (high-functioning) came for anxiety.
Instead of āpast trauma,ā what emerged was a repeated theme across lifetimesā¦a soul that preferred solitude, deep focus and non-social roles..ā¦ a monk, a forest healer, even a mathematician in one lifetime.
Social interaction wasnāt natural to this soul, not because of defect, but because of orientation.
When he understood this, his lifelong self-judgment reduced. He stopped trying to become ānormalā and started building a life that honored his wiring.
So from a PLRT lens, autism often doesnāt come as something to āfixāā¦.. but something to understand at a deeper energetic and karmic layer.
Not in a rigid āthis is the causeā way because honestly, the soul is far more vast than linear explanations, but in gentle insights likeā¦
Some souls choose limited sensory filtering experiencing the world in a raw, unfiltered way
Some come with reduced social conditioning, almost untouched by societal masks
Some act as karmic catalysts in families opening hearts, breaking patterns, slowing everyone down
And sometimes..ā¦ it is simply a different neurological design with no āreasonā needed, just a different expression of consciousness.
I feel the most important role of PLRT here is not explanationā¦
It is healing the emotional field around autism:
Helping parents release guilt and
āwhat did I do wrongā
Allowing them to see their child beyond diagnosis
Bringing moments of connection where there was only confusion before
Because when the emotional resistance dissolves, love flows more freely..ā¦ and this changes the environment of the child.
Personally, Iāve noticed something very subtle..ā¦
Many autistic children carry a certain purity..ā¦ an unfiltered presence..ā¦ almost like they are less entangled in the social illusion we all get trapped in.
They may not always meet our worldā¦.. but they gently invite us into theirs.
And maybe..ā¦ just maybeā¦.. that is part of their soulās offering.
So yes, PLRT may not āexplain autismā in a clinical senseā¦.
But it can open a doorway to
compassionā¦. acceptanceā¦. and a very different kind of understandingā¦one that the mind alone cannot reach.
And sometimes, this shift..ā¦ is the real healing.
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True Ramyaā¦
The shift from āwhy me?ā
to
āwhat is this here to teach me?ā
is where the real healing begins.
Iāve seen this so often, the moment parents move from resistance to acceptance, their entire energy around the child softens..ā¦ and the child responds more than anything else.
Absolutely agree with you on these children being gifted. It is just that their gifts donāt always fit into conventional boxes..ā¦ but when nurtured with understanding, they truly have their own unique brilliance.
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