Do Ascended Masters recommend past life regression?

Question: Do the ascended masters recommend getting a past life regression done by a professional in order to achieve higher levels of consciousness? I struggle with anxiety and paranoia. I often have dreams where I am running away from someone who tries to harm me. I think something happened to me in a past life. If that is the case, I want to heal, resolve the psychology and give up the separate self. If I get a past life regression done, what precautions do you suggest? Like praying for protection. Is it possible to learn about my past lives on my own without the help of a professional?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 USA Conference.

Well, I am not saying that you should never have a past life regression done. But before you do it, I certainly recommend that you use the books on healing your spiritual traumas and the others in that series. Work through those books and see how that can help you resolve the traumas.

If you decide that you want to do a past life regression, you need to be very careful in selecting the therapist. You need to select a therapist who is focused on helping people resolve psychology, nothing else. Because it does not matter who you actually were in a past life. What matters is the psychology. And if the therapist has any kind of human ambition, then you need to avoid that person. If you do a regression, it is definitely recommended to call for protection before, also decree to Astrea to cut you free from any ties to the astral plane. But you need to be very focused that it is not a matter of finding out that you were some famous person in a past life. It is about connecting to the psychology you took on in a past life. And the most successful past life regressions do not connect you to a specific past life where you see: “Oh, I was that person in that society at that time.” They connect you to a psychological issue or maybe even an experience such as being persecuted or killed. And you just focus on the psychology and the energy and resolve that.