Hirsutism is an abnormal condition wherein the patient suffers from excessive growth of facial hair. This can be quite troublesome especially for women. I had a female client, 40 years old, tall, strong and very affirmative in her speech, who came with the symptoms of this condition. When I told her it was a hormonal problem, she was agitated as she had undergone all the conventional treatments for hormonal imbalance and yet had not found a solution. So aggravated was she that she demanded my help! I agreed and began the therapy by taking her history.
Presenting Conditions
- The lady presented a history of excessive growth of facial hair, which compelled her to go for waxing every two weeks.
- All conventional hormonal balancing treatments had been unfruitful.
- I was particularly intrigued by my personal observation of her rough, aggressive and unfeminine demeanor.
Findings through Regression Therapy
The regression of this client unfolded in a unique way, as she first went back in time in her current life to when she was in her mother’s womb. As a 3-4 month old fetus in her mother’s womb, her consciousness is deeply affected by her grandmother’s words and behavior. In the womb, the child repeatedly hears her grandmother telling her mother that she already has two granddaughters and now she wants a grandson. But upon delivery, when the grandmother sees that the child is again a girl, she drops her and walks away. The feeling that as a girl she is unwanted is deeply impressed on the baby’s consciousness when she is in the womb and upon delivery as she takes her first breath. This feeling is reinforced when she is two years old and is happily playing, but a boy comes and hits her. When she goes and complains to her mother, she is told, “Yes, as a girl you must get used to it. If you were a boy you could have protected yourself.” This time, not only does she feel unwanted but she also decides she wants to be a boy.
That becomes the triggering point for her present condition of hirsutism. She conditions her mind from the womb that she is not accepted as a girl, so by the time she reaches puberty her mind makes her body work on those lines to produce more of the male hormone – testosterone. That becomes the cause of hormonal imbalance, which manifests as excessive hair growth.
As my client understood the whole picture, we explored the connection of her memory from the womb in the current life with a memory from a distant past. During the next session, when I gently prod and ask her to recollect if she was storing any memory associated with her feeling of being unwanted, she moves back into a lifetime where she is the youngest of five siblings – all girls. As they were expecting a boy, her parents bring her up like one, making her wear boyish clothes and act like a man with a beard on the stage. She lives that lifetime feeling unwanted as a girl, the memory of which is triggered instantly when she hears her grandmother’s comments while she is still a fetus in her mother’s womb. At the end of the sessions, I guide her to accepting all of this knowledge, acknowledging and accepting being a girl in the present life.
Condition Post Regression
This client returned after a month with her husband who revealed to me confidentially that his wife had transformed in her demeanour: she was now quite feminine in her ways and behaviour. She had become very gentle and subdued, very much like a woman and quite contrary to what she was earlier. Even her voice and her dressing had become visibly feminine.
But what about the issue of excessive hair growth? How long will her mind take to reduce the testosterone hormone level? And if that does reduce, how long will the hair follicles take to recover? Or are they permanently sensitized to the hormone? Will the hair become thinner or sparser? Only follow-up sessions with time will give me answers to these questions. However, during the last follow-up she mentioned that after her regression the frequency of her need for waxing had actually reduced.