Pulling away just as a relationship deepens is a pattern people want explained, and past life regression offers a vivid explanation. Under deep relaxation and guided imagery, a person may picture a lifetime where commitment ended in entrapment, betrayal, or loss, and that scene seems to name exactly why closeness feels dangerous now. The recognition can land hard.
Whether the scene is a literal prior life is a different matter, and the honest answer is that there is no scientific evidence for past lives. Imagery produced under relaxation and suggestion is reconstructed from imagination and expectation, which is why hypnotic regression so often yields detailed scenes that feel like memory but were composed in the moment. A “past life of being trapped by a vow” that matches a fear of commitment is the mind building a story to fit a pattern that is already there.
Psychology already describes that pattern in grounded terms. Avoiding commitment is often connected to attachment style, to fear of losing independence, to past hurt that taught a person closeness is risky, or to learned habits of withdrawing when things get serious. These are workable explanations, and naming them does not require any prior lifetime.
This is where regression can play a limited role. As a form of narrative reflection, it may help someone feel the weight of their pattern, or approach it with curiosity rather than self-blame. That softening can be a genuine first step. Taken honestly, the past life scene is a metaphor a person finds meaningful, not a diagnosis of where the fear came from.
Real change in commitment patterns, though, happens in relationship and in the work around it. That means noticing the urge to retreat and choosing to stay present, communicating fear instead of acting it out, and building, through repeated experience, evidence that closeness can be safe. Where the pattern is painful or persistent, this is the territory of therapy. Individual or couples work, including approaches that focus on attachment, can help a person understand the habit and practice doing things differently, at a pace they can tolerate.
So the answer is a careful one. PLR may offer reflection or motivation that someone finds useful, a meaning layer they choose to keep. It does not resolve commitment fear on its own. The pattern shifts through real relational work, the slow accumulation of new experience with another person, supported by a clinician when the fear runs deep.