A core belief about worth, the quiet conviction that one is not enough or does not deserve good things, runs underneath a lot of daily suffering. Past life regression is sometimes presented as a way to find where such a belief began and loosen it. It can play a part, though the part is smaller and less mystical than the framing implies.
Someone who already feels worthless will, deep in relaxation, tend to bring up scenes of failure, shame, or punishment that seem to explain the feeling, because imagery recalled in a suggestible state follows what a person believes about themselves. The scenes feel like other lifetimes, and there is no scientific evidence they are memories of real prior lives. What looks like the historical event that planted the belief is closer to the belief projecting itself outward, dressed as a story. So the imagery confirms the conviction rather than uncovering its origin.
That projection can still be worked with. Seeing a belief acted out as a story sometimes creates a small, useful distance from it. A person watching a scene of being cast out may, for a moment, regard the feeling of being unworthy as something happening to a character rather than as plain fact about themselves. That gap is where reconsideration can start. A practitioner may then guide a more compassionate response toward the figure in the scene, and some people carry a softened feeling back into the present.
It is worth being precise about what changes and what does not. A self-worth belief is durable because it has been rehearsed for years and is reinforced by ongoing habits of thought and self-talk. One vivid session does not overwrite that. What it might do is interrupt the belief long enough to make a person curious whether it is true. The rewriting itself, if it happens, comes from repeated practice in noticing the belief, questioning it, and acting against it over time.
This is also territory where professional help matters. A deeply held conviction of worthlessness can be entangled with depression, trauma, or shame that no relaxation exercise resolves, and approaches like cognitive and compassion-focused therapies were built specifically to address it. Regression sits alongside that kind of care, never in place of it. A person can take the imagery as a meaningful nudge toward seeing themselves differently while leaving the real reconstruction to the slower, present-day work that actually holds.