Two different ideas are stacked inside this question, and they do not carry the same weight. One is that the body holds onto stress and old distress. The other is that what it holds is an “energetic imprint” that regression can locate and clear. The first has some grounding. The second does not, and keeping them apart is the whole of an honest answer.
Start with the part that has support. The nervous system reacts to threat and difficulty, and those reactions leave physical traces: a chest that tightens around old fear, shoulders that brace, a gut that turns over before a hard conversation. Stress physiology is real, and the sense that the body remembers what the mind would rather not is a recognized pattern in how distress shows up. People are not imagining the tension. It lives in muscle and breath and the way the body holds itself.
Where the claim leaves solid ground is the next step. “Energetic imprint” describes the trace as a kind of subtle energy lodged in the body from this life or, in past life regression, from another. There is no measurement for such energy and no evidence that distress is stored this way. A regression session that locates an imprint in the liver or the spine, and traces it to a wound from a prior lifetime, is not reading a physical record. It is composing a story under relaxation and suggestion, and past lives themselves have never been verified.
That does not make the session inert. Deep relaxation can loosen held tension for a while, and naming where stress sits in the body can be a useful act of attention. Some people leave feeling lighter, and that lightness is genuine even when the explanation around it is invented. The mechanism is ordinary calming and meaning-making, not the discharge of stored energy.
The caution runs in one direction. Persistent physical distress can have medical causes, and persistent emotional distress that lodges in the body is the territory of trauma-informed care, where approaches built for it carry actual evidence. Treating chronic pain, gut symptoms, or the bodily weight of trauma as an energetic imprint to be cleared risks routing a person away from the assessment that would actually help. The body is worth listening to. What it is saying is better checked against a clinician than against a past life.