What about your own past lives? If you feel drawn to the subject, it’s a sign that you’re ready to find out more.
The best way to set anything off is to make a decision about it. Decisions are powerful tools – they get things moving. If you’re curious about your past lives, simply decide that it’s time to discover more about them.
Hypnotherapist Arnall Bloxham said, ‘Just ask “who am I, the eternal me, who has lived before?” and that will start you remembering past lives.’
An intriguing adventure of discovery will then unfold. Past-life memories will start coming to you in all kinds of ways.
For example, you may suddenly realize that a favourite picture on your wall shows life in a time or place that you’ve always felt attracted to. You wonder if you might have once lived there. Clues and synchronicities could then come up to confirm that you did.
Or you might discover that something you were good at in childhood was a past-life ability. A vivid dream set in old times may show you when you first learned that skill.
You may feel drawn to attend a past-life workshop. Perhaps one of their guided visualizations gives you a useful overview of your soul journey. This seems to point to developing your past-life skill in this life. When you look it up, your astrology chart may back this up.
Curious for more details, you try dowsing with a pendulum to get more specific answers. Wanting to confirm that information in another way, your next step might be a meditation exercise or a regression.
This is just one example of the many different pathways that can open up for you as you explore your past lives.
Let your heart lead the way. If something feels like a good idea, follow it up. If it doesn’t, this may not be the right time for it. As you go along, little by little, you’ll build up a good picture of your past lives and their relevance to you now.
When past-life memories come up, you can get the best from them by asking the following questions. You can put these questions to the universe, your inner self, higher consciousness, angels or spirit guides – whichever feels right for you.
The answers will then come to you through dreams, synchronicities, sudden realizations, meditation, visualization or regression. The way it works for me is simply to put a question to my inner self – the deeper levels of consciousness within the psyche. When I wake up the next morning, the answer downloads into my mind. Big questions may take a bit longer, but an answer always comes in the end.
These questions are a foundation and a starting point. As other questions occur to you, continue using your favourite methods to find out more.
It’s best to deal with these questions one at a time. Move on to the next question when you’ve had an answer to the first one you asked. Make a note of the answers you receive, whatever way they may come to you. Sometimes the universe can send us answers in the next e-mail or article we read. Even an overheard comment from a passing stranger can be a magical message to us.
It’s helpful to ask these questions because the great benefit of discovering past lives is understanding how they still affect you. This releases you from their negative effects. It also reconnects you with all that was good about them. In these ways, our past lives have the power to transform our present life and create a positive new future for us.
Remembering past lives also gives us an expanded view of the greater soul self. It shows us that we are so much more than just one person. This awareness frees us from many fears that belong only to the little self. It shows us a joyfully higher view of the world, our lives and ourselves.
For most of us, this new horizon has only just begun to open up. It’s exciting, but can also be a bit confusing. It will be easier to integrate if you can see it as a symbolic image – for example, a round table.
The circle stands for wholeness. Tables represent how people gather together. The round table therefore has archetypal significance as an emblem of harmony and equality. Seeing your past and future selves at your round table will help to make this new expanded consciousness more real for you.
Go through the usual preparations that you do before any meditation or inner work. Then imagine your round table in a beautiful place – for example in a garden, a woodland clearing or a twilit beach.
Every time you discover who you were in a new past life, bring them to the table and make them welcome. This will do much to heal old problems from that life. It will also strengthen the positive effects of that life on you now.
You can visit your round table whenever you wish. Not only to bring new people to it, but just to see if everyone’s happy, and if anyone new has dropped in.
The different pieces of your past-life history are like a huge jigsaw. As you put them together, a bigger picture will come into view. That picture will not only show you the many different lives you’ve had – it will also make it clear that your current self and life are part of a much greater context.
As you explore your past lives you’ll discover your spiritual identity and the long-term purpose of your soul journey here on Earth.
You’ll find from deep within yourself the answers to the age-old questions: Who am I? Where did I come from? And why am I here?