Since early childhood, I remembered past lives and grew up walking into other dimensions and talking to spirits. This helped me realize there was more to this world than the ‘reality’ that my parents tried to convince me was the ‘real world.’ Because of these early experiences, I began a life-long exploration of spirituality and metaphysics.
In an attempt to heal my personal challenges, I sought out past life regression. But with my thirty-three years of experience and training as a holistic therapist I wasn’t satisfied with the sessions I experienced and created my own process, combining several modalities so that true transformation could happen.
Often people will ask if past lives are real. They wonder if the lifetimes they see or feel are truly ones they experienced. My belief is that they are, and I also tell my clients that it doesn’t matter if it really happened; whether these memories are an ancestral story passed down, part of the Jungian collective consciousness or their own imagination, because we never see ‘reality’ anyway.
As most spiritual teachers and even scientists explain, life is all just perception, a dream we create from our experiences and the story we tell ourselves about it. So if this past life story is one that is in our psyche, it is a story that our unconscious is using to affect our present experience of life and thus is valuable information to use in transforming our present and creating a new future.
In listening to an interview with Bruce Lipton, a biologist and co-author of Spontaneous Evolution, he talked of how our unconscious is used 95% of the time. It has stored all the information passed down to us in the womb and early childhood -- our parents’ reactions, society’s biases, imprinted upon us without censure or without the filter of critical thinking. I also believe the sum of all we have experienced in other lives and the decisions we have made about life and ourselves are brought into our unconscious as well.
There is much in the scientific literature that documents that we are responding to a stimulus before we are even conscious of its presence. So this storehouse of unconscious ‘information’ is what we are using to form our beliefs and attitudes, impact our health, shape our relationships, etc. It is what we are using to write our present and our future.
There is a part of our brain called the reticular activating system. This part of the brain will start seeing red sports cars everywhere if you think of buying one. They were there before, but you didn’t notice them until you started directing your attention toward them. This experience demonstrates that you create what you focus your energy upon. So whatever we hold in our unconscious from past lives and early childhood informs the kind of experiences we will continue to have in our lives until we transform that information.
Past life regression is a powerful tool for this work.
I created a new way of doing past life regression so that a person could not only view a past life and identify limiting beliefs brought from that lifetime into their present, but also identify gifts and talents from those lifetimes. I then take it a step further and have people go back into that life or lifetimes and change it, thus creating new beliefs to carry forward. Scientists are now proving that we can alter our DNA via thoughts, so changing your unconscious thoughts can change your life, on every level!
It is an empowering process to review all the talents and experiences you have collected, carrying them forward, re-writing them, assimilating them into this lifetime, moving through your childhood into the present and thus being able to create your future from this newly redesigned viewpoint. There is a reset button that we have all so often wished for. Re-writing your personal history is not only possible but likely. Often healing happens on many levels, relationships can be transformed and people feel more of a sense of inner peace and personal power.