Ancient people, especially the Japanese, Australian aborigines, Africans, modern Wiccans and many other New Age religions, believed the idea of reincarnation. This is about the thought that all people had past life and the person you are now and the behavior you have now has everything to do with that particular past life.
Each past life influences our health, mental wellbeing and our social interactions. It is a good idea to know thyself to understand who we were in a past life, to settle the mischievous nature that may in surplus from the past life and to incorporate all the accumulated strengths in order to become a stronger person today and in any future lives.
How do you know if you have experienced past lives? You may never know, however, in many cases disturbing memories or dreams that do not belong to you may visit you while you are awake. Reincarnation is a very popular belief among many individuals. However, when doing the math, it makes a great deal of sense that there are some new souls. Other indications include:
* Deeper interest and appeal to certain culture or behavior that has no interpretation or no explanation as to the present life. You may notice that you are a great fan of a specific tradition or arts maybe it is because of the past life that you were engaged into before. To get further explanation about these mysteries, know what other culture or arts you are interested in this present life. It may lead you to what you were in the past life.
* You may be unreasonably passionate about some happenings in history. For example you may be drawn to a battle in history where you feel passionately about one party. This may indicate that you have a connection.
* Fears which are irrational and not connected to your present life childhood. Allergies, psychological problems which don?t have a cause in the present life time may have a link in the past.
You do not have to have all these indications to completely and confidently acknowledge that you are experiencing past life recollection. Actually, even just one single indicator is enough to say that you really do recall your past life. Search your inner self by looking at unfamiliar things that attract you most or odd patterns in your life that are unexplainable. These will help you put the pieces all together.
You may be able to access your past life or past lives by being hypnotized by someone else or with self-hypnosis. You may find that a visit to a past life regression specialist well worth the time and money. Past life regression, is a deep hypnotic form of recalling memories from the subconscious mind.
Self hypnosis can be accomplished by many techniques like relaxation methods. Practice relaxing before using self hypnosis for past life regression.
There is nothing significant to worry over in the terms of safety, since what should happen is that you are able to experience a past life just as vividly as if you were actually going back in time. It may not be as intense as described here; however, you should be able to experience feelings and shadow of your past life.
As you begin to recall the past life memories, you will be able to distinguish the good ones from the bad ones through the after-results. Good memories usually trigger good feelings while bad memories irritate your feelings causing you to feel bad. When you wake up, you will notice that it feels like you just had a bad dream. This means that you had a bad life in the past. Do not think that recalling unpleasant memories are bad for you; this is actually your key to know your past life.
All you need to really do is remember your past life and move on. You don’t need to suppress the memories consciously or subconsciously. What is required is an understanding and unconditional acceptance of all the past happenings and having a fresh perspective on this life.
The Karma theory states that what we sow in this life, we will reap in the next life. Hence, the bad consequences and negativity are a result of bad behavior in the past life and vice versa. So we need to remain good so as to have good lives else we will need to make atonements for all our deeds till we become good.
However, there does seem to be some confusion about this interpretation. Some individuals do not believe we are destined to suffer from any bad things we deserve because of one of our past lives. They believe that with each new life, we are born anew, with the choice to do as we please. After realizing that a particular memory is from a past life, we are no longer bad examples and we can continue on, enjoying our present life.