I went to a past life regression - Page 2

[Sepia]

Originally Posted by mommyshoppinghabit

I could have just totally discounted this whole session as a total waste of time since she told me to just use my imagination

the part of your brain that is active when you are using your imagination is the same part that helps you access past lives, healing energy, inspiration, etc.

[mommyshoppinghabit]

I've come to the conclusion that if your imagination can conjure it up, then, it's true for you. This is what facilitators of The Sedona Method/Release Technique do. When you afe faced with a problem, be it a situation, an illness, you ask yourself, what is the advantage for me to have this problem. It sounds sillly that you may have a reason that you think there is and "advantage" to, say, not having enough money, or having an illness, but if you just open yourself up and just make up something...you can usually find that it in some way, you do think that to be true.

[Spring Lily]

Originally Posted by mommyshoppinghabit

I've come to the conclusion that if your imagination can conjure it up, then, it's true for you. This is what facilitators of The Sedona Method/Release Technique do. When you afe faced with a problem, be it a situation, an illness, you ask yourself, what is the advantage for me to have this problem. It sounds sillly that you may have a reason that you think there is and "advantage" to, say, not having enough money, or having an illness, but if you just open yourself up and just make up something...you can usually find that it in some way, you do think that to be true.

That sounds very similar to the concept of "projection" in psychology. The feelings and thoughts you have about other people can be in fact a better reflection of your own subconscious than they are about the other person. That goes for imagined scenarios & images, too. And Brian Weiss (and Carl Jung) talks about the information about past lives/collective unconscious/whatever explanation being carried around in our subconscious mind somewhere. So it makes sense there is a connection. There's a difference between pure fantasy and using imagination to access a part of your brain.


Has anyone ever ordered Brian Weiss' self-regression cds? My mom just bought them and I'm interested in trying them out. It sounds a little like a guided meditation, but you're supposed to set up a tape recorder next to you while you do it.

[singin_angel]

Wow! This is quite an interesting thread! Thank you for sharing your experience!

I never went to anyone who did just that as a profession, but I have had experience recalling past life experiences.

It was strange, but I was on a military course in another province going to a base I had never been to before. While we were on the bus, I had this vision of war-time, or at least training for war, and these men on little green vehicles. I was seeing this from the eyes of one of the soldiers, who I am sure was me in a past life. After getting off the bus and having to do some navigation exercises and marches, I just seemed to know where everything is. Someone said we were going to the obstacle course, and I just took my group there, no compass, no map. It just felt like I was there before and that things had come full circle.

I am happy to be a woman in the military though, and I think my appreciation really comes from those brief moments where I could recall what it was like before.

[simplespirit]

Originally Posted by Spring Lily

That sounds very similar to the concept of "projection" in psychology. The feelings and thoughts you have about other people can be in fact a better reflection of your own subconscious than they are about the other person. That goes for imagined scenarios & images, too. And Brian Weiss (and Carl Jung) talks about the information about past lives/collective unconscious/whatever explanation being carried around in our subconscious mind somewhere. So it makes sense there is a connection. There's a difference between pure fantasy and using imagination to access a part of your brain.

So, with this in mind... let me throw out a question. If one feels drawn to a 'lifestyle' i.e. living in a certain place or country... would this be a recollection, a rememberance, a regression? How does one know the difference between wanting something and remembering something?

Am I making any sense?

[Spring Lily]

How does one know the difference between wanting something and remembering something?

I don't think you necessarily can tell the difference. And I also think the difference might not matter after all. Either way, there is some part of you that wants that, so it means something to you--like there is something you feel needs to be fullfilled, maybe? I'm no expert, just guessing! Maybe regression could help you sort it out, so you can figure out if there are other ways of fulfilling that need. Or acknowledging the true need. I think that when there is such a strong inexplicable want like that, it makes sense that it could be connected to a spiritual need. So you can continue to grow and learn.

Interesting question, by the way. I've spent a lot of my life feeling like I need to move to a specific place, and I have no real explanation for it, just that it feels like it should be home. I never thought about it in this context before, for some reason!

[miss-username]

My husband and I went to a shaman for fertility issue and while we were there, I had to ask a couple of other questions. My husband and I both have a birth mark on our left hip. I asked him if it meant anything. He told us that we were both married in our past life but it was like a 'Romeo and Juliet' situation. Before we committed suicide, we marked each other on our hips so we can find each other easier in our next life together.

I also asked him to explained why:
-DH and I are both the 2nd child in a family of 7 children.
-DH is 9 days older than me (he's July 1st and I'm July 10th).
-we both have an older brother and they're exactly 1 month apart.
He said that since we both died so close (time wise) that when we reincarnated into this lifetime, we were able to be born around the same time (month).

The shaman also told us a little bit more about our past life. DH and I were both born into a wealthy merchant Chinese family but our families were rivals. We fell in love and our families agreed to let us get married. But DH and I did something to anger our families and we ended up like Romeo and Juliet. DH was in disbelief because he's always felt that he was Chinese in his past life.

[Sailor]

I read some works by Dr. Ian Stevenson who spent something like 40 years researching past lives. What was really interesting was that he had a high number of cases, where a birth mark or a blemish on the person's body was in the same place as the mortal blow that killed them in the past life. I found that really interesting. I especially enjoyed reading the interviews with kids who knew things from their past lives for which there was no conceivable explanation.

The only thing I've tried in this area was a self hypnosis CD from the library. I can't say that I had any results, but I could never stay awake to finish the CD. I always fell asleep. The CD did yield some pretty wild dreams, though.

[mommyshoppinghabit]

On the one hand, I think that it is possible to do a regression yourself. On the other hand, you need to be absolutely still and quiet which is hard to do if you have little kids running around so paying a professional is one way to guarantee that time for yourself.
Everyone probably already has the pictures in their mind. Like after I went to my regression, I think that there are probably one or two other "stories" in my subconscious waiting to get out. If I hadn't gone to the therapist, I probably would just not have paid much attention to them, just relegating them to the catagory of imagination, but like I wrote in a previously in this thread, if you can imagine it, then it is true for you.
The most necessary thing you need is a very strong emotional reaction. Has something happened to you that made you shudder, heat up w/anger, well up with some other undeniable feeling? Recall that, use that as your starting point, be still, dive into that feeling and ask yourself, when did I feel this in a previous lifetime?

[ursusarctos]

: This is fascinating.

[Valkyrie9]

I too have thought that our energy must be released somewhere. I like the idea that it maybe all gathers together and we're able to draw from a sort of cosmic pool of experience. I also love the thought of being able to heal past hurts of others by how we're able to give peace to strong negative emotions. Very cool.

Keep up the interesting discussion, please!

[Spring Lily]

Originally Posted by miss-username

The shaman also told us a little bit more about our past life. DH and I were both born into a wealthy merchant Chinese family but our families were rivals. We fell in love and our families agreed to let us get married. But DH and I did something to anger our families and we ended up like Romeo and Juliet. DH was in disbelief because he's always felt that he was Chinese in his past life.

This is almost funny to read, because I once had a dream that I was a Chinese woman, in ancient times. (I'm white and have never travelled to Asia.) I was married to a man I had no connection with and didn't like, and we were very poor and had no children. We lived in the country and worked on a farm, but I believe it was for someone else, because we didn't really get any profits from the crops. There was a horrible drought for years, and everything because really dry and dusty. In that time I met a man at the marketplace and fell in love with him. It was an instant connection. It made going home to my husband really hard. I tried to make plans to run away and be with the other man, but it didn't work (don't remember the details) and I ended up committing suicide.

When I woke up I felt like I'd been asleep for years instead of hours, and that I'd just witnessed the majority of someone's life. I was exhausted and it took days to get over the emotions. It was a very powerful experience and I still remember it quite clearly, over 10 years later. I've always been curious if that was a past life memory that snuck through to my consciousness via a dream.

[mommyshoppinghabit]

It's interesting to know the stories of where, who, when of past lives, but I think the really useful part to accessing these stories is the emotions and beliefs that we had from those experiences. For instance, when I accessed that story about an Indian woman wandering in the wilderness after having lost her tribe, the important thing I learned from that was that, subconsciously, I am making myself weaker and dependent because I don't want to relive that experience of being the last one standing. I was subversing my own strength and independence without really being conscious of it. And now, I am conscious of it, and I can challenge that belief everytime I am faced with a situation that depends on strength and independence.

[sapientia]

When I was very young-we're talking not even 5 yo here-I used to tell my mom and dad about the time that my papa and I (dad's father) were at the statue of liberty after the 2nd world war. I have a very clear memory of it. They tried to convince me it wasn't true because I had never even been out of state, and too young to know about wwII or that my grandfather had fought there and had been to NY, not to mention I was born in 1972!

I've been obsessed with that war my whole life. I just assume I was there and knew my grandfather there.

I had a past life regression very long ago that explained some things and bore out a few other things. During the regression I saw myself losing a child during childbirth in an African village and the village holyman came in and felt such sorrow for me that he decided to come back and be my child in a later life. I just knew it was my second daughter. My second daughter was barely a year old at the time of the regression-I never mentioned it-but when she was very small she had a very strong obsession with Africa for awhile-totally not my doing!