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Were you an astronaut in your past life? A pioneer? A silver screen icon, or even a king? Exploring your previous life can be a fascinating adventure! It's quite simple, relaxing, and you don’t need to consult a Hollywood hypnotist to do it! Just follow the steps below, step by step, and soon enough, you'll relive your past life!
Steps
Do It Yourself
Prepare the Room. Ensure the room temperature is neither too hot nor too cold. Close the curtains, turn off the TV or radio, silence your phone, and if you have a sound machine, you can turn it on just enough to drown out outside noises. Try one of the following background sounds:
- White noise. This sound is like the static on a TV without a channel.
- Brown noise. This sound resembles the distant sound of ocean waves crashing.
Relax your mind and find a peaceful place. Sit or lean against something in a quiet, dark room, away from friends and family. Choose a time when you feel alert, and your body and mind are relaxed. If you’re hungry, distracted, or have a song stuck in your head, it will be difficult to focus.
Relax your body. Lie comfortably on your bed or wherever you’ve chosen to self-hypnotize, and simply relax for a few minutes to prepare for your journey.
Get ready. Close your eyes and relax. Lie on your back, with your arms at your sides, and bask in a protective light:
- Visualize a stream of white light surrounding you. Imagine this light in your mind's eye, shining up from your feet, legs, knees, thighs, torso, arms, neck, face, and head. This light shields you from negative influences. It represents love, warmth, and illumination in the magnificent mist around you, surrounding you in its brilliance, protecting you from evil.
- Visualize the light in your mind. Feel its warmth and let it envelop you. Repeat aloud or in your mind, "I breathe in powerful protective energy. This energy forms a glowing aura around me. This aura protects me at all times and in every way."
- Say this five times or whisper it five times as you inhale. Then simply focus on imagining and feeling the energy, making the light brighter and stronger. Feel a different color appear in your mind, repeating it until you’re ready to move to the next step.
Begin your journey. Imagine standing in a long hallway, with a door at the end. Observe the hallway as clearly as possible, noticing any images that arise in your mind.
- The hallway you envision may be lined with gold and silver, or have Gothic architecture like a grand church built from precious stones, or be a lush environment with intertwined arches of leaves above. The choice is yours.
- No matter what your imagined hallway looks like, use it every time you seek your past life. Let your imagination roam with the expectation that when you reach the end of the hall, touch the large door, and turn the handle, you’ll uncover your past life.
Walk down the hallway. Take each step with mindfulness. Watch your feet touch the ground, imagining every detail of the journey as you approach the large door – the scent in the room, the sounds around you, the colors of the light, even the "smell" of the air surrounding you.
- Finally, you will reach the end of the hallway – when you feel you are ready and no longer in the previous moment – place your hand on the doorknob. Observe each movement, feel the material of the handle, and hear the metallic sound as you turn the knob. When the lock clicks, take a breath and gently push open the door.
Embrace your past life. Accept the first thing you see beyond the door as what exists from your previous journeys.
- This could be something abstract like the color yellow, or clear and vivid like a baby cradled in your arms. Take whatever you see as a foundation. Build on it. Feel it. Hold the image in your mind and open it, welcoming whatever comes to mind.
- You might notice the “yellow” turning into a carpet. As you go deeper into your imagination, you may discover that the yellow is sunlight pouring over the carpet. Perhaps, suddenly, you realize this carpet is in a house in London…
- At this point, you might doubt yourself, but don’t worry, you are remembering a past life.
Be patient. If you don’t see anything, try thinking about something that always excites you, a hobby, a skill, or a travel destination. Ask yourself, “Why do I like this? Is there a connection to my past life?”
- If nothing appears yet, try the shoe method: look at your feet, imagine the shoes you’re wearing. You’ll start seeing your outfit and can begin from there. You might see sandals and realize you’re wearing a tunic. Or perhaps you see yourself in high heels and a silk evening gown.
- If you see yourself in a magnificent house with a beautiful wife and wonder how you ended up there, congratulations, you’ve just stepped into a Talking Heads song. Smile and continue exploring.
- Once you recall something – even if it’s just a pair of shoes – and if you’re fairly sure there’s some truth to it, you can begin your reflection from there. Always start with what you’ve seen and move toward what you haven’t yet discovered.
Accept what you see. These images may seem to be created by your mind. Sometimes they are, and you must accept them as part of the process of remembering your past life.
- There is almost always some truth hidden within these images. You’ll only know for sure after several reflections on your past life, and you’ll start to see recurring patterns and details.
- During this time, you must believe in what you see as real; otherwise, you’ll never reach your destination. Your analytical mind will only dismiss the images as a product of overactive imagination.
Return to the present. Unless you need to remove yourself from an unpleasant memory, typically the flame of enthusiasm in you will gradually fade. The images will no longer appear, or your analytical mind will be awakened by something you see… and that’s when your journey is complete. You’ll have no choice but to open your eyes.
- If this doesn’t happen and you’re ready to return to the present life, just imagine the path where you began. Open the door and walk down the gemstone hallway – or whatever you envisioned – telling yourself that when you reach the starting point, you’ll feel refreshed, and you’ll remember your past life with perfect clarity.
Hypnosis therapy
Consult a hypnosis expert. Sometimes, recalling past lives requires techniques that may be beyond our grasp – for example, self-hypnosis can be very difficult to achieve. Hypnosis specialists who focus on past-life regression are trained in specific areas of expertise. Here's what you can expect them to guide you through:
- They may play music during the session to help relax you, making you feel safe, warm, and comfortable. Let yourself be guided and find inner peace.
- Clear your mind of the suggested thoughts and allow anything to come to you naturally.
- Relax your muscles, especially your neck and shoulders, to release any tension.
- As you deepen into relaxation, they may speak of light, allowing it to flow through you, touching each part of your body until you are surrounded by light.
- Once you are fully relaxed and ready, they will open the doors to your past lives and guide you back through time.
- They will encourage you to recall your memories in as much detail as possible.
- They might guide you back to your mother's womb, speaking to you in the pre-birth state about your past life.
- Once you've found your past life, they'll guide you through it, encouraging you to feel it as you remember, but this time you will be fully aware of your past while in a conscious state.
- As the session nears its end, the hypnotherapist will gradually guide you back to the present and your current life.
Congratulations! You’ve just experienced your past life.
Become metaphysical
Believe in spirituality. For some, past lives are not just places you’ve been but also part of your identity. Many cultures throughout human history have made reincarnation central to their faith.
- While Islam and Christianity do not believe in reincarnation, Hindus, some Jews, and Buddhists do. The best approach is not to fully commit to a particular religion, as religious doctrines can be strict; it’s better to explore your own path. Seek your own truth.
Advice
- If you notice any chaotic moments in your past life, remember that your aura surrounds you. You can leave anytime you wish. There's no need to stay and witness the terrifying moments.
- During breaks, or after jotting down your thoughts and ideas, think about any specific things you've felt a 'connection' to. It could be a language, music (quite common), a place, or a scent. Perhaps you feel attracted to or repelled by these things. They may help unlock a part of yourself that's both distant and familiar, like your past life.
- Do not practice self-hypnosis exercises continuously for several days or too often. Pushing yourself too hard may result in inaccurate past-life memories. Furthermore, if your hypnosis sessions are spaced out (weeks or months apart), upon revisiting your notes, you might notice certain details of your past life repeating—an obvious sign that what you are seeing is genuine.
- Be prepared to identify and acknowledge the echoes of truth in what you experience (whether through sight, sensation, smell, or sound). You'll recognize the truth when you discover it. You'll experience the memory of your past life, and suddenly, you'll have an intuitive feeling about something in your present life.
- This might not yield immediate results, so continue trying until you succeed in recalling something significant.
- Don't overexert yourself. Let the process unfold naturally and simply. There's no need to feel tense about it.
- Returning to past-life memories is tied to the soul's journey and recollections. That's who you are. Freud, Jung, and other psychologists agree that the subconscious—where memories and information are stored—can be difficult to access, but not impossible.
- Use the same protective words and images each time you revisit your memories to create a conditioned reflex, similar to Pavlov's dog experiment.
- You may find success by applying the self-hypnosis technique 'Best Me,' which helps guide your entire being into the past-life experience more easily.
- To make your mind more sensitive to past-life memories, you can use the hyper-empiric method, based on principles of alertness, expanding memory, heightened awareness, and sensitivity.
Warning
- There have been many reports of children recalling memories from their past lives. The events, names, and locations they describe were unknown to them beforehand. These children are often as young as two years old.
- It’s important to understand that some rather strange things may occur during past-life regression and self-hypnosis. The most common experience is an out-of-body sensation. You might feel as if you're floating above your physical body, as though your soul is hovering above the body lying on the bed. While this isn't yet a past-life memory, it brings you closer to spirituality, which may help trigger past-life recollections. This experience often coincides with an increased heart rate and rapid eye movement as you “look” at the surrounding scenery.
- A Chinese proverb says, “It doesn’t matter if the cat is white or black, what matters is that it catches the mouse.” From a serious psychological standpoint, whether past-life experiences through hypnosis are real or mere imagination doesn't really matter. If someone claims that regressing to a past life has brought them relief, then the process has been beneficial, regardless of how it is interpreted.
- Another phenomenon that may occur is fragmentation. Your memories might become vivid, your heart rate may increase, and you could feel as if you’re incredibly small, as though you're made of a tiny seed of consciousness, peering out through what is known as the eyes. The images you see may shatter like pieces of glass. You might start perceiving abstract shapes and forms, almost as if in a strange dream. Gradually, the entire past-life memory floods with these fragments. This experience can feel chaotic. However, you should accept these strange and abstract images as normal. Don't let them cause anxiety. Just detach from the image and stop. Thinking about your body (and within your body) will naturally bring you back to your original state.
- Don't confuse the truth with what you want to see, or as Bob Dylan once said, “Don’t confuse heaven with a home right down the road.”
- If you encounter an unpleasant image while recalling your past life, remember that you can always remove yourself from that scene and awaken from the hypnosis. Even though you are surrounded by protective white light, you might still pass through an unbearable painful scene. At that moment, simply open your eyes. If you choose to continue witnessing the uncomfortable aspects of your past life, remind yourself that you’re merely observing it, not reliving it, and that you’re not affected by the suffering or fear, as the warm light around you protects you. You'll view the scene like a movie, with professional actors playing the roles. Remind yourself that it cannot harm you, and it will not cause you distress.
- Many people in Western cultures today are skeptical of past-life experiences because we have yet to scientifically prove that reincarnation exists—even though half of the world believes in it. (For example, no one has ever produced a Roman coin from a past-life regression session.)
- Just like in other religious experiences, we must remain open (or at least patient) when exploring memories from past lives, as long as they help us make sense of current phenomena in a reasonable way.
