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.
The person you are today; physically, mentally, socially has been a result of your varied past life experiences. This is why you need to actually delve in all your past lives and gather an understanding of why and how you became this self that you are today. You need to understand the weaknesses and the problems and even acknowledge your strength so as to become a better and more equipped person in this life and the future ones.
How would you determine your past life? It may be impossible to know about your past lives but sometimes, people have some dreams that kept on bothering them or some unclear recollection of the past memories and interaction with other unfamiliar people. Those who strongly believed the reincarnation consider different happenings in their present life to be an effect of past life. Some indications are:
* You may be fascinated or strongly attracted to a culture which you have had no exposure to and which does not feature anywhere in your present life. For example if you are unreasonably attracted to the Mesopotamian era and fascinated by the art in that period then there may be a possibility that you have a connection with that place. Try to learn more about the culture to know specifically what attracts you. If you can narrow down the time period then you may get a good hint.
* 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 to worry about from the safety aspect point of view. In a past life regression you experience the shadows and the feelings of a past life as if you are living that life for that moment.
Memories which are good will make you feel good while the bad memories from a past life will give you a feeling as if you have had a nightmare. You may just wake up like in a bad dream and feel queasy fro some time. However, if you want to exorcise your past problems these bad memories are an essential part of the experience.
What is important is remembering a past life. Once you remember, you are able to move on in this life. Problems occur when there is subconscious suppression of these memories. Acknowledging and accepting what happened in the past can aid you, while experiencing you present life with an entirely different point of view.
The philosophy of Karma says that when we are good examples in one life, while being committed to positive and kindly acts offer us good karma. As a result, for good, we receive good vibrations in our future lives, unless we become bad examples. If this happen, then our personal Karma changes and negative vibrations follow us throughout our future lives, until we suffer from them and then commit to becoming a good example in our own lifetime.
Some people were confused of this idea. They thought that the negative past life made them deserving of bad present life. This is actually not true. Every new life is a chance to make your life better and it?s up to you if you will choose to live your life the good way.
