The concept of having a past life or perhaps several is reincarnation. It is an ancient concept in various cultures the world over. Some of these include Africa, Japan, Australian aborigines as well as some New Age religions and modern Wicca. They believe we have lived past lives and that those past lives influence us today.

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:

* 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.

* Unusually strong emotions concerning a historical incident, for example, may cause you to become misty eyed, such as looking at Washington Crossing the Delaware but not at any other revolutionary art, may indicate that you were involved in such a past life incident.

* Certain physical or psychological issues and problems that you cannot explain or give logical reasons for its existence may be linked to what your past life was.

This is of course, not an extensive list. Having such indicators does not mean that you are actually remembering a past life. Observe the patterns of your life, the range of things that you find attractive for some reason. You may be able to tune into some of the likenesses that can aid you in piecing the idea of what your past life or lives may have been like to live.

Past lives can be accessed with hypnotism and self hypnosis as well. A visit to a past life regression specialist may unravel more mysteries for you. The specialist hypnotizes you and puts you in a deep state of relaxation which helps you to tap your subconscious memories.

You may want to consider using the hypnotic techniques that has a relaxation effect, once you made your decision about hypnotism. Allow your self to be comfortable and relaxed for a while before you proceed to past life regression.

If you are hesitant to use hypnotism because you are thinking of your safety, there is actually nothing to worry about. Hypnotic techniques will only help you to go back in time when your past life happened. But it will not guarantee you a clear picture of what or who you are in the past, just a mere shadow of your past life.

Pleasant memories trigger pleasant feeling; while past life memories that are bad generally trigger the same type of feelings, such as having a bad dream. You wake up feeling uncomfortable, similar to having a nightmare. Keep in mind, however that if there are any bad memories, they are an essential aspect of the past life regression experience.

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.

In relation to this, the theory of Karma says that those people who lived their past lives in such a good and kind way and have done acts of kindness in the past, they will surely have good Karma in this present life as long as they remained kind and good. But this Karma may possibly change if you turned yourself into a bad person. Instead of good karma, bad karma will definitely follow you in this present life even if you were kind and good in the past.

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.

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