How will I know if I’m being distracted by wanting to know about my past lives?

The bottom line to learning about who we were in a past life, is to be sure your motivation is to resolve those issues in the past as a way to heal who you are as a whole being. If your motivation is simple curiosity, then be very careful. You can add unnecessary drama and even trauma to your life by getting information without making sense of it, resolving and letting go of that old, no longer beneficial, energy.  That’s what Past Life Integration does, it helps you let go of the old and keep the lessons you’ve learned from all that past life experience.

Curiosity is a code word for distraction from our purpose for being here in physical form. We need to stay focused on continuing our remembering of being unconditional Love in physical form. We are here on Earth because we want the experience of knowing we are God/Love and we can be Love even in the experience of duality as both human and Spirit.

Does the Past Life Story somehow connect to the current life issues?

Often the story will make sense to you in this life time. Let’s say we are working with that part that was hung. The “symptoms” of that life time may show up in your current life as constant neck problems.

Integrating this past life character may bring great relief from those neck problems because that part of you is no longer holding on to that trauma. This releases the memories from your DNA.

Some phobias that seem random can be relieved by resolving past life trauma. No promises, because phobias, like many emotional or mental health issues are complex.  It may be that a phobia is held in place by old fears as well as more recent fears and even by beliefs that have been reinforced over the years.  the bottom line is to give yourself a break.  Understand that no matter how strange your worries, fears or rages may seem, you probably have a reason for those feelings.  Just because that reason is below your awareness doesn’t mean you don’t have a valid reason for feeling them.

Is Past Life Integration the same as Past Life Regression?

No. I actually don’t do what most people would call past life regression. I probably could, I am a Doctor in Clinical Hypnotherapy, so I have the credentials that would support doing regressions.

My understanding of past life regressions is that the facilitator helps the client get into a relaxed state, a trance, and then walks them back through time and keeps going back until the client begins remembering events. The client may even change voices, gain an accent, speak a different language and so on.

So, why don’t you do Past Life Regressions?

I have a basic philosophy that the value of knowing about our past lives comes in our integration of how it is affecting us in this life time. If we are unable to resolve the issues within that past life, then it actually distracts and potentially traumatizes us in this life time.

Let’s say you go back in time and find out you were hung for a crime you didn’t commit. In a past life regression, you may actually go back and re-live the trauma of being hung. You feel and remember the sensations of being hung, not to mention the emotional pain of being killed for something you didn’t even do.

What good is it to you to go through that horrible event, just for the sake of knowing it? Nothing, that I can think of. I would have nightmares and feel horrible for weeks maybe months knowing something like this about me. I don’t even watch the news because it’s too intense. <weak smile>

So, regression alone, is not good for us, in my humble opinion.

Are you saying that Past Life Integrations are without emotions?

When you finish bringing your past life character into your heart you may have a positive feeling and a sensation of wholeness. During the Integration itself, there are times when some people definitely do feel what the lost part has gone through. So, yes, you may experience brief waves of grief, fear, abandonment or whatever fits your situation. The key is that we go all the way through the feelings to the healing.

What actually happens during a Past Life Integration?

I begin to get a picture. I see these characters in symbols, not necessarily as they may have appeared in their physical bodies. I’ll tell you what I’m seeing and encourage you to experience them in your own way.

There is no right or wrong way to “see” or experience this character. It really doesn’t even matter if we could “prove” their existence by doing research in a library. In fact, you don’t even need to believe in past lives. This technique is simply a framework in which to gather that energy to help release it so you can find relief from those stuck areas in your life.

NOTE: I’m interchanging gender here as a way to let you know these past life characters can be either gender, and it’s just easier to interchange he or she at random than to constantly say he/she and son on.

Now as you get an image or an experience of this character, I will remind you that you have mental telepathy with this part of yourself. That means you can just think, and this character will hear you and vice versa.

I will then speak to this part of you as a way to help you know what to say. We will start by thanking her or him for coming up and meeting us today. We are taking this as a signal that she is ready to let go of her life and move into yours now. We want him to know who you are, so you will introduce yourself as his future.

I will usually get a brief “story” to help make sense of how come he is holding the beliefs we have discovered. Then as both of you feel ready, I will help you begin to imagine walking your character through time. We leave behind all the pain, trauma, fear, guilt, shame and so on.

She brings with her, the wisdom and lessons she has learned. She walks on through time and melts right into your heart. I will then be quiet and give you time to do that at your own speed and you will let me know when you are done.

This process helps your unconscious mind understand that the past life she was thinking was still going on is and has been over, so he no longer needs to carry around that “extra baggage” and is now free to simply be a supportive resource for you in your current life.

When we do a Past Life Integration, I will guide you through it, as you do the actual work. Many people have a warm, loving feeling after this experience.

When would be a good time to do a Past Life Integration?

This work is done by phone, because we need to interact with each other verbally as we do it. Past Life Integrations are a part of a phone session which usually lasts for at least an hour.

We may have already worked on finding some beliefs to clear, and a few of them may not have completely cleared, so I then go to Creator/Source and ask to see the Past Life character within you who is holding these beliefs in place.

Many people want to know about past lives as a curiosity or a “parlor trick”.  I don’t do it that way.  With my background as a Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy I have a deep respect for the unconscious mind. I have learned to trust and respect the defenses of my clients. I don’t push hard or insist on past lives coming up.  I find that when issues are bubbling up and intruding on current day situations, that’s the best time to work on them.  It’s a gentler and more respectful approach, in my opinion.  I will sometimes push a little bit on resistances, but gently.  I find that when those unconscious parts know that they will be respected and supported when they come up to awareness, they are much more willing to do the work and therefore old fears, habits and so forth will clear more effectively, quicker and last longer in the big picture.

Next, we’ll be talking about how a past life integration actually works in a phone session.  Feel free to ask questions.  Getting interesting discussiong going will benefit all of us.