Discovering Past Lives

When I was 13 years old I was wandering through a book store and found a small book with a pretty cover that promised to teach me how to go back into past lives and discover all the people I had lived as before this life.

I have a Scorpio Sun, Mercury and Uranus, so of course, I bought the book.

I did go back into a few of my past lives. And yes, it was incredibly interesting.

But then I convinced others to let me do the same for them. And it got crazy. 

I must have been pretty convincing (for a 13 year old) as soon enough I had all my family (except my Dad cause he worked night shift), my friends, their friends and some more adults putting their hand up and allowing me to place them into a hypnotic state to take them back into many of their fascinating and perilous past lives. 

Their stories were the content of movies.

I discovered that quite a few creatures on this planet that apparently ‘don’t exist’ - actually do. That many people definitely recognise others around them in this life as significant people in other lives. And that you can go as far back in time as you want to. And you can remember EVERY detail. From familiar phrases, to smells, to how events sounded, to the feel of the fabric you once wore. You can recall it all.

No, no one was making anything up. Not one person. I was a 13 year old, just some kid in suburbia, Australia and everyone was being so kind, wanting to help me with my fun new hobby that I was super passionate about. I remember how I kept all the information in an A4 ruled paper notebook. My absolute treasure.

I was very naive and didn’t quite understand why I was so obsessed suddenly, but there I was. Every chance I got, telling my next ‘victim’ to close their eyes and relax as we drifted back and discovered all their past-life secrets. I was able to take people deeply into hypnotic states and was surprised by how completely and easily others trusted me. I was (and still am) truly humbled by their faith in me. To this day I am still so grateful and in awe.

And the information I uncovered was insane. I had people fall deep into a hypnotic state and recall very detailed aspects of historical data, know exactly who in their current life was very close to them in that previous life, and even speak with a thick Scottish accent! (and this person didn’t do accents, ever) 

Many couldn’t recall any details of what they had just vividly remembered to me, and I had to repeat back to them what they had just said - to which they were completely surprised! It was always a treasure to watch the delight on their faces when I told them what had been uncovered. Some did, however, remember very well. And I became better at helping my ‘clients’ recall on leaving their hypnosis too. 

Some of the lives that were spoken to me, their stories, as really lived, are below for you to discover too…

There was the story of Trudy, a 15 year old housemaid in 18th century London, working for a wealthy businessman and just trying to make ends meet while dating a dapper young Englishman,Tom, who 6 months later she broke up with. She then made friends with another handsome man and Tom became so jealous that he stabbed Trudy to death in the study of her employer’s townhouse. She was discovered by her employer as she lay dying, her limbs ice cold as the blood pooled around her on the study rug.

Or there was the tale of Mary, a young girl of 9 years old who lived in 15th century Wales, near the ocean, in a small fishing village. She had a quiet and gentle life with a close family until her father returned home one day and said they had to flee their home. He owed some local pirates money and they were coming for it. And that he couldn’t pay. The pirates found Mary’s family and as payback took them out in small wooden boats, tied their hands together, knotted iron blocks around their feet and threw them into the ocean. She said she knew she was dead when she felt herself floating in the water, staring into her own wide eyes. 

Or the time a cat told me about his recent past life, again in London, 18th century. This Australian house cat had been a moggie living on the streets and had such a beautiful elongated body and legs. Cats looked so different back then! This cat showed me life on the streets had been exciting, sometimes perilous, yet satisfying. He showed me what it was like to make a kill, his usual diet consisted of street rats, and how it would take him about 2 hours afterward to clean his coat and paws up from all the blood. So detailed!

Past lives often show us the root cause of many phobias, fears, personal preferences and underlying patterns that we exhibit in this life. There are of course other reasons why we may have a present fear or cycle that we continue to move through and find difficult to dislodge and outgrow. (such as a present life emotional/mental wound state or physical trauma) However there is definitely a place for past lives in acknowledging the origin of parts of us and the current choices that we make. 

We have specific soul-groups that we often reincarnate with over and over again. Certain souls that are very dear to us and aligned with our soul’s journey so karmically and vibrationally they are a cosmic match in helping us to evolve!

Souls reincarnate on ‘waves’. With certain groups at differing stages of the frequency, back middle or front, depending on how they are going vibrationally and how ‘successfully’ they are learning their chosen lessons in this life. As an example you may find certain friends or family that you have a lot in common with and tend to be in similar life situations, experiencing similar ‘lessons’ and having much the same struggles. The front end of the wave in this instance is usually those that have incarnated with more learnings or wisdom under their belt and so already have the extra tools to utilise for that particular wave. The back end of the wave may include souls who struggle to overcome certain lessons while incarnated or stubbornly cling to patterns or cycles of their comfort zone. The reincarnation wave moves across a frequency spectrum involving similarity in life events, patterns and karmic study.

You really, truly are never alone in your incarnation!

A past life may hold a key to understanding a fear that holds no basis in the current life. Take Mary, as example, the young girl from Wales. The person who had had this past life currently experienced a great fear of water and when much younger would scream and refuse to move into deeper water when taking swimming lessons. As a child, there had been no incidents of near drownings or personally experiencing water trauma of a loved one. Everyone was baffled as to why this girl, now a young woman, would hold such a fear of deep water. But the Higher Self knew. After going back into that particular past life it was very clear that the current fear was connected to this event. So much emotional and mental processing was able to be completed from this regression, with clarity and peace on this issue gained as a result.

Past lives aren’t just here to provide a small window explanation of why we have a phobia or fear here or there. They are an access point of explanation on the pathways our soul chooses to take time and time again when faced with Earth’s critical dilemmas and continued obstructions. They are a golden vantage point signalling where we have gone, right or wrong, previously, so we can recognise patterns and their outcomes. They allow an ongoing framework for elevating our consciousness to a new undiscovered level, giving fresh insights and so expanding our present awareness. 

And it’s fun.

You have to do it properly though. I would recommend going to a practised person, even a professional, to take you back. However if you feel you can handle what you uncover and are quite grounded, you could travel back with the help of a YouTube meditation and a trusted friend sitting nearby. This isn’t a game, it can get serious real fast, depending on what period or experiences you lived through. The process should always be respected. 

I say this as you definitely don’t know what you will uncover. And this includes who played what role for you (they may have been your annoying brother in a past life but in this one your Mother!) or what they did (saved you from a fire, murdered your Uncle or swindled your fortune) and lastly, you may unearth details of your past actions and character that, although allowed you to grow and become the person you are today, shock you.

But, it IS all in the past. It’s not happening right now. At least not on this plane of reality. So we can tap into the memories and take from them what we need to ascend and understand ourselves to a greater degree, then allow the current reality to reabsorb us back into its (comfort?) or familiarity.

We are the unique results of our vast range of choices and decisions and growth pathways from many lifetimes. On choosing to incarnate on Earth, we choose a tough road ahead. Earth is not for the weak. This 3D dimension is an action-based reality where we must do (take action) to attain the results we desire. Yet to receive a solid foundation of success we require the learning and skill of understanding when to surrender, how to trust and the art of receiving. 

A heady combination. 

So if you do choose to go back and visit your past selves, please don’t judge you or others harshly. We repeat cycles until we translate the learning into wisdom and this transcends lifetimes as well. Often we combine a series of lessons with a divine mission or the premise of helping a certain other group down here, and that can be complex in and of itself. Mostly, at this point of our evolution, souls are choosing to evolve on Earth as it’s an ideal period to wrap up past karma. Earth is completing major cycles at this stage so many souls are jumping on the ride as it is prime ‘clean up your karma time’. And lots of souls need lots of bodies, so Earth feels kinda clogged right now. But we will all get there.

This is probably not your first life and probably not your last on Earth. The decision is always yours to make however so, at least on a higher level, this was a choice we made to be here. And while certain people and events are ‘programmed in’ to our life destiny, on a day to day basis we have all the free will and power we need to create a purposeful and meaningful life in our present reality. This is what we have done in every lifetime, however the energetic stakes are now higher than ever before and evolution is certain (to one level or another) so we might as well make the most of all the information we can get to move past previous cycles and step up in this one. Even just so we don’t repeat a certain painful set of circumstances again and again. And this is where past life regression can be very helpful. Very helpful indeed.

This world can feel chaotic, unstable and confusing. And often we end up with the experience of feeling powerless, small and insignificant compared to what we are facing. However we are not just the sum of one little life and one minor personality but every person that we have been before. Every footprint we have walked previously on the earth and every courageous decision we have ever made. We have all done brilliant and terrible things, sometimes by sudden choice and sometimes by directive of our Soul Plan, but always by our creative design. 

Each life we live is a work of art, our Soul’s art. This is part of what makes discovering our past lives so fascinating and enthralling. It is like watching the most engaging movie we could imagine. A fully immersive experience of love, joy, pain and enlightenment. 

And while I do recommend discovering your past lives, it is of course always important to live in the present moment, and love who you are today. For you are the result and completion of your past selves and this alone is worthy of celebration and appreciation. You’ve made it this far! That is no small feat. 

Each life journey is a huge task. Often one of suffering. Yet you have the courage and vision to return, determined to do better, again and again. It becomes important to keep a clear perspective in that this life is what is most important to our Soul, right now. Everything else, while informative, is support material for the main act, which is always the now.

As I grew older and went out into the 3D world, I tried to fit in as much as possible and the notebook got placed aside and stacked under study books and timetables. I moved overseas multiple times and each time I would have a massive clean out and I am very sad to say that in one of these ‘recycling’ phases the notebook went out as well. I can’t believe I did that! To this day I still mentally scold myself for not keeping that notebook!

I no longer remember all the details of the lives I recorded, nor who all of my wondrous ‘hypnotised victims’ were. Just the essence of the few lives that stood out to me from all those years ago. And the memory of how much fun we all had together.

Yet the imprints of the past still sparkle within our psyches and we can recall, with just a few steps, where and how we have walked this Earth before. No valuable information is ever lost. We travel together, holding it safely, as we move toward our destinies.

Best wishes on your journey. x