Anybody still here? Past life review.

[Steve Snead]

  I did an experiment the other morning while browsing on my Kindle Fire HD7. I pulled up Doctor Brian Weiss and watched and completed about a 30 minute past life regression session on Youtube. It was odd and I can't say I saw a past life. But, I did have a memory (prodded by the video) of a childhood experience. It was a Christmas visit from my grandparents when I was very young. The odd thing? I wept for the little boy (which would be me) as if I were a different being and was watching somebody else. I also had the distinct impression that I was not "guilty" of a past life "sin" and that whatever i have gone through in this life had nothing to do with punishment for past lives (if there is any such thing.) Any comments? Espcially on the feeling of detachment from my own identity with the "Me" of my childhood.

[no one]

Steve, I am a very bad hypnosis subject. I just can't follow the hypnotist's suggestions. I wanted to be hypnotized just to see what it is like, but it never really worked on me. Then one time I had a past life regression hypnotherapist try to take me back. Again, it didn't work, I just couldn't see all of the imagery he was telling me to see. However, I did find myself very relaxed and then, to my shock and amazement, I believe that I experienced the moment I was born. It was really clear - I was crying because it was cold and bright in the hospital room into which I had just emerged. Then, during that same session, I had another clear experience of myself when I must have been around 3 years old (I can tell because I was in a yard of a house that we lived in when I was between 1 and three and half years old). I was just really happy, outside, looking at a big tree in the back yard and the sky beyond it. The old hypnotized me felt joy for the young me. Like I knew it was both me, but some how the two were also separate.

 

That's as much as I know on this topic. Hope it helps sort things out for you.

[Michael Soucy]

Steve,

In my experience this type of feeling can represent what is often called a soul loss. For some reason generally involving stress you have repressed either a memory or more commonly the emotions attached to that memory which is why you feel distanced from your younger self.  When you have dealt with the emotions in a healthy way then that feeling of distance will likely fade. It often involves forgiveness of yourself or others.  

Mike