Do we reincarnate?

I can only answer your question from the knowledge that I have as a professional hypnotherapist. I work a lot with people who wish to enter the hypnotic state to view perceived possible past lives. I always put the process in those terms because the process of regression is subjective; by this I mean that what is contained within your subconscious belongs entirely to you as an individual and the experience of regressing during hypnosis to a possible past life comes entirely from your subconscious mind. In essence you own it, nobody else, so only you can determine for yourself what is contained within you.

At the risk of being shot down in flames IMHO nobody can give you absolute proof that you have lived before or, if you feel that you have, who you were.

However, some of the experiences and information that I have gleaned from clients during regression sessions do yield names, dates, places, addresses, characteristics, events and all manner of information that I record for them so that (if they wish) they can investigate further to establish any factual historic information for themselves to substantiate their experience.

Reincarnation and negative past lives

I have to say that in my experience so far, the majority of people who wish to be regressed do so because they feel that the issues in life MUST have been caused by something very negative in a previous possible existence as they find it very challenging to honestly look at the cause and effect factor in THIS life.

However, I think it is important to understand that by and large the vast majority of people lead extremely good lives (perceived past and present) and therefore to consider that we must have done something bad in a former life suggests that we undermine our sense of worth in this one; which really could be the issue at hand.

Past lives is a fascinating subject as we delve more and more into what our subconscious actually contains about us as an individual - whether that be our suppressed way of handling our negative emotions and experiences or
indeed an actual previous existence.

It is a sensitive issue too and not to be entered into lightly or by untrained hands - that is a word of caution I put only as a professional person who deals with sensitive and highly emotional people on a daily
basis.

IMHO (and I think I have posted similar to this under Windance's questions about Divine Grace) it is THIS life we do not pay enough attention to and that we do not try and understand and get to grips with.

Reincarnation and your present life

The majority of people that I have facilitated past life regressions for bring out emotions and feelings very relevant to their current life events that they have chosen to suppress. Therefore on a psychological level the process is useful for them to look at those feelings safely and to seek the additional support in the here and now that they require.

I hope that this makes some sense and does not put you off exploring the essence of you further as that is not my intention. If you want to try past life regression then all I would say is make sure you go through the process with someone who is qualified and professional who is willing to firstly build a relationship with you to understand your need to explore self further. That way you will gain the best possible positive and safe experience. And don't you deserve that?

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