Regressions

All the things we do, learn, and feel from other lives is still with us, just buried in the deep unconscious levels of our mind. But it is possible to pull this information out and spiritually view it in the present. We can use this information to help us see why we are the way we are, what goals may be with us, and what is currently effecting us from the past. Regressing out our past lives is one of the most useful and important tools to discovering who you are, and how to better yourself.

All the events of our lives is imprinted and recorded on what is known as the Akashic Records. The information imprinted on the akasha includes your actions, desires, hopes, dreams, all of your life and your reactions to it. This includes past lives, what they were and what they are destined to be; the present as it is and as it is destined to be. It also includes the probable futures that you have and the destiny purposes for them. The records also contain information regarding the overall evolution of the person.

When a person wishes to regress a past life, they access it through their akashic records. These records are three-dimensional, although they are usually viewed in two dimensions. When viewed in two dimensions, the person only watches the past memories, but when viewed in three dimensions, the person actually puts their soul back into the past body to actually feel that live's emotions and experiance their actions. Viewing the records in three dimensions gives us greater depth to the past, and are usually more useful to discovering what you need to work on in the present in correspondence with the past. It is possible to view any person's akashic records, if you have the ability to do it. Real, true phychics are able to tell us our past, present, and future by being able to open up our individual akashic records and reading the information.

There are many different ways in which people can regress their past lives. This could be by self meditation, self hypnosis, self meditation with another person acting as a leader or guide for the regression, or hypnosis by a hypnotherapist. Although hypnosis can be useful in some cases, it is usually much easier to obtain information and insight from past lives through meditation.

There are different approaches to take when viewing past lives through meditation. Depending on what you want to focus on, using appropriate insense, stones, and candles can help enhance the regression as well as make it easier to access. There are also many different methods used to access past lives, such as using resonance, the gallery of life, or the tree of life. The approach used should be based on what kind of information you want to see as well as what works best for you.

The Resonance Method

This method can be very easy to use for some people, and very hard for others, depending on the person. It usually takes more work and effort than other methods, and information may be more unclear, but when utalized properly, this method can work very well for diving further into the akasha than other methods. Because of the difficultly some have with using this method, it is usually a good idea to have a guide or leader for the regression to help.

When using the resonance method, it is best to be laying on the back comfortably, and then allow your body to go into a relaxing, meditative state. This is achieved by shutting your eyes, allowing your mind to clear and wander, and focusing your energies on your body, making yourself feel heavy and sinking, then light and floating, and then both sensations at the same time. This creates a dual awareness.

The next step is to have the feeling of going backward in time. A visualization such as calendar pages going backward, the sun going in reverse, walking down a long hallway back into time and choosing any door that appeals to you, or imagining going back in time in a time machine. After you have created this visualization, you need to use a focus visualization.

A focus visualization becomes your trigger to resonate with and unlock the memories from the akashic records. When you choose a visualization, image it while you are breathing into it and memory should surface. Some good visualizations are colors, walking down a path, standing by water, holding something, seeing or being on an old ship, sitting, or any emotional quality. When you visualize something and breathe into the visualization, you create a vibration or resonance, which can attract a past life that relates to that vibration. On occasion, it may trigger a future life experiance instead, although it is unlikely.

Be patient and allow memories to naturally flow to you. If it seems like you are only making things up, trust yourself-- think about why you would possibly just "make up" what you are seeing. Although it may seem to be a fantasy, you must trust your subconscious. Putting yourself back into a life will also help you understand that what you are seeing is real, and allow you to get the information you need. Sometimes it takes a lot of practice to be successful, but in time they will start surfacing. It is much harder to try to see the memories if you have the mindset that you will never be successful.

The Gallery of Life Method

For most people, the Gallery of Life Method is much easier than the Resonance Method, and you will probably see information faster and with less experiance when using it.

During this method you can either choose to seated or in a lying position, whichever is more comfortable to you. Allow yourself to relax, and use rhythmic breathing or other excercises to bring your body into a meditative state. Creating a dual awareness such as in the resonance method can also be helpful.

Rather than using resonances to bring forth past life information from the akashic records, in this method you use visualization and imagery, picturing your akashic records as a "place" that you are visiting to obtain information. When entering the records, visualize yourself at the top of a long, golden staircase, spiraling downward into a gentle mist. You are not afraid, and may even feel anticipation about what you will uncover. You begin to descend the staircase, feeling lighter and more relaxed with each step. The lower you descend the staircase, the lighter and softer you begin to feel, and the mist envelopes you, feeling very soothing. Below, you see the bottom of the staircase, as the mist slowly parts. When you touch the ground, you feel completely relaxed and at peace.

You see that you are in the middle of a circular room. It is dark and there may be dark hallways connecting to the room, but you are drawn to a large door in front of you, the only part of the place that seems illuminated. As you step closer, you will see your name engraved into the door. As you push the door open, blue and golden light will stream forth, engulfing you, feeling very envited into this place. As you enter, the door shuts behind you, and the dark room will slowly illuminate.

You will find yourself in a place that appears to be an old storage house for a gallery. There are artifacts, paintings, clothing, books, weapons, carvings, and other items, from every time period. You recognize some periods and artifacts, but others seem alien to you. There are cobwebs and dust on many of them, but you can see that they are all in good condition.

The room is divided into cubicles and sections. Each area seems to reflects a specific time and place in the history of the world, but then you notice the cubicle nearest you contains things you remember from your childhood. This gallery is the gallery of your lives, and everything in this room are remnants of your past. Upon this realization, the gallery darkens, accept for a small area to your left.

There a free standing wall is illuminated, and on it a portrait hangs. The picture is indistinct, but you know that when it shows itself it will be an image of you. This is your gallery, and it is all you need to uncover the rhythms of the past as they play within the present. You can choose to see or not to see, as you desire.

As you examine the portrait, an image takes view. Study the clothes, the face, the gender, and the general feeling of the person-- this was you in a past life. Examine the brass plates at the bottom of the portrait frame to see perhaps details about the life-- name, date, or place may or may not be seen there. Allow yourself to see other figures form behind the main figure in the picture. As they appear, you somehow know who these people are in your present life, and perhaps can see what relation they had to you in the past. Allow yourself to feel the portrait, to feel the traits or goals that this life has given to you.

You may wish to step up to the portrait, to touch it, to push through it and enter your past life. Here you can see pieces of your past, and get a clearer understanding of the information being given to you. Eventually, the scenes will fade, leaving you once again alone in the gallery, which had now lit up. But as you leave, you know that this is your gallery and the door is never shut to you.

The Tree of Life Method

The Tree of Life method is very similar to the gallery of life method, except that it is diving into the Qabala, and ancient form of mysticism that on one level teaches how the universe was formed, but on another level teaches how to access the different levels of our mind so that we can tap into the different energies of the universe. The Tree of Life is the primary image for teaching about the Qabala. It is a diagram dipicting the ten levels of the subconscious mind, and each level has different energies or characteristics associated with it that we must access in order to open the level of the subconscious. By accessing these levels, we can focus on past life exploration in a specific area, such as relationships, career, money, and family. The different levels of the Tree of Life and their corresponding colors and meanings are listed below.

Earth Level - This is where we are in the present. This is where we always start in our meditation. You want to relate and apply everything to yourself in the present. Remember, if what you experience does not help you solve a problem, help you put a situation into a new perspective, help you handle something more productively or provide new understanding, then it is not serving any purpose.

Moon Level - Purple. Activating this level of the subconscious mind and performing the past life meditation can show you why things happen when they do. It can be used to help you find past life origins, if any, for major delays within your life plans. This level can open past life information about any of your emotions-- good, bad, or indifferent. It can also be used to show you the circumstances in which you opened up your intuition in the past.

Mercury Level - Orange. If you activate this level of the subconscious and perform past life meditation, it can reveal connections to education, such as links between you and your teachers or between you and your students. Any issues involving education, truth, communication adn the sciences can be illuminated through this level of the subconscious. If someone in your life has difficulty being truthful to you, this is the level that can reveal any past life relations to this issue. If you have difficulty with the truth yourself, this is again the level. Difficulty speaking or hearing when others speak may be explained through past life exploration at this level.

Venus Level - Green. This is the level of the subconscious you should activate if you wish to reveal past life patterns and connections in your relationships, especially romantic ones. Issues concerning sexuality adn relating to others may reveal their origins in past lives more easily through this particular level. This is the level to use to discover past life sources for the development of creative and artistic energies and abilities. In cases of child prodigies, this level can help you discover the past life experiances which helped manifest this way in the present.

Sun Level - Yellow. This is the level to activate in past life exploration for anything dealing with health and personal well being. Issues surrounding religion may originate in the past and can more easily be revealed through this level of the subconscious. This level can reveal whether insecurity, jealousy or pride originated in past lives. Idealism, strong compassion and the ability to heal, on the other hand, are often the result of past life endeavors. Again, this level can provide illumination on that development.

Mars/Pluto Level - Red. Performing a past life exploration at thsi level of the subconscious can reveal past life links to destructive issues and relationships. Cruelty and strength of will (battles of will) can have origins in past lives, as can critical judgment and a strong sense of discrimination. Protectiveness of those around you may have its source in the past as well. This level can provide insight into the origins of enemies within your life, discord and what you have chosen to overcome in the present life. This is the level to use to discover if hyperactivity and other imbalanced energy expressions will reveal their origins in past lives. Use this level to discover how you have slain your dragons in the past. Lessons in transitions, the tearing down of the old and so on may have their origins in the past as well.

Jupiter Level - Blue. This is the level of the subconscious mind that we should activate to discover past life sources for issues of abundance and money. This level can provide understanding of the justice (or lack of it) within your life. It can be used to reveal the paths you have taken in your past spiritual quests. This is the level that can reveal the higher aspects of mercy and peace that you have developed in the past and how they are affecting you in the present. Problems with hypocrisy, dogmatism, smugness and self-righteousness can also have their origins in the past. Past life meditation at this level will reveal if this is so. It can also reveal the origins of our sense of commitment and idealism.

Saturn Level - Black. Activating this level of the subconscious and performing past life meditation will help you in seeing those sorrows, burdens and sacrifices which you have brought with you from the past. You should connect with this level to understand your relationship with your mother, or a relationship of parent to child in the past. If you are a mother or father to be, it is the level that can reveal your past life connections to the incoming soul. Past life family connections adn relationships can be revealed here in general. If it is a particular issue, such as always fighting with a brother or sister, you may wish to explore the past life associations through the Mars Level. Individuals who may be deaf and/or dumb can find the past life connections, if any, through this level of the subconscious. This is the level to use to understand past life sources of fears, known and unknown. It is also a level at which you can learn how you have developed higher forms of intuition in the past. This is the level to use to discover lessons associated with birth and death that have been brought over from the past. In Qabalistic teachings, it is said that this level is the true entrace into the akashic records of an individual.

Neptune Level - Grey. This is the level of the subconscious that you can use to understand your past ties to your father. Fathers can use this effectively to unfold ties to their children. This level can reveal past life abilities that have been hidden from you and which you can reawaken in your present life. Any new endeavor that has a source in a past life can be revealed through this level. Superstition, fear of the future or being "spaced out" may also have its source in the past; the Neptune Level can reveal it. Any past lives and existances that have occured on other planets may reveal themselves here. Interests in astronomy and astrology may have their origins in the past as well. If so, this level of the subconscious will reveal it.

Uranus Level - White. This is a level of the subconscious that we can use to reveal past life sources of creativity that we can easily reawaken. It is a level at which we can open ourselves to information about our personal spiritual issues. Feelings of being misunderstood or never feeling as if we belong anywhere can have past life sources which can be uncovered through this level of the subconscious. If issues of self-denial, very deep negative self-images and problems with facing reality have their origins in the past, this is a level that can reveal them. There are ways of using this level of the subconscious to open vision to the next birth-- for revelations of future life progressions.

Starting the meditation is similar to the gallery of life method. Make sure that you study the color and planetary symbol for the level you wish to access ahead of time, and light a candle in the corresponding color. This will help create the energies your aura needs to reach the desired level. Then either sit or lay, as mentioned before, and relax using rhythmic breathing or other techniques to bring yourself into a meditative state. Again, creating a dual awareness with yourself by "sinking" and "floating" at the same time will help.

Again visualization is the key used to opening the different levels of the Tree of Life. Picture yourself in a beautiful meadow, fresh and green, where wildflowers are growing everywhere. In the center of this meadow is a giant oak tree. It is ancient and gnarled, and its massive branches extend upward past the clouds and into the heavens. You can see that its roots must extend very deep into the earth.

As you step closer, you notice that there is a small door etched into the base of the tree. Carved into the bark of the door is the symbol for Earth, a circle with a cross inside it. Below that, you see your name carved into the bark as well. You realize that this is your Tree of Life and contains the roots of your past and the buds of your future.

The door swings open invitingly, and as you step through, you find yourself in a small, dim chamber. It is warm and peaceful, and the floors and walls are splashed in different colors. As you step in further, you notice a golden staircase leading downward into a misty fog, like that in the previous meditation. Follow them down as you did when going to your gallery of life.

At the bottom you find yourself in another circular room, with that same massive door in the back, but it is painted in the color of the level of the subconscious that you wish to activate. Your name is still engraved there, but the symbol has changed to the astrological symbol of the level you have chosen. The door spills open with that same blue and gold light, healing you, blessing you, and drawing you in. As you cross the threshold, you are again in your gallery of life, but everything in the room is the appropriete color-- artifacts, remnants, sculptures, walls, floors, and anything else in the room.

You move to the wall in which your original portrait hung. As you do, you notice that there are now two life-size portrait frames, rather than one. In the center of each canvas is a large astrological symbol of the level, in the same color as that level. Encircling the portraits are rings of the astrological symbol. As you focus on the right-hand portrait, the symbol fades, and there now forms a present day image of you and the person to whom you wish to uncover your past connection. If it is not a person but rather an issue, visualize a scene within the right-hand portrait that depicts the issue in some way.

Now turn your focus to the left-hand portrait. Allow the symbol in the center to fade, and as it does, allow a new scene to appear. At this point follow the same procedure you did in the previous meditation. Look for the brass plates, feel the engravings, allow the image to crystalize. Ask yourself questions and trust your impressions. Allow the scene to change and show other aspects of that lifetime if it chooses to do so. As they show themselves to you, occasionally glance back at the other portrait to see how these lives are presently effecting you. Try going into the left portrait, and understanding and feeling that life on a deeper level.

When you are finished, step back from the portraits and allow them to fade back into the astrological symbols. Step out of the gallery, embracing the golden and blue light, and leave your Tree of Life, all the while feeling very welcome to return.

Dowsing Your Past Lives

Although dowsing your past lives is much different than regressing them, it can be helpful after a regression that leaves you confused or before a regression to help you know where to focus.

Dowsing is the act of using either dowsing rods or a pendant of some sort to answer yes and no questions. By placing the rods or pendulum over different areas of an atlas or timeline and asking if a life was lived there, we can discover more about the years and locations of our lives, which are sometimes hard to see through regressions. You can then go on to ask other yes and no questions about the life to determine the information you need. Dowsing can also work to ask other kinds of questions, not relating to past lives, that can help give us insight or predict the future.

When dowsing with a pendulum, make sure you choose a pendant or other type of pendulum that is symmetrical and has balanced weight. The pendulum must be hung free between your thumb and fore-finger at the top of the string, allowing it to sway. Program the pendulum to sway a certain direction for a yes answer, and a different direction for a no answer. Perhaps if it swings vertically, up and down, it means yes, and if it swings horizontally, back and forth, it means no. Take a little time just holding the pendant, and focus in your mind each way you want it to sway for each answer. Ask it what direction is yes and what direction is no, to make sure that it is correctly programmed. If correctly programmed, it will start swaying without you moving it in the correct direction.

After the pendulum has been programmed, you can ask it any yes or no question. Sometimes it will answer right away, other times it will sway uncertainly a little while before answering. Just keep repeating the question deep and seriously in your mind until it answers. If it doesn't answer after repeating the question for a few minutes, then it probably doesn't honestly know the answer (at least at this time). Dowsing is usually always very accurate; the reason why is because our subconscious mind knows the answers, and through kenetic energy through our body and fingers, is turning the pendulum to reveal to us this hidden information.

Sources:

Andrews, Ted. How to Uncover Your Past Lives. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1992.

Paulson, Genevieve Lewis and Stephen J. Reincarnation: Remember Past Lives. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1997.

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