The Secret of Life Wellness: The Essential Guide to Life's Big Questions (26 page)

of the earth, the faster amazing experiences and loving people will come into your life.

Although this process is soft and can appear feminine, I encourage everyone to

practice it.

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How You Can Discover and

Heal Past Lives

What is your view of past lives and how they affect us?

Can you give some examples of how understanding past lives can be helpful?

Through my years of exploring, experiencing, and researching health, wellness, spir-

ituality, and metaphysics, I have understood that we are complex, spiritual beings

who have many different incarnations and experiences. Since the world is going

through a great awakening, more and more people are discovering the benefits of learn-

ing from their past lives and hastening their evolution. They feel that it is not necessary

to repeat the same mistakes over and over, if there is an opportunity to do things in an

easier way, through healing, forgiving, and learning from the past.

Learning Lessons from Our Past Lives

Each life, a soul experiences leaves its marks, impressions, and karmic patterns, which

need to be resolved. Thus, it is common to have repeated themes occur in several life-

times until the soul feels that it has satisfactorily understood the lesson.

The physical world is a place of great contrast, which allows a soul the opportunity

to grow and evolve. If a soul did not manage to learn, heal, experience, or fulfill his

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intention in one life, then he might desire or be encouraged by its guides to return and

try again.

When a soul chooses to enter a new life, it usually does so with the understanding,

enthusiasm, and anticipation of what will be experienced. The soul knows that this is

an opportunity to expand, learn, develop, and make new choices. It brings invisible

records known as the Akashic Records of all the relevant past experiences it needs to

work on. These records are stored in the soul’s chakras and vibrational field, and set up

powerful patterns, which attract the people and experiences it intends to encounter.

These experiences are not necessarily hard or challenging, in fact they could be

extraordinary, awakening, loving, and deeply uplifting. The Akashic Records also hold

all the gifts, abilities, and talents a soul has acquired from previous incarnations.

A soul who has had many experiences of being a follower may decide to rise up,

become a leader, and go through the steps of transforming past beliefs and limitations

to do so. Sometimes this will be done with a conscious awareness of the existence of

past lives; at other times, it will occur naturally without the need to revisit and learn

from the past.

I have discovered that once a person understands where their patterns, pain, or a

difficult experience is coming from and lets it go on the vibrational, emotional, and

mental levels, their physical reality changes dramatically. They may experience an

amazing physical healing, release an emotional pattern that has haunted them for years,

improve a difficult relationship, feel lighter and more empowered, decide to pursue

their dreams, and feel more at ease with life.

I have witnessed and experienced many past life regressions. Some of those experiences

gave important clues to the lessons that needed to be learned and made a huge difference in

my life and other people’s lives. Most past life regressions transform participants’ points of

view and result in people becoming wiser, more loving, and forgiving. Some past lives may

give you insights into what it is like to have beautiful, peaceful, intuitive relationships; others

may demonstrate the pain of loss, betrayal, separation, and heartbreak.

In my own experiences, I saw lives where I took charge, became a leader, and made

both excellent and poor decisions that cost me and people close to me our lives. The

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discovery has been fascinating and has made me understand my talents, abilities, and

weaknesses in a deeper and more profound way.

This exploration has also made me appreciate several of my family members

and see them from a new point of view as we often return with souls we feel a connec-

tion with.

Helen’s Story: A Mother and Son Reconnected

Helen was at her wits end when she came to me for help. She was having

difficulty connecting with Andrew, her three-year-old, who constantly threw

tantrums, shouted, screamed, and kicked her.

I discovered that Helen went through a tough time before her preg-

nancy and did not want a second child. When I tuned in to Helen’s energy,

I saw a cord attached from her womb to Andrew. The cord was dark and

full of negative beliefs, such as Helen not wanting her son. To Andrew,

those beliefs felt poisonous, and he rebelled against them by throwing

tantrums. I was shown that Helen needed to make a decision, whether

she did or did not want him. When Helen heard this, she began to cry

uncontrollably.

I was also shown that in another life, Helen and Andrew were a couple,

and Andrew had been dragged away to the war and killed. Helen was heart-

broken. In this life, she felt fearful of loving Andrew because she could not

handle the idea of being separated from him. I helped Helen clear the cord

between her and Andrew, worked on her energy centers, and brought back

soul fragments of love and trust.

Helen shared with me that after the healing session, Andrew woke,

called her to him, kissed her all over her face, and said “Mummy, I love you.”

She told me that whenever she looks at him, she melts. It seemed like their

relationship transformed overnight.

Sometimes, seeing a particular past life can help you change your per-

spectives about important events and heal close relationships.

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Taking Responsibility for Our Past and Future Lives

Our karmic patterns can often determine what kind of lessons we have come to learn

and whether we experience our lives through ease or hardship. The law of karma

requires that everything comes a full cycle, thus any good or harm we have done will

return to us. This is the universal law of cause and effect. Exploring past lives can help

people take responsibility in the present and give them the impetus to work on a par-

ticular challenge. If a person knows that they cannot avoid or run away from a problem,

even through dying, their motivation to resolve it increases.

Recently, I spoke with some people about the importance of looking after our envi-

ronment. After listening to them, I realized that although some were concerned about

the state of the planet because of their children, many only cared about how things

were going to work for the next thirty to fifty years, meaning until the end of their lives.

None seemed to consider the idea that they might return here, and that it would be

worth looking after the planet so that they had something positive to return to. When I

mentioned this factor, a new discussion arose about taking responsibility for our future.

Sebastian’s Story: Amazing Physical Healing

I met Sebastian when he was thirteen years old. Lisa, Sebastian’s mother, saw

me on television and called me to book a healing session, feeling like there

was new hope for her son after years of searching for a cure for his juvenile

arthritis. The disease had affected his right knee and foot, which were both

extremely swollen. He was in a lot of pain and at times needed crutches.

Sebastian was young and positive so it did not seem that his problem

came from negative beliefs or feelings that he was harboring in this life. He

was experiencing typical younger-brother syndrome with his older brother

but otherwise was quite confident and sure of himself.

I taught Sebastian several processes to release pain from his legs and to

improve his relationship with his brother. Within a short time, Sebastian was

free of pain and crutches. However, the swelling did not seem to budge.

Then Sebastian came to a workshop where I taught about past lives. After

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experiencing a past life regression, Sebastian, usually casual and calm,

became extremely emotional while holding his swollen knee.

After Sebastian calmed down, he shared his experience. He saw himself

with his mother in a past life, although in that life, his mother was his older

sister. He had a vision of them swimming together in the ocean without

noticing a shark nearby. Sebastian cried out when he realized that the shark

had attacked him and bit off his right leg, just above his knee. His sister,

blaming herself, was so distraught that she vowed to look after him forever.

Due to this trauma, Sebastian has since brought his arthritis into each life. In

this life, he and his mother came together as an opportunity to transcend

and heal the past and to support each other to realize their dreams.

I asked both Sebastian and Lisa to do a forgiveness process and to give

each other permission to live their dreams. Sebastian’s dream was to

become a professional golfer, and Lisa’s was to become more healthy and

happy, relocate, travel, and bring more creativity into her life.

Interestingly, within a few weeks of past life healing, Sebastian’s swelling

completely disappeared. He began taking his golf practice seriously and has

won many trophies since. Lisa began to focus on herself, has become more

confident, started travelling, has manifested a new home, and is exploring

her other dreams.

Pascal and Angelica’s Story: Reclaiming Intuitive Abilities

Another incredible experience occurred when I was teaching workshop in

Europe. Pascal and Angelica, two of the participants in the workshop,

seemed extremely uncomfortable with each other. They constantly niggled

and teased one another, to a point that I had to intervene and separate them.

Both complained about their difficulty in tuning in and seeing things. So

it blew me and all the participants away when, after I’d guided everyone

through a past life regression process, Pascal and Angelica shared almost

identical accounts of being together in a previous life.

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They had been lovers and Angelica was gifted with intuitive abilities.

She would just know things about the people she met and received mes-

sages and predictions about their future. Pascal was an explorer, who

would sail the seas and discover new territories. Before his last journey,

Angelica felt that there could be danger to Pascal’s life. Although she

usually shared her premonitions, she refused to believe that something

could happen to the man she was due to marry and decided to ignore her

intuition.

Pascal was completely in love with Angelica and felt that she was the

woman of his life. When Pascal left on his trip, he came across some danger

where he almost died and was lost at sea for a long time. Angelica was

informed that he had died and blamed herself harshly. In her distraught

state, she disconnected from her intuitive abilities and had no idea that Pas-

cal was still alive and searching for her. She married another man and when

Pascal found her, he felt completely betrayed and brokenhearted. He vowed

never to allow himself to trust another woman or to be with a woman he

loved, because it hurt so much to see her with another man.

Incredibly both Pascal and Angelica cried, while retelling this story.

Even more astonishing they knew each other’s names and told their stories

from their unique points of view.

In her present life, Angelica had deeply desired to tap in to her intuitive

abilities, with no success. Deep down, she felt that she was undeserving of

a great relationship with a man. Pascal always picked women he did not

love for fear of being betrayed and left.

I led Angelica and Pascal through a process of deep forgiveness and

healing. Initially, Angelica was so emotional that she could not speak, so I

asked her to communicate to Pascal with her soul. Pascal looked Angelica

deep into her eyes and saw the profound pain and shame she was carrying.