Can The Soul "Heal" From Past Life Trauma & Fear?

[deborah]

First thoughts --

What you are holding in consciousness at the time of your death, you yourself create in the next life. This is not a last minute evaluation but a life time one. Even though we might review our lives after death with a clear picture..I think that when we are again here on earth..matter and the density of our reality affects us. Consciousness creates, but I also think memory 'acts' as a creator.

Let me explain--------

The Tibetan Book of the Dead concerns itself with the possibility of dying consciously. These ancient Buddhist masters observed that there is a heightened intensity of consciousness when a soul moves from life to death and visa versa. By preparing the soul during life, to avoid and or heal negative thoughts, they were able at death, to not be pulled into a repetitive negative life cycle.

The ancients KNEW this. In the seminal text called the Dhammapada, which means ‘The Way of Truth,’ the power of our thoughts is clearly stated:

“All that we are is a result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”

India's ancient Buddhist text, the Bhagavad-gita it states :“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.”

The Egyptian, the Sumerians, the Chaldeans all KNEW this.

Moving on over to memory...It is interesting to note that Edgar Cayce’s interpretations of karma suggests that karma is not destiny; it is only memory. A memory of consequence. Cayce suggests that we are born with memories, but they are usually unconscious. He felt that they do influence our abilities, our faults and even our relationships with others. It is up to us and our free will, to ‘create’ in our next life what will be positive experiences or a negative experiences. In other words, we need to ‘harness consciousness.’

When a soul has a memory of death or a life time that is traumatic.. the energy, the vibrations, the conscious thoughts are what is REAL. The body (ethereal and physical) remembers. There are many documented cases - where bringing it to consciousness.... heals.

 

[deborah]

Healing past life phobias, fears, obsessions and traumas - Posted by Bob -

Quite a few people have asked about how they can recognize, understand and heal past life phobias, fears, obsessions, attachments and traumas. So, I would like to share some of what I have learned in healing my own past life traumas and helping many clients to do the same. For the purpose of brevity, I will primarily use the word "fear" in this article, but you may substitute any of the other words (phobia, obsession, attachment, trauma) because I have found that certain principle of healing work in virtually all situations.
#1- You can do it!


It is possible to heal any of the issues that people have presented here. So, the first step on this journey of healing is to believe that it is possible to be free of your phobia, fear, obsession, attachment or trauma. I have been part of dozens of past life healing on a very wide array of issues, so I speak from experience, not from wishful thinking.


#2- Your fear has not been with you forever.


Generally when someone first confronts a fear with unknown origin they feel confused or hopeless. Sometimes there is the feeling "I've had this problem forever." One of the keys to healing a past life fear is remembering that you are an eternal soul. Therefore, you are older than your fear, and there was a time when you didn't have this fear.


#3 You are bigger than your fear.


Just as you may feel that this fear has been with you forever, you probably also feel overwhelmed by the size of this issue. Fears have a way of making us feel small. But the truth of the matter is that our souls are infinite and are connected with the source of the universe. The energy that created the universe (whatever you may chose to call this energy) is within each and every one of us. Once we begin to remember this, then we begin to rediscover our capacity for facing any fear.


#4 You can use your awareness to discover the origin of any fear and to see it for what it truly is (instead of for what you imagine it to be).


Awareness is a soul quality, and has no limitations. So no matter how big and old your fear may appear, your awareness is both older and vaster. It is well known that the first step in healing just about any issue and solving just about problem is to fully recognize the issue.


The key word in that last sentence is "fully." Many people start to recognize a fear, but don't use their awareness to fully get to know their fear. It can take a lot of time and perseverance to get to know a fear fully and to get to its origins, but once you reach that point, healing accelerates.


#5- You don't have to face your fears alone.


I have found that guidance, love, support and healing are always available to us. Whenever we feel most overwhelmed and confused is when we need to call on our higher self, spirit guides, masters, God/Goddess. It doesn't really make much difference who we call on. The key is to call on help with an open and receptive heart, remembering that we are never alone. Sometimes, we have to dive deep within to find our strongest place of trust and faith in this guidance. But once we know that place, we will be able to call on it in any time of need.


#6- Ultimately all fears dissolve when embraced by a truly compassionate heart. I have learned over and over again that a compassionate heart is the ultimate healer. Time and time again I have been faced with ancient and seemingly intractable fears. Yet, every time I radiate love from my own heart of compassion, I find that the fear responds and the healing process progresses.


So, ultimately I believe that the key to healing any past life fear is self-love. No matter who you are and what you are afraid of or obsessed with, you are deserving of love. Once you can approach the part of you that is so fearful you have begun your healing journey. As you progress in your healing, you will recognize the fearful part of you, acknowledge the fearful part of you, become more aware of the fearful part of you and its needs, embrace the fearful part of you, and love the fearful part of you. By the time you have embraced and loved the fearful part of you, you will have learned a great deal about yourself and rediscovered much of your inner beauty, power and wisdom.


Blessings on your journey,


Bob

 

[deborah]

Dr Woolger suggests......

Re-live It
The way out for shell-shock victims is just what Woolger prescribes: they are helped to safely relive the memories and integrate the mind-shock and the physical pain into their consciousness.


Understanding what is really going on in past life therapy may not be that important -- it's the results that count, and it does not matter whether the stories are "true", or whether they can be historically confirmed or not, says Woolger. After all, most of us make mistakes and miss things out when we try to remember events of this life, but our friends and relatives don't think we're imagining things just because we get a date wrong here, a name wrong there.


"You don't have to interpret," he says, "and you don't have to believe in reincarnation. Just accept that the unconscious mind will always come up with a story when healing is required. The important thing is the release of what he calls "locked-up energies".


"From nearly a decade of taking clients and colleagues through past life experiences and continuing my own personal explorations, I have come to regard this technique as one of the most concentrated and powerful tools available to psychotherapy short of psychedelic drugs," says Woolger.

 

[Kelly]

Fears and Phobias

Fears can indeed be past life related, but...not all fears have to do with past life trauma. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. And, the only way to get through fear is to face it head on.
I also used to have a tremendous fear of both water and needles. I was 30 when I took swimming lessons, and learning to have the control in the water helped me to get rid of my fear of drowing (thus, my real fear was not of water but of drowning). I got rid of my fear of needles by simply breathing deeply when a medical or dental situation arose where needles were needed. I started off telling medical personnel I was afraid of needles, then they would be very gentle. Now, a needle is a needle is a needle...


If you believe the fears are past life related you might journal and meditate on those fears...and even use some visualization. In order to get over my fears, I did not need to figure out the origin. And, even if a fear comes from a past life, it somehow relates to what is happening in your life now- thus it needs to be dealt with in the here and now.


Posted by Susie

I agree with Susie 100%, phobias and fears are sometimes related to past life experiences and traumas, but they can also be linked to our present persona and that’s where we have to start the search first – in my personal opinion.
Most fears and phobias can all be bought back to the same thing – a fear of not having control of a situation or aspect of self…the phobia then becomes a product of that fear, as we concentrate and focus all our energy on that one thing (or on many things in some cases).


I for example, have a totally irrational phobia of spiders, common fear I know, but it causes me to act very irrationally (believe me…LOL). If I dig far enough back into my life, I remember in my infant school (about the age of four or five years old), one boy used to chase me and all the other girls around the playground, with a spider. It was a game…silly game now I think of it, but all the same…it wasn’t anything malicious. At the time, I wasn’t actually afraid of spiders…but I guess the group dynamics and frenzied running away in circles round the playground screaming, made me then connect this “fear”, or loss of control to spiders…as it was the spider that was the focal point of the whole “game”. And the boy meant no harm, it was all kids play, not bullying, but psychologically it obviously stuck with me, as I must have felt unable to control the act.


Other fears we have in life can sometimes be put down to our parents – and generally our mothers, as at the fetal stage and our early beginnings in life, we are very bonded to our mothers energy, emotions, feelings and thoughts…so any fear that she is transmitting very fiercely, can possibly be communicated to the child also, unbeknownst to either party at the time.


If however, you cannot find a rational reason for these fears in your present life, then it wouldn’t harm one to look into the possibilities of these fears coming from past lives. I would try meditating or setting dream targets around the target fear or even the different fears one at a time…do not alternate, try focusing on one at a time and continue with it for a while, so that your wires of communication do not become crossed or confused.


Posted by Kelly

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