How long do past life traumas last into next incarnation?

[Kristopher]

Do you have any fears that you would link to a past life memory? I personally dont think I have any, atleast not strong enough for me to have nightmares about them. Maybe in my past life nothing too traumatic happened to me.

A while ago I spoke of one of my friends who has a massive fear of water. He is terrified of swimming pools, the sea, rivers and anything that involves deep water. He has terrible nightmares of being in a submarine that has been hit by some sort of bomb and starts to slowly fill up with water. He says that he has the exact same nightmare about 2 times a month.

If someone carries these kind of fears from one life to another, isit possible for them to carry the same fear into several lives? Maybe if they die by drowning then they might have a fear of water for their next 10+ incarnations if it goes untreated.

 

[Lilmsmaggie]

Interesting topic. I just began reading Roger Woolger's book: "Healing Your Past Lives: Exploring the many lives of the soul." And in answer to your question, according to Woolger, the answer would be yes. It's part of the soul's journey to resolve unfinished business.


There are those, including myself that have irrational fears or fears that cannot be explained, or fears associated with some distant event in the past that we have not been able to recall or associate with our present fear.


I myself suffer from what's known as "Sleep Paralysis." I also have a fear of riding roller-coasters. I cannot explain why but both produce terrible fealings of anxiety and fear. Even when attempting to conquer the fear of roller-coasters by riding one, the fear doesn't go away. By far the fear that my sleep paralysis produces is the most terrifying. I'm hoping that I can find the answer to the later.

 

[dr_what]

A while ago I spoke of one of my friends who has a massive fear of water. He is terrified of swimming pools, the sea, rivers and anything that involves deep water. He has terrible nightmares of being in a submarine that has been hit by some sort of bomb and starts to slowly fill up with water. He says that he has the exact same nightmare about 2 times a month.

that's the same as me (minus the sub), but i havent been able to pinpoint where my fear of deep water of any kind comes from :/ my parents said i hadnt had a run-in with water when i was too young to remember things. i cant stand the sound of ships dying (the metal buckling and the creaking and the silence inside the ship as it's going under water - the movie Titanic gave me nightmares lol). i hate going on boats and ships, too.


other than that, it's roller coasters. not really roller coasters themselves, but going vertical while sitting in something. the feeling of going up to the top of the roller coaster (coming down isnt bad) makes me feel like i'm gonna fall and die. i rode a small wooden coaster (the Raven) to try to conquer my fear and it didnt work. i have no idea where the fear comes from. my father i found out has the same fear for the same reasons.


but i cant pinpoint where either 1 came from.

 

[Kristopher]

I myself suffer from what's known as "Sleep Paralysis." I also have a fear of riding roller-coasters. I cannot explain why but both produce terrible fealings of anxiety and fear. Even when attempting to conquer the fear of roller-coasters by riding one, the fear doesn't go away. By far the fear that my sleep paralysis produces is the most terrifying. I'm hoping that I can find the answer to the later.

I also suffer from sleep paralysis. It is rather common, mostly people in their late teens to early 20's get it. People can get sleep paralysis when they wake up but I tend to get it when I am just about to fall asleep. Sometimes you think you can hear people talking asif they are right beside you and sometimes you can see weird things and people. It takes me a few seconds untill I break out of it.


Sleep paralysis is a result of being over tired. What happens is your mind thinks you are still asleep or have fallen asleep. When we sleep our body shuts down movement so that, for example, if we dream we are running, we wont actually make the motion of running while we are sleeping. It takes the brain a few seconds, although it seems much longer, to notice we are awake. The reason why it causes you to sometimes hallucinate and hear voices/noises is becuase your brain in still in a dream state so it projects the information. Its horrible.

 

[Kristopher]

that's the same as me (minus the sub), but i havent been able to pinpoint where my fear of deep water of any kind comes from :/ my parents said i hadnt had a run-in with water when i was too young to remember things. i cant stand the sound of ships dying (the metal buckling and the creaking and the silence inside the ship as it's going under water - the movie Titanic gave me nightmares lol). i hate going on boats and ships, too.

Could have possibly been the run in you had with water when you were young. We dont need to consciously remember it and im sure anything that happens even from such a young age would be well recorded. Could just as easily be from a past life though. Have you ever had regression?

 

[Kristopher]

In one of my past lives I was a painter who was violent and was often banned from one country to the next because of his behavior (and sometimes his work). This was back in Rome during the late 16th century, when the internet didn't exist. I believed this carried over into my present life. Before I found the root of my problem of being paranoid, I would often jump from one username to the next- trying to hide my real identity on the internet and forums. But now that I have faced my fear I no longer need to run away from people or the internet. It sounds silly but...It was a HUGE step for me in moving forward.

Interesting information, Windows2thesoul. I am glad you resolved the issue. It must be hard for people dealing with similar problems that have no belief in past lives as a possible cause at all.

 

[Lilmsmaggie]

I've suffered from sleep paralysis for as long as I can remember and I'm now 62 y/o. In fact, it happened two nights ago. In my case, it happens after and while I have been asleep for sometime. It really freaks me out when it happens.


When I am awakened during these episodes, I am aware that I am awake - but I can't move or speak. At times I feel as if there is a presence in the room, or I may think I see something.


The urgency I feel to wake myself is very strong.

I also suffer from sleep paralysis. It is rather common, mostly people in their late teens to early 20's get it. People can get sleep paralysis when they wake up but I tend to get it when I am just about to fall asleep. Sometimes you think you can hear people talking asif they are right beside you and sometimes you can see weird things and people. It takes me a few seconds untill I break out of it.
Sleep paralysis is a result of being over tired. What happens is your mind thinks you are still asleep or have fallen asleep. When we sleep our body shuts down movement so that, for example, if we dream we are running, we wont actually make the motion of running while we are sleeping. It takes the brain a few seconds, although it seems much longer, to notice we are awake. The reason why it causes you to sometimes hallucinate and hear voices/noises is becuase your brain in still in a dream state so it projects the information. Its horrible.

 

[Mammatus]

I've been scared to death of heights forever, and what really threw me was the fact that I'm rather a daredevil. But I hate heights.


I recently found out that during WWII, that's how I died. I fell from a machine-gunners nest that was situated in an upper floor of the Reichstag. We were trying to push the Russians back, but they overran us. When I was shot, I fell.


In a sense, I feel somewhat relieved to know where the fear stems from.

 

[MaritaMari]

I think it depends a lot on your own personality as well as the severeness of the trauma. It's been frequently suggested that your this-life-fears are strongly connected to the way you died in past life, but I would disagree on that, because I believe that you don't have to die in a certain way to develop a fear of it. Maybe we got some really traumatic experience, like extremely bad marriage, that would make us fear committing the same error in this life.


I was wondering how much of a trauma can we get in past life if we die instantly? How much of an accident can our soul "remember" and "fear" if it happened in an instant?

 

[Nightrain]

Dr. Brian Weiss has described many cases in his books, which seem to suggest that past life traumas and their accompanying emotional baggage can follow us for indeterminate periods of time, sometimes for millennia. Those same cases also seem to suggest that those fears and traumas don't have to continue following us through repeated incarnations, because the very act of connecting back to those traumas and remembering them -- or owning them -- has what is commonly referred to as a cathartic effect.


It's hard to describe catharsis, except to say that it is like having a "eureka" moment where everything seems to come together all at once. Catharsis used to mean "purification" and was most commonly applied in a religious sense. It is one of those words, which has been adopted by psychologists and adapted to mean something slightly different, but meaningful, nonetheless. The major difference is that in the far-flung past, one had to suffer pain to have catharsis; whereas, now one is able to free themselves from pain and suffering while opening their mind and freeing it from constraint.

 

[Kristopher]

Dr. Brian Weiss has described many cases in his books.

I have just been reading cases like this in "same soul, many bodies" last night. It was interesting how a mans anger problem has been with him for so many years. Another interesting case was a women who had a knee problem in her current life and in many of her past lives. The reason for this was becuase he was a prison officer in one life who used to beat the prisoners legs so they wouldn't excape.


It's amazing how a single act in one life can haunt us for many lives.

 

[Lady2]

How long do past life traumas last into next incarnation?


Kristopher,


I have also read “Same Soul, Many Bodies”; just finished it a few days ago. I couldn’t help but think, how many more lives would they have lived, repeating past mistakes and being controlled by fear, if they hadn’t had those regressions done?


Sounds like what your friend is experiencing is definitely past life related. I know that I have a fear of depending on/trusting people in this life, (though there is no logical reason for it), but have had 2 powerful past life dreams that showed me why.


I believe the results of trauma can last one lifetime, or many, for unfinished business to be ‘finished’. I believe the severity of the trauma factors into how many lives you carry it with you, and if your willing to look at it. As 'mammatus' posted earlier in this topic, “In a sense, I feel somewhat relieved to know where the fear stems from.” In most cases, I think that’s all you need to do, know where it comes from, acknowledge it, and then you can move on…

 

[Kristopher]

In most cases, I think that’s all you need to do, know where it comes from, acknowledge it, and then you can move on…

Well said. I think that's why past life regression helps people when general therapy fails. How can general therapy get to the cause of a problem when it happened in another life?


It's a shame that past life regression is not offered to more people. Day after day people who are oblivious to reincarnation are struggling with their unknown fears while being doped up on anti-depressants by doctors just because they don't know how to cure their "illness".

 

[Nightrain]

It is interesting to note that the very first case, which caused Brian Weiss to investigate Past Life Therapy involved a woman who had a dreadful fear of water. When he began taking her through what he thought was routine regression hypnotherapy thinking that she would go back to some point in her life when this fear began, she started talking about a tidal wave that engulfed her village 4,000 thousand years ago.

 

[I_am_a_dreamer]

Interesting topic. I just began reading Roger Woolger's book: "Healing Your Past Lives: Exploring the many lives of the soul." And in answer to your question, according to Woolger, the answer would be yes. It's part of the soul's journey to resolve unfinished business.
There are those, including myself that have irrational fears or fears that cannot be explained, or fears associated with some distant event in the past that we have not been able to recall or associate with our present fear.


I myself suffer from what's known as "Sleep Paralysis." I also have a fear of riding roller-coasters. I cannot explain why but both produce terrible fealings of anxiety and fear. Even when attempting to conquer the fear of roller-coasters by riding one, the fear doesn't go away. By far the fear that my sleep paralysis produces is the most terrifying. I'm hoping that I can find the answer to the later.

You know, I just have to say that what you've said sounds like an arobatic pilot pushing himself too far into zero gravity, passing out and spiraling to his death.


'Cause I watched something about it, and apparently that happens.

 

[Shiftkitty]

A particular type of height bothers me. I can stand on the edge of a cliff and look out on the grand vista without breaking a sweat. Put me in a building looking out a window and I get wiggy. However, if I place my hand on a part of the building, "grounding myself" as I call it, everything is fine. I climb trees like a monkey (I still do even after all these years), do a bit of rock climbing, walk across narrow raised beams two stories up, all without incident. Ferris Wheels, ski lifts, hot-air balloons, etc., however, will cause me to freeze up and my head to spin. Not sure what it's all about.

 

[Mammatus]

My third biggest fear would have to be disease (my first two revolving around not being remembered, and never accomplishing my dreams).


I know I lived in Norway about the 1200s -1300s, roughly the time of the Black Death. I've always been fascinated by the bubonic plague, but I am just absolutely TERRIFIED of disease. Whenever someone close to me gets a tiny sniffle, I go chicken turkey about it. I literally go bio-war.


So now it makes me wonder if there is a possibility (which is rather high) that I contracted the bubonic plague in that life, or someone around me did. From what I know, I was rather isolated from civilization, so it's a possibility I was just scared to death of the disease itself while never actually catching it.

 

[Totoro]

I had an unnatural fear of dying and of someone coming to get me in the middle of the night when i was a child. I think it went away around 11 or 12, however what took it's place was / is the feeling that I'm in the wrong body. I'm more or less "stuck" with the feeling that im' an interloper in this body and life.

 

[Shiftkitty]

I've actually heard about something like this, where the soul essentially "dies" but the body keeps living for a bit and another soul takes command of the vessel. Memories are accessed from the brain and life goes on as normal. The notion is rooted in a Japanese or Chinese (I think) belief that the soul leaves the body when you sleep and goes wandering, leaving the sleeping form vulnerable to intrusion. I don't put much stock in it, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

 

[Totoro]

I think technically, the experience is called a "walk in". In fact I knew someone that claimed to be living with one or in some sort of "time share" arrangement.


http://www.greatdreams.com/walkin.htm


I think for me though, I had strong ties to my soul group but were separated. In my current life, I've experienced out right rejection from my parents. But yet, I'm still physically similar to my body in my previous life and my son is similar to my past life's brother, which is sort of proof to me (along with other factors) that i've just been born or placed into my current family and don't belong with them as a "member". Maybe our energies just don't match up or something like that at a higher level.


However, in my previous life I had a Caucasian friend that I believe was reincarnated as a young asian girl (even with the same name as my previous one, I was asian as well). She committed suicide at 15, but I think maybe she was there to serve a purpose, as tragic as it may be.


I think in that case, she may have "walked in" or jumped "paths". I'm thinking it's possible, just not common..

 

[Kristopher]

I've actually heard about something like this, where the soul essentially "dies" but the body keeps living for a bit and another soul takes command of the vessel. Memories are accessed from the brain and life goes on as normal. The notion is rooted in a Japanese or Chinese (I think) belief that the soul leaves the body when you sleep and goes wandering, leaving the sleeping form vulnerable to intrusion. I don't put much stock in it, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

I think I remember Newton's subjects saying something about leaving the body while it sleeps. I also remember them saying that the soul leaves the body rather often if the brain has been severely damaged. Even if we do leave the body at times while the body is not dead, I really dont think "walk ins" are possible. I believe it takes time for us to connect with the brain properly before we are born. I don't think that another soul could just take our place. A soul may attach to us, though, to feed off of our energy. I believe this has been known to cause unexplained anxiety, panic attacks, and mental illness in general.

 

[Totoro]

I agree, at some level were integrated with our physical selves and i think that's expressed as certain physical characteristics transferring from one life to the next.


But as I was saying, I wonder if in someones case, that they felt so dedicated to teaching a lesson or serving a higher purpose, as it were, that they would be able to disconnect from what we could consider a normal continuity between selves and soul groups and go where they felt they were needed the most.


I don't see why it wouldn't be possible, but I think it would have to be at a point, as you mentioned, before the body and soul were integrated.