The last regression in the book, to retrieve past-life skills and create a future you desire, is not intended to be spiritually therapeutic as are the others. It engages your co-creative abilities to manifest the life of your dreams. This script and the happy past-life script can be adapted to revisit any of your past-lives you choose to explore.
Energy Work
In some of the reports of the regressions, you will read how energy was released, transformed, or sent into the Light, sometimes to be returned to the person after purification. This type of energy work is typically not part of a past-life regression, but it is part of my methodology so I use it for the person’s benefit. Although it is referred to, I have not included ways in which you can incorporate energy work as it is not the focus of this book and would be difficult for you to do on your own without training.
Creating Your Safe Place
Before you try these regressions for yourself, it is important for you to find a quiet place in which to work and create a safe place in your mind. This will provide you with a sanctuary, so to speak, into which you can retreat if you feel the need to remove yourself from a regression experience. Although you are encouraged to view your prior lives as an impartial observer, there may be times when you are reliving the experience. If it feels uncomfortable for any reason, you can visit your safe place or even open your eyes until you are ready to continue.
The safe place you select might be somewhere you have been before that you love and feel comfortable in—a place where you always wanted to be or somewhere that your imaginative mind creates just for you. Wherever that place is, you must feel totally safe and protected there. Be sure to add details to make this a beautiful and comfortable place. Invite the participation of all your senses so that it becomes alive for you.
Higher Self
Your Higher Self is going to be your guide on your journeys through former incarnations. It will also be assisting you for your highest good. Your Higher Self is that part of you that has always been aware of its, and your, connection to the Divine. It knows you on a soul level and sees you as the true, pure being you are. Edgar Cayce told us that it is the aspect of us that is an individuation of God’s energy. It is the voice of God within, so look to it for help and assistance, not only in your regressions, but anytime you have need. If you ask, it will always be there. It may appear to you in a human-type body, an energy body, or as a feeling or scent. Even if you are not able to discern its presence with any of your senses, it is always there. It is part of you.
Recording the Sessions
If you want to experience any of these regressions yourself, you can read the script, make any adjustments you desire (including changing the word “you” to “I”), set the intention, enter into a meditative state, and lead yourself through it. You might find that playing soothing or spiritual music may be helpful for you to reach the state of consciousness necessary to access the past.
You may, however, decide to record it for yourself and play it while you go back in time. There are many different types of technologies you can use. Among these are tape recorders, digital recorders, and other types of recorders you can use. You can even record it and play it back on your computer. Since digital recorders are very sensitive, you might want to add an inexpensive software editing program so that you can take out the hissing and scratching noises. One word of warning: do not listen to your recording while you are driving. You might just find yourself transported from the highway to a pasture where you are herding cows!
May Spirit guide you in your adventures!
Nancy Eubel
Chapter 1
A Guidebook for Life
Remembering past-lives is a slice of the topic of reincarnation, a slice of the potential. In the life readings Edgar Cayce gave, he told people of some of their past-lives as a guidebook for this life. They were advised as to whether they had gained or lost in their soul development in those lives and what their weaknesses and their strengths were so that they might use this information for their benefit on their journey home to Source.
Visiting a past-life is like opening a portal in time and space. As P.M.H. Atwater, a near-death researcher, wrote, “A human being not in proper balance physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually will subconsciously set up a vibrational ‘signal’ which will attract to him or her the very diseases, accidents, or incidents necessary for that individual’s redirection, rebirth, or death.”1 Through a past-life regression the original cause of a particular recurring pattern or problem, the source of this “signal,” is suddenly viewed or relived in context. What we may be experiencing currently as a constant pain in the neck may have resulted from a stab wound by a former enemy; eye deterioration may happen as an awakening of our pattern of having previously refused to see a wrong, or the quivering of our hands may come from a life in which we were disdainful or fearful of getting our hands dirty and manipulated others to do it for us. What value does this knowledge have? Sometimes just revisiting the cause unleashes the energy that has been locked in this former time and change occurs. In other cases spiritual therapy must also happen. Perhaps forgiveness of all those involved, including ourselves, is required. Our very way of being and doing in the world may need to be changed so that we are more expansive and loving, more mindful of the interconnectedness of all beings. Whatever it is that we need do, spiritual assistance is always available if we ask for it.
Are these memories of having lived in former times real? This is an answer you must come to on your own. My purpose is not to try to convince you of the validity of either reincarnation or information acquired through past-life regression or mindwalking journeying. The goal here is to provide you with a catalyst for change by first remembering who you truly are—a spiritual being expressing itself through adventures in and out of matter—and then by affording you the opportunity to make course corrections necessary in your evolutionary process. I would, however, add this to the discussion of the question of whether or not reincarnation is real: in regressing a few of my clients it was quite clear to them and to me that the details of prior incarnations contained information they did not have prior knowledge of. Some even began speaking in foreign languages that they did not know. For others, it seemed as if the subconscious had used this venue to express itself in a way that it could be heard through symbols rather than through actual past-life memories, similar to the messages in dreams. As a hypnotherapist and past-life regressionist it is not my place to judge. What is relevant is the value that can come from this type of exploration. My focus, and the focus of this book, is to provide a vehicle to assist you in creating your future in a way that aids you not