Reincarnation: Some pointers to know a real past life memory

More and more people state that they do believe in reincarnation and that they feel strongly they have lived on this planet before. It has become more and more accepted part of normal people’s belief systems, regardless of their upbringing and official religion. It can also be the starting point to a person’s spiritual journey, trying to recall past lives. How to do it? How do you know if you are imagining it or if it is real?

I see myself on the side of a mountain, in a male body, following another native American man, my friend who is now a woman like me. For a long time, I thought this was a real past life memory, but come to think of it, it can’t be. Anyone care to say why not?

I see myself in the third person, in fact, from an eagle’s point of view.

Secondly, what makes it unlikely to be a real memory of reincarnation – although not impossible – is that I am a woman in this life time and in the vision I am a man. We tend not to change much between lifetimes, although it is possible to. I theorize that young souls may “shop around” more than old souls who are very set in their ways and likes and dislikes.

Studying reincarnation is hardly exact science, but here are some considerations:

It is the most important factor to realize about past lives, that they are remembered the same way you remember your current life; from 1st person perspective and a lot of your memories consists on knowing what happened rather than watching it like it was a film. Most past life memories are a gut-feeling, knowledge of who you were and what happened rather than a viewing of a movie. Also, many memories return as recollections of short episodes that occurred, similarly to how you would remember important moments of your current life events. Flashbacks are also common; just a second or two of something that doesn’t belong into this lifetime, instantly blocked away by your scared “editor” consciousness, as if your mind was telling you to “not go there”.

If you think about it, if I asked you to tell me what you were doing 3 months from now, or how you remember your life from your birth to this day, you would probably be able to visually remember a few things here and there, a flash of a corner of a table that you banged your head on at the age of 4, but you wouldn’t remember your mother picking you up necessarily, only the approaching table corner as you lost your balance. You might know that your mother ran to the rescue, but you might not remember her picking you up at all. Does that mean that this is not a real memory or that reincarnation is not real? Of course not.

Past life memories are the same way. In addition, your current brain has not made a connection to them before you’ve started trying to remember. The connection and tendency to recall past lives has to be re-established and the brain needs to be “primed” for it. The memories are there, and there is not much a difference between the way you remember your current life or the past, only that the past  lives are disjointed and you may not know what piece goes with what life time or how the events unfolded for you.

For instance, it’ll be quite a task for me to piece together this life time of mine, because I have tried my hand in so many different areas in life, 300 years from now I might be wondering how did I manage to go from a dress maker to a spiritual teacher and what are these swimming children doing here, anyway? When you try and connect to the life time memories, don’t worry if they do not seem to make sense, just see what you get and piece them together later on. Make notes. Create timelines, and keep in mind which memories to you feel are TRUE and which are sort of iffy, less likely to be real but imagined.

Also what also makes reincarnation confusing is that we make plans for the future in much the same mind-space as we remember the past. With your True Emotion Mirrors with you, you can “meet” in a non-physical space and have a  memory of something that didn’t happen. I personally have such wonderful memories of events that never took place, and to tell the difference between them and reality is going to be difficult to say the least.

When famous past lives are in question, one of the best indicators is the people you have lived with. In many ways, the life of Evita Peron resembles the life spans I have lived, but in addition to not remembering her life, I don’t think I would have married Juan Peron myself. She loved him, I feel nothing but slight nausea looking at the guy’s photo. (Yes, I had to think twice whether she was me.) And yet, her standing on the balcony greeting the Argentinians – my first reaction was: “That will be me.” The people she was with – no recollection. All my other past life memories are filled with the same men, apart from my loner-lives when I was avoiding everyone due to being emotionally so imbalanced that I couldn’t handle company. Also, it is good to know that the same people tend to reincarnate into famous life spans, simply because it takes a certain type to seek and accept fame and attention, and some people tend to rise into fame with a strong certainty because being unknown doesn’t really suit them.

Also regarding famous incarnations there is another benefit to remembering non-famous life spans, and that is that the lives are so well documented. Birth dates should align quite painlessly from life time to life time, reincarnation should work linearly – and there is no reason to think there is a 100-year cap between each lifetime as some sources state. However, there is one kink that bothers me a great deal, and there is a possible explanation to it that I personally don’t like; the possibility of concurrent incarnations. The concurrents are, at least in my case, involved in dramatic historical events such as the holocaust and sinking of Titanic, which makes them highly emotional and also rather difficult to believe but also tempting to send a secondary incarnation to experience IF that is possible. I am far from being sold on the idea because it requires a type of a soul split, and I don’t really like the idea. So my objection to this is quite personal, I have no real proof against it other than feeling it should not happen. Yet, I have very strong memories of events that do not fit my reincarnation timeline at all. What could be the explanation, as I earlier implied, is that sending a secondary incarnation to experience a short, dramatic life with no other purpose than to die in a disastrous event that is going to be historic. The other explanation to these memories is the possibility that the events are so emotional and inspiring to the imagination that you simply place yourself in the situation in question. So, do you remember what happened before the event? (I, unfortunately, do.)

The way my past life memories unfold is that I start describing them to my spirit guides, lacking a better expression. I start talking and I simply KNOW how things were, even though just a fraction of a second before I had no idea what I was about to say, the next I am saying it out loud like it was the most obvious thing, often getting irritated at my spirit guides for asking me to explain a perfectly obvious thing! “Can’t you freaking remember?!” I feel like the old woman who gets asked to retell an old story, but who, in her confusion mistakes her grand children for her own children and gets irritated when they can’t remember what happened 30 years prior.

A lot of the times the memories simply need a trigger. Something to grab a hold onto. If you read Tarot, you know that if you don’t ask a question, the answer doesn’t come to you, as in, if you do not direct your attention to something, your attention will not be directed into it – unless it is of extreme importance of course. The same thing happens with past lives. Unless it is of grave importance that you remember some event in your past life, for instance in order to avoid making the same mistake twice, you won’t remember it until you direct your attention to it. One of the best triggers of past life memories is the people you know, especially new people that you feel familiar with straight off. Before you know them too well to confuse your memory, keep them in your mind, then imagine all else disappearing from around them and allow them to emerge in a place “where they belong”. How you remember them. You can also do this with people you know, but it maybe slightly easier to begin with with people you don’t know too well. I’ve found it nearly impossible with my parents. I think there maybe simply too many unresolved feelings with them that I don’t want to see anything more… Like, enough is enough, and the stuff I do recall is nothing to make one want to remember more. 😀 (Yeah, you do want to know but I don’t want to tell. 😉 )

When you get a “hold” on a life time, periodically return to the memories and see if you can expand on your memories. If you have spirit guidance, talk to them and explain what you remember, but you can just as well do this alone in your mind. Ask yourself questions like what happened before this, or why did this happen, who else was there… Little by little things will start making sense.

One tell-tell sign of a false memory is it being displayed in black-and-white. That is probably you imagining it on the basis of an old movie. I say probably because well, who knows how the memory will be delivered, but it is unlikely that you see colors that way. Then again, I have a past life memory delivered to me in shades of red and one shade of bloody dark green. I trust that memory to be authentic because of that very thing – I wasn’t human, I was a lizard of a pre-historic era. I also have a memory of being a dinosaur running after smaller prey, just laughing internally at the game of it; my treats were running away from me, and I thought it was hilarious. There was absolutely no malice to my predatorial instinct, I simply ran after them because it was an invitation to a play and I was so game, and I wasn’t even hungry!

Speaking of emotions, you are likely to remember how you felt at the time, in addition to what had been happening – that is, if you tend to remember emotions in this life time. Whatever you are able to recall of this life time; smells, thoughts, feelings, names, faces… is probbly approximately what you can remember of a past life. (I have a terrible memory of names. I have no recollection of any of my names, apart from Maria, I believe that to have been my name more than once, always wanted to be called Maria, nearly changed my name to it, but decided against it only because my real name, Riina, is very unusual and I like that. Mariina. Maria. Riina…? My dad used to call me “Riina-Marina”, which in our language doesn’t mean Riina-harbor or Riina My Rina but Riina-tantrum/complaint, but then, it does sound a little like Riina-Maria. This is the sort of coincidences you get all throughout when you start piecing together your past lives… Hey…. Riina-Maria isn’t a bad name is it? Votes?)

The last tip: Don’t stress over having to remember. Think about how you recall your current life time, you simply go back to that time without a worry whether or not you’ll be able to remember, and you simply pull the memory out. If you can’t remember anything, it is not that you haven’t lived before, it is because you are trying too hard to remember. (If you’re reading this, you’ve had a LONG history as a human, otherwise you’d be too preoccupied with trying to survive the basics of life to bother with this article.) Also, if you are drawn to a certain animal and feel kinship to them, try and recall a memory spent with them – as one or with them – you’ll figure out by what you see in 1st person. Remember all you need is a trigger or a question, something to direct your attention to. questions are better, because stuff like “have I been here before” are pointless. “Here? Where? In this specific part of the world on this street, or on this planet?” To wind up at the exact same spot where you’ve been in the past exist but then, are rare unless you feel this familiarity about the place that you can’t shake. Like me and Tasmania, I just felt like home here, and I could remember the smell of the forests – I think I’ve lived an aborigine life either in Tasmania or a tribal medicine woman somewhere near Amazon river or both, but these would have been interesting side steps from my normal path and somewhat uncharasteristic unless they were really, really early in history.

Also, don’t try to imagine glorious life times necessarily, or very different circumstances as you have now. For instance, contrary to a popular belief, it is unlikely that you have swapped genders too many times along the way. We are what we are. Oh, oh oh, if you have “a natural talent” for something, ask yourself how you learned it and where. (I just tried it, and saw myself throwing a tantrum trying to paint something at a girl’s insitution of some kind in victorian era. 😀 Yeah, I don’t have that particular skill.) Remember that we do not necessarily jump from life style to life style or a story to story – the more you love your current life style, the more likely it is that this is exactly how you’ve lived in the past. Lazy people are lazy, and you don’t make them into heavy toilers no matter how you whip them, they’ll rather die than do any heavy lifting, for instance. If you are not interested in politics now, it is unlikely that you would have been a political figure in the past, or if you have a deathly fear of politics, it maybe because you were a victim of a politically motivated murder or some other terrible fate related to it and now you want to avoid it at all cost. Your fears and your dreams and ambiteons tell a story about your previous life times, the people you adore and the people you loathe are some of the best triggers of  memory especially if you don’t really know why you hate them or love them or fear them or mistrust them without a good reason.

Remembering your past lives doesn’t have to be difficult or mysterious and you need no magic or poteons to make that happen, simply remember, right? You know yourself – follow those ques. Ask yourself questions of all kinds and see where your mind takes you. This is exciting and fun, right? And it will have so many benefits to your current lifetime… yeah, I’ll leave you to it. Have fun!

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