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Nanara
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 First past life regression excercise - for two
These are old and written for somewhere else.. please excuse typos
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I was shuffling through an old forum I had ages ago and found this and the second one that will be posted soon, and to my horror I discovered that I haven't posted them here, so here they go.
Disclaimer 1: Remembering past lives can be exciting and a great process of learning more about your subconscious motivations and spiritual identity, but it can also open up pandora's box. Reincarnation is not always a nice experience, life can be hard and traumatic, death can also be a very traumatic experience so I recommend to anyone of any level of magickal and psychical/psionic ability to do this with either a teacher or a trusted friend. Ideally you would do this with a psychologist because sometimes memories can be so traumatic they can cause emotional problems in this life, and sometimes, you can be looking for a past life, but find a this-life repressed memory (which you WILL need help dealing with). I do realise that it isn't exactly a common thing to find a reincarnation-friendly psychologist. But if you do find some memory that is repressed get thee to a psychologist or counseller!
Disclaimer 2: Some people just don't remember their past lives, I don't know why, there's a lot of theories (such as new souls), but, sometimes no matter what one tries it's just not going to happen. Be prepared for the possibility of it not working. This works for some, and not others, if it doesn't work, try something else. I recommend finding a hypnotherapist who does past life regression. [Here's a good book on the subject: "Past life Regression - how to learn from the lives you have lived", Ursula Markham, published by Vega, London, 2003]
Disclaimer 3: If you have an attension condition such as ADD or ADHD, or are in your teenage years, it tends to be nearly impossible to do this particular method, as it takes a bit of time and focus, and a basic mastery of meditation. I personally drove myself half mad for years as a young person trying to master meditation to any degree, not until I was about 18/19 did I really get the hang focus and mental discipline (and I started aged 12). So if you have problems with extended attension, addicted to caffiene or tend to be an exuberant teenager, I'd recommend you try another method unless you're prepared to dedicate a lot of time and effort to getting meditation working. Without the focus mastered in a bit of meditation, the success rate for this method goes right down.
Disclaimer 4: If you try this without the proper cautions, without following these instructions properly (if you are a newbie especially) and not having another person to help you, it is likely that the experience will not occur, at best. My second try at this exercise with my friend would have ended negatively had he not been there, because I saw something that panicked me and I needed his reassuring voice to stop it before I got too upset. There is a great potential for harm in looking into past life memories, and it needs to be given the proper respect. So to be harsh, if you don't want to put the effort in, don't do it or don't come back to me crying and blaming me for it. Magickal and spiritual practices can be dangerous, if you do not allow for this and practice the right precautions it's not my problem.
Part one: Practice a bit of meditation.
If you're not already doing a lot of meditation (a lot of kin and pagans do), start learning. Usually a good place to start is learning to sit in a comfortable position and concentrate on breath to calm and focus your thoughts. This is good for calming and focusing your mind, really good for stress if done for a while (maybe 30 mins to an hour a day). Some people can just sit and take a deep breath, then be in a meditative state first try, some, like myself, have had to work really hard to get to that ability to just sit and be there in a meditative mind state. For those who have a great deal of trouble with this, one help can be starting off with visualisation, visualising energy motion with breath, such as "in gold/white/light energy, out bad/hurtful/heavy energy", or go through in your mind the main chakras, fill them with gold/white/light energy or see the classical colour scheme (found anywhere online when you search for "chakra" wiki or someplace else).
There are a variety of different ways of attaining some mental focus and discipline in basic meditation techniques, I'm sure there's a lot out there on the internet (remember your pinch of salt). I would recommend that you practice meditation every day until you can sit and be calm after about 5 minutes or less. This took me about 2 years, most people find about a month, others can do it first time, those I recommend that you try to maintain it for at least a week before going onto the next step. (There are of course other variations of this for people with physical disabilities, such as trying it lying down or standing up, sitting in a chair, or using other forms of meditation such as yoga or Chi Gong. For this exercise you don't need to be physically still, just very relaxed.)
Part two: Safe Space visualisation
Once you get basic successes with meditation (you'll feel it, trust me), you can then start creating a mental Safe Space. This is a common practise in many different disciplines, I learnt it from New Agers, but I've heard shamans, witches, chaos magicians, ceremonial magicians, all sorts have their own variation. Basically it is a fortified mental space that you can mentally retreat to quickly and easily. A Safe Space can be used for a great many things, I've heard of it being used as a place for the mind to retreat from psychic attack, a place to cast magick from, communicate with spirit guides or passed over loved ones, go on seekings, explore one's Shadow Self, Astral from, and any number of other practises. I used to use mine for stressful situations at work. For this exercise it's used as a place where you feel safe, so if you journey to a past life memory and it is traumatic or frightening or you need to get out it is an immediate safe way out. Kind of like an emergency exit for you.
To make a safe space all one needs to do is to get into a meditative state, one where you feel calm and focussed but also at a slight angle to reality. Generally, people will just know when they are in an alternate mind state. And once there in that altered mental state cast your attension inside your mind to a "Safe Place". It can be anything, anywhere, and have any furniture you wish. Generally if you are a visual person your mind will quickly make a place you feel safe in. If it doesn't happen think about what makes you feel safe, feel it out, usually after a bit of practise a place or a sensation will occur and that can be your mental safe place. One of my old Safe Spaces was a large clearing in a forest with a big flat stone in the center of it to sit or lie on.
To facilitate this guided regression I would recommend that the safe space has a reflective surface or an extra door in it. I personally didn't use a reflective surface or door/exit, but in the source that I found (and unfortunately have lost - it was nearly ten years ago), they suggested putting a window in your safe space or a mirror or a lake, apparently it can be much easier with such a surface or exit. Also, for some reason it was recommended that your safe space was a room or enclosed space, I didn't have a problem, but if you do it's relatively easy to make another one for this purpose.
Part Three: recheck, and organisation
Make sure you've practised every day for at least a week each: meditation and creating a Safe Space. Once they work easily and quickly you are ready.
Make sure you have a friend or spiritual teacher with you. Surely, there would be someone in each person's life who would at least keep an eye on you, or someone on the internet with a microphone to help.
Decide on a time limit for each session. Most people can't concentrate for more than 20 minutes at a time, so generally if you time it for a max of 15 minutes you won't loose concentration.
Also, make sure where you wish to do it you won't be interupted for at least an hour, it can psychically and physically hurt to be thrown out of a deep meditative state by a loud noise or interruption. If your friend is going to have physical contact with you keep it constant, or get them to tell you that they're going to touch your shoulders (or whatever). I was once thrown out of astralling violently by someone touching my shoulders to make sure I was ok, I was in pain and disorientated for nearly week.
Tell your friend a little about your Safe Space, and if they're trying it too, get them to tell you about it. That doesn't involve an incredible amount of information, a friend doesn't need to know a lot, just enough to know how to tell you to go back if you need to. My friend was told of a large clearing of trees in a forest with a large flat stone bolder in the center of it. I didn't need to tell him anything else because all he needed to do was remind me of the circle of trees and that flat rock.
Part Four - down the rabbit hole
One person must be the verbal and/or physical anchor the other the one travelling. Once that is decided the person who is the anchor starts the meditation. They need to soften their voice and their tone, low tones tend to be more relaxing, keep the tone low and soft, use very discriptive words if possible (like Caaalm, deeep breath; usually two descriptive words per noun/verb work, like "I want you to see the deep calm river"). Keep the same verbal pace, if you use single or double sylible words, or two breaths per sentence, keep that pace. And use short sentances, complicated sentances can distract the mind of the person.
Start by telling the person travelling to sit comfortably and take deep breaths. they need to be in a comfortable position that they can be relaxed in. Some people find it easier to do this by lying down, but don't do it if your tired, cause we don't want you wasting your friends time by falling asleep. In my old classes I used to instruct people to shake their legs, to wriggle their toes, put their hands comfortably in their laps, breathe deeply and calmly, focusing on their breath and calming their thoughts and feelings. If you say "Calm" slowly and slightly accent the "alm" part of the word it can relax people as well with suggestion. Usually it is recommended that the person closes their eyes, this isn't so the anchor can mug them ;D it's because most people find it easier to visualise with their eyes closed.
Bring their awareness from their breath and calmness (which should be attained first and you can tell by speed of someone's breathing dropping quickly), to their safe space. usually it's a good idea let them look around a bit, sit there and be comfortable for a short while. Then at this point make sure the person travelling can speak to you, ask them questions (still in a calm tone), such as are they in their safe space, describe the area around them, at this point, it's usually prudent to tell the person that if at any time they feel frightened or want to stop, they only need to think about their safe space and they will be there. And from their safe space it's easier to drop out of a meditative mind set.
Then tell them to go to a reflective surface or a door. Tell them that that surface or door is a doorway to a past life their subconscious wishes them to remember. And when they are ready they will be able to walk through that surface to that past life. The person being guided then decides to pass through that surface or doorway. From the decision to look into a past life the anchor needs to keep up the dialogue, ask a lot of questions, try not lead the person to any place or time or suggest anything. Ask questions like what do they see? What is the date if they know? Describe things around them, people clothes, what are they wearing themselves, what do they look like? etc. Respond to their descriptions, if they say "I can see a woman", ask them what does she look like, do you know her name? What a person sees first in their experience is usually what they wish to see, if you go directing them in a direction they are not going, they will not learn what they wish to learn. An anchor is there to support that person, not to direct the actual experience.
If the person becomes upset you can usually see it, their face screws up, their breathing rate increases and sometimes they don't respond as quickly. Ask them if they are alright, if there is no response and the stress continues, or the response is panicked, remind them of their safe space, direct them to go back to their safe space, usually saying "[insert name] I can see that you are upset, how about you leave this place, remember the place with the circle of trees and the stone bolder in the center, I want you to go back to that place", will get most people back. When they do, ask them what happened or ask them to remember what happened so they can discuss it when they're back to full consciousness.
If in the unlikely event of someone becoming stressed and/or completely unresponsive, more drastic measures may need to be done. Talk to them constantly, use their name constantly, if there is still no response tell them that you are going to touch their shoulders or hands or face. Usually touch will bring people back, it has an earthing quality and sends signals to their mind of the surrounding physical environment. Continue to talk to them and rub their shoulders or hands or face until they return to the room.
If someone is so deep in that life experience (or may be experiencing a psychic attack or astralling) that these do not rouse them, then go for the more drastic measures. Make loud noises, shout, if you know how to earth their energy manually do it etc. It'll hurt like hell when they come round, but better to come round than struggle for hours. Only once have I needed to earth someone and that student had fallen so deeply into a meditative state they'd inadvertantly astralled and were inexperienced enough not to know how to return. Be gentle first.
Once back in the Safe Space it is usually easy to guide them back to full awareness of the room around them by saying such things as "now I want you to come back to the room, feel your legs, your hands, your body, remember where you are, the room... [etc]" Then tell them to open their eyes when ready.
It is highly recommended that a discussion ensues after a past life regression. Not only is it a good way of making sure you remember what happened, it's also kind of fun to share such things.
From here you swap places if that is the plan. But, I would hope it was obvious, if there was a problem with one person's regression and they are stressed or frightened the session should be stopped immediately and no swapping. A person who has experienced this can go through shock or a delayed reaction, you don't want someone having an anxiety attack in the middle of guiding your own meditation.
It's a bit long and I'm not sure if it makes complete sense, but there is a draft of one of the ways I was taught to do a past life regression. Any questions?
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 Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:52 am Last edited by Nanara on Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:46 pm; edited 1 time in total
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I'll definitely be trying this out sometime soon...thanks for posting it...
(and btw my safe place is incredibly similiar to what you said your first safe place looked like, lol)
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:42 pm
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Nanara
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*Smiles*
Um, KingBear, I think the second one I posted is for individual exercises. I certainly wouldn't recommend doing this one alone, sometimes when you do a regression you can get all wound up in what you're remembering and get lost. Having that other person there helps to control it, they're a fail safe so that if you do get caught up in the memories (which, btw has happened a few times for me), they can help get you out of it again. You could do it alone, but as I said, I wouldn't recommend it. Especially as sometimes when one does a regression, one can sometimes stumble on currently life repressed memories, which you should not open up and explore alone at the best of times.
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Bump.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:46 pm
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I'm always reading, I just might not have anything relevant to say.
Which, in today's lingo, might be considered lurking.
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This is very interesting... thank you for sharing.
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:11 pm
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I truly enjoyed reading this. I have gotten pretty good at meditation, but will have to work on my safe place.
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:3 I'm glad you got something out of it.
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I am thinking of trying this -- with a friend, of course! If I "find" anything of interest, where would be a good place to post what I come up with? I would like to try and analyse whatever comes up as objectively as I can, in the interest of addressing the fact that past life "memories" are sometimes (or, depending on who you ask, always) false.
Plus, I think it might help encourage others who haven't yet to try the same. (: Even if you are not trying for something like this, I am of the firm belief that meditation of some sort is good for everyone.
Also, thank you for this resource! It really gives a clear, step-by-step set of instructions without being rigid. Great job!
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Damn! If I'd known about this sooner I would have had my friend guide me through it. He agreed that he would, after I wrote up what he needed to know. And it was here the whole time...
Now he's gone for a month or so, and I can't ask anyone else here to do it with me. I guess I'll have to wait some more... I've attempted a regression on my own before, but then I got interrupted by someone texting me. And the next day I read that there should be someone to make sure nothing goers wrong, so I haven't tried it since.
This sucks a little bit. Why isn't there a safe 'one person' way to try this?
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| Olm Stranger wrote: |
| This sucks a little bit. Why isn't there a safe 'one person' way to try this? |
Here's a one-person exercise if you want to try that. (:
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Hmmm... So you suggest not doing this alone even if you can go to your safe place at will and can sit down to meditate and be meditative pretty quickly? I've also got a lot of will power if that matters anything? 
silly wraith... hehe
