How to heal past life trauma
What is trauma?
Trauma is an emotional response to an experience. Most of the time when people talk about trauma, they are referring to substantial and often deeply unpleasant events such as abuse, neglect, accidents or horrific incidents. I call this ‘Trauma, with a capital T’.
However, it doesn’t necessarily need to be something quite as big, ‘trauma with a small t’ are experiences that we have that still create an emotional response and yet, with an adult mind we generally dismiss them as being unimportant or minor.
Both types of trauma, whether in this life or past lives, can create limiting beliefs and influence our decisions, actions or behaviour. By understanding past live experiences it is possible to heal past life trauma which may be having undesired consequences in this lifetime.
Why should I be interested in events that happened in past lives?
Traumatic experiences are common, and most people will experience at least one event in a lifetime.
Mostly people are able to recover or learn to live with the effects of the trauma. However, sometimes we create soul contracts or vows. These are agreements that we bring with us into future incarnations that can affect how we think, feel or act.
For example, promising to ‘never’ do something again can show up as a belief that we 'can’t' in our future life times. Without being aware of it we can get caught up in a loop of incarnation experiences, repeating the same patterns without learning and moving forwards.
Past life experiences can show up as unexplained phobias or anxiety in this life, irrational fears or self-limiting beliefs. Alternatively, we can experience pain or physical issues in the part of our body that experienced trauma in past lives.
Whilst reviewing past lives, one of my client’s experienced a life where she was run down by a horse and cart. When we completed a review of the learnings and wisdom from that life, she uncovered an energetic connection between the accident with the horse and cart in a past life and the back pain she had been experiencing in her current life. We released the energetic connection that was no longer serving her and her symptoms improved.
If we were meant to remember past lives, wouldn’t we be born remembering them?
Many children do recall experiences of ‘being here before’, talking about earlier families, or even recalling how they died. This often begins around the age of 3, possibly because they have developed enough language skills to communicate something that they have no yet forgotten.
Generally, we have minimal recall of past lives in our day-to-day life. That's because we are here to have a human experience.
However there has been a great deal of development in the field of past life regression in the 20th and 21st centuries and I believe that this development is part of a wider shift in human consciousness. It enables us as human beings to expedite our spiritual and personal development by providing a means to be able to heal past life trauma and be able to leverage our experiences, to move forwards more confidently and happily in our present life.
How to heal past life trauma
There are numerous ways in which you can learn how to heal past life trauma, including:
energy healing
sound healing
and hypnotherapy
Regression in hypnosis enables the client to have their own experience of witnessing, experiencing and consciously processing their past life experiences.
When I help a client to heal past life trauma, we begin by going into a state of deep relaxation, before creating a happy, safe space. Then we gradually go back step by step to visit at least one past life.
We explore the life in detail, beginning with the context, era and lifestyle before visiting the happiest or the saddest of times, significant events or relationships and examine how the life ended.
We then carry out a past life review by exploring how the experiences from that life are influencing the present life. By ascertaining what beliefs, vows or contracts they hold from that life that are no longer benefiting them in this life we can release them.
We even identify any gifts, talents or skills from that life that could be useful resources in this life and enable them to carry across.
The act of revisiting past lives creates understanding, insights and wisdom about how our past is influencing the current life.
It also enables us have conversations with people who have influenced or hurt us in some way. This creates safe space for the release of supressed energy, without any danger of repercussions; but can also create insight into the other person’s perspective.
A greater level of understanding creates compassion, forgiveness and freedom – both for ourselves and others.
Want to find out more?
If you feel that something from a past life might be holding you back from success as spiritual entrepreneur, book a free 15 mins call with Helen to find out more about past life regression and explore how I can help you here.
Helen Hardware is a spiritual hypnotherapist and Soulful Confidence Coach. She helps spiritual entrepreneurs to heal blocks from their past lives and present life so they can feel deeply worthy of this work at a soul-aligned level. Helping them to unleash the confidence to get visible in an authentic way so they can make their unique impact in the world without limits.