Many people wonder why, if they have lived other lives, they do not remember them. If we remembered everything that has ever happened to us in this life and other lives, consciously without the benefit of repression, our conscious minds would be too cluttered with all those unnecessary and sometimes painful memories.
We would not be able to focus and function properly in our day-to-day living and we would be overwhelmed with all those memories, especially the traumatic ones. We would become overburdened and dysfunctional from too many unnecessary memories and painful emotions and physical symptoms. In that case we would either freeze and become catatonic, so we would not have to deal with those mostly painful, traumatic memories, or become a full-blown psychotic, unable to deal with anything.
So our minds create a protective mechanism of repressing and storing the memories that are not needed for our day-to-day functioning. We put a barrier of repression between the subconscious and conscious mind. As long as this mechanism of repression is strong and working well, we function in a healthy way.
Any time this repression becomes weakened, as by a sudden shock to the psyche or chronic stress, memories can emerge from our subconscious minds to the conscious minds, bringing their emotional, mental, and physical problems. What develops depends on what types of memories are surfacing.
My patients, under hypnosis, consistently tell me that their subconscious minds contain the memories not only of their current life, but also of all their past lives from the beginning of their existence, no matter how boring, mundane, important, or traumatic they are. Nothing is erased or forgotten. All the memories are recorded or stored in our subconscious minds.
Weakening of repression: Repression can be weakened by different types of traumas.
Any event, trauma, or situation that can cause unexpected shock to our minds and bodies can jerk open the barrier of repression. If the door to the subconscious mind is forced open, every memory will be pushed out into our conscious minds or close to our conscious minds, from this life and from many other lives. Most commonly, the memories of the traumatic events will emerge because of their intensity, affecting us emotionally, mentally, and physically, and we feel we are unable to handle life.
Many of my patients tell me that all their lives they were able to function well and cope with any and all of their problems, but after a sudden traumatic event they are not able to cope with anything. Every little thing upsets them and they are no longer able to function well, emotionally or physically.
Looking back over years of my psychiatric practice, including my psychiatric residency, I especially remember working with patients who had psychotic breakdowns after using marijuana, speed, LSD, and other mind-altering drugs, including alcohol. They talked about having unusual memories and sometimes mystical experiences that did not make sense to them or to us.
Sometimes a trauma from a past life can surface from our subconscious to our conscious minds because of an association with a current life situation, a person, or a place, causing emotional, mental, or physical problems.
Lanette, a female patient, was locked in a bathroom at the age of ten and was not able to open the door. This incident brought back memories and feelings of being buried alive in another life, causing her a fear of closed spaces after that incident in this life. After recalling, reliving, and releasing the traumatic event from the current and past life, she was free of her claustrophobia.
In any situation, when the repression is weakened, the traumatic memories leak or are pushed out from the subconscious mind, close to the conscious mind, but not totally into the conscious mind. As a result, patients feel the emotional and physical symptoms, but do not have clear memories and understanding associated with them consciously. Unless these memories and traumas are resolved and healed, traumatic memories will continue to cause emotional, mental, and physical problems. In therapy, these memories are brought out to the conscious mind, with or without hypnosis, and by recalling, reliving, and resolving the trauma, the symptoms can be healed.
Over the years, treating patients with regression therapy, I have come to realize that many of their problems are often related to the unresolved physical, emotional, and mental residues, including their last thoughts, decisions, and promises coming from past life traumas and deaths. They are carried over to this life with their souls creating the symptoms, which need to be resolved. Some of the emotional, mental, physical, and relationship problems coming from past life traumas are as follows.
Psychological Symptoms
Depression and emotional turmoil: In many of my patients, depression and related symptoms stemmed from the traumatic events in their past lives. Memories of rejection, loss of a loved one, or any type of physical, mental, or emotional trauma in a previous life can cause depression in this life. Seasonal depression or depression during a certain important religious day is often due to a trauma around that season or religious day in a past life. In the current life either a person, place, or an event triggers the memories of those traumas from past lives, causing depression.
Fears, phobias, and panic attacks: Sudden traumatic death and other traumatic events in past lives can cause fears, phobias, and associated panic attacks in the current life, when similar situations are faced. Because of a sudden traumatic death, those last emotional, mental, and physical feelings were not resolved. They are often carried over to the current life with our soul. Those memories are often triggered and restimulated by similar events in the current life. The interesting thing is that whatever we are afraid of has already happened to us. The following are some of the phobias and their causes in past lives as described by my patients.
Fear of heights: Falling from a cliff, tree, or a high place.
Fear of water: Death by drowning.
Fear of fire: Being burned in a fire.
Fear of closed spaces: Being trapped in a small place and not being able to breathe, being buried alive, locked in a prison cell with no window, etc.
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