| What is my past life? Transmigration of the soul is a | | | | classroom wherein we are presented with life |
| key concept in Eastern religion and philosophy. | | | | situations that will help us learn this lesson in the best |
| However, psychiatrists have been exploring the | | | | possible way. For example, if you have a spouse who |
| subject for well over two decades in the West. In | | | | makes you angry then, possibly your lesson to learn is |
| Hinduism, Buddhism and Tibetan religions, the soul is | | | | to conquer your anger. |
| considered immortal that takes on a physical body in | | | | On the other hand, Eastern philosophers say rebirth is |
| every lifetime choosing one of the species for a form. | | | | based on the laws of cause and effect. They say |
| Though, Christianity and Islam traditionally talk of only | | | | each life is only a means to work out the results of |
| one life, fresh analytical theories have been | | | | your good and bad karma (actions) that you have |
| forthcoming lately with different interpretations of the | | | | committed in the previous life. Salvation, according to |
| Holy Bible and Qur'an. | | | | Eastern religions, is to rise above this cycle of reaping |
| So, if you are willing to explore the concept of birth | | | | the results of good and bad karma. |
| and re-birth then, your past lives can be remembered. | | | | While psychics say there are the Akashic Records |
| Psychoanalysis, hypnotherapy, psychic experts, | | | | which contain data of all past lives lived by you, |
| traditional Indian record keepers called Bhrigu Samhita | | | | psychoanalysts and hypnotherapists say the |
| pundits can help you access details of your past lives. | | | | memories of all past lives are stored in one's |
| They can help you remember lives lived 3, 000 years | | | | subconscious and can be accessed by past-life |
| ago or barely a century ago. | | | | regression (PLR). PLR is a technique of being put in a |
| In recent times, two theories have developed about | | | | trance and regressed to beyond birth. Hypnotherapists |
| the concept of past lives. Most Western psychiatrists | | | | say PLR helps in releasing negative emotions and |
| working on regression through hypnotherapy say the | | | | easing, in many cases, physical symptoms like |
| reason for rebirth is that we have the lesson of | | | | headaches, fear of drowning etc which may actually |
| unconditional love to learn. Each lifetime is like a | | | | be related to memories from a past life. |