“Have You Moved Forward or Backwards?”
by Kelvin Chin
Life After Life Expert
Let’s talk about past life memories.
What’s the value of having them? My experience remembering some two dozen of my past lives reaching back 6,000 years is that they have taught me several things.
To use them as learning tools to get greater insight and clarity into myself, my personality traits, my likes and dislikes, my tendencies. And most importantly, where I might benefit from changing some of those tendencies. And yes, that may mean changing some of my old, ancient beliefs that no longer serve me in my present day life. By inference, they have also taught me to live in the present. Not to dwell in the past.
To move forward. Not backwards. Not to stagnate in the experiences of the past.
I think many people who begin to resurface past life memories wrestle with this. For many the initial recovering of their memories is so mind blowing, so “oh wow, gee whiz” (as a friend of mine calls it) that they get overwhelmed, and yes enamored, by the mere fact that they are having reincarnation experiences.
That’s a risky place to be.
I’ve observed this in some of my clients who have begun to resurface their ancient memories. They have gotten so swept up by the feelings they recall, especially if they are enjoyable, powerful feelings that raise their self esteem or remind them of profound relationships they may have had, that they forget ‘that was then and this is now.’ That we are living now, in the continual present. Today is the 21st century. Not 500, 1,000 or 2,000 years ago when those old experiences may have elicited those powerful emotions.
So I’ve seen some people get stuck. Get stuck in their past. By not realizing that they are simply in “repeat mode” playing the same behavior over and over. Making the same mistakes repeatedly. Grasping onto the same beliefs that give rise to the same behavior, and yes, perhaps the same problems they encountered centuries ago in their lives today.
So my message is to watch out for that if you start resurfacing your past life memories. Remember that they are memories. That lifetime has already happened. Sure, we can learn from our healthy and unhealthy choices from that life. But we need to remember and understand that those choices can be changed. And if the old patterns of behavior no longer serve us now, then we would be better off jettisoning them and moving forward.
Instead of getting stuck in our own past.
Kelvin H. Chin is a Meditation Teacher, Life After Life Expert, and Author of “Overcoming the Fear of Death,” “Marcus Aurelius Updated: 21st Century Meditations On Living Life” and “After the Afterlife: Memories of My Past Lives.” He learned to meditate at age 19, and has been teaching Turning Within Meditation and coaching others in their self-growth for 50 years. He helps people understand their life challenges through their individual belief systems, and helps them find their own solutions. His past life memories reach back many centuries, and he accesses those memories in his teaching and his coaching in the same way all coaches draw on their own available experiences for perspective and effective analogies. He can be reached at www.TurningWithin.org.