Past Life Lessons and Healing your Subconscious

The idea that you’ve been here before might fill you with skepticism. But our deep desire for understanding ourselves and healing past trauma often leads us to try new things and expand our beliefs. For me this meant journeying into my subconscious to understand life’s challenges and unlock powerful insights through Past Life Regression.

Finding Peace from the Past

I have an instinct that not all of my memories come from me, like a deja-vu that I can’t place. Maybe you’ve had similar encounters:

Meeting a stranger who seems oddly familiar yet you can’t pinpoint your connection.
Someone who keeps popping up in your life, as if there is a lesson still to be learned.
A familiarity with a new place, like you’ve been there in a dream.
A burden you carry that doesn’t seem to belong to you.
Or that comfort you experience when you find your soulmate.

Is there a deeper meaning behind these experiences? What can we learn and how can we move on when they hold us back?

As someone who believes in the power of inner wisdom, I decided to speak to David Carroll, a Holistic Analytical Hypnotherapist, who practices Past Life Regression, a therapy that accesses subconscious messages to catalyse emotional healing.

Tapping into your Subconscious

Our subconscious processes guide many of our decisions, actions and behaviours, often without our awareness. Past Life Regression therapy uses techniques that tap into the subconscious mind, where memories, emotions, phobias, urges, addictions, and beliefs are stored. Imagine the benefits if you could work with this hidden part of yourself.

During Past Life Regression, visions and feelings of being part of another time arise, often somehow linked to what we experience now.

Can Past Life Regression be Therapeutic?

David explained that there are two types of regression therapy. Both use methods similar to hypnosis:

Clinical: Aimed at releasing core negative emotions embedded in the subconscious to overcome them in this lifetime.
Exploration: Taking you back to images and scenes from previous lifetimes to help make sense of behaviours or challenges in this life.

“Past Life Regression helps uncover repeated patterns, address past relationship difficulties, irrational fears, and emotional triggers,” David explained. “By exploring a past life, we can often identify events from earlier lifetimes or generational influences that shape our current experience. Recognising these patterns can help us clarify why we live the way we do today.”

Through inner guidance, self-love, acknowledging ancestral patterns and inherited traumas that come up during Past Life Regression, you can heal, release and grow.

Do you need to believe in reincarnation?

Reincarnation is a belief shared by many religions and cultures: Hinduism, Buddhism, Aboriginal Australian, Native American, and even the ancient Druids, Mayans and Vikings. Yet there is also speculation linking DNA cellular memory to reincarnation or an unresolved karmic history.

While scientific evidence isn’t definitive, research into biological memory suggests that our cells may retain memories that influence behavior across generations.

My Past Life Regression Journey

In a comfortable space, feeling reassured and curious, I listened to David’s words as he guided me deeper into relaxation. Very quickly I could effortlessly follow the images and feelings that gently arose:

I’m walking through a warmly lit, earthy corridor, with aromas of soup and baking. There’s a bustling kitchen ahead of me, where staff merrily prepare a feast. There is a ‘big happy family’ feel. To the left is a bedroom – my room, decorative with bright colours, dark wooden walls and a dressing table, complete with ornate accessories.

There is an air of celebration – it’s my birthday and it’s me who is being celebrated. The people in the kitchen are my staff. They find me bossy but endearing, like a demanding little sister. I feel loved and respected. There is a man in the scene who is oddly familiar, but too elusive to make out. The Cook also has a familiar essence.

When David asks me to picture my end of life, I am comfortably lying in bed, surrounded by loved ones, they look sad but I smile back at them. There is a young man who I recognise – his face stands out amongst the others. I am full of appreciation, my heart is full and I receive a beautiful message.

When the session ends, I feel a bittersweet sorrow saying goodbye.

Nervous about Past Life Regression?

Before the session I had reservations. What if I discovered I’d died in a traumatic way and I couldn’t switch off the memories?

David reassured me that I would only be guided to a place where I felt safe. You visually create a space where you can come back to and the session is at a pace where you can process, resettle and slowly explore. Nothing is rushed.

My body was deeply relaxed, I didn’t feel any urge to move, yet I was still aware I was in my room. After the session, David checks in with clients if you need the support.

What if I struggle with visualisations?

Not everything you experience in a session is visual: “I get quite a lot of people that will say beforehand they’re not expecting to see anything but everyone tends to see or feel something, whether small details or in-depth. I just ask that people come with an open mind and they don’t have any preconceptions.”

Your experience is personalised, it’s an exploration of your subconscious. Whether visual or sensory, messages can surface, trauma can be understood and self-discovery is facilitated.

Reaffirming Messages from the Soul

Past Life Regression can help you scratch the surface of the gifts and burdens you carry in your life. Even if you are not convinced about past lives, understanding the intricacies of your feelings, intuition and subconscious mind is a fascinating thing to explore.

During my session, the message I received was to keep living the life I love, because I am loved and I don’t need to worry about others’ expectations. On reflection afterwards, I realised the energy of the Cook matched my close friend, and the young man was my nephew in this life. It’s comforting to feel that connection, as though a soul’s energy can find you outside of your waking, current life.

It made me pause and appreciate who I am, the choices I make and the people I’m connected to in my life. It was exactly what I needed to hear. Regardless of its origin, maybe from that colourful life, from my DNA memory, or from an imagination I am lucky to have, it is a gift I will be grateful for, this entire lifetime.

That message alone is therapy.

Book your free consultation now and discover how Past Life Regression can help you understand yourself deeper, release trauma and grow.

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(Bio)

David Carroll is an award-winning Holistic Analytical Hypnotherapist with a deep commitment to helping individuals overcome mental health challenges, specialising in anxiety, stress, and depression. A proud member of the Complementary Medicine Association, David brings years of expertise to his practice. He trained with Ali Campbell, one of the top three hypnotherapists globally, and has been invited to teach and contribute to Ali’s renowned brand. With an international presence, David also serves as an Assistant for Councillors and Therapists, offering support and guidance to professionals in the field.

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