Is Our Health Affected By Past Life Reincarnation?

That's a great question, and a great Hub as well.

You'll never find answers in experimentalism, nor in science. Scientists (atheists) reject the soul, and therefore reincarnation.

Don't rely on regression as well, since you mix your consciousness with another person. Only dreams and meditation may give answers, although these messages are presented in such a way that you can hardly interpret them. Then you have your intuition. That's likely still your best instrument of all. That very silent voice inside!

Recently I posted this answer on this question: "Why do we not remember our past lives ?" I quote my own answer:

"We do, during our dreams. We live in a objective dream world when we are awake and in a subjective dream world when we are sleeping.

There is a reason why we cannot remember all our past lives. Our soul is infinitely old with an infinite amount of experiences. You'll get an overload when you would remember all of it. All these memories form to what we are now today through our conscience and consciousness.

During our dreams we are cut off from the objective world. Our senses stopped to work to a certain degree, and we turn automatically inward to our subjective soul consciousness, where all the memories of past are stored. It's a kind of free float through an infinite pool of memories. Some of the experiences and memories stored from past lives pass our mind mostly depending of the kind of experiences we had last day or last week. We can learn a lot from our dreams when we are able to interpret them correctly.

Dreams are no predictions of the future, because the future cannot be predicted, it isn't there yet. We have free will. But free will can come with a price that we've paid before. When we keep continuing the path that we're go along, the soul can warn you, based on past lives experiences, that this or that might be the outcome. It's always good to remember a dream, to write the serious ones down, and possibly talk about them. Try to analyse your dream is always a good thing.

In dreams everything is possible, since the objective laws of nature do not apply there, and this makes dreams sometimes too weird to explain to others (in the objective world).

I hope I was able to explain this question a little bit. This knowledge doesn't come solely from me. It's passed on through a society of initiates."

Very interesting, Nell. Okay, you got me thinking. I'm not sure I have a phobia...maybe I have one and don't know it yet. As for reincarnation, I have an open mind. There is so much we don't understand about life...or lives....so I'm more than willing to accept the possibility.

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You have approached this topic with delicacy and I have heard of Dr. Weiss's therapy and being a reiki practitioner I have undergone regression therapy too.

Wishing you peace, Nell.

xoxo

You, know, I really don't think I have any phobias. Reincarnation is a very fascinating subject. I respect every living creature because that tiny little any could be my Grandfather!

You have written another very interesting Hub and very informative, too.

Voted UP, etc. and shared.

Since the bible speaks of reincarnation I feel free to explore that fact and have wondered myself about certain fears I can't explain; if possibly it was from something weird like that. I certainly believe in a spirit world so who knows what all is going on around us. Ewwwwwww

lol Fun read! ^+

Interesting hub Nell Rose. We just don't know some of the things happening in our being. It is just mind boggling that we fear of something .

Hello Nell Rose, how are you doing?

What an extraordinary Hub article, listing multiple reason for physical and mental illnesses plaguing humanity due to willingly choosing to accept them via their belief. ( This is first time in my life I've forced myself to read the " other side" of belief, oppressive to my otherwise calm and peaceful spiritual being .)...

Thank you from bottom of my heart for awareness to keep myself on guard building the hedge protection in my daily confrontation with other real spiritual forces... Due to seriousness of the subject I am compelled to discontinue further commenting. Yet, I would beg you , allow me please to answer your opening question "Do you believe... that your health is being affected by a past life.?!" No, not only because I choose to be healthy , rejecting myth that my God is incomplete in His absolute Power and might, forced to be recycling His children... Believing is most powerful spiritual choice of any person since the universal principle in the orbit around us is "Be unto you according to your believing." Here we have it, knowing who gets the credit or whom to blame...

Hi Nell. You've written another truly outstanding hub! Voted up and more.

Although I have a scientific bent, I do believe in reincarnation. Why? As the old saying goes, I know it in my bones. How does it NOT affect my life?

It does not affect my financial decisions.

I do not stand on street corners, telling all passers-by that I really want to help them.

However it does affect my memory. There was a third point about how reincarnation, is not affecting my life, but I've forgotten what it is.

Seriously though, I believe that some health problems reflect poetic justice vis-à-vis past lives. For example, if you were intolerant of people with disabilities in a past life, you may discover what it feels like, when the shoe is on the other foot, in your present life.

Assuming that past life regression therapy is not codswallop, would it be helpful in this type of situation? Probably not.

For those of us who are not newbie humans, learning from our past lives can tell us a bit about who we are this this life. Even if those insights are not verifiable, the process is interesting.

Can patchouli-scented past life 'specialists' help ordinary people, without extraordinary phobias, who want to explore their past lives. I am skeptical.

Let's remember the brouhaha about 'recovered memories' of abuse from childhood. Is guided past life regression qualitatively different? Caveat emptor.

In my not-so-humble opinion, past-life exploration is strictly DIY. I've already told you about one of my past Australian lives. These may partially explain my interest in the island continent.

I hate going into the bank. Hate it. I use the night deposit to avoid going in there - I get the feeling that the bank will be robbed while I am there. And, I have "parallel parking anxiety" - at least that is what I call it. I can force myself to do both things though, so I don't think it is a real phobia. I would just prefer not to. Your article brings up some interesting points to consider.

I once read 'Many Lives, Many Masters' by Brian Weiss and found it very interesting. But whether reincarnation is a fact or a fantasy - the jury is still out on that one. Regardless, Nell, this is an excellent exploration of the topic. And as you pointed out, each of us has to trust our own judgment on the subject.

Ha...ha...for Kurt Cobain's quote-unquote!

Kidding aside, this is one fascinating subject. Two actually: phobia and reincarnation. And you always keep your readers thinking.

I can't think of any phobia but I'd like to believe in reincarnation or there'll be congestion of souls. :)

An interesting read and much food for thought. Some believe in reincarnations and some do not. This concept has always interested me greatly and have many times wondered how and why. As you have so well put it, we are here to learn and that is part of the process. Enjoyed the read and voted way up.

I dont believe in reincarnation, but I'd love the idea of having a past life.. health affected or not...it always peaked my interest ad I always wondered about it.. but knew it was just fantasy.. at least for me.. great hub my friend voted awesome :)

I have heard that people who are sickly happen to be so as they have been unkind to animals in their past existences. This could be true as it makes a whole lot of sense. Cheers!

Science finding answers to reincarnation? hah! They couldn't even find the answer to ghosts. ;) Anyway, I think science will never touch the subject of mysticism, which I think is where reincarnation belong. Really interesting hub. :)

Hi Nell. Yes, I do believe that our health can be affected by past life issues and fears. I had a terrifying fear of heights which prevented me from doing things which would actually make me sick (like going on a ferris wheel or walking on a sky walk) till I had three successive dreams from a past life that cleared things up for me and alleviated the fear.

To eradicate the past life issues that can handicap our minds and activities I think the meditation exercises you mention can be of great help.

Great and very useful hub, Nell. Voted up and shared.

Well of course I have phobias, doesn't everyone? I have a fear of the interstate, ( I will drive back roads to avoid them. ) When I'm traveling and must get on the interstate I have panic attacks. Rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms. I do not know why this happens unless I had an automobile accident in a past life or fear from a childhood event. I am open to all possibilities. Interesting topic Nell. I love to read your take on the unknown....

Hi again, Nell. My hub on that is Past Life Recalls and Puma at http://phyllisdoyle.hubpages.com/hub/Puma-My-Totem

I have had several other past life dreams, but the one with Puma helped me more than others.

Hi Nell, I'm a regression therapist myself using Inner Space Techniques to source the now and what led to it! I've had several past life experiences - all leading to how I act, react, and interact with the world today. It's a fascinating topic. You may also be interested in the book Past Lives written by Ruth Helen Camden - full of case studies also and their relationship to health and neurotic or psychotic conditions in the here and now.

Great article.

Reincarnation is certainly a fascinating topic! Thanks for sharing your ideas, Nell. They make an interesting and thought provoking hub.

Excellent hub about past life and reincarnation!

I always enjoy reading your hubs on such topics. You raise some interesting thoughts here.

Whether there is scientific evidence or not is a topic of debate, but I find it interesting and would like to believe its true.

Sometimes I think I must have died due to drowning, because I always have a fear that I will get drowned if I go near a river or sea.

Absolutely interesting hub, voted up!

Nell, your articles are always interesting. Never studied reincarnation but I know I could learn something about it from you. Hope you'd write more on genetic memory as the study develops. Thanks!

@Nell Rose This was an awesome hub. It questioned and answered many of the things I have wondered about reincarnation. Fascinating article.

I'm not sure if I have phobias, but I have developed fears later in life that I didn't have as a child or young adult. One such fear is open-backed stairs. They terrify me, as do ladders. I can only go so far, then I freeze and have to go back down.

Reincarnation fascinates me. I've often wondered whether or not I've lived before now.

Well, another great piece of work! You are amazing!

I do believe in re-incarnation and that our past lives do affect our present ones, health fears and working out things such as Karmic Debt. I also have dreams that are premonitory too and some that are just junk. Don't get me started on all my ghostly experiences. I do believe they "know" what they are and have figured them out but not many listen becasue it is not what they want to hear or believe.

Nell, hoping to be over there next year. Maybe we can meet up.

Nell, this is a really good article on a subject that we as human souls are just now beginning to explore. Science won't be able to explain it until science and spirituality meld, which they will sometime in the future. In the meantime we will struggle with the question.

I have always had an unexplained fear of the dark. I'm not sure if it is from a past life experience or because I "feel" the spirits around me. I have never been one to see spirits, but I feel them, and after I realized this fact, I believe I can sort out the bad ones from the benevolent ones and my fear isn't as severe.

It is a complex issue because we are multidimensional souls. We have brothers and sisters (soulmates) under the same oversoul. I've always been a swimmer, but one day my young self got water up my nose and a memory tried to come through. I am also repulsed and even fearful of stories about the Titanic and refuse to watch any movies involving the Titanic. Later in my studies and meditations, I came to a realization that it was my sister soul who drowned on the Titanic. I knew that I had not been on the Titanic because it has been 200 or 300 years since my last reincarnation, but I could feel that drowning as if it were my own. Knowing it was a sister soul I was feeling is helping me to get over my revulsion of the Titanic.

I have had a COPD-type lung problem as long as I can remember. A psychic friend said it may be because I smothered under heavy furs in a cave during the ice age. I haven't accepted that because I did have hystoplasmosis as a child, but maybe the hystoplasmosis occurred because of the past life experience.

One of my sons was born terrified of animals, even little cuddly stuffed ones. A psychic friend believes that during a recent reincarnation, he was accidentally dropped into a zoo pit with lions and killed. Supposedly the person lifted him up to better see the animals and dropped him. Anyway, he is now over his fear and loves cats, dogs and horses.

My other son is a reincarnated Nazi killed in battle. He is having a more difficult time getting past this than the other son.

I hope that giving some examples of our family will add credence to your hub as I notice that there are always some skeptics. Voted up++

It will sure be interesting to see how this unfolds with past memories. I think I told you once that I was always attracted to the Middle Ages, and it it nothing for me to write poetry in an archaic manner. I must have gotten that from somewhere, right? I also hope to do great things for animals and the environment, too, so we'll see what happens there.

So much we don't know. I smiled when I read Deb's comment as I too am attracted to the Middle Ages, however, I don't have her ability to write in an archaic manner.

We know nothing of the future and so little about the true past in our lives. Reincarnation is certainly possible. As we know, or suspect, those deja vu moments could be past memories. There we have a direct link to reincarnation, many times.

The mind, like the rest of the world, still has so much to explore!

Voted up, useful, awesome, and interesting.

YEP, loved this hub. As usual! I have two fears - drowning (this comes from dreams/memories of a huge wave hitting me and taking me under) and crowds. I believe that my fear of deep water/drowning definitely has to do with past lives...more than one. I think in one I drowned after being hit by a huge wave and in another life I was drowned after being accused of witchcraft. I love swimming and have no problem swimming, but I tend to stay in the shallow end of the ocean.

As for my fear of crowds...I have no idea where it comes from, perhaps a crowd of people in a past life drowned me? I imagine being swept up by a crowd, carried off, and thrown into the river. Not sure, but I know as soon as I'm in a crowd of a hundred people or so I begin to feel like walls are closing in around me...like there's no end to this sea of people and I won't have personal space ever again...it's hard to explain.

I really enjoyed your hub...I do believe we carry over memories from past lives, both good and bad. I also believe that we can heal from them. :) Thanks!

You've done it again, Nell: hit it out of the park!

Fascinating topic, and one I wish I could explore on a more personal level. Unfortunately, there is no budget for regression therapy, any how, and I don't feel I can be hypnotized in the first place. I tried it once, and the therapist couldn't get me relaxed enough...I remained fully aware of every detail of the here and now, and nothing I was trying to reach came up. (It was for ordinary relaxation, not past-life stuff).

That said, I do believe that since we are fueled by energy, which can neither be created nor destroyed, we must go somewhere to another plane, and why not come back again?

I do have one severe phobia...I may have mentioned before..and that is of those legless reptiles who hiss and strike...so bad is my phobia that I don't even want to speak the word that names the species, or type it, and I don't want to even see photos, still or otherwise of the things. They totally freak me out and creep me out. I wouldn't kill one if I came across one; not going to get that close! I'd be too busy running hell-bent-for-leather in the opposite direction. Why is this? I've never seen one outside of public aquaria/museums; I've never encountered one in the wild; never been bitten. Maybe I died of such a bite in a past life. That's my best educated guess, for there is no reason in this life. And, that fear/phobia kept me from ever trying backpack camping, which I otherwise would have loved.

Voted up +++ shared, pinned, and shared to my friend's paranormal page on Face Book. ;-)

What an interesting article, Nell. I have never thought of past lives causing mental or physical issues. I will have to look into this further.

Mathew 11 Jesus is talking and says

14"And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come. 15"He who has ears to hear, let him hear.…

Sorry; been meaning to get back. Something else interesting is that Elijah and Enoch never died...many expect they will be the two witnesses coming up soon in end times who will be killed for their testimony and lay dead in the street for all the world to see (Now I understand how easy that will be whereas I never could years ago!) and they will come back to life!

Hal Lindsey would probably be someone you would enjoy reading; have you read Late, Great, Planet Earth or Satan is Alive and Well on Planet Earth" He gets a bit into unusual or maybe paranormal type stuff of the bible.

Nell, you write the most interesting hubs. I, too, believe in reincarnation and those ghosts of genetic memory that can whisper to us in our dreams.

'For the first forty days, a child

is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys winding paths

a hundred small lessons

and then the past is erased'

— Michael Ondaatje

A wonderful quotation that echoes the very same qualities in your fascinating article. I had an overpowering sense of déjà vu years ago...I've never forgotten it. Now...if I could just figure out my fear of clowns. Seriously; ever since I was a child, I've been afraid of them.

Voted way up and shared.

Hi Neil, I enjoyed your interesting hub as always. I think we do not know much of anything, but will find out one day. There is so much we will learn. Good work.

I believe in reincarnation and also believe that dreams are much more than . . . mere dreams.

What fascinates me the most is "genetic memory". hearing of this for the first time, but somehow, i can relate to it. I'd certainly want to know more details about my parents, grand, and great grand parents lives before i arrived this earth.

I'm quite curious about this because after reading this eye-opening article, a lot of thoughts have been racing through my mind. What may have happened in their lives that's being repeated in mine?

Why do i always have a quiet fear of danger with things flashing through my mind? I have learned to face these inner fears and cast them off my mind, but they sometimes creep back.

I also have the most vivid dreams, many fearful (though i always get saved), and good enough i remember most of them. A friend once told me that maybe i had died a violent death in a past life.

Nell...you know I suppose no one will ever really know if reincarnation is 'real' and if things that affect our lives are from a previous life...

Your article gives much food for thought.

I am bookmarking it to come back and reread.

I have always been fascinated by this topic and you have taken it to whole new level.

Sending Angels your way this morning ps

Great question and a fantastic hub. Yes I do believe in having a Genetic memory. Why? My grandfather traveled in a ox wagon throughout Africa and South Africa and I always dreamed of palm trees while growing up in Holland where there are no palm trees. I was also always attracted to live in the southern hemisphere while growing up. I also believe that being in my creative mode any anguish ( if any) will disappear.

One reason why 'genetic memory' is associated here is because of a resonance. When you take planetary forces as a whole you have to look at them as forces - like a wind that influences behavior. Basically that is what astrology is - the psychology as determined by the forces of the stars (that in essence is where the root of astrology comes from - aster). If you were to do the charts of your ancestors, you would see a resonance of forces. So not only is there a 'like attracts like' influence to reincarnation, you will inherit personality traits and the genetic predisposition that aligns with the organics of your family history.

Nell, This is a very interesting subject.I believe there is a world of spirits, and maybe reincarnation. I know one thing and that is there is so much we do not know. I have an incident from my past I can't remember. A woman was going to stab a man, I was watching but can't remember the rest. I suppose maybe I am not ever to know. Great article, Merry Christmas, stella

The amazing thing, Nell, is that I have so many GOOD memories and very few bad ones. I am so connected to the natural world, and many times, birds or other animals come even closer to me for photos, in so many cases. Makes me think that I was a bird once!

I also feel very protective about our ecology, and know so many ways on how to improve it, but why? I have not studied it, but have a very strong scientific background.

I also like biographies and autobiographies of people that have tried to improve nature? Who am I, really? I was once told by someone that I am a new soul, whatever that means...