It’s Only Life, Afterall

Photo by: My American Husband, Walt Babinski

“How long till my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach the highest light?” Galileo by the Indigo Girls

Time travel is real. I know because I have done it many, many times. I need neither fancy DeLorean, nor circle of standing stones to take me. All I need is the will, a bit of time and a gentle voice to guide me.

I am talking about Past Life Regression, or PLR. The process of PLR encompasses travels in all direction of time including past lives, future lives and even current parallel lives. Each trip I have taken through time has enriched me in ways I never would have imagined possible. I honestly believe that if every person had a chance to visit their past lives the world would find peace almost immediately.

Some seek out PLR as a therapeutic or healing modality. Since Dr. Brian Weiss brought PLR into the mainstream back in the 1980s with his bestselling book Many Lives Many Masters it has gained huge respect within the scientific and wellness communities as a very effective healing tool. But for me, my time travels began simply out of curiosity. I was looking to have an adventure and perhaps discover hidden realms to myself and to the human experience along the way. And so I packed light and headed out, a willing and eager Past Life Tourist.

I have been born and died many times along the way, each life a Technicolor feature of epic proportions. Throughout my travels I have learned many lessons and found healing in areas I never knew were damaged. What started as a lark has become a life-changing pilgrimage. As a vacation that will expand how you view yourself and the universe, I highly recommend it. With no clear destination in mind I set off with no expectations. What I have found are lessons in survival, love, forgiveness, tolerance, compassion, kindness and peace. What I have found are miracles.

1. I was instantly cured of a crippling phobia. Shyness, stage fright and social phobia were so intense for me I could bared speak up in a small gathering, let alone speak in public. Panic attacks and anxiety were a constant struggle and I often turned to pharmaceutical intervention to make it through challenging times. This lifetime, as the girl with no name, brought understanding to me and with the understanding came healing. These fears that I’d had were based in another lifetime and realizing that allowed me to let them go, easily and without any further help. It was the first of many miracles I have experienced and witnessed as a result of PLR.

2. Mark Twain said: “Travel is fatal to prejudice.” While Mr. Twain may not have intended this to cover journeys to other lifetimes, it seemed appropriate somehow. Travelling to other lives and experiencing myself as all creeds, religions, mental and physical capacities makes it impossible to hold judgment based on those things. When we realize that we have all lived lives as both persecuted and persecutor, victim and villain, saint and sinner and everything in between we are finally able to find the compassion to understand and accept each other. We have been every spectrum of the rainbow, and once we see those hues within ourselves we can truly begin to shine.

3. Peace and understanding finally comes to our most difficult human relationships when we visit other lifetimes that show the origins of our strife. My lifetime in India perfectly reflected a dysfunctional relationship I was currently experiencing in my current life. Once I saw the roots of the discord, I was easily able to shift my behaviour enough to break the patterns. Easy peasy.

4. I no longer have any fear of dying. None whatsoever. Because I have experienced my death over and over and over, I know that dying feels like taking off an old tight shoe. We are finally free! We are going home. In death we are healed from our lifetime traumas. In death we are reunited with our loved ones. In death we are waking up from this dream called life.

PLR brings about the awareness that we are so much more than these small lives we are living. We experience the traumas and lessons from a safe distance and are able to take those lessons into this life, and grow because of them. Our lives are forever enriched by assimilating the experiences that are the sum parts of our soul. We put the pieces back together and can finally see the full picture.

PLR is not a religion though some religions do incorporate it into their dogma. To me, knowing that I have had other lifetimes is simply an awareness that I am enrolled in this earth school, where our souls return time after time to learn and to teach and to experience the wonder of being human. Some days I feel close to graduation. Other days I think I may be repeating the 4^th grade for the 17^th time. Always I am thankful for the growing awareness that PLR brings of other times and other versions of me.

Life is the schoolyard. Where and who we are is a mere blink in our eternity. Knowing this frees us to take things less seriously. Because, as the Indigo Goddesses… I mean ‘Girls’ so eloquently put it: “It’s only life, afterall”.

And if you ever feel like giving it a go: pastlifetourist@gmail.com… I’d love to be your tour guide.