dies and is reborn again and again lifetime after lifetime is neither new or novel it is a timeless and during belief that crosses many cultures faiths and religions so is it possible for you to remember your past lives we're joined by dr linda backman psychologist and regression therapist she's going to lead us through this fascinating discussion stay with us positive energy starts right now hi linda how are you i'm good michel it's nice to be with you greetings from new jersey so thank you thank you greetings from colorado well it's great to see you thank you for being on positive energy pleasure i'd like to start tell us what past life regression therapist does or regression therapist does and tell us a little bit about your practice o well i am a psychologist by training and i got regression therapy which basically is guiding a client into relaxation and guiding a client to use their own intuition i'm not the channel of the medium i don't give them the information i guide the client to cover her important details of a past life and how they plan their current lives purposes of their current life and more than that but that's kind of that quick quick synopsis wonderful so i also do past life regression therapy and are you like me that you're seeing more and more people these days are you finding that in your practice or the same amount or just varies reason it's hard to answer is you know i do this type of work pretty much week in and week out and i find you know i don't know that i'd say there is more people being interested just because i'm  blessed i usually stay pretty busy but i think more and more people are wanting to understand a deeper perspective of who they are that's my feeling as well i think it reflects a larger shift in a really positive direction absolutely so let's dive deep deeper into this and talk a little bit about the soul my favorite topics to talk a little bit as it relates to past life regression therapy the nature of the soul and how the soul advance and how they plan their current life so my understanding from client after client after client and i don't pluck this information out of the air it comes from repetitive clients giving me you know valid validation from one client to the next the soul is our divine so the soul is that core aspect of who we are all up causes us to be alive we are we might see a divine fragment of energy that comes into the body to cause us to be alive but we basically we come into body on earth to both this is school you know this is that the sometimes complicated laboratory so we  divine at that at that core of who we are as a soul i like what you said a divine spark of of light of intelligence of a greater whole yeah expressing itself in a human form and the main purpose and i like to emphasize for people it's not about suffering it's not about struggling it is not about climbing up hill it really is about growth and expansion and learning through this experience knows that i so true and you know we think that life is supposed to be easy or maybe i should say some people think that well you know why is life so hard well it's kind of like why is school you know when you go to the literal school that we're required to go to sometimes it's hard but that's how we learn at least at first right that's it and so talking more about the soul and this notion of pre birth planning do you believe in have you come across with your clients directly that the soul chooses some of its circumstances in advance of birth again for the purpose of of growth and sort of how much of that what has been your experience well absolutely yes we choose the circumstances so we choose our type of body tall short leaning and not so light direction leaning in the thin direction color of skin ethnicity part of the world where we're we're going to be born we also make contracts with other souls you're going to be my mother you're going to be my father and it's an agreement it is not like you know some forced role but we split these details for the purpose of progression or what we might call moving through our souls evolution which leads us through such things as karma and as well as  so i know when people hear that if the first time they're hearing that it's radicals to hear but for others it makes them cringe a little bit what do you mean i i hear i thought often what do you mean i chose my parents right so how do you how do you how do you frame that for clients as you just did even further in a positive way hey you have choice that means right none of this is by coincidence or accident that is totally true and i can always easily use myself as an example which probably will resonate with with a lot of the listeners and that is that i used to think well while it's my mother's personality sure i know difficult you know people would agree yes your mother doesn't own souls progress and perhaps for hers as well just seems mom is an example but that i gave my mother a spirit of sorts and said please relate to me in this way because this is what if i decide to dig in and really want to grow it's going to help me of all i love that i think it's that it's all at once comforting and and makes you very curious when we hear that and makes us want to ask ourselves the powerful questions like why why would i another with what's the positive how if i grown how my better for having had this relationship despite its difficulties that way it's exactly and you  might add as well and i have my own sort of lingo of things i say it is also possible that it's all go off script so again for the listeners there might be some listeners going with it you know my father in you know abusive or my mother you know this was really hugely difficult so so can we might say go off script got it because we have free will later every moment we're making choices with our free will and there are the positives there's also the positive we can and the size as well the people we meet who we are so in love with the people we meet that was also preplanned the people who are real so bonded with right that we really resonate with you come across that as well yes i come across that auckland and i also say to people think about those souls that you don't resonate with think about those souls that are a challenge that doesn't mean you haven't known them before that means they agreed to push your buttons it doesn't mean it isn't a full based relationship if we don't judge it on the surface and look a little bit deeper right there with that they're still in agreement they agree for you to forget them in some ways right that's how much they love you they're going to let you hate them for a little but you know i always remember a client who called me we had worked on her relationship with her mother which was challenging and she called me on the day that her mother passed that her mother died or transitioned into spirit she said linda i can sense my mother's energy now i can sense my mother is so energy now and she's different the feel of this soul that was so challenging i feel warmth and love and nurturing and send each as it was a script that mum was reading from so at the basis of all of these relationships it really is about love it comes from love it stems from love that's correct i like that so talk a little bit more specifically about with you what a past life regression session and tales like what does it look like a little bit when a client comes to your office and what is the key to helping clients remember their past lives are there any clients who just cannot remember their past lives and why ok ok good to great wonderful questions so the client i obviously need to get to know the client i want to know some male sketch of the client's current life because then that will help me to help them integrate so why are you showing this test life what's the point what's the message how will it help you so we do an interview and then i have them lay down and technically it's hypnosis but the word hypnosis sometimes here is people hypnosis is just relaxation it's just what we do every day of our lives when we're relaxing long before we go to sleep i guy the client to cover using their intuition seen an initial scene of  my support but without me telling them the information they're telling me the information we move seen by scene understanding what happened in the life that we go all the way to the desk and then when i'm getting longer regression we move be on the death scene and we work at the soul level of the client to understand many aspects of who they are as a soul yeah so that gives us a really good idea of it and that's exactly how i work as well so it's really wonderful to hear that sort of follow that natural arc and you're there as as the guy thing a little more distant from it walking them through it and it's so fascinating how they can straddle the two worlds sort of dueling faith they that are perfect together right are able to remember and they're able to report at the same time yes exactly and you know you asked michelle in your last question you asked so how many people how can most people do that just at work for most people and as you well know that's what people worried about i often have clients and well i'm glad i'm here and i'm excited to learn but maybe it won't work and i say to clients totally honestly i say between ninety five and ninety eight percent of all the clients i work with do absolutely johnny yeah yeah sometimes i think i guess just expressing that just venting that little fear helps to dispel it and you and i help to also them past any often it's tied to misconceptions that zach why they're worried and that's why they're afraid and once you clear those up they feel better and as long as they're open and they have nothing to lose and sometimes it might not happen the first time doesn't mean it will happen the second time or the third time so it's not something that's a one shot deal in the us and as you know we live in the very what i might call left brained culture or a black white culture on this planet we're not talking to use our intuition so sometimes clients are surprised at how easily they intuitively access details of soul memory and past life memories beautiful that's a great opportunity to get out of your head in some ways right so much as they are in our in er world so talk a little bit about the benefits why would someone come what's there appear to combat it even though we've already hinted to that and any stories or examples that come to mind about something powerful an interest thing that kind of stands out in where someone had a feeling type of experience as a result of their past life recall ok well i'll just put the foundation out briefly if so why don't we come in body repetitively so why do we incarnate and the simplified explanation is we come in a body to grow as we've always said we come to the body to do one or both of what i'm about to explain we come into body to understand karma we come into body to clean up something that's happened before so it could be we were negligent parents it could be we were very self involved so we come the body to keep growing as a soul and past life information shows us where our karma yes so that we can shift that also we discover what we might call dharma we discover what did i do in a past life that i was really good at or successful at because today i think i can earn a comfortable living or today i think i just i'm an in adequate relationship partner and we learn oh we've done that before and we did that really really well so that's kind of the basic premis of what is the purpose of lifetime to lifetime to lifetime  guide clients to do their work in what we might call the between law or the higher self level and soul level then clients learn and they basically learn what their guides want them to learn i always say to the clients i don't determine the agenda your guides determine the agenda but i will assist you to uncover answers to your questions so clients learn all kinds of things like how did i plan my current life what's the purpose of my current lives who are the souls i've known before who are my guy what's blocking me and cetera et cetera do they ever discover the root origins of a fear or phobia or a physical affliction or condition in past lives often or not so often with you i would say often and it ranges you know i was light sample both ends of a spectrum yes yes so a heavy example but rather an example for this client this was a woman some years ago i think mid forty's having a lot of female organ challenges and problems repetitive surgeries pain blah blah blah that whole thing when we went into a past life and i'm just going to stick in you know that quick quick aside but it's not very far sighted is that i can't make a client and have her any past like the client is going to uncover what their guides want them to uncover and not you know lead is not the guru basically the spiritual guides of the client and the soul of the client is the higher level of knowledge and wisdom this woman was having female issues and where we wouldn't was into a time during world war two and the home book and she was being mistreated in a concentration camp in that part of her bottom once we discovered what happened some of those medical issues resolved which might surprise people now so how do you place or them the mechanics of that is it just the moving of the memory the realization of the memory or something deeper at the cellular level happen memory but they hold that's life memory and there is an energetic process that is almost unexplainable now sure some of it is left brain dead right brain some of it is cognitive the client understands cognitively what happened and emotionally what happened and then i think michelle there's an energetic process that probably no one can fully explain yet i agree another one maybe not quite so heavy example would be in a past life we had a child and the child let's say was two years old and you know it's hundreds of years ago netiquette care was not that great and we don't i do young as the mother or as the father and we left our child behind and we end up carrying guilt or lack of resolution to that life and we bring it into current life so then we're afraid to have children perhaps  because we have this sort of can a minimal sense i think something might go wrong and once we discover what went wrong usually we can release that yeah it makes us realize we're we're not crazy and there's something wrong with that man there yes reason for this there is a logical actual tangible tie a bull reason for this and sometimes just when that light bulb goes off that aha moment that's what shift thinks right absolutely so it can people or should people i guess try to access past lives on their own in some way or another and if so how do you teach them that or and what's  tip for that i guess i think it's completely fine been to attempt to access your own past lives and i always say to people you already have clues about your past lives in your current life and you know sometimes they'll say what what you know no i don't and then also ok so here are some questions and i say to them think about these possibilities if someone was going to give you a two week trip paid vacation or paid trip better than vacation anywhere in the world or to any time in history where would you go forward you absolutely avoid going and if you say well i just would never want to be part of the french revolution or i absolutely want to go to china it's important for listeners to remember it's where we're drawn and where are a burgeoning star or is that what we're repelled by well that's right that's right yeah well that's a really simple tool and something people can do immediately begin to pay attention to those movies or books or clothing or language or food or parts of the world they're either drawn to and they don't know why or they're repelled by and that at least gives them a little bit right of a possibility there that's where you've been exactly so i know you work a lot also which is related to past lives grief and loss and the afterlife and people spontaneously often start connecting with loved ones on the other side through these types of processes because they are intuitive and heart raced in nature so say a little bit about what you have come across and discovered in terms of people connecting with their loved ones and visitations and grief and los well sometimes clients are drawn as i'm sure you know to this type of work each has that they have had the loss the passing of a loved one and they want to know what happens when we die and where  soul level regression that when the client crosses over at the completion of the past life that they discover that often that loved one literally when i say literally obviously your intuition comes forward and the classic question that is always asked is if you know are you happy are you ok in the soul realm in the in the higher speer and i don't think i've ever heard anything other than yes so that's quite common it's actually grief and loss that will lead me originally michel into the field of psychology and long before it became spiritual i was dealing with the loss of my own while ago when i was in my twenty's and i just became fascinated with what is grief about how do we move through it and i think not that grief is easy but if we accept that there is more than just this life this body and that there is a soul around where  our loved one exists just without a physical body i think it assists grieving a great deal if there's any certainly gift in those experiences of loss and grief it is that it causes us  to ask those questions and to explore them and to trust more what we're feeling around there and then the hopefulness and all of that is you're right that there's the continuity of the soul that we continue that way that our loved ones exist extensively on many of these topics that we're talking about in two books that you've written do you want to say anything about tell us the titles of those books and a bit about that so the title of my two books our first one is bringing your soul to like second one is the evolving soul the reason i wrote books and continue on working on working on a book number three the moment the reason i write books michel is that some people will never have a regression most everybody can pick up a book and i don't want to let my client write the book and what i mean by that is that as i explain how we evolve as i explain that our life is purposeful and you know who are the souls who travelled with these for why do we have hope issues etc etc i use direct client material because the client stories are i find sort of so it's not just you know all the theory and ideas it's this is how it applies and these are real people having these experiences so that's great i hope people will certainly check out check out your books so is there  message you would love for someone who is really new to this what would be the one message or idea that you would love for them to get and to leave them with well perhaps two things if i can combine them one is that in events in our life are purposeful they don't just come sort of willing to lay out of the air at times if  relationship becomes difficult there's a reason for that is a health issue occurs often there's a reason for that and then i would say my biggest message it's a rather esoteric message is that we come into body to evolve and if we trust that we're on that journey of evolution not only will we have been says a soul but we will step into our life's purpose and will affect we have been as a single person we can affect the greater needs of humanity to evolve because that i think is what our planet is struggling with so that's beautiful focus on our journey right and our purpose what feels best for us and that's going to ripple out into the world and really make that that kind of differen so give us your web site and how people can reach you as we begin to wrap up ok so my web site is obviously w w w dot raven like the birds ra heart art and your chest center raven art center dot com people can find information there i travel a great deal to speak and teach and guide regressions so all the information needed is found on my website thank you very much so well thank you dr linda backman for being on positive energy and thank you for the work that you are doing in the world thank you michelle it's been great being with you great well we hope to see you again thank you very much thank you it's time to wrap up another enlightening show i promise to continue to bring you guess that open your mind and uplift your spirit reach out to me for more information about past life regression therapy or to schedule a session thank you for watching remember to be kind to one another and join me next 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