In a previous life....

I attended a workshop with Dr Brian Weiss a few weeks ago. It all came about quite quickly, unexpectedly and with serendipitous flare. I love those kinds of events, when you are obviously meant to be in a time and place and the universe works its magic to make it all come together perfectly.

I’ve been to workshops before and the hype and anticipation in the lead up to the event seems to overshadow the event itself and then afterwards I feel a tad let down. 

I’ve read three Brian Weiss books and looked into his schedule when I was planning on going to America a few years back, in the hope of being in a city that was hosting him. It wasn’t meant to be at that time. A new friend mentioned in passing that she was attending his workshop and I was online within hours and booked my ticket. Normally, I’d procrastinate over the price, whether it was the right thing to do, worry about who I would sit with and if I’d get what I needed from the experience. This time I simply followed my instincts and went for it and I am so glad I did.

Without doing a promo for Dr Brian Weiss… He is a Psychiatrist that discovered through patient therapy and using hypnosis that he can regress his patients to their previous lives and explore the lessons they are here to learn in this life. During the workshop Dr Brian Weiss took all the participants on several exercises involving regressing to previous lives, exploring our intuitive self and healing our body of physical or emotional ailments.

I have participated in past life regression before, in a one-on-one  therapy sessions. I was skeptical initially which I believe is healthy while still maintaining an open mind. The first time I was ever hypnotized was at the age of 18 at the local RSL in front of a live audience. It wasn’t my ‘thing’ and I was escorted off stage when I failed to run around clucking like a chicken. But from a very early age I have believed in Reincarnation – for me it wasn’t even something someone had to convince me existed. For me reincarnation just made sense and felt right.

And I think that is the point I am making here today. Our intuition, our higher self, knows exactly why we are here on earth living this human experience. We are here to explore the emotions of being a human, to learn our fundamental values, discover our spirituality and to simply BE human in all its vulnerable glory.

I discovered so much about myself during that workshop and even weeks on there is this newfound calmness that radiates from deep within me. It is a familiar feeling and throughout my life it comes and sits with my momentarily. Over the years of this current life I have experienced many challenges, traumas and highs that have all contributed to the person I am today, right now. The calmness seems to last a lot longer within me nowadays. Don’t get me wrong, I still have more anxious moments that not, I still fight my insecurities, I still put up the brick wall in self-defense and I still most definitely lose the plot and explode in all my neuroses. The difference now, I meditate often, I take not of my dreams, I am continually exploring my higher self and I am learning to embrace the human in me – all my faults, my strengths, my gifts and rediscovering who I am and what makes me tick.

My next blog is going to be an exploration about love – not romantic love but being in love with me that is an ongoing challenge and one that I think I am here to master in this lifetime. So my homework is to write a list of what I love about myself and interview those who say they love me – see what comes up!