When one remembers their past lifetimes, they remember unconditional love. This is because the soul can reconnect those spaces between lifetimes where they were given the opportunity to review the previous life. It is in that space that one is given unconditional love and it is subconsciously remembered.

The soul decides when the individual is ready to remember the past, however the soul can script the adventure and sometimes we do not pay attention to the clues that it sends. One can also trace this journey through the higher mind as it reconnects to the monad, but many have not connected to their higher mind in this manner and must rely upon being prompted. Therefore it becomes important to recognize the promptings.

Déjà vu
Déjà vu seems to be a common experience among people, even though it is not completely understood. We can be introduced to a new individual, travel to a place where we haven't been before, or see or touch an object and we feel as if we have done this before. There is something familiar about it.

Pay attention to these experiences as I believe these are important clues. Past life memories, especially when they start, are not experienced like your current memories. If you think about yesterday, you can usually trace your actions through a string of events, but here memories of past lifetimes come in fragments at first and you have to assemble them and piece them together. It might take several times visiting a new location that holds some fascination for you before you get the message that your soul wants you to remember.

In these cases, follow the emotions that you are feeling. Question yourself as to how you are feeling about the stimuli that come to your senses. These emotions will be very subtle and it takes time to ferret out the attitudes and belief systems and experiences behind this moment.

To me, these moments of déjà vu are like traffic lights. You can blithely go through a red light and not notice the intersection, or you can stop at the light and check out the details. Dig deeper in your mind. Try and understand how you feel when you see these signs. Revisit the moment. It is a trigger, or message sent to you. If you are not ready, it will be gone and perhaps never to come back again in that form.

Challenging Your Belief System
It is imperative that you be open to the possibility that the skill of remembering your past is available to you. You must be willing to explore the possibility that you have lived before and that a part of you is eternal. I am not saying that you must believe in reincarnation, but you must be open to the possibility that the process of reincarnation might exist.

Dreams
The source and reasons for dreams can be complex. They can be the result of eating something that has disagreed with you or images that are dredged up during the sleep state because you have burdened yourself with anxieties that you suppressed during the day.

But dreaming can also be an interdimensional doorway to a vast source of knowledge that is fed to you through your subconscious or the higher mind or soul entity. As you are falling asleep, you can direct your mind to go to a source to answer your questions. As you approach the sleep state, you move into theta. This is the state of your creativity where your brain slows down.

We can also approach the theta state, or certainly the alpha state while doing jobs that are repetitious or when you are daydreaming and your mind disengages from your activity. As an example of what I mean, you have probably driven to a repeated destination and you sort of daydream and find yourself there without consciously remembering getting there. There was a part of you driving the car, but there was another part of you that was engaged in some creative thought. There are tapes available to train yourself to use this state for creativity in a more conscious manner.

Our Elder Brothers are a group who help in guiding humanity. They are also known as the Elohim. They are able to influence you during the dream state with spiritual knowledge important to your evolution. Dreams can also be a form of prophesy for the future, or a state where you are given suggestions to help solve your daily problems.

I have experienced dreams in all of these situations. I have also relived events from past lifetimes by simply asking questions of the universe as I was drifting off to sleep. Of course it is important to write down the impressions and messages as soon as you wake up as the impressions and answers are soon lost upon awakening because you move to the beta state or lower alpha state quickly.

Know that you are having a dream of a past lifetime when you see the characters dressed in clothing from the past. When you see an individual dressed thusly without a defined face, know that this represents yourself in that lifetime.

I was involved in a situation that was perplexing to me. I asked the reasons behind the events as I was drifting off to sleep and then I had my dream explaining the present situation. The setting was in France and the events concerned a well known historical event. How exciting it was when I made a trip to France and found the veracity of the events documented in several places.

But the real gift was to understand how we come together with others to work on our soul objectives even though they might be difficult. I also learned how to heal some real sorrow I was carrying at the time and to understand compassion and that we are all playing a magnificent part in our dance of life.

Visiting Places of Former Lifetimes
Perhaps the most interesting situation is to visit a place where you know you have not been in this lifetime but it has a real attraction for you. There might be a pull inside of you to go to Italy for instance, or France or The Island of Maui. If you go there, you find a familiarity about the place. One of two things might happen. If you meditate you could start to remember some threads of past lifetimes there. Seeing some of the buildings if they are still there is a real trigger to the past.

Or, if you have moved along the spiritual path far enough and if you trust enough, the individual of that former lifetime might even come and speak to you and communicate the events of that lifetime with you. Be patient as all the information might not come at one time so it might take several visits to get a more complete picture.

This happened to me. When I visited the place of a former lifetime, the entity that I was in the past communicated with me in the present. As we travelled together she allowed me to see visions of that past lifetime. As you can imagine, this was a pivotal lifetime for my current understanding of who I am and was very valuable to me.

What I might suggest is that if there is a very strong pull to go somewhere, then sit with this and meditate. Find some pictures of places there and try and see yourself in those places. If you feel you are on a path of some past experiences, it might be best to go with someone who is willing to experience with you and not go with a group where this is simply a sightseeing venture. You need to have the time to examine your feelings and coax the pictures of the past to come to you. Finding the past takes introspection and time. This can't always be rushed. Yet I have also found that the past can be triggered and come full blown in a vision where you are guided through sight and sound as you go through a doorway to the past.

Emotion
I can't emphasize strongly enough the power of emotion. There is a place in your body that hold feelings from the past such as sensations of excitement, disgust, fear, or love. This is one of the subtle bodies which resides right next to the physical body and is the emotional body. The negative emotions are stuck energy from the past and are waiting for you to explore and heal and release.

Sometimes you may not recognize the emotion, just that a moment in the present, or a memory of a past event or individual holds a fascination for you that you cannot explain. Sometimes it could even be a smell. I remember one time I met someone and I picked up the scent of medicine that reminded me of the Victorian Period. It was a fleeting sensation of him being a physician and me being a part of his life. I knew this man on a very deep personal level, but did not feel the necessity to explore this lifetime as I felt it didn't hold an attraction for me. But as I reflect upon this, it probably would have been advisable to explore something there as it could have held a gift for me. Perhaps the gift would have been an understanding of some secret part of me that might still be hidden from me even now.

The Familiar
Clothes from past history, customs, and stories of the people, the land, anything that holds fascination for you should be reviewed and explored in your quiet moments. You might consider the process of meditating on them.

Instant Dislike
Many triggers present themselves in the instant dislike of people, places or things. They can also be a doorway to past life memories. Include in that the sense of smell as a trigger also. The scent of flowers, foods, and medicine are just some of the many things that can be a reminder of other times. I believe that these can ignite a part of the brain that is connected to past life recall.

Sending Out a Request to the Universe
Edgar Cayce said that thoughts are things. He also said that mind is the builder. What we focus our interest and intent upon will be attracted into our lives because those statements describe very real principles. If you send out a request that is true to your heart and you hold all others harmless, then the request becomes irresistible to the universe because we are creators.

This is a soul quality that we inherited from our Father in Heaven. God gave us a command at our creation to go forth and experience and to help those along the way and then come back to the creative forces with our knowledge and growth.

Connecting With Your Higher Mind
There is a part of us that is directing our present experiences. The best way I could describe this would be to compare this part of us to a data bank. All the good experiences that we have explored in past lifetimes have accumulated in the reservoir of our higher mind.

This intelligence is very mindful of our mission and remembers the promises we made before entering this lifetime because it was a part of the planning. When we came into our present body we forgot this decision-making process because of this dimension, as time is linear here and where we came from this is not the case. We also forget because it was the design of this dimension. If we forgot our heritage and who we are, would we come to love our God unconditionally? Our higher mind will work very closely with us if we accept its guidance and work closely with it.

Our higher mind has no need to sleep since it does not have a body to protect and nurture and can work to set up events in our lives. It can influence people and events to come to our attention if we need a spiritual nudge.

If you work with some of these suggestions, you will probably start to remember and explore some of your past lifetimes. This is important work because you will start to see an overview of who you are and the missions you came to Earth to complete.

This is helpful also from the standpoint that you can then start to clear stuck energy from your emotional subtle body. As I said earlier, this comes from the trauma accumulated from past lifetimes.

This stuck energy must be cleared before the physical body can move to the next higher dimension as the energetic structure of the cells change and it is necessary that this work be completed first, but more of this later.

Next Month:
What is your mission? What did you come to complete this time?

This article is the second of a 40-part series, ending in Autumn 2012. The series will then be widely released in Dec 2012 as a freely available ebook, so as many people as possible will understand how they can participate in the Ascension - the transformation of the human race to become guided by and one with Unconditional Love in nature and being. More at Counterpoint Article Library.

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Carolyn Evers is a messenger for the spiritual hierarchy. She has written six books and a course, Journey To The Other Side. Carolyn believes that there is a connection between spirituality and science, and she endeavors to incorporate scientific research along with what she receives from spirit. For an introduction to Carolyn and her journey to becoming an extraordinary voice for the Masters on the other side of the veil that isolates humanity, download her free eBook "For the Sake of Love." Her work can be found at CarolynEvers.com and you can email Carolyn here. She has two radio shows with BBS Radio, The Message and The Messenger. Call in for healings and readings from the Akashic Records USA Toll Free 1-877-876-5227, Canada Toll Free 1-888-815-9756. Dr. Richard Presser works closely with Carolyn and is the author of The Coming Golden Age and How to Prepare for it.

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