I’ve also been able to set intentions before I meditate, to deal with certain current issues. My gut instincts have been that the solutions to these issues cannot be found in the present life. And I’m usually right.

It’s amazing that we can learn to “cure” ourselves on emotional and physical levels, accessing past memories that we’ve had. Too many of us turn to drugs when the real solutions are actually within us.

Evelyn

I’ll share that one, just because it seems appropriate. For many years, I had a great deal of pain in my feet. There was no reason for this. I didn’t have any injuries. I tried all kinds of things, including different kinds of shoes, exercise, soaking my feet in hot water and epsom salts, pain relievers, and on and on. Nothing really helped. Some things helped for the short term (pain relievers and the hot water soaks, for example), but still, I’d wake in the morning and have to literally hobble out of bed because the pain was so bad. I wasn’t doing anything to cause such severe pain; my work involves sitting at the computer for long periods of time. I actually should get MORE exercise, so I wasn’t overworking my feet in any way.

Finally, after reading a book about how discovering past life memories can relieve pain and phobias and such, I thought, well, it couldn’t possibly hurt. Next time I went to meditate, I set the intention to see if there was some spiritual or other-worldly explanation for the pain in my feet. Very quickly, a vision came to me.

Basically, I was put in a sort of wooden frame and my feet were beaten with a rod. I had the sense that it was somewhere in Asia, China, perhaps, and I was male. I felt as though this was punishment for some crime, and I was, oddly, accepting of it. I didn’t like it, or welcome it, but I submitted to it, and I accepted that the punishment was deserved. I felt that from then on, I was basically crippled, with constant pain in my feet.

That’s all there was to it. I came out of the meditation thinking, “Well, that was weird.” Then I chalked it up to “interesting visions and things I’ve experienced during meditation” and left it at that.

But the pain subsided. I haven’t had problems with my feet since then. I can walk all day and have only normal tired feet. I never, ever wake up and have to hobble because the pain is so bad.

What does it mean? I don’t know. My husband thinks the vision was symbolic, that it meant that I was manifesting the pain on myself out of some kind of guilt or shame, and that I had released that, and that’s why the pain went. He may be right. To me, it felt like another life, that was mine and not mine all at the same time.

Whatever it was, the vision is as clear now as it was when I had it, and the pain in the feet has not been a problem for over a year now. Weird? Yeah, I certainly think so. But it helped, and that’s what I feel is important. Whether it was a symbolic thing, like a dream, or a memory of some other life that was meant to show me something, or it really was “me” in some sense, the memory/vision/experience/whatever seems to have fixed the chronic foot problem I had for years and which no doctor or therapist could figure out.

I’m just glad it helped, whatever it was.

From my findings, emotions if left unresolved, can leave an energetic imprint on your soul and carried with you, irrespective of lifetimes. Therefore, do not hold on to major negative ones nor try to create more. Best is to be aware, face it, release and move on!

In Loving Kindness,
Evelyn

I’ve never had an experience like you described, but I found this post very fascinating. Your writing totally captured my interest.

I like the part of “do not punish yourself because of guilt”. I think too many people do.

Regarding your concern about it is possible to be doing good stuff because of existing guilt, that is why I recommend “releasing”. Unless you can be truly sure that guilt is not lurking in the shadows that drive your actions, then by all means, there is no need for release because there is none to begin with in the first place.

With love,
Evelyn

The tapping method sounds very interesting. This is the second time I heard about it. I will surely read about it in more detail.

I like your suggestion of chanelling guilt towards kindness rather than anger. However, I have a concern – Sometimes, it’s possible to be driven to doing good stuff because of existing guilt – one which stays for lifelong and doesn’t go away.

I believe it’s equally important to learn to forgive self and understand that our actions at that time were driven by someone(our past self) who is not as matured and spiritually evolved as us (our current self).