You can count on the TikTok fam to try absolutely anything. This week's trending topic? Past life regression.
So what on earth is past life regression, and should we be trying it? Past life regression is a form of hypnosis where you're taken into a deep meditative state and allow your subconscious mind to conjure up mental images, which are supposedly from your past life and link to your current life.
The #pastliferegression hashtag has 280m views on TikTok and shows people either talking about their experiences of having a past life regression with a practitioner or attempting to experience one themselves via a TikTok tutorial.
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“A past life regression focuses on bringing one previous life through,” explains Jamie Greenlaw-Meek, Practitioner at The Wellness Foundry. “The sitter is guided through a meditation to become completely relaxed then the practitioner asks questions to uncover details about that past life. If the person is good with visualising and can relax then they should be able to bring through the details about the life themselves.” In a past life reading, which is shorter and more guided than a regression, the practitioner will tune in psychically and give details of the life and sometimes highlight similarities in the current life.
Jamie claims there are countless benefits to engaging in a past life regression, such as helping heal interpersonal relationships, alleviating certain phobias, giving insights in the causes of behaviour and influences, providing a sense of relief and release and ultimately, enjoying greater self-discovery and soul connections. Disclosing about your past life also makes for great dinner party fodder.
Prepare to get in your feelings.
Perhaps the most interesting element of past life regression is how your ‘past life’ connects to your current one - and even your offspring. I enjoyed a past life reading with Jamie and he picked up on a ‘cheeky chappy’ bike engineer who worked in the Circus with a pet monkey (I was hopeful I had a past life as royal but here we are). Jamie was convinced that this man was directly connected with my daughter and many of the personality traits he listed were pretty telling.
“You can think of past lives as soul groups, like a group of actors who travel around performing in different plays and take on different roles in each. So in one life, your best friend could reincarnate as your child for example. The purpose of discovering our past lives is to help us understand the lessons we need to learn.”
All the signs have unique parts to their personalities that make us special.
Jamie has seen a surge in past life regressions - and it's all because people keep noticing patterns repeating themselves and they seek answers. “I think it's a good entry point to the world of the magical and unknown. People sometimes find it easier to grasp the idea of past life more than someone giving them a psychic reading for example. Also reincarnation is widely believed in many Dharmic religions such as Buddhism, Sikhism and Hinduism.”
Will you be jumping on the TikTok bandwagon and discovering your past life?
