Past lives, comes from ancient cultures that believed in reincarnation such as Japanese, Africans, Australian tribes, and other newer religions, that look at reasons why your past lives influence what your life is like today and dreams or feelings you have towards certain aspects.

Each and every past life has shaped our mental, social and physical make up. Hence if you really want to know the 'real you' then you need to go into your past lives and meet your self. You need to resolve the past issues and even accumulate all the strengths and positive experiences to make you a better person in this and future lives.

You may want to know what your past life was but you have no way of knowing it. It may be hard for you to know the past but some of the ways that made you aware of your past is the disturbing dreams or some unfamiliar and strange memories which are not really a part of your current life. Here are some indications to help you realize your past life:

* You may be fascinated or strongly attracted to a culture which you have had no exposure to and which does not feature anywhere in your present life. For example if you are unreasonably attracted to the Mesopotamian era and fascinated by the art in that period then there may be a possibility that you have a connection with that place. Try to learn more about the culture to know specifically what attracts you. If you can narrow down the time period then you may get a good hint.

* Odd or strange reaction whenever you see a particular historical structure or whenever you hear a certain part of the history but when it comes to other historical incidents you do not react at all. This could be because you were once a part of that incident in your past life.

* Fears which are irrational and not connected to your present life childhood. Allergies, psychological problems which don?t have a cause in the present life time may have a link in the past.

You do not have to have all these indications to completely and confidently acknowledge that you are experiencing past life recollection. Actually, even just one single indicator is enough to say that you really do recall your past life. Search your inner self by looking at unfamiliar things that attract you most or odd patterns in your life that are unexplainable. These will help you put the pieces all together.

If you really want to uncover the mysteries of your past life there are different possible ways that you can do. Try the assistance of hypnotism. You can use self-hypnosis or you can ask someone expert in hypnotism to hypnotize you so you can explore your past life. There are more hypnotists that specializes in past life regression. This is a special form of hypnotism which applies deep hypnotic techniques to help people like you to remember and recall the past life.

Self hypnosis can be accomplished by many techniques like relaxation methods. Practice relaxing before using self hypnosis for past life regression.

Hypnotic past life regression is safe to undergo. You do not have to worry about anything when the process proceeds. This is just a simple way of going back to what happened in your past life. The people you came to interact with and the events you experienced during that past life may not look clear and precise but the point is to let you know what you are in the past.

Memories which are good will make you feel good while the bad memories from a past life will give you a feeling as if you have had a nightmare. You may just wake up like in a bad dream and feel queasy fro some time. However, if you want to exorcise your past problems these bad memories are an essential part of the experience.

All you need to really do is remember your past life and move on. You don't need to suppress the memories consciously or subconsciously. What is required is an understanding and unconditional acceptance of all the past happenings and having a fresh perspective on this life.

In 'Karma', many believe that you receive what you give and those that had a past life and were good people will have 'good Karma' and bad people won't. They believe bad will hound us until we have been punished in future life's enough to go back to being a 'good soul'.

However these days people don't agree with this kind of a theory since they believe that no one needs to suffer because of a past life. Each life that we live is an opportunity to turn a new leaf and do good deeds. What we need to understand is that we are not bad people and we can always forgive ourselves for our bad deeds and become good.