Reincarnation is a concept that has been found in almost all the across the world from Japan to Australia. So, whether it's the Wiccans or the new and the old religions every body believes in past lives and their influence on our present ones.

Your health and your mental health both can be impacted from a past life. Who you were in a past life can determine some of the reactions, fears or strengths that you display or chronic medical ailments. These beliefs are based on things that were learned through previous lives, are used in future lives, or that the person keeps being reincarnated until the 'lesson'is learned.

How would you determine your past life? It may be impossible to know your past but sometimes, people have some dreams that kept on bothering them or some unclear recollection of the past memories and interaction with other unfamiliar people. Those who strongly believed the reincarnation consider different happenings in their present life to be an effect of past life. Some indications are:

* 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.

* Incidents in history that arouse strong emotions or bring you to tears with no explanation could relate you to a certain time period in a past life. You may have been involved in the incident or known somebody from a past life that was and it is stirring up memories in the subconscious mind.

* Certain physical or psychological issues and problems that you cannot explain or give logical reasons for its existence may be linked to what your past life was.

You do not have to experience all these indicators; even just one of these could be enough to indicate that you have a past life that you may want to explore and discover for your own advantage. Start by looking for strange patterns or odd things in your life that you find hard to connect to or explain and then try to link it to your past life.

Past lives can be accessed with hypnotism and self hypnosis as well. A visit to a past life regression specialist may unravel more mysteries for you. The specialist hypnotizes you and puts you in a deep state of relaxation which helps you to tap your subconscious memories.

When you look for a hypnotism experts, make sure that the one you will acquire is the one with a deep relaxation procedure which is very essential in preparation for the past life regression process.

Self hypnosis and past life regression is relatively safe because they are much like a dream or nightmare that you wake up from and have some feelings about, but no other consequences. Since you will not recall the past life experiences as vividly as present life, there is not much to worry about. Feelings from a past life can help you understand how you think and act on things today.

If good feelings are brought out, those are important as bad feelings from past life memory are a part of regression that can manifest how you react and think in your present life, whether good or bad. You may have an uneasy feeling that is hard to explain after awakening from the trance, but the regression is meant to bring those feelings to the surface.

You also have to realize that you have to undergo this kind of experience for you to be able to start your life positively. The recollection of negative incidences of your past life is only a small portion of the process. Once you are through with this life regression and you have learned to accept and understand the life you have been through in the past, you will be free to move on and make your current life better.

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'.

But there are also some people who are confused with the interpretation. Some people thought that because of the bad past life they are going to suffer bad life as well in the present life. The truth is that people in their new life have their choice of what kind of life they will live now. When you realize that you are bad in the past life but good in the current life, you can proceed with your life the good way as long as you want.