Many people have the thinking that the idea of reincarnation really does exist. People from every places of the earth- Japanese, Australian aborigines, Africans, modern Wiccans and many other New Age religions, believe or even thought to have experienced the connection of their past life to their present life and it could have influenced who and what they are now.

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.

When you have disturbing dreams that seem like real life, but don't fit into any experiences you have ever had, it could be from a buried subconscious memory of a past life. People who think reincarnation is possible also believe that everybody is a reincarnated soul, but that some are older souls, while some are newer souls that are just recycled into new bodies. Other signs of possible reincarnation dreams:

* Some cultural or historical arts and other significant things could have attracted you for no reason at all. It could be an extreme fascination over some traditional activity or creativity which you were not previously introduced to or associated with before. These strange behavior and personality may be a link to your past life. To further reveal it to yourself, learn other significant things that interest you most.

* 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.

* 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.

The fact that you have experienced any of these doesn't necessarily mean you are remembering a past life, it is usually indicated by patterns, attractions, tastes, incidents in your life that are put together to indicate the possibility they may be coming from a past life because they have no basis in your childhood or present life.

Self-hypnosis or going to a hypnotist can sometimes divulge past lives, where some of the memories belong to a person from another time and place. Past life regression therapists perform a deep hypnotic state to find those memories of past lives that might be buried in the subconscious.

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.

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.

Remembering past life experiences is an important part of moving on with your present life. Once you have remembered, your subconscious mind is no longer suppressing these feelings and you can understand and accept what happened in the past lives to give you a more positive outlook in your present 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'.

This interpretation causes confusion with many people that believe we are not punished in future lives or destined to live that way forever. They think that each new life is to do the things over again, that we may not have done right before. Memories from a previous life are meant to allow you to live in the present, once you have acknowledged them, recognized them and learned from them.