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.

The person you are today; physically, mentally, socially has been a result of your varied past life experiences. This is why you need to actually delve in all your past lives and gather an understanding of why and how you became this self that you are today. You need to understand the weaknesses and the problems and even acknowledge your strength so as to become a better and more equipped person in this life and the future ones.

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:

* Are you strongly attracted to a specific culture or place that does not hold any place of importance in your present life? For instance you may be crazy about Mesopotamian art but not really understand why. Delve further into the aspects that interest you about that art and the time period you are interested in. If you can zero on a narrow range, we may have some clue.

* 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 health issues may be linked to past life experiences and some believe that, for example if you suffer migraines, you may have suffered death in a previous life through a blow to the head. Others think the same about psychological issues and fears that have no basis, but seem almost instinctual, from the time you are born.

Don't just merely go by these points since these do not prove that you had a past life recall. Instead search for more clues like things that you really love without reason and some patterns that make sense. These clues will help you to unravel your past life and what it would have been like.

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.

Look for a technique of self hypnosis that involves a deep relaxation technique before trying self hypnosis for your 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.

Pleasant memories will make you smile while bad memories may give you a tough time like in a nightmare. In such cases you end up waking like in bad dream. However it's important to experience these bad memories to completely understand and exorcise the past.

You can move on, once you have brought these thoughts from the subconscious suppression of the memories that could be causing you problems in your present life. By learning the lesson from what happened in the past you can start to live in the moment with a positive outlook.

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'.

Some people are confused over this interpretation, because they think that is why your soul is reborn, for the chance to do right, instead of suffering from past life behaviors. By acknowledging the memory from a previous life, you are released from it and ready to move into the present. They do not believe that you come back to be punished for something that happened in the past. Once you have learned from the past life mistake, you are then free to move on.