Almost all cultures of the word from Japanese to Australian and African to Aborigines believe in reincarnation. Whether it's a Wiccan or a Hindu, every religion believes that all of us have lived in the past as different people and those past lives have made us what we are today.

Health, mental wellbeing, and social interactions can be linked to past life experiences, accumulating through each past life. By finding out about who you were in a past life, you may be able to better understand your fears, weaknesses and strengths to make you a stronger and better person in your present life, as well as future lives.

How do we come to know if we really had a past life? It's not possible in a conscious state but dreams and memories can give us a hint. Most schools of thought believe that every one has a past life though considering the rapidly increasing population there may be some new souls around as well.There can be other signs that can alert you to the existence to a past life:

* An attraction to a different culture or region but you have no idea why you feel compelled to it, since it has no bearing on your present life. If you love a certain kind of period art, or food, yet can't understand the basis for the attraction, it is possible that there is a link from one of your past lives. Some people may try to learn more about the art to see if a distinct time period and region is related, in order to analyze why they feel it is part of their life, yet there is no basis for it.

* Some cultural or historical incidences and significant events have a great impact on you but you are not aware or you cannot explain why. It could be that you were once a part of the influential events in the past and perhaps you became one of the active individuals of that event.

* 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 any of these signs may not mean you have been reincarnated, but if you find patterns of things that are attractions for reasons not related to your present life, you could be remembering incidents that occurred in a past life. Similarities in these interests or things from a certain time period could give a glimpse into past life or lives experience that may have happened.

Self hypnosis or hypnosis by a past life regression therapist may also yield great results in past life regression. These regression therapists hypnotize you to help you delve into your deep subconscious memories.

A technique that doubles as a deep relaxation method is the best way to start learning self hypnosis and then you can work into past life regressions, once you have mastered it.

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.

Depending on whether they were good feelings or bad feelings, you will wake up the same as from a dream or nightmare, whichever the case may be. Be mindful that unpleasant memories are just a part of the regression experience, as much so as the pleasant ones are.

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 relation to this, the theory of Karma says that those people who lived their past lives in such a good and kind way and have done acts of kindness in the past, they will surely have good Karma in this present life as long as they remained kind and good. But this Karma may possibly change if you turned yourself into a bad person. Instead of good karma, bad karma will definitely follow you in this present life even if you were kind and good in the past.

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.