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 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:

* 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.

* 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.

These are just some of the ways you can glean information about your past life however this is not a confirmation of any sort. A further investigation into things that attract you without any plausible cause and such similarities may give you a hint about the many aspects of your past 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.

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.

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.

All you really need to do is to remember your past life and just move on. The suppression of the past life memories is the cause of all the problems. Once there is an acceptance and understanding about all the experiences in your past life you can move on and understand the present life with a fresh perspective.

'Karma'says that, what goes around comes around, if we were good people in one life, we will have good Karma and receive good things in future lives. Karma changes and negative events come about if a reversion is made to being a 'bad soul', and we no longer receive good until we have made amends for the past life that the bad occurred in, however long ago that was. Once the punishment has been served, you are once again in good graces and you move from that life into the next to learn the next lesson or receive that Karma.

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.