Reincarnation beliefs, or the belief that you had a past lives is an ancient belief that is found all over the world, and originated in European, Asian and African continents. Modern New Age religions still believe that your past lives influence your behaviors and thoughts today. Some of these cultures believe that 'de ja vu' moments are something from a previous life experience in one of your other lives.

Your past life is believed to have been influencing your health, your mental well being, and your social interactions at this present life. And because of this, it will be better for you if you will be able to make yourself stronger and better now by knowing your past life, whether what you were before or settling what you haven?t settled before.

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:

* 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.

* You may feel strongly about an incident in history like the American Revolution for instance. May be you feel very strongly because you have been a part of the movement.

* Some inexplicable fears which have no bearing in the present life and are not connected to your childhood. Allergies and physical problems may also be connected with your past life.

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.

Self-hypnosis is a good way to tap into past life experiences through life regression that takes you back to what occurred before infancy and the womb. You can also be hypnotized by specialists in past life regression where a form of deep hypnotic trances are induced to get you to remember memories of past lives that subconsciously exist in your mind, even now.

Self hypnosis can be accomplished by many techniques like relaxation methods. Practice relaxing before using self hypnosis for past life regression.

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 the past life you had before was a good one, it will generate good feelings after the hypnosis. On the other hand, a bad past life will generate bad feelings, as if you just wake up from a bad dream. Although you might have bad feelings because of the bad past life that you were able to uncover with the hypnosis, you do not have to let it affect you for the rest of your life. This is only a way for past life regression which in time will be for your advantage.

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.

According to the theory of 'Karma', if you were kind and good in your past life, you will be sure that good karma is the result of those positive actions. But the good karma will only take effect if you can keep up the good personality in this present life. Once you change your life from good to bad, your karma will also change and.

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.