I often hear people express their desire to know and heal their past lives…
Exploring our past lives can be a valuable way to better understand ourselves and often leads to healing and resolution of issues that affect us in this life. But we must keep one thing in mind: the key to working with past lives is to maintain awareness of the present reality in which the present takes precedence. Past lives can be fascinating, emotionally seductive, and we can get lost in them or in the story someone tells us about who we were and what experiences we had, losing touch with the most important thing – the life we live now!
Of course, there is a deep connection between our past and present lives, so that sometimes it is hard to tell where one begins and the other ends. For example, we may sense that a friend or partner is someone we knew in a past life, and that connection feels like an unbroken string reaching into the past, reminding us of the vast nature of the soul. We may experience a lot of challenges from this person, or we may be blessed with a deep love that we are lucky to experience in this life. Whatever the situation, problems must be solved in this life, in the present moment. In many ways, the gift we reap from exploring our past lives is the profound revelation of our soul’s eternity. Once this is integrated, we can let go of focusing on the details of the past, staying present in the here and now.
We will know we have received all the fruits of past life exploration when we find ourselves even more powerfully present in the eternal now. The past fades as it heals, becoming one with the present and the future. In the tradition of the Inca Shamans, this happens when we practice healing by accessing the Eagle level, where all is and is not, where all is pure energy, not yet manifested, where we connect with the consciousness that holds all time and space. To enjoy the present moment and cultivate greater happiness within, we need to take the time to explore our experiences from a deep soulful perspective, releasing energetic and emotional residue. This is shamanic work, centered on the heart, love, Munay.
There, at the level of the Eagle, we know that this moment contains everything within it, resolved and unresolved, past and future, and that it is from this moment that we must live our lives.
