AN AWARENESS TECHNIQUE EXERCISE IN PAST LIFE REGRESSION

Richard M. Fewkes

Close your eyes. Relax. Take a few deep breaths and let yourself relax even more. Follow the inflow and outflow of your breath. With every exhalation of your breath you will feel yourself relaxing more and more. (Massage the center of the subject's forehead above the eyebrow with the heel of your hand and offer a prayer of protection and guidance such as the following): We ask the divine spirit and your higher self to bring to awareness within you only that which will be good and helpful to you at this stage in the evolution of your consciousness. You will be able to accept and integrate into your self-understanding any experience that comes to you in this exercise of your mind and imagination. Let go now of the cares and concerns of the day and the morrow. Let your body relax and be refreshed and renewed. Let your mind embark upon a journey in the evolution of your consciousness. Let your consciousness flow slowly down your body from head to feet like a flowing river moving gently out to sea returning to its source. See the sunlight dancing on the water as the river flows. That flowing river of light is your own consciousness flowing toward and inward to its higher source of wisdom and love. You can go anywhere you want in your mind and imagination. You can extend and expand your consciousness to any level or depth that you wish simply by imagining it to be so and it will be so. You are always in charge of your own consciousness. Focus your awareness on your feet. Imagine that your consciousness is extending out through your feet like a beam of light extending out into the room. Tell me when you have done this. Return your consciousness to normal. Repeat the exercise and extend your consciousness even further than before. Tell me when you have done this. Return your consciousness to normal. Focus your awareness on your head. (Have the subject repeat the exercise through the head in exactly the same manner as with the feet). Picture in your mind now a transparent sphere or bubble of light. That sphere is a symbol of your bodily consciousness in its present state. Imagine that your entire body like that transparent sphere of light is beginning to expand and grow larger and larger until it fills the room and touches the floor, the ceiling and the walls. Tell me when you have done this. Go now in your mind to the place where you live and stand in front of the house or building. Describe it to me. Project yourself up onto the roof and look down where you were previously standing. Describe what you now see. Let yourself float up into the air as if you had just stepped into the gondola of a hot air balloon and were lifting up higher and higher into the air until you find yourself a half mile above the rooftops. Describe what you see. Is it daytime or nighttime as you see it? (The subject usually answers "daytime".) Make it nighttime, a nice clear night with the stars shining and beautiful full moon. Tell me when you have done this. Describe what you see below.

Make it daytime again and tell me when you have done so. It is you who are making it night and day with the power of your mind and imagination. You are always in charge of your own consciousness. Make it a nice clear day, a few white clouds in a blue sky, the sunlight shimmering with vitality. Let yourself float higher and higher into the light, higher and higher, until you sense that you are enveloped in a warm protective light, your entire being is pereated within and without by this light. You are one with the light. The light is a symbol of your higher self, of your connection with your divine source of wisdom and love. It brings to you a deep sense of inner peace and joy and well being. The light is within you and without you and will be with you always. You can become aware of the light anytime you wish simply by closing your eyes, taking a few deep breaths, and letting your consciousness ascend into the light as before. In that state of consciousness you can find the inner strength and guidance you need to find the answers to your life's questions and problems. We will return to the light at the end of this exercise. You are now ready to move into a dimension of being that will bring to awareness within you scenes from a past life in the evolution of your consciousness. You will soon feel your consciousness returning towards the earth. As you move in space you will move in time. When you touch down upon the earth you will find yourself in another time and place, in a different body from a previous incarnation. As the scene unfolds, I will guide and direct you to those significant events and persons that connect with your life today in a meaningful way. I am now going to count slowly from 10 to 1. On every descending number, you'll feel yourself moving closer to the earth, moving in time as you move in space. On the count of 1 you will touch down firmly and gently upon the earth and will begin to experience scenes from a past life in the evolution of your consciousness. 10 ,9moving closer to the earth8, 7, 6closer and closer to the earth, moving in time as you move in space5, 4, 3much closer now, you can begin to make out a scene below you2almost ready to touch down1landing firmly and gently upon the earth. The guide directs the subject to become aware of his/her body and clothing beginning with the feet and moving up the body. Ask for sex gender, name, age, time period, nation, place and culture. Ask the subject to describe the scene. Direct him/her to the place of residence in that past life. Have him/her go inside and describe the rooms. Have him/her describe a typical meal in the household, the members who share that meal and their relation to the subject. Direct the subject to two or three more significant events in that past lifetime. Keep asking questions about time, place, persons, action and events. Conclude the exploration of the past life by directing the subject to the day and manner of death. Tell the subject he/she will be able to view this with detachment and without fear. As the subject floats above the body ask him/her for a sense of evaluation and judgement about that lifetime and what lessons it holds for understanding his/her current life. If there is time the subject may explore other lifetimes, the state of being and consciousness between lifetimes, the conditions and purposes leading to his/her current incarnation. Conclude the exercise by bringing the subject back up into the protective light of his/her higher source. Direct the subject to remember all that he/she wants and needs to remember. Move the consciousness up the body to the head and open the eyes.