The weirdest part? I keep looking at myself and realising that I’m white. I’m small, I’d say about four and I’ve got a retro bowl-ish haircut and patent shiny black shoes. Next Fiongal asks me to look down at myself - and it gets weirder. You can come away from the session with a much broader concept of who you are, and perhaps explain the source of some of your issues in this lifetime, such as phobias, addictive traits and compulsive behaviours.” But Fiongal cautions: “It’s not simply a trip down memory lane, but it can be a tool for insight as to where the causes of certain traits or ways of thinking stem from. There are insights and understandings to be found in these differences.” I feel a bit calmer about it, and less like I’ll be accessing something I can’t control. For instance, one client might picture themselves as a father of six who works on a farm, whereas another person brings forward a young lady of a rich family. Even if it simply imagined or ideas from the subconscious it still has meaning.

Fiongal reassures me: “I always say it doesn’t matter too much where the memories are coming from, but rather the content. My biggest question is how do we know what we’re seeing is true? What if I’m just seeing what I watched on Netflix last night? And I watch a LOT of Netflix. There’s ‘inherited memory’ which comes from our ancestors (“in particular through the mother,” says Fiongal.) ‘Cryptomnesia’ is when you can pick up on collective thought-forms, for example from other people’s memories, ‘parallel lives’ is when we pull through a life from alternative universe and imagination, which is simply accessing the subconscious.īut I’ve got a dose of side eye too. ‘Past life memory’ is where your soul takes on a new physical form (ie.you) but it carries memories of its former reincarnation. I like the sound of that, it takes the fright factor out of it a bit (I do have some trepidation about what I could unleash - what if I was like, Satan, in another life?) as does its spiritual usage: “Past lives can be found in most Eastern religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, and they come in different forms,” he explains. I never convince people of their past-lives, in a spiritual form or otherwise, it’s more of an exploration to represent the power of the subconscious mind,” he explains. So what is it? “Past life regression is a gentle healing technique that takes you on a hypnotic journey, safely into a past life time. He mentions in passing he’s a past life regression practitioner (among a host of other things) and within a few weeks I’m booked in, sitting in a chair, about to undertake something that pushes even pushes my boundaries. It’s kismet too I happen to meet Fiongal Greenlaw aka The Wellness Foundry when I’m taking an excellent tarot class he’s teaching.

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