If you’ve ever wondered how to remember a past life, this article is for you, written by a reincarnationologist with 15 years of experience. Discovering how to recall a past life on your own and without professional assistance is possible. In this article, you’ll find a complete step-by-step guide for self-practice based on my real session experiences and proven techniques. In this comprehensive manual, we will explore all tested methods, preparation for practice, and ways to avoid common mistakes. Here you’ll find not only detailed instructions but also answers to the most frequently asked questions about safe and effective self-recall of previous incarnations.
How to recall a past life independently
Most often, people seeking information on how to remember a past life on their own are beginners trying to save money and avoid consulting professional regressologists.
If I may, my recommendation is still to seek guidance from a specialist because the effect from a session conducted by a professional is entirely different from self-practice. There are several reasons for this.
First, a beginner lacks confidence and experience. Even when self-practicing past life recall yields results, doubts may arise—what if I just imagined it all?
I am speaking as if for women, because I know that among the 100 people reading this article, about 95 will be women and only 5 men. Men, forgive me. Please understand this nuance, because if I write as if for men, many women will feel uncomfortable reading 🙂
Thus, self-practice can be effective. For most practitioners, it will lead to results. Below this article, I will add videos that can help you independently recall past lives. And you won’t spend a single ruble. Why do I recommend gaining experience with professionals? Because most often, interest in past lives arises when certain life problems occur. And many want to understand if the causes of these problems lie in previous incarnations.
Yes, that’s correct. The majority of situations perceived as problems in life are pre-planned by your soul before birth. For the soul, life is a training during which it aims to learn many lessons; problematic situations are interesting lessons, like in school, that it wishes to explore. But I won’t delve into this topic now, or the article would become too long. Let’s move on to what you’re interested in — how to remember past lives independently.
Recall is possible in various ways. The first method is meditations on YouTube or similar platforms. Many beginners, as well as more experienced regressologists, create reincarnation meditations to attract attention. They work well, and you can gain your first experience through meditation.
These meditations have both advantages and disadvantages. The plus is that you begin to understand how it works. The minus is that during the meditation, an instructor guides you using controlled techniques, often called guided meditations, which involve specific induction methods.
Examples of phrases you might hear in such meditations include:
- You walk down a corridor, with doors on both sides; you enter one of the doors, which leads to one of your past lives.
- You walk through a hall decorated with many paintings; you approach a painting, gaze into it, and it reveals a fragment from one of your previous lives.
- You descend in an elevator, going lower and lower; the elevator stops, the door opens, and this is another past life.
Do you understand the point? The guide suggests imagining yourself in a corridor, elevator, or hall, and when you recall a past life, your mind might say it’s just fantasy. Although that’s not true, doubts can creep in.
There are other ways to recall past lives, which I will describe below. Also, further down, you’ll find videos where I explain in detail how to properly recall past lives so that it doesn’t seem like your imagination.
But if you decide to start your practice with meditations from YouTube or other platforms, I have written recommendations in the article “Meditation into Past Lives.” There you will also find my meditation recording, which you can use.
How to Recall a Past Life Safely
This is a very important question. The issue isn’t that recalling past lives is unsafe, but that the fear of an unknown topic and the possibility that something bad might happen often prevent you from starting the practice. Many are afraid to practice alone and avoid consulting regressologists to save money. As a result, they may spend their entire life without remembering their past lives, which is unfortunate. Fear deprives you of the opportunity to gain new experience—a truly magical and, I would even say, divine experience.
Now I will give you a full explanation of why recalling past lives is safe.
Believing or not, every person has spiritual Guides. Who are they? More experienced souls that help less experienced ones navigate earthly lessons. There exists a World of Souls—an etheric space where your soul resides between incarnations. This place is also called the “life-between-lives.”
Your Guides, your mentors, assist you in choosing your current life and its lessons. They are with you constantly during your life, even if you consider yourself an atheist and do not believe in any deity or religion.
It is specifically your Guides who grant you access to the memories of your past lives. They are glad you’ve become interested in activating your reincarnational memory. Because of that, they not only provide access to your soul’s memory archives but also monitor to ensure your first memories don’t frighten you. They safeguard your safety during your reincarnation practices. Trust in the divine plan, begin exploring your past lives boldly. The reward for your efforts will be the opportunity to ask questions to your Guides—mentally, as clearly as you speak with a regular person. Your connection with your Guides will be telepathic, at the level of thoughts. I have written about who Guides are and how to establish conscious contact with them in this article: “Who Is the Spiritual Guide of Your Soul — A Teacher from the Spiritual Realm.”
Returning to safety—one of the common fears is: “What if I don’t come out of the trance and die?” This is impossible. The most that can happen during a past life recall practice is that you simply fall asleep.
The fact is, to access reincarnation memories, you need to slow down your brain waves, reduce your heart rate, and slow your breathing—enter a meditative state.
This state is known as the Alpha state because your brain operates at different frequencies: Delta, Alpha, Theta, and sometimes even lower. More details can be found in the article “Alpha State — How to Enter the Alpha Brain Rhythm.”
In short, you need to relax and slow down so that images from past lives begin to appear in your consciousness.
Another common fear among those familiar with esoteric practices is the fear of entities or attachments during recall. Remember what I wrote above—your Guides are responsible for your safety during practices and sessions.
How to Recall a Past Life at Home: A Step-by-Step Plan
It doesn’t really matter whether you are at home during your first session, visiting somewhere, practicing outdoors, or taking a break in your car. The key is that you have free time, a comfortable posture, and no external noises.
If you’re at home but hear background noise, use headphones or earplugs. For your eyes, it’s better to wear a sleep mask, or lower a knitted cap over your eyes, or cover your head with a towel—anything to make the inner screen dark. This helps you better see the images emerging from past lives.
Here’s how to start practicing recalling past lives:
- Prepare your environment.
- Relax your body.
- Set your intention (affirmations, purpose).
- Immerse yourself in the images.
- Keep a journal of your memories.
- Work with the images that emerge.
If you practice through meditation, prepare a recorded session. Keep in mind that on video platforms, some meditation recordings contain advertisements inserted by the hosting service, which may interfere with your practice. Download the meditation file to your computer or phone.
How to prepare your space: choose a quiet place. Find a room or corner where you won’t be disturbed for at least 1–2 hours. Turn off your phone, notifications, and inform your close ones.
Create a cozy atmosphere. Dim the lights or turn them off. Light a candle or set a soft lamp. Optional: use incense or essential oils (lavender, for example) to create a sense of comfort and protection.
Have a comfortable seat ready—cushion, chair, mat—whatever allows you to sit or lie comfortably. If you have previously practiced and often fall asleep, it’s better to sit without a backrest, for example, on a stool, or sit cross-legged on a sofa. Keep your back straight but relaxed. If sitting in a lotus position is difficult, simply sit on a sofa with your feet on the floor. Wear warm socks for added comfort.
Prepare a notebook and pen. After practice, you will need to record everything you see or feel. Memory of details quickly fades. As you gain experience, it’s better to use a voice recorder on your phone—verbalize what you see during immersion. Afterward, you’ll have an audio recording to review.
Set your inner intention and relax. Before starting, gently close your eyes and breathe deeply for a few minutes. Calmly set a gentle internal purpose: “I am ready to safely recall images and events from past lives that are important for my growth and spiritual self-awareness. I ask my Guides to assist me and ensure the safety of this practice.”
What relaxation method do I recommend? The simplest is closing your eyes and listening to your breath. When you close your eyes, your brain naturally shifts into the alpha state, provided your internal dialogue ceases. Let go of all distracting thoughts. Don’t strain to remember anything—just relax. If you know breathing exercises, do them. If not, just observe your breathing—how you inhale and exhale. Your breathing will automatically slow down.
If your practice time is limited, for example, if you have another engagement in an hour, prepare a timer. Set it for 40–60 minutes to avoid distractions or being late for your next appointment.
Then, settle in comfortably. Spend about five minutes observing your breath with closed eyes. Start the meditation and listen to the guide’s voice. During meditation, look with interest at the images on your inner screen. If you are kinesthetic, you might feel bodily sensations. Turn off your analytical mind—don’t try to judge whether these are real memories or just fantasy. That’s not important now. Enjoy your mental journey. Watch the film on your inner screen. If the meditation is about one life, you’ll see episodes from that life. If it involves multiple past lives, fragments from several will emerge. You may notice recurring situations—patterns that exist across your current life and past lives. You might recognize your current relatives and loved ones in characters from those past incarnations.
If the meditation includes a moment of disembodiment or death in that life—don’t worry, just continue watching. The “life between lives” is a fascinating realm. It’s the space where your soul resides when not embodied. You might be able to glimpse how you and your Guide review the past life you’ve just recalled. Many insights will become clear. You’ll feel joy and gratitude for meeting your Guide(s). By the way, there may be several Guides with whom you can connect.
If you are listening to a meditation from the internet and it lacks a death or Guide meeting segment—next time, use my meditation, which includes those elements.
After meditation, thank the Higher Forces for allowing you to touch this miracle, the archive of your soul’s memory. Your soul has lived hundreds of lives in human form, and your exploration of these incarnations is just beginning.
You can revisit the meditations you liked to recall different past lives. Before each session, set the intention to remember a different life—one different from previous sessions. This way, you can use the same meditation repeatedly effectively.
For example, recall female past lives, male lives; wealthy and poor lives; kind and unkind; talented or lives where your talents were unrealized. Lives where you were a trader skilled with money, or dedicated your life to God in one of the religions—Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox— or Muslim, Jewish, or Buddhist, including those as a monk in India, China, or Tibet.
You might also remember lives as a warrior in different eras, wielding both ranged and melee weapons. Many recall themselves during the Great Patriotic War, on both German and Soviet sides.
Do not judge or criticize the personalities you remember. The soul plays various roles, seeking both positive and negative experiences. Regular practice will help you remember not only lives that inspire admiration but also ones where your actions might not be pleasing—these are all part of your soul’s journey.
A good question to contemplate afterward is: “Why did my soul want to gain such experience?” Are there karmic ties with other lives? Were certain lives the cause of current ones? Will there be future lives based on the ones I remember? I want to understand the planning of each incarnation—the so-called Soul Plan. People often refer to it as Destiny.
The most insightful questions are: “What was my soul’s plan for this life? Why was I born to my parents? What karmic agreements did I make? Why do I play these roles? What lessons am I learning? How well am I coping with the lessons my soul scheduled before incarnation? Do I follow my soul’s plan or have I deviated?”
After each practice, record all memories and realizations. If you followed my advice, such as recording with a voice recorder and verbalizing each life and answer—all that will be saved as a recording you can listen to again.
All remembered lives should be entered into a table. Our students keep such records in Google Docs or cloud storage like Mail.ru. It’s very convenient to see the list of past lives in one place. You can always return to this list and examine specific lives in more detail. We call this the “Embodiment Map.” When students recall over 100 past lives, the table includes more than 100 incarnations, and later it can expand to include not only earthly lives but also other incarnations—on Earth or elsewhere, not only in physical bodies. But I won’t go into detail on this now, as this article is aimed at beginners.
How to Recall a Past Life by Date of Birth
Forgive me, astrologers and platforms that suggest this, but I am skeptical of such claims. I will explain why, as a practitioner who has conducted thousands of sessions, I do not believe that you can recall a past life solely based on your date of birth.
How many people are born each day? According to current data, over 400,000 people are born daily. Every hour, over 16,000. Every minute, more than 260. So how can you expect to determine who you were in a past life just by your birthday?
The resources that offer to do this have some utility—they are what marketing calls “initial contact.” Curious people, not yet ready to practice on their own, may enter their birth date out of curiosity and see what past lives are suggested. But is it truthful? No. But it’s interesting :-).
How to Recall a Past Life: A Test
Online, you can find various tests claiming to reveal your past lives. All the methods I mentioned earlier regarding recall through birth dates also apply to these tests.
Recall of past lives can only be done independently or with a specialist’s help.
Other options include spontaneous memories or those accessed during sleep. Even if you consult a clairvoyant who tells you who you were in a past life, it remains mere information for you—without the personal experience and insights gained through meditation or active recall practice.
How to Recall a Past Life Through a Dream
Some people remember their past lives in dreams. Experienced lucid dream practitioners can recall these memories more vividly and consciously. You may also have dreams that show fragments of past lives.
A dream is one of your soul’s and Guides’ ways of showing you something important that warrants attention. When dreaming, you are relaxed, already in the proper state, and your brain is slowed down. It’s easier for them to “reach” you.
To request recalling a past life in a dream, before sleep, with eyes closed, mentally say: “I ask to show me during sleep the past life that is most relevant to me right now, and that will be beneficial for me to see.”
This may happen on the first night, or shortly thereafter, if you repeat this request each time before falling asleep.
If no results occur, don’t be discouraged—try again.
In my opinion, it’s always better to practice while awake— in a meditative or trance state—rather than rely solely on dreams, which might be remembered temporarily and then forgotten upon waking.
How to Recall Your Past Lives – Videos
As promised at the beginning of the article, I’m sharing videos that will help you recall past lives.
In these videos, I have spoken both the theory and recorded lessons to assist you in activating your memory of past lives.
At the end of the lessons, a meditation is available which, with high probability, will help you achieve your goal.
When I uploaded these lessons on YouTube, the only advertising was at the beginning; during the lessons, it was absent. If you read this article later and notice that ads have appeared in the videos that interfere with your practice, you can watch the same lessons on my Telegram channel.
After practicing, share your results in the comments—what worked, what didn’t, and how many times you practiced. If you have questions after reading the article or watching the videos, describe your query in detail so I can understand how to help you or how to answer.
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