Can we heal our emotional hurts by knowing about our past lives?
Some people may want to if they have some emotional issues some hurts some psychological problems they may feel that by going to their past and understanding what caused those they can deal with them so they may want to do something like channeling for that purpose channeling or healing through those on the other hand in bhakti spirituality we focus on primarily connecting with connect with our source so does that itself lead to the healing? or do we also need to go backwards and revisit the past in order to heal? I wouldn't say there's a one general answer for all of this because different people's emotional wounds are different and some people may feel the need to process their emotional issues by going back to the past but the challenge is that there's no guarantee that going by by going back to the past one will be able to actually heal those issues because there are some cases like in medicine also when we're treating sometimes you understand what is the cause of the disease and then we treat the disease but sometimes in the body is so complicated but okay these are the symptoms and this could be the cause this could be the cause this could be the cause we basically start a treatment and the treatment works then sometimes the cause is not really possible to know but this treatment works and we move on so one time I was having a fever for many days and the doctor was not able to diagnose it was for six months I used to keep getting fever every evening and finally the doctor said that it is I went to one doctor and he I got the reports and he said in the diagnosis it's P-U-O so I thought is this some disease I've not heard of till now P-U-O this P-U-O is and what does it mean? it's pyroxia of unknown origin so pyroxia is fever so fever of unknown origin that I also know there's nothing new to be known in that so ultimately they just gave some medicines and I got cured we just don't know sometimes it's just not possible always possible to know the cause the cure the cure we can say it will work most effectively when we know the cause but you know life doesn't work in such a logical rational ways sometimes because our knowledge itself is finite so we have to we cannot wait to get complete knowledge to move on in our life if I have sickness I have to take some treatment if I can understand the specific cause of the sickness and take the cure that's good but if it doesn't happen that doesn't mean that I will not take any treatment I keep taking treatment and eventually something works we move on in our life so there are cases of people as I said through hypnotic regression who have been healed but there are cases also of people who not many but there are cases of people who have got aggravated psychological trauma because of that so in fact young stephenson on his website he strongly disapproves of hypnotic regression therapy he says that by going into the past sometimes you may remember some further hurts of the past and that could cause greater agitation and that happens in what you do after that so there is a case of one past life memory involving the ship titanic this titanic why it drowned so suddenly you know before any aid could reach it that is for a long time that was an unresolved mystery so there was thomas andrews who was one of the main designers of the titanic and he was on that ship and he drowned and after some years another person was born william barnes and he started remembering about the titanic and then he started during one expenditure of a collection he got an insight that actually i was thomas andrews and then he started telling many facts about the titanic which were true but which were not known in general and till date he has given the most satisfactory explanation most real rational explanation of why the titanic sank so quickly now when the titanic was made it was it was advertised as if like the ship which even god can't sink that is so strong so this william barnes told that as thomas andrews before they were going on their maiden voyage he was testing the ship and then he was at different points he was just like testing the hull by hitting it with a hammer and at a few places when he hit it with a hammer like a loud noise okay which is like resonance and then when he pointed this out to one black he was that's the name of the person he was one of the main financers for this project and i told him that now this these points of resonance they are where the ship's hull is very vulnerable and we need to thicken the hull of the ship to prevent this resonance he's black he's dismissed he says you know we're already spending enough money the whole cruise is all set up and we have to go so he just pushed over his obstacles objections and he went on the ship and eventually the iceberg that hit the titanic it didn't just hit it it hit one of the resonance points and because of that what happened was if the titanic had just got one hole it would not have sunk so fast but it tied to multiple cracks and the water seeping from multiple places much much faster than what it normally have so this was the explanation that he gave and it's a very rational explanation so there are many people who are not everyone but people are convinced that William Barnes was actually Thomas Andrews reincarnated but i'm not focusing on that case the evidence whether it is sound or not the point which i'm making is that this William Barnes he is fully convinced that i am Thomas Andrews reincarnated but he has no interest in anything spiritual although he has an understanding that i was this person and this person that means there's something which continues on your bodily identity but he says the mission of my life is to clear the good name of Thomas Andrews so the remembrance of the past is now guarantee that it will either lead to emotional healing or whether it will lead to it will comprise a prompting for spiritual growth so that's why we cannot we cannot continue living in the past so it's best to try to move ahead in one's life and if you consider the mind to be like a if you consider the mind to be like a say a wall on which graffiti has been written now if a graffiti has been written then the the police or the authority they try to find out who wrote the graffiti over here we try to catch them and we discipline them but in some cases you just can't find out who wrote it the important thing is you know you remove the graffiti so what do you do is one is scratch it out but if it's too much there then the solution is over paint it over painting the graffiti goes off so the process of bhakti yoga is like over painting so what we do is there are past emotional issues which are there within us but if we just put in spiritual impressions in our mind through singing songs through going to holy places through beholding the sacred forms through getting in spiritual wisdom all this also creates impressions in the mind that these impressions as they become more and more strong they over paint the previous impressions and as those past hurts go further and further into background they hurt us less and less so the much safer and more the reliable way of emotional healing is not to go back and revisit the past hurts but rather to move ahead and to get more emotionally enriching experiences and bhakti yoga because it connects us with the supreme reality it gives us very enriching experience and that way we can heal ourselves much better thank you.