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Training in Past Life Regression Therapy

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Twenty five years ago, I started my training in past life regression therapy. I traveled to the east and west coasts of the US, as well as to Holland, Brazil and India to attend workshops, conferences and trainings to learn my passion from some of the best teachers in the world. I feel blessed to have had such amazing, knowledgeable and gifted trainers. In each of my sessions, I draw upon those various effective techniques and methods that I’ve learned.

Over the years, people have asked me to train. Although I really wanted to share what I know with others, I didn’t think I had the time to organize a manual and curriculum. I recently asked my guides and angels to help arrange someone who could help me teach. Well, what nearly always happens when I ask my higher guidance for something that will help me benefit others, they arranged it. Caty Brown, owner of Soul Body Finesse Sound Bath Studio in NE Minneapolis, invited me to teach, has helped me organize a manual, a curriculum and is also hosting my first past life regression training. I feel grateful to be working with Caty.

I am excited to share the knowledge and skills of how to facilitate past life regression therapy which I’ve learned over the past 25 years from more than a dozen wise teachers from around the world. This in-person, 12-hour training is a unique opportunity to experience the profound healing of past life regression — both as a participant and as a facilitator. Over the course of the weekend, you will journey into your own past lives, integrate insights with a supportive group, and leave with the skills and tools to guide others in this deeply transformative practice.

Much like a medicine journey weekend, this training provides an immersive, expansive experience. But unlike most retreats, you will walk away with tangible skills to bring past life regression into your work with clients and loved ones.

This training will be over the weekend of April 4-6, 2025. I welcome all questions about this training, so feel free to call me at 651-649-1952, or email me at eric@ericjchristopher.com.

This training is ideal for therapists, hypnotherapists, energy healers, intuitives, and anyone interested in guiding others through past life regression and deep subconscious healing.

For more information about the workshop or to register, visit the soulbodyfinesse.com/past-life-regression.

Life Between Lives Transcription

Case Study: Catapulting Straight into the Healing Wisdom of the Afterlife

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“At the center of your being you have the answers. You know who you are and what you want.”   – Lao Tzu

 

The above quote by the sage Lao Tzu could not have been more applicable the day my client Paul (name changed) came in for a past life regression session. He arrived feeling overwhelmed, depressed and extremely stressed because he was in the middle of a bitter divorce with his wife. He had experienced some suicidal ideation in the past, and did not want to slide down that path. They had two children under the age of 7 and he felt very protective of them. Both of his parents had a challenging life growing up in the inner city, and he wanted a better life for his kids. He lamented, “I wanted so badly for my kids to have a great life experience. I need to come to peace with my emotional pain. I want to grow through it and make sense of it. I need to calm my heart.” This was Paul’s first time doing any type of hypnotherapy.

I like to have my clients make a statement of intent for their inner journey session. Paul’s request to his higher guidance was, “Show me a life or lives that can most help me understand and heal my pain, calm my heart and move forward with clear direction in life.”

In my experience, a client will nearly always be shown a past life on earth before moving deeper into the spirit realm after the death of that life. A few minutes into Paul’s past life regression, however, I sensed that he was not describing an earth life.

Eric: When I play the tone, you’ll be standing in front of the dwelling that you live in. (singing bowl tone) What does it appear like, and what is it made of?

Paul: It’s a large, glass structure. The floor is the same material.

Eric: Notice a doorway, and move through it, allowing your eyes to adjust to the inside. How would you describe the furnishings?

Paul: The furnishings seem very plush.

It’s often at a mealtime setting that a lot of information about that life can come into awareness. When Paul began to describe the mealtime scene, I realized that he was describing life in a much higher dimension.

Paul: My meal just appeared out of thin air. I live by myself, but I don’t feel alone. I feel immense peace. My body is translucent. I am in tune with everything. I am in harmony with everything. I am part of everything. There is no pain here, only love. There really is no need here for food to survive.

Soon Paul began to notice other beings around. He focused on them and began to describe them.

Eric: Do you sense that you are familiar to them?

Paul: Yes, we know each other.

Eric: Do they seem male or female in appearance, or just like energy beings?

Paul: There is no gender. We can float and fly and greet each other. There’s a beautiful anticipation of wanting to connect, yet we know we’re intrinsically connected. There’s hundreds of them.

Eric: Are there any beings there that you are especially bonded with?

Paul: I don’t feel a closer bond with anyone in particular. I’m intimate with them individually and with all of them. We’re all ultimately the same and a part of everything, and we all know this. There’s no pain or suffering here. We have tremendous peace and love for ourselves and one another. It’s all so peaceful and full of love here. (long pause)

Eric: What else can you tell me about this place?

Paul: There’s no reason for pain or jealousy here like on earth. That is so juvenile. People on earth are so innocent. They just don’t understand yet. The interconnection is there on earth, but it’s covered up and no one sees it. There’s really no need for people to worry themselves about different things. It’s all about love, that’s what truly matters. There’s no need to take things personally.

It had been only about 45 minutes since we began the regression, yet Paul was experiencing a far different set of emotions and a much higher level of consciousness than when he came in. Neither one of us could have predicted that. And the awareness of his innate wisdom and bliss continued to grow as he moved deeper into his soul home and higher in the vibrational frequency of the spiritual realm. He began to describe some of the crystalline structures that he was seeing, yet seemed to focus more on the overall feeling of the place he was in.

Paul: The crystalline structures here have every color in it. And I can hear very beautiful sounds of nature. There’s a playful fun to experience this. This place is home. Everything makes sense here. There’s nothing to fear, no pain and no worry. It’s the most silent, immense peace. It’s pure joy. You can’t even call it rejuvenation because there’s nothing to rejuvenate, pain doesn’t exist here. There is no boredom…everything is extraordinary to experience. There’s nothing to seek or do, you just are.

Eric: What advice would this part of you want to give the Paul part of you?

Paul: There’s nothing to be afraid of. No need to spend so much time in your head. My children have their own soul lessons and earth challenges to grow from. I cannot protect them from everything. What seems so important on earth is not. Let go of what seems so urgent. One day I’ll be back here again. There is a knowing about that. Earth is a learning or testing ground, and not everyone gets it. They play off each other and learn, kind of like kids. It’s very hard on earth, but it’s truly love that saves the day. Forgive them because they don’t really know what they’re doing. The connection is always there, nothing is lost. There’s no need to go anywhere, and there’s absolutely no judgement. We’re trying to live on earth with this knowing. You already are whole and we are all One. Earth life has certain lessons to learn to help bring us back to what we already are. Earth has precious moments, gentle touches, but so many distractions. We need to learn to see through all the distractions to the beauty that’s always there.

There is a theme with past life regression and life between lives hypnotherapy work: As you go within, you get what you need, often when you need it the most. At a time in his life when Paul could most use it, he received the most beautiful and helpful gift of love, wisdom and reassurance…from his own higher self!

Perhaps the most profound message that Paul received was that he was not separate from the love, peace, joy, wisdom, understanding and interconnection that he was experiencing. He was part of it, and it was him…simply at a higher dimension within his multi-dimensional being. To have a felt, tangible, palpable experience of this was a life-changing experience for him.

After his session, Paul reflected on the perception shift that his inner journey brought him. It was immensely valuable while he continued to live with the challenges of his earth life. But now he could live life with a new perception based in a higher truth…and that changed everything for him.

In closing, I will refer to Paul’s own words towards the end of his session: “Happiness is already here. The Truth really does set you free!”

January Past Life Regression Workshop

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You are an incredible, magnificent soul being that is eternal, indestructible and outside of time and space, and you are using your human experience to grow, learn and evolve. I love sharing the evidence of this with people in the past life regression workshops that I facilitate. I also love sharing fascinating case studies that not only demonstrate our multi-dimensional nature, but also how we can easily connect to our “more permanent” self for healing, wisdom and clarity in our present life.

One of my favorite teachers, Paramahansa Yogananda, often emphasized the value of community, especially when embarking on the spiritual journey. At this event, you will have the opportunity to enjoy time with like-minded souls who are focused on spiritually evolving which can have a profound effect on your growth. We can all benefit from more high-quality, joyful connections that open our heart. There will be plenty of time for questions as well as experiencing a group-guided past life regression. I hope you will join us at this unique event on Sunday, January 26, 2025 from 1 – 4pm.

Participants will:

  • Discover the evidence of reincarnation and the truth that you are an eternal, indestructible soul being.
  • Hear fascinating case studies that reveal the power of past life regression to promote wisdom, clarity and healing from a multitude of issues, awaken you to your divinity and also to a higher level of consciousness.
  • Experience your own past life in a group-guided journey and process experiences.
  • Learn about our journey out of ego/body identification and into a higher aspect of our being.
  • Deepen your personal and spiritual growth.
  • Participate with like-minded people to support your soul’s expansion.

The workshop will be hosted at Soul Body Finesse Studio, 2400 N 2nd St., Suite 212, Minneapolis, MN. Their website is SoulBodyFinesse.com. To register for the workshop directly, click here, and scroll down.

The cost for this event is $60, $30 for Soul Body Finesse members.

What it means to awaken

Interview with Mystic Mag

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I feel that one of the purposes of my life is to remind people of several spiritual insights that their soul already knows. Among these are: We are eternal beings on earth for the purpose of learning, evolving and remembering our permanent identities; Within us lies tremendous resources as well as the love, connection, peace and joy that we are seeking outside of ourselves; We are all ultimately interconnected.

Opportunities to share this come to me in speaking invitations or interviews. I may feel reluctant or too busy sometimes to share, but that quiet voice within reminds me what I’m doing here, and nudges me to accept these invitations. The most recent one was an interview with Mystic Mag, an online global magazine dedicated to informing people about holistic and spiritual services.

Please enjoy the interview by clicking on the link below.

https://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-reading/ericchristopher-interview/

 

 

 

Newton book authors 2024

Finding Purpose: Stories of the Afterlife that Inspire

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The most inspirational, life-changing book I ever read was Dr. Michael Newton’s book, Journey of Souls. I read it in my late 20’s when I was in a life period of spiritual exploration, growth, awakening, as well as feeling a bit lost and wondering what to do with my life. The book offered me clear direction as I felt a deep calling to train with Dr. Newton in order to do the sacred work that he was doing of helping people connect to the divine, inner wisdom within themselves. The book cemented in an understanding that we are all eternal beings having a human experience for the purpose of growing, learning, evolving and awakening to who and what we truly are behind the scenes of our human earth suit. Newton’s research uncovered what every spiritual awakened teacher has discovered…that life on earth is like an amazing “slight-of-hand” card trick that obscures our more permanent Self as we live with the amnesia of our divinity and ultimate universal unity.

A training and research organization called The Michael Newton Institute formed around Newton’s work. As the organization has grown with more practitioners guiding clients to profound insightful and healing sessions, several books have been published with inspirational case studies from various Life Between Lives therapists within the organization. The latest book from The Michael Newton Institute is called Finding Purpose: Stories of the Afterlife that Inspire. I am proud and honored to have contributed a case study for the book. Below is some information about the book, and above is a photo of the all of the contributors from eight different countries throughout the world. The photo was taken at the MNI World Conference near Barcelona, Spain in early November, 2024.

Here is a description of the book:

Welcome to a unique tapestry of voices, a collection of stories woven together by The Michael Newton Institute’s Life Between Lives Facilitators. Each author brings their distinctive style and cultural background to the table, yet a common theme unites all: exploring the afterlife, referred to here as the Life Between Lives.

As you journey through these pages, you will encounter a rich variety of perspectives and experiences. Topics range from Freedom and Free Will, Learning Through Relationships, Understanding Loss and Grief, Healing, Connection (community and oneness), Guides and Advanced Beings, Divine Guidance, to Healing the Earth.

Some stories may challenge you, while others may comfort and reassure you, but all are intended to inspire and provoke deep thought. The diversity of the authors’ voices reflects the multifaceted nature of spirituality-how it transcends boundaries and resonates within us in unique ways.

Each author has poured their heart and soul into their writing, offering insights and reflections based on their practices and experiences. Their stories remind us that, despite our differences, we are all connected by the universal quest for purpose, understanding, higher perspectives, and expanded consciousness.

Through the storyteller ́s words, you will discover new ways of viewing the world and perhaps new ways of seeing yourself. We hope this collection serves as a mirror, reflecting your quest for meaning and the many paths that can lead to a life filled with purpose, self-actualization, and soul growth.

May these stories ignite your spirit, encourage your heart, and guide you toward richer understanding and heightened awareness, thus embracing your soul’s journey.

Thank you for joining us on this transformative and purposeful adventure.

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August Past Life Regression Workshop

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You are an incredible, magnificent soul being that is eternal, indestructible and outside of time and space, and you are using your human experience to grow, learn and evolve. I love sharing the evidence of this with people in the past life regression workshops that I facilitate. I also love sharing fascinating case studies that not only demonstrate our multi-dimensional nature, but also how we can easily connect to our “more permanent” self for healing, wisdom and clarity in our present life.

One of my favorite teachers, Paramahansa Yogananda, often emphasized the value of community, especially when embarking on the spiritual journey. At this event, you will have the opportunity to enjoy time with like-minded souls who are focused on spiritually evolving which can have a profound effect on your growth. We can all benefit from more high-quality, joyful connections that open our heart. There will be plenty of time for questions as well as experiencing a group-guided past life regression. I hope you will join us at this unique event on August 25, 2024 from 1 – 4pm.

Participants will:

  • Discover the evidence of reincarnation and the truth that you are an eternal, indestructible soul being.
  • Hear fascinating case studies that reveal the power of past life regression to promote wisdom, clarity and healing from a multitude of issues, awaken you to your divinity and also to a higher level of consciousness.
  • Experience your own past life in a group-guided journey and process experiences.
  • Learn about our journey out of ego/body identification and into a higher aspect of our being.
  • Deepen your personal and spiritual growth.
  • Participate with like-minded people to support your soul’s expansion.

The workshop will be hosted at Soul Body Finesse Studio, 2400 N 2nd St., Suite 212, Minneapolis, MN. Their website is SoulBodyFinesse.com. To register for the workshop directly, click here, and scroll down.

The cost for this event is $60, $50 for Soul Body Finesse members.

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Case Study: Deep Healing – A Perception Shift Away

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Emily came to me at age 65 in need of healing as well as answers as to why she would incarnate into her abusive current life family. She was a therapist herself who had experienced a lot of healing modalities in her life ever since intense memories of trauma surfaced in her early 30’s. She felt bitter, angry and in a dark, stuck place from growing up in a home saturated in physical, emotional and sexual abuse. She had an abortion at age 12 after being molested. Her words were, “I feel a deep sense of hopelessness. My life was taken from me. How do I get it back? I’ve never felt supported ever. I feel I’ve pushed myself through my lifetime, and I have no push left. Why is it like this?”

She set the intention to see a life that could most help her heal before going into the life beyond. She saw her past life as a young girl named Elizabeth who was raised in a very loving family. She felt confident and excited about being in the world. She loved school and eventually became a teacher before marrying a loving and supportive man and having two children. They ultimately moved in with her own parents who were there to help raise her children while Elizabeth and her husband took over the family farm.  After her death she was struck with how bonded her family was…”such connectedness – communication was always there!”

As she drifted deeper into the spirit world, she was surrounded by loving beings and then soon after, a sense of oneness.

T: (therapist) What are you noticing or experiencing in this moment?

C: (client) I’m surrounded by different energies, and I am being filled up….now I’m diffusing into formlessness. There’s a symphony of beautiful colors and sounds, and I’m all of it…not even separate…pure beingness…being with that which everything arises! I see sacred geometry and feel the different energies of these shapes, and I am the space within which it all happens – a universe unto myself. I am Home!

Eventually Emily was in deep communion with her main guide. I asked what could be known about her decision to incarnate into her current family. Her guide responded to her, and then Emily shared her insights.

Guide: “In order to achieve what you did and will do, you had to experience the worst of humanity. Otherwise you would have settled for bread crumbs.”

C: Emily had to lose herself in order to gain herself back again. She would have settled for so much less. Someone in the lineage had to make a bold move. I committed I wouldn’t pass on the abuse. I had to swim in the toxicity until I figured a way out. I chose it – someone had to – in order to heal the generational line. With awareness I can now be a conduit to send the healing energy up and down the line.

T: What will it look like and feel like to live your life from this new level of consciousness?

C: Wholeness. I can now bring the energies of Home back to my current life. I won’t feel empty anymore. I will be filled with something that sustains me and enlivens others. There is more than enough substance of my True Self to fill me and everyone else in my life so it will no longer feel like I never really existed.

Two days after the session, Emily shared in an email how healing and shifting it was to feel the effects of growing up in a loving and supportive family…quite the opposite of what she lived through in her current life: “A door has been opened that was never available to me. I tapped into what it felt like to experience the effects of being raised in a family where mom and dad radiated love and acceptance to each other and their children, where my thoughts and feelings were hopeful and anticipatory of good because of the prevailing trust between me and my parents, where the looks in the eyes of my family beamed ‘I am here for you – I am hearing you – I am listening’ and the sense of being a whole person onto myself who got to have her own ideas and beliefs, and experiment with what was possible. It was as familiar as having blood flow through my body. A life experience of that is now available to me.”

Ten days after the session, I received an email from Emily. She wrote, “My life has been altered in a miraculous manner – there’s no other way for me so say it. I was guided to a miraculous outcome. I thought there was no way out. I’ve been liberated and have come to know how to love, forgive and accept myself.”

Four months after the session, Emily again wrote to me: “I replayed the recording of the LBL session again and felt the energies of ‘Home’ flood through me again.”

We are multi-dimensional beings, and so deep healing can be a perception shift away. Sometimes all it takes is to awaken out of the hypnotic experience of identifying solely with the body/mind personality by going on an inner journey into the higher dimensions of the spirit realm and of our own “more permanent” being. Emily described her Life Between Lives experience as one of the greatest gifts she could ever experience.

Join the Past Life Regression Workshop!

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You are an incredible, magnificent soul being that is eternal, indestructible and outside of time and space, and you are using your human experience to grow, learn and evolve. I love sharing the evidence of this with people in the past life regression workshops that I facilitate. I also love sharing fascinating case studies that not only demonstrate our multi-dimensional nature, but also how we can easily connect to our “more permanent” self for healing, wisdom and clarity in our present life.

One of my favorite teachers, Paramahansa Yogananda, often emphasized the value of community, especially when embarking on the spiritual journey. At this event, you will have the opportunity to enjoy time with like-minded souls who are focused on spiritually evolving which can have a profound effect on your growth. We can all benefit from more high-quality, joyful connections that open our heart. I hope you will join us at this unique event on March 23, 2024.

There will be plenty of time for questions as well as experiencing a group-guided past life regression. For more details or to register, visit https://ericjchristopher.com/workshops/.

I look forward to seeing you there!

 

Case Study: Awakening to the Light and Love Inside of Us

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Our problems, personal as well as global, can be clear pointers to what no longer works for us, and therefore, they can be the starting point to reclaim our power. And even while we as individuals are stuck in a limiting pattern, there is a part of us that remains free from the constraints of our mind programs, and offers a clearer way of perceiving. This internal wisdom is available and can offer guidance that is based in a more permanent reality, the soul state, which is motivated from a background of love and safety rather than a background of fear, which is common in the human state. I see examples of this in nearly every session. Here is an example of the insights that come from this truer reality.

Client Background

Jane’s initial reason for doing a past life regression was to gain clarity on her life purpose and whether or not she should relocate to another state. But what can happen in a past life regression is that a person’s higher self may have a different agenda and want to give insight and clarity on something else in a person’s life that it deems is more important.

Client Experience

Jane’s regression began as a woman in a blissful marriage with children, until her husband died suddenly. She grieved for a long time after her husband’s death, overwhelmed with loneliness and guarding her heart from further emotional pain.

Jane suddenly recognized that she was repeating the same pattern in her present life. But then as the past life personality grew older, she was shown another perspective. She began to pour love into her children and grandchildren, which in turn, came back to her, creating a full, rich life. It was important for her to see how she could overcome her hurt and loss by giving love to others. In the afterlife, she experienced her soul self, a higher level of consciousness free of the learned, limiting, egoic mind patterns. This is usually the most healing part of the session as insights drop in as a result of a larger perspective and higher vibration state. The eternal part of her was able to reconnect with the eternal part of her husband in the past life, whose loss had created years of stuck anguish. She was then able to experience the truth that love transcends all loss.

Client Results

A week after the session, Jane shared in an email this wisdom: “You know that deep love I described feeling for someone else? I am now feeling it for the beautiful essence that lives in me. My heart feels full, complete, and perfect just the way it is. This morning I felt a deep comfort with the person I truly am and was able to begin experiencing what it is like to BE THAT person inside of this body.  And, I love it.  The answer isn’t “out there” as to where I need to move or what I need to do.  It is being at home in me where ever the path leads.  My fear was that in the regression I would run into a real YUK of a person from another life.  That was only my shame and guilt that is so made up.  The real person in all of us is so beyond the denseness we humans can so easily sink into.

When I return for another session, it is not so much about going thru past lives as it will be staying in touch with the beautiful love energy I feel for ME. That kind of love will only radiate more of the same in others. Right now, I am so enjoying for the first time having a sense of who I am and it is with deep gratitude for your skillful way of bringing me home to myself. THANK YOU.”

Eric’s Comments

One of the greatest benefits of past life regression is tuning into the permanent self that transcends these lives. You can actually experience this higher dimensional self to be deeply anchored in the present moment and free of the subtle, subconscious thoughts that hold us back in life. It’s a great respite to become rooted in the clarity of your true self, free of fears and lack. This part of us is always available and lies just beyond our thinking mind. As we become more acquainted with our soul while here on earth, we will begin to awaken from the human condition of “egoic sleepwalking.”

Healing a frozen shoulder

Case Study: Healing a Frozen Shoulder

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Client Background

A retired medical doctor (I’ll call him Jim) came in one day with a frozen left shoulder. He could not lift it very high at all. It had been bothering him for many years, and he had been to the Mayo Clinic several times and had tried a lot of alternative healing techniques for it, but nothing helped very much. He decided to try past life regression.

Client Experience

Jim regressed back to a life as a large, stout Roman soldier who had a strong sense of duty to his country. He was very good at what he did, and that was killing people and putting down peasant uprisings. He described carrying a big shield with his right hand, and with his left hand he carried a large, sharp sword and was a killing machine with his left arm. After his death in that life, his soul moved up into the high vibration of the spiritual dimension. It was then that Jim became emotional with tears of guilt, as he suddenly became aware of all of the fatherless homes he had created. He said, “We didn’t always have to fight, we could have settled conflicts verbally. I’m having trouble forgiving myself.” Then it dawned on him that that guilt might have something to do with his frozen shoulder. I suggested that while he was connected to his higher soul self, he should call upon all of the souls that he killed or negatively affected in that past life. He sensed many souls come around and he gave a heart and soul-felt apology. The answer that came back was that all was forgiven…he was simply acting as most humans do while lost in the human experience. He then experienced a flood of light and what felt like healing energy come into his energy system. Insights about his soul lesson began to drop in, and he said, “I needed to listen to my heart more, there’s a price to pay for blindly following the duty for country if the leaders are not necessarily on the right path.”

Client Results

After the session, Jim had a big smile on his face as he effortlessly raised up his left arm and shoulder. I saw him again at a talk by Dr. Larry Dossey three years later. Jim walked up to me and raised his left arm and shoulder saying, “You know Eric, that session we did was the only thing that ever really worked for this shoulder.”

Eric’s Comments

As we go within, our higher guidance system will show us a life that is having a strong impact on the present life, especially if we ask for it. At a deep level, there was something that needed resolution…and that something was affecting the physical, mental and emotional energy bodies of Jim’s present life. Once we got that resolution, the healing could happen at a very deep level. Quantum science tells us that we are energy beings. We are also multi-dimensional, and part of us lies outside of this time/space continuum. Unresolved thoughts, feelings and perspectives from a past life can affect a person’s present life. As one tunes into their eternal soul mind for solutions, their innate wisdom will very often show them the source of a particular problem or issue. Interesting to note that Jim became a doctor in this life to help people heal and live a better life, perhaps to make up for the life in which he took life away from people.