*Sometimes the answer lies in a past life.*

The journey of self-discovery is deeply rewarding. Today, access to information, new techniques, and different forms of therapy has never been easier. But have you ever noticed that sometimes we learn certain facts, become experts in theory, yet still can’t act on what we’ve learned? Or sometimes we don’t even need to look that far. There are things we simply can’t bring ourselves to do, and we don’t know why.

Why would someone sabotage their own success? A great love? A great dream? Why do I feel guilty when I rest? Why do I get along effortlessly with some people and struggle with others? Why can’t I change?

Strange, isn’t it? And often contradictory. Usually, the answer to that contradiction lies in one or several past lives. Let me explain. The ego’s job is to keep us safe, and if it senses any kind of danger that could threaten us, it will do everything in its power to stop it. Sometimes it’s not even a danger to life, but a danger of suffering. And if the memory of that suffering is tied to the final moments of a life, the ego will fight even harder to protect us.

So how exactly does someone end up sabotaging their own success, a great love, or a great dream? If, in a past life, someone achieved success and was persecuted or killed because of it, and that experience was never emotionally processed, in the present life the subconscious will do everything possible to stay hidden or avoid standing out. Because the ego decides it’s safer to live in poverty or restriction than to risk losing one’s life again.

The same applies to love. If someone experienced full, happy love in a past life and then lost it suddenly, through death or separation, without ever processing it emotionally, the ego will refuse to love deeply or connect again, terrified of experiencing that kind of loss and pain once more. I know this pattern well. It’s my own story.

And finally, any dream we long to fulfill can be sabotaged by a memory of it having gone wrong, or never having come true at all.

Starting to make sense? It’s in exactly these situations that understanding what happened in a past life becomes incredibly powerful and freeing. I need to return, energetically, to that circumstance, understand it, and give it new meaning, in order to free my present.

Let me share an example. A client once came to me, not because she was searching for answers or solutions, but out of curiosity, after seeing how much my sessions had impacted a friend of hers. In fact, she was already quite happy with her life. She and her husband had twins conceived through artificial insemination, after years of trying to have children.

In one of the past lives we explored together, her husband had taken her newborn away from her right after birth. They were poor at the time, and he had arranged to sell the child. The pain she experienced was so overwhelming that it left a lasting imprint, stored in her memory and in her energetic system. In this life, her ego refused to conceive, terrified of living through that same devastation again. In other words, something she consciously wanted more than anything in this life, her ego was unconsciously blocking.

This realization brought her deep peace, and remarkably, she became pregnant just months later, going on to have a biological child.

This is just one small example among so many I’ve witnessed throughout my professional and personal life. For those who don’t believe in past lives, healing is also possible by revisiting childhood, as proven by the renowned American physician Brian Weiss, famous for his discoveries on healing through past life memories. But what I can tell you is this: when we come to know the exact circumstances that shaped our pain or fear, healing becomes far more powerful, complete, and permanently filed away in the subconscious, which from that moment on stops being the enemy.