Past lives are the conscious mind’s way of trying to rationalise why something unfavourable happened to you in your life, for example if a parent severely punished you in your early childhood.

If the conscious mind is unable to find anything you did in your life to cause the unfavourable event to happen to you – and as long as your conscious mind continues to interpret the unfavourable event as some form of punishment – it ends up manufacturing an event, a reason for the punishment, which it then places in a scenario that it labels ‘a past life’ and points its finger at that event as the reason why you were, or are still being punished in life.

The way to undo this kind of past life construct is to investigate the origin of the unfavourable event that happened to you and to understand fully if it was indeed an act of punishment for something you did, or if it was someone inflicting pain on you because at that moment that person themselves was in terrible pain.

Don’t forget that in early childhood, a child is not able to rationalise that a parent verbally  or physically attacked them because that parent had a bad day at the office. The child will see the attack as a form of punishment for doing something wrong. And this misinterpretation of what happened can be held in the child’s mind into adulthood, causing the adult to have many things go wrong in their life which they will continue to interpret as a punishment for having done something wrong.

If the answer turns out to be the latter – that the unfavourable event was simply a mis-directed act of anger  – and not an act of punishment, then the need for the past life construct in which you did something wrong is negated. It is no longer needed. So it is released and set-free, setting you free from your life-long held subconscious belief that you need to be punished for doing something wrong.

It can therefore be seen that the belief in past lives, or the need for the belief in past lives, is dependent on the belief in having once been punished.