Powerful Teachings from our Children’s Past Lives
Worth mentioning
What I like about Bowman is how down to earth she seems. The material can feel pretty woo-woo, but host Regina Meredith and Bowman both treat the subject with the dignity it deserves. Bowman reminds us how easy it is to miss what our children can be trying to tell us. “Most people don’t see when it happens right under their noses…they don’t know that children’s past life memories are even possible, and they don’t know what to look for,” she says. “If they do see it in their child, they worry that it’s too weird, don’t know how to respond…and are afraid to mention it to anyone outside the family.”
Processing the past
There’s more to past life experiences than simply the information they contain. Often, the memory is accompanied by trauma surrounding their previous death. These memories, no matter how disturbing, offer healing opportunities for the soul, says Bowman. Enter Bowman’s carefully honed past life therapy model, a compendium of insights taken from past life therapists, research scientists and ancient spiritual texts. She explains to Meredith that trauma can get frozen in the body, which still carries the patterning from a previous life. After you have recognized your child’s attempt at communicating her past life, the next step is helping her work through it.
A blurred timeline
Bowman outlines practical guidelines that parents and anybody who works closely with children can use to identify and respond to children’s past life memories. First off is the injunction to join the child in her reality. For kids, the line between past and present blurs easily, which makes the memory feel very urgent and immediate. What children need, says Bowman, is closure. “They need to know that their other life is over and that they can let it go.”
