Recently, I’ve shared stories of children’s past lives, using the example of my client Miranda’s two daughters. In this short article, I’d like to include a bit about Miranda’s little boy, Calvin, aged nine.
When a child remembers a past life, he may not do it consciously. He might, instead, show emotional and physical resonances that can only be understood once you know what actually happened in a particular past life.
Like many examples of children and their past lives, none of Calvin’s anxieties and difficulties made sense until we uncovered their true origins.
If a child remembers a past life in which he died amongst gunfire and explosions, he may get severe anxiety at the sound of thunder or fireworks. The cause is his soul’s memory of the battlefield in a previous incarnation. Hearing thunder causes the soul to immediately scan its past lives for a frame of reference. In a nanosecond, it finds a reminder of death and, thinking its survival is in jeopardy, triggers a fight or flight response in the body. All totally irrational of course, but that’s how past life memories often are.
Calvin had previously died on a battlefield in World-War 1 Europe. As a young soldier, he got tangled up in barbed wire during a nighttime raid on the enemy. He was shot multiple times, and even as he died, he continued to feel bullets rip him apart.
You can tell if you’ve been shot in a past life by the intensity of your startle reflex. If you jump when a door slams, or when someone sneaks up behind you, then you’ve got it.
Soldiers who die on the battlefield often return to the world in future incarnations with signs of having been abandoned. The feeling at the time of death is that they’ve been let down by humanity. There’s often a sense, too, of betrayal. Noticing that the generals and politicians who put them on the front line are not laying there, face-down in the mud with them, they can become deeply cynical towards people with authority in future lives.
I was certain Calvin would have the following resonances this time around:
- A fear of thunder
- Discomfort or even panic if his clothes or bedding are too tight or restrictive
- A fear of the dark
- Nightmares
- Hugging only on his terms
According to his mother, Calvin has always panicked at the sound of thunder, and his body will often shake dramatically while it’s going on. He’ll kick off the bed sheets at night, and his clothes have to be soft and not constricting. He won’t wear jeans because the waistband is too tight. This, of course, is all related to his soul’s anxiety around being trapped in the barbed wire.
Since he died at night, I expected Calvin to have sleep problems, nightmares, and a fear of the dark (or the thing that lives under the bed). “Does he need a nightlight?” I asked. “He has a million nightlights!” his mother said. “And he’s always having bad dreams where he thinks he’s been killed.”
Another way a child remembers a past life in which they died in war is that, like Calvin, they become a pacifist. And though he’s very loving, he only lets his mom kiss and hug him when he wants it. This is a resonance from the abandonment he felt in the past. It’s a fear of rejection that often causes kids and teens to push mom away. (The soul is trying to confirm its fundamental hypothesis that it’s not loved. Again, totally irrational, but that’s how it works.)
But that was then, and this is now. This particular exploration of children’s past lives was a few months ago. A lot has happened since the session. I’ll have some very illuminating updates in an upcoming article.
It’s worth adding that usually when a child remembers a past life, the memory shows up in their behavior, particularly their fears. So, when little Maggie screams the place down when you take her to get her shots, her soul may be going to a dark place. Perhaps the last time she encountered the medical profession was in a past life in which a doctor bled her with leeches until she collapsed from weakness and died. Or, having died from malaria after a mosquito bite, her soul may be overreacting to the idea of having something like a hypodermic needle pierce the skin.
If your child struggles with unexplained issues that interfere with the peace and harmony of your family, you might want to consider exploring the past life reasons why through a psychic guidance session with Ainslie.
Hi Ainslie,
I too have a young child age 9 who has grown up with rememberences of past lives. They have come out in his dreams and even night terrors where I heard him talking through them which gave me the understnding of what he was reliving. He awoke without remembering what had happened and I hoped and prayed that his soul was finding peace in the process that it chose to relive the memory. I am so incredibly greateful for my own connection and understanding of past lives and that I have been able to guide him in this process
I think it would be a great blessing to have a guide book that offered parents a support system for their awakening children
It sounds like he’s processing some really big stuff. At some point I’ll write a book specifically about how to help children deal with their past lives.
Hi Ainslie!
I recognize a lot of my daughter’s behavior in this story.
She’s afraid of thunder and lightning,balloons blowing up(there was this game in school where the kids had to sit on a balloon so it would pop and she hated it),being held under water by friends and she’s not a very cuddly child. And the nights are a bit strange.She doesn’t sleep at night,she’s up all the time,playing quietly and basically can’t relax or fall asleep until the sun comes up. She says she likes the night because it’s quiet but it’s almost as if she’s keeping watch.
Of course my partner and other people want to fix this behavior through discipline and medicine but i think it so particular.I’m glad i read this blog.It makes me think i should explore regressions for her.
Totally past life stuff. Somebody had to be on watch at night. Thanks for sharing. If you’d like to explore this with me you can contact my assistant: autumn@ainsliemacleod.com
When I was a child, I was deathly afraid of foreign particles in my food – especially black speckles. I refused to eat anything that had pepper on it or that might contain a bone fragment. I remember being frightened beyond words one Thanksgiving when my grandmother served corn with pepper. As a child, I was so afraid of food that every meal became a chore. I was afraid of everything on my plate.
As an adult, I used one of your past life regression CDs. Among other things, I remembered a past life where my mother murdered me at about the age of three. At first, she poisoned my food. I slowly became sick and weak, but I wasn’t dying quickly enough. So, she starved me for awhile and then tried to force me to eat some brown mush that looked like it contained a plentiful serving of ashes from the fireplace. It smelled bad and the taste of it was intense. Being a young child, I panicked. She quickly became furious and strangled me.
I realized that my frustrations with food in this life came from that past life because the emotions matched. In this life, any time I feel that someone is trying to make me do something I don’t want to do, it brings back the feeling of my previous mother trying to make me eat poisoned food. Then, I feel that the violent strangulation scene is right around the corner.
Fortunately, after the memory became conscious, my fear dissipated.
We’ve never met, but thank you for helping me to solve a life-long mystery.
Thank you for sharing your story, Jayne. I’m so pleased the regression worked for you.