Ainslie MacLeod - The Transformation: Healing Your Past Lives To Realize Your Souls Potential

Id like to express my deepest appreciation to my clients for their willingness to share their experiences, both past and present, in this book.

Once again, Im especially grateful to my editor, Kelly Notaras, for her invaluable guidance and enthusiasm, to everyone at Sounds True for their efforts in bringing this book into the world, and to my agent, Eric Myers, for his thoughtful words of encouragement and wisdom.

I owe thanks, also, to my assistant, Kelli Nichols, and all my friends and family members for their support. Special thanks and big hugs to Lisa, Kyra, and Lucas for their patience and understanding while Dad was busy writing.

Im particularly indebted to my spirit guides. And since its common for them, during a session, to repeat a word or phrase three times for emphasis, Id like to take this opportunity to do the same. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

INTRODUCTION

I used to cringe every time someone asked me what I did for a living. Id mumble the word psychic so softly people would reply with a questioning, psychotherapist? or psychiatrist? unsure theyd heard me correctly.

In my last book, The Instruction, I wrote about how I used to describe myself as The Reluctant Psychic. The reason was simple: I was embarrassed by what people would think about my unconventional career. I was worried theyd associate me with the charlatans and rip-off artists who give psychics a bad name.

With the help of my spirit guides Id learned to make a strong connection with the spiritual universe. Yet my self-consciousness was such that I couldnt begin a conversation with the words, My spirit guides tell me... without blushing.

Then I started working with my spirit guides on issues of self-acceptance. It turned out I had some huge past-life fears surrounding judgment and self-expression. It not only explained my reticence, but also my aversion to public speaking and huge concern about how others perceived me.

Once I got over my fears, everything changed. I didnt care who knew. I was a psychic and proud of it. And after three decades of not speaking in public, you couldnt get me to shut up. I learned to embrace my calling, and that has led to a deep sense of self-acceptance and purpose.

Now when people ask me what I do, I can look them straight in the eye and say, Im a psychic, without the slightest hint of self-consciousness.

What I love most about being a (no longer reluctant) psychic is that its never dull. I get to meet great people with fascinating stories to tell. I get to help them figure out who they are and what theyre doing. And most interesting of all, I get to explore their past lives.

Though Id experienced some extremely effective past-life regressions back in the late 1990s and knew their value, I was never particularly interested in doing it for others. To be quite honest, I found it kind of boring, especially when I could be channeling the same stuff my client would be gettingonly a lot faster.

So, I slipped into the habit of telling people what happened to them in the past, rather than taking them through a lengthy relaxation and regression.

By now Ive been all over the world and across time: Ming dynasty China, Renaissance Italy, Industrial Revolution Britain, the Wild West. In the thousands of past lives Ive explored, theres hardly a corner on the planet I havent visited.

The purpose of past-life regression is to clear baggage from the past and make way for a happier future. What I discovered was that exploring a past life the way I do is as healing and helpful as any regression.

But what has all this to do with the subject of this book? The answer is everything.

When I asked the spirit guides I work with what the purpose of this book would be, they told me they wanted to explain why the world is the way it is, why it doesnt have to be that way, and how spiritually conscious souls can be a driving force for change. No mention of past lives.

It was only when I got into the planning stage that I realized just how significant a role past lives would play in the upcoming shift in consciousness my spirit guides call the Transformation.

I was pleased that my spirit guides wanted to talk about past lives. The subject had become such an enormous part of my work, and I was finding them so fascinating, I couldnt stop talking about them. I was grateful for a chance to share some of the astonishing adventures Ive had with my clients and their many weird and wonderful incarnations.

But before I get sidetracked by my pet subject, let me explain why past lives have such significance and how they fit into the subject of the book.

We all have past lives. In fact, you might have a hundred or more incarnations behind you. And as youll discover in the pages of this book, what we did or didnt get to do in our past lives impacts us in many different ways.

When your soul first left the Soul World (as my spirit guides like to call it) and came to the Physical Plane, it was on a mission. It was seeking knowledge. Since then, it has had many reincarnations. And though each lifetime has allowed it to evolve, your soul has encountered some significant barriers to growth along the way.

A major trauma in a past life can create a fear that will follow your soul across many incarnations. When an incident acts as a trigger, it can cause the fear to erupt, sometimes many lifetimes later.

During a session, I was talking to a woman named Alicia who lives in Southern California about a life shed had in early twentieth-century Norway. As a young man in that life, shed been heavily influenced by the hard-drinking father she worshipped, and she had died of hypothermia after passing out from the effects of an all-night drinking binge.

Im familiar enough with lifetimes where theres been an extreme of temperature involved in the death to ask, Do you have a problem with the cold?

Not really, Alicia said. I live in San Diego, after all.

I was temporarily silenced. It had seemed a given.

Oh, unless you mean at night, she said.

You died at night, I reminded her.

My husband and I have had to split the bed in half, she said. He sleeps under a thin wool comforter that I share. On my side, I have a wool blanket underneath me and a king-size, heavy down comforter folded over so its doubled. Between the two layers of the down is a double-folded blanket. I have a hot water bottle when my feet are cold, or sometimes fleece socks instead. Then I wear a long-sleeved T-shirt and leggings or sweatpants. And if theres the slightest chill, I cant fall asleep. And thats in summer.

Just to prove her point, Alicia sent me several photos. One shows the bed, as described, with the hot water bottle on the nightstand. Another is a picture taken by her husband. It shows Alicia taking a nap in the middle of the day. Through the window, the sun is shining. But Alicia is all snuggled up under the sundry blankets and comforters with her cats in her arms, and shes wearing a fleece jacket.

At the bottom of the e-mail were the words, This better not show up on the Internet!

My husband finds it all insane, and I cant really blame him, Alicia said. He feels my skin, and its actually cold. Hes been a lot better, though, since you and I spoke and he understands where it came from.

I asked her if shed ever found a place that was warm enough for her. She said, The Caribbean. It was the perfect temperature.