Short answer: you don’t.
Long answer: well sometimes you do but it’s not what you think.
The more you feel, the more you know a past-life experience is real. It just feels real.
The more you think or imagine, the easier it is to doubt what you’re seeing.
More importantly, feeling bring healing and transformative into the past-life therapy session.
I’m always saying to clients, “What does that feel like?” or, “Feel that a bit more,” or, “How does that make you feel?”. Because the more there is feeling, the more meaningful an experience can be.
Experiences of other lives can be incredibly vivid. You feel yourself in another body, in another time and place. Your body feels large and muscular. Or maybe it’s weak and misshapen. But you’re not just seeing or imagining it, you are feeling it superimposed on your own body. You know that if you open your eyes you will see yourself lying comfortably in the therapy room, in the body you know. And yet… here you are, huge and strong. Or dying, helplessly feeling your life force ebb away. Or you’re a different gender to now. Or a small baby. You are here and now and at the same time you can clearly feel this other body that feels like it’s yours from another time.
If you extend your awareness you sense a landscape around you. You might not see it so much as feel it. You just know. There is a forest and rocky hills. Or maybe a town. There is someone you are furious at. Or you are lonely and sad. The less you try the more easily the impressions come to you. You notice a certain warmth in the air, or a different quality of light. And with this comes emotion: fear, sadness, joy, love. In IST (the method of past life therapy I use) there are no mental questions like, “What’s your name?” or, “What’s the date?”. The experience comes to you through your senses and inner feelings.
This means that a past-life therapy session is very subjective. Because it’s all about you and your experience, who cares if things happened exactly like that? What matters is what happened for you and how it affected you.
The power of personal transformation is to be found in the realm of feeling. Change happens through direct experience.