A Second Chance to Get It Right
by Linda Potter

    When Brenda walked into the regression room, she said this visit was a birthday present to herself. She had heard of past life regression before, but never felt ready to try it until now. Brenda was curious as to where she may have lived in a past life and wanted to meet her spirit guide.

     Brenda shared that she was living a very stress filled life and didn’t see it getting any better in the future. She went on to explain that she had a special needs son. Andy was diagnosed with autism at a very young age and Brenda felt responsible for it. She felt she created Andy’s isolated and troubled world because of the genes she and her husband passed on to him.  She became emotional as she described how Andy was missing out on a normal childhood. He would never know the joys other boys his age took for granted. She felt so sorry for her son and blamed her husband and herself for Andy’s autism.

     As Brenda’s session began, she drifted back into a very deep relaxation and in no time she was visiting lifetimes from the past, in countries she had long desired to visit in her current life.

     After visiting a past life in Greece, Brenda floated up into the white light. She began reviewing that life’s lessons when she said with surprise, “My spirit guide is here! He’s tall, very handsome and his name is Bruce.”  I asked Brenda if Bruce had anything that he wanted to say to her. She quickly replied, “He said he loves me and that I worry too much about Andy!”

     Bruce went on to tell Brenda that it was necessary for Andy to come into this life with the genetics he has as an example for others and to assist her with overcoming the emotion of guilt. He said that autism is an experience Andy chose to have in this life and an experience she chose to be a part of.  It sounded so simple.

     Bruce is showing me something. It’s as if we’re floating over a village.  I’m seeing a little white house at the edge of this village. There are children playing in a yard surrounded by a white picket fence. There is a rope swing suspended from an oak tree.

     I told to Brenda to go right to the reason she was visiting this particular life. At that moment, Brenda said, “There’s a little boy on the rope swing. He is 12 years old, but something is wrong with him, he acts much younger.  He is different than the other children. He needs help where the others don’t.

     The school bell is ringing in the distance and all the other children have gone, leaving the little boy alone. A lady is coming out of the house to tend to him.  She looks sad.  Her heart is heavy. This boy is her son and she is sad he can’t go to school like the other children. It’s me! The lady is me and the boy is my son!”

     With guidance, Brenda moved ahead years in time. Her son still needed her to care for him, but not as much as when he was younger. When I asked her how she felt about her life at that point, she said she felt that somehow she had done something wrong to cause her son to be born different from the others. She felt guilty that he could never play and learn like “normal” children.

     As soon as the words were out of her mouth, Brenda gasped, “Oh my god!  I’ve already done this before. I’m living a life just like this past life!” It was then that her spirit guide, Bruce told her about the past life lessons she wanted to learn. “I was to recognize that my son had his own path to follow, a path that he chose.  He was in life then and now to help me learn compassion, care giving and how to let go of those things I couldn’t change. I wanted to learn to not blame myself for life’s circumstances and to rise above the sadness.  But, I didn’t do as well as I wanted to and so I’ve come back into another life with the same lessons. Wow, it’s so clear now.”

     For Brenda, it was a matter of perspective. With her spirit guides assistance, the knowledge she gained by visiting the past life brought profound understanding to her current life situation. Brenda stated with a new found determination that from then on, when the feelings of sadness or guilt tried to creep in, she would remind herself of the lessons she was here to learn. Her path had become quite illuminated.  

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