Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories
Brian Weiss took the lead in bringing past life regression into popular understanding. A therapist by profession, he withstood potential ridicule from his profession in speaking out about the healing abilities of remembering your past lives. He took the conversation from scepticism towards reincarnation, particularly in the west, to a belief in it by many so having a profound effect worldwide.
The messages these past life memories bring are what you need to hear for where you are a this moment of time in your present life. They often remind you of similar challenges to those you face today which you have overcome before or skills you may have forgotten which would assist your life today.
Hope, love and compassion are common themes in the messages.
Miracles Happen is a collection of short stories from attendees of Brian Weiss’s workshops. They highlight the healing brought by remembering a past life and often bring understanding of a phobia in this life being a hangover of a past life trauma.
I found this to be a book you pick up and put down, reading a few stories and then reflecting on them. While it is a gentle read, it repeatedly provides evidence of the existence of past lives. This book makes for excellent bedtime reading and sets you up in the right frame of mind for a good nights sleep.
When life turns upside down, you may not be able to see the way forward. The future can feel dim, unfamiliar and frightening. Yet even in the quiet aftermath of upheaval, you are not entirely alone. Your soul and spirit continue to guide you, gently helping you find your footing again.
Pause for a moment and ask yourself: what small light is helping me through today?
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A crisis often demands immediate action. You deal with what must be done, support other people and keep life moving as best you can. Only afterwards does the quieter work begin.
This is the period when you start to understand what has changed. You may feel exhausted, uncertain or unlike the person you were before. Healing does not always arrive as a sudden breakthrough. Sometimes it is simply the strength to get up, face another day and take one careful step forward.
The path may still be dimly lit, but you do not need to see the whole journey. You only need enough light for the next step.
When My Own Life Changed Without Warning
I experienced this when I was unexpectedly widowed in my forties. Suddenly, I had a demanding career and two grieving children to raise alone. My whole world had been turned upside down.
I had to adapt to a new reality while grieving myself and trying to support my children through their own loss. It was a turbulent and painful time. There was no clear plan for rebuilding our lives.
Yet slowly, something within me began to change. I turned inward for comfort and guidance. In doing so, I became more aware of my own soul and of the spiritual support surrounding me.
I did not return to the person I had been before. In time, I reinvented myself. That experience placed me on the spiritual path and eventually shaped the work I now share through Your Soul Family.
You Are Still Being Guided
When your old life falls away, it can feel as though you have lost your direction. Yet your soul has not abandoned you. Spirit may guide you through intuition, dreams, meaningful coincidences, quiet inner knowing or the timely support of another person.
This guidance is rarely loud. It does not rush you or demand that you recover before you are ready. It gently nurtures you until you can stand more strongly again.
🌱 A Gentle Practice
Sit quietly and imagine a small light ahead of you. You do not need to know where the whole path leads.
Ask:
What is the next kind and manageable step for me?
Notice the first calm thought, feeling or image that arises.
✨ Final Reflection
You may not choose the storms that change your life. However, within the stillness that follows, a new path can gradually appear.
You are not expected to rebuild everything at once. Trust the small light within you. Your soul knows how to lead you home.
When two energies meet in harmony, they create something that can continue to shape us long after the moment itself has passed.
Love and connection is often described as a feeling, but it is also a way of meeting life.
At its deepest, love is not about losing yourself in another person. It is about two energies coming together without either one becoming smaller. Each person remains whole, yet something new is created between them: trust, warmth, understanding and shared possibility.
Love and connection can appear in romantic relationships, friendships, family bonds or creative partnerships. It can also describe the relationship between different parts of ourselves.
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Love Is a Meeting, Not a Merging
Healthy connection allows closeness without demanding sameness.
Two people may think differently, move at different speeds or bring different strengths to a relationship. Harmony does not mean that these differences disappear. It means they are held with respect.
When two energies meet in balance, neither person has to dominate or withdraw. There is room to speak and to listen, to give and to receive, to support and to be supported.
The strongest relationships are often not those without tension, but those where both people are willing to return to honesty and understanding.
The Choices That Shape Our Relationships
Love is not only something we feel. It is also something we choose.
We choose whether to speak honestly, whether to listen with care and whether to honour both our own needs and those of another person.
Sometimes love asks us to move closer. At other times, it asks us to create healthier boundaries. A loving choice is not always the easiest or most comfortable one. It is the choice that brings us back into alignment with what feels true.
Before making an important decision, it can help to ask:
Does this choice come from love, fear, habit or obligation?
The answer may reveal whether you are moving towards greater harmony or away from yourself.
Creating Harmony Within Yourself
The joining of two energies does not happen only between people. We also carry different energies within us.
One part of us may want to act, while another wants to pause. The mind may want certainty while the heart asks for trust. Strength may be needed alongside softness.
Inner harmony begins when we stop treating these different parts as enemies. Instead of forcing one voice to win, we can listen for what each one is trying to protect or express.
For me, hearing crickets does more than bring back a memory. It brings together the woman I was in my youth and the woman I am now. Both parts of my life meet in that sound.
Balance is not a fixed state. It is a gentle process of noticing, adjusting and returning to ourselves.
🌱 Practice for the Week
Choose one relationship or decision that feels slightly out of balance.
Sit quietly and imagine two streams of light flowing towards one another. Let one represent your needs and the other represent the needs of the situation or person involved.
Watch them meet without either disappearing.
Then ask:
What do I need to honour?
What might the other person need?
What would a balanced response look like?
Write down the first answer that feels calm rather than urgent.
✨ Final Reflection
Love does not always end when circumstances change.
A relationship may change form, but the energy of what was shared can remain within us. A familiar sound can suddenly make someone feel close again.
For me, it is the singing of crickets. It reminds me of happy holidays with my late husband in the early years of our marriage before children arrived.
In that moment, I do not experience love and connection as something that has vanished. I experience it as something still woven into me.
When two energies meet in honesty, respect and harmony, their influence can endure. Connection becomes more than closeness. It becomes part of who we are.
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A Gentle Basil Practice for Welcoming Positive Change
Change can feel exciting, but it can also unsettle us. Even when the change is welcome, part of us may still want to hold onto what is familiar. A gentle basil practice can help you meet positive change with a steadier heart, a clearer mind, and a little more trust in what is beginning.
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Basil is often associated with blessing, protection, love, and abundance. However, in everyday life, it is also a wonderfully practical herb. Its fresh scent wakes the senses, clears heaviness, and brings a feeling of brightness into the home. For that reason, it makes a lovely companion when you are ready to welcome something new.
Why Basil Supports Positive Change
Basil has a lively, uplifting energy. It does not push or demand. Instead, it seems to say, “Let fresh life in.”
Because of this, basil can be helpful when you are beginning a new phase, making a decision, moving forward after a stuck time, or simply wanting to invite more optimism into your days. You do not need a complicated ritual. A small pot of basil on a windowsill can become a daily reminder that new growth often begins quietly.
A Simple Basil Blessing Practice
Choose a fresh basil leaf or sit beside a basil plant. First, take a slow breath and notice its scent, color, and shape.
Then place one hand over your heart and say quietly:
“I welcome positive change with an open heart. I release what no longer needs to come with me. I allow fresh energy, trust, and blessing to enter my life.”
Afterward, you can add the basil leaf to food, place it in a small bowl of water for a few hours, or simply thank the plant and leave it growing.
Let Change Arrive Gently
The most important part of this practice is not forcing change. Instead, it is making space for it.
Positive change often begins as a small shift in feeling. Perhaps you notice a little more hope, a little more energy, or a little more willingness to say yes to life again. Basil reminds us that freshness does not have to be dramatic. It can arrive through one breath, one choice, one open window, or one green leaf turning toward the light.
🌱 Practice for the week
Place a small pot of basil somewhere you will see it each day. Each morning, touch or smell the leaves and name one positive change you are willing to welcome. For example, you might choose more ease, more confidence, more clarity, more joy, or more trust in yourself.
✨ Final reflection
Change does not always need to be chased. Sometimes it only needs to be welcomed. So let basil remind you that fresh beginnings can be gentle, green, and quietly full of promise.
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