I came to the course as a natural step forward on my journey of opening the mind. I did not expect any special experience, nor did I have any fear or delusion.
Before I came to Awakening Meditation, I was someone with many distortions in my mind. I had fears to the point of madness and the delusions of a spirit medium, the kind of person who felt uncontrollably floaty when visiting temples, pagodas, shrines, or any funeral, passing by cemeteries, homes where someone had died young… I would always enter a state that people out there call possession by a spirit. And I was terribly frightened. I did not dare go anywhere alone or sleep alone at home. I was even afraid of sleep itself because whenever I lay down, I had nightmares and sleep paralysis…
When I joined SoulCoach 2024, reading about the Past-Life Regression course made me shiver with fear. However, I did not dwell on it. Step by step, through the appropriate arrangements of the teacher, the organizers and the universe, I arrived at the Past-Life Regression course very peacefully. I was fully present for 3 days, practicing the course content in progressively deeper stages. (It was not just theory.) This allowed me to have extremely subtle, wondrous experiences and realizations, revealed deep within the unconscious. Through that, I understood myself much more deeply…
Transformations and changes since the course…
I work a lot with the fear within me…
Just before the course, many fears arose within me from distortions in my romantic relationship. I was afraid to face them. At the start of the course, I made an aspiration to understand their origins deeply. Everything became clear through each experience and specific practice in the Past-Life Regression course. I understood why I kept resenting men, and why I had problems with my thyroid and genital area. In a self-directed past-life regression meditation following the Teacher's guidance, I also understood why I had a knot below my chest, extending through my upper back beneath the left shoulder blade. I had suffered from it for a long time, and it affected my breathing, but it was not a cardiovascular condition. Wherever I sought medical care, nobody could clearly explain or name its cause. Doctors only called it pain in the sympathetic nerves of the chest. No medicine could cure it. I have lived with it for 10 years. Yoga and Awakening Breathing now help, but it has not fully resolved. During Past-Life Regression, I saw that in one lifetime I had died of a stroke with chest tightness, and in another I had witnessed so much pain and hurt that my chest contracted. These deep insights help me explain the difficult problems I face in this lifetime.
Returning to fear, after the course I naturally found myself thinking incessantly about negative scenarios much less. One clear example: I used to fear sleeping alone at home and often suffered insomnia, too afraid to sleep as my mind filled with negative images and thoughts, imagining adverse situations. I even experienced sleep paralysis, mumbling in dreams amid countless fears. There were periods when I feared sleep itself, and others of continuous insomnia… Yet recently, after taking my children to spend Tết with their grandparents in the countryside, I was home alone and still slept peacefully and well that night.
I have no longer suffered from insomnia since coming to Awakening Meditation, but I was still afraid to sleep alone in my own home or anywhere else. Yet this time—never before, and perhaps for the first time in my life of over 40 years—I could sleep alone with such a peaceful heart. I am happy and understand that the transformation within me is growing ever clearer, so that I can reach peace of mind in every sleep.
I believe this small firsthand experience of transformation will be the beginning of further favorable experiences of transformation.
I am grateful to the universe for illuminating the way and guiding me toward this blessed connection.
With a sincere heart, I am grateful to the teacher by my side: Teacher Tạ Minh Tuấn, who has guided everyone with the right connection, including me, on the Awakening Journey through transmission from heart to heart.
I am grateful to the teacher within me for bringing me into this beautiful journey of opening the mind. Persevering and patient, step by step, every second and minute, with every breath.
So deeply grateful!
The 2nd candid sharing
So far, “Past-Life Regression” has been the most impressive course for me on the SoulCoach journey, from both 2 perspectives: that of the whole class and my personal perspective.
Looking at the class as a whole, I saw some people relive or very vividly experience a memory from a past life, which helped explain certain unresolved issues in their present lives. That may be a process of self-healing.
Through my classmates’ stories, I gained a deeper understanding of pain and good and bad across many layers of experience and consciousness. From that, I also understood more deeply what we call ‘nonjudgment’ and ‘seeing things as they are’ in meditation.
If we view events from a very narrow dimension, perhaps only within this lifetime and the reality we witness here, we distinguish good from bad and right from wrong, then judge and divide, causing suffering for ourselves and others. With a broader perspective and clearer understanding of karma and rebirth, we realize that within that great circle, nothing can be clearly labeled right or wrong, good or bad. We can no longer judge, because every judgment then becomes shortsighted.
Within that great circle, each of us has been, is, and may be right/wrong, good/bad. How are we superior to others enough to judge them? If we have been and may become like them, judging them means judging ourselves. Judging others merely glorifies our ego, giving it the feeling of superiority. This creates division and, from it, suffering. If we deeply understand that I am like them and they are like me, empathy and understanding arise. There is no more judgment or separation over who is better, and less suffering caused by division. We need not even discuss lofty things such as enlightenment and oneness; understanding this much is enough to expand our tolerance, bringing peace to ourselves and others, especially ourselves.
Personally, I experienced a powerful connection at the vibrational level of energy. This was a special experience for me. Through my personal experience in the course, I learned 2 things: (1) Keep the mind peaceful even in turbulent environments; (2) The gateway I seek will appear not through loathing the world, but through embracing it, because home includes this world too. Hating the world therefore also means hating home, so how could I return home?
Through the course's final regression session, although I recalled no past lifetime, I again received the message: teaching and writing books about love. This was the third time. The first came through regression, the second through Awakening Meditation. Previously, I had been unsure whether it was imagination or a genuine message. But after the third repetition, I had to think seriously about it again, although I am still unsure where to begin.
In summary, my experience in the Past-Life Regression course opened a new depth of consciousness within me. Whether those experiences were “real” matters less than what we learned from them. After the course, I returned to everyday life, still doing what needed doing and not doing what was unnecessary, but with a new layer of awareness in both action and non-action.
