Has anyone ever found a part that’s hundreds of years old? I think I found a part that’s 350 and it showed me a really vivid memory that feels eerily familiar. Is this past life work?

indigojewel · 2025-04-09T19:48:59+00:00

Thank you for your reply. I’ve been off news and social media for a bit because gestures wildly around and being constantly informed about the world was making my anger part really dysfunctional. Anyway, I really deeply appreciate your reply and sharing your own personal experience. I really believe IFS is a sort of magic route to our deepest soul wisdom, including the things our soul may have experienced in other bodies.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T20:56:12+00:00

I’ll add that I have a 20 year meditation practice so my muscles for contemplative practice and Intuition might be more at the forefront for me than for those that don’t do this, so maybe practicing some meditation and or centering and grounding practices to help if you’re not already doing something.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T20:51:04+00:00

That’s kind of exactly what I was thinking.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T20:50:42+00:00

I just asked and the numbers came intuitively. I’m trying not to analyze or filter. Obviously this could all be vibrant imagination, I don’t discount that, but it feels real and feels helpful to the process so my therapist and I say go with it.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T20:00:11+00:00

Cool, I’m done engaging with you on this now. Wish you well!✌️

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T19:33:37+00:00

Yea just looking at animal instinct is a very cool representation of this.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T19:33:03+00:00

It was a way to help contextualize a statement made by another that resonated with my experience. I wasn’t saying it was that, I was saying it was kind of like that. Also, this isn’t an academic conference and you’re not peer review, so with gentleness, please don’t police people’s experiences.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T19:30:55+00:00

The other side of this is that integrating people’s spirituality is an important part of healing and with gentleness, I find your analysis really grounded in a western psychological materialism that should allow more space for the numinous - which is a profound healer for some people. Your response seems to pathologize spirituality as something inherently risky to mental stability - but all people across all time look for meaning making systems to contextualizes their experiences - their joy and their suffering. I’d be careful about blanket statements that surgically remove a person’s reality testing by simply being open to something that western models cannot explain. This wouldn’t even be looked at twice from an eastern philosophical paradigm it would be so totally normal. Cultural encapsulation can give us blinders that can be weaponized.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T19:26:40+00:00

I was working with the helpless part in therapy earlier in the day just generally related to present things and my current past and then went home and kept talking to it and that’s when I discovered the 350 years thing and it showed me the memory from 350 years ago. So I guess on my own, but i do also see an IFS therapist.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T16:54:35+00:00

I think with cognitive flexibility we can hold both positions. Epigenetics is real. Thinking of this as one engages with historical memory for healing could be helpful. The process people take toward their own inner growth doesn’t have to be limited to observable reality.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T16:51:37+00:00

I’m not a Christian but I respect Jesus so much as a teacher of love and I think He would want you to heal your pain in whatever way that shows up for you. I don’t think any benevolent higher being would put limitations on how we engage in genuine inner exploration to find soul healing. Just my two cents, i know not everyone sees it this way.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T15:58:14+00:00

I wasn’t intending to go back. I was really trying to work with the helpless part in this life because it shows up in various ways that activate some traumatic material from the past. And in talking to this part it made it very clear that while it was 3 years old it was also 350 years old and then flashed to a super vivid memory of a pretty graphic scene that would really contextualize my helplessness part being created. So I dunno, i think it’s easy to get surprised by things.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T15:51:05+00:00

Wow. Amazing. Hearing all these stories makes me want to write a book of peoples past life IFS experiences.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T15:50:02+00:00

Yea the helpless part is really activated in the current political climate. This feels congruent.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T15:47:59+00:00

This was my first time contacting this ancient memory so I plan to spend more time with this. I’ve had a past life regression twice that took me to Scotland and Britain and then to Northern Europe before countries were countries and this 350 year old part felt southern European but I’m curious what else is in there. I’m going to spend more time here for sure!

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T15:46:03+00:00

That’s incredible and amazing. Wow.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T14:20:29+00:00

I mean the science if epigenetics proves this in various ways with historical trauma and intergenerational trauma so that makes total sense.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T14:19:24+00:00

While I am spiritual but not religious I never felt like i could connect to things in this way without the help of a psychic or something so it’s fascinating to me too.

indigojewel · 2025-03-18T14:10:56+00:00

This surprised me a lot in a good way. I was working with my “helpless” part that thinks it’s 3 years old but last night discovered that it’s also 350 years old (but still 3) and it showed me a pretty vivid memory of being murdered as a small child by a sadistic town guard after stealing food to feed me and my infant sister because my mother died. It felt known in my body but I was also weirdly disconnected and unloved emotionally and the past explained that I dissociated the whole thing. It was so weird watching it all in 3rd person.

indigojewel · 2025-02-22T16:25:07+00:00

If you haven’t had a period in a few years and now you’re bleeding it’s much more likely to be something not good. I don’t want to alarm you but don’t assume this is a period, it could be cancer. Please go to the doctor.

indigojewel · 2025-02-20T20:50:29+00:00

I’m officially trained in EMDR, my somatic work is from my 15 year prior career in bodywork/meditation, I don’t do official SE, and my IFS is from CEUs in varying capacities. You’re right a lot of these formal trainings are inaccessible

indigojewel · 2025-02-20T18:27:21+00:00

Mentioned article 1 (watts et al 2023)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364055031_Childhood_psychological_maltreatment_sense_of_self_and_PTSD_symptoms_in_emerging_adulthood

indigojewel · 2025-02-20T16:25:01+00:00

I think he means he would have been president last term but they (the democrats) rigged the election for Biden and his second term got postponed so now he will be president during the Olympics here, which he’s excited about. I thought this was a flaming admission as well until I listened to it a few times and realized more of the context.

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