Memory: The Shadows of the Past

Healing Your Energetic Body

Psychologists refer to the common lack of early childhood memories in most adults as infantile or childhood amnesia. Experts continue to explore whether these memories are lost, blocked, or never fully formed in the first place. Some theories suggest that even a newborn's first cry could be an evolved survival strategy—to signal a need for protection, food, and care from others, since the infant can’t meet those needs on their own.

Rebirthing is based on the idea that all pleasant or painful memories are stored in the body’s energetic system. From this perspective, unresolved trauma from the past can influence a person’s current life. These past experiences often shape unconscious decisions and beliefs. Traumatic memory can include images, emotions, sensations, and words. Though not always available to everyday memory, these imprints exist in what we call psychological space.

Rebirthing acknowledges three forms of memory beyond regular recall:

1. Ancestral Memory: This is believed to be passed down through DNA, inherited from ancestors through our parents.

   
   

2. Past Life Memory: These are memories carried by the spiritual self that reincarnates across lifetimes.

   
   

3. Cellular Memory: This refers to the memory of our current life, held within our nervous system and throughout every cell of the body. Rebirthing often describes this as:

   • Suppressed energy patterns lodged in the body’s cells.

   • Emotional wounds—described as “contracted energy scars” or “energy turned into mass”—that form in the emotional body.

   • These memories may emerge during conscious connected breathing, a key technique in rebirthing. Many of these imprints are outside our conscious awareness and often relate to trauma that created negative beliefs about the self—beliefs that mask one’s true, divine nature.

   • The most common form of memory accessed in rebirthing comes from these suppressed experiences and beliefs. The process allows them to rise to awareness so they can be seen, understood, and transformed.

   • Ultimately, rebirthing is meant to release this stored energy and break through emotional or physical blocks in the body.

     
     

Any of these three types of memory—ancestral, past life, or cellular—can surface during a rebirthing session.

Because rebirthing is rooted in the understanding that everything is energy, it also opens the door to tapping into other forms of experience and wisdom beyond our personal history. From this perspective, the self is seen as expansive and capable of transformation.

Finally, rebirthing proposes that our spiritual self exists before our body or birth. It even suggests that we may have chosen this life and family for a reason. In this way, rebirthing offers a powerful sense of agency—one that exists even before conception.