What Actually Happens During a Life Between Lives Session?
- May 25
- 14 min read
Updated: 3 days ago
A Gentle Journey Beyond This Lifetime
Most people arrive at a Life Between Lives session with one simple question.
"What actually happens?"
It is an understandable question because, unlike many other forms of therapy, this is not something most people have experienced before. You may have read about reincarnation, listened to interviews with people describing profound spiritual experiences or come across the work of pioneers such as Dr. Michael Newton, yet none of those things fully explain what it feels like to experience a Life Between Lives session yourself.
Many people imagine something dramatic. They expect to lose awareness, leave their body or suddenly witness extraordinary visions unfolding before them. Others worry that nothing will happen at all. They wonder whether they are hypnotisable, whether they need to believe in reincarnation, or whether they are somehow "too analytical" for the experience to work.
Interestingly, most people discover that neither extreme is true.
A Life Between Lives session is usually much quieter, much gentler and much more natural than people expect. It is not about escaping reality or entering a fantasy world. It is about allowing the mind to become still enough that another layer of awareness can begin to emerge. Rather than travelling somewhere new, many people later describe the experience as remembering something that has always existed beneath the surface of everyday consciousness.
No two sessions are ever identical because no two people arrive with the same life, the same questions or the same emotional landscape. Some come hoping to understand why they have always felt drawn towards a particular path. Others want clarity around a relationship that changed them forever. Some arrive carrying grief after losing someone they love, while others simply feel an unexplainable curiosity that has quietly followed them for years.
Whatever brings someone to the session, the journey always begins in exactly the same place.
With the life they are living now.
Every Journey Begins with Your Story
Long before hypnosis begins, we spend time talking.
This conversation is far more important than many people realise because it allows us to understand what has brought you to this point in your life. Sometimes the questions are very clear. You may want to understand a repeating relationship pattern, explore a fear that has followed you since childhood or reconnect with a sense of purpose that feels as though it has somehow slipped out of reach.
Other times there are no clear questions at all.
There is simply a feeling that something inside you is searching for a wider perspective.
Neither approach is better than the other.
Some of the most profound sessions begin with nothing more than curiosity.
Once we have explored your intentions, the hypnotic journey begins gradually. There is no sudden loss of awareness and no moment where you stop knowing where you are. In fact, one of the biggest surprises for first-time clients is how ordinary hypnosis actually feels. You remain aware of my voice throughout the session. You can answer questions, describe your experience and remember what unfolds afterwards. Most people compare it to the peaceful state that exists just before falling asleep, when the body is deeply relaxed but awareness is still quietly present.
As the analytical mind begins to soften, attention naturally turns inward. The constant stream of everyday thoughts gradually becomes quieter, creating space for something deeper to emerge. For many people this is the first time in years that they have experienced such profound mental stillness, and that alone can feel deeply restorative.
One thing I have learned through guiding these sessions is that the experience never needs to be forced. The subconscious mind has its own intelligence and its own timing. Rather than trying to make something happen, we simply create the conditions that allow whatever is ready to emerge to unfold naturally.
Moving Beyond a Past Life
For most people, a Life Between Lives session does not begin in the space between incarnations. Instead, it usually begins with a Past Life Regression. This serves an important purpose, not because every session must follow exactly the same path, but because the subconscious mind often unfolds its stories in a natural sequence.
Imagine reading the final chapter of a novel before reading the chapters that came before it. Much of the meaning would be lost because the events that shaped the story had not yet been revealed. In much the same way, a past life often provides the context that helps everything which follows make sense.
You may find yourself experiencing a lifetime that seems closely connected to the questions you brought into the session. Someone struggling with an unexplained fear of abandonment may find themselves witnessing a lifetime marked by separation or loss. Another person who has spent years putting everyone else's needs before their own may experience a life in which duty and sacrifice became central themes. Someone else may discover a lifetime where they struggled with confidence, only to recognise the same emotional pattern quietly influencing their current life.
Whether these experiences represent literal memories, symbolic expressions of the subconscious or something beyond our current understanding is ultimately less important than the insight they bring. Again and again, people tell me that what mattered most was not the historical details, but the sudden understanding that emerged. A lifelong emotional pattern that had never quite made sense suddenly becomes understandable when viewed through a wider lens.
As the story of that lifetime naturally comes to an end, the journey often begins to change.
Rather than moving directly into another incarnation, many people describe becoming aware of an extraordinary sense of lightness. The personality they had just experienced gradually fades into the background, along with the worries, responsibilities and limitations that belonged to that particular life. What remains is a much broader awareness of themselves, one that feels strangely familiar despite being difficult to describe.
Many people later tell me that this is the moment when everything changes.
Not because something dramatic suddenly appears, but because the feeling itself is unlike anything they have experienced before.
A Different Kind of Awareness
Trying to describe the Life Between Lives state is a little like trying to describe colour to someone who has never seen it. Language can point towards the experience, but it can never quite capture it.
People often begin by describing what they saw. They may speak about light, colours, beautiful surroundings or symbolic landscapes. Yet when they reflect on the experience afterwards, they almost always return to something much deeper.
"It wasn't what I saw that stayed with me," they say.
"It was how I felt."
That feeling is remarkably consistent.
People describe an overwhelming sense of peace that seems to exist without effort. There is no pressure to achieve anything, no need to prove themselves and no constant inner dialogue questioning whether they are good enough. Many speak of feeling completely accepted, not because someone tells them they are worthy, but because they experience themselves without the layers of self-judgement that so often accompany everyday life.
Imagine carrying a heavy backpack for so many years that you no longer notice its weight. Then, without warning, someone gently lifts it from your shoulders. You may not immediately understand what has changed, but you instantly recognise how much lighter you feel. Many people describe the transition into the Life Between Lives state in much the same way. It is not that their questions suddenly disappear. Rather, the emotional weight attached to those questions begins to soften.
For someone who has spent years believing they are never enough, the experience may be one of unconditional acceptance. Someone who constantly feels responsible for fixing everyone else's problems may experience, perhaps for the first time, what it feels like to simply exist without carrying the weight of the world. A person who has lived with anxiety for decades may discover a stillness so profound that they struggle to find words for it afterwards.
These experiences do not erase the challenges waiting back in everyday life.
They do something far more subtle.
They change the perspective from which those challenges are viewed.
That is often where the deepest healing begins.
Meeting Guides, Soul Groups and a Wider Perspective
As the experience continues, many people become aware that they are no longer alone.
This is often the part of a Life Between Lives session that people are most curious about, yet it is also the part that is hardest to describe. Some expect dramatic encounters with mystical beings or lengthy conversations filled with profound spiritual wisdom. In reality, the experience is usually much quieter than that.
Many people simply become aware of a loving presence.
Sometimes that presence is experienced as one guide. Sometimes it feels like several beings. Occasionally, people do not perceive anyone visually at all. Instead, they describe an unmistakable feeling of being accompanied by an intelligence that understands them completely.
What surprises many people is how familiar these encounters feel.
There is rarely any sense of meeting a stranger. Instead, they often describe the feeling of reconnecting with someone they have known for far longer than they can consciously remember. It is not recognition through appearance or personality. It is recognition through feeling.
Imagine meeting someone who knows every chapter of your life. Every joy, every disappointment, every fear you have carried in silence and every mistake you still judge yourself for. Now imagine that instead of criticism, you experience nothing but compassion. There is no need to explain yourself, defend your decisions or pretend to be someone you are not. You simply feel seen.
For many people, that feeling becomes one of the most healing parts of the entire session.
Whether these guides are independent spiritual beings, symbolic expressions of our own higher wisdom or something beyond our current understanding is a question each person answers differently. Personally, I don't believe the value of the experience depends on reaching the same conclusion. What matters is the transformation it creates. Again and again, people leave feeling less alone, more trusting of themselves and more open to the possibility that life may be guided in ways we do not always recognise while we are living it.
As these experiences unfold, another theme often begins to emerge. People sometimes become aware of souls that feel profoundly familiar. There are no introductions and usually no need for words. The connection is immediate, almost as though they are remembering someone rather than meeting them for the first time.
This idea has become widely known through terms such as soul groups or soul families. While those labels can be helpful, they sometimes create the impression that we travel through every lifetime with exactly the same people. The experiences reported during Life Between Lives sessions often suggest something much more fluid than that.
Certain souls may continue meeting one another across different incarnations, but the roles constantly change. The person who is your mother in one lifetime may return as your daughter in another. A close friend may become a mentor, a colleague or even someone you meet only briefly but who alters the direction of your life forever. Occasionally, the person who challenges you the most becomes one of your greatest teachers, not because the relationship was easy, but because it awakened strengths or understanding that may never have emerged otherwise.
Looking back on our own lives, most of us can recognise relationships that changed us in ways we never expected. Perhaps someone entered your life for only a few months, yet influenced the next twenty years. Perhaps a difficult relationship taught you where your boundaries truly were. Perhaps losing someone you loved opened your heart in ways that comfort never could. Experiences like these often become easier to understand when viewed from a wider perspective.
This does not mean that every painful relationship was somehow meant to happen or that harmful behaviour should simply be accepted. Compassion and healthy boundaries can exist together. Understanding the deeper meaning of an experience is very different from excusing the actions that caused pain.
What Life Between Lives often offers is not justification.
It offers perspective.
Instead of asking only, "Why did this happen to me?" people often find themselves asking a different question altogether.
"Who have I become because I lived through it?"
For many, that single shift changes everything.
Seeing Your Life from a Wider Perspective
As the journey continues, many people describe reaching a point where they begin looking back at their lives from a completely different perspective. This is often referred to as a life review, although that phrase can be misleading. It is easy to imagine some kind of judgement or evaluation, as though someone is measuring whether we have succeeded or failed. Yet that is almost never how people describe the experience.
Instead, they often speak about understanding.
Imagine being able to step outside your own story for a moment and seeing it with complete honesty, but without the constant self-criticism that so many of us carry. You see the choices you made, the opportunities you embraced, the moments you wish you had handled differently, but you see them through the eyes of compassion rather than blame.
For many people, this becomes one of the most emotional parts of the entire session.
Someone may suddenly understand why a relationship that brought enormous heartbreak also became the catalyst for discovering self-worth. Another person may realise that a career they once considered a failure actually led them towards work that felt far more aligned with who they truly are. Others begin recognising that periods they once viewed as wasted years were quietly shaping qualities such as resilience, patience or compassion in ways that could not have happened any other way.
Sometimes people become aware of the effect they have had on others without ever realising it during everyday life.
A kind conversation they barely remember may have changed someone's direction completely.
A simple act of generosity may have restored another person's hope at exactly the right moment.
Equally, they may recognise occasions where their own pain unintentionally affected the people around them. Yet even these moments are rarely experienced with shame. Instead, they are accompanied by a profound understanding that everyone is learning, everyone is growing and everyone is doing the best they can with the awareness they have at the time.
That wider perspective often changes the way people think about success.
So much of modern life encourages us to measure ourselves by achievements, qualifications, income or status. Yet during Life Between Lives sessions, those things rarely appear to hold the same importance. Again and again, people describe coming away with the feeling that love, compassion, kindness and authenticity matter far more than they had previously imagined.
Many also begin to understand that the experiences they had been trying hardest to avoid were sometimes the very experiences that transformed them most deeply.
That does not mean suffering is somehow desirable.
Nor does it mean painful experiences should be romanticised.
It simply reminds us that growth often happens in places we would never have chosen to visit.
One of the questions I am often asked afterwards is whether people receive all the answers they hoped for.
The honest answer is no.
Life Between Lives is not about providing a complete explanation for every mystery or every difficult chapter. Some questions remain unanswered, and perhaps they are meant to. What many people discover instead is something far more valuable than certainty. They leave with a deeper sense of trust. Trust that life may hold meaning even when they cannot yet see it. Trust that not every chapter needs to make sense while they are living it. And perhaps most importantly, trust in themselves.
It is remarkable how often people finish a session saying that the greatest gift was not learning something new about another realm, but seeing their own life with fresh eyes. The circumstances themselves may not have changed at all. Their relationships, careers and challenges are still waiting for them when they return home.
What has changed is the way they hold those experiences.
Sometimes that change in perspective is enough to change everything else.
Why Life Between Lives Often Changes People Long After the Session Has Ended
One of the most remarkable things about a Life Between Lives session is that its deepest effects are often not felt while the session is taking place.
They unfold afterwards.
Sometimes over the following days.
Sometimes over weeks or even months.
Many people expect to leave with dramatic revelations or complete certainty about every question they brought with them. Occasionally that happens. More often, however, the experience works in a quieter and more lasting way. It begins changing the way people see themselves, the people around them and the life they are living.
I have often found that people remember surprisingly few details of the imagery several years after their session. They may forget exactly what a guide looked like, the sequence of events they experienced or the symbolic places they visited. What they rarely forget is how the experience made them feel.
They remember the profound sense of peace.
They remember feeling completely accepted.
They remember, perhaps for the first time in their lives, experiencing themselves without fear, without judgement and without the constant pressure to become someone else.
That feeling has a way of staying with people.
It quietly becomes a new reference point.
When life becomes stressful again—and sooner or later it always does—many people find themselves remembering that deeper sense of stillness they experienced during the session. Not because they are trying to escape everyday life, but because they now know that beneath the noise and constant activity there is another place within themselves they can return to.
Perhaps that is one of the greatest gifts of this work.
It reminds us that peace is not something we have to create.
It may simply be something we have forgotten how to access.
Another change people often describe is that fear gradually begins to lose its grip.
This is especially true when it comes to death.
Interestingly, most people do not leave a Life Between Lives session believing they suddenly know exactly what happens after physical death. Instead, they describe becoming less afraid of the mystery itself. Whether they understand the experience as spiritual reality or as a profound journey through the subconscious mind becomes less important than the quiet reassurance they carry afterwards.
Many tell me they stop fearing death quite so intensely and begin focusing more fully on living.
That is a beautiful paradox.
A journey that appears to be about what happens after life often becomes one of the most powerful reminders to embrace life while we are here.
Relationships frequently change too. Not because other people suddenly become different, but because we begin seeing them through a wider lens.
Someone we once judged harshly may simply appear human.
Someone we blamed for years may still be responsible for their actions, yet we no longer wish to carry the weight of resentment ourselves.
Old conflicts often lose some of their emotional intensity, not because they no longer mattered, but because they are no longer the centre of our story.
Even difficult experiences can begin to look different.
A painful ending may gradually become recognised as the beginning of a completely different chapter.
A career that once felt like failure may later be understood as the path that led us towards work that was far more meaningful.
A relationship that broke our heart may eventually be seen as the experience that taught us self-respect, healthy boundaries or unconditional love for ourselves.
Life itself has not changed. Our perspective has.
Perhaps that is the greatest healing any spiritual experience can offer.
Not the removal of every challenge. But the ability to meet those challenges with greater wisdom, greater compassion and far less fear.
Life Between Lives does not ask us to stop living in the present while searching for another reality.
Quite the opposite.
It gently reminds us that this life—this ordinary Tuesday morning, this conversation, this walk by the sea, this coffee shared with someone we love—is the very reason we are here.
If there is a journey beyond this lifetime, then surely this lifetime deserves to be lived as fully as we can. And if there is not, that truth remains equally beautiful.
Either way, we are invited to live with greater kindness, greater presence and a deeper appreciation for the extraordinary opportunity of simply being alive.
Continue Exploring Your Soul's Journey
If this article has left you with more questions than answers, that is perfectly natural.
Life Between Lives is not a subject that asks for certainty.
It asks for curiosity.
Whether you approach it from a spiritual perspective, a psychological perspective or simply with an open mind, exploring these questions can deepen your understanding of yourself, your relationships and the life you are living today.
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If you feel called to experience a Life Between Lives session for yourself, I offer private online sessions in a safe, supportive and deeply respectful space. Every journey is unique because every person brings their own questions, experiences and story. My role is never to tell you what you should believe, but simply to guide you as your own inner wisdom begins to unfold.
Sometimes the greatest discoveries are not about finding new answers.
Sometimes they come from remembering what your soul may have quietly known all along.
Another chapter in your Soul Saga.
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