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What if your past lives hold the answers to your current struggles?

Today, we are exploring the transformative power of past life regression with Niki Hughes — a hypnotherapist, spiritual guide, and author of Radical Self-Love. Niki’s journey from IT executive to spiritual healer led her to help people release emotional trauma and uncover the deeper patterns affecting their lives.

In this conversation, we explore how past life regression can unlock hidden emotional wounds, release trauma, and help you live with more clarity and purpose

Topics We Explore:

• How past life regression uncovers unresolved emotional trauma
• The role of karmic relationships and spiritual guides in healing
• How past lives impact our present struggles and life purpose
• Releasing fear, grief, and heartbreak through regression therapy
• The power of integrating past life lessons for personal growth

Connect with Niki Hughes: https://www.elementalbalance.ca/ 

Learn More about The Viking Academy: https://www.vikingacademy.com

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Episode Transcript:

Hi everyone and welcome back to the Viking Academy podcast. This week we have Niki Hughes on the show. Now Niki and I go back through the past life regressions that she took me through.

I have two past life regressions and one spiritual regression. We also walk through the preparation that she does for me prior to those sessions that that we did. And she does this um methodology or this process called blast.

And it's to help me re remove traumas so that my subconscious or my unconscious can take me back into these past life regressions. Now, if you had asked me a couple years ago if I was going to do a podcast on past life regressions that I done myself personally, I would have said, "You're [ __ ] crazy." But I've done them.

They're amazing. The insights that I've received from it is incredible. So, I thought it would be a lot of fun to have Niki on the podcast so that I can share with you exactly my experience of going through these past life regressions.

And what I think the message is for all of us is that we need to move ourselves away from head thinking into heartfelt thinking. And that's what Niki calls herself is a heart-c centered healer uh and an agent for change when we really need it in this world right now. Again, I'm a convert.

I totally think this is the most amazing experience I've ever had and I wanted to share it with you. So without further ado, let's go explore. Niki, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you, Eric. It's great to be here. For the listeners out there, this is uh we're gonna call this take two because we did have podcast uh recorded and then uh someone for forgot to hit record.

Oops. Yeah. Oops.

So, we should have even better stuff this time around then. Oh, yeah. I'm looking forward to this one.

So, so Niki, what I'm really interested in diving into is and sharing with the listeners is the experience that I have had with you working through the energy healing and the more specifically the past life regression, right? And the spiritual regression. The spiritual regret.

Yeah. Oh, holy [ __ ] Going deep. Going deep.

Yeah, that was that was something else. Um Yeah. But just for a listen, could you give a quick background on just what it is that you do and then we'll walk into what you did to me or with me for me?

What I helped you do to yourself? Okay. So, yeah.

So, okay. I'm a hypnotherapist and I work a lot in the spiritual space. So, um I do that.

I do energy balancing. I'm an author, teacher, coach, all that good stuff. just years of following whatever feels good and learning and applying, right?

Um, yeah. So, the work that we did and what I love to do the most is past life regression and spiritual regression because what I guess my mission in life is to help people get back to what I call life, love, and full expression. So, helping them get back to life.

Um, and we do that by getting rid of all the things that kind of block you, especially blocking the heart so that you can actually feel your own beautiful heart, right? Um, and so things happen in your current life that create blocks. You know, you got your traumas, your pains, your issues, your challenges that can get lodged into your energy field and block you from moving in certain directions and just make you feel like you are heavier in your energy.

Um but also there is those blocks that come in from past lifetimes. And so just in terms of consciousness like the the the role and the job here in this life is to become sort of connect to a higher level of consciousness through your awareness. And the work that we do though where we step beyond your current life is actually going into that part of you that is your inner world.

It's an access point for higher consciousness. And so you can go back through on your timeline through the years, through the ages, through the lifetimes to the places where you may have created the blocks that you're dealing with here. And I know that sounds kind of strange to think, well, how would I do that?

But you know what? Energy never dies. And so, um, if you don't clear it up, you're taking it with you.

And this may be the lifetime that you've chosen to activate it, to really let it go and heal it. Cuz that's the name of the game here is to heal as much as you can so that your frequency can lift and you can access a higher degree of consciousness. That's what we're here to do.

We're here to evolve and expand ourselves. So that work um is really important because like I mentioned we bring stuff with us and often it's things that we we have no explanation for in our current life. So fears, phobias, the things that come up that we like I have no idea where that came from.

It could be from a past life. Right. I I in the past I wouldn't have said right and agreed with you but after having gone through the experience with you I'm like hell yeah like I get it now.

Um but I didn't before. Um you said something also as you were sharing with that and thank you for that is that you were following your heart. You weren't in this space before though.

You were in a different space like and I keep having the same conversations. I'm having deja vu with all my guests. You were not in the spiritual woo woo space.

No. Were you in? No, I wasn't.

So, I was in information technology. So, couldn't get more leftrain versus right brain, right? So, I I have had a career in information technology and executive management through all of that as well.

Um but during all of that so it's interesting how I kind of got started in this spiritual space it was because of my mom my mom was very connected very sort of right brain she was an artist and as a teenager she used to take me to card readers and we go have our tea leaves read and it was just a fun thing we used to do and she'd say you know let's go have a little peek around the corner you know so that was always a lot of fun and it really that's the piece that opened me up I feel like I've always been connected to more than just here.

I was fascinated with reincarnation when I was in my early teens, knowing that there has to be more than this, you know. I I was a churchgoer with my family. My dad was a was a a minister.

And I remember itting in the church and not to upset anybody that is a churchgoer, but I would sit there and think, "Okay, this is nice, but I know there's more than what they're talking about." It was just this innate thing in me that I knew. And so I think that that was sort of feeding my wake up that it was a very slow wake up for me.

It was always happening. And so it's just from one thing to another to another. And then I went into information technology.

I went into to management and executive leadership and had my family. And so this is often what happens is we're we have things that we're interested in when we're young and we're starting to connect and wake up and then life happens to us. I call it the 3D life, right?

And so we step into that world and we have our families, have our kids, but and for me the whole time underneath I kept having this thing inside of me going there's got to be more than this. There's got to be more than this. There's almost a little bit of melancholy in there because it's like, man, there better be more than this.

Yeah, cuz this is boring. Like, this is starting to kill me. This is boring.

Yeah. This is this is not enough. So, um when my kids got a little bit older, um I started to really connect back into that spiritual work and um I got very interested in energy work.

So, I started started into my major wake up through my energy work. And then I thought, well, I'm really interested in past life regression. So I went down to the states and got trained in it and um still working trying to kind of marry up the two lives because I kept them very separate.

You mean I didn't feel like I could talk about any of the woowoo stuff that I did to any of the people I was working with at the time because they're all leftrain bits and bites kind of people. Right. Yeah.

And so I kept it to myself and then I I got my past life regression work going and I was working on the side doing my little side hustle and then I thought I better go figure out how to deal with things in the current life because I know how to do things in the past life but what if I can't what if someone doesn't need to go there.

They need to go here. So I went back and got my certification in that down in Seattle. And then uh just kept learning.

I am a lifelong learner and so the more I can learn and I just follow my passion and learn and add and it's just this great eclectic mix of stuff um that I do. It's fun. It's a lot of fun.

I love that. That's what resonated so much with you. It's like you know I'm not sure information technology versus uh versus accountant which is the the more which one's more 3D.

We could argue or we could debate that one for hours. But yeah, the the thing for me also is that draw. Um there's been something drawing me to explore myself like explore those three I call it the three three dimensions of being human, the mind, body, and spirit.

I know when you were talking 3D, you meant like the three-dimensional space. Yes. But it's for me it's like this this internal exploration and that's part of the adventure is not and I'm I'm getting more and more wrapped into that thought is that this is where the fun is like and that's one of the things that came up in our work when we did the regression was one of the messages that came through was like well if we told you what was going to happen where's the fun in that exactly like where's the fun in that and you know for someone who's still like you know logical financial a type personality still want to know what's going to happen.

And not knowing is actually the fun part. It's like what would you talk about like getting your Christmas gift, opening it up, and then putting it back under the tree and opening up the next morning. There's no fun in that.

Yeah. No fun in that. Right.

But you know, as humans, we like certainty. So, it can be challenging to just trust that wonderful things are coming or that the exploration is going to be good. And the thing about being an explorer, because I know I've been one my whole life, is you have to be okay with I go and explore this thing and if it doesn't feel good, then I got to let that go and just move to something else.

And not looking at things as failures, right? So, it's just there's never anything that's wasted. Never any there's never any wasted learning, right?

So with that, let's talk about the work that we did together. And so the first thing we did was I remember we did the the trauma release. Yes.

And that was Yeah, that was big. E. Yeah.

explain the process on that because I' I the only thing I remember from it's BLAST and I always I always mess up the acronym but that for me was like I felt so light and refreshed and all of a sudden my past traumas and thinking about my relationships in the past or things that have gone wrong didn't have the emotional charge anymore.

It's like it taken all the wind the wind out of the sails in a good way, right? Like all of a sudden it's like I could think about what happened in a previous marriage or a pre parent relationship or whatever happened and all of a sudden I'm like I'm not all I'm not all bent out of shape.

Yeah. And I was like what did you do? How did you do that?

It's magic. Yeah. It is a little magical but it it's it's called blast.

So bilateral analysis and stimulation technique. So it is using the eyes similar to EMDR which I don't know what that stands for but it's eye movement. um between both hemispheres of the brain.

So what happens with unprocessed or unresolved trauma is it sits in the right hemisphere of the brain and um it kind of sits out here and it filters everything. I think of I liken it to you know when you have a trauma and your body just goes into that shutdown. It's like you're getting a hug.

The challenge is when it's unprocessed or unresolved. It's like that hug just gets tighter and tighter and tighter and then all of a sudden you can't move. You you're stuck.

You can't go anywhere. There's no room for anything else. Especially if you have multiple traumas because they're all linked, right?

So the process itself is about activating that electromagnetic charge that sits with that trauma and using this uh particular technique with eye movement patterns and hypnosis because you are an eyes open hypnosis um to get the unconscious mind to reprocess it all and to strip out that negative electromagnetic charge. So you keep the memory if the unconscious mind wants you to.

it's going to put it where it needs to go somewhere else in the filing cabinets in your head. Um, you can pull it up and look at it because we don't ever delete me memories. We don't touch any of that stuff.

Um, but it doesn't have that electromagnetic charge. So, it's like you're looking at it and going, "Oh, who cares? It's it's no big deal." And then you never have to see it again.

Right. And so, it was part of the process. We test that.

And that's what you're talking about is you went into it and went, "Okay, well, I don't need to look at that again." Because we take all the wisdom, learning and understanding because that's the key thing about trauma and the the difficult experiences that we go through. They're our learning tools. So when it's unprocessed, we have to take the learning from it.

We allow the unconscious mind to take the learning from it and then just get rid of the rest because you don't need it, right? It's not necessary. So we did that first.

And um there's a reason why I do that first and because of that tightness that I mentioned and I and and I've had this happen before. I have folks who say I really want to do a past life regression with you. And so now I've over the years I've come to realize that I have to ask them about trauma first.

Because what can happen is if your unconscious mind, which is the part of me that's taking you to the lifetime that needs to be cleared. If your unconscious mind feels that there's something in your current life that is more important or is bigger or needs to be dealt with, that's where you're going.

I can't make you go into a past lifetime. If it needs to be cleared out, that's where you're going. And I've had it happen a few times where we're not going into a past life, we're going into that current life trauma and we need to deal with that first.

So sometimes you have to clear that out. So my process typically is talk about trauma. If you've got unresolved trauma or big things in your life that still are activated and bring emotion up in you, that's where we go first before we do the spiritual work.

Wow. I didn't realize that was what we did. That was the I didn't know the reason for it.

I didn't know I didn't understand the reason for it. That makes that makes a lot more sense. Now, um yeah, the you said it locks that trauma in the right side of the brain.

And it lock any Why is it locked in the right side? Like that's where the feelings are. So if you think about it, you and I talked about it, accountancy.

Yeah. You're using your left brain, the logical side of your brain. The right side of the brain is the emotional side of the brain.

And I'm probably oversimplifying it for all those neurologists out there, but um that's where it sits and that's where anxiety sits. So if you've got a lot of anxiety and anxiety can grow into like OCD behaviors, it needs to be processed across both hemispheres of the brain to bring it down. Okay.

So that and that was the thing that I really remember most. So I'm I for listeners there. So I was totally relaxed.

Uh Niki was walking me through this and talking to me. My eyes are open, but then she had me follow this light and you were bringing it back and forth and up and down patterns in these different patterns. And I remember you telling me that you were integrating this across both hemispheres.

Um but it was also I didn't I I wasn't aware that it was helping the unconscious release it or resolve it resolve the issue. Yeah. From from a technical perspective.

Right. Right. And often times what I find too is the unconscious mind which some people know it as subconscious but my training is unconscious.

Just to be clear I'm not talking about something different. Um often times the unconscious mind will not even allow you to access that memory anymore. I've had many people say when we go in to do the test, uh I can't even find it.

I don't know where it went. It's like okay you don't need it. It's been filed in a place that you never need to see again.

I'm trying to remember if that was one of the things that we did because I think when you asked me to recall because I remember you said you would have me test you would test me and say okay on a you'd have me go back into that feeling and you said okay now on a scale of 1 to 10 how much emotional charge do you feel?

And I'm like oh I'm I'm at a nine nine and a half and like like shaking. Yeah. You do the blast and then we'd go back and you'd test again and you kept just testing and trying.

It was like you were cleaning it and then you'd test it for cleansiness and then you go, "Oh, still a little dirt." And then you clean again. Clean again. Fine.

You're like, "Okay, now tell me what it feels like now." And I'm like, "I can't even bring it back." Like I couldn't bring back any feeling. It was like And the interesting thing is like so so the whole point of this is to get to the root of the trauma and pull that out.

Kind of like a dandelion tap route. Yeah. So, you can mow over it.

You can uh do all kinds of other things, but if you don't pull the root of it out, which is what we're doing with the blast, then it grows back. So, what we're doing is we're actually rewiring your brain. And you can go back even now and go look for that feeling and you'll never find it because the unconscious mind has rewired your brain for you and moved it all.

So, it's a permanent way to process out trauma. It's also really good for any negative emotions like people who might get stuck in grief. That's a big one that this is good for.

Any emotion, anger, whatever that is. You we can just do the process to clear it out. Lots of different things that I can do with that particular tool.

But that's the entry level before we go into the spiritual stuff because we want to make sure that things are cleaned out so you have a really easy experience getting back to where you want to go on your timeline. Right. Yeah.

And and when we when you we first met and you were talking about this, um my wife Erin, she went to see you first and she said it's crazy. Like I don't feel this negative energy about this anymore. I'm like, "That's so cool." She goes, "You have to go see Niki." I'm like, "Okay, I'm going.

I'm coming to see her." And then I was like, "Oh, spiritual aggression. Send me there." And you're like, "Okay, now I understand now." You're like, "Let's do the blast first and then then then we'll do a blast of the past." So let's let's let's let's go a little bit into that because Sure.

Okay. Again, having never been, you know, a proponent of the woowoo space, shall we say, more like the leftbrain thinking, all of a sudden I'm like, since the last 17 years, you know, I've been on a quest for self-discovery and I'm finding more and more that the things that I used to poo poo, I'm starting to rah rah for, right?

Which is like, oh yeah, this is real. Like so we went and you tested you you took me through a past life regression before we did the spiritual regression. So let's talk about the so stages.

So we did the past life regression. Yeah. So there's a method to my madness always.

Right. So um a spiritual regression that you did is roughly about six hours. And I don't do it all at once because it's overwhelming.

But we could do it all at once, right? If you were into it and felt that was good. Some people do them like a take a whole day and do it right.

I break it up because I think you need time to integrate. So the first stage is to do a past life progression and that's really to make sure for me that you can go deep enough because the spiritual regression is even deeper. So, it gives you a chance to um practice, get uh good at the hypnosis piece, and it allows me to be able to test out where you're at in terms of hypnotic depth.

Right? So, we did the first past life progression about 2 and 1/2 hours. The second appointment is three and a half hours.

So, let's talk about the first one first because it was a fun fun one. You were a lot of fun to work with. So, and I had no problem.

It was a while ago. So, do you remember the regression or do you want me to walk you through what happened? I Well, here's the interesting thing.

The last time we talked about this. Yeah. You brought up a whole bunch of things that happened that I do not remember.

Like, but then you brought it up, I'm like, "Oh, right." I was like, "Whoa, this is incredible." Um, there there are parts that I do remember, there's parts that I don't. So, but I would take us back through time talk us through the story timeline. Let's go visit Eric's timeline.

So, okay. So, the first past life regression um uh you went in you you actually got some really interesting guides that came forward, right? I don't know if you remember this, but you had a guide called I am.

Do you remember I am? Oh, right. I am.

Yeah. I remember. You also had a bear.

I remember the bear. The bear freaked me out. Okay.

For listeners, the bear came with you the second time. The bear freaked me out. Like literally I So I'm I'm I'm in this hypnotic state.

You put me down. I'm in a hypnotic state. If no one's done hypnosis before, it's really relaxing.

It's enjoyable. You can break yourself out at any time. Like there's a there's no like you're not control.

It's not mind control. There's no mind control. You're the one in control the whole time.

But I remember when all of a sudden I felt a nudging under my arm and I was talking to you and I turned and I looked and I went, "Oh, there's a big bear here." Like he was nudging my underneath and I can still feel him poking at me right now. Yeah. Um Yeah.

So you had the bear. Yeah. Um, you had a couple other guides later on that came up that we'll talk about, but you landed into a lifetime where you had you were um, hang on a second.

You were you were a pharaoh. And I think this is the one where you went straight into being the pharaoh. No, you were you were you were the chosen one.

So, this was the thing. You were the chosen one. So you were like a peasant who grew up in this town, but then you were chosen to be the pharaoh.

So So you got to be the chosen one. Um you were married. You really loved your wife and she died in childbirth, right?

She died in childbirth and she gave you a son and that was the ultimate gift was the son that you got from her, right? Um uh the thing about being in that pharaoh um uh lifetime is that you got to experience what it was like to have no ego because that particular pharaoh lifetime there was just this massive love for everyone.

Right? You just had this massive love for everyone. Um right.

I Oh, I forgot about that. the enlightened being. You had come into that life to be an enlightened being for the people.

Yeah. Because it wasn't an egoic like I'm in charge. I'm the pharaoh.

I I remember feeling that going but I'm totally I just looked at everybody with love and caring and caring eyes and it was like um I remember the one message that came through was you are the pharaoh. You're already the pharaoh. I remember the peasant.

Oh, now it's coming back to me. This commoner came up and stood up right in front of me. Yeah.

I think that was I am. And he talked to me and he said, "You are the pharaoh. You're already the pharaoh." And he was said like was talking to me like and I was like I'm what?

Like Yeah. Stop. He said stop trying to be.

Yes. You are. Yes.

Yes. You are. And you were like I don't know what that means.

You're going to figure it out because stop trying to be. You are. Right.

So it's recognizing that you don't need to push for anything. you can just be who you are because that is more than enough, right? And so in that lifetime, we went through that lifetime.

Um your wife died, you had the son, um time went on and then there was um an incident with an attacker. Do you remember this part? So the attacker attacked you and stabbed you on the right side.

And you had known that this was coming, but you didn't do anything to stop it because you were as the enlightened being. You knew it needed to happen for the good of all of the people and the learning of all of the people, right? I was I couldn't remember if that was that regression or the second one when we went into the spiritual.

The second one was a little bit close, but it was almost the opposite side of it that we can talk about. Oh, now I remember. Now I remember.

the the feeling that I had though when this ties right into the Viking Academy which is like I knew I knew that the that there was a coup coming and they were going to they were going to kill me because I was being too kind to the people. They I wasn't controlling the people enough because I was loving a loving leader taking care of the people.

But the bureaucrats in the back they said they got to get rid of this guy. I think I remember I'm actually it's funny I can actually feel it in my lower right now. I can feel it actually the same spot because I remember that was one of the things when you were walking me through that I was like oh I got and I could feel the pain and you talked me out of it say okay you're you're not going to feel the pain but you know it's there and then that kind of went away in the hip yeah you don't have to experience it because you've already experienced it you can just observe it right and so the the other thing that we did that was interesting I hope you're okay with me sharing this no go ahead that's your life is an open book okay apparently now it Yeah.

I had you check out the attacker to see if it was someone that you knew in your current life. And do you remember who it was? Yeah, it was my dad.

It was your dad. Yeah. Yeah.

So, this karmic thing that this karmic thing that happens with the roles we play is an interesting piece to this too. And so when you died though, we go out and figure out what the purpose is. And and your purpose in that life was to experience love and to recognize that love is sufficient cuz that you could have stepped into this life and latched on to the power which is what all the cronies wanted you to do was to get powerful.

You didn't want to to go to that power place. Yeah. Because it was the love that you were trying to push out into the people.

Right. Right. Um, so yeah, the other the other thing I do remember too is I remember after as I died, I I came up and I looked down and I could see I could see me there surrounded by literally it looked like 20 children that I had had, right?

20 children like a a lot of kids, right? Yeah. But then I also saw the attacker, the bureaucrat who who was in the embodiment of my father was actually crying cuz he realized what he had done and how horrible it was.

But he but I looked upon him not with anger eyes or anybody. I looked upon it and went, "Oh, this was the story that needed to play out." Like I was enlightened to the point of just going, "Oh, this is this is the my part. This was my part to play in it.

He had his part to play. everyone else had their part to play in it because I saw it so clearly. That's that's why I was sending so much love out into the world is because I could see clearly that these everyone was playing their parts.

That's right. So, you were above, you were the observer of it rather than imshed in it. Um, and it was about being heart-c centered.

That was the other piece to that life was about opening the heart, helping others open their hearts and being heart- centered. And we did some some work on anchoring the pharaoh's energy because the important energy in that lifetime was called what was called the pharaoh's flow. Do you remember that?

Yes, the pharaoh's flow. I do remember in the pharaoh's flow. So, and the balance.

One of the great things that I did is I kept a couple of the sticky tab notes that you wrote me. I have them sitting here. And the funny thing is is I look down every once in a while and see it, but then it Yeah.

The pharaoh's flow. That's right. Cuz flow is the goal.

Flow is the goal, not wealth. Right. We all think that we're going for money.

And that's one aspect of life. When you can go for love, the money follows, right? So, we're all sometimes focused too much on the wrong thing.

If you can just focus on love and being in the flow, everything else just lines up for a magical life, right? You know, it again with the left brainers here. Yeah.

It's so counterintuitive and so I love the woo woo word because it's woowoo to go follow your bliss, follow your heart, and everything will work itself out. And and I remember the left brain of me going, "Yeah, give me a break. I'm going to go make some I'm going to make some money.

Po folks, you you sit there and you know meditate on the hilltop. I'm going to go make some ching chain. Right.

Yeah. But the more I'm realizing this and the more I'm saying this, like I'm listening to what you said about where you were before and then you started following your heart and following where the energy goes. And every time I follow where my energy flows, not an egoic energy, but a like a joy energy where all of a sudden I'm like, "This feels light and joyous.

This feels good. All of a sudden, it it flows. Everything works.

So, this is not this is this is like reality. Yeah. You know, it's the heart energy.

And that's what we're supposed to be focusing on. Hearts are opening right now. We're in a time right now where people are waking up to who they are and waking up to heart energy, that unity energy, which is coming in on the planet.

is having a bumpy landing. But we expected this, right? From a higher consciousness perspective.

Um, if everybody was focused on their hard energy and being in the flow, can you imagine what the world would be like? You wouldn't recognize it. You wouldn't recognize it and life would feel good for everybody.

And it would look like nothing we know of. I think that's one of the things we got to be open to is that opening up to heart energy is going to transform the world in ways that we can't comprehend. Yeah.

The challenge is it pushes against our programming. And so this is some of the reasons why we do this the the deep inner work is to examine the programming that we have and to be able to let go and move beyond it. Right?

Because you got to let that stuff go in order to move into the pharaoh's flow, right? See, this is why I love doing these podcasts, especially with people that I I've known and I talk to a lot. I get so much out of having these interviews because I'm like, "Oh, right.

And there's something else." And that's for the listener there. Just be cost const if you're constantly curious and exploring, life becomes an adventure. It becomes fun and exciting, right?

Like I like before we got on the call, I'm like, "Oo, I wonder what I wonder what we're going to find out here in part two." Like we're just like, "Oo, let's let's go figure this out." Right. And um I really needed to hear that message about the Pharaoh's flow. I could I I see that now.

That was our first Yeah, there's more, Eric. There's way more. But wait, there's more.

If you order right, there's way more. Yeah, don't phone yet. Um Yeah.

So the second So then we get together for the second piece which is three and a half hours and we start with a past life regression as our sort of launching pad and then we step into the spirit realms and you have an experience and and I ask anyone who does this with me to bring their list of questions because we get every question answered.

Now I loved you your list because it was like five pages. It's like yay this is awesome. The more questions the more rich the process.

So, I love it. Um, and some of the questions get answered by the answers to the other questions anyway. So, it all works itself out.

And sometimes some of those questions get answered by the past life work that we do. So, it all comes together, right? Um, and so, uh, the second one we step, you stepped into a very interesting life where you worked for a sultan.

Do you remember that one? You were It was It was like a Turkish. Yes.

Yes. And there was and again there was oh his daughter there was a the daughter and there was like a forbidden relationship I was having well she was kidnapped she was kidnapped remember so you came in you were working for the father right I was trying to find her find the kidnapped daughter right and you found her and you discovered that it was a trick she'd faked her kidnapping because they were staging a coup Right?

They were staging a coup and they wanted you to lead it. Right? So interesting that you were on the other side of the coup in this lifetime.

So there's that karmic balance and you know karma is greatly misunderstood. Karma is just balancing out an energy. It doesn't mean that if you kill someone you're going to get killed.

It just means there's a balancing of the energy that has to take place and somehow it's going to happen. So, it's interesting that in this in this instance, it was one side of the coup versus the other side of the coup. So, um I remember feeling I didn't want to do it though.

Didn't want to do it. I know. But you were you were again the chosen one.

They wanted you to lead this coup. You liked the Sultan. You liked working for him, but you loved her, right?

You loved her. And so you felt like you kind of got tricked into it, but you cho Okay, this is, you know, shock trauma trauma alert. You've chopped off his head.

Yep. I remember that. Chopped off the Sultan's head and then you were griefstricken.

Absolutely griefstricken. And what that did energetically is it created a hole in your heart. It created that hole in your heart.

Remember what about that? Yeah. And throughout your whole life with you had a you had a few kids.

You were married to this beautiful woman, but you couldn't feel joy. There was no joy in that lifetime for you because of the hole that got created in your heart from killing the sultan. You didn't really want to do it, but you did it anyway.

You went against your own internal feeling and did what was expected of you, right? And so in the end, your kingdom or whatever it was was invaded. Remember it was invaded by Yes.

Yeah. There was that was a nasty war. I remember that it was a terrible war.

You saw your kids got killed. Your wife threw herself off the balcony cuz she didn't want to have terrible things happen to her. Um and then you were um you were killed.

And when you were killed, you immediately got forgiveness from the Sultan that you'd killed, right? So when you left your body, some reason the Sultan was there and you were you were um forgiven, but you didn't forgive yourself. No.

For not following your heart. So you had that you had that hole in your heart. Right?

So the lesson for you in that life was that there was a price that you paid for following the expectations of others and you gave up your joy. Um you gave up your joy. There was money, there was power, there was all that and you didn't care about any of it because you couldn't feel it.

You couldn't feel it. Right? So that's it wasn't what it was about because you lost your heart in that life.

Right. The one thing I remember even more so now as you're as you're as we're revisiting this is how vivid the experience was like you're under hypnosis but I'm seeing the colors. I'm feeling the feelings.

All of this is unfolding itself in front of me. And you know, you're you're not you were guiding me through not telling me what was coming, but you'd say, "Well, look around you. What do you see?" Or, "Can you see something?" "Oh, I see a door." You said, "Well, can you reach over?

Can you touch the door?" "Yeah." And get, "Well, open it." Okay. And then, so, but you're never you're never planting in my mind what I should be seeing. But it's all coming from this this magical mystical place.

And it when you're in there, it's so it's so complete if that if I that makes sense. You can I can see the picture and understand the it's like watching a movie but being the actual character. Yeah.

Feeling all the feelings. Yeah. It can be very vivid.

Um so from my perspective I have to be careful with people because it can be so vivid you can get retraumatized again. Right. We don't want that.

That's not You got to be careful with that. But hypnosis, you're using all of your senses. It's this isn't like a past life reading where someone tells you about, well, you had this past life and that past life, which can be useful information.

This is a regression where it's experiential. You are in the experience. You are associated in that other body moving through the events.

And I'm moving you along the timeline to understand what happened and where the energies were shifted and understanding and learning to integrate with what's happening in your current life. So it's all very deep and complex, right? I I'm having a bunch of aha moments here.

Explosions going on in my head. I'm I'm tying this back into the Viking Academy again. The whole concept of the Viking Academy is exploring and and I say this on the website where it's, you know, who you are screaming so loud.

I can't hear a word you're saying. The universe made you for a reason. You fit into the picture.

But we're the only species on the planet that doesn't know why we're here. That's where the adventure is, is trying to figure out how you fit into the whole picture. Because I remember that first past regression, uh, the life regression, I was completely at peace and at ease because I knew where I fit into the whole picture.

And I even allowed them to kill me. Yeah. And I didn't stop it because I was totally at peace because I knew how I fit in.

And then the second one was I tried to I did what others told me to do even though my heart said otherwise and it created a hole in my heart for me and now I couldn't feel life at all. So on the first example, I felt life completely and fully be and I I was part of the entire play to the point where I wasn't even afraid of death.

second one where all of a sudden I I couldn't feel anything even though I had this incredible life joy or whatever. And it all ended in tragedy at the end, shall we say, with the death of my kids and my wife jumping off the the the balcony. And it was a nasty coup.

I can still see it in my mind's eye right now. Like I'm picturing it. Yeah.

There was a lot to it. Yeah. Yeah.

And so, um, the first one, I feel like the universe gave you a gift, allowed you to have a lifetime where you could feel that enlightened being space to know what it feels like because that's where we're going. We're all supposed to be feeling that way, right? So, you got a little sneak preview of what life is supposed to feel like, right?

And then we go into the second past lifetime. And this is where some some energetic damage was done because you carried that hole in your heart into this life. Right.

You carried that hole in your heart into this life. You lost your heart in that life. You carried the hole and you had another guide come in, Odin.

Yeah. Um who told you the only way you can fill this hole is you doing it. This is your work to do, right?

And um this is the lifetime where you wake up. You wake up to this in this lifetime. And I don't know if you remember how the sense of humor that Odin have, but there was a lot of laughter going on.

Oh, he was a cheeky son of a [ __ ] A sense of humor. Oh, there there was him and there was three other beings that were along with Odin as well. There was two more that came in just at the end of that as you were leaving that life and we were stepping into the spirit realms.

One was a guide, one was an owl. Yes. The And it had a funny name.

Head I almost say Headwig, but I know that's Harry Potter, so I know it's not right. Um and there was a shaman. Yes.

A shaman figure. So they stayed with you through the spiritual regression. And there was a set of eyes, too.

There was three of them. Oh, the set of eyes because there was the owl head which is a two-dimensional owl head. There was the shaman which is just outline of a shaman.

And then there was other one. It was just a set of eyes. Yes.

And that set of eyes had visited you before at night before we did any of this work and scared the living daylights out of you. And now you got to reconcile that in this in this thing that this this was not a terrible entity coming to scare you. This was actually one of your guides that you freaked out at in the middle of the night.

So, all three of them did actually. No, each one of them, no, the owl head, the owl, the shaman, and the set of eyes. They had all visited me separately the in in woke me up and scared the hell out of me at night.

Um, and woke up my wife Aaron. Aaron woke up. She like, "Oh," she's like, and she's used to it now cuz she knows she said, "Another one visit you." I'm like, "Yeah." Like, um, but yeah.

So there was those three and then Odin and yeah there was there was a lot of laughing there was a lot of um oh yeah very cheeky senses of humor that I thought was quite hilarious. So so we stepped back out of that lifetime we got the purpose and all that stuff uh around your heart and following your own set of expectations and listening to your heart.

Um, but then we went into the spirit realms and this is where you can discover all kinds of things and get your five pages answered about who am I, why am I here, what's my purpose, um, who am I traveling with, who's my soul family, all of those things. But you got taken to a council.

Do you remember the council room? Oh, I 100% remember the council. Yeah.

So, there was 42 elders in this council. Do you want to describe the council room to your listeners? It was So, it was like the shape of an egg, should we think of it?

It's like an inside of an egg or like an amphitheater type thing. And there was this big wooden door at the front, like big wooden. And so I opened up this door and then I went inside and it was this big amphitheater shaped like an egg.

So there was seating wrapped around all every level. And in the middle at the bottom of this uh arena, shall we say, was a hole. And there was like a fire pit type idea.

But there was no fire in it. But there was this yellow No, it was a golden flame that was coming up from the middle of it. And they when I came in, they said, "Okay, sit down there right in the middle." I'm like, "What?" He's going.

So I sat on what would have been a fire pit, but it wasn't a fire. It was a golden flame. And I sat there and then we you went at it with the questions and um I it was interesting too cuz I remember turning around and looking back towards the door.

Mhm. And Odin and the three other uh entities were there could see. So the egg was opaque like I could see out the door.

I couldn't see out the door but I could see outside the building and they were standing outside and they were looking at me and they were cheering me on. They're going great. Like every once in a while I'd turn and look at them.

They're like keep going. You're doing great. Yeah.

Cuz they they wouldn't come in with you. They No, they wouldn't come in. They didn't come in.

They had to stay at the door. So all it was just you with these 42 elder beings, right? Yeah.

Yeah. And so one of the things that you had asked was what's your purpose in this life? And you had this idea about business and money and enlightenment and all this other stuff.

And the purpose that you got was no, you're here to mend your heart and to be more intentional. Right? They said that the hole in your heart was 90% healed because some work was done on you by I am in the first in the first session.

Remember there was some balancing of energy that happened at the end there. The feminine energy was activated because it was not in play. Um, but anyway, so 90% of your heart was healed, but there was the last 10% that had to be done.

And it had to be done by me. Had to be done by you. That's right.

And some of the other messages that you got from the things that you asked. And some things they wouldn't answer. They just they'd laugh and say, like you said, what's the fun in us telling you that?

Oh, why would we tell you that? Because that just takes all the joy out of it. You go figure it out, right?

Be playful. They were very playful. like, wow.

I remember so I couldn't quite see the faces of all of them, but they were kind of in like, shall we call it Roman kind of sheetsish, but I couldn't really see them. But then every once in a while, one would float down and talk to me and then go back away and they or I'd hear from a group of them.

But I remember the one it dropped down right into my face and it was a face of a clown. like a really cartoon freaky clown face and going like right in my face and I'm like oh and I'm like you and I was just I remember giving them a hard time and they were just laughing at me because it was like there's the joke.

It's like come on lighten up Eric like just chill out like I'm taking things too seriously and that is one of the things that I've had in this lifetime. I take I take things so seriously. Right.

And they want you to lighten up and they want you to go play. That was the other thing. Go play was the other message you got.

Um, and in terms of all of the answers that you were looking for, they want they wanted you to focus on your heart. Your heart the your heart always tells the truth. Your heart never lies.

It your the heart always tells the truth. Let your heart guide you. So you would ask a question about something in your life and they would come back and say, "Well, what does your heart say?" Ask your heart.

Right. right? Follow your heart.

Now, how how do I do this in my life? How do I make this happen? And they the answer is they'd start to laugh and say, "What do you think we're going to say?" And you'd say, "Yeah, I know.

Follow my heart." Yeah. Well, you got to get good at listening, feeling, and following your heart because you're always following your mind, right? We've been trained as children and adults, and we're rewarded for following our mind and our intellect.

We aren't rewarded for following our heart. But if you not by society, but if you are to follow your heart, you will be rewarded because that's where you're in the flow, right? That's the pharaoh's flow.

And that's how you're going to heal that last 10% is by connecting and allowing and expanding and really being present with your heart and letting it be online. Right? That's how you're going to heal that last 10%.

And for me, there's another uh dimension to this that makes it a little more challenging for me is being a recovered alcoholic is that whenever I followed quote unquote my heart, which I realized it wasn't my heart. When I was following my my addiction or my drives, it was ego. It was a ego.

So, there's a difference between your ego in charge and your heart in charge. And that's the the real uh I'm always in a check and balance with myself going this is where I feel like I really want to go do but then I check I have to double check and go okay is this egoic?

Is this going to be good for me and other people or is it going to hurt someone else? I'm always double-checking that because I is this from my heart? Yeah.

Is the check. Is this from my heart? So what we chatted about in that beautiful room where where you were sitting on that seat and I call it the seat of your soul, right?

um is not the maybe it is the the ego piece that you talked about following that but it's really it was fear. So the fear is what you were following into addiction. Right.

So that's that's a the fear-based responses and just making sure that it's love you're following not the fear. And they said that fear is in your head. If you're following your head and you're feeling like um you're not sure which way to go, drop into your heart space.

Listen to your heart. Okay? Let the heart lead your mind is what they said.

Let your heart lead your mind because fear is in your head. That's the programming. That's all of the programming that we've had, right?

Your heart's not been programmed. you writing that down? I I am writing it down for anybody who's not watching the video version of this.

I'm writing this down as if I heard it for the first time. That's it's been a while. It's been a while since you've done the work.

And you know, I do I do recommend like for the spiritual regression part, I do tape that. I don't tape the past lives part because I don't like to retraumatize people if there's trauma in there. Um, but I do set it up with a post- hypnotic suggestion that you'll remember.

I with the spiritual regression piece because you're deep. I do record it. So, you've got the recording.

Um, I do suggest to folks who journal just to go in and take some notes just like you know like I've done here with your notes just very high level. Yeah. Your heart, let your heart guide you.

Um, fear is in your head. Listen to your heart. Let the heart lead the mind.

So those are the key things that you were told, right? And the other piece was drop your drop the eriousness. Drop the seriousness.

There was one more thing that was a really interesting image that I want to bring up and that was the snake with the tail. Remember that? And there was a name Ragnorch or something.

Ragnarok. Was it Ragnarok? Well, that's Ragnarok is the end of end of world.

It's the the serpent. If anybody watching the video, the serpent on the Yeah. So, it's eating it.

So, they showed you that when they were talking about I think it might have been fear. Um, it was like you're consuming yourself, right? And they showed you the snake eating its old tail.

Eating its own tail. So, that's the world serpent. That's what I said.

It was the world serpent that comes to destroy the world. It's Ragnarok, but it's the serpent eating its own tails because you're just as you're thinking, you're thinking, you're eating in your mind. You're consuming yourself.

You're It's almost like you're consuming yourself when you're stuck up in your head. Drop down into your heart and feel. And so, it's the feeling that you need to connect with that will heal that last 10%.

And you can do that easily by just taking a moment, dropping into the heart space, and say, "How does my heart feel right now?" Right? And it can might be you might get a feeling like this is a yes feeling and oh, and this is a no feeling. It might be an expansion or a contraction, but it's getting good at reading what your heart's telling you, right?

And it's just it's something you got to practice. And that's something that I'm taking away. I made myself a note here to go back and listen to session to actually do put some time aside to listen to the session again and to make notes and to really deep dive into it again.

Like I find even with these podcasts like I will listen to these podcasts over and over again and I get more out of them every time I listen to them. I'm listening to my own podcast. It sounds like I'm being like an egoomaniac but it's not.

I'm like listening to the what what all my uh guests have shared with me and I get so much more out of it. I feel like this is actually almost like a counseling session. You should be building for this instead of this being a podcast.

Holy [ __ ] Yeah. Well, you know what? Every time you have a conversation with somebody, you're activating healing inside of yourself.

It's just the nature of the beast. It's who we are. We're constantly healing all the time.

So all of these podcasts that you listen to, you're just activating deeper levels of healing, right? I could not recommend to the listener more than to go and work with you. Where could they where can they find you?

I see your book also there, Radical Self Love. I see that back there. And let's do the shameless plug here because I'm being serious about this.

Okay. So, I wrote the book because a lot of the folks that I see and what my belief is in order to get back to life, love, and full expression, you have to peel away what's blocking your heart, right? And if you're stuck up in your head with your limitations and your programming, you got to get out of that and get back down into the heart space so you can feel yourself.

But then it's about taking the next step, stepping into the heart, going through that doorway to your inner world to access higher levels of consciousness to connect to that larger part of you that makes you feel like you're whole all the time. And when you can do that, then what happens when when you can really fully love yourself and feel connected to that larger part of you, you're not out in the world looking for things to fill the hole, right?

You're not looking for relationships. You're not looking for substances. You're not you're not seeking outside of yourself because everything you've got is inside and you don't need it, right?

You're whole. It's a lovely, lovely feeling. So, I wrote the book to help people um move beyond the things that are blocking them.

And also, there's a chapter in there on how to connect to your higher self and live in an expanded way. So, that's that's why I wrote the book. Um and it really just lines up with all the work that I do, right?

the spiritual work, the individual hypnotherapy work just to help people get out of their own way, right? And to let their light shine. We need to let our light shine more than ever in this world now.

So, you know, that's that's the work that I do. Getting that spark going. The the feeling of not taking everything so serious and feeling good with myself frees me up to go and play with what's in front of me, you know?

Then you can just go play. then you can have some fun with it, right? Yeah.

And for me, that's my ultimate goal with the Viking Academy is for everyone to feel whole within themselves is to have that spark of joy and exploration and fun, right? Let's go play Vikings and see explore another world, right? Yeah.

A place to explore. And you know the name of the game and you've been doing it for years. I've been doing it for years with that personal development is is exploring ourselves through things through different modalities through through you know hypnosis through um uh channeling through whatever it is.

It's just it's it's a way of connecting to bigger parts of ourselves which is kind of fun because then you learn more about you and then you're expanding yourself and that's the name of the game is expansion. I love it. Right.

Expanding our energy, expanding your soul's light in the world. Um, and feeling like you're in the pharaoh's flow. It feels really good.

Yeah. I got to get back into the pharaoh's flow. Yeah.

Radical selflove is the book. Radical self-love is the book. Yeah.

My website is um elementalbalance.ca. I also have a podcast that I haven't done for a bit because I've been sick for a month. Um, I have a podcast called Separation to Oneness and it's all about going beyond and connecting into Bliss.

Um, uh, yeah, so you can get me through my website. There's a contact form and my email's on there as well and so is my phone number. So, people can reach me that way.

And I cannot endorse you more. This has been fantastic. Thank you so much.

This is Thank you so much. You were lovely to work with. We had so much fun.

It was a blast. It really was. And I didn't mean Did you see what I did there?

It was a blast. Oh, it was a blast. Yeah, it was the first time.

And then we Well done. Well done. Thanks for being on the podcast.

Thank you for having me. It was just a delight. Thanks for listening to the Viking Academy podcast.

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