Pre-Life Selection: Exploring the choices we made before we were born.
(Or “What on Earth was I thinking?”)

If we are the co-creators of our own lives, how do we create each lifetime and what are the challenges we have chosen for our current time here? A pre-life selection session takes us through that process with our guides and teachers, bringing a better understanding of the path we walk in our current life. Part of the responsibility of being Spiritual Beings on an Earthly adventure is that
we are the creators of our own lives, we choose our bodies, our families, our teachers, and our relationships, we even plan the challenges that make up our human lives on earth and which guide us to our final graduation from Earth School. A Pre-life selection session is a guided journey through the process as we experience it on the spiritual level. We will explore our memories of first contact with the unborn child and how we came to make the choices that have helped to create our current lifetime, along with all the lessons and teachers and the wisdom that has guided us through our souls' many journeys. How does this happen? How do we move past the challenges and barriers that appear to keep us from being happy? How does knowing we made the choices and were divinely guided at every step of the way help us keep to our path and open to our own higher wisdom and inner guidance?


I have based some of this work on the work of Dr. Michael Newton, author of “Journey of Souls” & “Destiny of Souls”, and the book “Courageous Souls” by Robert Schwartz. I was inspired by Rob Schwartz’ words in his book to think about how this kind of knowledge, that we choose the challenges that we face in our human lives, can bring a higher understanding and acceptance of ourselves as the powerful creators of our soul’s journey. Rather than see ourselves as victims of the evil of others, we go through a deliberate process, assisted by and supported by our spirit guides and teachers, to create exactly what will bring us to a higher level of spiritual consciousness. Rob’s book works hand in hand with the books and the work done by Dr. Michael Newton, and using Dr. Newton’s spiritual regression techniques, I was able to put together this very specific modality of spiritual awakening and growth to further understanding ourselves and our soul’s journey.


A pre-life selection journey might be seen as similar to a past life journey in that we use similar techniques to move into the altered states and access the inner guidance, and it takes approximately the same amount of time, 2 hours. However, it is as different from a past life journey as a University is from a village school. Both are places of learning and education, but the pre-life offers far more focus and scope for understanding the choices and opportunities we created and why, and to know the inner self more completely. It is recommended, therefore, that a client experience a past life journey before the pre-life session. The combined work gives one a much deeper understanding of the kinds of choices and contracts that we have made in the past and set up for our current lifetime, and how to value our own inner wisdom and guidance.


What is the Process of a Pre-Life Selection Session?


A Pre-Life Selection is a two hour session, taped and guided by Virginia who is certified in both past life journeys and life between lives regressions. It is a spiritual journey and a very human one. The process begins with deep relaxation using breathing and guided imagery. Virginia uses her own unique technique called the HeartBreath to bring a client into their heart center, where they have access to their own inner guidance. From that place the journey takes the client into their own past, to comfortable easy memories from this lifetime. This sets the path to go into pre-womb awareness and experiences.


“Working with so many clients going into their own past, I have found that everyone holds memories and awareness of being held inside their mother’s bodies. Not in the conscious mind necessarily, but we have them. Everything the mother experiences, the unborn child experiences. In an ideal society all pregnant mothers would be treated by everyone around them as goddesses, because they are helping to create the new generation through her. “


The journey continues backwards to the point of first touch - the very first time the soul energy contacted and merged with the physical body of the fetus. It is a sacred and unique experience each time we go through this and it is important to understand what kind of relationship the soul energy and the physical being are going to have. It is also possible to get a sense of the heart connection between the unborn child and the mother who is carrying it. And, since the fetus feels what the mother feels, they know how she feels about the child she is carrying, her role as its mother, and how she feels about herself. Often the baby takes on some of the emotional baggage the mother might be carrying and we can have issues in our later lives that is not our own, we’ve been carrying it for our mothers. To know this, to see it for what it is allows us to release what is not ours to carry.


From this place the journey takes on a whole new level of energy and connection as it moves to the timeless place and placeless time of the spiritual realms. Now we are working with Guides, Angels, Teachers and other Spiritual Companions, all the individuals that assisted in the process of setting up and creating the new life that is going to be the current life experience. Each time we visit EarthSchool we are the creators of the lessons, the challenges, the relationships and the growth, but we are always assisted and guided towards the greatest and highest good of our own soul’s evolutionary journey. Who helped us, how did we choose the body, the genetic codes and physical attributes, the DNA of our physical journey? What was the intention of that body’s potential? Sometimes when we are working on issues and we need to make sure we stay focused on those issues, we preselect a physical health experience like dis-ease or a physical challenge to help us move past any blocks or resistance, to know the lesson and the work more closely, or maybe to help someone else on their journey. Every physical illness we experience also has an emotional as well as a spiritual component to it. Knowing that we are the ones making these choices gives us the power to help ourselves to make future choices that serve our greatest and highest good, to see and understand this part of our spiritual journey for what it is. This is all just a fancy and wordy of saying we see ourselves not as victims of illness or physical challenges, but as the powerful beings who are doing what they need to do to evolve energetically and spiritually.


Many of the relationships in our lives are arranged so that we can be with the ones we love and have worked with before. Not all of them, however, sometimes we choose to work with individuals who are new to us, always for the benefit of everyone involved. We may have some kind of unfinished business we need to sort out, or an imbalance that needs to be addressed. Sometimes an individual is very good at helping us with a particular challenge or issue, or sometimes we need to ask someone we love and trust to take on a role that is harsh and causes pain and hurt, so we can experience our lessons from all perspectives. We, as spiritual beings in EarthSchool, learn and experience best through contrast and comparisons. In other words, for example, we can learn about and truly understand the value of love by living with it and by living without it. Some of our most powerful teachers are the ones who, in the human realms, cause us pain and who appear to be bringing harmful actions against us. Often it is found that these are the best and closest and most loving teachers, who have agreed to take on the negative roles to help us with our lessons. Seeing the love and trust that is behind these harsh lessons empowers in a way that can only be experienced to be fully understood.


We choose our families, our partners, our children, our teachers and our lessons. All this makes up the mission of each lifetime, how we are going to promote the growth and evolution of our Soul on its journey towards Pure Spirit. Each lifetime we go through this process and it is different for each individual, yet it is powerful and healing and enlightening to see it in action.
When we have gathered as much as we are going to get from the selection process, we prepare for the next stage, which brings us back to First Touch. How do we prepare, what do we do to get ready to return to the physical realms and take on another human body? How do we journey to that moment? We are in spirit form and we are about to merge again with a physical form that is vulnerable to gravity and all the 5 senses, all the temptations, the limitations and challenges of being human. It is a huge adjustment to make - so how do we make it? Once we have contacted the tiny unborn child, usually during the middle to last few months of the gestation period, do we stay in the body or do we go back and forth, in and out? What kind of family dynamics are we being born into, how does the rest of the people involved relate to each other, what are their feelings about this new member?


Then there is the birth itself. For the most part the actual moment when the birthing process begins is an unknown factor - the baby decides when it is time to have a birthday! During the birth, do we stay or do we wait outside? Often clients who have remained for the actual birthing describe it as feeling a lot of pressure and a compulsion to move, to press onward, there is something very important that needs to be done. And last we experience the very first time we look into our mother’s eyes, the first time she holds us, what does it feel like to be in air and light again?


From there we return to our physical awareness and conscious mind. It takes a solid two hours and is worth every minute of it. Virginia helps the re-entry into human awareness, and continues the conversation about the experience to aid and support the process, evaluating and confirming what was brought to the surface. It doesn’t take too long to be fully back in the body, but it needs to be done carefully and thoroughly. Virginia creates an environment where she can hold the space as needed for this journey and what it brings to each individual who shares it with her.


Each person who has done this comes back with a new and more loving way of seeing themselves and their current lifetime. The current lifetime is the most important one. Whatever we have been or done in the past, this current lifetime is the primary focus of any work we do at GateKeeper. We always ask to be guided to a past life or pre-life that will bring benefit and insight into the current life and what we are working on this time. A pre-life journey explicitly focuses on that request and that understanding and insight, always for the greatest and highest good.