I don't watch TV. It's mind numbing.

I've had shitty things come up to when I was dealing with past life issues. Sometimes it was too much for me to deal with at the time and I shut off from it yet again. I practice yoga and meditate with crystals to ground my self enough that I can either handle dealing with what comes up, or know when something is too much for me and wait till I'm ready to deal with it. I can now laugh about things that I couldn't even talk about before.

I know one person who was a cynic in a past life, and in this life he's optimistic. In an evolutionary sense it is understandable to go through a phase of cynicism to become optimistic.

If one abused power in a past life, that could explain why one could be afraid of wielding power in this life.

A shamanic way of explaining it I heard is we all have sickness. When we need to survive we can put it away, but eventually it needs to be dealt with for us to be able to tap into our full power and to be whole and complete. We can either avoid doing this and have it come up by necessity, which could be very inconvenient. Or take steps to understanding our wounding and how to heal it. Shying away from the problem and pretending like it never happened does nothing to solve it.

I don't care that I can't prove the things I've learned about my past. I have no interest in proving it to anyone. People who have a deep enough understanding can see evidence, and those are the only people that have any business knowing.

Knowing what one was in the past can help them understand all sorts of things about them, their behavior and what shaped it.

If I know I was a murderer in the past, then perhaps that explains how I know so well how not to be one in this life. If I was a king in a past life perhaps that explains why I can't stand being told what to do, or seeing the grossness of what governing systems have degraded to.

Let me again state that what made me respond is the tittle on this thread:

"Can someone tell me who I was in a past life? I'm desperate."

and if you are desperate on knowing what you was in your past life...then you are destroying what you are today....because focus is wrong....because nothing can be given from one life to another....because life is NOW...life before is done, and can't be changed.

If your life is good and secure...then investigating in such thing as past life can have a value....but if you are unsecured and desperate...then such thing is a waste of focus, and if it can help...then we can say we all was KINGS and go on with our life now in good mood.

Be aware that if you count all people who have lived their life on earth from early on..then we will get around 100Billions....which 6-10% of them live today.

If we shall believe Adam and Eva as a start on mankind...and we all should have lived in a past life...then we could never be more then 2, even after all this years....so we are living true parting of cells, where each man and woman that are so lucky to get a offspring give their gene.

So you and I have lived from the first amoebae, followed the evolution true several forms until what we are today, and the form we have today might not be the form we have tomorrow, we are in a steady evolution and by changing the natures chemistry, we are changing ourself.

We feel that to live for 100 years is a very long time....in evolution it is a blink of a second...and my recommendation is to use this second as good as possible

From Wiki

n the 1970s it was popular to believe that 75% of all the people who had ever lived were alive in the 1970s, which would have put the total number of people who ever lived as of the 1970s as less than the current number of people alive today. This view was eventually debunked as a myth.[57] A more recent estimate of the total number of people who have ever lived was prepared by Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau in 1995 and subsequently updated in 2002; the updated figure was approximately 106 billion.[58][59] Haub characterized this figure as an estimate which required "selecting population sizes for different points from antiquity to the present and applying assumed birth rates to each period".[59] Given an estimated global population of 6.2 billion in 2002, it could be inferred that about 6% of all people who had ever existed were alive in 2002.[58]

Other estimates of the total number of people who have ever lived range approximately from 45 billion to 125 billion, with the more robust of these falling in the 90–110 billion range.[citation needed] It is difficult to estimate for the following reasons:[citation needed]

   * The set of specific characteristics which define a human being and distinguish early Homo sapiens from earlier or related species continues to be a subject of intense research and debate. It is thus not possible to know when to begin the count, nor which hominids to include. See in this regard also Sorites paradox.
   * Even if the scientific community reached wide consensus regarding which characteristics distinguished human beings, it would be nearly impossible to pinpoint the time of their first appearance to even the nearest millennium because the fossil record is simply too sparse. Only a few thousand fossils of early humans have been found, most no bigger than a tooth or a knucklebone. These bone fragments are used to extrapolate the population distribution of millions of early human beings spread across the continents.
   * Robust statistical data only exist for the last two or three centuries. Until the late 18th century, few nations, kingdoms, or empires had ever performed an accurate census. In many early attempts, the focus was on counting merely a subset of the people for purposes of taxation or military service.[citation needed] All claims of population sizes preceding the 18th century are estimates, and thus the margin of error for the total number of humans who have ever lived should be in the billions, or even tens of billions of people.

I was making unbalanced statements or you would not be here balancing them by expressing the side I left under expressed.

I was suggesting focusing on breath because it needs focus before past life regression does. It's also a good way to learn how to focus without distraction on something that is grounding and relaxing. I agree is one is desperate about knowing then they need to develop more detachment. The tick is not caring either way, and being open to what ever, allowing the things to unfold  naturally.

Wisdom's, energies, and abilities can be recovered from the past.

Well the I Ching backs you up on this...

"Here in conclusion another warning is added. After crossing a stream, a man’s head can get into the water only if he is so imprudent as to turn back. As long as he goes forward and does not look back, he escapes this danger. But there is a fascination in standing still and looking back on a peril overcome. However, such vain self-admiration brings misfortune. It leads only to danger, and unless one finally resolves to go forward without pausing, one falls a victim to this danger."

Celtic tree wisdoms says only dwell on good things.

Also learning what we've done in the past does require self forgiveness. But yes what we do right now is whats important.