Its a VERY romantic thing to do. Pointless only if you actually consider staying there and make things the way they were, combined with your present knowledge. I suppose for therapeutic reasons, it could be beneficial. For me though, it was a chance to close doors that had been left open, a chance to walk back into that past with the knowledge I have now. It was fun, and emotional, but I didn't belong there anymore. Reminded me alot of Peter Pan's attempted return to neverneverland.....Everything was the same, except him. I no longer lament the past, just chalk it up as a good lesson that got me where I am now.

Dear Swimmy,

It is good to see you swimming in my stream... I'd have never pegged you for romantic, not in the fluffy idealized sense, but I'm finding that I was wrong. That's a good thing.

Love me

I think looking into your past can be useful in understanding yourself and where you've come from. It's one of those things you've got to be careful with, though. It's easy to think, oh if this had not have happened to me, then I would have been a better person now... Who's to say that's true? Maybe past experiences have given us knowledge and abilities that are not available any other way.

I don't know, I went through a phase where I thought that if I could just recapture the spirit of my 4yo self, that my vision would return. Then I realised that that 4yo self would not be able to cope with the life I have know, so let it all go. That was a while back that I tried to do that via self-hypnosis.

Right now I'm looking into my family past, where my parents came from and what happened to them in the country of their birth. Actually, starting with my Dad. It's been incredible just looking at that history and realising what I am part of just by being the child of my Dad. I haven't got to the stage of what-iffing, but I know it is possible to energetically change the past with what-ifs, so it releases it's hold on you. I've done that with a number of past lives.

Is that too much information?