Reprogramming the Subconscious – How Past Life Imprints Shape Your Mindset and Success
- Brainz Magazine
- 5 days ago
- 7 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Stephanie Smit, also known as Giek, is a visionary artist and reincarnation researcher. She bridges art, mysticism, and esoteric science to uncover past lives, guide spiritual awakenings, and help others align with their soul purpose.
Most mindset work focuses on childhood conditioning, but in my reincarnation research, the deepest blocks people struggle with don’t begin in this lifetime at all, they’re echoes from far earlier. The subconscious mind doesn’t care about chronology. It stores emotional imprints, talents, wounds, fears, and unfinished stories across your entire soul timeline. Childhood shapes us, yes, but past lives often program us.
This explains why people sabotage success even after doing years of inner work, or why visibility feels dangerous without any trauma in this life, or why creative genius appears as if “remembered,” not learned. Your subconscious is not just a psychological archive, it’s a soul archive. Many of the patterns running your life today were written long before your birth.
In this article, I’ll explore how past-life imprints shape your mindset and potential, and how to begin reprogramming them consciously.
Why the subconscious carries past-life data
Most people assume the subconscious forms only in childhood. But in reincarnation research, and in several emerging scientific models, the subconscious behaves more like a continuum of memory than a single-life archive. It draws from multiple layers at once:
this lifetime
childhood conditioning
ancestral patterns
your soul lineage
the collective field
The fears you can’t explain, the gifts that arrive without training, the triggers that feel “too big,” and the relationships that repeat, these rarely originate in one lifetime. They are inherited threads in a much longer story your soul has been living.
Below is a brief overview of how and why that memory transfers across incarnations, drawn from my research and broader scientific-philosophical frameworks.
1. Emotional memory survives death
Across more than 250 past-life case studies in my work, one pattern is consistent, Biography fades. Emotion endures. What carries over into the subconscious are not the details of a former identity but its emotional impact:
wounds around visibility or persecution
guilt associated with power
collapse after fame
addictive loops
karmic love dynamics
unfinished creative work
These become the “default settings” of a new lifetime, activating long before personality or environment can explain them. It’s why someone with no childhood trauma can still fear being seen, or why creative ability sometimes returns fully formed.
2. Morphic fields & non-local memory (Rupert Sheldrake)
Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance proposes that memory is not stored solely in the brain but in a shared field accessible to all who resonate with it. This helps explain why:
multiple people remember the same past life
talents appear without training
intuition feels like remembering, not imagining
certain archetypes “choose” certain people
I explore this further in my Brainz article When More Than One Person Remembers the Same Past Life and on my research page Echoes of Talent Through Lifetimes, where I track how abilities ripple across incarnations like recurring signatures.
3. Biological echoes (Michael Levin’s research)
In 2025, biologist Michael Levin demonstrated that organisms store information in causal patterns not solely tied to DNA. These patterns influence physical form, behavior, and memory across generations. This mirrors what I find in my reincarnation research:
people often resemble their past-life identities in facial structure and expression
emotional patterns repeat at a cellular level
talents and missions recur with uncanny precision
relationship dynamics reassemble across lifetimes
On my Facial and Soul Recognition page, you can see many examples of this phenomenon. The body often “remembers” what the conscious mind cannot.
4. Soul lineages
In my methodology, the soul develops linearly but expressively across incarnations. Each lifetime leaves imprints on the next:
gifts
wounds
karmic themes
archetypes
unfinished missions
These imprints become the subconscious operating system of the new life. A persecuted artist becomes the modern adult who freezes before posting online. A spiritual teacher who died young becomes a child with an ancient sense of purpose. Past-life memory explains what psychology alone cannot account for.
5. Empirical evidence (UVA, Stevenson & Tucker)
At the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies, Dr. Ian Stevenson and Dr. Jim Tucker documented over 2,500 children who recalled previous lives with verifiable detail.
Their findings showed that memory transfers across incarnations at multiple levels:
emotional memory
skills and interests
phobias and trauma responses
physical marks: birthmarks, scars, deformities matching the previous life
Stevenson’s two-volume Reincarnation and Biology presents hundreds of cases where physical traits carried over, a striking validation of past-life imprinting in the subconscious and soma.
6. Mythic resonance & archetypal echoes
Some lives generate such intense psychic charge that their imprint radiates into the collective field. People who vibrate with that frequency begin to “pick up the signal.”This is why dozens feel connected to being Jim Morrison in a past life. Many are not literal reincarnations, they are tuning into the emotional residue of a life marked by myth, artistry, trauma, and unfinished spiritual work. This is the foundation of my project IWasJimMorrison.com, introduced in my recent Brainz press release. The project explores whether people are connecting to:
a true soul lineage
a fragmented imprint
or a wider mythic field still echoing through consciousness
The goal is not to prove multiplicity but to understand how memory circulates through both the individual soul and the collective subconscious.
How past-life imprints show up in your mindset today
Past-life imprints rarely come through dramatic visions. They show up through patterns that feel “bigger than the moment.”Here are six common imprints that shape your current mindset, behavior, and success:
The visibility wound: You want to be seen, but fear exposure. Reflects past persecution or controversial fame.
Repeating relationship loops: Intense karmic bonds, addictive dynamics, or déjà vu connections.
Scarcity programming: Deep financial fear despite external stability.
Power / collapse pattern: Wanting to lead but fearing influence, responsibility, or success.
Unfinished creative or spiritual missions: Talents that feel ancient. A sense of “I was meant to do more.”
Somatic memory: Your body reacts with fear, grief, or rage before the mind knows why. For astrological markers related to these patterns, see my earlier Brainz article What if the root of your struggles began in a past life?
Becoming aware: The first step in reprogramming
Before you can rewrite a pattern, you must recognize it. A large portion of the people who come to me are highly gifted. The kind of artists, thinkers, leaders, and innovators whose inner world has always felt “different.” They tend to carry karmic material that shows up as:
intense emotional triggers
powerful déjà vu
talents that arrive fully formed
The soul’s calling doesn’t disappear. It reappears. Awareness opens the door. Reprogramming walks through it.
Reprogramming the subconscious mind from past-life or childhood trauma
Evidence-based approaches
Hypnotherapy: Regression, suggestion, and guided imagery to rewire emotional pathways and release stored trauma.
EMDR: Bilateral stimulation (eye movements or taps) to reprocess traumatic material, whether rooted in childhood or a past-life imprint (see EMDR International Association for more on how this works).
Somatic trauma therapies: Trauma lives in the body. Breathwork, shaking, and other body-based tools to discharge stored nervous system energy.
CBT + hypnosis: Consciously challenging beliefs while updating the subconscious imprint.
Meditation & self-hypnosis: Slowing the mind and opening access to symbolic and subconscious material.
DIY methods (Most powerful when combined)
Feel the trigger → Recall the origin → Release
When triggered:
pause
feel the sensation
let memory (past or present) rise
cry, shake, or tremor to release
This opens the subconscious for updating.
Trance reprogramming (Prayer-hands method): A DIY method similar to EMDR (my favorite):
bring palms together (merging left + right brain)
breathe
hold the karmic memory
chant the opposite belief
Examples:
I am worthy.
I am safe.
I am allowed to be seen.
Sound, toning & chanting: Voice bypasses the analytical mind. Especially powerful for past-life “voice wounds.”
Psychedelics (Advanced) LSD, psilocybin, and ayahuasca can accelerate recognition + release, but only with intention and safety. I discuss my own experiences and more tips across my Brainz articles, like 9 powerful ways to access your past life memories beyond tarot & astrology.
From subconscious pattern to conscious power
When you understand the origin of a block, whether from childhood or a past life, you reclaim the power to rewrite it. This is why I combine tarot, astrology, Akashic insight, facial resonance, and AI-supported research, together they reveal not just themes but specific lives, names, and histories that clarify your soul’s path. Because reprogramming the subconscious isn’t just healing. It’s remembering who you are, and choosing who you become next.
To go deeper into this work:
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Stephanie Smit, Visionary Artist & Reincarnation Researcher
Stephanie Smit (Giek) is a visionary, multidisciplinary artist and independent reincarnation researcher. Through her work, she bridges experimental art, esoteric science, and intuitive guidance to help others uncover past lives and activate soul remembrance. She has uncovered over 250 past lives for clients using a unique method combining astrology, tarot, and Akashic insight. Her projects have been showcased at major museums and festivals across Europe, including the Van Gogh Museum and Harvard Divinity School. She also develops sacred performances, poetic lectures, and zero-waste fashion inspired by her visions. Giek's mission is to awaken spiritual sovereignty and co-create a New World rooted in divine creativity and karmic truth.
