Reincarnation Amnesia: Why Your Soul Chose to Forget
- Meli Guidance EN
- 4 days ago
- 4 min read
Have you ever felt like you knew something… but didn’t know how you knew it?
Or felt slightly out of place in this world, as if you forgot something important?
According to Akashic Records teachings and the soul journey framework, that feeling is not random.
It relates to what is known as reincarnation amnesia — a voluntary forgetting that happens as part of the incarnation process.
In this article, you’ll discover:
What reincarnation amnesia really is
Why your soul chooses to forget
Whether everyone forgets completely
And how your soul continues guiding you anyway
What Is Reincarnation Amnesia?
When your soul incarnates on Earth, it forgets:
Your soul plan
Your spirit guides
Your soul family
This forgetting is not a punishment. It is not a cosmic mistake.
It is a protective mechanism.
When the soul enters the physical body — most commonly at birth — the human brain cannot hold the full memory of the soul without creating emotional overload.
Imagine remembering:
All your past deaths
Every grief you experienced
All traumatic events
Every karmic contract
Living fully in this lifetime would become almost impossible.
Reincarnation amnesia allows you to experience human life without energetic overload.
3 reasons your soul chooses to forget here it came from
1. To Prevent Emotional Overwhelm
Your soul may have lived dozens — even hundreds — of lifetimes.
If you consciously remembered all of them, your nervous system could not sustain that level of intensity. Forgetting protects your emotional stability.
It allows you to enter this life with a fresh psychological start — even if the deeper soul memory remains intact.
2. To Preserve Free Will
Before incarnation, you create a soul plan.
You choose:
Soulmate relationships
Life lessons to integrate
If you remembered all those choices consciously, your decisions would be biased.
You might avoid necessary experiences out of fear.You might overcompensate in karmic situations. Reincarnation amnesia protects authentic choice.
3. To Fully Live the Human Experience
The human experience is meant to be immersive.
To love without guarantees. To doubt. To fall. To rise again.
If you remained fully aware of the spiritual realm, you would not experience life with the same depth. Forgetting makes incarnation real.
Does Everyone Forget Completely?
Not necessarily.
Emotional déjà vu
Unexplained talents
Deep fears without clear origin
A strong sense of purpose
A subtle memory of “somewhere else”
In young children, spontaneous past-life memories are more common, especially before age five.
Over time, the conscious memory fades — but the inner knowing remains.
That quiet feeling of: “I’ve been here before.”
Forgetting Does Not Mean You Are Disconnected
Even with reincarnation amnesia, your soul still remembers.
The forgetting happens at the mental level — not at the vibrational level.
Your soul continues guiding you through:
Intuition
Synchronicities
Inner nudges
Redirections through life events
You may not remember your soul plan consciously.
But your soul does.
Do we have the right to access past-life information? Can we bypass reincarnation amnesia?
After speaking about reincarnation amnesia, I am often asked:
“If we forget everything when we incarnate, are we supposed to ask our spirit guides? Can we access the Akashic Records?”
The answer is yes.
You are allowed to ask.
If certain information is not relevant to your growth, it simply will not be revealed.
Your spirit guides will never share something that would harm your evolution or interfere with your free will.
What needs to remain hidden will remain hidden.
What supports your growth will be revealed.
A Different Way to See Reincarnation Amnesia
What if forgetting is part of the design?
What if human life is a journey of remembering?
Perhaps the real question is not:
“Why did I forget?”
But:
“What did I come here to rediscover?”
Because life then becomes a process of reconnection
Reconnecting With What Your Soul Already Knows
If this topic resonates deeply…
If you feel there is something greater than what you consciously perceive…
You can explore your soul plan more deeply.
🎧 Listen to Episode 12 of the Mystical & Practical podcast dedicated to reincarnation amnesia and the incarnation process.
🔮 Or book a personalized Akashic Records reading with past-life psychic Meli Guidance to explore your soul path, clarify your life missions (yes, plural), and reconnect consciously with what your soul already knows.
Reincarnation amnesia does not mean you are lost.
It means you came here to remember.
FAQ – Reincarnation Amnesia
Does everyone forget past lives when they incarnate?
Yes. Reincarnation amnesia is a normal part of the incarnation process. Most souls forget their past lives and soul plan at the conscious level.
Why would my soul choose to forget?
To prevent emotional overload, preserve free will, and allow full immersion in the human experience.
Does reincarnation amnesia mean I am disconnected from my soul?
No. The forgetting happens mentally, not vibrationally. Your soul continues guiding you through intuition and synchronicity.
Can I ask to know about my past lives?
Yes. You can ask your spirit guides or access the Akashic Records. If certain information is not aligned with your growth, it simply will not be revealed.
How do I know if I am an old soul?
According to the 10 soul-level framework, souls evolve through multiple stages across incarnations.
If you naturally seek meaning, feel spiritually inclined, or experience a sense of déjà vu with life itself, you may be an old soul.
A Soul Plan Akashic Records reading can clarify your current soul level and where you are in your evolution.
Meli Guidance is a certified advanced Akashic records practitioner, a past-life psychic and a channelling coach. She is also trained in oracle cards and tarot readings. Her specialty is helping people grow by reconnecting them with their soul’s purpose and life missions. She believes that by remembering our past lives and seeing what our life plan is for our current incarnation, we can achieve our future self’s highest potential. In addition to channelling spirit guides for people from all over the world in English and French, she offers online courses and coaching sessions to anyone who wishes to develop their ability to communicate with the invisible world.
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Last Updated: February 15th 2026
