When my youngest daughter was a toddler, she repeatedly woke up in the night screaming about a lion in her room. She'd end up in bed with us and there was no consoling her. She'd sob herself to sleep. Then I noticed when she was playing sometimes, she'd sing an African song and do the body movements with it. It was always the same song, sung in African words. When she was three, she was sitting on the end of the bath singing away while I had a shower. I said quietly, 'That's a lovely song babe, where did you learn that?' She shuddered and said quietly, 'The lion ate the baby.' I gently asked some more questions and she described a hut she lived in and how the lion had snatched the baby from the doorway and her mother ran after it and didn't come back. It was a bit scary as parent hearing your child say that. She had tears streaming down her face and it was very real to her.
After she told me, she never had the 'lion in her room' thing again and never sung the song again. I believe it was past life recall and in telling it she had released it.
Lallymac
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