In this article, I’m going to tell a past life story from one of my Evolutionary Manifesting readings that I did for a client called Nat, who has allowed me to share this with readers.

It’s an interesting story that illustrates how past life traumas and blocks can follow us from one life to the next, and even interfere with what we are looking to manifest in our present lifetime.

Have you ever tried manifesting but found it did not work for you?

Maybe you couldn’t keep up with the techniques for long, or you never succeeded in shifting your state of being to ‘match’ your desired outcome. Or perhaps you did make that shift but your manifestation did not show up in reality.

Past life blocks (also known as karmic complexes) are the number one reason why manifesting does not work.

Nat’s story is a good example of this…

…and I’m going to tell the story of her past life now.

(Just a note that Nat booked a reading because she wanted to improve her financial situation.)

It is 1943 and WW2 is raging in Europe. A young Polish man is working in a munitions factory in Częstochowa, Poland.

This man is no more than 20 years old, and he walks with a limp – possibly from having survived Polio earlier on in his life. (The limp is the reason he works in this specific factory rather than having a worse time as a fully able-bodied person somewhere else.)

At this time in his life, he’s working under pretty unpleasant conditions, and the people in charge of this factory are absolute sociopaths. There is another group of workers at the factory who have it far worse than he does and they are Jews. The people who run the factory treat the Jewish workers as less than human and they are essentially used as slaves. They are worked too hard, fed not enough and there’s someone in charge who seems to enjoy their suffering.

This young Polish man suffers most from having to see this happen and not being able to do anything about it. By the end of the day, his jaw is so tense and he catches himself making a fist for no reason. His body is full of tension and anger.

It is winter 1943 and it seems it is always overcast and grey. He is often depressed — what he doesn’t know is that he and the other workers are being poisoned with heavy metals from the munitions they are manufacturing, which only adds to his dark mood.

But, what he witnesses in the factory gives him enough anger without the heavy metals poisoning. He is really angry and so are other Polish men who work there. They know that how the Jews are being treated is wrong but they can’t intervene, without losing their lives or being in extreme danger.

So, he watches the abuse happen and he cannot do anything about it. And the worse thing is his own helplessness about it.

He finds four other men working there who feel just as angry and powerless as he does about what is going on in the factory. Between the five of them, they decide that they will kill that sociopathic man in charge who is enjoying abusing those people.

They decide to plant explosives that will kill this man.

This young Polish man isn’t the one who plants the device but he has some piece of technical knowledge that helps with the plan, and which is essential. When the explosion goes off and the man dies, no one knows he helped.

But two of the four men are discovered to be involved in the explosion and they are summarily executed.

He is worried about getting a knock on the door once someone finds out how he helped. The knock doesn’t ever come but he is always afraid of it. 

The men’s plan was for the evil manager of the factory to die and be replaced by someone less evil.

However, the man who replaces the evil doer is just as bad, maybe even worse. Two men are dead, and the exploitation just carries on as if it never happened.

This makes the young Polish man feel that it was all for nothing. Two of his workmates are dead. The factory boss is dead. The Jews are no better off. He may also be in danger now if someone finds out how he helped.

Nothing has changed.

The war ends and time marches on.

By the time he reaches his thirties (over ten years after these events), the depression is always there. This young man never got the chelating drugs that were developed especially for munitions workers who worked in WW2 weapons factories. He still doesn’t know there’s a connection between his unbearably low mood and the work he did in the factory.

He passes away by his own hand in 1954, and his dying thought is “I failed”. I failed in the plan to improve things at the factory. I failed to help the Jews. I failed because I did not overcome my depression and my mother will now find me. I didn’t even do right by my mother.

His dying conclusion, the energy he takes with him into death is a vow of non-action:

“I will never let myself get roped into anyone’s plans again. I will not act. I will not decide. I will not take the initiative.”

A couple of decades later the soul of this man is born into an Australian woman’s body – my client Nat.

Nat got a reading with me because she wanted to manifest more financial abundance.

How exactly was Nat being affected by this past life story? Let’s break it down.

Nat had a karmic complex originating from that previous life in Poland. It was her most recent life.

What’s a karmic complex?

Tibetan Buddhists believe that the experience we have at the end of a life is really important, because we take the energy of our death into the afterlife with us, and it governs whether we cross over and get a life review, or whether a small piece of the soul stays stuck and earthbound. And then the soul carries on its journey without that fragment, which is not an ideal situation.

According to Tibetan Buddhism, when we have a bad death or die with trauma, rather than crossing over, getting a life review and choosing our next family and life, we run screaming from one cave into the next dark cave, and the energy of the cave we just ran out governs the next cave (i.e. womb) we run into.

So, difficult and traumatic life experiences can make a mark on the soul. Tibetan Buddhists call these ‘samskaras’ and they’re like grooves in a record, where the same story repeats over and over. (The nature of trauma is to repeat itself until it finds resolution).

If you have a situation, experience, type of person that you keep encountering in your life and it’s negative and unwanted, this is likely a samskara. Samskaras are also known as ‘karmic complexes’, a term that the past life regressionist Roger Woolger coined, to describe this compulsion the soul has to repeat its traumas life after life.

Souls can sometimes repeat their traumas for several or many lifetimes before they find resolution or they can resolve them fairly quickly, as in Nat’s case.

Nat’s vow of non-action was a karmic complex. It was affecting her in the area of work, finances and in her relationship with her wife (because they had been business partners.)

Let’s look at how it manifested in her life…

I was told that this vow of non-action was like driving with a handbrake on – not all the way on, but on to some extent. There was a ‘drag’ effect that affected how ‘fast’ Nat could go in her work life.

Spirit told me this karmic complex had negatively affected Nat’s decision making and ability to see endeavours through to the end. It also impacted on her ability to speak up or communicate in ways that would move her work life forward.

I was told that the financial struggles had been directly linked to this because it’s hard to build wealth when the ability to take action/decide and follow through is being undermined. It brought an energy of paralysis into her life that was not conducive to making good money.

There was also a tendency to get swept up in other peoples’ schemes rather than acting from her own purpose and power – because the latter was something this past life self (who was unintegrated in her) was trying to prevent.

Nat had been involved with many business ventures with her wife Jodie and they had done good work together, but they had had also had friction around their roles in the businesses.

I had a sense that Jodie at times had to carry Nat’s work or finances “vehicle” within her own, because Nat had her handbrake on and wasn’t fully free to move forwards, which contributed to the friction and difficulties.

Interestingly, Spirit linked this past life to a event in this lifetime that had been a low point financially for Nat…

When Nat and her wife Jodie first got together, they went to live in Dubai for a while and they had a start up that (like many start ups) failed. It was a male acquaintance who offered the opportunity for the start up but it had not in retrospect been a good one. It was a scary time for the new couple as they got into debt because they were renting an office, and they worried about going to debtor’s prison in Dubai. They ended up having to leave the country quickly to avoid this.

The man who set up this bad opportunity was according to Spirit the same soul that Nat helped to assassinate in the previous life in Poland. Spirit also said that the events in Dubai with an energetic signature of “they’re coming for us” (worrying about a knock on the door) was the same energetic signature of the fear in the Polish lifetime “they’re coming for me”.

Here is the testimonial that Nat gave me after the reading:

“For years, I’ve carried this feeling – like an invisible wall, a block that’s kept me from fully moving forward in parts of my life. I’ve done over twenty years of deep consciousness work, and yet that wall never budged. I began to wonder… what if something from a past life had followed me here? Something that still needed to be seen and healed?

It turns out that’s exactly what was happening. During my reading, Anna shared that my last past life was in Poland during WWII – a time filled with so much fear and loss. As she spoke, I felt something inside me start to shift. Suddenly, patterns and behaviours that never made sense began to fit together like puzzle pieces. I started to understand myself – and my soul – on a profoundly deeper level.

Since that reading that heavy, lifelong block has melted away. Bit by bit, I’ve felt freer, lighter, and more in flow. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I can make choices that feel truly aligned with who I am in this lifetime. It’s been about three months now, and I can still feel things moving and integrating – but the key is, they’re moving. For so long, they were just… stuck.

Since then, my wife and I have found a beautiful new home that we absolutely love, reimagined our business in exciting ways, and deepened our relationship in ways we never had before. I also feel so much clearer about what really matters to me and where I want to focus my energy moving forward.

My life lesson in this lifetime is ‘success’ – something Anna revealed to me in an earlier Akashic Record reading (which I also highly recommend). After the Evolutionary Manifesting reading, I now understand what success truly means to me, and that clarity continues to shift my energy, guide my decisions, and reshape my reality every day.

If you’re feeling stuck, struggling to create what you love with ease and flow, or can’t quite figure out why life feels harder than it should, I can’t recommend an Evolutionary Manifesting reading with Anna enough. It has shifted everything for me – powerfully, and in such a short time.”

Spirit recommended a specific course of action for Nat to resolve this complex but she ended up doing some other things to resolve it that she felt were successful, and she felt there was a shift just from getting the reading, too, which is something I often hear from clients.

I have opened up my Evolutionary Manifesting readings for a limited period of time. I have 5 spots available and will close these readings once they are filled. If you’d like to book, you can do so here:

• The Evolutionary Manifesting reading
• The Evolutionary Manifesting reading – extended and complete version.

On an unrelated note, my mini Akashic readings are also open again.