JOANNE DIMAGGIO

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Joanne DiMaggio is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in history. She earned her Masters in Trans-personal Studies through Atlantic University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where her thesis on inspirational writing served as the basis of this book. A freelance writer with a background in marketing and public relations, Joanne worked in the Chicago media market for many years before moving to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1995. She has had hundreds of articles published in newspapers and magazine during her career.

Her website is: www.joannedimaggio.com

Karma Can be A Real Pain
Past Life Clues to Current Life Maladies

Are physical and mental illnesses the result of karma acquired in a past life, and if so, does uncovering that lifetime lead to healing? According to the yearlong research project conducted by author and past-life specialist Joanne DiMaggio, the answer is yes! Fifty volunteers, ranging in age from 34 to 74,
participated in the project. They came in
suffering from such chronic conditions as arthritis; diabetes; joint and limb pain; head trauma; weight and digestive troubles; sexual dysfunction; skin conditions; liver and kidney issues; drug and alcohol abuse; and mental illness.

Employing past-life regression and augmenting the session with soul writing i.e., writing in an
altered state of consciousness, the project sought to find the buried past-life story behind the
present-day malady.

Your Soul Remembers
Accessing  Your Past Lives through Soul Writing

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In her long-term quest for something new and exciting in past-life research, best-selling author and past-life therapist Joanne
DiMaggio found that what she was looking for had been staring her in the face for years. In fact, she had already written about it in her previous book, Soul Writing: Conversing
with Your Higher Self where she chronicled how she stumbled on the process of soul writing—which she defined as a written form of meditation.

Although Joanne didn’t realize it until many years later, the ability to tap into information from a previous life first appeared when she was a 9-year old praying for help to create a secret
code. She received that code, only to discover 25 years later that it was actually the Phoenician alphabet, dating back to 1000 B.C. As a college student, Joanne re-experienced the ability to access information from another time through stream-of-consciousness writing. It was so pronounced that her college professor told her she had the most “uncanny feel for the 18th century” of any student he ever had. This remarkable ability resurfaced again while working as a freelance copywriter. Wanting to improve her craft, Joanne began listening to a writer’s subliminal programming tape. While in an altered state, she was instructed to “start writing now” and when she did, what emerged were diary entries from the 18 th century. It wasn’t until
years later that she accepted that what she had been doing was accessing past life information through guided writing.

In considering a sequel to Soul Writing, Joanne decided to conduct a research project to see if, like her, anyone could acquire information on their past lives through soul writing. Your Soul Remembers: Accessing Your Past Lives Through Soul Writing is the unforgettable story of that groundbreaking research project involving fifty volunteers, ranging in age from 23 to 81. In separate sessions, Joanne regressed each participant to the past life that was having the
most impact on them now. After the regression—but while they were still in an altered state of consciousness—she placed a pen in their hand and a journal on their lap and instructed them to ask their soul for any additional information that
would either expand on what they had received or clarify some unanswered questions about that lifetime. The results were astonishing, for what ultimately emerged from the sessions was not just the statistics and stories of individuals,
but, more importantly, the realization that through the process of soul writing, each participant was able to recognize a past-life aspect of themselves that still resonated in who they are today. In many cases, the events of their past lives explained their actions of today, for soul writing had become tool for them a valuable in understanding that the events of present lives were often healing karmic transgressions from previous lives.

Soul Writing
Conversations with Your Higher Self

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Edgar Cayce said it is our birthright to communicate
with our Source and listen to that still, small voice—a voice that guides and inspires us to find the
answers that lie within. Through the ages, souls have sought ways to initiate that longed-for, two-way
conversation. Inspirational writing is one such method—a tool, as Cayce
put it, “of individuals grasping for attunement to the divine.” (3653-1) Inspirational writing comes from a divinely connected source within us and
is not meant to communicate information from an unknown, outside source.

Joanne DiMaggio’s exciting new book, Soul Writing: Conversing with Your Higher Self (Olde Souls Press, August 2011), is meant to help the inspired writer to reveal that inner wisdom and move to a place of greater insight
and comfort. As she says:

“Inspirational writing is a form of prayer, and it can be applied to all aspects of life. The answers are expansive, going beyond the simplicity of the question to a higher understanding. Asking about an illness may bring an answer that a doctor cannot give, such as the root source of
the circumstances that brought about the illness. This deeper knowing of why something has happened often has little to do with one’s
conscious thoughts. Inspired writing creates an entirely new perspective, gently prompting the writer to peel away the layers of the obvious to the more obscure origins of an issue…. As a mode of healing, inspired writing can be used in service to others. Meditation, relaxation, and creative visualization are essential elements in the
process of inspirational writing, enabling the writer to achieve a transcendental state of mind, which can lead to awakening psychic abilities. The same process used in writing can be applied to other art forms, such as music and painting. Because it is an intuitive, stream-of-consciousness technique, it frees the imagination to break loose from an idea and go in a direction the writer or artist may not have considered.”