Even though you might get most of your memories by meditation, sometimes it's hard to get things that way, and even if you get good results, you might like to try something new. Complementary to meditation, we recommend some writing techniques to get past life memories.
First and most important, keep a dream journal and a meditation journal. Every morning, after waking up, make writing up your dream a first priority. If you don't do it right away, chances are you will forget it later. Same goes if you wake up in the middle of the night: If you remember your dream, write it down then. Don't wait until the morning---- you think you will remembe, but trust me, you won't. Don`t forget to write the date you dreamt it so you can compare later. You might also like to write down things that could have triggered your dream if you think they are obvious. If you woke up feeling a particular way, differently from usual, also write it down. Write all the details you remember, no matter how insignificant they seem.  They could be interesting validations in the future.

Do the same every time you meditate as well and write down your experience when you finish. You might wonder, why do I have to write down dreams that are not related to reincarnation at all? Well, seems like the more we write down what we do during the day, the more things we remember.  The same way, the more we write down our dreams, the more we will remember our dreams (and there are a lot of past life elements in dreams). The more we concentrate on autobiographical aspects, the more things we remember about our life.

Something else you can try is automatic writing. It does not always work. I think a lot of stuff we get through it are nonsense and all the emotional factors iare gone as well since we' re completely conscious while doing it. HOWEVER, I' ve noticed that a lot of things I got were later validated, so I guess somehow it does work. It's hard to separate what' s fantasy and what's not in automatic writing, so the healthiest thing to think is "everything that can' t be validated is probably fantasy".

Saying that, I' ll tell you how i work as an example. First I choose a date, and I try to imagine what I was doing during that time. Then I just start writing and see what comes up. When I have to really think what to write, then I finish it, because I cannot keep the flow anymore. An example of automatic writing would be something like this:

(I usually take a moment to relax before writing and try to "feel it")

4th December 1928

I' m sick, there' s medicine next to my bed, I had a fever but I' m not feeling as bad now, however I have to recover. The bed is a wooden table, dark wood, the bottle with medicine is white, with some "glassy stuff", is to my right, the wall behind me is white, the table has a thing in the bottom to put stuff, then the two thingies and the table part, some decoration in the "legs". There' s a lamp, only that lamp is what' s giving light to the room. It' s white in the bottom and has a yellow lampshade. It' s kinda wide in the bottom. There' s a newspaper to read, but my head kinda hurts. I see Fraktuschrift / Actually the table might be at my left. Blankets are dark green or blue. I' m trying to think of the name of the med but nothing comes up.

Ok, so in my case it' s stuff like that. Could I say it was a memory? I don' t know, nothing can be validated, so I guess it has to be discarded. But you get the idea.

Something else to try is a "Past Life Word Collage". Think about something that could be past life related (a country you like for example, or a particular time period), then, without thinking much, write down all the words that come to you associated to that element you chose. You might get interesting and revealing combinations.