Akashic Records - How do they relate to past lives?

Akashic Record readings are pretty much always about looking into past lives.  A skilled Akashic Records reader will be able to use their psychic abilities to correlate how it is affecting your current life.

Because the concept of past lives is closely tied to the notion of karma (the spiritual principle of cause and effect) actions in your past lives may influence your current and futures lives. When you explore your past lives through the Akashic Records, you can look for karmic patterns and lessons that continue to affect their present life.  

You may also find karmic connections that exist with someone because a person in your life today was also a part of a lifetime in the past.  When you see and understand something that makes no logical sense is actually from a past life experience with that person, it promotes quicker healing and growth (why we are here). It could very well be that you made a choice that involved them during a past life and the consequence came with you. They may have been in a partner role, a parent, a child, a best friend, any number of roles in that life, but not now.

Knowledge is power and the more you know yourself the more pleasant your life will be, so knowing the important things from a past life will speed up the process toward that goal.

In the energetic world, lifetimes run parallel to each other.  Have you ever experienced a deja vu?  This is an example of how energies bring information from other lifetimes.  These are also described as past lives.  Every moment in time is stored in the Records.  We hold inherited trauma from past lives, as well as from ancestral lines and DNA.  This is a healing modality that addresses trauma from any source.  Here is an example of this, from my own healing journey.  I have, always in this lifetime, felt suffocated with my head under the covers.  No experience in my current memory explains this presentation.  I have learned that a traumatic experience in a past life led to this feeling.  Thankfully, I was able to clear and heal from it through Records clearing and healing.  Any quirks or idiosyncrasies that you haven’t pinpointed to this current journey is likely from a past life.  Past lives also host gifts and abilities that we can bring forth in this time as we heal and are able to resume effective use of these gifts and abilities

Your Akashic records are the accumulation or an archive of all of your past lives. It's an accumulation of how you have used your soul's blueprint or your natural abilities in each life to expand the growth of your soul.  Some lives you had great success; others you collected more data on what you didn't want. No life is a failure. Every life is key for you to completely "grok" your life purpose and grow your soul into its mastery.