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EXPERIENCES OF PAST LIVES

Question: "I sometimes experience bodily sensations that I believe may be related to injuries and causes of death in previous lifetimes. For example, I've felt the pressure of a garotte around my throat and a shooting pain through my stomach. Other times I have the expectation of a blow to the back of my head. I have no physical ailments I can attribute to these sensations. A past life regression confirmed one lifetime in which I was strangled. What is the purpose for experiencing these feelings now?"

Psychic Advice:
Many people have pains, fears, illnesses, and other conditions that are caused by experiences of past lives, but they are usually not consciously aware of the past life connection. Many phobias are related to deaths in other lifetimes (spiders, snakes, heights, enclosed spaces, etc.). Relationship issues and financial challenges can also stem from a pledge from a past life. Some people who are overweight or overeaters have starved in other lifetimes. Many people who experience back or neck problems have been tortured or executed in other lifetimes (anyone who has died on the rack needs to stretch their body regularly). People who have drowned are often afraid of the water, and those who have choked on fishbones may never want to go near fish. Fear of abandonment in this life can stem from the loss of loved ones in other lifetimes.

Past lives can hold the key to the past, present and future. When you discover past lives, you can free yourself from karmic bonds, heal past life traumas, break the chain of repeating patterns, and even benefit from remembering past life skills. All of which will have a positive impact on your future in this lifetime, as well as on your future lives.

Our world has undergone a great deal of change and trauma, some of it manmade, and some of it part of the cycles of nature. The soul incarnates on Earth in order to experience the full spectrum of human emotion, which cannot be experienced on the ethereal plane where there is primarily love, joy and bliss and no sense of fear, pain or mortality. Human emotional experiences support the growth and evolution of the soul through physical and non-physical occurrences. The more emotions that one experiences such as love, pain, grief, etc., the more one can stretch the heart and develop compassion.

We come into the physical in order to have the illusion of individuality and separation. Our emotional experiences are unique to each person, and yet they connect us to each other. We are truly indivisible rather than individual, however, this is not easily visible or apparent to us when we are seemingly separate in the flesh. This illusion of otherness is what allows us to judge and harm another, but the Golden Rule is also the Law of Karma: "Do unto others as you would have done unto you" because we reap what we sow, whether it is in this life or another.

As humans, we have the ability to feel through the sensations in our body, and to feel through the sensations in our heart. One can affect the other: physical sensations trigger emotional sensations, and emotional feelings can trigger physical feelings. We often talk about the connection of mind, body and spirit, but we consistently forget about the heart - the heart is key to the evolution of the soul, and this is why we have incarnated on Earth. We are here to have physical experiences that cannot be experienced in other dimensional planes of existence, but it is the emotional responses to those physical experiences that determine the growth and evolution of the soul.

Many spiritual practices espouse the "ideal" of transcending emotions, much the same way that they espouse renouncing sexuality or material possessions. This path of austerity is considered by some to be the highest spiritual path, however, it is through joy and bliss that we connect with the divine, not through suffering or deprivation (although it is often through pain that we learn our greatest lessons). We have an eternity to be spiritual beings, but we only have the privilege of being in a human body for the blink of an eye. We are here to taste the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and allow that knowledge to continue to bear fruit that will give us more knowledge and greater wisdom. Our task is to embody the spiritual, and imbue the mundane with the divine.

Many people feel that incarnation on Earth is some kind of prison or punishment, and they cannot wait to escape this dimension. However, as souls we must earn the right to incarnate on Earth, because to be in the physical is to have the God-given power to create and manifest in the physical, and to have absolute freedom to do so through the Power of Free Will and choice. This is truly awesome.

All eyes in the Universe are watching the Earth at this time to see what we will choose to manifest and experience individually and collectively. Will we finally choose to grow and evolve through love rather than through pain? We are essentially the biggest "reality show" in the Universe at this time, and souls are clamoring to be part of it. The key is for each of us to become as conscious, aware, whole and empowered as possible. One way for us to do this is to heal aspects of ourselves in other lifetimes, and reclaim pieces of ourselves that are trapped in pain and trauma.

Human history has been fraught with pain and suffering - some as part of the challenge of life in a physical body, and some intentionally inflicted on one another out of fear, or out of lust for greed and power which comes from a belief in scarcity. Life, birth and death do not need to be traumatic or painful, and there have always been spiritual practices that support peace even during these challenging transitions.

Whenever we experience trauma, a piece of our soul gets trapped in that moment, and relives that pain over and over again until it is released. This is why we experience persistent and recurring memories of traumatic events, because that piece of our soul is trapped there waiting for us to free it, usually through some form of forgiveness of self or others. This is true for past life trauma as well.

Throughout our soul's journey, we have been and experienced many things in order to grow and evolve through knowledge and experience. Many times, we have experienced painful and traumatic lives, especially when it comes to death. Past lives with warfare can be particularly scarring to the soul - and even to the body, as past lives can imprint birthmarks at the site of mortal wounds. When a past life is that of a warrior, it can leave a person in a perpetual state of fear, remorse, aggression, anger, anxiety, and physical or emotional pain. We have only to look at soldiers of our own era to see the scars and trauma that are left by the consciousness of warfare - these souls are never the same again, until and unless they can find peace. The simplest way to reclaim peace is through forgiveness, which allows you to reclaim the pieces of yourself so you can be whole again.

Time is not linear, and so-called "past lives" are happening simultaneously and concurrently in the now, because now is the only time that exists. When you are feeling physical sensations of "past life memories", you are actually connecting with aspects of yourself and your soul that are in different dimensions of space-time. When you experience a flash of pain or fear, or a vision of a past life, it is often because something that you are doing presently is somehow close or parallel to that experience, or that you are of a similar age now to the aspect of you that is having that experience, or that something about those experiences of past lives are relevant to what you need to know now. Those aspects of yourself that are in pain are trapped in that pain until some aspect of yourself releases them. When you discover past lives, you can free that aspect of your soul and reclaim your power.

The more aware and conscious you are, the more power you have to heal the experiences of past lives so you can benefit from the wisdom and knowledge of those experiences. There are different methods for how to find out about past lives and how to access past life knowledge. Many people use past life regression or hypnosis to find past lives. While this can be an effective way to recall your past life, the problem of accessing past lives with hypnotherapy is that you must actually relive the trauma of the experience, and feel it both physically and emotionally. Sometimes this can be more traumatizing than healing, and unless you are with a very skilled and sensitive hypnotherapist, you may not even discover the gifts and wisdom that you gained through that experience.

Another method for how to access past life knowledge and for how to find out who you were in a past life is through an Akashic Record reading. The Akashic Records hold the information about each soul's journey through this lifetime and others, and they also provide information on karmic bonds, soul groups, sacred contracts, etc. Through an Akashic Record reading, we can determine whether the root cause of a condition is from this lifetime, or if it is resulting from experiences of past lives. Through spiritual healing, we can free those aspects of your soul that are trapped in pain so you can be whole and empowered again in the present. Remembering past life skills and gifts can also further empower you to experience joy, success and prosperity in this lifetime. When it comes to experiences of past lives, knowledge is indeed power.



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