Our Past Lives influence our present (part 1)
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We are often curious about our past lives, wondering who we were and what we did in previous lives, but then something stops us, a certain fear prevents us from continuing our search to discover our past. Usually, this thought turns into the usual question: "If I remembered my past lives, would they influence my present life? Worse still, would they take over my current life, to the point that I would no longer be able to distinguish the present from the past?" This question has probably troubled many people. In truth, our past lives have always influenced our present life, since the day we were born, because they are not our enemies, but moments in the life of the Soul, which is what we really are. Consciousness, or the Soul, remembers its past lives as you—the human I of today—remember your past. If you were asked to remember some moments from your childhood, for example when you were 10 years old, you could recount some anecdotes from that period that you remember particularly well. Well, the Soul remembers its past lives as you remember your past years, but without the memory lapses that you may suffer from. It has no memory lapses and no problem remembering, even if you, consciously, have no precise memories of your past lives because you have not formed a perfect connection between yourself and your Soul. Past lives have always influenced our present, without us needing to know or be aware of them: they influence us, so they can do so even without us realizing it. Our fear of past lives is based on the belief that they are completely separate from us: we believe—albeit unconsciously—that as long as we do not pay attention to them, they cannot influence us in any way, but as soon as we do pay attention to them, they begin to have an effect on us. This concept is wrong because our past lives are completely connected to us, and always have been: they are our past, they are not external people! A fitting example would be trauma: as a child, you undoubtedly experienced some traumas that left a deep mark on you, and even if you don't remember them at all today, or only vaguely and without details, they still have an effect on your mind. Therefore, when you find yourself in a situation similar to one that traumatized you in the past, you immediately react badly, with suffering or terror, because that mark has remained inside you even if you don't remember it or accept it. Past lives are not traumas, but memories that continue to exist within you, even if you do not remember them clearly. Your past lives influence many of your daily choices, desires, and passions, pushing you to follow a specific career path, as well as to choose to surround yourself with certain people rather than others. Of course, most of the time when you make decisions in your daily routine, you are not aware that they are influencing you, but this happens because many of your current passions are ancient: you already had them in your past lives and, over time, you have carried them with you into your subsequent lives. So, for most of your life choices, you are influenced by desires and interests that you already had in past lives and that you continue to have in this one. Other times, however, they consciously influence you on certain specific choices and important decisions because they want you to make choices that are contrary to others, as they know a little better than you what the right ones would be. In a sense, they act as guides, even if you are not aware of their influence on you. What is important to know is that past lives have always influenced you, even if you have never paid attention to them, so you should not fear that remembering them will somehow take control of you. Firstly, because you should not see your past lives as your enemies: they are not, they never have been, and you should never consider them as such. Secondly, because remembering them would help you recognize the reasons why you have a certain character, a certain flaw, a specific trauma, or worse, why your life "always goes this way," with those obstacles that keep coming back even when you thought you had overcome them forever. In other words, remembering your past lives is the solution to understanding once and for all why you have that problem, so that you can finally face it with all the cards on the table and clearly visible to yo . Not remembering your past lives means suffering them, because you suffer their influences without even realizing where these energies come from.
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Remembering your past lives, on the other hand, allows you to finally understand the meaning of your life and the reason behind every single event that has happened to you. The fear of remembering is due to the thought that these memories can only influence us after we begin to remember them, whereas in fact they have always influenced us, and remembering them serves precisely to recognize and detach these influences, to free ourselves from certain repetitive patterns (such as trauma) and stabilize our lives in a more personal direction, without being influenced by fears, traumas, and problems that we carry with us from other lives. As long as the influences are positive, that's fine, as they can guide us and help us not to make mistakes we have already made in the past. but when the influences from past lives are fears, traumas, weak personalities such as constant insecurity or a tendency to depression, caused by a very painful past, then this is something we need to work on to detach them from our present life, because we must not allow the pain of the past to hold us back in our current life: it has already caused us enough suffering in that life, we do not need to suffer in this one for the same old reasons! It is in the past, so let's detach that pain; but we cannot do that if we do not remember the reasons that caused us to suffer. Remembering the past should not frighten us, for example by thinking that if we remember a painful moment, we will suffer with the same intensity we felt in that life. Remembering, on the other hand, can really help us to alleviate that pain, both in our present and in that life. This is because you are the evolution of that past life, you are its future, and you can allow the past to stop being stuck in that suffering. You can learn a lot from your previous lives, but you must not forget that you are their future, so you must be one step ahead in order to help them, rather than expecting them to always and only be useful to you. Our past lives, or rather our past during other lives, influence our present life just as much as our childhood influences our habits today. Although in some ways we may be very different in character, in many other ways we are very similar. For example, in a past life we may have been very arrogant, presumptuous, and self-centered people, but in this life we may be very different. However, we carry with us a similar characteristic, which could be the expectation that others should always give us something in return for what we do, almost as if we demand that the world owes us a favor simply because we exist. so we carry a similarity, even if only distant, with our past life. However, what must be immediately clarified is that we do not have just one past life, but many: even if it were only ten for those who are 'young souls', or to be a little more precise, 'young consciousnesses', it is still ten past lives that influence you. It is important to understand that if you have lived ten past lives, it means that all ten influence you in many ways, each and every one of them, without exception. You must not think that only one of your past lives influences you, while the others stand by and watch. If you have lived ten lives, then ten influence you; if you have lived a hundred lives, then a hundred influence you; and so on. Do not believe that among all your past lives, only one is the one that influences you and pushes you in certain directions rather than others, because each one of them influences you and pushes you towards the right choice for them. It is right to think, in fact, that on some points their dozens of influences may conflict with each other and create confusion for you, because this really happens. In fact, in some lives you lived in a certain way and thought with a certain type of mind, but in other lives you were very different and thought in a completely different way. If both lives influence you, and I assure you that they do, in this life you often find yourself wanting something but feeling compelled to choose something else. This is because one past life pushes you in one direction while another directs you in a completely different one, which is not always the best one. These influences should clearly not make you think of a conscious struggle between your past lives, as they do not influence you in such a way that they are un r in conflict with each other. Try to imagine, for example, if in one life you had to suffer many betrayals on several fronts. You were born into a very negative family, which raised you in violence and submission from childhood.
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From a very young age, you had to work without anyone respecting your human rights, often leaving you without money and preventing you from feeding yourself and getting on with your life. The people around you, including friends and, worse still, the person you thought you loved, betrayed you in the worst possible ways, causing you terrible suffering. If you have lived a life like this, you may not remember it clearly today, but something has remained in your unconscious: that suffering and fear of being betrayed again. So your personality today is influenced by your past life, which has suffered many injustices, such as betrayal, and because of that suffering, even though your life today is very different and completely new, you still have that sense of terror towards betrayal that makes you distrust everyone. Perhaps in this life you have never even been betrayed in love, yet the fear is so great that you cannot trust anyone, to the point of excluding love from your life. This is just an example, but imagine if it were true that you had lived such a life: these could be the reasons why you are afraid of being betrayed today. Imagine, instead, if you had lived a completely different life in your next one. In fact, every life is different, and it is not at all true that history repeats itself in exactly the same way. Therefore, in your next life, it could well be that the whole context was very different from your previous one. You were born in a different era, for starters; probably 50 to 70 years after the birth of the previous one. If you lived at least 70 years in that one, you surely realize that almost a century has passed between one life and the next and times have changed. Just compare the times your father or, even more so, your grandfather lived in with the times you are living in today: even if it doesn't seem like it, there are dozens and dozens of years between them, in which society, science, technology, medicine, current knowledge, and many other factors have evolved and are no longer what they once were. Consider that your grandfather may have been present during World War II, while you, fortunately, are living in a completely different era, even though only 74 years have passed since then. So you understand that from one life to another, situations have changed and it is practically impossible to live an identical life in every way, even if some concepts may clearly be repeated; but not everything! So in your next life, you could be a girl born and raised in a much more loving and financially well-off family, where everyone treated you and pampered you like the baby of the family. You were offered the opportunity to study and pursue a career, which was very important at the time. You were raised by a family that believed in you, loved you, and sacrificed themselves to put your well-being first, nothing like the family in your previous life who hurt you and made you suffer from birth. Thanks to your personal culture, career, and the security you gained from a solid family relationship, you were able to develop greater confidence in your private life, managing to navigate society without falling into the little traps that you might have fallen into more naively in your previous life, where you were more easily fooled and ultimately betrayed. In your current life, however, you have been more astute. Imagine this context and now understand what kind of influence this past life could have on you. It will certainly not have a negative impact, as her life was much more satisfying, full of happy moments, thanks in part to a foundation of certainties that could have been her family, her career, and her passion for what she did. So the influence it has on you in the present could be much more positive and optimistic than the mark left on you by her previous life, which was much more pessimistic and pushes you to always be on the defensive. At this point, however, many people make the mistake of thinking that the second life is the one that influences your current life, as if the previous one were eclipsed and completely forgotten by your internal memories. In truth, both lives influence you in many ways, as the second does not eliminate the first, but both shape the future of the third life to come. In this life, therefore, you not only receive the positive influences of the second life, which experienced happy moments with family and satisfaction in your career, but you also suffer the more painful influences of the first life, which endured many betrayals and will carry the traumas of a lifetime with it, making you relive them today.
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So, on the one hand, you tend to feel a certain security and positive emotions derived from your past life, while on the other hand, you also feel lower and more painful emotions derived from a completely different previous life. It is therefore necessary to understand that there is not just one past life influencing you, but many, which are not mutually exclusive but all influence you, sometimes even conflicting with each other. A contrast could be the striking example between the two lives described above: one is self-confident, happy with their life and fully satisfied, the other is insecure, suffering and terribly dissatisfied. Both influence you and make you experience alternating moments in your life, going from happy moments to difficult periods. The previous example refers to two past lives, but what happens when there are more than two lives? What happens to those who have lived hundreds of previous lives before this one? Every single past life influences you in at least some way, at different times in your life. Some may influence you more than others, but none are excluded from your life: all of them have an imprint, even the smallest, on you. Right now, it may be difficult for you to imagine having had past lives, because you imagine yourself as you see and perceive yourself now, in a different time and context, so you cannot conceive of it. Even if it is your past life, however, you must understand that you were not as you are today, but you were someone very different from how you would imagine yourself. The main mistake is to visualize yourself as you are today, living in different families and wearing different clothes, but fundamentally identical to who you are today. Although it is always you, in every life you are always different, because depending on where you are born and the family you grow up with, your character, habits, thoughts, and way of reasoning and dealing with situations change. In one life, you may believe that the path to salvation is through study, culture, and knowledge, while in another life you may be very different and believe that the path to salvation is through drugs, total recklessness, and hallucinogenic visions that make you forget about real life. These are two very different conceptions of life, two ways of thinking that are so opposed that you would never imagine they could belong to the same person. Yet, in different lives, you have made different choices, some of which you would not approve of at all in this life, but you made them in a previous life and you must accept them as they are. When you learn to understand how to do this, you will be able to forgive them. In each life, you lived in a context that raised you differently, so don't imagine yourself as you are now, but realize that it was a very different life, far from your current standards. The important thing about past lives is to accept them as they are, without overestimating or underestimating yourself. Accept and understand them without despising the choices made by that person so distant from you, and without appropriating their victories during their battles, because they were fought by them at that time, and not by you today. Respect your past lives as if they were people outside of you and love them as if they were your loved ones: it is often much easier to love others more than ourselves, so love them as if they were distinct people. Despite this, remember that they are not external people, but you in different forms. Throughout your life, you have often been influenced by the personalities of your past lives, who have brought their emotions into your life, causing you to choose one path over another, or pushing you to follow someone they admired or loved in their time, even though your mind would have chosen something completely different. They have influenced you and will continue to influence you throughout your life, in some periods much more than others, but there is no period in your life when you are not and will not be influenced by at least some of your past lives. The more past lives you have lived, the more personalities can influence your present, alternating in periods, or influencing you both at the same time. You should not imagine your past lives as the conflicting voices that you often hear in your head ( ): those thoughts come from elsewhere, usually from the people around you who try to impose their thoughts and plans for your future on your life. However, you can compare your past lives to periods of life that influence you depending on their state. Try for a moment to imagine if you could talk face to face with your childhood self, perhaps when you were 10 years old. Even though it is you, your view of life and your approach to it was very different when you were 10 than it is today, now that you are several decades older.
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You are still you: a version of yourself as a child and a version of yourself as an adult, but you have two completely different ways of seeing life. So imagine if it were him, the child, directing your life now that you are an adult: how would it end? Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it would end badly, as it depends on the person and what you were like back then and what you are like now: perhaps the child, looking at your current life from the outside, could understand the solutions and methods for improving it much better than you, who are inside it and too involved to have a clear enough mind to recognize the right path for you. On the other hand, even though it's still you, you're letting yourself be guided by a 10-year-old child who could lead your life down a different path than the one you would have chosen, getting carried away by his personal emotions and leading you astray. This does not mean that he is doing it on purpose to spite you or ruin your life, he is simply taking you down a path that he personally would choose: but this does not mean that it is the best one for you too; it could even be the exact opposite because, seeing things from an outside perspective, he may understand much more than you and finally lead you to a way out. So you should never start out with prejudices or expectations about your past lives, because they influence you, but until you learn to know and see them, you won't be able to know if they are guiding you towards the right path or towards the path they would choose—and have already chosen in the past—but which in this life is not the best for you. After all, we live many lives to learn from the mistakes of the past, but we often find ourselves falling back into the desires and mistakes we have already made, risking repeating them again. Regardless, it is essential not to have expectations when remembering your past lives. When you think about past lives, you create expectations about what you would like to see and how you would like to see them. First of all, if you are a man, you expect to see only male past lives, as it would not be credible enough for you to have also lived female lives, believing that it is not very macho to have been a woman in the past: we are not talking about the same life but about another one, even one very different from the present one. Having lived a life of a different gender than the present one is not something strange, negative, or wrong. But let's start from the premise that I have no intention of giving you a strange lecture about 'we all have both a female and a male side within us, so it's right to be open to bisexual experiences', because it is absolutely not my aim to talk to you about sexual tastes: I want to talk to you about past lives and help you understand that we have all lived in both bodies, even if you don't remember it. It is possible, but not necessarily the case, that you have lived more lives of a specific gender, for example that you have lived many more male lives than female ones, but it is almost impossible that you have never lived a life of the other gender. I repeat that this is not to open your mind to sexual tastes different from your own, but to make you understand that every life is different both in body and mind, because the only thing you carry forward is the same Consciousness, but everything else changes and this is natural. To remember your past lives, you should not have expectations, i.e., you should not expect to remember a specific event or a specific physical appearance, because this would end up pushing you to imagine a vision of a past life, but without seeing the real memory. In other words, expectations lead you to fantasize, but not to remember. Another very common expectation is to see oneself as a warrior in a past life. It is clear that we all want to believe that we were beautiful warriors, perhaps lone wolves with a mysterious air, or leaders of huge armies of who carried out all our orders. In short, we all want to remember a life in which we were great warriors, but how many of us really were? It is normal to want to see a life like that, because our first approach to past lives is usually very superficial and we do not take them seriously, so we approach them a bit like a new video game that has just come out: clearly we would like to be the main character, with impressive armor and powerful muscles, and not a simple poor farmer who spends his life harvesting vegetables and raising children. However, past lives are something much more important than an expectation or a moment of overwhelming fantasy, because we are talking about a real person who has lived a whole life that is also real; they are not a character from our imagination, but a person who has lived, suffered, achieved something or committed reckless acts.
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In other words, we are talking about a person who really existed and we should give them the respect they deserve, regardless of the role they played in their time. A past life is a life that really happened, far removed from what we like to fantasize about. I'm not saying that it's impossible that you lived the life of a warrior, of course it's possible, but maybe it's not the video game story you'd like it to be, but rather a much more painful, violent, and traumatic story than you would have liked to imagine. When you think about your past lives, you create expectations, and if your memories are not what you would have liked them to be, you prefer to replace them with much more exciting and adrenaline-fueled fantasies. Maybe you really did live lives like that, but that's not a rule. In fact, we often end up wanting to remember past lives in which we were warriors, completely discarding the hundreds or thousands of other lives we have lived, because the only one we want to remember is the one in which we were 'cool'. But what if you never lived the life of a warrior? What if what you are looking for is just a fantasy to boost your ego or satisfy your low self-esteem, to raise it a little, and not a memory of a real past life? My advice is very clear: don't get your hopes up, because they will push you to fantasize instead of remembering your real past lives. Even if your mental fantasies may seem much more exciting than the memory of a real life, where you could have been a "simple" kindergarten teacher or a taxi driver, and not a warrior with armor forged by burning flames, that past life is real, and that is why it is worth remembering in as much detail as possible. even if it wasn't what you expected, it's something truly real. I don't want you to think that it's impossible that you lived a warrior's life. On the contrary, I want you to remember all your past lives, but to do so, it's essential to understand that there are many, not just one, so you shouldn't discard them all in search of a single life where you were "cool." Try to imagine for a moment if a future life of yours wanted to remember your previous life, referring specifically to you. Surely, it would want to remember you as a skilled hacker, a Russian spy, the president of a great nation, or the most famous man in the world, but instead it discovers that your past life is 'just you', a normal person who did 'nothing special'. But what does he know about you? What does he know about what you've had to go through in this life, about all the deceit and dirty tricks you've had to endure and from which you've had to pick yourself up with your own strength? He knows nothing, yet he has formed an expectation that if you're not a skilled hacker or a famous actor, you're nobody. But who said that? Who is he to say that? How can he disrespect you like that? That's why I'm advising you not to have expectations about your past lives, because it doesn't matter what name they had, what matters is that they are your past lives, so you have to respect them even if they were the most unknown people in the world, because they are you. Besides, how do you know you might discover some very famous past lives? But whether it's a famous person or a little-known citizen, it shouldn't change your opinion of them: you must never disrespect your past lives. Remembering your past lives is never a chronological choice, so you may remember a distant life first, then a more recent one, then another one much further away from this era in a completely disordered way, without following any rules or precise dates: past lives do not follow the same pattern for everyone, and you must learn to accept them and take them as they come, without complaining about them or appreciating them less than they deserve. As already mentioned, try to imagine your future self looking back on your past life and therefore on you: what would they think of you? Would they think you're cool, boring, that you didn't do anything important, or that you did something revolutionary and valuable? During this period, you can choose to live a life that reflects the expectations of your future self and become as important and well-known as they would like you to be; but their expectations will probably be different from what you think. Just as you want to see your past life as one in which you were the best swordsman in the world, the most powerful martial arts master, or the most famous singer, your future self may have the same expectations of you, but if these are not met, it does not mean that you are nobody or that you are not worthy of being remembered by her.
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You are a person living a life, and whatever you do, feel, or experience is important, so it is important that she remembers you for who you really are, and not for how she would prefer to imagine you in order to make you more intriguing and fascinating. She should remember and appreciate you for who you really are, and if she took a little more time to get to know your life story, she might discover that you're not so bad after all, even if you're not the most famous Hollywood actor in the world or what he hoped you would be. So have a moment of compassion for your past lives without assuming that you have to judge and discard them if they don't immediately come up with a famous name: if you just took the time to get to know them for who they really are, you would discover truly interesting people and stories, with incredible and sometimes overwhelming sides. Open your mind to your real past lives, putting aside your expectations and prejudices about yourself, so that seeing and discovering your past is an evolutionary experience and not a disappointment. On the other hand, if your past lives disappoint you, remember that it is entirely your fault, because you chose to live lives that were monotonous and boring in your eyes, instead of making life choices that would have led you to a better future. So don't judge yourself, but learn from your past to improve your present. Maybe you'll discover that you were a much more interesting and well-known person than you might suspect now. On the other hand, there are those who underestimate themselves so much that they believe they have lived few past lives, and even then, that they were ugly, unimportant, or of little value, not worthy of being remembered, convinced that they have never lived a good life. Again, this is wrong, because at this moment you have no knowledge of your past lives, so you cannot base your expectations on them and compare them to this one. Even if in this life you consider yourself to be nobody important, to have no value, you cannot know who you were in a past life and what you accomplished, achieved, or created, so do not start from the assumption that you have never been anybody just because in this life you have not yet found the right path for you.
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