Problem may have started in a previous life

I sometimes read columns that give advice to people with love or relationship problems when I see an interesting question.

Most of the time, the advice is sound and helpful. Sometimes it is even sprinkled with a good dose of humor.

But I notice that the advisers assume this is the only lifetime the people involved have ever lived. And, because of this, the real cause or source of the problem is seldom, if ever, addressed properly.

For example, why does a person get so attracted to another when all reason goes against a relationship with him or her? Why cannot one leave the other despite suffering so much emotionally, mentally and even, at times, physically?

If we assume that we have lived only in this lifetime and have never lived before, we may not find the real answer to the deepest questions our souls are aching to know.

A woman who came to my seminar on Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation several years ago told me before the class began, that she drove her husband out of their house because she could no longer stand his womanizing. She would forgive him and then he would do it again.
So she finally decided to end the marriage once and for all. Her hatred toward her husband knew no bounds.

Role reversal

During the past-life hypnotic regression that I conducted during the seminar, she found out that, in a previous life, she was a man and was the husband of her present husband who, in that lifetime, was a woman. In other words, their roles were reversed.

During that previous lifetime, she was womanizing and cheating on her partner, now the husband she hated so much.

When she discovered this, she was shocked! She realized she was only getting in this lifetime a dose of her own medicine. In the language of the Bible, “She was reaping what she sowed.” She was only meeting her karma.

Karma is the law of universal justice or of cause and effect. It is the adjustment mechanism that refers our actions back to a past life that caused it.

Law of Karma

The Law of Karma is also called the Law of Compensation. It states: “Whatever we do will come back to us nothing less and nothing more.” There is no escaping the consequences of karma.

When this woman realized what she did to her husband in a previous life, she felt very sorry. Her hatred toward him completely vanished. Though she did not reconcile with him, her anger toward him was gone.

Emotional healing took place because of knowledge of her past deeds. She was only getting what she deserved.

This is what makes knowledge of past life and past relationship important. It makes us understand why certain people behave toward us and why we behave toward them in a certain way.

The behavior can either be positive or negative because both great hatred and great love bind us to another person.

Hated son

In another class, a woman discovered why she hated her second son. Unlike her other children, she would punish or castigate him at the slightest excuse. She felt she was being unfair to her second child but she could not understand her behavior or attitude toward him.

During the past-life regression, she saw herself as a slave in Africa centuries before. They had a slave master who was very cruel to them and who would whip or punish them for the slightest infraction. She hated the slave master so much that she cursed him and vowed never to forgive him.

This slave master became her son. She now had the opportunity either to continue hating him and exact revenge or to forgive. She chose to forgive. Her relationship with her son improved.

If you love somebody very much, you are bound to meet that person again in another lifetime. And, if you hate somebody very much, you are also bound to meet that person again in another lifetime.

So, if you do not want to meet your enemy again in your next life, better forgive him now and release him to his/her highest good. Otherwise, you are bound to meet that person again—and again, until you learn to forgive and release all things.

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