Have you lived before?
The idea that our souls or spirits reincarnate reaches back at least 3,000 years. Discussions of the subject can be found in the ancient traditions of India and Greece. It's a tantalizing belief - that our spirits are not confined to the 7, 8 or 9 lives, but that we have lived before and that we might live again. Those who believe in reincarnation suggest that there might be clues to what our past lives were in the various aspects that make our present. Let's explore…
Have you lived before?
According to psychics and researchers there are some parts of our personality we cannot forget, tidbits of these are embedded in our spiritual psychic unconscious no matter how long ago these experiences happened. Here are 15 clues you might find in your present life...
Deja Vu
The term Deja Vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity. Most of us have experienced the eerie feeling of Deja Vu - the sudden, surprising feeling that an event we are going through at the moment has happened exactly this way before. While scientists and psychiatrists insist there are neurological explanations for these phenomena, others wonder if these strange feelings could be vague, fleeting memories of past lives.
Psychologist Arthur Funkhouser has broken down this phenomenon into sub-categories: Deja Vecu - an event already experienced or lived through; Deja Senti - already felt, perhaps triggered by a voice or music; and Deja Visite - a place so familiar we feel we've been there before. You know what's in the next room and up the stairs. You have the overwhelming feeling that you've been there before. Have you - in a past life?
Your Dreams could be so real like
Do you have vivid, and elaborated dreams of yourself in numerous times and places? Which may be a past life memory rising. The past-life recollections aren't perpetually actual memories: they are conjointly contained symbols and metaphors that require to be understood in order that their meaning and message will become clear. These symbols aren't any less powerful than literal ones. Consider these past-life scenes a lot of as a poem or a history text which reminds of itself.
If you have got your own History
Talents and skills, likes and dislikes, and attractions and aversions also can be clues to past lives. You would possibly feel yourself being drawn to few people, though you have never visited them. You would possibly realize you're able to learn sure subjects or manage a profession a lot of simply than others. For instance, a specific foreign language would possibly return faster to you, whereas others are tougher.
You have a Soul Mate
It is very common to travel through different lives with the same group of souls and it is called groupings, soul mates or soul companions, or soul families. We seem to learn our spiritual lessons and accumulate or resolve our karma with our soul groups. Relationships may change from life to life, but the souls are the same. For example, your grandmother might reincarnate as your grandson. In this sense we never lose our loved ones, because we are always being reunited.
Weird Memories
Some kids have "memories" of childhood events that never really happened. Do they just remember a child's fantasy, misunderstanding, or even a dream that they now interpret as reality? Or are they remembering something that happened to them before they were born into this lifetime? Human memory is a fraught with error and incongruities, and many of us have memories of things that family and friends can attest never occurred. So the question is: Is it faulty memory or a remembrance of lives past?
Dreams and Nightmares
Many people have the same or a similar dream many times, over either a short period of time or their lifetime. Recurring dreams usually mean there is something in your life you've not acknowledged that is causing stress of some sort. The dream repeats because you have not corrected the problem. Another theory is that people who experience recurring dreams have some sort of trauma in their past they are trying to deal with. In this case, the dreams tend to lessen with time.
Dreams and Nightmares
Recurring dreams and nightmares also have been suggested as being memories or at least clues of past lives. For example, you have dreams that are not memories of places or events that have happened in this life, yet they recur in your dreams often. Are they memories of something important that happened in a past life? Likewise, can nightmares be reflections of past life traumas that have clung to our spirits and haunt our sleep?
Unexplainable phobias
From a scientific point of view certain factors cause fear and one of them is having had a distressing or traumatic encounter. You might have some phobias you cannot explain, even though you know that no traumatic incident has happened, you have an unreasonable phobia of water. One cannot be sure of the exact reasons but one possibility might be that you have had some unpleasant experience with water in a past life.
Consistency over Time
Consistency over time marks a major difference between past life memory and fantasy. With fantasy, a child will fabricate a story, but rarely can he repeat it with the same details the next week, the next day, or even the next minute. Fantasies spout from the imagination of the child but past life memories are a mental movie of real and personally significant events that actually happened. They are stable, like memories of crucial events from this life.
Our Comfort Level
Why do we feel more comfortable in certain settings and not others? It could have something to do with our state of mind in these settings in a former life. Do you love the mountains? Does the seaside feel more like home to you? Do you suddenly feel exposed when the landscape becomes devoid of trees? Do you prefer small houses to large ones? All these can indicate where you have lived and been happy and most comfortable in your past lives.
Unfinished Business
Have you had an ambition or drive to do something almost since the day you were born? Did your parents say you started doing this from the day you started to walk or talk? This is an indication of some unfinished business from a previous life. Something may have happened in that life that kept you from succeeding at this occupation you loved the most, and you may have naturally picked up, in this life, where you left off.
Affinity for Travel
Even though you live in one place, do you long to live somewhere else? Do you travel there as often as you can and feel connected to this place for no apparent reason? Do you dream of moving to some other place in the world even though you've never been there and only know if from pictures? It might be that you just like the landscape and the culture, or it just might be that you've lived there before in a past life.
Unexplained Pain
Thousands of people are plagued with chronic pain, but quite often, the cause of it is not known. But past life researchers now believe that many cases of chronic pain can be traced back to some kind of accident or trauma in a past life. For example, some who experience strange unexplained neck pain, often find under past life regression hypnosis, that they were hanged or strangled in a previous life. Yes, that's a theory!
Birthmarks
Do you have or know someone with a strange or otherwise significant birthmark? Do they strangely resemble scars or wounds? Some individuals with these kinds of birthmarks, with the help of past life regression therapy, have found they were injured or even mortally wounded in a previous life. And their birthmarks in this life will resemble the scar or wound they received in a previous life. The internet is full of such stories.
Children's Tales
Have you ever known a small child to tell a fantastic story? Sometimes they tell long, elaborate tales with themselves as the main character. And quite often these stories are about things they couldn't have possibly experienced in real life. Are these stories just products of an active imagination or something else? Researchers say that children recall past lives more easily and they lose those memories as they grow older. It's possible that these stories are recollections of events that took place in a past life.
Uncontrolled Habits
The dark side of passions is those uncontrolled habits that take over people's lives and can even marginalize them in society. Obsessive-compulsives and hoarders fit into this category. A man who has to turn the light switch off and on ten times before he leaves a room; a woman who collects newspapers throughout her house because she cannot bear to get rid of them. Psychological explanations can be found for these uncontrolled habits, yet those who believe in reincarnation say they might have roots in past lives.
To conclude
There certainly are or could be medical, psychological, or societal explanations for each of the phenomena mentioned in the blog, and your experience with any of them does not necessarily mean that they can be attributed to a past life. After all, reincarnation is not a proved fact. Yet, the world is about alternate possibilities, and the notion that we have lived before and will live again is one that holds a great deal of fascination.
