Healing Karma & Past Life Trauma
Sometimes when we are doing healing work, we find that the challenges we are facing in this lifetime have their roots in a past life. Knowing the karmic/past life roots of an issue can help us to work with it more consciously and effectively.
Sometimes in a healing session I will be shown a past life situation in which a traumatic event that took place that left an energetic imprint on the energy field. Eternal Light healing is powerful enough to work at this depth and will start to clear this away.
We have all had many other lifetimes and the energies of many of these remain with us. They are mostly subconscious within us, yet they continue to affect us from beneath the surface. If you are surprised by the strength and depth of your reactions to certain things, there may well be a past life memory that is influencing it.
Many of our other lives were happy and peaceful ones, however, there will also have been many in which we experienced some kind of brutality or difficulty of some sort. The energy of this leaves us when we manage to forgive ourselves and all those concerned completely, however this is difficult, and some conflicts remain unresolved in us today. As we become aware of them, we can work to release them for good.
Past Lives & Relationships
There is a deliberate veil placed upon us when we incarnate here to separate our experiences of our different lifetimes, so that we don’t remember all of them at one time in each lifetime. This allows us to have the different experiences we need to grow spiritually.
It allows us to incarnate with those we have incarnated with before without the confusion of all the other lifetimes overlaid. It allows us to experience that person from a new perspective.
We often incarnate with those we have had difficulties with in the past so that we can heal that part of us in this lifetime, so that we can come to love and forgive ourself and others and allow all others to be themselves without judgement and forgive others their actions against you. For example, we often use family bonds to help us with this. The love of a family bond is so strong it makes us willing to see the good in the other person no matter what they do.
What is Karma?
Many people have come to understand ‘karma’ as being some sort of punishment, but this is not true. There is no such thing as punishment in the eyes of God or the universe. That is entirely a man-made thing and is not a helpful concept.
Yet karma is referring to the universal mechanism that helps us all learn to act out of love in every moment rather than fear. This is the way that we move back towards the spiritual consciousness of our Soul.
The word ‘Karma’ is a Sanskrit word that refers to our ability to ‘take action’ in every moment, to make an active choice in each moment of whether to act in love or fear. It refers to our free will to choose what we do and to feel the consequences of our actions every time. We get to experience the difference between when we make a choice with love versus how we feel when we act from anger or fear.
So, ‘karma’ refers to the universal law of cause and effect and the way in which we learn through the course of our lives how to make choices that take reflect the love in our heart, no matter what is occurring, as this is the way we create what our heart truly desires.
Love always begets love, and this is what feels good to us, so the feedback mechanism of the universal law of cause and effect encourages us to always act from love.
We are presented with choices time and time again so that we can practice acting from a space of love even in challenging circumstances.
Taking Responsibility for our Lives
Understanding karma requires us to take full responsibility for our lives. The concept of karma challenges the assumption that what happens in our lives is caused by others.
Our lives are a reflection of what we need to learn. We choose our life circumstances very carefully before we incarnate to bring us the experiences we need for this as we learn to overcome the limiting beliefs that we hold.
Past Lives & No Time
I refer to our other lifetimes as ‘past’ lives even though at a higher level of consciousness there is no time, and all our lives occur simultaneously, in the now. It is true that our linear experience of time is a human experience, necessary for us as an organizing tool as we need to experience life sequentially in order to make sense of and understand our experience.
At the level of human consciousness, it is also helpful to conceive of our lives being sequential as we have free will, and all our actions are not done yet. If we think of there being no time and all has happened already, it gives the impression that we are impotent or unable to create our own future. Thinking of our lives as sequential helps us keep in mind that our actions have consequences.
Soul Choices
Before we incarnate, we choose at a Soul level what we wish to work with in this lifetime, for example, we may choose to learn profound forgiveness or to feel greater self-worth, to let go of guilt or overcome physical pain.
We decide at a Soul level exactly where we wish to incarnate to make sure we focus on this issue. We do not choose the easiest ride! It will be the one that will challenge us to work on certain attitudes, emotions and belief patterns within us, often by making us feel them intensely first and this can be very challenging.
For example, if you choose at a Soul level to work with your sense of self-worth, you may not choose a completely supportive family, but rather a family that will make you have to search deeply to find your own sense of value. Rather than being told by others you are valued, you are forced to find an inner self-worth, so that when you find it, it will be unshakeable. You will not be dependent on others making you feel good as you will have found the infinite source of self-worth that comes from within you.
Healing Past Lives & Karma
Bringing the light of awareness to what is occurring within you is the first step to healing these issues. It is not always necessary to remember other lifetimes to heal the issues it brings. Everything we need to help us free ourselves from these outdated modes of operation is right there in our current life.
Sometimes we are drawn to a place or person that brings into our awareness the energies connected with another lifetime. This happens when our higher consciousness sees that it would be helpful for us to be reminded of something to make us more conscious of a particular energy within us.
It can be just in the little things that something we experience here in this lifetime brings these energies forward into our awareness so that we look at them. This is very helpful as it can be difficult to even notice these feelings as we are so accustomed to their presence that it feels completely normal to us.
On occasion, when it is necessary for the healing process, I am shown a past life situation and the energy imprint it has left in the body or auric field.
Healing helps us to integrate our past life traumas in a way that is not suffering but a relief as we let go of these old energies. We can bring forgiveness and Love to replace anger and fear, so that we feel so much lighter in ourselves