Can our past lives keep us from love?.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
“What are your thoughts on past lives affecting how people treat you in this life?
For example, is the reason why people treat us badly in this life for no apparent reason a result of us treating them badly in a past life?
In other words, are they getting us back for something we did to them in a past life?
And is there any way to remedy this?
I am frustrated because I have been single for years and am wondering if the reason I keep getting rejected is because of something I did in a past life?”
Response:
If you believe that we have an active existence previous to this birth, then it makes sense that the influence of that past will carry forward to our present in a similar way that any of our current life actions from our early life affect our present experience.
But be that as it may, I don’t suggest you adopt a belief in reincarnation just to try to explain why people react to you the way they do, or why you remain single.
While accepting that one did something in the past to explain the current situation does provide a symmetry and at least makes one assume a certain responsibility for the situation.
Still, I have noticed that the tendency to resort to past life explanations as a reflex can easily reinforce a powerless mind-set that what is happening is “bad.”
This prejudice makes it difficult to see the situation with fresh eyes and to find the value and rightness of the present moment.
It also means that if the present situation is “bad” then you were “bad” to someone in the past, and therefore it is only just that you should accept what is happening as due punishment.
One is much less likely to find the beautiful synchronicities all around oneself, if you feel that you deserve to be punished for bad actions in a past life.
So recognizing the influence of the past is fine for helping you not feel like the victim of an unjust universe, but don’t let it make you a victim of your own limited self-beliefs.
Love,
Deepak
