To me, the concept and the process of how we choose a body and an environment to live our lives in is highly interesting. Especially because it strongly depends on what kind of lives we have been living in the past! I want to try to explain what procedure we go through before deciding on what our lives should look like. And how our past lives show up in our current ones… My references – by the way – mostly come from Dr. Michael Newton’s book ‘Journey of Souls’, my favorite one!
The choice is ours
That is the most important thing to understand! We make our own choices on what we consider a good and especially helpful life to be for us. We have the ability and maturity to estimate what kind of lessons we have learnt in the past, where that has gotten us and what we’re still missing out on. If we have lived a number of simple and easy lives, we understand that it might be a good idea to live a harder one this time instead. Younger souls might choose easier lives in the beginning because they still lack a little bit of maturity. But we keep accumulating that with each life, which is why we strive for variety.
We get some options offered
Newton described in his book that usually, our spirit guides or the council of elders (here, I explain what that is), give us three options to choose from. One is an easy option, let’s say a very beautiful person who won’t suffer as much because strangers tend to be more friendly (for example). And then we get two options that would be more helpful to us. The two might be complete opposites though, that might grant us completely different lessons, but in our personal development would be more or less the same amount of profitable. One might be a woman, the other a man. One might be born in Italy and the other one in Ecuador, for example. Someone’s an artist, the other an engineer. You get the picture…
Past lessons and future experiences
Michael Newton described it as following now; a certain soul might have learnt and evolved a lot in the past. They had harder and easier lives, they were men and women. They experienced many blessings but also many painful events, they were poor and rich before, they were very intellectual people and athletes, and so on… There are many things this soul has learnt already, but still it might be missing some things. Those could be; it still experiences heavy jealousy or envy, it has trouble controlling its anger, it gets frustrated easily, etc. What kind of life would be most fitted to try to resolve these tendencies now? The life of a man or a woman, rich or poor, European or American? These are all questions we ask ourselves when we choose a body.
What does your current self say about you?
To be honest, we can never really know 😉 But I have an example that illustrates that perfectly. It was a client of Dr. Newton (he does hypnosis with his clients that grants him access to past experiences, he explains it all in detail in his book). She told him that she was suffering from terrible leg pain but had never experienced an accident. How could this be? Through his analysis he found out, that this girl had fell from a carriage in her past life and had broken her legs so bad that she could never move them again. They also discovered that in the lifetime before that, this person lived the life of a Viking, with one of the most strong, muscular and healthy bodies one can imagine.
Balance and karma are the driving factors
The two of them discovered that this soul has decided that, because her life as a viking was all about physicality, strength and power, it was time for it to make some more emotional, mental and intellectual experienced in the next life. Because she couldn’t move in the life after that due to the terrible accident she had, she spent most of her time in bed and was able to be a writer and consume a large number of books and knowledge. Together with the souls that were going to be her parents they decided that it would also be good to strengthen their bond and their relationship, that in past lives also had suffered a little. They could learn to be close together and profited off of each other. It was the perfect life for her, even though, of course, it was a really hard one. And up to this day she was carrying pain in her legs that they were then able to get rid of thanks to this discovery.
It shows in your relationships as well
It’s very sure that the people that are closest to you right now, so your parents, siblings, best friends, partner(s) etc. are part of your soul circle. These are the souls you are closest with in the spirit world. You all decide to inhabit bodies that will meet during a lifetime. Here comes in a second story that was very interesting to me. A woman had met a man online. They were both in their sixties and had never met before. When they met each other online though, they immediately felt a connection and bonded over hobbies and opinions they had in common. Newton found out through his therapy that they were soulmates. He wondered; how come they haven’t met earlier?
He discovered that in their past lives they had a car accident driving over a cliff. They both died at 17 years old. This traumatized them and their parents and friends. So, this time they decided that it would be best if they spent their lives apart. They enforced this for example by choosing to be born on different continents. However, as I have often stated before, if destiny wants people to be together, or better said, if people are meant to meet, they will get the opportunity to meet. And so eventually they did. This time though, they both were much older and more mature. Again, what happened in the past, directly influenced their current lives they were living.
What are our conclusions?
Every single life develops differently. We meet people at times we would never expect, we go live abroad and make experiences. We get born in a certain country, into a certain family, with a certain amount of money and privilege. Our lives might be easier or more difficult, we might be more or less beautiful. But at the end, it’s all part of a bigger plan, one that we helped construct. Everything happens for our greater good and, more importantly, for a reason.
If you experienced a terrible accident, maybe this lifetime is less centered on your physical experiences and rather on your mental or emotional ones. If you haven’t met your soulmate yet, there also might be a reason. You might have some things to solve or release with one or both of your parents. I have more stories to share… But if you can, go read his book. It was mind-altering to me.
Hope you enjoyed this little text! See you next time <3
