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“Do unto others what you want done unto you”
Karma and Balance
Karma is the law of cause and effect. That is to say, actions in one lifetime will affect a person’s experiences in another. During a healing session I am often shown how a client’s behaviour in one or several past lives has directly contributed to his or her current difficulties. Past and present are totally interlinked in the healing process. In my experience it is virtually impossible to heal a problem completely without going back into one or more past lives, because they are contributing to the current imbalance.
The impact of past lives is subtle and all encompassing. Powerful (often overwhelming) feelings stored away in our energy body from previous incarnations hamper our ability to live a carefree life now. A plague of irrational fears, insecurities, fixations and quirky little attitudes all connect on some level to events in the far past.
Victorian London
The following example, taken from one of my healing sessions, shows how a woman’s behaviour in Victorian London is still affecting her now. In essence she is paying for her actions, although not in the Old Testament sense. This is a reestablishment of balance energetically, not "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".
Blame
The first word or sentence that I hear often shows the intent of the session. In this case I heard ‘blame’. Straightaway I was aware of the possibility that Claire might be blaming herself for her actions in some way. The purpose of the session was to lift this from her energy body. From experience I realised that Claire may not be aware of blame in her life at all. In fact, it might seem rather bewildering to her. That is because it is only during our past life review, at the point of death, that our spirit realises the true impact of its actions on others. At this point our spirit judges itself, and in the process often finding itself wanting. Claire’s self judgement resulted in feelings of blame.
Past Life Actions
Claire’s past life actions, which led to such severe self judgement, were shown to me during the healing. The implications of those actions were only fully understood after death, and consequently could not be resolved at the time. This created a necessity for karmic rebalancing in a future lifetime (now).
I was shown scenes from Claire’s life in Victorian London. Living in relative comfort, she was aware of the many homeless boys on the street. They were hungry, often on the point of starvation, and yet she did nothing to help them. Brushing them aside with commands to go home (knowing full well they had no home to go to), created even greater karmic debt. Her lack of kindness is a major factor here.
Karmic Debt
Over her life there have been times when Claire has felt an outsider. She is divorced and through necessity has had cope alone, sometimes under difficult circumstances. Gaining an awareness of how it feels to be alone and totally self reliant is one of her life's lessons. To achieve an empathetic state for those in situations, such as she experienced in Victorian London, helps to rebalance the karma, thus wiping the debt, and preventing karma being carried over into future lives.