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The Transformation: Healing Your Past Lives to Realize Your Soul’s Potential by Ainslie MacLeod
10 Common Past Life Fears
Motivation: Identification
Past Life Experiences: persecution, being accused of witchcraft, being tortured or killed by authority figures
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: social inequalities, corruption, anxiety around superiors at work or institutions, unequal rights, abuse of authority
Ways to Heal Soul: practice seeing yourself as not better or less than anyone else, regardless of labels or status; know that our souls acknowledge one another as equals
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: support underdogs, speak up for those who are oppressed by the more powerful in society
Motivation: Participation
Past Life Experiences: losing everything in a war or natural disaster, losing a child or loved one, losing community or way of life
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: losing a job, death of a loved one, unwelcome change like divorce, relocation, not wanting to accumulate too much, using emotional distance as a defense mechanism, fearing instability
Ways to Heal Soul: choose to participate in life, even if it means risking a broken heart; find and keep kindred souls to help you encourage your desire to maintain relationships; allow yourself to properly grieve (instead of numbing) if loss does happen, so that your soul can learn that loss is a part of the human experience
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: donate time or money to a cause that supports those who have been affected by natural disasters or war
Motivation: Self-Determination
Past Life Experiences: physical or emotional abuse, death from suicide, an arranged marriage that was oppressive, disempowering family dynamic
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: feeling stuck in a situation, feeling lesser than others, obsessive comparison, feeling disempowered regarding most life circumstances, using passivity to avoid conflict
Ways to Heal Soul: practice being proactive in making changes to your life, give yourself permission to own your personal power, refuse to be your own bully, build self-trust so that you can make informed decisions for yourself; taking control of your life helps build self-respect
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: once you learn to build self-respect through determination, spread what you’ve learned to help empower others; i.e. if you channeled your self-determination into a fitness goal and achieved, share what you learned with others so that they too can empower themselves
Past Life Experiences: negative relationships that included themes of betrayal or infidelity, community turning their back on you, being persecuted by those you trusted, injustice in court, harmed or killed by a family/friend/spouse
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: being cheated on, being lied to, being taken advantage of by someone you trust, being gossiped about by family or friends, someone letting you down your expectations, having mistrust for most people, being overly suspicious in relationships
Ways to Heal Soul: learn to balance out levels of self-trust with trust for a few others, practice radical self-trust so that you can trust your own decisions regarding who else to trust besides yourself, maintain a level-headed sense of justice, heal the need to act out in vengeance since it will only perpetuate this karmic lesson
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: help victims of social or judicial injustice, i.e. those who have been wrongly convicted of crimes
Past Life Experiences: ending a life prematurely, dying of illness, abuse, murder, or an accident at a young age, making a decision that led to death
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: fear of making the wrong choice leading to paralysis, feeling like time is running out, wondering “what’s the point?” which can lead to deep stagnation, feeling urgency to complete life’s purpose
Ways to Heal Soul: allow yourself to follow your curiosity, your soul wants to learn as much as it can now because it feels its’ lost its’ opportunity to do so in a previous lifetime, allow yourself to accumulate as much knowledge as your soul wants to, trust that your soul chose to reincarnate now because it knows it has a greater opportunity to achieve its’ purpose in this lifetime than the last and that the knowledge that you collect will aid you on your quest this time around
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: once you’ve collected the knowledge that your soul wants you to learn, remember to spread and share that information with others as well, knowledge is a currency that is to be given and received
Past Life Experiences: losing spouse to war or other unfortunate event, losing loved one to premature death, sexual assault or abuse, domestic violence, betrayed by loved one either physically or emotionally, unresolved grief for passed loved ones
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: difficulty in building close relationships, uncomfortable with expressing or receiving affections, being cold and distant as a shield, choosing to separate oneself from others, noncommittal, using judgements to separate oneself emotionally
Ways to Heal Soul: allow yourself to feel as much as you think, practice empathy and putting yourself in another’s shoe, being vulnerable with those you trust can help build courage to be emotionally intimate with others
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: support causes that help to break down barriers to understanding, get involved with organizations that help victims of sexual abuse and/or domestic violence, learn about a culture that is different from your own
Past Life Experiences: revealing a truth that caused imprisonment or death, persecution for lifestyle, holding strong opinions or beliefs that led to exile or death
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: being shut down when being outspoken, afraid of sharing opinions, repressing one’s own thoughts out of fear, feeling anger when others try to suppress your voice
Ways to Heal Soul: try journaling to help you sort out your ideas or thoughts before sharing, by being honest with yourself first, you can grow more confident about sharing your truth with others, use artistic mediums to help you express yourself like creative writing, drawing, or poetry, practice expressing yourself authentically with people that you can trust
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: once you grow confidence in sharing your truth, use your voice to speak out for those who have little to no voice in our society, be a voice for a community or cause that you align with
Past Life Experiences: imprisonment, slavery, oppression, life being derailed due to an authorities, experiencing unequal rights, disempowering marriages, family that was domineering
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: being told what to do upsets you greatly, not being allowed to make your own choices or having them forced upon you frustrates you to the extremes, strong desire to rebel, wanting to fight the system or status quo often
Ways to Heal Soul: trusting that you have permission to be the authority over your own life, stand up for yourself and others, practicing to do so respectfully towards both yourself and others, removing yourself from situations that feel disempowering and not reacting impulsively, practice enforcing healthy boundaries
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: work to empower others which helps empowers ourselves, contribute to causes that fight issues like sex trafficking or poor working conditions for factory workers
Past Life Experiences: violent deaths, dying in a war/battle, dying from nuclear bombs, enduring torture before death, dying as a civilian during a war, death by physical abuse of a family member or spouse, death by physical assault (random or premeditated)
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: phobia of sickness, extreme anxiety regarding dangerous situations, imagining the worst-case scenario, phobia of strangers, phobias of sharp or dangerous objects, anxiety when placed in conflict
Ways to Heal Soul: while you can choose to pledge yourself to become a pacifist, another way to heal the soul, in this case, is to practice self-defense, learning to protect yourself can help build confidence and ease anxiety
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: support nonprofits that aid victims of violent crimes and speak up against violence, donate to organizations that support war veterans, visualize peace for the world in mediation
Past Life Experiences: being abandoned by community or family, ejection/exile from village or home, expulsion from institutions, abuse/abandonment by loved ones for decisions made
Resonance/Triggers in Present Life: being overlooked for jobs/promotions, feeling slighted by someone you trust, being cheated on by a partner, feeling outcasted in group settings, deep fears of putting yourself out there to be judged, being bullied, being fired from a job
Ways to Heal Soul: first and foremost, forgive yourself. your soul is healing from the belief that there is something innately wrong with you that caused the rejection. once you find ways to move past self-hatred and towards self-love, then you practice forgiveness towards those who you feel have abandoned you
Spiritual Acts to Help Heal Collective: be kind anyways, despite the unkindness you had to endure.
I went on a personal past life healing journey this year and this book helped me synthesize all my learning. I hope this helps someone else on their spiritual journey too <3.
