Karma Is a Gift

By Micara Link
Staff Writer

I feel lifeless, body heavy and sluggish, heart wounded and sore. “WHY doesn’t he love me?” I can’t shake the feelings, the thoughts, and the rising memories from the past. I lie stricken with grief. His love and commitment are all I want, everything I crave. My mind relentlessly exposes my memories. I’m confused. I question how meeting a complete stranger could create such intense feelings. What’s happening to me? Why am I consumed by desire for his love? Why would I do absolutely anything to get it?

My left-brained, logical side was aware of these seemingly irrational behaviors, thoughts, and feelings, but my right brain, my intuition, knew this was real on some level. I struggled with the disparity and the real-life consequences of these feelings. I didn’t want them, but then again I needed them. It took days for me to feel like myself.

The puzzle eventually began to piece perfectly together. My soul vibrated with recognition. Layers of myself peeled back to expose a part of me as yet undiscovered. It was now time to heal, and heal I would and could; heal I must and did.

The experience I’m describing is one in which I spontaneously began to remember one of my past lives. Yes, a human life I had prior to this current incarnation. When our physical body dies, our soul lives on and may choose to come back into physical form to live out another life.

Most often, the reason we come back again and again is to heal our karma. The Law of Cause and Effect states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In every life we live, we make decisions that ripple into the future. It doesn’t matter if these choices are “good” or “bad,” they will continue to affect us regardless. Karma does not punish. Souls take on karma to heal and create balance. All karma is good even if it doesn’t necessarily feel good.

Karmic patterns are often rooted in repressed emotions that we didn’t fully express in the past. They surface today, giving us the chance to express these same emotions and heal the hurt.

In the experience described above, it was the reunion of myself and another person with whom I’d shared an intense past life that ignited my soul’s memory. The feelings that came along with the memory were giving me the opportunity to fully express the feelings of grief, sadness, and anger that had accompanied the loss of a loved one.

In my past life I was deeply in love, almost obsessively so, with a man who became my husband in exchange for my help in a very long quest. I gave up everything in that life to be with him and help him. In the end, he left me for another woman. His abandonment threw me into rage and deep depression. These memories and emotions lived in my heart. Then I had the opportunity to feel it all again, but this time I healed my heart.

The karma from that life was keeping me from loving fully in this life. I had a deep fear that once I opened my heart and loved, the Other would leave me. By healing the past, I healed my present and am now more able to love fully and without fear.

It happened not only for my own healing, but also to help others. I am a Certified Past Life Coach, specializing in healing past life karmic patterns. I’ve done multiple past life regressions, but this conscious experience was unlike anything I’d ever gone through before.

I live by Gandhi’s quote, “My life is my teaching.” I believe that part of my spiritual path is to share my personal stories so that they in turn help others on their paths.

There are many ways you can connect with your past lives and receive clues as to how they affect you today. Next week I will be writing about how you can tap into your past lives through Past Life Regression, Dreams, and present-day Past Life Clues.

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