Past Friends - soul Learnings
Step into a recent past life of one of my clients.
Meet Kathryn. She’s a young wife in a large French town in the 1830’s. Her husband, Jeff, is a surgeon and is about 10 years older than her. He dotes on her, loves her immensely, brings her books since she’s an avid reader, and all-in-all, is a model spouse. Their only issue: Kathryn can’t have children. They’ve seen many doctors, but none of them know why. This doesn’t stop Jeff from loving her, but it makes Kathryn feel somehow . . . less. Their maid and cook, 60 year old Betty, is more like family than employee. She makes sure that Kathryn never needs to ask for anything, and keeps her focused on all that life has to offer.
Kathryn spends her days with very close friends Franny, Jenny, and Sara. The four are like sisters. They share experiences with each other. They celebrate each other’s successes. They console each other when life’s troubles arise. Their favorite meeting spot is a cafe nearby which is owned by an older woman named Alice. She treats the four young women like family and often provides advice when asked. Franny is the funny one, and she keeps them all laughing while they play bridge at Alice’s cafe every Thursday. It’s a weekly meeting that none of them ever want to miss.
Kathryn feels loved on all fronts. Her husband is devoted; her friends are more like family, and she has a mentors in Alice and Betty. And then it happens. Kathryn gets sick. Jeff is beside himself and brings in all the doctors he can find. It’s stomach cancer, but they don’t know it in the 1800’s; to them, it’s a stomach sickness. Betty feels like she’s losing her daughter and spends all her time taking care of Kathryn. Jeff comes back from work each day to take over from Betty and sits with Kathryn, holding her hand, reading to her, and telling her stories from work.
Kathryn loses so much weight that she looks like a skeleton lying in the bed. She lingered for more than a year, thanks to the care provided by Jeff and Betty. But in the end, it overtook her and Kathryn died. Jeff held her hand as she passed and whispered to her, giving her permission to go. Her last thoughts as she died were that this was too short of a life, a good life, but too short.
The death experience is vitally important during a past life regression. Thoughts that we have when we die carry-over with us as beliefs in our current life. Sometimes those are good, and sometimes they are bad. Good carry-over beliefs can give us strength and vitality, persistence and insights. Bad carry-over beliefs can bring us physical pain or emotional blockages which prevent us from living our full experience in this life.
Just at the moment of death, I ask my clients to look at how that human incarnation felt about the life they had just lived. Then, when their soul is released, I ask their higher-self what life learnings were had. Many times, these are two different learnings that can help a client heal. As she was passing, Kathryn felt that her life was good but too short. After she passed, my clent’s higher-self said she had so many good memories from that life. She had learned what she had come to this life to learn . . . unconditional love. Her husband, her friends, her mentors, all showed Kathryn this fully embracing love. And it’s just what my client needed to know. There’s no need to be concerned with why we are loved, accept the love in all forms that it’s being given. Give love freely with no expectations.
When in that death experience, prior to ascending to the soul realm, it’s also a great time to connect the two lives together. I usually ask the departing life what they would tell the client’s current life if the two could speak. Kathryn, the lifelong reader, was amazed at the educational opportunities available to women in this time. She encouraged the client to continue her pursuits and thanked her for doing so much already.
This type of soul learning leads to soul development and can take some time to absorb and process. At a later session with this client, she mentioned that both of these learnings have helped her to be more open to the God (the Source) and letting the energy flow into her soul, to inspire her further growth educationally and spiritually.
I am always amazed at what we learn together. When I walk with a client through a set of sessions, we both grow. That’s one of the best facets of this work. And I hope to help you learn and grow your soul in your own time.
