Your Past Lives & You

Have you ever felt inexplicably connected to a place, felt a strong pull to a time period you never lived in, or come away from a chance meeting with a stranger convinced that you recognise them as though you'd spent an entire lifetime getting to know them? You might have picked up on a memory or met a kindred soul from one of your past lives.

The idea that many of our souls have lived deep and meaningful lives before this one is an idea that has fascinated thinkers across all ages and places, from ancient shamans to modern-day psychics.

Spiritual traditions all over the world teach how our souls have journeyed through multiple lifetimes, each one a wealth of insight and experience, interacting with new souls and reconnecting with familiar ones. At the same time, our souls grow stronger as the challenges encountered in each lifetime are overcome, and the spiritual memory of those triumphs and struggles continue to fill us with warmth and inspiration.

When we explore our past lives today, we often find that a lot of our affinities, traits, phobias and attachments have roots in our past lives. For example, a child who displays an early gift for music or sport might be channeling a talent that they excelled in during a past life, and even an adult's devotion to a lifelong craft could be the continuation of work begun in a past life. An unshakeable fascination with another country or a feeling like you really belong in another time period might speak of a past life that was spent there.

It's also often the case that our souls can't bear to be separated from those we've loved most in other lifetimes. If you meet someone and you already feel like your soul was meant to know them, that's a sign that you already could have known them in a past life. As we experience more of these cycles, our most loved and devoted people become part of our soul group. This is a collection of souls who have evolved together through the ages to be linked by a shared love that exists on a spiritually boundless and unconditional level. They may reach us as friends, family, lovers, mentors, and much more besides, but when we meet them in our lifetimes, we always feel that instinctive, immediate bond right away.

Looking into our past lives is a helpful way to expand our spiritual consciousness and get to know ourselves better, as well as understand some of the reasons behind our most complicated emotions, or why certain people feel like they were always meant to be part of our lives. If you want to start your own journey towards understanding your past lives, it can help to begin by observing your dreams and your waking life. The story of your past lives is woven there, shared amongst the people you feel your soul isn't meant to ever be without and the things that are precious and important to your life's journey.