It is apparent we have forgotten what we came to Earth to learn and master. Even if we do not consciously remember what our lessons are, they will still be drawn to us energetically. Whatever we attract in our business and personal relationships will reflect the conditions we are here to master in this life.

We chose our parents and others in our lives to help our transition from being pure spiritual energy into the physical manifestation of being human. They help start us on our way to mastering unconditional love here on Earth. Most of us have only a few conditions left to understand and love in this lifetime. We test ourselves on our issues over and over by energetically finding people to reflect our issues back to us. Our subconscious mind looks for energy patterns similar to what we still need to master in our lives and attracts them to us like a magnet. The person now standing in front of us is a mirror image of what we need to look at within ourselves.

My client Sharon, for example, needed to master her fear of taking her power. In this lifetime she continued to attract people to her who dominated and bullied her to the point that she no longer knew what her true feelings and needs were. She felt victimized and misunderstood by her boss at work and her husband. In our session together she went back to a past life, in the 1600's in England, where she was in a life and death situation. Some people in her community feared and hated her because of her understanding of herbs and her ability to heal with her touch. Although she helped and was loved by many people in her community, she scared many others because she was different. They did not understand what she was doing and thought she was evil. The church declared her a witch, and she was taken from her home, chained up, and tortured. They made her falsely confess to evil and vile acts against her neighbors. She was a healing, loving person, but because of her service to others, she was now hurt, angry, and suffering. She died in the middle of all these painful emotions; since she died in a confused state, her spirit needed to understand why this happened.

Sharon understood physically what happened to her in that past life because she was accused of being a witch and evil; however, she was still confused emotionally, mentally and spiritually. She did not understand why she was killed for being in her passion--for doing what she loved to do.

Everything that has ever happened to any of us must be understood emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically. At the moment of our death, I believe we go into the Creator and the collective consciousness. We reflect on the lifetime we just experienced to make sense of what happened. We always come to Earth to learn or teach some form of love. In order to understand the lessons of the life we just left, we start at the beginning when we were with God. We view our life like a movie and stop at every feeling and situation during its course that we did not fully understand.

In Sharon's particular past life, even though she loved what she was doing, she ended up experiencing pain, suffering, torture, and death. As a result of such confusion over many life times, an aspect of her subconscious mind decided it was not safe to love, take her power, or be who she was.

Ideas like these become thought programs and each of us has one or more deep inside our subconscious minds, playing out in our lives today. We end up using these energetic programs to attract other people to us to test our self love, our personal power, and our definition of who we are. Understanding these three areas is a vital part of our spiritual journey.

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