How Do Past Lives Effect Your Mind?

Your mind is the administrator and servant of your spirit.  Your mind is
constantly working to guide you to the people, places, things, and situations
that are needed for your growth along your path.  There are four ways that your
mind can bring past life issues into your present life experience.  These are:
SOUL RESIDUE, Preconditioning, Inborn Perception, and Transmutation.

So What is SOUL RESIDUE and How Does It Effect Your Mind?

SOUL RESIDUE is how your mind has kept you on your path through the resolution
of mental issues. The more you ignore your soul's residue, the more difficult
your life choices become.

How SOUL RESIDUE works... Your mind is divided into two parts: your conscious
and unconscious mind.  Your conscious mind is the one that your lower self (the
one who is reading these words) "controls" and is the aspect of your mind that
you are the most familiar with.  Your conscious mind is the part which has
thoughts and which controls your behavior.  Your unconscious (subconscious mind)
is the one that heavily influences your lower self.  Your unconscious mind is
the part where the "residue" of your core attitudes and overriding belief
systems developed in past lives are stored.  Although your lower self is keenly
aware of and in constant contact with your unconscious mind, it is not as
accessible or as easily changeable as your conscious mind. This is why people
always find it easier to change thoughts and behaviors (conscious mind) than
deeply ingrained attitudes and beliefs (unconscious mind) often hard won by past
life trauma.  Higher Selves (the Soul) have the often !
unhappy job of sending unpleasant life experiences to the mind of lower selves.
When minds are unhealthy or are laboring under heavy burdens of stress and
strain, lower selves must make decisions and choices as they struggle to cope
with their health issues.  The goal of this struggle is not suffering, pain, or
punishment but learning the ways of tolerance, compassion, and forgiveness.  For
as you learn to love and accept yourself as you are, you learn to do the same
for all others.

Present Life EVIDENCE of Past Life SOUL RESIDUE manifests in many ways...  Marks
of Soul Residue can be as minor as prejudice and as major as mental illness.
Prejudice, especially when it is not directly traceable back to any specific
learning in the present lifetime, comes from hatred carried over from one or
more past lives that cries out for healing.  Mental illnesses - especially those
impairing an individual's functioning for the rest of their life - are almost
always karmically driven.  A mind is meant to be the servant of spirit but it
invariably seeks to become it's master.  The goal of most mental illnesses is to
break the grip of the mind over the lower self so it can evolve in love, joy,
and awareness beyond the limitations of it's "lower world" servant.

How Past Life SOUL RESIDUE Causes Present Day PROBLEMS... Every attitude and
belief you have comes from somewhere sometime.  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(OCD) in this lifetime is usually
directly traceable back to a past life where the disempowering attitude or
belief was created. The spiritual purpose of OCD is force the individual to seek
the answer to why they are now being "plagued" with thoughts and behaviors that
they have no control over.  At one time in the past, every thought, behavior,
attitude, and belief made sense. Often an individual's obsession is the mind's
way of "belatedly" protecting them from "dying" of the same problem even though
"death" from that same cause is no longer a possibility. The past goes right on
sending the pain of compulsion which goes on feeding the undesirable present day
obsession (to do or not do a particular thing) until the pain is stopped at it's
source: the past life.

Real Life Examples of SOUL RESIDUE... are never that hard to find.  Take the
case of Sigmund Freud, the originator of modern psycho analysis.  Freud was
obsessed with sex and generalized his own obsession as being common to all
people and later expanded it as being the wellspring of almost all human
behavior and action.  His persistent single minded obsession with sex combined
with his intellectual influence brought this subject from the realm of a dark
taboo into the light of scientific study.  If Freud were alive today, he would
undoubtedly be diagnosed as a sexual obsessive-compulsive.  The source of that
compulsion came from a life of enforced celibacy in an Austrian monastery where
he became obsessed with sex because he had no safe outlet for it.  Being a true
believer, he could not bring himself to "break God's commandment" by having
illicit sex to relieve his suffering (as many of his fellow brothers did).  It
literally drove him mad and he became so violent that his !
fellow monks had no choice but to put him to death.  It was this obsession with
sex and the compulsion to resolve it that dominated the life and work of this
monk's future self, Sigmund Freud.

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