How does your belief in reincarnation affect your life?
If you believe in reincarnation, do you feel like what you can’t get done this lifetime, you’ll complete in your next lifetime?
Do you feel that if you can’t get along with someone or if you can’t forgive someone – that you’ll do it later?
Do you believe that you are building credits for a better life next time around?
While I am convinced that there is continuity of life – that our essence lives on after physical death; and while I believe that we are spiritual beings having an earthly experience — I am not convinced that there is reincarnation.
But in not believing in reincarnation how would I explain those times when a place feels familiar – a place in which I never traveled to before?
What about those regression sessions where I saw myself living on a prairie or in a temple? What about that?
What about those visions seen of past life connections – or peeking into the Akashic Record… how does one explain that? I’m not sure what all that means.
It could mean that we are picking up on a past life memory of someone else’s incarnation — one of our guides, perhaps. It could be ancestral cellular memory from our DNA. It could be parallel lives.
And then what do you do with someone, like a Mozart, who just happens to be born with musical brilliance… I mean doesn’t reincarnation explain child prodigies?
Not sure. It could be that Mozart’s brilliance was brought in with him from other realms.
It could be that knowledge and ability and memories are energy patterns that we tap into — this might explain why so many claim to have been Cleopatra.
At this time, I can’t say with absolute certainty that there is reincarnation. So where does that leave my life?
Maybe in not knowing, I’ll value this lifetime more.
Maybe instead of saying, “I’ll be a better mother, wife or person next time” I’ll get to it now.
Maybe instead of thinking that I can live without forgiving others – I’ll realize that I don’t want to carry that emotional baggage forward – or leave its energy for others to get stuck into.
Maybe I’ll cherish each sunset more, smell each flower deeper, and smile more.
Maybe I’ll tune more into who I am at the core, because this may be the only chance I’ll get to express my individuality on this plane of existence.
Is there reincarnation? I’m not sure. If you believe in reincarnation, how would your life change if you contemplated no longer believing in it?
There are perhaps as many believers as naysayers.
But the issue is not really – do you believe in reincarnation — so much as … do you value and appreciate the life you are living now?
What do you think?
