Many lifetimes ©, by Beba Papakyriakou

How many lifetimes does each soul experience? Some say you only live once, this is the real thing, not a dress rehearsal. You only live twice, says Shirley Bassey .....

Others, myself included, believe we live many, many times. This isn't the only life we have had, and depending on our spiritual development and what our respective souls still need to learn and experience, we'll be back ... Oh fantastic! Or oh dear? It's up to us.

What is true is that this is the only life we are currently living. Is it? What about the notion of lives in parallel universes? What about all the things going on by other aspects of ourselves in the same time frame as the one that sees you walking down the road, sipping a cool drink?

Much seems to be going on in parallel universes, apparently, but let's leave that aside for now and concentrate on the lifetime we are aware of at this moment.

I was once told that something belonged to another lifetime and was of no importance to this lifetime - but what the person meant wasn't another lifetime as in a hundred years ago, or even fifty years ago, or a lifetime before she reincarnated in this life. She meant another lifetime had been lived in this current lifetime, this time frame, this life that began some 50 years ago.

At first I bristled at the notion of the suggestion of a whole other lifetime in this particular lifetime, or rather, I bristled at the notion that a past experience had been named a different lifetime rather than just what came before the present.

But she wasn't wrong about the other lifetime. What had been lived and experienced in the past, that is, in the time before the now, was indeed another lifetime. A lifetime filled with the lessons that were on the schedule for that particular space in time. It was a lifetime filled with all of life's abundance, "good" and "bad" experiences.

And yet, here's the thing - the past, the time that came before the now, another lifetime in this lifetime or another lifetime before we reincarnate .... it all adds up to create the person living in the now. Even if lessons have been learnt from that other lifetime, and the soul can now move on from those particular lessons, the impact stays with us.

Have some fun - draw a shape of some sort. Take your lifespan from the date you emerged from your mother's womb up to where you are now - 23 years, 49 years, 80 years, whatever. This shape should be open-ended, because it isn't over.

And then think back to a pivotal moment in that lifespan, a defining moment - at what age was that? Age 12, 18, 30? Draw a shape on top of the first one, so from 0 - 12, is one lifetime, and it is X% of your current lifetime. This shape should not be open-ended because it has finished except that is has been superimposed onto your entire lifetime so far, just as your entire lifetime so far is superimposed on that 0 - 12 lifetime.

Do this again with other pivotal moments, other defining moments and create a whole conglomeration of lifetimes - lived in this lifetime. Use different colours, and different shapes if you like. I've used ovals and different colours, and it's been an interesting experience. Why? What's the point? Well, mostly awareness and to focus our attention on our lives, and what they've been about so far, rather than living life on a treadmill that basically goes nowhere - a whole lot of sweat and effort, and you don't really get anywhere, do you ...

And that sage comment about something being another lifetime? True, it was but there are still many more lifetimes to come, in this lifetime, and who's to say that that other lifetime and indeed many others, for other people can't be improved upon? Who's to say it can't be refined through mature eyes and mature experiences, be changed, be different to be sure. Things can change in an instant. An instant. So, do the exercise with your lifetimes, focus on them, and appreciate the foundation they have laid for what's to come.

And remember those other sage words, "What's meant to be will always find a way". In whichever lifetime ........

Beba Papakyriakou (BA; BA Honours, Psychology)
Thursday 16 September 2010
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