Reincarnation; rethink your childhood and teen-years, too.

We reincarnate, right? We are quite good at learning strategies for our later life, because we know they will be useful again. After 25 or so, you have years, and years to learn better ways to do things, but we don’t hang onto our childhood and teen years, early adulthood, as “we were young” and that’s all there was to it. That time will never return, right…

Wrong. It will.

You’ll have to do it all over again in your next life, and that’s when you are the most vulnerable. You may have lived several lifetimes and definitely an equal number of childhoods with them, but how many of us have ever felt “if I could do that all over again… This was a mistake.” Most of us don’t even think it was our fault if we made a wrong turn in our early years, and, perhaps “fault” isn’t the right word, but we certainly CAN decide better. (At least there’s no harm in trying, if the whole reincarnation thing turns out to be bogus. It isn’t, but you know. Naysayers. ;p)

What would your ideal childhood be like?

Just in general, do you think the way you start out in life is the best way for you? Do you want more family, less family? More responsibilities, easier start, harder start, even? What do you admire, envy, wish for?

Who should you make friends with, and who should you avoid?

Much more importantly, when you were young, you made some friends. Many of us made TERRIBLE choices in childhood: trying to be nice, cool, keep out of trouble, or look for trouble. Were your choices of company the best ones? Why did you make those choices? What did you hope to achieve? Maybe you didn’t want to eat lunch alone or stand alone in the school courtyard during recesses. And you decided to befriend whomever was there, alone, too? Was it THAT important to have a friend? Could you have raised your bar a little, maybe?

Think of a way that you could hold onto your idea of self that you can see yourself acting on, visualize it, and become one with it so that the next lifetime gives you an instinct, a strategy you didn’t learn from some random person but you designed for yourself, using your adult brain to do it.

Remember these same people are likely to be a part of your life again, and it’s the same people who will a) feel familiar with you and thus feel gravitating toward you, and b) you need to avoid.

How should you handle your siblings?

Imagine a few different scenarios for your siblings. Your siblings may not be the same ones as in this lifetime, but they’re likely people you already know. What if this person were your sibling, maybe that one? Reshuffle the pack and use the random images to help you out. (You may need to ignore the post attached, but maybe not.)

How about your parents?

Strict parents, relaxed parents, helicopter ones… Again, your parents may not be the same ones they are now, but they’re likely going to be people you know. Maybe you could make a few wishes, “I wish they were my parent,” but also know that the way a person treats you as someone else’s kid may not be at all the same way they treat you when you are THEIR kid; part of their ego, a part of THEIR OWN identity, just saying. It’s easy to see another person’s child in a realistic, untainted light but much harder to see your own child objectively. Can you see why you chose the parents you have in this lifetime? Why did you wish they were your parents? Did they live up to your expectations? It is also possible they chose you, one-sidedly. Why?

Other relatives?

Are there other relatives that caused you trouble or heartache?

Your early boyfriends and girlfriends?

Did you make mistakes with how you went about your early romantic relationships? Did you date out of insecurities or perhaps out of ego, trying to boost your self-confidence by chasing unattainable people? Would you do it all over again, honestly? Should you? Did you have a reason for your insecurities, higher expectations on yourself than you should have, or perhaps you tried to lower your expectations so you wouldn’t be rejected?

Use the random images to point your attention to other things.

There’s a lot to think about. Use the random image and post -finder to point your attention to other areas of your youth; specify to age if you want.

Subscribe to get a Daily Message