Life Is A Journey Detours Included, Episode Three: Road Blocks

Welcome to Life is a Journey,

Detours included.

Hi,

I'm Reverend Janice Kreisler and I am excited to be sharing this time with you,

Where together we will explore the journey of the soul.

What if we were to take a detour down a road less travelled,

One called past lives?

What experiences would we uncover there?

Would these stories trigger something in your own cell memory?

Come along with me as together we discover Life is a Journey,

Detours included.

Welcome to Episode 3 of Life is a Journey,

Detours included.

During this segment we will be looking at some of the common detours and roadblocks that face us on our journey.

These come in all shapes and sizes and at every possible moment of one's life.

Some people may appear to breathe through life with little or no interference,

While others struggle daily.

However,

Each one of us have our own struggles,

Whether that be physically,

Emotionally or spiritually.

Only you know what is going on in your mind and in your heart.

You can put on a smile,

Pretend everything is running smoothly,

But you cannot get away from your true feelings.

You can get help from others to paint your house,

Mow your lawn,

Get an education or even move out of town,

But at the end of the day only you can put into motion the steps needed to feel happiness,

Love and kindness in your life.

How you view the world around you,

Treat the people you meet and form the opinions and judgments of yourself and others all starts within.

Many people will try and hide past experiences away in the back of their mind,

Thinking if they never mention it again,

Tell anyone or even try and convince themselves it never happened,

It will just magically go away.

What a waste of energy!

All this does is deprive them of joy and happiness in the moment because they are spending all of their time and energy concealing secrets.

Often people do not even realize they are doing this or why until something,

A roadblock,

Appears in their way and then they have some decision making to do.

In my recent book Sally's Closet,

I compare our mind to a closet.

I think we all have had or do have one of those closets that everything gets shoved and stacked into.

Our subconscious mind can be like that.

We pile all our thoughts,

Memories from this life and yes,

From a past life in there.

It may start out nice and tidy,

But over time we get frustrated,

Impatient or frightened or even angry,

So we are not so particular about how we go about putting things away.

Our subconscious mind doesn't sort things out into neat little piles of feel-goods and don't remember.

No,

It records an event and your reaction to that experience.

So,

If an event made you happy when a similar thing happens in your life today,

The subconscious mind does a search,

Finds a match and you will react emotionally and physically the same as you did the first time.

All this happens in a fraction of a second.

Now this can be a good thing to have going on because then we don't need to think about how to breathe,

To swallow,

Have a heartbeat or any of the other bodily functions we automatically do each and every day because of this.

It is what stores our language,

Our body movements,

Our ideals on life itself.

Now if we do not pay attention to what is in that mind closet,

It can get too full.

You see,

It does store absolutely everything.

All the words spoken to you as a child,

The way certain people made you feel,

Fears,

Oh,

Does it hold a lot of fears.

If we do not take time to clean out this mind closet and be aware of what is stored in there,

A day will come and I can guarantee it will be at the most inconvenient time in your life,

That door will burst open and you will be forced to deal with a major clean-up.

The ego is that part of our being that can draw out the fears in us.

Fears create and build the strongest of roadblocks.

Too often we spend a good portion of our lives trying to pretend we have no fears and we allow them to become woven into our everyday behaviour,

A part of our quirks and quirks.

They can be very subtle and we can keep those to ourselves while others are very obvious and interfere with our relationships and interactions with others.

Since they are unique to us and stored in our mind closet,

We cannot get away from them.

As much as we don't like to admit it,

We are all too often driven from a place of fear rather than the belief we are endless possibilities.

Our ego spends most of its time putting doubt and negativity into our thought patterns.

Then,

To shut it up,

We begin to believe these thoughts and shrink back into our comfort zone.

Here we can make up all kinds of excuses for not moving forward,

Changing and evolving.

Without realizing it,

Our so-called comfort zone becomes more like a prison,

Keeping us in the past and known instead of allowing us to travel the road of learning,

Evolving and growth.

That is what our trip here on earth is all about.

The adventures of the journey and how we can manoeuvre the detours and the bumps in the road are all part of the package of our trip.

There can be things from our past that have created these feelings.

Obviously,

Some will be much easier to dismiss while others may take time to heal and understand.

However,

Nothing will change if we don't make the change.

We can carry emotional baggage from our childhood,

A bad relationship,

A traumatic experience and even from a past life.

We do have free will,

So we can determine whether we look into our fears,

Learn from them and allow them to be part of our growth or we can give in to them through denial and submission,

Thus depriving ourselves of the joy that this life's journey holds for us.

Fears are an interesting part of our makeup.

Just when you think you understand what you're afraid of,

You peel away another layer and uncover another fear,

Like an onion with many layers and yes,

They can stink.

A good example of one fear leading into another came through my client I will name Ann.

She booked her appointment to come and find out where her fear of snakes originated from.

This is a fear many people share and the extent of that fear can vary greatly.

It can be a momentary freeze in the body when a snake is seen,

Up to a person refusing to even go outside in fear of encountering a snake.

Some will refuse to look at any photo or watch a program on TV that contains snakes.

Could there be something that runs deeper than that initiated this fear?

What if that fear came from a past life?

Would remembering it help to work through this detour?

Well,

Let's take a look at Ann's session and see what fears are revealed and how she was able to see how they are affecting her life today.

As with all my clients,

Ann and I discussed the severity of her fear,

Making a list of events that would cause the least amount of fear to the greatest.

Because Ann was a light worker herself and open and eager to uncovering her past lives,

She was able to go into a deep state of hypnosis very quickly.

These are some of the high points of her session.

So,

I asked her,

Ann,

Go back as far as you can to a time where you could remember a situation that is perhaps responsible for your fear of snakes.

Do not judge it,

But tell me what you are experiencing.

Ann,

I see myself in the delivery room where I am viewing my own birth.

Things are not going well.

The umbilical cord is wrapped around my neck.

So,

I asked Ann,

How does this make you feel?

Ann replied,

I am not afraid,

But I am very angry.

Angry that I might not get to live long enough to do anything I had planned.

I don't like not being able to do anything about this,

Not being able to speak,

And very angry at the feeling of being confined.

This feeling is exactly how I feel when I see a snake,

Wrapped up and confined,

No control over the situation.

Ann,

I asked,

What exactly in this scene makes you think of the snake?

Ann replied,

The first thing is the feeling of being confined.

That is what I remember first,

The feeling.

Second,

Is the umbilical cord itself as it is physically wrapped around my neck.

A snake to me looks like this cord,

Long,

Slithery and wet.

This was the first memory that she had and it was actually the core of her fear.

You see,

There was no actual snake involved,

But over time she associated the look of the umbilical cord to that of a snake,

And the feeling of being confined is actually the root of the fear.

In Ann's case,

She has associated a snake,

A physical being,

To the emotion of feeling confined.

But her session didn't end there.

Ann jumped quickly into another lifetime which continued this fear.

This time she went to the 1500s.

As a young teenage girl,

She had been bitten by a snake and the bite had become infected.

She did manage to get over this infection,

However,

Once she married,

She found out she was barren.

The church and the community contributed to her belief that the snake bite had made her barren.

She had received a curse from the snake.

She lived in a time where she was not allowed or felt she could freely communicate her feelings,

Beliefs and frustrations,

Which in turn made her feel confined emotionally and spiritually.

So I asked Ann to move forward in that lifetime to when she was older perhaps and see if there was anything that became of that fear.

Ann replied,

I am older now and out for a walk.

I come upon a snake pit.

This terrifies me.

And I begin to run.

I run back to my home,

But I trip and fall,

Injuring my hip.

It's very painful.

I had to crawl almost two miles to get back to my house.

I felt so helpless.

At this point,

I had Ann imagine that she was able to go to this scene as she is today and help her former self get home.

She also told previous self that being barren was not her fault or the snake's fault.

That was a misbelief handed down to her.

She was not being punished.

Ann continued and told me that she was ill in that life and had felt it was a punishment as well,

All going back to the snake bite.

She felt it was a type of cancer of the uterus that she had.

In the last stages of the cancer,

She may have had a stroke as well,

Causing her to be unable to speak.

The doctors of the time were putting leeches on her to drain the blood and she wanted them off.

She was not able to communicate this,

Which again made her feel helpless and out of control.

She eventually died as a result of the cancer and the doctors taking too much blood from her.

Ann then quickly travelled to another lifetime where she was a male soldier.

I asked,

What connection to your fear of snakes do you have in this lifetime?

Ann replied,

I was wounded and taken to a medical tent.

It is very dirty and rough.

They are not aware of keeping things sanitary as we are today,

Nor do they have anything much really to work with.

My wounds have become infected and I have become delirious.

The people who are attending to me have tied my wrists and legs to the table I am lying on.

I am still thrashing around.

I start to imagine that these ropes on my wrists and ankles are snakes and again I feel that confinement,

No control.

Wow,

Three past lives showed up,

All connected to a fear she has today of snakes.

But as you can hear,

That was only the top layer of the fears.

At the very core was the fear of being confined,

Her voice not being heard,

Being restricted in her opinion by others.

Now Ann can work through not only her fear of the physical snake,

But finding her strength in speaking her truth,

Which she is most definitely doing.

I mentioned in previous episodes that people can come into our lives from another time,

Taking on a variety of roles,

Just as we are different from one lifetime to another.

For example,

The person who is your spouse today could have been your parent,

Co-worker or even your arch enemy in a previous life.

Often we are attracted to someone because our higher self recognizes their soul.

We feel we should know them or that we have met them before but cannot remember where.

I believe this is one of the reasons people may jump into a relationship thinking it is love at first sight.

There is an attraction for sure,

But it may not always be a good one.

However,

Remember we come here with a road map,

A course for our life lessons and ultimately we have choices to make along that journey.

We could be drawn to someone we were fond of in a past life or put off for an unknown reason to somebody today that we had had a bad experience with previously.

We have a knowing on a spiritual and intuitive level about people and places in our lives.

Often there will be signs,

Words spoken,

Actions taken that will trigger a past life memory or a reminder of the path we are to take today in order to fulfill this life's lessons.

Have you ever met someone or heard of someone and subconsciously tucked away a bit about them,

Not really knowing why or maybe not paying any attention that you actually did that?

Then as time passed,

There you were having some sort of interaction with that person.

Be mindful,

There was a reason for it all.

There have been clients who have come for a past life regression more out of curiosity than a real purpose,

Or so they thought when they booked the session.

However,

Even if they do not tell me what they are looking for,

Their soul knows and it is surprising the information that can come out.

One such woman was Laurie.

Laurie had been in a few times to listen to my talks and approached me after one of the classes about having a past life regression.

She was really quite eager to see where this would take her.

At the beginning of her session,

She went easily into relaxation and soon had a very peaceful look upon her face,

Her hands rested easily on her lap and her whole body was very,

Very relaxed.

She was ready to go back in time.

So I said to her,

Laurie,

I'd like to take you back to a lifetime that would have meaning in your life today.

I could tell by looking at Laurie that she had gone somewhere that was creating a painful and fearful physical response.

Her hands that had been so peaceful and calm were now trembling,

Her facial expression was one of fear and dread.

I could tell that she was about ready to cry.

Laurie,

I said softly,

What are you experiencing?

Laurie replied,

I cannot see anything but I feel so afraid.

I don't like it here.

Laurie,

Remember,

You are the observer here.

You are not reliving this.

I told her this,

But all the time watching her body language.

Laurie started to cry and said,

I need to go to my safe place,

Please.

Now,

Before going back in time,

I always have my clients create what we call a safe place to go to in events like this where they feel they need to exit that lifetime.

Here we can talk and do any healing before going forward.

Or if they decide to return to this life,

We do that.

Rarely does anyone ever ask to go there.

But Laurie definitely was upset.

On the count of three,

Laurie,

You will go alone to your safe place.

One,

Two,

Three.

Once back in her safe place,

Laurie was able to become calm again.

Together we went over the emotions she was feeling and reminded her that she could not be harmed as she was the observer of the past.

She was not to experience it all over again.

At this point I asked if she wanted to go back to a different moment in time in that person's life or to stop now.

She wanted to go back.

She wanted to find out what or who was causing such fear.

Laurie,

I said,

I want you to go back to where you lived in that lifetime,

See your home and observe what you did throughout the day.

Laurie responded,

I live in the country and I feel as though it could be during the 30s or 40s.

I am a woman with two children,

A boy and a girl.

I can see myself bottle feeding lambs and calves.

Speaking about her children caused her body to completely relax and a smile lit up her face.

Laurie had a knowing and could emotionally feel this lifetime,

Although she was not yet able to view anything.

This is not uncommon as we all have senses that work stronger than others.

In Laurie's case,

Her emotional attachment to the memories were very strong.

As well,

She could smell the hay,

Feel the cool clear air that she associated with being near water and she could actually hear the laughter of her children.

Then it happened.

Her expression changed.

Her husband had come home.

The children ran and hid and she felt afraid.

Laurie said to me,

Everyone hides from him.

He is extremely abusive to us,

Especially to the children.

The children,

A tear came to her eye.

They died so young.

I'm not sure why.

She paused for a moment and then stated,

My husband killed them both.

Laurie began to show the same anxiety and fear that she had earlier in the hypnosis as she tearfully realized what had happened to her family in that lifetime.

So I said to her,

I will take you back to your safe place,

Laurie.

You do not need to stay here.

Laurie nodded in agreement,

But before we began to go back,

She shouted,

My husband came back as my grandfather in this life.

They're the same man.

That is why I don't want to go and see him now that he is dying.

I want him to die.

I don't care if he dies.

I guided Laurie back to her safe place where I had her see her children come to her,

Where she could play with them and hug them both.

She also was able to envision her past life self,

Holding that young woman close and letting her know she was loved and still lives within her now.

In only a few brief moments,

A sense of peace and joy replaced her fear.

Although this was quite an emotional roller coaster for Laurie,

At the end of it all,

She was pleased as well as surprised at what came out.

She didn't expect her husband from the past and her present grandfather to be the same,

But as she thought about everything,

It did make sense.

Although she knew her grandfather to be abusive and controlling to his wife and children,

It wasn't until the last few months that she had felt such a negativity and darkness around him,

And she was finding it increasingly difficult to be near him.

After we discussed these events,

I advised Laurie,

As difficult as it may be,

Forgiving her husband and grandfather would bring her peace and put an end to the cycle of fear.

Now that she knows where the fear comes from,

She has the choice to end this and in doing so will cut the cords that chains her to the past so she can move forward.

Forgiveness is not saying what the other person did was okay or that you now feel good about it,

But you no longer allow them and their actions to hold you prisoner of the past.

It frees you from being the victim,

Changing you into a strong survivor.

By facing your fears,

You take control back into your life.

By realizing you have choices and opportunities along every part of your journey,

You can overcome any roadblock.

Join me next week for Episode 4,

Which Way Do I Go?

As if running into roadblocks isn't enough,

There are always crossroads,

Planned or otherwise.

Do I go straight?

Turn left,

Turn right,

Go back,

Stand still?

Do you listen to the voice of your higher self giving you encouragement to try a new path?

Or do you allow the voice of ego to put fear in place and hold you back?

Come along with me as we explore all of this and more on Life is a Journey,

Detours included.