Previous life therapy - why do bad experiences are in majority?

[Antares]

I think it's a premise that comes from religious tradition, and shouldn't be taken as automatically true. Sometimes diseases are not so much something you have to pay, but something you chose to go through, for a reason that your 'eternal me' knows.

Yes, this is a common belief, coming along with others such as:
- we agreed to be put into a physical body
- we decided to get through negative experiences
- we allowed our memory to disappear "somehow"

But what if we started to analyze it from the other direction, and ask questions instead of automatically taking them for granted? So, going with this example, starting with the last statement and changing it into the question:

- did we allow our memory to disappear? how?

Answering this key question should be the basis for answering other questions.

[Sh@dow]

Yes, this is a common belief, coming along with others such as:
- we agreed to be put into a physical body
- we decided to get through negative experiences
- we allowed our memory to disappear "somehow"

But what if we started to analyze it from the other direction, and ask questions instead of automatically taking them for granted? So, going with this example, starting with the last statement and changing it into the question:

- did we allow our memory to disappear? how?

Answering this key question should be the basis for answering other questions.

Now this is spot on, many people don't really think about it and just go with the common belief, but for me is the other way around, as I know I didn't agree my memory to be erased when they put me into this body. When I was born here I still had some memories of my previous life, because as soon I was able to form sentences, I start telling stories of before which freaked out my parents. They took me to a priest and some esoteric new age guy, the new age guy told my parents that when 'they' send me here, 'they' weren't able to fully close my crown. Actually this push me to seek into who I was before, as my old self which sound like a distant echo telling me not to forget 'who I am' and 'what I am'. As far as I can remember to age of eight I had constant flow of OBE's experiences too.

[Antares]

Now this is spot on, many people don't really think about it and just go with the common belief, but for me is the other way around, as I know I didn't agree my memory to be erased when they put me into this body. When I was born here I still had some memories of my previous life, because as soon I was able to form sentences, I start telling stories of before which freaked out my parents. They took me to a priest and some esoteric new age guy, the new age guy told my parents that when 'they' send me here, 'they' weren't able to fully close my crown. Actually this push me to seek into who I was before, as my old self which sound like a distant echo telling me not to forget 'who I am' and 'what I am'. As far as I can remember to age of eight I had constant flow of OBE's experiences too.

I had similar experiences... and having said that, this question might sound a bit weird, but I'd ask it anyway: why do you have the cat avatar now? Is this a reference to anything significant? Or it was just an unconcious choice? It's more important than it might seem, and I have this strange observation that many people interested in topics like on this website have a strong affinity toward cats... why is that, I wonder.

[Sh@dow]

why do you have the cat avatar now? Is this a reference to anything significant? Or it was just an unconcious choice?

No, is not anything super significant, but I do like cats. I have cats my entire life, of all cats I prefer Siamese and Thai cats, my cats are my best friends, also where I live there are stray cats everywhere, pick your color As for the avatar I just pick a random cat picture from web and Photoshop it, I have several others, but this one is looking more mystical

It's more important than it might seem, and I have this strange observation that many people interested in topics like on this website have a strong affinity toward cats... why is that, I wonder.

I wasn't aware of that, but perhaps because cats are considered sacred in most of religions, also is common knowledge that they can see ghosts which is strongly suggested in many Hollywood movies. I catch my cat's to dream very frequently, I wonder what types of dreams they are having. Lastly my previous cat before the one I'm having now literally saved my life from impending doom.