Parallel Lifetimes From The Same Higher Self

In case of parallel lives, the same soul splits into two parts or even more. 

The soul is made up of energy. When it splits, the quality of energy remains the same in each soul. It is like when a torch beam passes through a hard wooden chair, it splits into two parts but the quality of light remains the same; though the power of each split beam may be lesser than that of the ONE whole beam of light.

As explained in my books, a single soul is like a ray of light coming from a bigger unit of power called the Higher Self. The Higher Self is like the SUN. It has several rays. Hence, the same soul energy can incarnate in several bodies at the same time if that suits its purpose of evolution.

 Practically, parallel lives means that two persons would have a similar energy frequency, and hence would have similar temperaments, similar body built`, similar fears etc. but would be facing individual challenges from a different set of circumstances.

The Higher Self 

You need to stay connected to your higher self while making choices on Earth so that you meet your life purpose, find satisfaction, develop a positive IDF ( internal dominant focus ) and realize the destiny planned for your won soul and do not get trapped in a generalized definition of success.

The soul energy within a human being is a part of a bigger soul group, called ‘The Higher Self’. The Higher Self is a more powerful quantum of energy of the Creator, than the individual body.

If we compare the Creator’s consciousness to that of a human body, then the Higher Self would be an organ’s consciousness like the liver’s consciousness or the heart’s consciousness; and the individual human body would be the cell of the organ.

When the soul takes birth in a body, its life force energy comes from this bigger whole viz. the Higher Self. Like a ray radiates from the Sun, the spirit radiates from its Higher Self.

The Higher Self exists in a high spiritual dimension in the realm of pure positive frequencies. It is always in communion with the Creator, as it is a bigger unit of the ONENESS than is the little soul cell in the body.

The Higher Self’s energy is an important part of a person’s total personality, as it is who the soul is. It is the true identity of the soul.

The soul gets its directions of how to evolve from its Higher Self.

The soul’s plan of a life-time is made in accordance with the purpose of evolution of the Higher Self. When we evolve, the life force our Higher Self brightens in light, its vibrational frequency becomes more positive and it becomes more powerful.

Practically, this means that the Higher Self decides what our priorities and ambitions in life would be, and the challenges we would have to overcome while pursuing our goals on Earth.

The Higher Self keeps guiding the soul through its life-time on Earth by way of mobilization of the soul’s energy towards specific directions over others, through using the subconscious mind as a control mechanism of the body.

When we get pulled towards certain professions without any rational reason, or fall in love with certain people and not others, it is the Higher Self moving our energies to achieve its goals of evolution.

The Higher Self also has complete knowledge of the person’s past lives, and makes life-plans which take into account lessons of evolution left over from past lives, which need to be mastered in the present life.

Just as, at birth, a soul comes from its Higher Self into a body, upon death, the soul rejoins its Higher Self back in the Light.

However, if the person dies in pain, it cannot join its Higher Self, back in the celestial plane, as it is supposed to.

This happens because if the soul dies feeling negative, it cannot raise its energy frequency again to match the high positive frequency of the Higher Self. It remains stuck as a spirit or soul fragment on Earth and keeps feeling negative over and over again.

Then, the Higher Self intervenes to bring the stuck soul-fragment back home. Each new life-plan which the Higher Self makes, for a reincarnating soul, aims to integrate lost soul fragments so as to help its overall soul consciousness evolve to a higher positive frequency than before.

Though we are meant to be supervised by our Higher Selves on Earth, as puppets attached to a higher intelligence form, the free will of making the final choices on which way to go in life always remains with us.

The Higher self-guides us but does not control us. It is like the parent who guides his child without ruling over. It is supportive and loving, but allows the soul to develop its own intelligence, in order to evolve.

Thus, when we blame God or our Higher Self for things going wrong in our lives, we are not completely justified.

The Higher Power does push us instinctively towards certain direction over others but it cannot control us and it cannot prevent us from falling in the well if we choose to jump.

That is because we are essentially energies and we cannot be forced to move in some direction over others, just as flowing water cannot be forced to flow as ordered. It can only be directed.

The water flows automatically wherever there is place created for it to flow by removing blocks in its free flow.

Similarly, our soul energy flows whenever there is an energy pull. Negative feelings come as doubts and have to be removed so that energy can flow freely to the destination it wants to reach.

The life-plan is made so that we are convinced to choose the positive ways of thinking over negative because we cannot be forcibly bound, being energies.

Our soul energy is directed by our circumstances towards making choices which make us happy. But, the realization of what constitutes happiness comes overtime as we understand cause and effect equations, from the soul’s perspective.

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For further reading, please refer to my book : IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS ( How Past lives affect The Present Life . a soul's perspective

Minimizing Stress is Essential To Manifest Happiness

Stress is a negative energy. Happiness is a positive energy. When we take action in the physical world, we combine stress with happiness. The joy we get from doing any work is its happiness component. The discomfort we undertake while performing the work is its stress component.

Any activity requires both happiness and stress component in the physical world. There can be no work done if we totally focus on happiness or bliss as that is a spirit dimension of existence.

Earth is a physical dimension where negative and positive energies interact to form physical matter. The celestial dimensions are spirit dimensions where positive energy predominates matter. Positive ions are more spread out than negative ions. To form physical matter, air has to turn into solid. Likewise, spirit has to conform to a body. Body is physical matter. Spirit is like air.  The spirit has to lower its positive frequency to come in physical body.

 While staying in physical body alive, the spirit cannot be as positive as it would be in celestial dimension because physical body is dense. Density requires atoms and molecules to move close to each other which requires magnetism. Magnetism is created by negative thought.

We cannot be completely free of negative thought while staying alive in a body. If we want to be free of negative feelings totally, we have to evolve to being content in a spirit body which stays in high frequency, spirit dimensions where movement of ions is freer and more spaced out.

As the spirit, we do not need food, clothes or cars. Hence, if we want to be like spirits and in complete bliss, we have to also give up desire for physical comforts like saints do.

The job we do, be it drinking water or manufacturing films, creates feelings in us. We feel content and satisfied after drinking water or making a film. The contentment level rises or falls but the feeling essentially remains the same. The energy of contentment varies and makes the experience different for the soul.

If the level if positive contentment is greater than the discomfort endured in doing it, the action leads to creation of happiness. If the discomfort is greater than the joy produced while doing the act, the stress level increases.

We have to ensure that the JOY component of the work being done always remains higher than the DISCOMFORT component for the activity to yield happiness in our lives.

If we allow negative energy of stress to become greater than the positive energy of contentment/happiness, we would lose satisfaction with our own selves and devolve as souls.

For further reading , please refer to the book  "A Course In Emotional Management " -

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Negative Side Effects OF Present Education System

Negative Side Effects of the Present Education System

The education system of today glorifies success over happiness; leading to a complex situation wherein people try to be successful to be happy; but do not attain the happiness they seek from their efforts through being successful and hence, become disillusioned overtime, leading to increasing depressions and violence in societies.

As long as success is pursued blindly by promoting competition in childhood, it justifies increasing of happiness in self by reducing happiness of others; thus justifying corruption and promotion of inequalities amongst adults.

Anger and negative feelings amongst those defeated rise and the energy of jealousy/unhappiness spreads and dilutes the positive efforts of the successful; because all human energy is connected. Jealousy, wars and manipulations which ravage the defeated minds, often create more harm than the good effects created by success.

To understand why success has become important over happiness, we need to understand how education evolved from a need of survival carried over from our animal ancestors.

Evolution of Education - From Animal Mindset to a Human Mindset

Education represents the development of human life over animal life, and is the most important factor which distinguishes human beings from animals.

Animals often feel helpless against circumstances because their brain is less developed, unlike the human brain. Animals cannot grow resources as they live only in the present moment and have no future visions, no ability to abstract words from pictures or analyze in logical or abstract steps. Animals cannot reason about the WHYs or think of the HOWs.  Since, animals cannot read or write or imagine/ co-create abundance, animals have genuine fears of survival.

Hence, animals are justified in racing for survival and killing for competition for reasons such as fear, food or self-defense.

However, human beings are not justified in becoming competitively brutal, racing for money or using violence because their minds have the capacity to sustain the body without using rudimentary methods of survival as the animals use.

The development of literacy represents the complexifying of human existence over animal existence in all areas of life. Literacy has improved life associated with survival, production of resources, money, counting, exchange of goods and services, creating technology, inventions, and has also, led to increased development of the creative brain in areas other than the concept of surviving in the animal world. The spread of education has facilitated spiritual development of the brain and manifested portals of expression such as painting, dance, music, evolution of relationships, literature, history, geography etc.

However, though, education has evolved technology, it has remained primitive by intention and animal-like in its execution. The stress on competition, scarcity consciousness and compromising in fear for survival has had negative effects on general peacefulness in society. The development of literacy has not been not able to neutralize the need to overpower others by increasing optimism, compassion and peacefulness more than the need for negative thinking and helplessness.

The present debate is between the opposing thinking patterns of a survival consciousness and an evolutionarily higher abundance consciousness which has a higher positive thought frequency. Positive thinking seeks to spread education such that the negative effects of competition are transcended by a focus on abundance & benefits of human life over animal life with the understanding that animal-like needs of violence and competition are harmful and reduce spread of happiness in human terms.

For further reading , please refer to the book SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATION ( Redefine success as rising peace, optimism and happiness , a soul's perspective ), chapter 2
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PRESENT EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS FAILED IN CREATING HAPPINESS, NEEDS TO REFORM

The present education system has created a revolution in technology but has not solved problems which affect happiness directly like depression, psychological sickness, relationship breakdowns, corruption, terrorism etc.; hence, unrest and violence in society have increased. An understanding of what the soul needs from improving its efforts, is necessary to realize inner happiness as a direct outcome of effort and not as a side effect of success.

All technology innovations which we are so proud of as human beings, have been made only in the direction of improving external display or comforts without sufficient attention being given to our internal emotional and spiritual needs.

Happiness comes from satisfying the needs of emotional satisfaction along with acquiring bodily comforts. Becoming successful without feeling happy is like painting the walls of the house without the people feeling brighter. Happiness and good health are co-related... Good health can never be maintained by focusing on just the needs of material success and using the body as a projected image.

Since science only focuses on the outside world, just focusing on improvements in scientific development will never lead to evolution of peace and harmony within the soul or in society. A training in systematic understanding of emotional complexities needs to be inculcated with the same zeal as mathematical skills are taught.

Due to neglect of soul needs in the education curriculum, human development has failed to realize feelings of peace and contentment.

A focus on integration of soul needs along with material needs while teaching how to make choices in everyday life is essential to create peaceful adults. A training in integrated Emotional and Spiritual development is the only way to permanently increase peace and happiness in the world.

Though we blame everything else except our thinking patterns for the problems in our life ,  just focusing on grades/marks/ performance ability, success and money is the core negative thinking principle which has led to a lop-sided development of humanity wherein inner peace of the mind has been sacrificed for a need to perform due to external pressure.

 This lop-sided development has led to creation of imbalanced individuals who have no training on how to resolve complex emotional issues and resort to violence or addictions to vent out frustrations in an attempt to find inner peace.

Human happiness cannot be created as a side-effect of success. You cannot get balanced, peaceful and happy adults by pursuing mechanical/academic success as the goal of education.

Mind patterns are set in childhood and are affected by mass culture which is affected by education, predominantly.  Since, the focus of all education has been on becoming successful at the cost of neglecting training in development of peace and inner happiness, people are driven towards a rat race to earn success.

Training young minds to think that working mechanically for successful performance is all that is needed to be happy , makes them feel comfortable about ignoring complex emotional development , which actually aids human mind development towards evolving to be happy and healthy through the obstacles which adult life projects.

Children driven towards winning above being peaceful, start finding short-cuts to success which are manipulative and corrupt. A pattern of mass thinking has developed such that respect is measured by money.  If you are not aiming at happiness or inner peace, money for success can be earned by being manipulative and corrupt more than by being good and helpful.

However, happiness and satisfaction come from a job well done whether it is acknowledged as successful conventionally, or not. Winning always is not necessary to be happy. Trial and error are common processes involved in research and inventions. Through the process of overcoming failure, happiness and satisfaction continue to motivate the person towards achieving success with satisfaction. For example, Thomas Edison continued to fail for thirty years before he finally created an electric bulb. Like him, students need to be trained to be motivated from within by a system of education which rewards the process of achieving satisfaction and not just the result.

For further redaing , please refer to the book SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATION ( Redefine Success As Rising Optimism, Peace & Happiness )

(www.shivaswati.com)

Explaining A Life Plan through Analogy of a Video Game

 If we take the comparison of a racing car video game with a life-plan or astrological report, then, reaching our Destiny is the final winning point.

All the circumstances are planned, such that the driver reaches the destiny position. Thus the profession we choose, the relationships we have and the problems we get into, all lead to our soul focusing on those emotional energies which it has to learn to balance in that life to achieve its life purpose.

But the driver may need more practice, and hence, may lose several times before he can reach the winning position. Similarly our soul also, may not be able to achieve its destiny in one life. Thus, everything written in the astrological report may not manifest.

When it can’t achieve its life purpose in one life, our soul relives the same life circumstances through another birth.

A difficult patch in a life-plan is like driving the car in a desert. The speed is slow but if the driver is persistent and stays on the tracks, he crosses the desert.

However, if the driver looks for shortcuts, he may lose the track and even die in the desert. Now, when such a driver decides to replay the same game, he restarts the game at this point. The usefulness of starting the game mid-way, is that there is a score he has already made and he needs to add just a little more to reach the final winning position. (The scores lost or gained from the previous life are like karmic debts and rewards which our soul carries with itself to the next birth, and may be encoded in the astrology report)

The negative side of continuing an old game is that the new game starts from the rough patch in the desert. From the soul’s perspective, this implies that the soul which repeats a life for completing the destiny of the previous life, is reborn in the middle of the rough patch, i.e. it feels life is difficult from the moment it is born. If the soul makes the right choices this time, the soul evolves to a higher positive frequency and can mobilize energies more powerfully to create life as it desires.

 Metaphorically, by making the right moves, the driver is able to defeat the desert and reaches the next level of the game. But if he feels exhausted on the way, he may give up and end the game without overcoming the desert again.

In this new birth, the external circumstances, the parents, the city, the race etc. may be different but at the level of feeling the soul would face the same kind of experiences, as it did in the previous life.

 For example, a soul can choose to be born as an actress in one life and a nun in another to achieve the same life purpose. Both the actress and the nun may have low self-esteem and need to overcome it to feel successful from within. In each life, the soul may live its life successfully at the external front but fail to build self-esteem from within. In spite of external success, the actress may die feeling disrespected and the nun may die feeling sacrificed. So, the soul would fail to evolve each time and may then plan a third time to learn the lesson of self-esteem. It may choose the life of a housewife or the life of a teacher next to incorporate the lesson of self-esteem. The lesson would continue till the soul learns to respect herself for her contribution without judging her work from other people’s perspectives. 

The soul may have several different life experiences to achieve the same life purpose, as each new experience adds to its learning in a unique manner. The process of incarnating with the same life-plan continues, till the negative emotions/energies are mastered and transcended such that they help the soul in creating the life it desires.

FIVE FACTORS IN REALIZING A DESTINY PLANNED

The amount of faith we have in our own ability to create happiness for ourselves, in the way we individually want it.

2.      The amount of trust we have in our own wisdom to understand what happiness means to us individually, as against a general norm of what happiness should mean.

3.      The amount of energy we can invest in feeling happy or positive as an exercise of mind control, against all odds, all criticism or all ridicule.

4.      The amount of perseverance, we have for doing the actions needed to achieve happiness while balancing our energy with the meditation and physical exercise, we need to feel fresh and connected with positive spheres.

5.      The amount of humility, we have to surrender to a higher force for guidance, intuitions and decisions in moments of life which appear beyond individual control, without holding the Higher Force responsible for our choices.

During the process of manifestation, we cannot hold God at ransom if we interpret the intuitions wrongly and make mistakes in execution of the soul plan. Blaming God would not help us achieve our soul purpose. In fact, it would make us feel negative, disconnect from a higher wisdom and lose faith in our ability, as Creators.

We need to keep meditating on feeling positive, correct mistakes in thinking patterns, interpret intuitions by connecting to our deeper wisdom, focus on learning soul lessons and moving on towards realizing happiness; without dwelling overtly, on the negatives encountered on the way. 

For further reading , please refer to the book 

THE LIFE PLAN OF CREATION VS AN ASTROLOGY REPORT  , A Soul's Perspective

 Self 

Happiness Comes With Confronting And Overcoming Problems

Happiness and enlightenment cannot arrive by ignoring problems to be happy or by denying that problems exist .Instead of preaching spirituality as being always good and being critical of routines difficulties; happiness arrives by overcoming difficulties with a  positive spirit while participating in the joys of life. Being alive entails consumerism, fashion, love, passion and joys of the creative soul other than work pursuits, and it is necessary to be aware that facing negative setbacks experienced in family life and relationships, propels life force towards attainment of higher positive frequencies.

The struggle for happiness, over lifetimes, leads to realization of inner peace and enlightenment . Difficulties create higher wisdom for the spirit who overcomes problems with optimism, hope and feeling peaceful than brooding over the negative setbacks.

Soul ascension to happiness is a process of acquisition and detachment wherein you acquire strength through worldly means to climb the next step on the ladder of ascension ; but detach from the lower ladder  of bad health, deprivation or lack of peace for moving onwards to a higher soul frequency.

Enlightenment is a process which is attained after a  spirit feels fulfilled , loved and acquires peacefulness by choice. Hence, to be happy and emotionally balanced, it is necessary to balance the need to spend on passions with the art of practicing detachment than completely force detachment as punishment on self. As research has proved through applied behaviour analysis, positive reinforcement and intermittent rewarding gets better work done from children than negative reinforcement or punishment. The same theory applies while training the self to achieve more positivity . Rewarding the soul and praising small achievements helps more than depriving the self, as was the traditional route to enlightenment .

The balancing of consumerism with spiritualism and detachment leads to inner feelings of peace  while forcing hunger/ emptiness on self leads to  feelings of negativity and helplessness . As contrasted with greed which is akin to over-eating,  disciplined indulgence takes a soul closer to being happier for matching higher positive frequencies of the Creator .

While spiritualism helps you remain detached from over eating /over indulgence, the process of materialism helps you appreciate all that which is created by other souls seeking to rise with positive vibrations. On the ladder of ascension to happiness, it is necessary to spread happiness than compete to be happier than others.

Thus , the process of ascension to enlightenment has to be balanced with family life & Earth’s responsibilities so that you can appreciate and encourage the creative work of other rays of THE CREATOR while moving up to a high positive frequency . Ascension happens when your frequencies completely agree and merge with the creative consciousness, thus brightening the light and knowledge of the Creator.

The movement from negative thinking to positive thinking involves a state of losing balance at a lower negative state of being; and rebuilding balance, at a higher vibration which may be less grounded /secure than a negative, tense balance but is closer to ascension . On a positive soul frequency and a higher soul vibration, happiness and health improve,  the fear of death is reduced and there is meaningfulness felt in being alive. 

You cannot be happy unless you are healthy.

During the process of self- actualization, improving health and peace/happiness are necessary guideposts of being in the right direction  . When you keep focusing on the feeling of being neutral, the detached feeling, over-time leads to a feeling of inner bliss as the energy loosens from feeling tied in negative/sad energy circuits and moves up towards feeling freer and happier. The more you feel happier, the more you feel healthier as life force increases with release of positive hormones in the body.

If darkness exists, it cannot be hidden and believed to not exist. The dark has to be converted into light by deliberate choice of the soul to feel internally calm so as to transcend the negative energy into positive energy. Feeling calm activates zero frequencies in difficult areas of life which overtime leads to solutions. Feeling calm also prevents spread of negative energy and helps to be healthy in all facets of life. Focusing on happiness while on a difficult path is like seeking light while going through a dark tunnel.

Efforts to stay positive and healthy convert the energy of negative thinking into its opposite energy of happiness over a period of persistent focus on finding the blessing in every difficulty.

 For further reading, please read the book EMOTIONAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT , chapter 22 (www.shivaswati.com)

Impact of a Curse In Everyday Life

A Curse Is a Scientific Attachment

 Past lives, curses and spirit attachments are normally denied by people too absorbed in escaping into materialism, alcohol, fatty foods and having fun. Acknowledging a curse or a spirit attachment means that you have to acknowledge that karma pays up and you cannot be happy in the future if you continue being evil . The existence of past lives proves that a murderer gets punished by misery in a future lifetime or that there is no escape from karmic imprisonment.

Usually, we focus on a world where there are abusers and the helpless. However, the helpless can curse the abusers and they usually do so in silence when tortured. As a result of this curse, the life of the abuser becomes miserable as he loses all love and peace in life. He may get sick and he may get severe depression. The curse ensures that revenge is taken at an invisible level and the helpless get justice. The curse given in a moment of intense emotion has the power to break a castle of dreams.

However, Revenge does not ensure justice. A person may take revenge but continues to suffer himself. A curse similarly does not ensure justice to the victim though it makes the abuser suffer as much or more than the victimised. 

The victim may be suffering due to his negative vibration and the curse makes the vibration even more negative, thus increasing logical suffering to paranormal levels. The curse effects both the giver and the receiver For example, if a woman curses a man who cheats on her that he will never be happy till she suffers , it ensures that she keep suffering  so that the man is never happy . A curse is a double bind. It pulls the spirit down long after revenge is over and soul lessons have been practised. 

It continues as long as the mistake which created the curse is being repeated in some level. For example, if a man continues cheating women, the curse would keep ensuring he stays unhappy. Or if a woman is very abusive, a curse on her would ensure that she never finds peace as she desires.

The curse uplifts with awareness that behaviour has to be changed in all public and private moments and thinking has to be converted from exploitative or competitive to compassionate. Past life therapy helps in viewing a curse ands in breaking it down such that the soul lessons are understood. The curse ends with past life therapy if the soul lessons have already been learnt and only awareness was needed to realize the reason for problems. 

The problems ends after a past life session if the soul makes the necessary changes in thinking patterns to become a more positive person vibrationally. The curse ends only if the person changes from within and becomes a wiser and more peaceful human being.