Qs on Freewill and Regression

Hi folks!

I'm replying right away because I'm going off for a while.

Vinayak has sent a beautiful story, thank you!

Let's take Ranjana's questions one by one.

FREE WILL-

This is as true as Karma, actually, the other side of the same coin.

Supposing you fell down and found yourself in a gorge.

Your own Karma is what put you there in the first place.

The effect of not looking where you were going!

Whatever you do now, or NOT do, will be the result of Free Will.

You can get up and climb out with or without difficulty, shout for help, sit and curse your stars, curse your parents or boyfriend or husband for not teaching you rock - climbing, for wishing you ill,- the list can be endless.

This gorge can be a bad marriage, an abusive relationship, a career going nowhere, an unequal friendship or whatever.

True, it came to you because you had sown the seeds in the past, sometimes very far back, but what are you doing about it NOW?

If you are behaving like a marty, you are strengthening the pattern of previous lifetimes.

It means you are reneging on the pre-birth decision you made of learning to be strong and standing upto violence or unfair and unequal relationships.

After this life is over and you see your preview, you will regret not having taken a stand.

For all you know, your abuser may also be put off because he/she too has fallen in his/her progress, due to your mousy behaviour.

Exercise your Free-Will.

As the Masters stress, we are here to learn, not suffer, and just because you find yourself in poverty from birth, or a bad marriage, there is no Karmic compulsion on you to remain so.

If you have not got that course or job, work harder with focus and try again.

Or, change track and take up something else.

Things STAYING wrong is not the result of your karma, but of your own free will.

If free- will is not exercised correctly, to learn the lessons we have chosen to, a whole lifetime is wasted not just for the one person, but others too who are closely involved.

So step back and review your life. And act!

Now for the second question.

It does happen that sometimes a person does not regress to past lives even under a trained therapist.

The reasons can be many.

However ready a person may think himself or herself to be, there may be a lurking fear about the efficacy of the whole thing, about becoming helpless 'while under the spell', about seeing things which our awake mind would never accept as being true, the fear of seeing oneself in pain or dying or dead, and so on.

There are fears of the conscious mind and talking to the therapist and sorting your doubts would clear the path for many.

Regression is a state of focussed concentration and there is no need to fear it.

Make sure you go to a properly trained therapist.

Another reason could be that there have been a number of traumatic experiences in some of the past lives and the person is not equipped enough to deal with what comes up during regression.

These mental blocks are self-created to protect the individual from further hurt and once the person is strong and positive enough, the doors will open without delay.

A third reason could be that there is no need to know, that your'e doing fine even without going back to find out or check.

You are on the correct path and there is no great urgency to see this movie!

Our own, individual spirit guides are always around us and they know what is best for us much more than we do.

Trust them, trust yourself and relax !