Your character and personality in this life are affected by many factors, such as your upbringing and your environment. However, experiences revealed in past life readings or past life regression might explain certain phobias, fears, longings and impulses.
Not all behaviours and experiences in any past life will necessarily represent or affect behaviour or character in this life. There is a great capacity for survival in all creatures on this earth, and the human being is no exception. In past times men and women have had to endure immense suffering and hardship to even survive just a meager existence. Indeed, much of this suffering and hardship continues today. Many of us can empathise with this suffering and hardship because even though we may not have experienced it in this life, we often have in a past life.
It is not uncommon for a past life reading to reveal experiences of real pain and suffering, often because this was a real feature for most people in past history.
Sometimes people are shocked to read and hear about past lives where they have been victims or even perpetrators of horrible acts and circumstances, but very often lives gone past are quite a long way from the type of society we are used to today. You need to understand that things happen to us in this life and in past lives, not to punish us, but to enrich us with experience and to enable us later to live rich and fulfilling lives.
Past lives revealed can often show episodes of suffering and aspects of behaviour that can disturb some subjects. Remember that such lives are gone and from an age and society very different from that which you experience now. Deprivation and suffering in ancient cultures would not be regarded as such in their terms. Obviously the comforts of modern living were absent. Also, cultural differences might be a shock to modern day western sensibilities - as they might indeed be in this life!
Alison Yates wrote this article. To learn more about past lives, visit http://www.alizons-psychic-secrets.com/past-lives.html
