Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Spiritual Awareness – Soul Contracts – Choosing our Family Before Birth by D.G. Kaye

Explore the spiritual side of our natures as D.G. Kaye shares her experiences and research into this element of our lives.

You can find part seventeen of the series: Signs, Synchronicity, and Energy by D.G. Kaye

Today Debby explores our past lives, something that has fascinated both philosophers for thousands of years and also more recently scientists. I am sure as always the post will encourage you to share your experiences and raise questions. Debby suggested I share my thoughts as well.

“I do believe in rebirth, and how can you not when you see a four year old play Chopin or a six year old sing an aria that would challenge a seasoned professional. I also believe in cellular memory. Not just the body carrying forward traits from many generations physically like the colour of hair or facial features and certain hereditary diseases but other cells such as our brain cells and perhaps the knowledge they contain.”

Now over to Debby… enjoy

Soul Contracts – Choosing our Family Before Birth

Welcome back to my Spiritual Awareness series here at the Smorgasbord. In this edition I’m going to be talking about why it is said that we choose our families before we’re born. Some might wonder if that is the case, why would anyone choose a tortured or difficult life? But it’s all about the life lessons.

Now, granted, if you don’t believe our souls don’t die when our bodies do, and if you don’t believe we’ve had past lives, then I’m not here to convince anyone, rather just discuss what I know about the subject. Many of these discussions about choosing a family before we’re born come from spiritualists, religious experts, and Yogis, and of course, cannot be proven scientifically because there are just some things from other realms we will never physically have proof of in this life.

Before we incarnate into a new body, we make a collective decision, our souls commune with other souls to collaborate in negotiation as to what life lessons we should need to learn with our particular choice of purpose we agree to fill. As well, some are sent to repeat lessons for past unfulfilled karma. This is named our ‘soul contract’. The purpose of growing through this contract is to graduate to a higher consciousness of understanding.

It is said that every soul is assigned a guardian angel who works with seven teachers before they incarnate into human form. After our new birth we’ll find ourselves in a family where we will, as well as the parents we choose, learn what to expect from life or pass on our accrued knowledge from various past lives to teach them in a current life, and for us to learn life lessons we perhaps missed in a previous life from them. Our souls must follow the laws of the universe. If souls don’t abide by making a positive contribution in their lives, they will be deemed to repeat life lessons in another life.

What takes place is the family we choose to be born into. Time, date, and place of birth are all relevant to the contract. People will come into our lives we are meant to learn something from as part of a healing from a past life or even in our current one. We all are given Free Will, which permits us to choose a path to go down or avoid – yet, despite the route we choose to get there, our destiny will never change.

Our ultimate destiny is to experience Unconditional Love through each life throughout the universe to enhance our energies. Our chosen soul contract is the ‘deal’ we make with ourselves to evolve into a higher awareness. And we are told we are never alone without our spirit guides and angels guiding us.

Often throughout our lives we receive ‘signs’ or messages to remind us to keep on the right path. We are sent people at the precise time in life we need to meet them to introduce us to something we need to learn. These people may come and go, stay, or revisit, as the universe extends us a helping hand.

These soul contracts are made in conjunction with the people we will meet in our lives on earth. As I like to say, we meet people for Reasons and Seasons. We may make contact for a short time with someone we meet on the street, store, or anywhere who has something to enlighten us with or inform. This is all pre-destined, all the players we’ll meet in our life on earth are here to teach us lessons.

We may encounter a hurtful situation and learn forgiveness from it. We may be abandoned by someone and through their love, teach us to stand up for ourselves, or allow ourselves to succumb to the pain. We may become caregivers giving love, or we may have to encounter stubborn or unstable family members. Again, lessons. Some lessons we’ll have already mastered in another life which we can also pass onto others in a current life.

We are made of many past lives we’ve lived in. In each of those lives we’ve learned and, also, failed to learn something, which must become a repeated lesson to learn in the next life. We come with no recollection of our past life, other than the things ‘we instinctively know’ from a past life. It’s like we begin each new life with a clean slate, yet, bring with us some knowledge from our past life. The rest is forgotten when we start anew. Could you imagine if we harbored all the baggage we acquired from each life and had to tote it along with us in each consequent life?

No, just the essential lessons. It is said that our entire lives and past lives are stored in the Akashic Archives, kind of like a universal archived library of recordings of memories throughout our lives. Lessons not taken in as supposed to in one life will follow in the next life, like karma, those lessons must be learned. And duly, we make a soul contract in both terms – we learn lessons, we can also be there to teach lessons, to experience both goodness or something nasty or toxic to overcome then share with others so we can be like earth angels, so to speak, and help others with what we’ve already learned.

I’ve mentioned a story before about me visiting a well-known medium in Sedona, Arizona. The woman clued into my broken relationship with my narcissistic mother. This came at a time when the guilt was overwhelming for me after instituting ‘no contact’ with her after fifty years of turmoil. My mother was soon to die at that point – I didn’t know yet. The woman sensed my angst when I told her my dilemma. I was torn not going back for one more try as I did my whole life with my mother. The woman told me there was no need to suffer the anxiety of what would never be changed in this life, and told me I have only to forgive her in my heart. As for my mother, the medium told me she’d failed to learn her karmic lessons in this life and will be forced to learn her mistakes in the next life.

Remember, soul contracts are the deals we’ve sealed ourselves for our next life while we are in spirit form. Also know that some choose to never reincarnate, while others, can wait centuries to reincarnate if they so choose. We all have Free Will.

Do you believe in the afterlife and reincarnation?

If this subject interests you and you’d like to go deeper, please visit the links below and listen to the video.

Spiritual Coach, Vasundhra, explains the Soul Contract in more depth: Soul Contracts

More about discussions on choosing our birth family:  105 – The soul of children choose their parents

“In this episode, we will be discussing a fascinating topic that has intrigued spiritual seekers for generations: How Souls Choose Their Parents Before Birth.”

“According to many spiritual traditions, before incarnating into a physical body, each soul chooses the specific family, culture, and circumstances that will best serve their growth and evolution in the physical world. This process is believed to be guided by the soul’s purpose and life mission, as well as the lessons and challenges they need to experience to learn and evolve. In this episode, we will explore the different theories and beliefs about this fascinating process, including the concept of karma and reincarnation, the role of free will and destiny, and the impact of our choices and intentions on the life we manifest.”

How Souls Choose Their Parents Before Birth:

 

Hans Wilhelm is a mystic, author, and illustrator of 200 books for all ages with total sales of over 40 million copies in 30 languages. As a mystic he inspires audiences around the world with his life-affirming concepts to connect with their own inner wisdom.

The Soul of a Baby

©D.G. Kaye 2023

My thanks to Debby for another fascinating post on the spiritual side of our natures. I know she would love to hear from you.

About D.G. Kaye (Debby Gies)

D.G. Kaye is a Canadian author living in Toronto, Canada. She writes nonfiction and memoirs about her life experiences, matters of the heart, and self-help about women’s issues. Her positive outlook keeps D.G. on track, allowing her to take on life’s challenges with a dose of humor in her quest to overcome adversity.

D.G. began writing when pen and paper became the tools to express her pent-up emotions during her turbulent childhood. She began journaling about her life at a young age and continued writing about the imprints and lessons she learned through people and events she encountered. D.G. writes books to share her stories and inspiration. She advocates for kindness and for women’s empowerment. Her favorite saying is “For every kindness received, there should be kindness in return. Wouldn’t that just make the world right?”

When she’s not writing, D.G. loves to read (self-help books and stories of triumph), cook (concocting new recipes, never to come out the same way twice), shop (only if it’s a great sale), play poker (when she gets the chance), and, most of all, travel

Books by D.G. Kaye

One of the recent reviews for Fifteen First Times

Jaye Marie Five Stars  May 19, 2023

My First Car

I share many memories of my first times with Debby and the most memorable for me, was my first car and learning to drive it. This was my first taste of independence and I loved every minute of being behind the wheel.

For The love of Shoes

Shoes struck a different note with me, however, as being tall, I apparently have rather large feet. Finding shoes that fit has always been a nightmare for me.

First and Last Love

Although I share many of Debby’s Fifteen First Times, I never did find the love of my life, although there were plenty of almosts. I am envious of the love she shared with G and very sad that she must mourn him with every single day…

This intriguing book is so many of our lives in a nutshell… 

Read all the reviews and buy the books: Amazon US – and: Amazon UK – follow Debby: Goodreads – Blog: D.G. Kaye Writer – About me: D.G. Kaye – Twitter: @pokercubster – Linkedin: D.G. Kaye – Facebook: D.G. Kaye – Instagram: D.G. Kaye – Pinterest: D.G. Kaye

 

Thanks for dropping in today and it would be great if you could share Debby’s post.. thanks Sally