If you can imagine a piece of cake. This cake we shall call the circle of life (or more so lives). Now cut this cake into pieces, many pieces. Each piece is a life which houses our soul experiences. 

Allow me to explain more. We are talking about reincarnation. We change our bodies as often as we change our cars, obviously over longer periods of time but I'm sure you understand what I'm trying to say. What's in this vehicle we call a body is a soul, the real us. 

In each life our soul needs to go through different life experiences. Imagine the conversations that you have had with friends and family or stories you have read. Now multiply that. Our soul (If not already) will have these very experiences and more. So for instance we shall have to be male/female, rich/poor, big built/thin built. The list goes on, and there I was only talking about the body, not life's many experiences of (among many other) dying young/old, dying of the many illnesses that plague a body. The list really is endless. We all know of yin-yang; yes/no, black/white, night/day. It's exactly the same with our souls. We have to experience the positive and negative of life experiences for the growth of our soul. 

Why do we reincarnate?, and why do we need these experiences? I hear you ask. Once we have completed our cake of the many soul lessons and experiences, then and only then will our time on the earth plane be complete. Then it shall be our time to reside with the many other souls for ever more. It's at this time that we shall be in a position to be able to help and assist those poor souls that are still living on earth having their own experiences. After all how can we truly help another if we ourselves have not had the true experience of a soul lesson. Don't get me wrong we have all had conversations whereby we can share a story, possibly agree, maybe feel how that person is feeling at the time. But can we really help them other than to listen, love and care. Which of course are all good feelings to share with each other, and certainly must be continued. 

Akashic records.

There is a place called the Akashic records. It's a library that holds each and everyone's book of that souls reincarnated journey had thus far. I myself have been many times, and It's helped me to understand myself in this life. 

Allow me to elaborate. 

I have a fear of water, more precisely swimming pools. I'm fine in the sea, can't swim but I can certainly go up to my waist. One time when I visited my soul book in the Akashic library. I was shown that I was a witch in a past life and that I was dunked. Sadly for the crime of being a witch in the eighteenth century you were dunked in a lake, if you survived you were considered innocent. Sadly none ever did. Another time that I visited the Akashic library I was shown that I was a man of the sea, a pirate to be precise. That is where my love of the sea comes from. I have been on cruises, fishing trips even a submarine all without a care in the world of if I can swim or not.  Strangely I was watching a TV program many moons after this particular vision. In it they were explaining that many sailors could not swim, furthermore insisted upon it. It was actually considered bad luck to have a sailor aboard who could swim for fear of angering the gods whom looked after the ship and crewman. This is just one lesson that I have learned. I must add that if you feel you would like to visit the Akashic records yourself, then please do find a reputable teacher and learned soul to take you on this journey. It can be not for the faint hearted I have express. Again there will be positive and negative visions of a past life shown to you. 

Now back to the circle of life. The next time we are finished in this life, we shall visit the Akashic records and view this life and past lives. We shall see what we have experienced and what we need to achieve in the future. This shall of course include positive and negative experiences, remember yin-yang. So we shall plan our next life of what we wish to achieve next. There will be times in life that you shall receive confirmation of this, deja-vu. How many times have you been somewhere maybe talking to someone and think to yourself that you have experienced this before. This is the time that you know one that you are on the right road of life, and secondly a confirmation.

It is also believed (myself included) that we reincarnate within the same family group. Again I was shown that my Granddad in this life of which is my guide and helper, was also my father in a previous life of which was many moons ago. With each life both sides have to experience different things, none is more good or indeed sad than with a family soul member. This has helped me to understand and answer many lessons in my own life. Why did my friends or family have to be taken so cruelly at the time with which they were? As previously said yin-yang. So the mother and father in this life may have to lose a child for whatever circumstance. But in a previous life the tables would have been turned whereby the child lost the parent. Going more deeply, imagine that the child was the parent in a previous life and they lost their child who was previously the parent. Now both souls have had the experience of losing a child and a parent. In each life lesson each soul have helped the other to have an experience in this case a sad one. But have no fear that positive scenarios shall and would have happened also. 

So the next time you have a negative situation in your life just remember that it was you who has decided to have that experience for your soul growth. It's worth noting here. How many times has something happened to you and you have thought why me? Only to go further on your life's journey to be in a better place and can look back and think actually that sad experience has led me to a much more positive one.