When there is a particularly traumatic event in a past life that leaves a karmic imprint, very often another person is involved and there are unfinished business between you. When this occurs, both of you can, as you plan your next incarnations, decide to create the opportunity to end that unresolved issue and clear the karma between you. If he doesn’t, both of them will have to reincarnate life after life until they have solved the problem together.

Every person you have any connection to in your life is there for a reason, perhaps to clear karma or to remind you of your lessons in this life or both. It may be to help you on your spiritual journey even if you haven’t “met” before. This applies to your biological family, to your friends, to your colleagues, many of whom will have kept you company for many lifetimes. Your mother could have been your brother, hunting partner, cousin, daughter. Your husband may have been your rival at work, your son, your teacher, etc. These relationships do not have to be karmic, where there is an unresolved problem or debt between you from the past or present, but can simply be based on love. It is not necessary to know the past lives you have had together, in fact, it is not always useful to focus on the past out of mere curiosity when there is a present to enjoy. Psychic introspection or past life regression carried out by a professional is beneficial when you are in a state that is causing you particular difficulties or stress.

There can be a pattern to all of your karmic relationships and often it has to do with power and control in one form or another. Just as you yourself can get into a karmic cycle that keeps you trying to learn the same difficult lesson over and over again, it can happen between two people or even a family group that both or all of you come into a lifetime to solve a problem. particular karmic problem between you that has been going on endlessly. The intention is always that in each life through your mutual efforts and learning you have a clear balance between you at the end of it, but this is not always the case.

People often come together in a relationship to resolve a particular karmic issue and when that is done, they can choose whether to allow the relationship to continue or to part ways, the job is complete. If you have been in a partnership that has been particularly painful, there may be a catalyst that made one of you decide to end it. Making the decision, taking control of the situation, may be exactly what is needed to balance the karma between you.

If you find yourself in a difficult relationship situation right now, either at work or within your family, take a look at the patterns within that relationship and see if it could be karmic. If so, then one of you needs to do something to right the karmic imbalance, otherwise it will continue to perpetuate itself in this lifetime or the next.

This is an excerpt from “Spiritual Wisdom”.