Gutentaug!

For those who's belief rests in the hands of past lives, giggle over this:

I('m sure I) have several past lives, as a sharp shooter. Once or more with a bow, and, once or more with scoped rifles. After playing (for ages) a game called 'Call of Duty 4', it triggered since-forgotten memories of a past life. Wonderful!

One memory (Though, not sure of what. A dream or not) is of walking through a muddy field. The ground is muddy, trodden and sodden to the extent of no grass, just a large, muddy field. 'I' hold a rifle in my hands, though it doesn't come into view, I know its a long rifle, with a long hunting scope upon it. "What happened here?" I thought to myself. To the left, is a large WW1/2-style cannon, and, thats pretty much the end of THAT 'memory'. The next one, is of sitting upon a large sand-coloured, square building, a large rifle in my hands (Which looks like a bolt-lock M14 with a scope), and, via a scope, following someone along the sand-covered pavement, and, thats all there is of THAT one, too..

Just thought I'd say..

Have fun! With, something..

Fascinating, OMJ!

I, of course, am one whose belief rests in the hands of past lives. I also have recovered memories which come as scenes similarly to how you have described and triggered by doing a similar activity or going through a similar emotion to that experienced in the pastlife, particularly at the time of demise.

I have dreamed, remembered, had scenes just start playing out in my mind, often in combination about the same life time.

So, in the first scene you relate, it sounds like the cannon took you out maybe, eh? The other scene with the sand-coloured building sounds like it could be Middle East.

One thing I have learned (and believe to be true) that might be relevant to your memories is that more than one life can be lived simultaneously. In other words, your soul can be in two bodies at once. Of course this relates to some of your philosophies of twins, eh.

And you've probably noticed, that if you experienced target shooting in pastlives, you'll be pretty good at them in this one (thanks to the practice). Makes me think of Mozart...age 3 started playing the keyboard, age 5 began composing minuets, at 8 wrote his first three symphonies...etc.

If anyone truly wants to know whether or not reincarnation is true, I can say that for me, by searching it out through the internet and library, I found a wealth of undeniable evidence. And since then have found my own personal evidence within myself. "Nice to meet you, A, likewise, A."

I can associate will all of those points.

Apparently I was a midwife and healer in 1875 in London, England. It seems that I have a strong aversion to anything around my neck and I don't like heights because I witnessed fellow midwives hung for witchcraft.

The jury is out on this... I was born with my umbilical cord around my neck - so I'm not exactly sure about the whole hanging thing.

But I know that I couldn't think of anything worse than being at the birth of somebody's baby. It actually repulses me - yet I know that if I had to deliver a baby due to an emergency situation, I would be able to do it.

I'm also the daughter of a non-practicing psychic and am a natural-born Empath.

As I don't deliberately practice my gift, it tends to arise when I too am either at some stage of wakefulness from sleep or overwhelmed by emotion.

I'm enjoying all of these interesting things you are sharing, rainbowchaser.

The midwife scenario makes a lot of sense. I've met another woman who also recalled a life in which she was killed for similar reasons. And I find that there is great synchroncity between lives. So for example if you were hung previously, it is synchronistically mirrored in your umbilical cord being around your neck at birth.

I actually wasn't hung apparently... I just witnessed my associates being hung for witchcraft when they were healers and midwives like myself.

I think my "previous" death occurred normally. By that I mean I died of old age or some health problem... It wasn't inflicted upon me as a sentence for some crime.

But seeing those around me executed for witchcraft forced me and my skills "underground" so to speak.

A lot of it fits though... I was born into this life an Empath and most practicing Empaths are healers - yet I don't practice.

I've an aversion to it - which can likely be connected to the "weirdness" of it (being an Empath is up there with being a psychic - it's weird and people are very unsure about it) - in today's society if I could be executed I still likely would be! So I don't practice my skill. Don't practice because people don't understand - fear of the unknown and all that.

How would you sum up your experience as an empath and what those qualities are. I'd be very interested.

The skill of an Empath can be varied and the person's ability in their skill can have various degrees.

Some can do this while others can do that.

I don't call it a gift. I believe everybody has the ability, but many need to "train" to improve their skill.

It's based around the ability to sense or feel things in other people. Emotion based basically. Some only pick up emotion, some pick up illness as well. Others can pick up even more.

If I'm in tune (and some days I'm totally not LOL) I can pick up a single person who has a suffering of some kind - whether it be emotional or physical illness. I can can hone in on physical pain - tell a person where it is - but I can't tell them what's causing it.

I can pick up on deep emotion but the negative side of my ability to do this is that I take it on myself. I can end up dreadfully miserable via proxy. LOL

If I want to learn to harness my skill properly and control it successfully, I need to put a metal barrier up against embracing the emotion of others and making it my own.

For me, taking on another's emotion actually wears me down.

Oh, I know it's not "me" and the emotion stems from elsewhere, but trying to keep in touch with the fact that it's not my emotion can be difficult when it's too late.

Also, if I've had the misfortune of taking on someone else's emotion, I rarely know whose emotion it actually is... So I'm given no notice to throw a block up.

When my husband died I spent 3 days in my own emotional tsunami, which was completely normal. But after I'd "let out" my own grief - I took on someone else's. I suspect that the emotion I took on was actually that of my husband.

We lost him... But he lost us too.

Anyway, a good site to surf around is...

http://healing.about.com/cs/empathic/a/uc_empathtraits.htm

The above link is very informative. It says a lot more than I could ever say.

I'm non-practicing but that doesn't hide me from my ability to grab something that comes my way.

I'm also natural-born. I've not thought about it much, but I expect that if I was to enhance my skill and develop what is already there my ability would evolve into something far more.

Thanks for that! Fascinating.

Yes, it is.

I don't do funerals... I can't handle it.

I'm terrible at weddings too.

I can imagine the overload!

Yeah, it's not much fun.

The worst part is because even though I am fully aware that the emotions I have are not mine, trying to exorcise them and "hold them at bay", so to speak, is extremely difficult.

Nobody can function properly when they're overwhelmed with emotion.