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Did you look similar in past life/lives?

Mysterysoul

Mysterysoul

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I have had this question for a long time,and i dont know if there is already a thread about it, but i will try anyways :)
I believe that when you have some memories, and you are still feeling close to that life or those lives, that you can still look a bit like you did in the past.
So my question is, do you look similar in this life to your past life?
And are there any people out there who know how they looked in past life?
I would love to hear your stories :)
take care,
Elisa
 
To answer your question, I have seen myself in a couple of past lives.

Once when I was an Indian woman, my eyes are very similar to how they are now. And in another life that I know what I looked like, I look a lot like one of my friends in this one (were we siblings back then, and he kept his looks?).
 
I've only "seen myself" a couple of times in dreams, and I'm not sure they're even real past lives! But I don't recall looking anything like I do now. Certainly it wasn't anything that I noticed right away. Perhaps if you put two photos side by side there might be a slight similarity... I don't know. But if there was a similarity, it was nothing really obvious. I think I was a lot better looking in one of those lives than I am now, though. :rolleyes: Heh.

Lib
 
you know whats funny, i never believed we look the same from life to life. but recently i let a freind borrow a regression cd, and they let their freind try it, they got an harsh life in scotland, and they said their eyes were the same. and i didnt tell them anything about facial features staying the same sometimes, so i was a little taken aback.

and i was browsing some pictures of pittsburgh from the 1940s, and i came across the picture in my avatar (the girl) and my heart dropped. it looked alot like how i looked in the regression, even the shoes. and the face somewhat looks like me, like when i was younger. i dont think that picture is of my past life self, but it was still weird.
 
Hi Mysterysoul,

There are similarities in a couple of lifetimes, and complete differences in others. In the lives that I have seen myself, I looked nothing like I do now. I believe that it is definitely possible to carry over certain distinguishable characteristics, but I don't believe that we do each lifetime. With the people I have recognized, it wasn't necessarily because they looked similar to their pl selves. It was more of a vibration/connection between us and in some cases they had a comforting familiarity about them.


Ailish :)
 
I think in the most recent past life I must have been blonde instead of with dark hair...I have light skin with dark bown hair now and ever since I was 18 I have been lightening my hair. I would look in the mirror and not recognize myself until I got it quite light..which took alot of doing..it wanted to stay red..in between..(stubborn) Always in my minds eye I was blonde!!

Now I am allergic to the bleach/coloring products and am back to dark brown after MANY years..of course ..I feel like I'm in someone elses body!!! :laugh:

Darla
 
I think it's definitely a great question to ask! And It's possible that you bring back some similarities to a life that might have undone issues.

For myself, I have seen myself as an Aboriginie Man, a Black Male, and a European Woman, and as a Biracial Female, they are all unique, but something about the eyes were similar. :)
 
Do you look similar in past lives

In the one life that I remember so vividly, I was looking at myself in a mirror attaches to an old rough looking dresser. My face was shaped a lot like Littlemoon's and my face was very solumn. There was fear in my eyes, and my eyes were the same shape as now only they were a clear green.
 
I have one past life memory as a man and I am female now. In that life I was very large with curly grey hair, which was brown when I was young. In this life I have blonde-brown hair and am quite slim. I do have curly hair though although I think I had curly hair in that lifetime because it was the style of the period. I couldn't see my eyes but one similarity I noticed was that myself then had cheeks that went red easily when drinking alcohol and that it something that happens to me now.
 
I have to agree with Ailish, i dont think you do look the same every lifetime,but there is at least somthing simular
its all so nice that you people could have the posibility to see yourself in the past, i dont know what i got to do, does someone has a meditation to get in touch with your past lifes? I also got pictures in my mind though and places,but dont think i saw really clear how i looked like
elisa
 
Elisa,

Usually at some point during a regression, the regressionist will ask you to find a mirror, and look into it. I have also seen myself reflected in a glass window, and in a small pond. If you are meditating, you can consciously do the same thing. Start by looking at your feet. Notice what type of shoe/boot etc. you are wearing. Look at the type of clothing you are dressed in. What are the colours and fabrics? I would also suggest keeping a journal of your dreams, writing down everything you can remember and perhaps you will see a pattern begin to emerge. ;)



Ailish
 
Hey,
thanks alot for the help,
well i have been to a regression therapist before and honestly she didnt do much,i had to lie down and relax and she opened my chakra's one by one,
i felt a bit dizzy and cold...
and it was like i was floading a bit out of my body..
my friend who was in the same room watching me,he felt a big cold...
it was so cold in the room..
and she also told me to see a alivator and step in and then see where i am
i remember i had a brown poor dress on and wild hair,it was brown and i also saw the joker who was made from wood, he was on the left and swinging,
it was in a opera place..
i saw myself in a weddingdress and next to me a coffin,i diffently saw a coffin made from brown wood
but thats all i can remember,nothing i have seen more,and at the end of the regression, i felt even worse,i was scared of everything,and very emotional!
so i want to do it on myself now and see how it works,theres alot of work to find out
when i close my eyes at night i often see a cross
dont know what that means
at the moment i am reading a book wich is called ''dreams and past life''
and in the book it says when you see a tree it means ''people or a person''
and i often see trees...black ones,means dead people ,thats what i read
i have somthing with death, i dont know what,i have been told from the medium i went to, people are trying to connect with me who are dead
but i have another question,you tell me to look at my feet and my clothes when i meditate,i did that before but i always see myself in 18th century clothes,big wig, wide dress you know,from Mozart's time
but this is my hobby and my bigest interest,so how do i know this is real?
because im really into this age,(and 19th) and maybe i make up those thoughts because its a part of my imagination and my interests
do you know what i mean?
 
Hi Elisa :D

Mysterysoul said:
but i have another question,you tell me to look at my feet and my clothes when i meditate,i did that before but i always see myself in 18th century clothes,big wig, wide dress you know,from Mozart's time but this is my hobby and my bigest interest,so how do i know this is real? because im really into this age,(and 19th) and maybe i make up those thoughts because its a part of my imagination and my interests
do you know what i mean?
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I completely understand what you mean :) However, your interest in that certain time period, having dresses made etc. leads me to believe that it is more than just your imagination. ;) Fascination with a certain time/place is a good indicator of where to start when researching your past lives. Things such as hobbies and/or talents we have in this life can be carried over from a previous life.

My personal experience with regressions is that I prefer to do my own, simply because I am more relaxed and focused. My best friend's mother used to do them for me on occasion - until she passed away a couple of years ago. I have been to a regression therapist, but for me, it wasn't the most comfortable experience! :rolleyes:

I hope that helps :D

Ailish
 
yes somtimes you know yourself better then a regression therapist,and somtimes its better to relax and to do it your own because you know yourself better and what is best for you
Yep it seems like i have all those interests from that time :laugh: listening to classical music,opera,singing , playing my piano, dress up in that time :laugh: I only dont know who i was,but once i got time enough for myself and having free from school so i can relax , i will try to do more of meditation and stuff, because a regression therapist always asks money but if it doesnt work then you lost your money and at the end of the day you know nothing :( so is a bit sad...
Thanks for taking the time to answer ;)
your great
take care ,
Elisa
 
Elisa,

I have some of the same interests. :thumbsup: I adore classical and opera music (and have since I was tiny), something my parents consider rather odd, since neither of them ever introduced me to it :D I think I was the only six-year-old listening to Rachmaninoff instead of rap and top forty :laugh: I love the piano, but my passion is the violin...it simply makes me weep with both joy and sorrow when I hear it played well.

Good luck with doing your own regressions/meditations, and please keep us informed of your findings ;)

Ailish :)
 
Oh yes the violin is diffently a nice instrument,it makes me weep too,but it has to be played well !
and yes i have the same interests sinds i was young,i always disliked modern rap music or techno beats,i found it romantic to listen to classical music and opera :) My parents never listened to classical music either, my dad liked the 60's but my mum was into more modern music,so my parents thought it was also odd for me to listen to classical music ,
take care and have a nice day/night ;-)
Elisa xxx
 
I'm inclined to believe that the burdens and hurdles were are born to overcome in this life are the result of 'lessons unlearned' in our past lives. In my immediate past life I was a vain womaniser, with a thick head of hair - this time round I'm strictly monogamous and distinctly sparse on top! I've had past life dreams in which I was freckly-faced, others in which I was physically much bigger and more powerful than this time.

The only physical features we do carry over, I believe, are those unconnected with our karmas.

As a small child, I often pondered the meaning of the small black mark on the skin of my left big toe - long gone. It was about 4mm across; I somehow felt it was connected to my identity.
 
I do not think I look like my past lives. The following are self portraits in three different past lives. The most similar is Kayln.

Clara
Kayln
Mei
 
I have only seen two of my past life faces. Both were male and heavily bearded, but I didn't see anything at all, even in the eyes that looked like me.

Both were kind of short stocky men, solid looking, one light hair and skin, the other dark hair and olive skin. In one, I recognized some personality traits, in the other, I only got to see the face, not the personality.
I sure wish I could get a look at some faces of the other lives I remember.
:)
Donna
 
The only one I have a comparison with, if it was me, looks similar, but not identical. It's the expression in the eyes that convinced me. Many sources say that the eyes remain relatively constant from one incarnation to another. However, I think whether the rest of the body is similar probably depends on several factors. We all have a lot more traits in us than can be physically shown in any one body--so it would depend on which facet of ourselves is being shown physically. IF it happens to be the same facet, then we would look similar. If it is a facet on the opposite side of the diamond, as it were, then one might look opposite, and so-on. It would depend on what karmic lessons were to be learned in a particular life. That's my guess.
Steve S.
 
yeah i think the eyes are importent,but i just think that the expression is the most simular thing..Hey Ssake,nice to meet you here,havent seen you yet :)
I have a historical expression,many people tell me that,the face,the body,and so on,so i think i diffently brought some things with me from a past life
take care,
Elisa
 
I feel that when I saw my face as the black slave in the South, that there was some similarities to him and me now in the eyes and posture department. I just KNEW it was me, it was strange!

Whoah Donna! that sounds interesting, I bet that was a surprise for you :laugh:
 
Aaron said:
Whoah Donna! that sounds interesting, I bet that was a surprise for you :laugh:
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Well, yes it was! :eek: hehe
I already knew I was male in two previous lives before I got to see these two faces, but these were two additional male lives. In one of them, my guide was showing me and telling me about a past life (as a jewish tentmaker) and I saw it all from the outside, or 3rd person. that was amazing! In the other it started out as first person, me as a man having a very serious discussion with another man, possibly a brother. Suddenly I stepped aside, but my body didn't go with me, and I was staring myself in the face! :eek: Both were really cool experiences.
:)
Donna
 
Considering that I'm usually a guy and am a girl now... I'd say I look like my past self. I do have some characteristics that just seem to carry over, mostly being my hairstyle as a guy (then again that's more about psychology, but oh well) and I tend to look similar if I'm asian to other lives. I just have a general look that seems to cross races ande lives as well.
 
I'm quite similar looking to a mix of my three apparent pl's. Mostly the last two, which were very different looking from each other.
From the first life, I get my curvaceous body, irish features (reddish hair even tho I'm only 1/16 irish), shorter height & facial features.
From my most recent lifetime, I get my green eye I beleive (I actually have a blue eye & a green eye, altho it's not that noticable.), my whiter skin (altho both times I've had pretty pale of skin), my looking good with black hair, and the straightness of my hair.
it's interesting how many people look basically the same over & over...
 
Do you look similar to any of your past life personas - or have you found that your appearance is vastly different?


I'd love to hear from new members :)
 
Certainly, the late great Dr. Ian Stevenson and those great academics who follow him have documented the phenomenon of children, who are similar in many ways to the persons whose lives they remember. The similarity seems to reside mostly in their eyes as many have mentioned in this thread. Some cases have also documented certain birthmarks and birth defects as being very similar to the person whose lives they seem to have shared. See the following link:


http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=JoFUIvIxPEwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=related:hUArs0SwHvAJ:scholar.google.com/&ots=Ki21ZzATTB&sig=NWQqiGqBy-UpuvuORoug_2byzxg#v=onepage&q=&f=false


If I knew how, I would be able to shorten this and other links.


There have also been documented cases where adults have discovered uncanny similarities between themselves and their past-life counterparts. Anyone interested in this aspect of reincarnation can find numerous videos at http://www.youtube.com/pastlifeforum


Also, one can find links to books and PDF documents in this site by jumping over to BOOKS and LINKS about reincarnation.


Aside from the above homework assignments, ;) I have to personally admit that I'm beginning to believe that there is something of this phenomenon that seems undeniable. And, I've discovered that even some identical twins, who share the same genes are often different enough to indicate that there is something else going on besides DNA.


As Ailish mentioned earlier in this thread, it can be said that appearance may also be totally different, but the vibrations are the same. [Forgive me, if I didn't paraphrase your words exactly.] You may have heard the phrase, "Abuse it -- you loose it.". Perhaps, when someone abuses their appearance in a previous life, they may end up looking entirely different for the sake of a lesson that needs to be experienced and sorted out. Or, they may have something to teach us.


Another theory suggests that people come into this world when the physical characteristics acquired through DNA happen to match the particular soul of the reincarnated subject. Such might be evident in deceased relatives, who are reborn into the same family. Perhaps, DNA is a function that works with reincarnation. This may all be conjecture, but it presents some interesting theories which warrant deeper inspection.


As for my personal experience, I'm very hesitant to present myself as being reincarnated. However, some time ago, my grown sons found photographs of a minister/reformer, who made public the corruption of a political machine in New York City called Tammany Hall, which happened 100 years ago to the day of this discovery. The similarity appeared not only in facial features, build and demeanor, but also in behavior and a troublesome affinity for challenging certain powerful elements.


When it comes to vivid, recurring dreams, I seem drawn to the 5th Connecticut Continental Line troops during the American War for Independence, where the same crusading behavior is evident. Of course, this may be simply because in 1978 I uprooted my family from the midwestern U.S. to an area steeped in history -- except for the fact that I knew about a minor skirmish that happened in a small coastal town called Cos Cob before someone found an obscure book, which detailed exactly the same fight in exactly the same place. In this case it is nearly impossible to determine who the rebellious soldier was, or what he looked like, but the dreams indicate a person of the same build and face, but without the beard that time. One might say that the crusading behavior is still evident.


There is also a theory that a person might be injured in exactly the same way as their former self. I can only bear this out from my own experience, when I was 14 looking in a bathroom mirror once. I somehow imagined how I would look later in life, after certain injuries which left severe scars on my face. Coincidence? Serendipity? Synchronicity? How can we really determine what it is, but that we know it happened?
 
the eyes and the smile


Based on my personal experiences and the experiences of my friends with whom I've discussed this issue, I think the best places to see similarities are in the eyes and the smile. Unfortunately, it is rare to see a smile in a photograph or portrait more than a hundred years old.


I've been told that we tend to have similar bodies time after time because we feel comfortable in a certain type of body. The body would have to be affected by our familial DNA, but I think our DNA is affected somewhat by our subconscious, too. In the lifetimes that I am aware of, my body size and shape has been fairly consistent.
 
Don Quixote said:
I've been told that we tend to have similar bodies time after time because we feel comfortable in a certain type of body.
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This was my thought too. If there is choice involved in what body we reincarnate in, it is possible that we have preferences. Much like having a prefered style of clothes we buy, maybe the same is true for how we look. Perhaps we like chosing a body that looks like someone we've been before because it just looks like...us.
People have a strong self-concept of what's right for them and what they're comfortable with. We tend to stick to what's familiar.


Many people claim to look similar the same way many seem to keep coming back to the same places and cultures. Others look very different from one life to another and reincarnate all over the globe. There doesn't seem to be a universal pattern that applies to everyone. To paraphase Deborah - maybe there are no rules.


For me personally, I have found a variety of appearances in my own history. I find very little similarity in the way I looked in my last life and the way I do now.
 
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