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How many of our traits are from past lives?

kiyoko_moon418

kiyoko_moon418

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I wonder about this because I have always been very , very different from my family. I didn't realize it until now, I am newly married and living with a man who is very different than me as well.

I am American, however I am extremely quiet and clean, as are alot of Americans but mine goes far beyond the norm. Noise makes me extremely nervous, it is only in peace and quite I find calm, to the point where if it is too chaotic I require ear plugs or mp3 with calm music during the day. I never felt at home until I visited Japan. Everyone was just like me !! extremely quite, polite, clean. to the extreme.

I have been to different respectable spiritual advisors since I was 17, (I am now 36) and most have said I have been asian in most of my past lives. These are respectable advisors miles away and years apart, and two have said you have a very special bond with Japan.

Is this where I get these odd traits from? Why would I then, in this life, continue to choose family and husband who are so different than I?? (both my birth family and my husband are not quiet and not extremely clean and makes me crazy) but nothing I can do about this as it is thier right.

I am so happy I found this place !

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Hello Kiyoko_moon...and welcome to the forum!


Not all Japanese are as you described...you haven't been to Osaka! :D


But seriously and all joking aside, I am Japanese and due to how I was raised, I am a neat-freak at home and in my work environment and my quietness is because I was taught to, what the British would say, "Keep a stiff upper lip when times are difficult". In other words, don't make a fuss and get on with life. If that makes any sense.


I don't know much about Chinese culture but could your traits also be related to how you were raised? If not, then it could very well be a past life trait...I know I carry some traits from my past lives. One odd thing about me, I've always known from a very early age that I was not going to marry an Asian/Japanese man and that I would one day move to another country. I am married to a Scotsman and happily living in Scotland. I believe that my knowing this is related to my most recent past life where I had lived in Scotland but died as a young child. I returned here to Scotland to live out my days because I couldn't do that in my last lifetime.


I hope you find the answers you're searching for here because it is a great forum! :thumbsup:
 
A lot are transferred from the past to the current, in my case. But I can give a good example, my sister (before she was a Soviet she was a pirate) is really good at climbing without training. At all. So, imagine my shock and horror on the playground when she climbed the (what's it called..) something like a spider web... She climbed that and hung from her foot smiling.


Jokingly I would always tell her that 'I thought Soviets were brave?!!' as she is deathly afraid of the cockroach but ironically she told me she once ran past several German MG's... ==' But its just stereotype.
 
My biggest carry-over trait is impatience. I am very spontaneous, but am working on curbing that. I hate wasting time. I used to be a lead-foot while driving, always liking that gas pedal to the floor, but have managed to curb that thanks to realizing it stemmed from my days racing chariots in the big one, the Circus Maximus.


When I hatch a plan, or when something needs to be done, I just want to do it. I hate fiddling around. Car needs an oil change? Grab the toolbox. Let's do it. "Oh, maybe we can do it tomorrow." Grrrrrrrrrr! Likewise, we are going to be moving. My thoughts? "Why aren't we dumping stuff to make the move? Let's go! Pack up! Let's hit the road!" No, hubby wants to have X amount of money, find a place to rent before we get out there, do this, do that... ARGH! LET'S JUST START PACKING ALREADY!!! (I admit, though, his plan is far better than mine...)


Yesterday he drove me up the walls. We were copying a disk for a friend. Hubby is at the computer and, to get to the copy program, he hits the command prompt and starts typing in the complete filepath of the program. To me this was ridiculous because all you had to do was double-click on the stupid icon on the $*-ing desktop!


Yeah, patience is a virtue that requires... patience! (Grr! I want patience NOW! :D )
 
I remember one other peculiar trait I had when I was young - I think I was about 8. I started spelling words in a very British way, adding a "u" to words for example, "favourite" instead of the American spelling "favorite". I don't know how or why I started doing that, I only remember thinking that it "looked right". Where I grew up in America, and expecially at that young age, we were not taught to spell words that way. When my teachers noticed it and asked my why I was spelling words that way, I remember telling them that "I liked it."


I think this could also be related to my prior life in Scotland.
 
LOL, I didn't do the "u" thing, but I reversed the "-er" ending on a lot of words to "-re". They thought it was dyslexia at first, some of the more "far out" teachers suggested reincarnation to me (they were surprised I knew so much about it already), but kind of had to burst everyone's bubble when I told them I had seen it on Monty Python and thought it was neat.
 
LOL, I didn't do the "u" thing, but I reversed the "-er" ending on a lot of words to "-re". They thought it was dyslexia at first, some of the more "far out" teachers suggested reincarnation to me (they were surprised I knew so much about it already), but kind of had to burst everyone's bubble when I told them I had seen it on Monty Python and thought it was neat.
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That's the thing - I never heard about Monty Python nor did I have any interest in anything British until my late 20's. I was just a kid growing up on a little island in the middle of the Pacific. :D
 
The thing with traits is I think we keep some, gain new ones, and shed others throughout all of our lifetimes just as we do during a single lifetime.


I'm a vain person and very concerned about looks, I'll admit it. I believe that is something that has really stuck with me throughout my multiple lives. I also act, and have since I was a child, very snobbish. Now, I grew up in a very er... liberal household with not too much in the way of proper manners. I had them though, and still do. There were things I simply did not approve of. For example, my father liked to 'fist bump' instead of shaking hands and I remember just how absolutely uncouth I thought it was! haha


Thankfully, I don't think I'm better than anybody else anymore and I've been able to knock myself down a few notches. These traits which were highly reminiscent of someone who would have been used to growing up in a very high-class environment are because of just that! So many of my lives have been very 'first class.' I have to laugh at myself when aspects of these times shine through today; it can be rather difficult to repress them!


Now, something I have lost is my interest in science and technology which just fell off the face of the earth during this life. I just lost a must of it.. I think this has to do with my last life (Holocaust victim) where I believe I lost my basic sense of logic and it was replaced with my imagination. That carried over into this life and I now have a very hard time understanding things such as math and science; it's just too logical for me to comprehend... I still do have a bit of an interest in science and technology, but it's pretty rudimentary.


I'll stop babbling now, sorry! :P
 
thanks!


very informative ! no i have never been to Osaka I heard it is very busy...I lived in Saitama, Fukaya as well as Kumamoto. It was very lovely in both cities. I visited Tokyo but didnt have the same nastaligia there as it was very stressful and busy. Maybe I am just born quiet and it has nothing to do at all with any past lives, but it all is very very interesting !:thumbsup:


by the way, I am not of chinese decent either.
 
Shiftkitty said:
My biggest carry-over trait is impatience. I am very spontaneous, but am working on curbing that. I hate wasting time. I used to be a lead-foot while driving, always liking that gas pedal to the floor, but have managed to curb that thanks to realizing it stemmed from my days racing chariots in the big one, the Circus Maximus.
When I hatch a plan, or when something needs to be done, I just want to do it. I hate fiddling around. Car needs an oil change? Grab the toolbox. Let's do it. "Oh, maybe we can do it tomorrow." Grrrrrrrrrr! Likewise, we are going to be moving. My thoughts? "Why aren't we dumping stuff to make the move? Let's go! Pack up! Let's hit the road!" No, hubby wants to have X amount of money, find a place to rent before we get out there, do this, do that... ARGH! LET'S JUST START PACKING ALREADY!!! (I admit, though, his plan is far better than mine...)


Yesterday he drove me up the walls. We were copying a disk for a friend. Hubby is at the computer and, to get to the copy program, he hits the command prompt and starts typing in the complete filepath of the program. To me this was ridiculous because all you had to do was double-click on the stupid icon on the $*-ing desktop!


Yeah, patience is a virtue that requires... patience! (Grr! I want patience NOW! :D )
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HAHA! My mother can relate to that! Whenever she asks us a question and we don't answer you can hear her growl...(GRRR!!) She loves playing War 2 (A WW2 game...==") and currently one of the top 10 commanders... Axis side.... Makes me think maybe she was a general. Cause she'll be saying 'This guy, ah, very noob wan!!! I'll send 300 K bombers then he'll stop ******* bombing my place!!' (Forgive the accent I just thought it was funny :D )


The worst trait from the past for me would be my tendency to give everyone a uniform inspection. Everyone at school would look at the persons face or body figure but for me I'll stare at his uniform biting my mouth so that I won't scream 'Tuck your shirt/ pull your belt/ etc etc, you imbecile!!'.
 
Hi Kiyoko_moon...


Ah...you're not Chinese. My apologies for jumping to conclusions. :eek:


My family on my father's maternal side is from Kumamoto. I would love to go there one day! Tokyo is a city I wouldn't want to spend too much time in because as you mentioned, it's too busy, crowded and stressful. I would prefer to be in a more subtle, quiet place like Kyoto.


I didn't realise that you had lived in Japan. That's so wonderful! When you lived there, did you feel as if you've returned home? When I first visited Scotland (before I moved here permanently), I felt so happy, as if I had just returned home. I love living here and wouldn't even think of moving back to America. It would break my heart if I was ever forced to move back to America.


I think that some of your traits could still be related to a past life but I think with time and more research into your past lives, you'll find the answers you're searching for. :thumbsup:
 
Hi Jere


Jere,


I understand very much your feeling on America as I feel the same way. That is really interesting your father's blood is from Kumamoto. Have you been there? It is famous for castles and it is warmer than Tokyo. You know I was only in Kumamoto for about 3 mos, and during that time it was so stressful as I was teaching English at a private school for over 40 hrs a week. My weekends I would go to the mountain to a temple and have quiet. I didnt have time to feel or think..until I went Saitama. there my work was much calmer, and yes i felt an instant feeling of home. i was not there long as my sister had twins and a serious illness so i had to leave back to the usa to help her.


I love china as well, but there also are things i really dont like too.


I am very happy you found your true home in Scotland :thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
Now personally do feel that most of out traits that we have in our lives come from our various past lives. Do think that who we are inwardly is what carries on from one life to the next life. And that these physical bodies we inhabit are just containers for our real inward selves.


Now all of my life, I have been attracted to and addicted to all things Native American even though in this life I am white. Do know that I have been Native American in quite a few of my various past lives it seems. For instance I just absolutely loovvee 'Powwow' Music and could listen to this all day long. This past summer was reading a book which listed various traits held in common among Native Americans. It was really interesting to myself in how many of these various traits that I personally have had in my own present life. My mother would often remark on how I was in my life and how different I was in my life from the others in the family. But she was happy for me that I had found my place in this life. I am indeed quite different it seems from the rest of my whole family in this life.


Just my two cents worth.
 
I did a lot of the English spellings when I was a kid as someone mentioned, as well as the Continental style of eating as we were discussing in another thread. I also have a fondness for and find comfort in hearing English accents.


However that all comes from having a close friend from England that was also my personal tutor in my previous life.


Other carryovers of mine are reading magazines from back to front (such as how Asian books are printed) and things like that.


What's interesting is that my friend (past life husband who is still chinese in this life) has been trying to get me to use a few "speak chinese" apps on my phone. He speaks cantonese, but I also downloaded a few that were in mandarin, not knowing what they were.


They're kind of neat in that you can click the word or phrase and hear it spoken. What's quite unsurprising to me is that I've pretty quickly picked up the mandarin and i've had a harder time with the cantonese.


I guess it's also sort of surprising because i've had almost no exposure to spoken mandarin and tons of catonese..


I agree too, I don't really care for living in america or western culture as a whole, but I guess for now this is where i'm stuck lol.
 
I wish I can speak Chinese but somehow for me I have a lot of difficulty learning the language so I only understand a little bit. I often envy my friends who can speak chinese and my cousin (he's half Indian and the only one of my grandfather's grandchildren that can speak Chinese) But for other languages such as those not using other types of alphabets or kanji I can understand them. I can't even take Chinese class in my school as its too high level for me... T.T
 
LOL! I laughed aloud with the image of your mom playing the video game! My brothers and I used to play tabletop wargames. They eventually quit because they couldn't stand the fact that their little sister was wiping them all over the map! Seems I have quite the knack for armored warfare! (You probably would have loved it. They kept sticking me with the Germans because I was supposed to lose. Oh, the looks on their faces when I captured Patton!!! :eek: They actually tried to say I wasn't allowed to do that!) I'd drive you crazy with my clothing, though. I'm a chronic slob. Tattered blue jeans, battered sneakers, sloppy T-shirts... yeah! :D )
 
Wuxin


Wuxin,


do you believe there is a connection between past lives and the ability to pick up the language? because i wonder if some people have been convinced they were, say, chinese in alot of thier past lives but felt disheartened at the fact that they had no ability to learn the language....:confused:
 
Shiftkitty said:
LOL! I laughed aloud with the image of your mom playing the video game! My brothers and I used to play tabletop wargames. They eventually quit because they couldn't stand the fact that their little sister was wiping them all over the map! Seems I have quite the knack for armored warfare! (You probably would have loved it. They kept sticking me with the Germans because I was supposed to lose. Oh, the looks on their faces when I captured Patton!!! :eek: They actually tried to say I wasn't allowed to do that!) I'd drive you crazy with my clothing, though. I'm a chronic slob. Tattered blue jeans, battered sneakers, sloppy T-shirts... yeah! :D )
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Captured Patton, HAHAHAHA!! I remembered a few war games I played, I almost captured Keitel, this close. But I believe my mother captured Albert Speer...
 
kiyoko_moon418 said:
Wuxin,
do you believe there is a connection between past lives and the ability to pick up the language? because i wonder if some people have been convinced they were, say, chinese in alot of thier past lives but felt disheartened at the fact that they had no ability to learn the language....:confused:
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Most probably. I found learning Chinese very very hard. So, it is very embarrassing for me to enter a Chinese shop and then telling them I can't understand the language. But if you play any German movie, I can tell you where they came from and roughly what they're saying. But the one I found harder than learning the language is actually writing, they have steps which you have to do it exactly. Also I'm left-handed so I had some experience my hand getting whacked by the teacher.
 
That's what I was also just saying about speaking madarin, which is what I most likely spoke. Its easy for me to pick up, but Cantonese is hard.


I also think though how recent the life was affects your memory of it as well.
 
You know, I really don't give too much credence to the notion of occupying multiple bodies in one lifetime, but that bit I posted about tabletop wargames got me to thinking about it last night because of a strong trait I have in this life.


I like big vehicles. I really like big vehicles. The bigger the better. My truck is a 1968 F-100, 8 foot bed, sits up kind of high, it's one of the big boys of production trucks. I'm 5'2 and it looks like a behemoth when I stand next to it. I've driven larger trucks (no semi trucks... yet) and vehicles that I am seriously undersized for. Yet to me these beasts are gentle giants that will do exactly what I tell them to do. In all my life I only ever turned down driving a large truck once, and that was because someone who was far better qualified to handle it was available, and getting the load to its destination quickly and intact was paramount. (I did sit behind the wheel for a bit, though!)


Anyway, along these lines, when I was 8 or 9 we went to the county fair and the Army had an armor display, including a tank that you could crawl around on and in. It was an old Sherman. I scrambled all over that thing like a monkey on crack and wound up inside. When I popped my head back up out of the hatch, I had a pair of toy binoculars that I raised to my eyes and I started scanning the area. I told my brother and a sergeant who was standing nearby for safety reasons where I wanted fire concentrated, where I wanted the other tanks that were on display to be moved, etc. I was playing, of course, but the sergeant agreed with most of my assessment had we been in a combat situation.


In later years I built a model of a Tiger 1 and I felt an almost sentimental attachment to the thing. I added some minor touches for weathering and damage and probably spent more time with paint and decals on that model than I have on any other model I have ever built.


Hmmmm... what was the average age of a German tank jockey in WW2? I hold the Tiger 1's dearer than any other tank out there and have a thought I want to work out.
 
Its really sad that there almost no Tiger tanks now. But I heard there was one in working condition at France :) I really enjoy Mercedes, it is my favourite vehicle and I would love to own one when I can drive... But I also don't mind Volkswagen but prefer the Mercedes.


I remember when I went to a police station (I've forgotten why) I saw a policeman holding a M16 and my sister was cowering behind my father. She's afraid of anybody in a police uniform. I went to the policeman and asked whether I could touch his gun. He actually let me feel the M16 (Don't worry I didn't press the trigger button ;) ) and whenever I walk at the shopping mall, sometimes small kids get intimidated by my presence. And I think I saw one doing the Hitler salute at me once... (Hopefully not)


And my curricular activities, the most popular event would be the marching event. And I hate it. Mainly because the commander is my sister's PL murderer and they laugh at my march. I used to take it as an insult as they say my style look like a goose. But now, I take that as a compliment. But my boss say it is excellent, reminds him of an actual soldier. Me standing straight all and hearing all the orders. I only made 1 mistake during the entire year of marching.


And of course, in sniper games. I dominated everyone in one. I was at a game arcade and there was one where I stared in a sniper scope and shoot the terrorist in a very accurate what snipers would see. I dominated my family as I keep getting head shots and my sister keep shooting the hostages. She then started saying 'Maybe you were Erwin Konig!' (I was at Stalingrad and also as a sniper on secret assignment but I don't think I was him. My sister knew Vassili and he's currently one of my friend and comrade on the same marching team.)


PS. I am currently hearing Lore lore lore all over and over for the past 3 hours..... Help me....
 
I believe a lot of my traits are. I think if reincarnation is true, then much of our psychological ways, I would imagine, have past life influence. Emotional traits are strong ones...
 
I think it's extremely possible that a lot of our traits are carried over from past lives. To give a few examples of mine:


- Maps. I literally stock maps like squirrels and chipmunks stock nuts for the winter. When I go on road trips with my family, I refuse to let anyone else use the map. Even just a slight hint at giving up the map makes me territorial. I utterlay refuse to let anyone even lightly touch any of the many road maps I have. My mother -much to my dismay- insisted that I let my younger sister take a road map to school for a project they were doing, and she took Alabama, and now it's destroyed :( I am scared to death of one of my maps getting even slightly wrinkled, wet or dog eared, let alone destroyed. The idea makes my hyperventilate because there is always the intruding thought that if the map gets destroyed then "we'll be doomed" :confused:


- As with the above, I am also obsessed with boats (like the old boats of the 1600s) and traveling. I absolutely despise being stuck at home or in the same place for an extended period of time.


- I have an irrational fear of disease and bacteria. Some will say "Oh, it's not irrational to fear disease". The way I fear it, yes, yes it is irrational. I will go BIO-WAR at the slightest cough or sniffle. It could simply be a seasonal allergy and I will whip out my bio-suit and go crazy with the decontaminates and what not, as if I'm getting ready for an impending biological war. Unfortunately, I don't have a bio-suit :freak:


- One of my biggest pet peeves is when people mispronounce German words :grr: I'm like the angry English teacher when someone messes up their grammar. Ironically, I was told by a native German speaker that I had exceptional skills in German, especially for a beginner (I was compelled to start learning German in fourth grade. It's the only language other than Russian that I've stuck with).


- From time to time, I become paranoid that someone is conspiring against me :freak: I do, seriously. The people that know that, think I'm crazy.


I can give many more examples, but I can't think of them right now.
 
- Maps. I love maps. I work as a graphic artist and am known as a cartographer. A psychic once told me that I love maps because I was once a sailor. Perhaps that is true. Maps of far away places. I think this also explains my knowledge of geography. One of my best subjects in school, after art.


- Not Keen on Sailing. I have a dislike of being on water in a boat. Ships are OK, but not small boats. This probably relates to above. I drowned as a sailor and to this day, I'd prefer not being on the water in a boat.


- Art. I love art and the exploration of art. No idea where that comes from. Its foreign in my family. No one in my family tree was or is an artist.


- War & History. I have a lust for knowledge on anything and everything to do with war and history. The history I love does not have to pertain to war. I have been a soldier many times in my past lives. I don't need psychics to tell me this, although they insist on telling me anyway. Too many memories to draw on.


- Camping. I like camping, but I cannot shake the feeling this is mainly because of war. I have always had shades of memories while sitting around a camp fire. How many times in the last three or four thousand years have I sat around a camp fire, poking at it with a stick. Probably too many times to count. This is an act that probably doesn't change much through the ages.


- Working on Long Difficult Projects. I have memories of past lives where I worked in an office. A clerk. Working on long, boring, assignments. Mostly accounting type work. In this life I have a knack of working on long projects that no one else will touch. I like the detail and the complexity -- something satisfying about it.


- Mispronouncing German and Russian words (sorry, I just had to write that : angel ). I got told off at a restaurant earlier this year because I mispronounced the name: Borodino. Borodino is a battle that was fought in 1812 between Russia and France. The 200th anniversary is coming up next year. I pointed this out to a friend of mine at a restaurant, but the two Russian fellows sitting next to us interrupted our conversation to point out I had butchered the pronunciation of their home town. I thought that was funny, but the two "Russian Mob" looking gentlemen were serious. However, I have never had any language skills in this life, which is surprising since I have memories of being English, German, Austrian, French (Burgundian), Chinese, and probably more. Where do those language skills go once you have used them?
 
PastPilot: - Maps. I love maps. I work as a graphic artist and am known as a cartographer. A psychic once told me that I love maps because I was once a sailor. Perhaps that is true. Maps of far away places. I think this also explains my knowledge of geography. One of my best subjects in school, after art.
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Same here - I love nautical maps. I even had a dream of the Drake Passage on a map not too long ago this year. I also have a love of old compasses. If I had the means and the money I'd buy maps that I found, they're 19c. nautical maps/charts of the area around the Aland Islands as well as an old 19c. compass.

- Not Keen on Sailing. I have a dislike of being on water in a boat. Ships are OK, but not small boats. This probably relates to above. I drowned as a sailor and to this day, I'd prefer not being on the water in a boat.
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I'm the opposite here - I love going out on the water - ships or boats... I wish I could go out now off the coast here sailing on a boat...it would certainly help me 'recharge' from all the 'abrasions' from land. :freak:
 
In one past life I was a prostitute. In this life I am the extreme opposite. Saying more would be TMI ..
 
Mama2HRB said:
In one past life I was a prostitute. In this life I am the extreme opposite. Saying more would be TMI ..
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Having that experience could be the reason why you are the opposite now. Perhaps that was not a pleasant experience for you. I'm not judging, just throwing out the idea. I remember a life as a prostitute as well.
 
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