5 Ways Karma From Your Past Lives Affects You Today

Karma is the memory of our souls, which means it's often long-standing, even stemming from prior lives. Indeed, the course of our current life is mostly predetermined by earlier lifetimes: What we didn't finish then, we come back to finish now.

Karma is the luggage your soul carries on its trip from life to life. Unfortunately, unlike luggage at the airport, this particular baggage never gets lost, which means you're stuck with it until you open it up and sort through its ancient contents. Without even knowing it, you may be experiencing karma that originated several lifetimes ago.

Karma places everyone into your life for a reason, and karmic relationships will play out as planned despite your best efforts.

Thanks to the media, we often think of karma as "what goes around comes around." But the reality of karma is more expansive than just being "punished" for our bad deeds—positive karma exists just as much as negative karma. If you stole, others will steal from you in following lives. If you nourished, you will be nourished.

There's a greater reason that karma repeats itself, and it's not to cause you pain. Instead, it's to teach you to take different actions for different results. If you're attracting the same type of partners into your life over and over again, it's time to stop and inspect your choices: Why do similar people keep coming in? What should you be doing differently?

This calls for honest introspection and evaluation of your own faults and weaknesses, which is admittedly hard to do. Don't be afraid to look within. Recognize what must be changed inside of you so as to change what's outside of you. Then, you can modify your behavior to end karmic patterns and progress in your potential.