Traits that carry over

I've noticed over the last year or so that I have an odd little trait that I feel sure is brought from a past life. It sounds silly but I often notice that when I'm in a car, I will have positioned my left hand in an unusual position on my lap. It's always the left hand and it's always the exact same position. I never consciously do it, I simply look down and there it is - my weird little hand!!

I pointed it out to a friend once who laughed and said that it looked like I was holding invisible reins. I have recently looked into how reins were held when driving carriages and I was stunned to discover that the hand position is almost identical and you would always use the left hand because the right hand was reserved for the whip. May be nothing but it's just one of those quirky little traits that makes me smile when I notice it.

Acclaimation to high-altitude regions.


Hello,


Bumping-up discussion "Traits that Carry-Over" -- regarding how people acclaimate to living at high-altitudes in their present lives.


Might difficulties in acclaimating to high-altitudes in a person's present life partially be based on a person's past-lives lived at regions much closer to sea-level?


This inquiry might tie-in to health and medical factors carrying-over between past and present lives!


Thank-you

This is a good thread and one I'd like to throw my 2 cents into.


A couple weeks ago my grandpa died. We were at the wake and they had many pictures up of him throughout his life. There was one in particular that grabbed everyone's attention. It was a portrait of him when he was a young man. EVERYONE that saw that picture said he looked exactly like me. It was uncanny. This is not coming from me. I had so many people approach me and tell me this that it was starting to get annoying and embarrassing. Anyway, the point being that the strong resemblance had nothing to do with a past life connection. It was entirely genetic.


I know there are many people out there, even credible researchers who strongly believe that there are physical traits that follow the soul matching them in appearance with their past life selves. I will admit there is photographic evidence out there that even I have to admit that the resemblence is striking. However, I have a hard time accepting that the basic structure of someone's physical appearance is anything more than genetic in nature.


I do have a theory as to why these strong resemblances occur from one lifetime to the next. The answer is - style. We are all creatures of habit and we all have our own unique styles. We tend to keep eating the same foods, listening to the same music, watching the same movies, and of course wearing the same clothes. I don't know about you guys, but when I go shopping for new clothes I know what I like, know what I'm used to, and I know what I'll likely take home with me. My wardrobe is pretty consistent. I have my signature style. (or lack there of : angel )


Why wouldn't it be that way selecting bodies for our incarnations? Why wouldn't we stick to some kind of familiarity? I recognize personalities are different. Some people I know you could set a clock to their habits, others are trying new things everytime I turn around. That might explain why some have consistently similar appearances from life to life while others drastically change.


Of course this is merely my opinion. I could be way off, but it makes sense to me.


For me it seems that for body build an average to slender build has been consistent for me. Also I tend to go with darker hair colors. One example of a little variance from this would be in my life as the French girl my hair was closer to blonde. In my two American lives prior to this there was a bit of a difference between the two. In South Carolina I was a red-headed woman and very well-endowed. In my most recent life I was a short and petite girl with dark hair and brown eyes, and was very much not well-endowed.


In this life I'm above average height, an average build, brown hair, and have a hazel colored eyes. To be honest, I don't like being as tall as I am. Though I'm not abnormally tall, I feel like I've never been this tall before, and I do at times feel some discomfort with it.

Meyer's-Briggs Personality Type Indicator


Do you all know of it? I have wondered if our personality "type" carries over from lifetime to lifetime, and also whether one "type" is a more spiritually advanced "type" than another-- which would mean that over the course of lifetimes our personality type would begin to change.


I would venture to suggest that "N" (iNtuitive) types would be more likely than "S" (Sensor) types to give credence to the MB Personality Type Indicator, and also that the vast majority of people who contribute to this forum (are open to reincarnation) are "N" (iNtuitive) types.

I'm not entirely sure. I've seen pictures of people with PL to look similar but not so similar. Something in their eyes, expression, smile.. There's just something there that shows them all.


But I do agree with Truthseeker that style should be similar. After all, you were you. As quoted by George S. Patton in his poem, 'Through a Glass, Darkly' (I did not know he can write poetry.. That guy's a genius, military mastermind and poetic!): 'So as through a glass, and darkly, The age long strife I see, Where I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me.'


For me, err.. My eyes? Many folks say its either a madman's eyes or a pure genius.. I'm picking madman, though. It is the classic Asian eyes shape. But the eye colour; its dark brown but in the sunlight, looks almost dark blood red... Scared a couple folks, they thought I was a vampire.. (Long story) and its, how you say, has a Prussian blue highlight around it. Faint but noticeable. I just noticed that when I scared myself at 3AM in the morning when I entered the washroom.

This may have been said before but...


I think it makes sense that a lot of people would have similar eyes and smiles in their different lives. After all, "the eyes are the windows to the soul" so there should be something about them. (I'm often told that there's something about my eyes).


I think smiles should be similar because they are meant to be linked to personality. I know personality is shaped a little by environment and experience but I believe that essentially personalities are the same throughout lives, but change a little from one life to the next.


For myself, I'm sure that a lot of my behaviour comes from my last life as a Georgian era gentleman (the good behaviour that is).

With all this talk of looking like our past lives I think we should note that this isn't really always good validation. There was a person I thought I was in a past life (I was wrong) and we did share a physical resemblance. It even got to the point where it was pointed out about four years in a row at school. That can be a bit misleading! Though some people didn't see it, there definitely were a few who apparently did!

I have to agree with this. It should also be taken into account that our bodies can change over time - so there is the likelihood of any similarities being lost at some point. The body I came into looks nothing like it did even back in 2004. (It looks far healthier now thankfully!)


Therefore, I prefer to make other connections with things - memories mainly and secondly the odd 'far-fetched' coincidence.

Red Night said:

With all this talk of looking like our past lives I think we should note that this isn't really always good validation. There was a person I thought I was in a past life (I was wrong) and we did share a physical resemblance. It even got to the point where it was pointed out about four years in a row at school. That can be a bit misleading! Though some people didn't see it, there definitely were a few who apparently did!

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I agree with that too. You can mistake yourself as someone else... So, you can't just look at the person based on looks, it also must follow your memories and others.

I also had quite a few things that pointed to me being that person, minus looks. Personality wise, it was a bit strange at times. There are times when I still believe I was that person, yet I don't think it's the truth. Ah, what am I going to do?! haha


Basically though, looking alike just seems almost novel and I don't think it should be taken too seriously. Not to say that we shouldn't give it any credit at all though.

I have past life memories of some from my soul group whom I have known in my current life. It took me a moment to recognise them in my PL memories but once I saw who they were I couldn't unsee it. They just are the same except they are wearing a different body. You can see it in how they move and express themselves. Now when I remember those people either from my current life or my past lives they are interchangable. I really could see who they were in their eyes. recognising them was a great bridging of lives lived and a great connection of souls for me.