How to overcome the overwhelming yearning?

[Vogue_1983.]

Since I can remember I’ve had yearnings for a time past. They fluctuate, but in this instant my yearning for that place is overwhelming. It’s consuming my thoughts, along with the yearning for a person I met overseas that I feel I knew in a past life. I fear I’ll never see them again because I have very little information on them.

It feels like there’s a piece of me missing. A hole in my soul. I don’t feel I’m in the right place at the right time or even in the right culture, I feel so removed and lost, almost depressed.

I can’t really talk to anyone I know about this because they wouldn’t understand, so I decided this forum is the best community to reach out to. What are your tips and tricks?

Thanks in advance!

Ophelia! Xx

I wish I could give you some advice,but unfortunately that's hard for me too I struggle with the same feelings,and it leaves me scared of stuff like new year bc everytime the year changes it feels like I'm pulled further and further away from my "home" and from all the common sence.I notice myself,my interests and values clashing constantly with those of people today and that's hard.Also I terribly miss the person I was,the environment I lived in and above all the people I was close with like family and friends.I'm left to constantly wonder if they're still here and where exactly they are,if they remember me and their past lives etc.After a bit of thinking I think I'm able to give some advice though.If it just becomes too much you could try to distract yourself by going outside to do stuff with family or friends,so that you're brain will be occupied with them and the stuff that you're doing at that moment.Even though while doing this my depressed thoughts are still somewhere in the back of my mind,I already feel less misserable that way and having thoughts in the back of your mind is still better than having them all over the place.(except Ifor when I come back home from it all the thoughts slowly creep back up on me)I can imagine that this doesn't work for everyone and maybe not for you.There are days that I'm in a bad of a state that I can't even go outside for just a bit,but I hoped this helped you in some way

 

[Jaimie]

If Im gonna name a place I miss I suppose I am fortunate enough to be close to even in this life which is the sea, the beach, that in a way stay the same throughout life times. Maybe if you got a hobby, interest from a past life that you can take up now ( like I can with hanging around the beach, swimming etc ) you might feel a little bit better ? I know it is a small comfort, but anyway...

 

[Ophelia3]

If you’re longing for Egypt, I found a really neat place in Melbourne that does Ancient Egyptian scents.

Also I had found a place in Scotland that made Ancient Egyptian perfumes, but by the time I had the money to buy some (it was not cheap) they had closed up shop.

Lemme know if you want the names of these places via PM.

Eva x

Yes! That sounds lively I love Egyptian/ME perfumes, they’re my favourite! Xx

It's not really an every day occurrence, but when I see Native American stuff I feel like crying (and I often do when I'm home alone watching those videos on the internet). Not out of sadness, but this deep longing to return to the culture and open plains I used to live in.

I actually could go back to where I used to live here in America, and it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg, but I never felt a really strong need to. The land is still there and largely untouched, but the culture I was part of is long gone.

That’s how I feel also, sadness that I’ll never be able to return. I also suffer major jealousy, it’s something I’m trying to overcome atm, but if I see ancient Egypt on TV I get a flush of almost angst, excitement and “it’s mine” attitude. I use to find it very hard to be happy for those who had just recently travelled Egypt. A full “Why are you there? You don’t belong there? It’s mine” mentality. Not sure why, I should really explore this. I was thinking about it earlier funnily enough when a celebrity shared photos of herself in front of the pyramids and instantly went into “it’s mine” but then came to “how beautiful, good for her”. Ahaha

Does anyone else have these weird mentalities, or is that just me?

 

[Ophelia3]

Yes, especially when in a new place.
A palm-tree alone maybe not, but not long ago a saw the tops of two palm trees above the roof of a rather old tall house at the end of a rather narrow long street - and it gave me quite a pang.

Yes that’s it, it’s a sudden sharp pang. A certain familiarity.

I wish I could give you some advice,but unfortunately that's hard for me too I struggle with the same feelings...

Sometimes it does help trying to distract myself, but other days distractions don’t work. I often wonder why I have these fluctuations. Why now and not before? Why do I have an innate yearning for this place. I wish I could discover more about my PL, I think that’d help quite a bit.

If Im gonna name a place I miss I suppose I am fortunate enough to be close to even in this life which is the sea, the beach, that in a way stay the same throughout lifetimes. Maybe if you got a hobby, interest from a past life that you can take up now ( like I can with hanging around the beach, swimming etc ) you might feel a little bit better? I know it is a small comfort, but anyway...

Where I live is very limited in that field, I think mostly the fact that where I live is so cold, I really miss the sun, I think if I lived in a warmer climate it’d actually help a lot! I’ve been thinking about this more and more lately. This weather really amplifies the yearning.

Thank you every for the responses thus far! I really appreciate everyone’s thoughts and help! Xx

 

[Klaud]

I wouldn't say it's so much jealousy for me, it's more of a bittersweet feeling that I can't really describe for some reason.

 

[Vogue_1983.]

Literally, I am a ‘nobody’ in Germany, but my past life selves from WWII are ‘somebodies’, everyone knows them. If I were to go there, I would not be able to speak to anyone either, does that make me sad? No. It means that I could ‘reexplore’ places I’ve been without people recognising me.

I hope you find what you are looking for

Eva x

I have the same thing actually.My second past life constantly gets bashed online,I can't imagine what it would be like if I would go out looking exactly like myself from then.Idk if people nowadays still know about me,but I guess that the older generation from England and perhaps Germany would recognise me and start some sort of a riot lol.

 

[Ophelia3]

I wouldn't say it's so much jealousy for me, it's more of a bittersweet feeling that I can't really describe for some reason.

I feel that too, some of these emotions are so hard to describe and elaborate on. Perhaps that’s what I’m experiencing too, a sort of bittersweetness. I do feel there’s a pinch of possessiveness though, something I should explore!

Thanks for sharing with me though, it’s all been helpful and I have rounded up a few idea’s how to healthily approach the yearning. I don’t think it’ll ever go away though, in fact I think it’ll get worse with age! Like someone mentioned above, it’s like being further, and further away from that time you yearn for so much.

Ophelia. Xx

 

[Eva1942]

I have the same thing actually.My second past life constantly gets bashed online,I can't imagine what it would be like if I would go out looking exactly like myself from then.Idk if people nowadays still know about me,but I guess that the older generation from England and perhaps Germany would recognise me and start some sort of a riot lol.

What I mean was, that I could return to Germany as my ‘now self’ and no one would ever know that part of me was one of what they term as ‘a evil Nazi’.

I would be free to visit all the places I frequented in my WWII lifetime (both as the Nazi and the Jew in-exile) and no one would be none the wiser!

I’ve always joked and said that I would most likely be thrown out of any tour of Holocaust sites because I’d know more than the guide and that wouldn’t be right! (well not for the guide conducting the tour LOL)

Also adding to this, I could even return to Egypt and no one would ever know I’m a reincarnated Queen from the 18th Dynasty and a reincarnated Pharaoh from the 19th Dynasty. Egyptians are still calling that past life self of mine as ‘Egypt’s Great Grandfather’

Eva x

 

[Eva1942]

Thanks for sharing with me though, it’s all been helpful and I have rounded up a few idea’s how to healthily approach the yearning. I don’t think it’ll ever go away though, in fact I think it’ll get worse with age! Like someone mentioned above, it’s like being further, and further away from that time you yearn for so much.

Ophelia. Xx

Actually, I’ve learned to look upon it as feeling quite proud of what I achieved in those lifetimes. I’m talking across the board and I feel that makes the yearning less. Just like my Swedish Royalty lifetime — I have no need to visit Sweden (I just go to IKEA haha NO, I’m kidding..) and I don’t yearn to visit Sweden.

Ironically, I yearn to visit Denmark because it is where I had my Nordic Shieldmaiden lifetime. I am drawn to the city of Odense, but I’m trying to work out if that is a influence of this lifetime and having had a friend from there. The yearning is not as bad as Egypt so I manage to sooth that yearn by focusing on other things.

Yearning means you left something unfinished there. In that lifetime you had not a chance to do or finish something there, therefore it ‘feels’ like the right time to go and discover what it is that you left unfinished.

OR.....

The yearning could mean that you miss something from that lifetime. I often miss my Egyptian lifetimes because life was simple then, you didn’t have worries about money, bills and the only thing you had to worry about was your children getting sick from a scorpion or something such as that. THAT is why I yearn for Egypt.

Eva x

 

[Vogue_1983.]

What I mean was, that I could return to Germany as my ‘now self’ and no one would ever know that part of me was one of what they term as ‘a evil Nazi’.

Yeah I know what you meant.At the time I was English and a Nazi sympathiser,and I was actually well known for it.During the war I was considered "the most hated woman in England"This may come as random information now,but I was just scared that saying this would imideantly give away who I was in that life and have people on here think of me negativelyBut to most people I'm still a forgotten part of history so I guess nobody will find out Whenever people talk about the Nazi's I try not to say much but i'ts funny to know that these people don't know about my past lives and who I was and that they would be shook if they knew lol.

 

[Jaimie]

I guess I have an overwhelming yearning to make my yesterday's wrong doing right, differently, but there is not a thing I can do about it now. Maybe I had to go through that in order to finally get it, and the pain from it will help me not to repeat my mistake.

 

[Cyrus]

I guess I have an overwhelming yearning to make my yesterday's wrong doing right, differently, but there is not a thing I can do about it now. Maybe I had to go through that in order to finally get it, and the pain from it will help me not to repeat my mistake.

That's it. No use crying over spilt milk. What's done can't be undone. That life is finished, there is no return to it in any way. The only thing we can do is to learn from our mistakes in order not to repeat them.

I can't see any sense in this kind of yearning. To begin with, there should be no memory leaks from our past lives, it's a kind of a defect in the soul-body coupling, that the evolution has not yet repaired. Some of us suffer from these leakages more, some less. Just luck, we should not try to find any sense in it. All this IMHO, of course.

 

[KenJ]

Do you folk think that was unplanned?

 

[Cyrus]

Do you folk think that was unplanned?

As unplanned as any natural selection can be.

A body that (when coupled with a soul) produced an individual with greater PL memory leaks, simply gave origin to a less psychologically stable individual, that died earlier.
Thus, the evolution went in the direction of more hermetic PL memories. IMHO.

 

[Ophelia3]

That's it. No use crying over spilt milk. What's done can't be undone. That life is finished, there is no return to it in any way. The only thing we can do is to learn from our mistakes in order not to repeat them.

I can't see any sense in this kind of yearning. To begin with, there should be no memory leaks from our past lives, it's a kind of a defect in the soul-body coupling, that the evolution has not yet repaired. Some of us suffer from these leakages more, some less. Just luck, we should not try to find any sense in it. All this IMHO, of course.

All a lot easier said than done unfortunately. Not seeing any sense in it doesn’t make the yearning evaporate, it’s a very (speaking for myself) deep-rooted emotion. Knowing you can’t return almost makes it more difficult to process.

Again, I think if I could tap into this PL more it’d be a healing process.

 

[Cyrus]

All a lot easier said than done unfortunately. Not seeing any sense in it doesn’t make the yearning evaporate, it’s a very (speaking for myself) deep-rooted emotion. Knowing you can’t return almost makes it more difficult to process.

Again, I think if I could tap into this PL more it’d be a healing process.

I fully agree with you, and I know what it is from my own experience.

And I never offered a solution to the problem - I just don't know any.

Best regards.

 

[Ophelia3]

I fully agree with you, and I know what it is from my own experience.

And I never offered a solution to the problem - I just don't know any.

Best regards.

That’s okay.

In a way you’re lucky to not have experienced this kind of yearning for a past gone.

I say in a way because I do enjoy it to some degree, I suppose anything that brings me closer is better than nothing!

Thanks,

Ophelia.