Your Soul's Gift eChapters - Chapter 1: Healing: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born

By Robert Schwartz

Would you like to understand the deeper meaning and purpose of your life challenges - challenges that YOU YOURSELF planned before you were born? Would you like to heal emotionally from those challenges and live a life of greater peace, happiness, love, and joy?

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9780977679416

Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz is certified as both a Past Life Soul Regression Therapist and a Between Lives Soul Regression Therapist by the International Between Lives Regression Network. He is pioneer in the field of pre-birth planning, the study of how and why we ourselves plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, prior to birth. He is the author of two groundbreaking books, Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born and Your Soul's Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. He lectures internationally at such venues as the College of Psychic Studies (England), Findhorn (Scotland), the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences (Canada), and the International Conference on After Death Communication, Kripalu, and the United Nations (US).

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Prologue

"I WAS FOUR OR FIVE years old when the nightmares started. On some nights a huge, black spider dropped from above, its underbelly opening to devour me as its talons curled around my face. On other nights a massive shark rushed up from somewhere below, with rows of glittering, razor-sharp teeth around a mouth that became an immense dark abyss about to engulf me. Another time, a primeval bird of prey, with a beak like a knife, swooped down from the ceiling to plunge into my heart. Sometimes my nightmares didn’t coalesce into creatures, though. Instead, the walls of my bedroom crawled, or foggy clutches emerged from the night air. But always I felt the certainty of

Reviews for Your Soul's Gift eChapters - Chapter 1

[ionas_7 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is an important book.By means of communication through mediums and channels, Robert Schwartz examines the subject of pre-birth planning by having these interview angels, spirit guides and the souls of selected persons exposed to severe life challenges. We are given access to pre-birth conversations and thus gain “direct” information regarding how we arrange difficult life events beforehand with all the involved persons.Six types of challenges are dealt with, a chapter being devoted to each. These are physical illness, parenting handicapped children, deafness and blindness, drug addiction and alcoholism, death of a loved one and, finally, accidents.I was previously aware of the concept of pre-birth planning, but this well-written book has illuminated the matter clearly for me and I have been much comforted by reading it. Partly, I have myself considerable health challenges and have been aware of the fact that they had meaning, but have now been confirmed of this. The book has comforted me. Also, the book has taught me to respect brave persons I encounter who I understand have chosen their hard lot in life for purposes of growth.In the first chapter about physical illness, we meet Jon, who chose both to have AIDS and be gay. Jon planned the experience of having AIDS, not just for his own learning, but for the growth of his entire soul group. The progress we as personalities make on the Earth plane expands both our individual souls and every soul in our group. “The disease of AIDS is about splitting a desire for unconditional love with the belief that one does not deserve it.” Jon came down to his life to heal shame – the belief that he is not deserving of unconditional love.The author asks an angel what it would say to someone with AIDS who is trying to understand the deeper spiritual meaning. The angel replies “Remain very open in your heart. Follow that which comes only from the heart, and in this way many healings will occur on levels that are beyond your understanding.” I feel this is valuable advice.Of the souls in Jon’s soul group, Jon agreed to be the one with AIDS, while the others were incarnating around him to judge him, reject him and refrain from providing him with unconditional love.AIDS “points to a pattern of self-hatred among humankind … movement away from light, and a belief in the Self as the body and separate from All That Is.” AIDS is healing humanity.We also hear about Doris, who suffered from self-loathing and had a toxic self-image. She developed breast cancer. Through her illness Doris learnt the correct use of sexual energy, acceptance of the female form and self-love.Doris’s cancer is neither a failure nor a punishment. It is a form of healing, not illness,“As Jon and Doris released shame and self-loathing and chose instead to love themselves, they made it easier for every person on Earth to replace self-judgement with self-love.” They created a vibration or resonance of love that radiated well beyond their immediate sphere. “By surmounting the challenges we planned before birth, we create a resonance that heals humanity.”In the chapter about parenting handicapped children, we hear the story of Jennifer, who has two handicapped boys, one with Asperger’s Syndrome, bipolar disorder and ADD, the other one with severe autism and who is blind.The two boys were brothers in a previous life, where they also were Nazis. They chose to come back “communicationally disabled” to learn what it is like to have the truth and be unable to communicate it, since before “they had the truth and deliberately buried it.”In the chapter about deafness and blindness we are given the story of Penelope, who has been completely deaf since birth, She knew she was meant to be deaf “to better understand the neglected”. The medium, Staci, finds out that being deaf gives Penelope the opportunity to be more in touch with her “inner experience, intuition, thoughts, even the physical symptoms and feedback” her body gives her. It helps her to know herself.We also learn about Bob, who is blind. His life plan was designed to give him a deeper understanding of self-love through both its lack and the experience of its subsequent creation.The chapter on drug addiction and alcoholism is particularly illuminating, since this is a group whom we often judge, wondering why they don’t just pull themselves together and refrain from submitting to their addiction. The persons involved planned not only their addiction, but the specific addictive substance. We are told that for those addicted to drugs it is “essential to honour your past, know yourself, learn about who you are, and then love yourself”.We learn to see drug addicts not as such but as courageous souls who undertook the life challenge of drug addiction to learn self-nurturing.Pat, the alcoholic, had carried into this life the energy of fear. His plan was that fear would cause alcoholism, which in turn could lead to a healing of fear. He planned not only his alcoholism but the surmounting of that addiction. He had lost his connection with the All That Is, with God, with his own divine nature and spirituality. The return to seeking and achieving spiritual connection is motivated by the total lack of it, which the alcoholism causes. This was a classic learning-through-opposites life plan.The chapters on the death of a loved one and accidents are equally instructive.I found the book as a whole to be thoroughly illuminating, insightful, informative, satisfying, comforting and perfectly expressed. I would absolutely recommend this book to everyone. It is one of the most important books I have read this year, in fact, ever.

[luckycharm6139 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Your Souls Plan By Robert Schwartz was without a doubt one of the best books I have read on the subject matter of pre birth life planning. It completely explains why one would choose to be born into a difficult home life, with difficult parents, or circumstances, or why one would choose to have bad things happen to you during your life time.I have read many books by different authors and this book I was not able to put it down until I finished it. I do hope there will be more books forth coming by this amazing author. I reccommend it highly and can not say enough about it.

[melindalibrary · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This book is definitely not for the science-based, logical, rational person. I found the subtitle misleading: "Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born" implies to me that this book will give you the tools to discover the real meaning of the life you planned before you were born. It does not.There may be some helpful things for people to take away form this book. But the disturbing parts overwhelmed me to the point that I could not enjoy it. Basically, the premise is that everything that happens to you happens for a reason, AND that YOU planned this before you were born. Further, since your life plan was determined but NOT predetermined, the author is quick to note, since you have choices, except if you don't do what you planned when it is presented to you, then "circumstances" will continue to bring you the opportunity to experience it until you do, so I'm unclear where the free will is.... So the sum up of each story is that we shouldn't judge people's paths because they CHOSE this path. Which is nice, until you start thinking about it with any depth. So that five year old African girl who is raped by 40 year old men in her tribe because they believe having sex with a virgin will cure them of AIDS? Don't worry! She CHOSE that! Victims of domestic violence who are killed by their husbands/boyfriends after they leave? Don't worry! She CHOSE that! All the Jews killed during the Holocaust? Don't worry! They CHOSE that!Following the "logic" of Your Soul's Plan disturbs me way too much to be able to recommend this book.

[welshy72 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

When I saw this book in the Giveaway, I wanted to read it as it sounded interesting, I'm a firm believer in fate, so started this book with quite a lot of skepticism, could our lives really be planned before we were born? That's what I intended to find out.This book tells the stories of 10 people in different life situations they face, addiction, illness and death being some of the stories, disappointingly, the stories are only a few pages long with the rest of the chapters (around 20 pages) devoted to mediums and why they think the peoples life was already planned. It hasn't changed my opinion on life matter, I'm still a firm believer in fate.That said, I thought the book was really well written and the author clearly feels passionate about the subject. All in all, not a book for me but if your interested in this thing then this is the book for you.

[carpe_librum · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book is for those who believe - or are interested in learning more about - pre-birth planning. Author Robert Schwartz writes that the soul plans life's challenges/opportunities/lessons prior to birth. Not only that, the soul plans these major life events in conjunction with other souls, that will each play a role in life on earth with us - brothers, sisters, parents, partners, soul mates etc.We've all heard the phrase 'soul mates' and 'old soul'. Similarly, we've all had the experience of meeting someone for the first time and feeling like you've met them before, or suddenly just click.The book covers several themes such as: illnesses, children with disabilities, loss of a loved one and more. The author elaborates on each theme by including case studies which involve psychic readings from several practitioners.The book certainly raises many topics for debate and further exploration, and plenty of material for deep and meaningful discussions.Regardless of whether you are a 'believer' in pre-birth planning or not, I found Your Soul's Plan a spiritually enlightening read. If we could all approach life in this manner, with so much love and compassion, the world would certainly be a better place.

[naildoctors · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Previous this book was titled and published as: "Courages Souls: Do we plan our life challenges before birth?" Book falls under self help and new age. For me, I like to explore other explanations to life, this book like Sylvia Browne's, it address the fact, that our soul, is predestined, we choose our path in life before we are born, it goes in to small stories and the life experience of others to show documentation of what is going on around us. This is documenting the stories and giving us something else to thing about.

[lakenvelder_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book is a detailed exploration of pre-birth planning that your spirit. According to the book you have planned to challenge yourself to achieve goals. I reccoment this book to anyone who is interested in spritlatilty and enjoys reading "New Age" type books.

[ladyblossom · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The most amazing book I have ever read, it makes complete sense out of every situation we ever endure. Everyone should read this book.