I admit I have always believed in reincarnation: I believe we live multiple lifetimes and wonder if this is why we are attracted to certain countries for example. I have always had a love of all things Spanish and although I have never succeeded in learning the language there still persists this intense feeling that total understanding is just on the edge on my understanding.
Similarly I have always been attracted to Japan. This is how I discovered my link with Japan.
I had been having problem with severe pain in my left shoulder although I knew I had never injured it. At a workshop a friend offered to give me healing so I duly lay down on his couch and he started. Within minutes the pain in my shoulder increased to almost unbearable levels and I was having difficulty in breathing. Calming me down, Richard asked me where I was. Without hesitation I replied on the field. With subtle prompting such as what do you see - I revealed what I believe to be a past life.
I could "feel" myself as an extremely arrogant leader of some sort. I was a man, Oriental; short in stature and wearing a leather breast -plate, dyed a dark red with markings on it and a winged leather helmet the shape of which I have since discovered was Samurai headgear. I was standing on top of a hill looking down on a battlefield.
I could "hear" horses screaming, this stuck in my mind because I had never considered the animal pain in battle before. Indeed the impression was so strong another woman present said she could hear them too. As I watched I entered the battlefield and was struck down by a sword which cleaved me through my left shoulder and down into my heart and lungs.
My shoulder pain has never bothered me again but even as I write this I am "aware" of a pressure there not normally present.
Such is the power of the mind.
