HEALING YOURSELF BY HELPING OTHERS
Spreading Knowledge to Overcome a Past-Life Fear of Failure

If you’ve had a past life in which your opportunity to successfully complete your soul’s life plan was stymied by your lack of education, then it’s almost inevitable that you’ll have a past-life fear of Failure.

Perhaps you never had the opportunity to learn to read or write. You might have been forced into an apprenticeship after just a couple of years of second-rate schooling. Or maybe your parents denied you an education, simply because you were a girl.

Whatever the cause, a fear of Failure means you never have had the chance to follow the path your soul carved out for you before you were born. Life plans are roadmaps created for each incarnation, paved with the best of intentions, but subject to often radical and frequently unexpected change. No matter how much your soul might struggle to keep you on track, your life can end up being nothing like the one you planned.

The resonances from a past-life fear of Failure are many. Your soul’s irrational belief that a couple of short, disappointing lifetimes in your recent history means you can expect the same this time around leads to such symptoms as anxiety “because there’s something I should be doing, but I don’t know what it is,” or a feeling of “what’s the point,” because it could all be over tomorrow.

It’s completely irrational, of course. By eating well, staying fit, and avoiding fast-moving objects, you could live to be a hundred or more. Your soul is focusing on the past, not the present.

But, no matter how the fear may be influencing you now, your soul will always have the feeling of having unfinished business. It will regret that it didn’t accumulate the experience and knowledge it set out to achieve.

So, what’s the cure for a fear of Failure? One surefire way to heal any past-life fear is through what’s called a Spiritual Act. In this case, having missed out on education, life experience, and the opportunity to learn, the related Spiritual Act is all about helping those who suffer as you once did.

“Healing yourself by helping others” is something my spirit guides say all the time.  And when I come across a client with a fear of Failure, I’ll often find the motivation to help spread knowledge is just beneath the surface.

Like many people who have failure in their soul’s past, I’m led to the pursuit of knowledge with a passion. I read non-fiction all the time, and currently have at least five books on the go. Like many of my ilk, I feel life is too short to read fiction.

Last year, for my birthday, my wife presented me with a book that was right up my alley: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kampkwamba. In this most inspirational of stories, William describes his struggle, in the midst of a famine, and a crippling lack of resources, to become the first person in his village with electricity. He does this by building a windmill out of scrap. After reading the book, I made a mental note to do something further down the road that might help people like William get their hands on one of the country’s rarest commodities: books.

A few weeks ago, I’d finished telling Jennifer (not her real name) about a past life in which she’d died without ever learning to read or write. Since the Spiritual Act that aids healing was clearly to help others achieve some level of education, I said, “Perhaps you could send books, or help build a library in, say, Malawi.” There was a slight pause on the other end of the phone. “That’s what my best friend does,” she said.

A week later I spoke to Jennifer’s friend, Shannon Brown. “I spent many years in Malawi with the Peace Corp,” she told me. “Then when I finally got back to the States, I started sending books to head teachers I’d met there.

Shannon assumed that being Scottish, I’d know all about Scotland and Malawi’s shared history. The missionary David Livingstone, for example, gave his name to the city of Livingstonia, and the town of Blantyre is named after his birthplace. I said as little as possible to avoid betraying my ignorance. Instead I mentioned a plan I’d been incubating to create a page on my website where those looking to heal a past-life fear of Failure could find instructions for sending books to Sub-Saharan Africa. She told me she’d be delighted to supply a list of schools and libraries that could benefit from outside support.

A few days later, I ran into an old friend in my local coffee shop. I’d started telling her about the client who was guided to send books to Malawi, the best friend who did just that, and how I planned to help my many clients with a fear of Failure by offering a simple way to do the same, when her new boss, someone I hadn’t previously met, walked in.

As he pulled up a chair, he caught a few words of our conversation. “Malawi?” he said. “I’ve been there four times. And my partner sends books, and helps support libraries there.”

A few days later I met with his partner, Olivia Pendergast, someone with a driving passion for helping the people of Malawi. This talented artist has spent most of the last three years in Malawi, where she became involved with both a school and an orphanage. Now back in the States, she’s recently moved to my neighborhood.

While she was in Malawi, Olivia found dry, secure premises in the Nkhotakota area, and managed to get one of the schoolteachers into a librarian-training program. Now she just needs books and the money to send them. As she puts it, “I want to flood Malawi with books!”

December 2010 marks the launch of the Soul World Malawi Book Project. It’s not a non-profit organization or a charity, but simply a way to link those who wish to be of service with those who struggle to acquire an education in one of the poorest countries in the world.

By helping other souls who suffer as you once did, you’ll find yourself on the fast track to fulfilling one of your soul’s most significant goals: Knowledge. Bringing knowledge to the world is spiritual, and heals those who give, while immeasurably enhancing the lives of those who receive.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is 14 year-old William Kamkwamba’s story of how he succeeded, in the face of drought, famine, and derision, to transform his world. With the help of a battered old textbook he found amongst the sparse collection of titles in his local library, William built a windmill from an old bicycle dynamo and various bits of junk, bringing electricity to his remote Malawian village for the first time.

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