People Who Have Unfinished Business From A Past Life Often Feel 8 Other-Worldly Sensations
Alex Sheldon | Unsplash Most of us have had the experience of meeting someone and feeling like we know them. We shake their hand and feel an other-worldly sense that we've done this before.
But there's another side to this phenomenon, especially when it comes to our romantic relationships: karmic debt. it's the unfinished business from a past life that you or a partner may have carried into the current relationship, which can turn it upside down, give us whiplash, or make things downright volatile.
People who have unfinished business from a past life often feel these other-worldly sensations in a karmic relationship:
Solas, an intuitive psychic who focuses on love and relationships, says our romantic partnerships are often prime territory for working through the unfinished business of our past lives.
1. Feeling like you've known someone forever, then feeling like you need to run away fast
If you've ever had that love at first sight experience only for the relationship to abruptly turn caustic, it might be karmic debt. Which makes sense in a way. If you've only just met, how are you already embroiled in drama? Perhaps it's because you haven't only just met but have actually been tormenting each other for ages in other lives!
2. A magnetic pull you can't explain
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If you and your partner are caught in a constant wash-rinse-repeat cycle of breakups and makeups where nothing ever changes or gets repaired, it might be that you're reliving a karmic cycle, according to Solas.
Your souls didn't learn their lesson the last time (or the time before that), so they're going through it again until someone breaks the cycle.
3. An old emotional wound that gets re-opened over small things
“Karmic love is both painful and transformative,” Solas says. “It can feel like you’ve met ‘the one,’ only to watch things unravel." The whiplash is often as instructive as it is shocking. "These relationships are here to teach us soul lessons," Solas explains, and says there are nine signs that karmic debt is underpinning your relationship.
If they drive you crazy but you don't know why, and no matter what you do, you just end up locked in a cycle of the same old blowouts? It could be that you're reacting to long-past slights and bugaboos that have never been healed.
4. Feeling haunted by someone you've never met
At times, the karmic debt drama in the relationship may not even be yours, or at least, it might be shared. Solas says that when exes and old flames reappear and spark a love triangle that makes a mess, it's often karmic debt in action for one, two, or all three of you.
5. Swinging from excitement to dread with no warning
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If things switch up on a dime, it's a red flag for something coming back to haunt you. If you go from idealizing your partner to kind of hating their guts, or you start out as soulmates and now you feel like strangers, something from lives past may be interfering.
6. Feeling like you've lived this exact moment before
This is the most basic sign of past lives. Those eerily familiar deja vu moments are often bits of past lives coming into your conscious memory. If you can't shake the feeling like you've lived through this volatile relationship before, Solas says it's likely unfinished business from another life.
7. Fear of abandonment no matter who you're with
Solas says that if you notice that every relationship you have runs aground of the same issues every time, whether it's jealousy, fears of abandonment, the inability to trust, being controlling, or something else, it's likely something you didn't complete your work and healing on in another life.
8. A sense that someone showed up to teach you something
Similarly, if you find a relationship pushes you toward work on old traumas, your boundaries or issues with your self-worth, whether in a good or bad way, it's likely karmic debt in action. This is the point of karma and reincarnation, after all: The work through the negative aspects of our selves and souls until we come to a place of wholeness.
Karmic debt in a relationship doesn't mean you're doomed
Karmic debt in relationships is ultimately about working on yourself. So what the heck should you do if you think you're stuck in this inter-dimensional relationship cycle? Solas says that, like everything to do with karma, it doesn't mean that your relationship is a toxic lost cause that needs to be scrapped. Rather, these relationship situations are all about working on yourself.
“Karmic signs don’t mean you’re doomed,” Solas says. “They’re invitations to heal. When you focus on your own growth and integrity, the cycle resolves, whether together or apart.”
And just in case it wasn't clear, Solas says it's not about waiting for your partner to change. It's rather about looking for the lessons being presented by the relationship and actually opening up to truly healing from them, even if that work is difficult. That will stop the cycle once and for all; not just in this life, but in the next!
John Sundholm is a writer, editor, and video personality with 20 years of experience in media and entertainment. He covers culture, mental health, and human interest topics.
