Women Loving Women

Question:

I am a 26 year old woman, married to a wonderful man. I love my husband to bits. I consider myself straight. However, I am strongly convinced that I am very much attached to the previous life I have lived as a man (or any of the lives I lived as a man) in this current life. I do not have a problem with gay people at all. But, some of the time I feel like the experience as a man from a previous life is so strong I cannot overcome. I love (genuinely) women and my husband. Is this the case of mistaken sexual identity or is it possible that I have re-incarnated with some attachment to certain traits I had in my previous lives.  

Answer:

It’s hard to say whether your attraction to women is a predilection from your past life or not.  You  say that the past experience is so strong you can’t overcome it, yet you haven’t described exactly what that experience is. You haven’t mentioned if you have other pronounced masculine qualities that lead you to think you are dominated by male traits.

But I’m not sure it matters where or when this attraction started.  It’s more important to determine if this sexual impulse is central to the expression of who you are in this lifetime. If it is, then you need to come to terms with it and stop trying to explain it away.

 If your feelings for women feel fundamentally extrinsic to who you are, and are more like a distracting recurring thought than a driving need, then you probably are straight and only need to keep this perspective in mind.  In time, your true  sexual character will emerge.

Love,

Deepak

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Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." Entertainment Weekly described Deepak Chopra as "Hollywood's man of the moment, one of publishing's best-selling and most prolific self-help authors." He is the author of more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Fifteen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of "bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east" remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India's historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton.His latest book is "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul."

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2 Responses to Women Loving Women

  1. Raja September 6, 2010 at 11:18 pm #

    You are suffering form identity crisis. you are confuse with the kind of sexuality since you get attracted to same sex, for me there's nothing-wrong with that it just an affection what's wrong is when you are a married woman yet you are having an extra marital affair with some other woman, that's the point that it will be immoral in the eye of God as well as to the law of morality. The church condemn same sex affair or marriage just like how some people opposes for the <a title="Proposition 8 | Both sides promising appeals" href="http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/08/04/proposition-8/">Proposition 8.

  2. moki October 27, 2010 at 8:32 pm #

    it is my experience over the past 30 years of my life that those distracting, recurring thoughts can actually be enormous, life-changing discoveries. why do they keep recurring, and why do you continue to explain them away. this is something very important to explore.