Multiple ways to learn a lesson

QUESTION: Masters, I was born with a vertebrae problem in my neck and have experienced pain in the C1 area since birth. Is this an example of an injury carried over from a past life? Or is it a physical manifestation of a current life-lesson I am not dealing with properly? I could understand its being both, but whatever the cause, I would really prefer it to end!  Thank you for any advice that you feel relevant.    ~Louisa, USA

ANSWER: You are correct in assuming that the neck problem is bi-level. You were hung in a past life for being a heretic for speaking your mind too strongly. When you died you chastised yourself for not being able to read the situation and keep your mouth shut when you really needed to. You doubted the feelings you had about being true to your beliefs. You could not see it as a lesson, so being unable to learn from the situation, you needed to find another way to understand about communication and interpersonal relations.

Coming into this life, you decided you would be extra careful of what you said to people. You determined you needed to take a reading from their aura before you spoke your thoughts and feelings. You have become just the opposite of what you were in your last life. Now you do not stick up for yourself or your ideas. You give all your power away to those you feel are over you or in authority. You now have the sense that if you defer to others everything will be fine. Now your voice is choked by the noose of self doubt. You must see the lesson and find a way to honor yourself—then your neck will be fine.