Every individual has a number of contracts made with other beings in both past and present lifetimes. Most of these contracts are unconscious; the person can choose to either live them out or to heal them. If the individual chooses not to heal the contracts, not to release the foreign energy from his/her space, then his/her awareness and freedom will be limited. They will exist in a state of destiny. They will be destined to fulfill every one of their contracts. Contracts can be made with other beings throughout lifetimes, throughout centuries, throughout eons. If any of those lifetimes and those contracts are in place, then they have to be fulfilled or healed. The individual is living in a state of what used to be called spiritual bondage. He/she is not free because he/she is constantly coming back to this dimension in order to fulfill the contracts.
If you are in a lifetime with a person and the contract is that the person has the right to abuse you. You are owned by this person. The agreement or contract is you will play the role for this lifetime, but in a later lifetime, it will be your turn to own the other person. That contract is out there, so when you reincarnate, and come back in-body, you will find that person. You could manifest back into body in a relationship quite close to that person, as a family member perhaps, and then you play out your side of the contract and own that person. So it goes on and on. Often these types of games go back and forth, back and forth, until one of you has learned enough to finally choose to step off the karmic wheel. When you are ready to heal that relationship and end the game, you can step out of the energy dynamic and into a much freer reality.
When you choose to do your healing, you become more aware of the contracts you have with people in your life, and the contracts you have with people you do not know, that are still out there. You can begin to release that energy out of your space, to remove the programming and break the contract. You can do meditations where you actually look at the contract, read the rules, and then simply break the agreement. Without doing this, the contract will sit in your space as a foreign energy occupying part of your energy system. The other person does not even have to agree for you to break the contract. You have to move it out and re-own that part of your system. You clear up the contract and you become much freer. Now you have more room to create the reality you want and you have just transcended another part of your previous destiny. You have the freedom to choose what reality you want and the choices are unlimited.
The majority of people in this dimension are walking around in a state of unconsciousness. They are not aware, for example, that the person they are married to is a being they have a contract with to play out a certain reality. Let's say that in a past lifetime that person was a slave owner and you were the slave. The contract is that you are going to play a similar game this time around, so in this situation you are the abusive one in the relationship. You own them. You may look like the Joneses down the street with the average house and the average job, but the dynamic between you and the other being is a contract that was created in a different time and place. You both are probably unaware of this, and that lack of awareness is what keeps you locked in the game. People will play their roles out without having any awareness this is a destined contract they are fulfilling. They do not need to do that. They can become aware and change the contract. They can get out of the deal and shift into a different reality.
You can imagine how many contracts each one of us could set up. For lifetimes upon lifetimes of being in relationships and being unconscious of what you are doing in those relationships, there is ample opportunity to set up many contracts. This is what keeps beings stuck on the karmic wheel. They would like to leave their body and go out into the astral, and be free to go off to some other universe or some other part of the cosmos to play in a different reality, but they are drawn back to this domain because so much of their energy is tied up in fulfilling the contracts.
The Spiritual Warrior sees the karmic wheel and chooses to be conscious in body in order to shift the dynamic. They can make a decision to come back into body, heal the energy, and step out of their contracts. It is also important to remember that in order to create a new reality you have to create the room for it. If, in your personal space you are full of past realities and foreign energy, you will create your reality based on those pictures, on all of that programming. Remember you create your reality as you go. In order to change your reality and to be free, you must move the limiting energy out of your space. You replace that with your own energy. You create room in your life for a new reality. To have something new, you have to let go of the past. It is a wonderful part of the healing process.