A viewer asks about his dog: “Fourth, like in his prior life, my dog has learned to swim and loves it and does it very well. I tether him to my waist and we swim in the open water on the river. It turned out to be easier to teach him to balance on a surfboard than expected.”

This is not a benefit owing to karmic healing and repair, it is simply the blessing of having a somewhat new makeup physically in terms of agility and physical characteristics within the musculoskeletal system and the neurologic monitoring and oversight to react quickly to sensing small changes in position through the sense of balance and to coordinate what is needed to maintain a steady bearing and sure footing with changing position on an unstable platform. So that is not a karmic issue per se in this instance, it is simply having the benefit of better physical equipment in the current go-round. In a sense, this upgrade is karmically appropriate and more allowable to flourish without impairment because of the prior healing, but it is not a direct consequence, in a specific sense, as ability in the prior life was not a karmic liability or penalty per se.