Curses, Can you identify them or escape them? Options

If you think there is a curse on you, that is, something particular happens every time you do something, but that something particular is so extreme, inevitable and the end result so predictable, and it happens long in the period of your living, then can you say this is a curse?
Also can you identify a curse? Is it something real, or just in your head?
And finally, if you do have a curse, how can you lift it? Does the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram help with this purpose?
Thanks

There are curses and then there are life lessons.

From what I can figure out about a curse is don't let it get to you. Leave it behind, raise your vibration, your thinking and move on. The more you think about it the more it sticks around...cause you are actually doing it to yourself. Or stop upsetting the person putting the curse on you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Life lessons are more difficult in that you are supposed to learn something from the experience and if you do not it will keep repeating throughout your life. The fastest way to get rid of a lesson is too not resist it...surrender to it instead. The more you resist something the more it sticks around. IF you know what your usual response is to the situation...try changing your response. Try and change your perception of what is going on, what you are supposed to learn. Keep an eye out for animals throughout your days, there may be a spirit guide trying to teach you something.