Before we are born onto this earth we map out our journey for the upcoming life time. This is not a destiny, or a violation of our freewill. Rather it is simply a list of the things that we would like to learn, overcome, or be able to accept in our upcoming lifetime. It is a sketch, a draft, of our spiritual growth that we would like to have attained by the time we finish the lifetime. Even the bible hints as this when it says “God knew us before we were born” (summarized from Jeremiah 1:5, Psalms 139:13-16) So, while in our spirit or soul form we create this map, likely with the help our spirit guides.
We have the best of intentions when we create this plan, thinking that we will easily be able to overcome all the obstacles that we have put in our path throughout the upcoming physical lifetime. From safety the obstacles do not seem that hard of a challenge, but once we are on earth, have forgotten about our soul’s map and feel alone in our struggle…it can be very daunting. We begin to suffer. Not because we need to, but because we choose to. We fail to realize we are spiritual being and thus everything that goes on right now, both perceived and actual, seems very serious.
We are not aware consciously that we chose this existence, and when someone says it was us who made this choice we don’t understand. We have forgotten that our soul is existent before our physical body, but our physical body does not remember it because our mind is new to this life. Although, occasionally (and with meditation, often it can happen) we get glimpses of what our soul is and where it has been. This life map is the reason for much perceived suffering in our world. We did choose it but, but not while in our physical body. Once we face these obstacles we suffer more than we have to based on our current unhealthy mind frame.
We choose to live through certain experiences because we need to learn or un-learn something. Once again this is not a violation of our freewill. Instead we can do whatever we want but on our journey certain things will pop up which teach us something, even if that teaching is that we need to un-teach ourselves (this is happening a lot in our society, but we are failing to realize it). If we are aware that we chose this lesson it is no longer suffering, but if we don’t know this it can be a torture and a horrible perceived reality.
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In all I do it is my desire to help people attain a life they are happy with, determine their own measures of success, and see all the amazing opportunities that are available to us each day.