Before we are born we determine a path for our life that provides us with the best opportunities to fulfill the terms of our spiritual contract. The contract is the level of growth that our soul will achieve in a lifetime. The path consists of the lessons we must learn and the karma we have an opportunity to heal that will fulfill our contract. The journey is the series of experiences that we undertake in order to make this all happen. Our ultimate destination is reconnection with the Source and ascending into higher levels of consciousness. We know that fulfilling our contract benefits our own soul’s growth and creates that possibility for all of humanity as well. Each of us undertakes this important task when we volunteer to come here and do our work.
When we begin our journey we are sure that it is achievable and are confident in our ability to complete it quickly and successfully. But our spiritual nature forgets how painful life can be, how difficult some experiences are to overcome, how hard it is to forgive and how strong our emotional attachments to people and things can become. From a spiritual perspective, the journey is easy. But we are doing the spiritual work in human form and sometimes the human experience gets in the way. So while we start our journey with every intention of completing it, different things can slow us down until we are stopped in our tracks, unable to move in any direction. Our path, which once seemed so easily attainable has become too difficult to continue. We’re stuck, lost and unable to move in any direction.
We get stuck when we see the journey as the objective of our human experience, instead of focusing on the destination. Each individual experience contains all of the elements to help us achieve our objective. Instead of repeating difficult and painful experiences we can complete our soul’s growth through one or two lessons. When we focus on the pain, judgment and fear that we experience in our lessons we step into a cycle of repeating lessons and our journey can spiral out of control. This can take us off of our path and into a sort of spiritual vacuum where we feel we have lost our spiritual connection, are powerless and can no longer even imagine our destination, much less achieve it.
Getting ourselves back on our path requires that we change our focus from the journey to the destination and learn to view our experiences at their most basic level, which is our soul’s growth and healing our karma. By shifting our focus from what is happening to why it is happening we use our spiritual understanding as our point of reference instead of our emotional understanding. Emotions are part of our human experience and they can either help us on our journey or get in our way. They get in our way when we use them to judge and criticize ourselves and others; they help us when we use them as tools to make different choices for ourselves.
When our experiences involve other people, we must remember that they are part of our journey, no matter how difficult, illogical or painful their contribution may be. Viewing these lessons with detachment and seeing these interactions from our spiritual understanding helps us process these experiences, accept the learning and move on. Our emotional understanding focuses on how bad we feel, how painful the experience was or judge ourselves as unworthy of love based on how much or how little others love us. We generally have the same kinds of experiences with everyone in our lives and how we understand those experiences can help us create different and less painful experiences for ourselves.
The same thing applies to the situations in our lives. We often repeat life situations, where we are alone or facing financial difficulty, losing a job or a relationship or involved in some kind of drama, until we accept how we have created these situations and then accept what we must learn from them. Our spiritual understanding views these situations as lessons in how effectively we use our power. When viewed through our emotional understanding we see ourselves as unlucky, undeserving or powerless.
There are no accidents or mistakes in our lives. Each situation is something that we created for our journey, whether consciously or unconsciously, to help us arrive at our destination. It is our choice how long it takes us to complete the journey. The most challenging situations have the greatest lessons to teach us and we can learn them quickly if we can view our entire journey from a spiritual perspective, use our emotional experiences to help us make different choices, remember our power and let go of fear and doubt.
We can fulfill our spiritual contract within a lifetime and in fact, many Lightworkers are doing that now. When our contract is completed we are free to do other things with our life, move even farther along our path and even choose a different kind of journey. Our life does not end when our contract is fulfilled, although we can choose to do so. It is not an accident that so many people today are choosing different lifestyles or deciding to make drastic changes in their careers. They have fulfilled their contract and have the choice to move on to other things. Once we understand the connection between the spiritual path and the journey and apply our spiritual and emotional knowledge, learning our lessons becomes a journey of growth and understanding and our destination becomes clear. Then we can create heaven on earth for ourselves and life becomes a series of unfolding miracles and blessings that we create from a position of power and our path and journey become a wonderful adventure of joy and fulfillment.
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