Excerpt from the Book -

The Life Plan- The Choices and Challenges of Your Issues

In the beginning, the Divine Source, which I will refer to as God, created the heavens and the earth.
Next was His biggest challenge: creating humanity.
Each soul that God creates is an aspect of God, divinely created in all of God’s perfection. The harmony and accordance of God’s creation goes beyond our meager understanding.

However, I am told by Spirit that God bestowed upon humanity the ability to co-create. Of course, none of us can create as our God created the heavens and the earth. But each of us has the ability to create within our own lives. In other words, we were given free will.

Free will not only involves choosing our own path, but the free will to make choices along the way and to take responsibility for those choices.
Many of you have come to the point in your lives where you are searching for your life’s purpose, questioning why you are here. Over time these same questions have been asked by millions of people, so don’t think that you are alone in your search - nor are you alone when you feel stuck and frustrated with where you are in your life. This feeling of frustration is created by your spirit/higher-self so that you will begin searching for answers, prompting you to begin making changes to the negative patterns in your life that are no longer working.

The idea, as I am told by Abraham, is for humans, before they are born, to design a blue print for their life, their own Life plan.

But there are some guidelines. You are required to have a purpose, and the issues you chose to work on in this lifetime dictate that purpose. Your life plan will hold many options and choices that you will make throughout your life.

These choices could take your life in many different directions; you are in charge and this is how you create the path you will follow. As humans, we like to blame our challenges on God’s will, but he didn’t create those challenges - we did. The issues you will work with are decided upon before you enter this life.

The direction those issues take is up to you. It’s also important to work through and heal any karma you have created while experiencing your previous lifetimes. In your life plan, you have the opportunity to create what you need to experience in this lifetime.

Before we go any further, I will explain karma. I am sure you have often heard the saying, “What goes around comes around.” This is so true. This statement embodies the meaning of karma. Karma is an energy that you have the choice of creating. Whatever energy that you demonstrate, whether positive or negative, will come back to you in that same way.
This is a universal law, and this energy can come back to you in the same lifetime that it was created or it may be experienced throughout many lifetimes.

Every action, word and thought has an energy connected to it consequently creating karma. For example, when you carry judgment in your heart for a person or race of people, that judgment will always come back to you.

You will be put in a position to suffer a similar judgment or you will be given the opportunity to relive the situation making different choices. If the thought or action is projected with a negative intention, it will come back just as painfully or damaging. This is God’s way of allowing us to learn our lessons.

One such lesson is to treat others as you would want to be treated. God will not judge us, but he will allow us to learn through karma. Even a child learns karma. If a child hits another child and that child hits him back harder, he learns about karma very quickly: but if they hug each other and there is forgiveness, they learn how to heal karma.

In our lives, as we send out love and positive energy to others, that same energy will come back to us. In this same manner, putting out negative thoughts and energies to others will bring that negativity back into our lives. I am told by Spirit that anytime we sincerely ask in prayer for blessings for someone, it produces an energy of love that is returned 10-fold.

Do not despair if negativity comes your way. Just know that you are resolving karma that you had previously created. Nothing happens by accident, so perceiving the situation in this positive way allows you to receive the benefit of the karmic resolution and to move forward to create positive energy in you life.

Your Life Plan will consist of the issues you choose to work with, as well as the people with whom you will interact. Your issues, your karma and the souls with whom you have chosen to interact are the combination that will create the experiences of your lifetime.

As a spark of God, you are empowered to manifest all that you desire for the fulfillment of your destiny. This empowerment is a source of energy that God created within you. You create the path your life will take by the choices you make along the way. This is a responsibility that your soul has chosen.

Many of you have forgotten how very powerful your thoughts and actions are within your own lives and the lives of others. What you focus on is drawn to you.

You all have your primary issues and your secondary issues. Your primary issues are the biggest ones in your lives, and the secondary issues are those that result from your belief systems and the patterns of the primary issues.

All the way through this book I will be talking about how your relationship with your parents has affected your life. Don’t misunderstand me; I am not blaming your problems on your parents or caretakers. Some of you might appreciate them taking this responsibility, but you don’t get off that easily.

You chose your issues for this lifetime. You will experience situations with these issues all through your life.

Those experiences only start with your relationship with your family of origin. You chose this family because their issues would coordinate with the issues of your life plan. The spirits of your parents, your siblings and yourself agreed prior to your birth that you would work together to provide each of you with the opportunity to experience and heal your chosen issues.

Your parents are playing their part in your life plan just as you are for them.

I will also talk about the importance of forgiving and healing your relationship with your family, whether they are alive or dead. Karma is created within any relationship, especially with those we love. It is important to heal as much karma in this lifetime as possible, or you will be back to experience it with them again in your next lifetime, and your next, depending on how long it takes you to learn.

You are your issues. These words are so true, as our life purpose is all about the growth and awareness that we achieve through the challenges of our issues.

Our entire lives are planned around these issues. Our souls are striving to evolve to the awareness of God and this is accomplished through the advancement and evolution of the soul.

As souls having the human experience, we must work through our many issues --experiencing them, learning about them and overcoming the negative aspects of these issues. This is how our spirit is meant to evolve. We are not asking you to stay focused on the negative aspects of your issues, but to have awareness of what you are creating so that the negative patterns can be transformed into positive patterns for the fulfillment of your life purpose.

Our lives are made up of relationships: whether these relationships are with family, friends or intimate partners they are of great importance to the growth and awareness of your soul.

In your present situation you may be sabotaging your financial future by working in a job below your potential or you may feel trapped in a unhappy relationship that is not meeting your needs, or you may just plain feel stuck in life. There is hope for the fulfillment of your dreams if you are ready to do the work necessary. Yes, it will involve change: change of your negative thought process, your negative beliefs and your negative actions. These are the factors that have created the situation you are currently experiencing.

ISSUES
We all have our Primary issues and our Secondary issues.
Our primary issues are the biggest ones in our lives, and the secondary issues result from the experiences, belief systems and patterns of the primary issues.
You are given many issues from which to choose:
1. The primary issues include Trust, Abandonment, Abuse, Control, Judgment, Responsibility and Love.
2. The secondary issues include Anger, Patience, Forgiveness, Fear, Jealousy, Self Love, Self-worth, and many more which are experienced through the primary issues.
3. You may have chosen one or more of the primary issues, but each will connect you with other issues.

As you worked your way through your many lifetimes (yes, I have it on high authority that we have lived hundreds, some of us thousands of lifetimes), you will experience all of these issues. Whether you choose to heal and overcome an issue is up to you.

When you have healed a particular issue, you will no longer respond to an experience with that issue in the same way. The negative emotion that the issue once created for you will be diminished or it will no longer exist. Most of us work on the same issue for many lifetimes, often with the same souls.

How do we choose the souls with whom we will experience these issues?
It is actually through agreement. We belong to soul groups. Just as it sounds, these are groups of souls that travel through multiple lifetimes together, helping each other work on their issues. We trade off in the roles that we play with each other. The changing of gender, relationships roles, and ethnic groups is necessary to fully benefit from this opportunity we have been given for the evolution of our souls.

God did not expect us to accomplish this work by ourselves, so he gave us a support group and our soul group is only part of it. This means that it was through an agreement that you came into this life through your parents. They were chosen - your siblings, children, friends, teachers and mates are all part of your plan.

You have probably been with these other souls in many lifetimes, with roles reversed and altered to fit the needs of that lifetime. Many of you are thinking, “I couldn’t possibly have chosen those parents or that child because look at the challenges they brought to my life.” But, believe it or not, you did.

Your relationship with them was how you were to begin your experiences with your issues.

As a soul in human body, you could not experience the issues of abandonment, abuse or control if you came into a home of unconditional love and acceptance and then continued on to have a blessed life of peace and contentment.

That sounds like a great life, but how would you have the opportunity to experience those chosen issues in that particular family? This makes the experiences with our family, friends and teachers so very important. We have our initial experiences with our issues between conception/birth and adulthood.

So this means that our soul meticulously chooses our parents, siblings and surroundings very carefully, as they set the pattern for our entire life. There is no pressure here, as you have your support group assisting you with your Life Plan. This support group consists of Spirit, your personal spirit guides and angels, as well as your human soul group.

Your parents come into a lifetime with issues of their own, as every individual does. Their issues will interact with your issues giving you each the optimum opportunity for growth.

Imagine yourself as being part of a big puzzle, each piece connecting to the other, completing the whole picture. This is how you work with your soul group, each helping the other work through the experiences of their issues.

Remember, it’s not always all about you! Before I understood this concept, I felt sure it was “all about me!” but not always in a positive way. My low self-worth caused me to blame myself for anything that went wrong, but I now understand that this attitude was inaccurate although it reflected my issue with judgment.

Sometimes when someone with whom you are interacting is projecting anger or judgment, you become a part of their lesson with an issue and the situation with their anger may not be about you at all. But the interaction gives you both the opportunity to process emotional memories previously created by the same issue but with others.

When I find myself angry and frustrated with someone, I must remind myself that it is my choice to hold onto the anger or release it and move forward with my life.

Have patience and search for a better understanding of what is really going on with you and the other person. Make conscious choices about how you are reacting. Before you jump to conclusions, figure out what part of the experience is yours and what part may be theirs.

It is just as important to help others in your soul group to heal as it is to heal your own issues. I understand that this change of perception is often difficult since life happens so fast that you typically react from habit. The changing of this habit has to be done on a conscious level with patience rather than with an attitude of judgment.

Every word, thought or action that you experience during your lifetime creates an energetic force. This energy is connected to an emotion, and you hold that energy within your body.

The love and nurturing that you receive from yourself and others feeds and nourishes your emotional bodies, to sustain you through your everyday life. But the negative energies created by your issues produce blockages that are held within your chakra system (energy centers within the body). Negative energies will create blockages in your energy flow that actually pull negative experiences or illness to you. I have expanded more on chakras (pronounced shock-rahs) in Chapter Eleven of this book.

Our issues are first demonstrated in our childhood, but we experience them all the way through our lives. The issue(s) we chose to work on in this lifetime will keep surfacing to be experienced. These issues can create both positive and negative emotional memories.

These issues will be experienced in our childhood with our family, playmates, teachers and friends. As we become adults, we carry these issues into our relationships and then we wonder why we would choose someone to have a marital relationship with that is just like our father (for example).

It is your spirit that creates the opportunity for you to experience that particular issue through your relationships. This enables you to experience the emotions that are attached to that issue. These are the same emotions that this issue created when you were a child.
You will continue reacting in the same way, as this is the pattern that was developed from your original experience. Our belief systems are formed around the emotions experienced and perceptions of our childhood experiences. The energetic recordings of negative thoughts and emotions keep playing over and over in our heads. The words and actions of our previous experiences are so embedded in our soul that when we encounter a similar experience, the soul memory tape is activated.
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