We’re all here for growth and evolution though not everyone chooses to grow or evolve, and that’s fine.
But for those of us who do want the growth and evolution, sometimes we don’t know what to focus on exactly because it can feel like there’s so much to address, heal, grow out of, or grow into.
It may also be difficult to discern what will or won’t move the needle for us.
The truth is that wherever we’re struggling or whatever we’re hitting up against is the place where we’re out of alignment with who we are at soul level or the thing that is taking us out of alignment from our soul’s blueprint.
Our soul’s life lessons are the things that will move us back into alignment if we actually address them and ultimately complete them as lessons.
If, for example, we have a life lesson around “decisiveness,” we’ll find ourselves being indecisive or taking too long to make decisions or flipping and flopping after having made a decision.
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Typically, we’ll have one major lesson and multiple smaller lessons that are variations on the major lesson. Once we’re complete with these lessons, new ones come to the forefront.
And that’s what growth is all about…hitting up against our edges and our issues and resolving them so that we can show up in a bigger way, be more expressed, more abundant, bolder, or more impactful.
What’s interesting about our life lessons is that they don’t necessarily show up in all life areas at the same time. In fact, they’ll often show up in 1 or 2, possibley 3, specific areas. For example, we may have a major lesson of “courage” in our romantic relationships and finances and a small lesson around “boldness” in our personal style.
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That’s why our challenges look different from the challenges of others. We have to grow through different things in different ways.
Our life lessons are the things that stand between us and what we want or between us and what we’re trying to accomplish.
They are the things that interfere with our relationships, finances, career, health, personal and spiritual development, and community.
It can be tempting to shove challenges (i.e. our lessons) aside, slap a Band-Aide on them, ignore them, try to meditate them away, etc. We can be very creative in how we avoid addressing our lessons, but they actually have to be completed in order to clear up. They have to be completed for us to accomplish what we want.
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- Do you know what your life lessons are?
- Have you noticed any patterns around your challenges?
- Have you made any progress in moving through the challenges you have identified?
No matter where you are in your soul’s evolution, there’s something in front of you right now that requires your attention before you can get to your next step or goal.
If you’re ready to discover what your life lessons are, click here.