Your Life Purpose and Soul Lesson

In the last few years, I have noticed an increase in the number of people asking me about their life purpose. I see this as an indication of increasing soul awareness. People often sense they have a purpose for being here other than just paying the bills, going to work, raising children, and so on. Most people do not know what their purpose is but they are curious to know what it is and how to best fulfill it.

Everyone has a life purpose and a soul lesson. We all inca
ate for a reason. Both our life purpose and soul lesson are chosen prior to inca
ation along with the people we will meet and the experiences we will encounter. There are no accidents. People meet because they are destined to do so. Whether these encounters are short or long term does not limit their learning potential.

Your life purpose is your opportunity to share your wisdom, skills, creativity, talents, joy and love that you have gained in prior lifetimes with others in order to be in service. We all have skills and knowledge we have learnt in prior lifetimes, even if we do not remember our past lives. Your soul has a record of all your past learning and experiences. The benefit to fulfilling your life purpose is that it helps your soul advance as the soul can only evolve through service.

Here are some examples of a life purpose:
A desire to help or heal others, a need to share any form of creativity with others in order to bring joy, or a wish to share your knowledge through teaching, writing, speaking or other means. The form these activities take is unimportant. It is your intention that counts. You do not need to be an expert in your field or licensed practitioner to teach or help. Informal teaching or helping is just fine. There are so many ways in which we can be of service. Even if you do not believe you are knowledgeable, there are always others who know less than you and can learn from you. In addition, through helping others, we learn what we are truly capable of.

Your life purpose and your day job may not be the same. Your work may provide an opportunity to fulfill your life purpose but this is not always the case. For example, if you were meant to heal people and you do some form of healing work such as nursing, being a health practitioner or energy healer, you may be fulfilling your life purpose as part of your day job.

If you are artist, musician, or artisan and your work brings joy and pleasure to others, you may be fulfilling your purpose through your creative work. If you are a salesman, this is not your life purpose even if you are successful at what you do. Being a salesman may put you in contact with many people where you will have an opportunity to share your knowledge or help them in some way. Sometimes we are in certain professions or jobs for just this reason.

If you wondering how you can recognize your life purpose, then ask yourself if there has ever been anything you really wanted to do but were unable. Have you ever noticed that people tell you that you are good at doing certain things even if you do not think so? Notice what activities, crafts or objects attract you as you may have been a craftsman of such articles in the past. What are you good at doing without really trying? This may be a skill or talent learned in past lives.

Soul Lesson

Your soul lesson is what your soul inca
ated on earth to master. Your soul cannot evolve until it heals whatever is lacking in your understanding. Examples of soul lessons are self love, trust, patience, generosity, forgiveness, acceptance, overcoming fear, etc. You may recognize more than one lesson that you need to master, but there will be one primary one.

To recognize your soul lesson, look back through your life and ask yourself what have you learnt from your experiences and relationships? Do you see any repetitive patterns emerging or the same issues coming up time and again?

Pay attention to when you blame others for the misfortunes and difficulties in your life. These are the lessons you came to learn and blaming others will not help you master your lesson, it will only prolong the inevitable. As you age, you may be able to recognize your soul lesson more quickly in new situations that arise. With this insight you can now apply any learning from previous experiences to your current relationships.

Whatever your soul lesson, it will not change throughout your lifetime. You will discover that there will be many opportunities for you to master your lesson as we do not become masters on our first attempt.

Often I hear people tell me that they have dealt with their anger or fear and believe they have mastered their soul lesson. If there is one thing you can be sure about, you will continue to meet your soul lesson throughout your life and if you do not master it completely, you will continue to face it through many future lifetimes until you master it.

Another thing you can do to increase your learning is ask what you can learn from every situation and person you meet. Remember, prior to inca
ation you made an agreement for these people to show up in your life whether you remember this or not. You made this agreement with them because these souls have the same lesson to learn as you do. Nothing happens by chance and there are no accidents.

Even if someone is abusive to you, you asked this person to play that exact role they are playing for your learning. From experiences of abuse, we learn to become strong, learn to say “no” and stand up for ourselves. If we did not experience abuse, we would not be motivated to learn these lessons. We all have relationships and experiences that we can learn from in our lives so why not benefit from them and help your soul evolve.

Unfortunately this article does not allow me to go into a fuller knowledge of what is on your soul record and why you chose your life purpose and soul lesson. If you would like this information, please read my e-book Your Soul: The Roadmap to Your Life. Included in the book is a meditation to access your soul record. If you are interested in learning more about your life purpose and soul lesson, you can also take my online class Finding Your Life Purpose available through my website www.sharoncheney.com or you can contact me for a personal reading at 505 474 6363.