PLANNING YOUR LIFE BEFORE BIRTH

Have you ever wondered if you planned your life before you were born? ALL aspects of your life? ALL of the experiences you've gone through and will continue to go through until your death?

This idea may seem extremely radical to you, especially if some of the events in your life have been traumatic. If you are willing to accept that pre-birth planning is a possibility, you may be on the path to learning to understand and embrace all of the challenges, including the most painful ones that have occurred in your life.

If you take the time to ask yourself "If I did plan this experience before I was born, why might I have done so?" Asking yourself these questions can help open you up to a journey of self-discovery and exploring our life challenges more.

As an eternal soul, which we all are, you planned the life you currently live. You didn't have any concerns about what your mind would come to know. What your eternal soul wanted was to experience the feelings that a physical life would generate. Our life's challenges are vital to the soul's self-knowing due to the feelings these challenges create.

Our mind is a barrier. When our mind and our soul do not connect and communicate we are out of balance. Our life's adventure is a journey from the head to the heart. All of the challenges we've planned assist this journey by opening our heart so that we may know them better and value what they offer.

When we decide that we want to incarnate we make very detailed and endless-reaching plans. We plan not only our life's challenges, but we choose who our parents will be, just as they choose us. We decide when and where we will be born, the schools we will go to, the homes we live in, the people we will meet and what relationships we will have.

Have you ever felt upon meeting someone that you know them already? You may have a very positive feeling toward the, or one that's not so good, or it's a terrible feeling. It's very possible that this person was a part of your pre-birth planning.

Perhaps a place, name, image, or phrase strikes a chord within you the first time you hear it. This may be something you heard or discussed before you incarnated.

Have you ever had a moment of de ja vu? Usually these are associated with past lives, but they can also be memories of our pre-birth plans.

As we are sent into this life, we are made to forget what we planned. We are aware that this amnesia is self-induced, prior to our ever being incarnated. According to Robert Schwarz, the phrase "behind the veil" refers to this state of forgetfulness. If we come into this world knowing that we are divine souls and our life plans, there wouldn't be any challenges, lessons or growth. This may sound great, but to me, this would be a boring existence. One in which I would never have to figure out who I am; get to know the "real" me.

To use an analogy, if you never experienced the cold, how would you understand and appreciate hot? The contrast between hot and cold leads to a more complete understanding, which in turn would lead to your ultimate goal - remembering. Our world consists of duality; up/down, light/dark, good/bad. Sorrow reveals joy. Chaos enhances appreciation of peace. Hatred deepens our knowledge of love. Can you imagine if you never had the opportunity to experience these challenges of humanity, you would never be able to know your own divinity.

Have you ever wondered where your interest for something came from? For example, you're drawn to the feel and smell of freshly cut wood. Images of beautiful hand hewn furniture pop into your mind when you gaze at a piece of teak, or walnut. No one in your family is a carpenter or shown you anything regarding woodworking or furniture making. In you head you know this is something you must learn to do. Your hands itch to create something with this piece of wood. You find yourself stroking the wood like a lost love. Yet you are unable to understand this connection to wood, carpentry or furniture craftsmanship.

A challenge is before you - one you can ignore it, or you can take that piece of wood, learn, practice, create. You continue to work on this until you're a master craftsman. Once you're done, you remember something - what you created was something from HOME. This memory may trigger another - you are this craftsmanship - this carpenter, creator of beautiful wood furniture. You were this and it was you - not from outside of you, but from deep inside.

You have opened up a new place where you now truly know yourself. If you'd never left HOME, would this have been possible?

This is what our soul desired. To experience yourself. To discover the personality of a human being; a portion of the soul's energy in a physical body.

Our personalities are traits that only exist in non-physical bodies. Upon our death, our immortal core reunites with our soul. It is important to remember that our personalities have free will. The challenges we planned before birth can either be accepted or resisted. We can go through life becoming angry and bitter with each challenge or respond with love and compassion. If you're unwilling to accept that your challenges were planned before birth, our choices become clearer and easier to make.

The emotions we feel are actually communications from our soul. Joy, peace, excitement are indications that we are behaving in our true nature as loving souls. Fear and doubt are not in our true nature. The physical body receives and transmits energy that tells us through our emotions or feeling whether we are in or out of contact with who we really are and in how we express ourselves toward others.

Can you take some time and go back through you life and look at the challenges that you dealt with, the choices you made, and honestly see the direction you headed and where those choices may have lead you? It doesn't pay to look back at the past with regret, but to look at the past and see the lessons and the direction we moved in to accomplish a small step along the path of the life we planned before birth.

Namaste,

Sue