Did you obediently follow the dictates of your parents, get a good education, marry the man or woman of your dreams, have children, raise them, buy a house, save for retirement, spend a few years at the end enjoying the fruit of your labor? Can you play out your life in complete story by the way things are supposed to be?
Perhaps you have done all these things according to a plan, yours, or the expectations of your parents. Maybe there was no plan at all, and life simply unfolded in some direction you could never have predicted. Amazing as it all is, we have definitely created our own challenges on the pathway to being a more highly evolved human being.
Did you think it was going to be easy????
The point is, no matter the choices that we accepted for ourselves, there are two distinct
themes we come into this lifetime to work on for our soul’s growth, according to one modern day psychic Sylvia Browne. A primary theme, which is who we are, and a secondary theme of what we’re here to work on. The catch is the secondary theme will usually be the biggest obstacle to overcome along the way.
Per Ms Browne’s theory there are forty-four life themes: Activator, Aesthetic Pursuits, Analyzer, Banner Carrier, Builder, Catalyst, Cause Fighter, Controller, Emotionality, Experiencer, Fallibility, Follower, Harmony, Healer, Humanitarian, Infallibility, Intellectuality, Irritant, Justice, Lawfulness, Leader, Loner, Loser, Manipulator, Passivity, Patience, Pawn, Peacemaker, Performance, Persecution, Persecutor, Poverty, Psychic, Rejection, Rescuer, Responsibility, Spirituality, Survival, Temperance, Tolerance, Victim, Victimizer, Warrior, and Winner.
I had one of those “AHA” moments, when reading through the list of themes. My primary theme being healer, vs. the secondary theme of aesthetic pursuits; the difficulty is being available to help people in need of healing, while trying to establish my own creative pursuits that require lots of alone time.
Once we can identify these self-chosen paths, this will help to clarify what we want and need to work on, and even what we’ve experienced in past lives. Once you can determine the two forces at work, you can begin to understand some recurring issues in your life and find a sort of direction through these issues, making peace with yourself. These are the life lessons you determined to work on in this existence. Look around you. Are the supporting players in your life a part of this great set of lessons that you created for your own betterment?
If you ever thought that the same issues keep popping up, over and over, in your lifetime,
that is the very key to determining your life’s lessons. It’s that secondary theme, the very thing that will complicate your “who you are” theme, that is rearing his demanding little head to be heard. Therein lies the struggle. For what is life, if not overcoming the struggles?
So the next time you feel at odds with yourself…think about these life lessons that you so wisely set yourself up for and wonder…am I learning all I need to in this lifetime????
