Facing Challenges

All of us face both minor and major challenges in our lives. How we deal with those life challenges determines how we experience life – as a struggle to survive or as an ongoing adventure in growth and fulfillment.

Every single day we are faced with some life challenge, and often several. Sometimes the challenges defeat us, and we suffer. Sometimes we are victorious, and from our experience, we learn and grow.

Surprisingly, all life challenges are initiated by the Soul. Though it can appear that our problems come from other people, society and circumstances, in fact, they arise to support our personal growth in consciousness.
Every challenge is something – usually an energy or a quality – trying to become a part of our consciousness. Because we are not yet familiar with this energy, we have to learn what it is and how to incorporate it into our life. When it is incorporated, this produces transformation – some lesser quality, such as selfishness, has given way to some greater quality, such as love.

All of our challenges have a direct relationship to our soul’s purpose in life. Our soul’s purpose can be seen as having 9 aspects or dimensions of living. As souls, we try to manifest our energy fully in 9 ways or directions. When we master these, we are totally successful and have fulfilled our purpose perfectly.
Though we each have a unique purpose, the areas of challenge in life are common to us all.

With this new understanding, we can begin to welcome the challenges we meet. We will know how to learn from those challenges. And we will delight in using our new learning to love and serve the needs around us.

When we face a challenge, we have two and only two possible responses to the challenge. We can accept and open to the lesson or we can resist our opportunity to grow. Which one we choose will determine the size of the challenge and the degree of conflict we experience.
Each of us has a deep and natural urge to become soul-conscious. Nonetheless, our personality must choose whether it will cooperate or resist the expansion of consciousness once it begins happening.

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