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Conditions Affecting Our Responses to Life

When examining our human condition and how we handle our lives, there are always three factors involved which must be considered:

a.) the degree of soul presence and activation
b.) our psychological condition and ability
c.) our physical condition, including the condition of various parts of our brain

The soul presence and activation is directly related to our overall state of consciousness, as well as the current state that can be activated. This is usually facilitated or restricted by either our psychological state or our physical state. There may be karmic realities affecting this.

Our psychological condition and ability is the current state of our mental and emotional bodies – the kinds of thoughts we think, our attitudes and feelings about ourself and about what is happening in our life, the conditioning we have had that we have not addressed and the shadow side of ourself that we have avoided. Our beliefs also determine the psychological condition and how it enhances or inhibits us. There may also be karmic conditions affecting this.

Our physical condition, especially the state of our brain, has a huge effect both on our personality reaction to situations as well as on our ability to express soul qualities. There may be genetic factors involved, karmic factors, and prior experiences affecting brain and body.

The above conditions will influence and qualify how we respond to life and experience. They form the background to the more immediate challenges we experience that are necessary for our growth.

Every day of our lives we are being challenged to express who we are in an appropriate way according to the need that exists at the moment. Challenges are then opportunities to do just that, but often we do not take advantage of them. Sometimes this is because we are lazy, indifferent, self-centered or ignorant of what is required. We do not get challenged unless we are able to meet the challenge.

Each challenge that we face, we experience because of one or more of the following:

a.) we are separate
b.) we are ignorant
c.) we have not loved in some particular aspect of our life
d.) we have not aligned our personality will with the soul within

When we accept a challenge as an opportunity for growth and expression we do one or more of the following. Each challenge that we go through and learn from:

a.) we let go of some separatism
b.) we overcome some ignorance
c.) we grow in love
d.) our personality will is aligned with the universal or soul (i.e., we make choices aligned with truth or reality)

Meeting our challenges successfully results in experiences of soul activation – growing in love, wisdom, understanding or power.

Challenges exist for a variety of reasons that include the following:

a.) Balancing conditions that have been unbalanced. This can be seen as karma.
b.) Learning something necessary for the further unfoldment of the person. This is a natural evolutionary impulse that works at overcoming the limitations imposed on oneself by ignorance, by withdrawal from social connection and by not expressing oneself.
c.) Restoring well-being when illness or disease exists.
d.) Healing relationships when disharmony exists.
e.) Clearing pathways of expression for soul qualities that are needed.
f.) Becoming more creative in fulfillment of a person’s life purpose.
g.) Restoring order where disorder exists.
h.) Becoming at times more independent and at other times more interdependent.
i.) Restoring virtue when vice exists.
j.) Bringing thought into alignment with soul.
k.) Aligning understanding and behaviour with universal laws.
l.) Awakening conscience for moral choices.
m.) Motivating the expression of personality and soul purposes.
n.) Overcoming fear and separation in order to experience greater unity.
o.) Teaching or expressing unconditional love.
p.) Making connection with the universal and trusting in its intelligence and love. q.) Learning that soul is present within us and everyone and that each being is divine.
r.) Discovering our uniqueness and appreciating our personal contribution to life.
s.) Supporting others when they need support.

Exercises: 1. In what part of your life do you feel separate or lacking connection? What can you do to overcome this challenge? 2. In what part of your life do you lack understanding? What can you do to overcome this challenge? 3. How do you disempower yourself or others? What can you do to empower yourself and others? 4. Where is love lacking in your life? Resolve to express love appropriately in those parts of your life.

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