of life, you are not really living but simply existing as if you are marking time like a prisoner confined to a cell. Is each day of your life simply a clone of the day before?
For example, what do you have to look forward to right now? I’m not referring to the things you have tentatively planned or are fantasizing about for tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year, or five years from now—but right now?
How many new challenges are you accepting? Are you widening your circle of friends? What additional skills are you building? What greater risks are you taking? How will you structure tomorrow differently from today? What are you specifically doing to increase the level of financial abundance in your life beyond toiling in your current job? How are you resolving your issues and conducting the necessary healing? How are you tangibly making a difference in someone else’s life?
If you’re like many people, you may not be able to answer even one of these questions. You may not have considered all of these dynamics. But you can begin—right now—to create positive improvements in your life rather than to remain depressed or frustrated over things that you have in your power to change. Choosing to remain upset about a situation or circumstance that you have the power to change is a tremendous waste of your precious time and energy. I pose these questions in order to inspire and motivate you to begin thinking of your life in different terms—your terms!
All of the topics I just asked you to consider are dynamics of your spiritual destiny. You have it within your power to create a life not only filled with financial abundance but also charged with the rush of success achieved by setting and reaching new goals. You will achieve the heightened confidence and self-worth that results from meeting varied risks and challenges, the stimulation of positive, healthy relationships, and the knowledge that you are here on earth to accomplish something meaningful that will have a constructive impact on the lives of other people.
However, if you are surviving locked inside a prison of sameness and routine, you are not working toward your spiritual destiny. All it takes to build a better life is the willingness to venture forth and escape the dreariness of your current existence by becoming aware of your destiny and mustering the initiative to achieve it. By doing so, you’ll quickly erase the boredom, confusion, and lackluster routine of your life as you begin a journey toward enlightenment that will lead directly toward a secure and lasting happiness. You can create an existence that yields emotional, spiritual, physical, and financial abundance, in which each day is profoundly different from the previous day.
What I have learned is that building true happiness and inner peace is definitely attainable, but only through the awareness and ongoing pursuit of accomplishing one’s spiritual destiny.
Consider the dynamics that make up your current destiny—or what I’ve referred to as the itinerary for your present earthly spiritual journey. For instance, why are you here on the earthly plane at this time? How is this specific historical period on earth pivotal in allowing you to accomplish your destiny? How are you currently earning a living? What does your physical body look like? How many issues are you attempting to explore? Why did you decide to be male or female? What is your life’s work? Why did you choose your family of origin? Why did you choose to interact with the various people in your life? Are any of them platonic or romantic soul mates? And, why do you currently live where you do?
As we continue to investigate spiritual destiny, we’re ready to explore what I refer to as the “Five Guiding Principles of Spiritual Destiny.”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1913; Civil War nurse, suffragist, Civil Rights activist)
Chapter 3
The Five Guiding Principles
BEFORE ANY SPIRITUAL being leaves heaven for a lifetime on the earthly plane, he must make a series of vital decisions that will chart his course and determine what he will be able to accomplish.
The decisions you make regarding your upcoming itinerary in this life center on the issues you still have left to resolve. Your decisions are reached along with other souls who are also choosing to return to the earthly plane and with whom you plan to interact. In addition, your plans take into account the existing level of enlightenment you earned from past earthly incarnations and what this enlightenment will allow you to accomplish as a life’s work.
The course you chart will allow you to achieve as much as possible on your earthly journey, although you may be sidetracked from time to time by emotional upheavals, physical illness, and other obstacles.
Have you ever wondered if destiny actually represents an inescapable series of preordained events that propel you inevitably toward certain people, places, or things? Or, is your destiny more accurately defined as a series of open-ended opportunities that you can accomplish by exercising free will?
Destiny can best be described as the blueprint of achievable goals you create for each earthly lifetime that forms your purpose and direction. While each spiritual goal you are meant to achieve is preordained from the moment of birth, the method you employ to accomplish each goal is open entirely to choice and free will.
Although the spiritual destiny that forms the depth and substance of an earthly life is predetermined by each individual soul before birth, how he goes about fulfilling it is up to him. Therefore, despite the fact that you have already specifically created your unique blueprint for this lifetime, the way in which you accomplish it is absolutely a matter of your own awareness, initiative, and perseverance. I refer to the dynamics of your spiritual blueprint for each earthly lifetime as the Five Guiding Principles of Spiritual Destiny.
The Five Guiding Principles of Spiritual Destiny
• Life’s Work
• Issues to Resolve
• Spiritual Contracts
• Awareness of Past Lifetimes
• Preventive Maintenance of the Physical Body
Each of the guiding principles represents a cornerstone in the foundation of your quality of life. It is only through accomplishing your spiritual agenda that you’ll feel a sense of self-worth, direction, and purpose in your life, allowing you to become empowered enough to build relationships with people who will help create joy, peace, and contentment in your everyday existence. Let’s explore each of the Five Guiding Principles of Spiritual Destiny.
Principle One: Life’s Work
Without exception, everyone currently living on the earthly plane has a very specific kind of work to accomplish. Your life’s work represents your purpose in this lifetime, which is one of the most important missions you came to earth to fulfill.
Over the years, many of my clients have confided that they had always believed that their life’s work involved making a substantial difference in other people’s lives.
What I have learned through my channeled sessions is that every soul is destined to make a difference in other people’s lives. We are all reborn on earth to make a significant contribution to the welfare and spiritual progress of other human beings and to leave something positive behind when we decide to return to our home in heaven. If you have already sensed that you have an important kind of work to do, I applaud your awareness! If, however, you remain
