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Reality in it's purest form is nether good or bad, it just is. 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. So 90% of our emotional pain is created by US. "What we resist persists". If we are not at a place of acceptance over the things we are POWERLESS to change, we create more of what we don't want (emotional pain) Without sadness there is no happiness Without pain there is no joy Without bad days there are no good days Without darkness there is no light Everything is a DUALITY. This means one does not exist without the other. The key is to see the value in the things that appear to be negative. Example... How do you know when your having a bad day? If you had a bad day everyday, would it be a bad day? NO, it would be a normal, flat and boring day. So would I be right in saying, the only reason you know your having a bad day is because you've had a good day to compare it to? YES, it's the only reason why we know we are having a bad day it's because you had a good day too compared to. So how do you know when you're having a good day? If you had a good day everyday it would become normal flat boring. It would go to the same place as if you had a bad day every day. So the only reason you know you're having a good day because you had a bad day to compare it to. So the gift to having a good day is actually a bad day, because if I took away all your bad days you'd automatically lose all your good days. How you might ask? It's because if you was in in really high positive emotion every single day, that positive emotion would slowly fade gradually over time and the positive emotion would become normal flat and boring. No you can see the value in a bad day, you can then become grateful and happy to have a bad day. The gratitude and happiness changes the bad day and the resistance drops to it because you are leaning into it and not leaning away from it. It's not something you want to get rid of, it's something that carries a lot of value in your life. Imagine being a place where you can be grateful and happy to have a bad day? WOW "This is a very simple valuable tool" This analogy works the same with negative emotion. Every emotion carries value and purpose. if you can see the value in any emotion you can become grateful, happy for it and move towards it, which dropped the resistance and takes away 90% of the emotional pain ucreate. Do you agree or disagree?

People didn't accept me and now i am scared to approach them. When i fell ill i didn't suddenly became aware of my illness, slowly little by little my body parts was showing abnormalities. I was in discomfort , not able to do anything , consults with many clinics but no one knows. People around me ignored me , didn't believe me , my family was fed-up (even though it wasn't years, i salute to those families who keep patient with their children, when children face some kind of illness which can't go away soon but takes years to get well) so in the end my family was so fed up that.. when i told them i really can't go to loo because i can't support my body, they said i am just not trying enough. 2years, when slowly my body was like this. My faith in family was fading and at-last i became numb. Family to me, i owe them like it's debt. Loan i have to give back with interest. In this time, friends left me because i was slowing them down "sorry i couldn't type text or hold phone to call because my hands is falling". All left. I wasn't even able to eat, i supported my hands in my knees to hold my jaws and move so my jaw could move (because after one chew i had to rest 2min then chew, same for hand) could hold the spoon for more than few seconds. At last, when my brain stop working for 1sec and i fall with no movement at all. Mom and me to go to biggest hospital in country and then doctor team sent me to neurologist. Then they find out i was diagnosis with "mysthania gravis". Had operation , plasma phase and still on medicine though but i am so much better. At that time no one was there but then my spiritual energy was with me. God was with me all the time. God was the only one with me. God give me positivity. God never mad me realized that i was alone. Now i want to know, will some one accept me in this world? Not so perfect me? I could do all the things normal person could do. But i am highly sensitive like a baby. If outside weather is hot/cold and i suddenly enter in AC/heater i will have fever and rest for 3days. When i go outside Uber driver drive roughly and my body become feverish and i have to take pain medicine and rest for 3-4 days. Every seasonal changes occur , high perfume/smell , high intensity food . Now i am scared... Can I live with this weak body? Will some one accept me this way?

I love a whole bunch of things, hiking, camping, travelling, going of the beaten track, 4x4s and motorcycles, music. I love nature, good food and people. I think people are awesome, all ethnicities and backgrounds, they all have a uniqueness that makes humanity exciting, the cultures, food and so much more. I haven't really been able to do any of the things I love though, life has just not allowed me to gain stability enough to get onto living. Family, kids, finances...the list goes on. I sometimes feel like I've lost excitement for life in the buzz of doing life. I hold on to hope though, that someday soon I may just be able to go on with living.

In order to understand the meaning of life, we need a deep understanding of meaning itself, and then we can find that meaning, which is hidden inside our own lives. Yes, there is a meaning to your life and the purpose of this article is to help you in finding it. We need reasons to live, and that life has meaning is a powerful reason to live. Human life, now or even 1000 years in future, if it continues to exist would be searching for the meaning of life. Does life have meaning and purpose is one of the core questions that we all need to face or ask till we find the answer. What is the ‘Meaning’ in Meaning of Life? Think about your life right now. Do you feel that your life has meaning? It is not quite difficult to answer. There are times your life has meaning and there are times your life doesn’t have meaning, and you can tell it, because you feel it. When you do something that aligns with who you are, and it feels that you are adding value to someone’s life, you would feel that your life has meaning. Meaning of life is also closely linked to the purpose of life. If life has meaning, it also has purpose. Purpose and meaning cannot exist without each other. Read more here :) What are your opinions? I would appreciate your valuable opinions and would like to improve my understanding from your perspective.

This is Usman, 37, unemployed due to pandemic. I am having a very tough time because my heart wants to stay with nature, natural living, i think it a most peaceful way. But my surroundings force me to adopt city life and have more money instead.

What's the purpose of our life?

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What is life.

My Journey? Hmmm - That's actually a bit too cliché for me but will use what works for others in an attempt to be heard. More often than not I find this world more a place in which people do time. I think now think of Eckhart Tolle and his lectures on the subject: If I may share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgj7u86e4wc Perhaps not for everyone. I do tend to find him easy on the ear and have spent a more than a few years being open to his core message with respect to here and now. I think I prefer to deal with depression, anxiety, or other mental health challenges through the process of dis-Identifying. Commonly known in Eckhart's circle as dis-Identifying from the mind. Apparently key to becoming present. I make now claims either way but can only say what works for me and share what I see. Quote: "Simple but now easy" Reminds me of Jon Kabat-Zin whom I first came across on YouTube doing a presentation at Google. The quote that just came to mind somewhere from his book 'Wherever you go there you are.' I sense a sadness in him when watching him now but he handles it well. He is his own master of course with his own box of tools. I'd say that source of sadness comes from the irony of having talked at Google and they being what they are. Can be summed up in an article 'Father of virtual reality: Facebook and Google are dangerous 'behavior-modification empires' resulting from a tragic mistake' Jon tried his best and still does today with the odd online meet and greet. I know his has made a positive influence on me. Me ... I'm a sponge and whilst have a failing memory and struggle cognitively when out and about in a world not designed for me, things that resonate with me tend to last for life. Although this can be said for both negative and positive experiences. For me, I am not into cutting people out of my life on a whim because some article claims that's how I will claim my prize. I find such doctrine as it be, a tact like perhaps what google does when assimilating the knowledge of great speakers like Jon then creating an algorithm to hook people in. Everyone promoting themselves behind a veil of excellence and success sold in many other likewise terms. Kind of like how western society adopts and twist other cultures, religion and philosophy. Why not throw into the mix domination and control? Smiles because it's all so challenging that anyone that talks on such things in todays world is quickly such down in a finely tuned machine that sees automated robot responses from humans all over today's info tech world. Indeed, depression, anxiety, or other mental health challenges abound. Just to be clear, I'm not looking for advice myself. Most of my take and approach is also very challenging but not so much for me. It just fly's in the face of main stream ideals as peddled from the machine. I'm acutely aware though of how my own resistance works against me which is why I find the likes of Tolle, Zin and Watts very compelling. That said, I don't find watts as soothing at Eckhart and Jon. He is a little more blunt but still I find enough gold in his sharing to be helpful for me. Grain of salt until it hits a home run, but then I much prefer revisiting such insights until I can either acknowledge them as my experience or not. I don't care much for the dramatic music played in the background and images pasted over the top. That's more part of the trap the Tolle often talks about and even Watt's himself. Much irony abounds in as much at Jon talking at Google and again it being what it be. In that regard the lycra , iconic images and drama used to profile peoples self promoting journeys is also something I recoil from. Smiles again ... no wonder I prefer small groups. arrr ... Now I think of the Life of Brian. Don't ask how I got there. hehe. I also don't take myself too seriously but also keep things true enough for me when creating my own script. I have no purpose that fits into another group ideal although many would propose in their daily speech. "What do you do for a living?" As if to imply I must be 'doing' something in order to live or whatever. "Keeping Busy?" all the way into the new age group that also ask many questions of others "What have you contributed?" Different dynamics, same patterns. The use of exclamations marks following claims of stillness and peace. Tis a crazy world to be sure full of irony at every turn. Yet there are snippets to be had in every irony to be had. "You shall know them by their fruits." The latter being from a book I consider and no more than a book, yet rings true enough. I don't always throw the fruit out either just because it does not look pretty or not pitch perfect in taste. Sadly it seems out culture today is steering more toward said irony more and more. So sad indeed that it's nice to a section like this in a happiness forum that appears to be open to such things. Each to their own of course. This is my world view from what I have seen, experienced and see and seeing. Although it's worth noting such revelations can be hard to cope with. Especially in a world programmed with such an inherent need for validation and approval. Time for some gardening and to quickly share a pic of what keeps me out of such a chaotic and shallow world - more so what keeps me grounded, brings me solace and peace: Is not about the end result but about the experience. Instead of cutting people out of my life on a whim and gong form relationship to relationship, I make friends with that which does do not use open its mouth or take photos of itself: Again ... we all find happiness in our own way. 🙃 Takes more than a fancy profile, well constructed answers to text book questions to build trust in a world of deception. How's that for non-neurotypical? Oh the labels! ← Notes* first exclamation mark. Well done on the drama. Oh how they hand those labels out and how people cling to them. Forgive my candor here but true enough for yours truly. Such is a bit of an epidemic from what I can see. I choose to be none of them but like so many others jump through the hoops in order that I may have the right to live. But yea ... whatever works. I burnt out the sensor on my wife's camera taking the image bellow. It was cheap tiny compact affordable at the time to replace with the newer one - but how lost I was in the taking of that shot. It was an experience which makes this one of so many years later still my favorite. When I am doing well I enjoy taking these kinds of photos. I find much of the essence in the talks given by those I named above in images like these. I'm only just starting to get back into a cycle where I am considering sharing more of these experiences. Minus my world view of course. These kind of shares tend to convey more in a way that's more digestible. That said, writing in our own way from the heart as we see and breathe is also therapeutic. This is why I am often more my own audience but open to all minds. Even those that are not like mine but get the gist of being more open to those that resonate. I'm just not into cutting out people as commonly sold nor all the other aspects of today's selfish algorithm. This makes me a target by being so open, but then I also get to meet real people otherwise isolated by the things of which I highlight. I'm all for those on the fringes - for all those who have been rejected - yet get the boundaries that others use to reason when taking a less painful route. Until next share - have a nice day.

How am i supposed to find meaning and solace in a world where I cannot even speak to the one I cherish above all things? She is not dead but I can't contact her no matter how hard I try and it seems like there's no hope. The very first time I saw her face I knew she was the only thing I was ever going to want the only thing I have wanted up to this point in my life. And now I just don't know anything at all, nothing makes sense in a world without her light.

I would say yes and here is why: The most influential course I took was "the science of happiness" about which I wrote an article for the Happiness Magazine a few years ago when happiness.com was just a little blog. Since then many things changed (for the better), and I think it is fair to attribute a big chunk of it to this course because it convinced me to start with meditation. I then did an MBSR (meditation-based stress reduction) course, and a few years later I am a certified meditation and MBSR teacher. What is your favourite course and why? How did it influence your life?

Do we leave people better than we found them?

Hello everyone I have been on the journey for about two years now on my own and the challenges I'm facing are getting too hard to do alone. I don't have any friends or family who understand what I'm going thru. I've always been an antisocial and very insecure person and it's been holding me back my whole life. I just wish I had someone to talk to who understands.

The one thing I'd like everyone to know about me is before last night, I didn't want anyone to know anything about me. I am very spiritual and I am very comfortable in hermit mode because the energy in the world is heavy. I've been through a long life of trauma and what started as therapy and researching psychology then led me to spirituality. I know the term "witch" comes with a very negative stereotype and stigma. However, I don't think of myself in the typical pointed hat and cauldron type either. *giggles* I have just recently learned that I am quite magical but it took me a long time to accept my gifts and abilities. Before I could ever do that I had to learn to love myself unapologetically. As a person who has been a people pleaser my whole life, it was very difficult for me to focus on myself. This is one one of the hardest things I've ever done and I upset a lot of people by placing boundaries and sticking to them. My opinion on that is, when you stand in your truth without fear, the people that aren't meant to be in our lives will fall away. There is a whole theory to that but that's for another day. My point is, that, I have been divinely guided here and to this platform specifically. Last night was a new moon. As per usual I have regular "rituals"/habits that I perform. I was reflecting on this period of my life that is coming to a close. I was releasing what no longer serves my highest path and then manifesting the things I truly want. One thing I released was my fear of being truly seen for who I am and not for my physical appearance. For months I have hidden away, working on my inner world. Now I'm being called to step back into the public and reintroduce myself. The second hardest thing I've ever done is learn to surrender to the universe. So... here I am. Hi there!! Haha

Over the past couple of years i can say i was in a dark place and couldn’t find happiness and health being present at the same time. It was always about risking another to get the other. Now i can confidently say that i have conquered the obstacle that kept me from being the best version of myself. And i’d like to share some useful tips on how i made it possible. Exercise: I cannot begin to explain how important it is to actually go out there and start working out. It could be as simple as taking a walk around the street or even going out into the nature. Exercising is not only good for you physically but also a great way to stay positive and energetic mentally. Cut back on alcohol: Alcohol and nicotine are one of the worst decisions you can choose to feel happy or relieve stress. Highly addictive unhealthy and unnecessary supplement will only eat your money and health away. What you’re looking for is long lasting happiness and health. A glass of wine or night out with your friends is never bad for you, as long as it doesn’t become a habit. Take time for yourself: If you work 9–5 jobs, or even more than that. It’s important to know when you need to use those hard earned holidays and do something you are truly passionate about, or always wanted to experience. It could be as little as cooking a royal dinner for friends and family, or spending the day with your pet dog at the local dog park. Be optimistic: Things usually tend to go bad when we start thinking things will go bad. Being open and optimistic about harsh and hard events in life could be the deciding factor in your happiness. Instead of drowning yourself in guilt after dropping your moms favorite cup on the floor, be thankful that no one got hurt and now you have a good reason to surprise your mom with a new cup. Stop caring what other people think: No one could ever know everything about you, or the way you feel and experience things. You know yourself best and should always do what you think is best for yourself. Your neighbor George might not be the best source of right answers, when it comes to your health and happiness. I believe in you and hope that my methods in finding myself be happier and healthier will provide you with valuable information. If you found these methods helpful, or would like to find methods for your needs. I highly recommend checking out this program that helped me get to where i am today. Dr. Partha Nandi's Health Hero: Masterclass

Hello, I'm a 24 year old man. I have signed up here because I have gone through severe depressions throughout my life. This year, my depression was so severe, that I went through a psychotic episode with symptoms of schizophrenia for 2 weeks. During that period of time, I have lost friends and fucked up an opportunity with a girl that meant a lot to me. All this happened at the end of my stay in South of France, where I was doing my bachelor's degree for 3 years. It's difficult for me to realise that a lot of people, who I might see again in my life, talk trash behind my back without even knowing that i was behaving very awkwardly because of that psychotic episode. Recently, I moved to another city to do my Master's degree. As usual, I feel lonely and depressed, but I managed to get out of that psychotic episode. What triggers me the most, is that I can be a very social person when I'm in society, I would describe myself as pretty charismatic, and confident when I talk to or in front of a lot of people, but despite that fact, I don't manage to create intimate bonds with other people and at the end of the day, I remain a lonely man. I would like to share my thoughts with other people who can relate to this or who experienced similar things in their life and find solutions to overcome the overwhelming negative thoughts that our brain create.

Hi to all wonderful members here. I am VIJAIKUMAR from Chennai in south of India. Have been a chef and am now retired early and into photography by passion. Have seen the ups and downs of life. Have seen the corporate world and also been an entrepreneur. Plenty of life lessons. Have two grownup children who are now on their own. And life's been going on. Am now into that new phase of life where I want to make some new friends and travel to the nature at its best parts of world. Want to go on some adventure tours of Northern and North Eastern India... specialy the Himalayam Range. The friends made so far are all busy with their own lives and just don't have time for the friendship time to meetup. But that's life I guess for many. Am here looking for new friends to share all that life experiences and thoughts. Am OK to discuss share and debate on any aspect of life and also be it any other topic. Hoping to make some friends here to be more happier then ever before. Regards VIJAIKUMAR

I am with my family, and we have a garden. We are short on toilet paper, and there's no flour, milk, nor pasta in the supermarkets. We can work from home and so far our salaries are not affected too much. Every day when I check the news, I feel so much gratitude for the privileged situation we are in. Nevertheless, I do feel anxiety creeping in now and then. Then it sits with me like a bad taste. I am worried about my parents who live several hours away by themselves, and I won't be able to see them any time soon. And I am concerned about all the people out there who are affected directly and harshly by the virus. I donate money, order from little shops and participate in online events of all sorts, but I also do get overwhelmed.

I was going through the most difficult times in my life. I split with my partner of 11 years and my best friend died in a car accident around the same time. There was lots of other things that happened too but it’s too much too explain. Anyway I’ve not had an easy life and instead of healing I chose drink and drugs and toxic relationships throughout my life. I came close to suicide a lot in my life and had so many near death experiences. It got to a point where drink and drugs weren’t helping anymore and I’d lost everyone I cared about. I stopped drinking as much and sat with my feelings and thoughts and began to heal. I had a spiritual awakening for the first time ever in my life. My guardian angels and God which by the way I was never sure I truly believed in him but he spoke and said I had another chance in life to make my self better and other people. My spiritual awakening made me more caring, empathetic, loving and non judgmental. I saw through my third eye I’m a starsseed a lightworker I’m supposed to be here it’s my destiny to help others heal and set them on there own spiritual journey to find there own soul path. I’m now 11 days sober and feeling a lot more positive and calmer about life. I would love to help anyone that’s in need even just a friend or someone to vent to. Anything at all please don’t hesitate to contact me. I will never judge you or tell anyone your privacy remains with me. I’m reaching out as I know how I suffered on my own and I wished I had someone to reach out to myself at times.

I was just wondering if I have the right to be angry about this? I've (38/M) known this woman (43/F) for 18 years, we used to be really close and talk on the phone often and text often and see each other every couple months for a coffee or hiking. She met this guy (38/M) and I was happy for her, she said I would like him but never let me meet him for some reason, others have. They were together for 2 years and broke up and I was there for her through this. After that she seemed different towards me like pushing me away and found out she went back to this guy as best friends hanging out non stop and a few years later (today) I reach out to her every bluemoon she ignores my texts for a while and gives me a voice text, I can't really hear it so she calls me and says she's working on herself and has cut her guy friends out of her life so she can focus on herself and build trust with this guy so no more talking on the phone or hanging out once a year for our hiking but I can say hello every blue moon, so basically she cut me out of her life because her insecure possessive boyfriend and only allowed female friends. She says it was her choice to cut all the guys out of her life including me but she's just defending his awful actions, his terms were to cut all males out of her life if they are to be together again lol. Anyway we hung up and I text her I'll miss her, hope the best for her, that I hope she's always happy in life no matter what even though she dropped me for that trash guy and for her to not reach out to me anymore as I will be blocking her and good luck in life but i'll never forgive her for this bad unhealthy behaviour and goodbye. Do I have a right to be angry?

Being present in the moment leads to encountering life and consequently one feels the real joy or sorrow depending on what one encounters in the moment. I had been a urban cerebral man all my life, leading a life of an intellectual through a profession of being a university professor. My experience of such a life is about being in either present or past and hung up in your head all the time, never really encountering life which passes by. Though in such a situation, my one hobby of taking long yearly holiday to roam in the nature in an unplanned manner saved my sanity for so many years. Lately as i crossed 50 years of my age, i feel like changing the pattern of my life and just move closer to the nature without elaborately planning it so that i will need to be spontaneously responding to situations i encounter on the way. I am tired being hung up in the head.

You know, many of us have thought the same thing, is your mind just a product of certain emotions. But, there`s really nothing, just emotions to make us behave in a certain way. Well, if that`s so, we`re all just dead bodies, moving around with no purpose, just certain processes to make us re-produce. I have another take on it, we`re all the product of energy. I mean, the universe began with a sun, energy, then when the energy cooled down, it formed mass, and because the sun was so heavy, it collapsed under it`s own weight, and why we have gravity also, because of the momentum this caused. I think energy, which the first sun consisted of, is a little living; the reason why we`re living also. If you look at someone closely, in their eyes, you can see this light. It`s the reason we`re living, and not just bodies, walking around. We lived before DNA, we`re all sons, of this energy, sort of. LIke God`s sons. The soul isn`t from DNA, anyways, I`m just making a point. The soul get`s transfered, in another way, before birth. That`s why they spent billions on researching also, without finding genes linked to the personality.Anyways, I just wanted to share my take on it, it`s a popular thing now to think there`s nothing in the soul, they say "nothing", among western people. I always knew I felt real, to me it`s just nonsense to think there`s nothing. I think they fall under their own irrationally also, because they still care about others, wants to have sex, and so fourth; what`s the point then, if there`s nothing. Exactly, I wouldn`t like care about others, or talk to them, if there`s nothing. I`d just be under my own reflexes then, and not in control of myself, and spending life in society.My point is, I think energy is living a little. The whole universe, is living. The thing, we all consists of. What`s your take on it? We feel a "self" also, which also could just be a trick from nature, to make us feel real. But, I don`t think so. Science knows we have a soul. scientist says so, and they struggle with this "self" also, they can`t understand why we have it, because in their minds, we`re just brains ... Happy Holidays!

Good morning, everyone, Today I am going to share with you a discovery I made not so long ago that has made my life extremely simple. In a word, it has made me happier. I have gathered for you three videos (below) that I think are the best in this field. You just have to watch them and follow, if you wish, the advice given. Try to watch all the videos and the whole thing (it doesn't last very long and believe me, it helps). Don't hesitate to watch them again several days later to apply the advice correctly. Video 1: http://adfoc.us/53166175768250 Video 2: http://adfoc.us/53166175788687 Video 3: http://adfoc.us/53166175788693 (P. S. : When you click on the link, a page will be displayed, you will have to wait 5 seconds before clicking on the "skip" button in the top right corner; it's to avoid DDOS attacks, thanks). I hope the method will work for you as well as for me ? and don't hesitate to contact me to share your progress. I could also give you some advice. Have a good end of day!

Life After Death After death every soul who comes toward the Light when they leave the body is welcomed with Unconditional Love. After death each soul goes through a review, like a holographic experience, in which they experience the feelings of those who came in contact with them - the ones who felt love and the ones who were hurt, and they will feel those feelings exactly as the other people felt them, in real time. This teaches a profound lesson in empathy, compassion, understanding and forgiveness and so on. The soul, set free of the bounds of a constricting material container, is able to expand as it rises gently toward the Light, which is the Light of Unconditional Love, generated and sustained, with the help of our Legions of Angels and Master Guides, for the purpose of welcoming and enveloping the Homecoming soul. Each soul is welcomed, as the prodigal son was welcomed in the Bible story, regardless of the quality of the life lived. Every one of God's Precious Creations is welcomed with celebration and joy. After a period of rest, as needed depending upon the circumstances surrounding the departure from the body, the individual soul will go through a process of review which encompasses all the events and emotional connections which were made during the past life, under the mentorship of a highly evolved Guide. This process includes a reversal of roles, in real time, so that the soul may experience the feelings and thoughts of all the others who came in contact with him/her in any important way. S/he will feel all the disappointment, pain, anguish and anger which resulted from his/her own actions, as well as the actions of Love and community, compassion and forgiveness which led others to positive turns in their paths. The process of reviewing and feeling the darkness one has caused leaves the soul with greater understanding of the effect of dark actions on others, and inspires deeper empathy, compassion ad forgiveness. It also encourages the attitude of taking responsibility for one's actions, which tends to carry forward into subsequent lives. You can see now why the experience of living many lives, in many different circumstances and historical periods, would tend to hone a soul of greater integrity, depth and virtue. The optimal soul path is one which carries the person along a trajectory toward greater and greater challenges, by living lives of greater degrees of difficulty as the soul grows in stature and confidence. "If it doesn't kill you (or even if it does) it will probably make you stronger" From Spirit's perspective, "death" is just a familiar transition from one plane to another, characterized by great learning and evolution of the soul - a thing to be celebrated. Of course, there are sometimes occasions where an ambitious soul takes on more than s/he can bear, or unforeseen shifts in the trajectory of a life may bring devastating hardship. Because of our free will contract, nothing is absolutely predetermined, although possibilities can often be seen in advance of an event. Therefore, a lifetime on Gaia has always held a sense of mystery, anticipation and great excitement for the brave souls who venture here. There is nearly unlimited variety in the possible choice of experiences - rich or poor, male or female, black, white, yellow or red - all options are encouraged as the soul works their way along the Ascension path through hundreds, even thousands of lifetimes. Many of those souls who were born in the early days of Planet Earth are now working their way up the Ascension ladder to positions of responsibility as Ascended Masters in the higher realms of the 7th through the 13th dimension. Although inexperienced souls do not have access to the higher realms because the frequencies there would not be tolerable for them, souls from higher dimensions can descend to be of service to those who follow, as they most often do in some form. God, Holy Spirit, Ascended Masters, Spirit Guides, Angels and Archangels of the high realms oversee with compassion and deepest love as their dear children struggle through enormous challenges which test their valor, their integrity and their capacity for Love and Forgiveness. Some lifetimes may be more successful in one area or another, but all are fodder for learning and advancement, and all are looked upon with the utmost respect, because those in Spirit Realm are well aware of the inherent level of difficulty which is inevitable in a life on Gaia in 3D, where even the privileged and well-loved individuals encounter difficulties. The goal of this process is to elevate yourselves to higher expressions of Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Empathy, nothing else. In terms of soul evolution, it matters not at all whether you achieve great wealth or fame. Money, awards and accolades may make the journey more pleasant for a time, but they are not a measure of soul value or progress at all, in spite of the way you have pursued those things in your Western cultures above all else. These pursuits are unfortunate distractions, except in rare circumstances where the individual uses their position of wealth and fame to lift others from despair, poverty, and injustice. As you can probably discern from this description, the process of soul evolution is largely reviewed and understood at the end of a life, in the Bardo, that place in the 4th dimension where planning and evaluation has taken place in the past. From there, souls have had the option to pursue training, teaching and learning in progressively higher realms, with or without further sojourns to "Boot Camp" on Gaia. However, it is understood throughout the Multiverse that soul-training on Gaia is the most perfectly-tailored testing ground to develop the higher frequency Light-filled qualities of Love and other virtues, which are considered the God qualities. Consider yourselves courageous, no matter how bogged down and confused you might be feeling at present. Please ponder this carefully and pass it on to your family members and acquaintances. Many will find this information enlightening, since it has been largely unavailable to those who are still in a body. Thank you for reading, God Bless You, Enjoy the ride, Love & Light, Namaste, OM Ω

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