JANUARY 2010: Soul's Journey

Charting Your Path: 2010

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What a ride it was in 2009!  For some, its a relief that its over.  For others, there can be regrets of good times passed or loved ones leaving.  For all of us, this is an opportunity to look at the past year to understand the Souls purpose during this time.

 As we move forward into the New Year, our thoughts are often filled with the hope that making our annual resolutions bring.  We make statements such as, This is the year when I am going to______.   This year my goal is ______ or, This year I plan to stop (fill in your own addiction here). 
 

For many of us, we continue to make variations of the same resolution, and sabotage them with the same patterns over and over.  We attempt to move away from the old situations, the year past, without collecting the learnings that these situations brought to us, changing the patterns that no longer work, or opening up to the gifts that are present for our growth.  We continue to do what we swear were never going to do again, and then beat ourselves up for it.  Shame is never a good motivator for lasting change.

On our souls journey, we move through many situations that seem difficult, even traumatic in this physical form.  However, every situation and person that we have encountered thus far, no matter how difficult, was part of our souls purpose to help us grow and evolve. So, we can begin to open up to a new way of looking at our lives. 

To begin to understand your souls purpose, it is helpful to ask yourself some questions to bring this information to your awareness.  Think back over the past year to some of the significant events or patterns that occurred.  From a place of inner stillness and non- judgment, ask yourself the following questions:  What were the times and places I gave my power away and stopped being responsible to myself?  What internal resources or beliefs would have been helpful to me in those situations?  How have I grown because of this? What themes kept reoccurring? What was the gift or blessing that came forward as a result of my experiences in 2009?