Learning my life lessons...and 3 reasons why that's a good thing.

This week my family and I took a much needed mini-vacation camping on Lake Superior. While there, I found myself thinking a lot about my spiritual path, the Akashic Records and especially my primary life lesson - Flexibility. You see, this week my husband and I were supposed to be Hawaii - kid free, celebrating our anniversary and scuba diving daily. I've been dreaming about this vacation for months, but Covid had other plans for us and our trip was cancelled. So, we decided to make the most of the time off (flexibility!) and took our family camping on the North Shore. We stayed right on the lake, and each night I could hear the waves crashing onto the rocks - it sounded just like the ocean. It was beautiful...but also bittersweet. It was supposed to be the ocean. As I lay there the first night listening to the waves, it dawned on me that this was a perfect example of my soul navigating and experiencing the primary life lesson I chose for this incarnation: Flexibility. 

Hanging out on the shores of Lake Superior.

Let's back up a bit and talk about what a life lesson is and how it shows up. Right before we get ready to incarnate, our soul chooses some aspect of life that we want to experience and learn about - our primary life lesson - as well as one or two secondary lessons. As we go about our life, we naturally gravitate towards situations that will help us learn these lessons. If you ever feel like you're reliving the same experience over and over again - you probably have a life lesson coming into play. Say, for example, if your best laid plans seem to continuously get derailed (*cough* flexibility! *cough, cough*).

​Sometimes life lessons can be frustrating or heart-breaking, so it's a little crazy to think that our soul chose to experience it. Spiritual growth - it's not for the faint of heart. And, like it or not, in order to truly learn a lesson we have to experience all sides of it. To understand flexibility, I need to experience situations that require me to be flexible. I need to experience rigidity, and I need to understand how going with the flow can be a positive AND how it can be negative. If I come up against a situation requiring flexibility, what happens if I go with the flow? How does that feel? What does it gain me? What happens if I'm rigid? If I fight it? How does that feel? It's all part of the spiritual growth game - we experience, we learn, we evolve. It can be hard and it can be messy - but when we work through it, oh man, we can gain so much. 

You might be thinking "That's great and all, but how can knowing our life lessons help us?" There are a couple ways, actually.

1. If the universe continues to give us the same experience over and over again, it's likely there's some aspect of it we haven't truly "gotten" yet. Take some time and think about the situation you're facing and how you've handled similar experiences in the past. My guess is you have a "normal" way of handling these situations. Think about how you can change your response - listen to your intuition - and try something different.​
2. Knowing that you're experiencing a life lessons allows you to embrace it instead of fighting it. Using myself as an example, there have been so many times that I've been knocked off balance by having to change my plans. When I fight against that, life is hard and frankly, a little depressing. But when I embrace the need for change, roll with the punches, my life instantly becomes a little easier. Knowing your life lessons can give you a tool to help you weather the storm, so to speak. 
3. Self-awareness is key with spiritual growth. Knowing your life lessons allows you to look back on your life, see the trends, and view them in a different light. If you're dealing with a challenging life lesson, it's not that the universe is out to get you - it's that your soul is trying to experience and learn something...and that is a much more reassuring thought. Even better, once you do learn the lesson, those experiences will shift and won't be as common any more.

This article has mostly looked at the challenging aspects of a life lesson, but life lessons aren't always hard or unpleasant. Remember, to truly learn a lesson, we have to experience all sides of it, and that includes the positives! 

Are you interested in learning about the life lessons you've chosen? If so, there are two ways you can find out. First, if you feel connected to your spirit guides, you can always ask them. They are there to help us, after all! Otherwise, I would be happy to help you learn about your life lessons (among other things!) in my Soul Gifts Akashic Records reading, which you can learn about here. Do you know what your life lessons are? If so, comment below! I'd love to hear how they've shaped your experiences.
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