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Your Meaning of Life Contract
Each of us has our own path and our own challenges, thus we have our own meaning of life! Contract? I bet you didn't even know you had one! You probably mislaid it along with your user manual, so you will just have to write one then - won't you? Your meaning of life contract defines your life-path specification, it does not define your life-style expectations. Life-style .... this is how you choose to live your life;-
Life-path defines the purpose of your life. It determines those situations which crop up from time to time from which you learn, and poses conditions which you are supposed to transcend. Life-path is the reason for having a life in the first place. This answers the big question : Your Life Path in not pre-destined, you do not have a pre-determined fate, but the meaning of your life has been decided - by you. At some point you have decided to learn certain key lessons during this life-time - thus you have a Meaning of Life Contract. We are talking about guidelines for your life here, not limitations. You have free will, your lifestyle is your decision, (and responsibility). However, the type of person you are is already determined, ie; regardless of your lifestyle, the manner in which you handle situations is determined by who you are. You are wired up to be a certain person - you - and that is who you will always be! You can modify your behavior and change you situation, but who you are will remain. To put it another way, what some people call destiny is your Meaning of Life Contract, how you achieve that destiny is up to you. At any time your path of destiny is posing a life lesson for you to learn. How do we know when a life lesson has not been learnt? The same old situation/problem (lesson), crops up again and again, only worse! We find ourselves going in cycles (or circles). At the moment of your death as you pass to a new reality, your life-path will have been defined by how you have evolved and what you are taking with you that you didn't arrive with. It may be much or it may be minuscule, but you will have evolved. At some point you have chosen a life-path from all the options available. You may have chosen to live:-
You can change the place or style of living, change partners, change your friends, get a new car, live somewhere else, change anything you like, but always your Meaning of Life contract inexorably kicks in. Regardless of the Life Style you have chosen, your Meaning of Life Contract is there.
There are three broad categories into which define the type of person we are, and thereby the way in which we act/react to the world around us - that which motivates us. These are :
A person who is motivated by security strives to build a safe and secure life for themselves and their families. They climb the mountain "because they feel it is safer to be up high"! A person who achievement oriented, is motivated to do things for their own sake. They climb the mountain "because it is there"! A person who seeks social recognition is motivated by the need to be recognized, to look good. They climb the mountain "so that we can all see them"! The category which defines your life is the category determined the type of your Meaning of Life Contract. If you had chosen to learn your life lessons by withdrawing from worldly pursuits, you would have chosen an incarnation as a nun, a monk or a hermit. If you had chosen to learn your life lessons through worldly quests you could have become a businessman or a celebrity. The point is you do not need to change your present path to learn your life lessons. The lessons may change but the meaning of life remains. As the grass on the other side of the fence always appears greener, so the more esoteric spiritual practices appear to be more enlightening to some, yet all situations and all experiences are lessons on the path to enlightenment. The truth is that you are now in the right place at the right time and interacting with the right people to learn your current life lessons, and as you learn them you will become more enlightened. The process of becoming more enlightened is a matter of learning your life lessons by transcending your present limitations and attitudes. The term transcend does not mean to deny, to drop out or to escape from.It means to solve, to release and thus rise above. As I said in the introduction :- You can learn your life lessons the easy way ..... or you can learn your life lessons the hard way, - it is up to you, but trust me, you do have to learn them, - thats why you have a life in the first place. Have you ever noticed when everything is going wrong, that is when people look for help, or at least stop and ask; "Why me"? Yet when everything is going great, how many people take the trouble to stop, give thanks and contemplate why things are going their way, and what lesson they are learning. We don't have to attract negatives in order to learn. Why not attract positive conditions of joy and happiness and grow and become more aware from them, not going around in circles! Life's good when you grow, positives attract positives. Once you have discovered this, every day seems like a holiday, you know when you are on the right track!
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