What Are Life Lessons, and Why Are They Helpful for Manifesting?
In this article, I am going to discuss life lessons, what they are, why we choose them, and why it’s helpful to know them when it comes to manifesting.
What are life lessons?
If you are visiting my website, you most likely already know that you are more than just a person- you are also a soul, a soul with its own unique history that has most likely spanned across many lifetimes (not just this one). Our souls are here to evolve, and before incarnating here on Earth, our souls choose a ‘curriculum’ of life lessons that will be focused on during that incarnation. These life lessons will be the underlying theme of what you will experience during this lifetime. You will usually attract situations, people, and experiences that will help you explore and learn these life lessons.
Why do we choose life lessons before coming here?
A huge reason for incarnating on Earth is because of the learning opportunities that are available here. Earth is the only planet (that I know of) that has the widest range of consciousness; therefore, it is an ideal place for souls to evolve. So, why do we choose life lessons? Essentially, it is to reach more wholeness on the soul level. Every soul has strengths, and with that comes weaknesses. The purpose of life lessons is to provide experiences that change us on the soul level, so that these energetic qualities can be integrated into our soul.
Some other notes about life lessons…
-We have one primary life lesson, and several secondary life lessons.
-Once we complete a primary life lesson, a secondary life lesson replaces the primary one.
-The completion of life lessons is what comprises a karmic cycle
-It typically takes several lifetimes (i.e. between 5-20) to master a primary life lesson.
-You do not have to consciously try to find situations to learn these life lessons- you will subconsciously attract situations that will help you learn them.
-Life lessons are learned through both positive and negative experiences. For example, if one of your life lessons is self-love, you may experience a life where you are born into a very loving family, and loving yourself comes naturally to you. In another lifetime, however, you may experience the opposite and be born into a very chaotic, abusive family, and as a result you’ll need to learn how to love yourself in spite of these circumstances.
How can knowing your life lessons help with manifesting?
As mentioned above, it usually takes several lifetimes to master a primary life lesson. During the lifetimes where these life lessons are being explored, a lot can happen, including trauma, as life lessons are learned through opposites/polarities. This can be especially true when the life lesson is newer for the soul, as it may initially explore the more extreme ends of that lesson in order to fully integrate it on the soul level.
In the Akashic Records, you can find out not only what your primary and secondary life lessons are, but the percentage of completion for each life lesson. The percentage of completion of a life lesson is helpful to know, because it can tell you where you are at in your current karmic cycle. In the first 75% of a karmic cycle, this indicates the soul is still navigating the more extreme or contrasting aspects of the life lesson in its recent incarnations, and therefore may have more extreme experiences in regards to their life lessons. A higher level of completion (i.e. 75% or higher) is also helpful to know, because it indicates the soul is nearing completion of a karmic cycle. When this is the case, the soul might be in what is called a “karmic clean up lifetime”, where the soul has incarnated with a lot of negative unjustified karma. A reminder about what negative unjustified karma is: wounding from a past life that is balanced on the soul level, but continues to affect you during your current incarnation, because it has not been healed/neutralized and wounding still sits in the subtle energy bodies. It is like a groove in a record that continues to replay the same themes that caused the trauma, until it is healed. The energetic wounding that you have from this lifetime will continue into the next lifetime when you die, unless it is healed. The soul does not like carrying karma from one cycle to the next, and thus it will attempt to heal any karma it is still carrying within a karmic cycle.
So, why is this helpful to know when it comes to conscious creation/manifesting?
Knowing your life lessons and the percentage of completion provides insight into where you are at in your current karmic cycle. If you are within the first 75% of the karmic cycle, your soul is still learning its life lessons through polarities. If the percentage of completion is 75% or higher, this means the soul is now becoming more interested in completing the current karmic cycle and resolving any “unfinished business”. When this happens, the soul is more likely to bring through more unresolved karma to , which can affect how successful someone will be when using manifesting techniques (from the law of assumption or the law of attraction, etc.). This is where being strategic with healing modalities and knowing what your karmic complex is becomes extremely helpful.
