Your Soul's Plan - Robert Schwartz

 The book is about discovering the real meaning if the life you planned before you were born - basically saying that there is a particular purpose you came for, and that you chose the life you wanted to learn some lessons by a pre-agreement. It makes everything bearable once we own that its our own making or wanting and nothing beyond it and that its all leading up to growth at a soul level.

Robert says that our life and the events that happen, good and the bad, are part of a pre-birth planning that we did with our soul group. To illustrate his point he gives ten examples of people who have had physical illness (HIV, cancer), who parented handicapped children, who lived with deafness and blindness, who dealt with alcoholism and drug addiction, coped with the death of a loved one and even with debilitating accidents.

Jon was diagnosed with HIV and in his work with his mediums or channels, he discovered that he needed to experience love, to be open and he did that through the tough experience of living a vibe of separation. Doris experienced breast cancer, an alcoholic mom, shame due to her sexuality and her non-acceptance of the female form, found that her soul's plan was to get over self-loathing, use sexual energy right, accept her female form and to practice self-love.

Jennifer parented handicapped children alone - one with bipolar behavior and autism and another who was blind and she found that she learned to be patient and to accept a life with someone else's choice. Penelope who was deaf and Bob who had been blind found out that they learned to be more sensitive and compassionate and thereby teaching others to be compassionate, by choosing this life with these handicaps. 

Sharon's only son almost died due to a drug overdose and then her friend Eddie actually died and she found that the drug addiction was planned to show what love looked like. Sharon's words - 'I will be the mother who loves you through them and I will build upon this experience to help others.' Pat who struggled with alcoholism, abandoned his family, learned to be unafraid.

Valerie had to deal with the sudden death of her son Dustin and her lesson was to find a sense of self-worth, find balance. Accidents like Jason's who in a celebratory mood jumped into his pool and cracked his spine and became paralysed his whole life found that he was more than his body. Nothing can beat   Christina's story - she opened a letter box of her boss and set off a bomb which blew her face off almost and she struggled through her pain to discover that her lesson was to be relevant and to help people in a relevant manner.

Robert says that the physical plane provides dualities. Our souls communicate through feelings - joy, peace, excitement when we are in sync, fear and doubt when not. In all the above cases the people were helped by their soul group, their angels and so on.

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Interesting to know that we choose everything - parents, school  circumstances, events - to aid our own growth. Makes it all so bearable that its all part of a grander plan and that we are not alone in that. Interesting reading certainly and one that puts me at more ease because we tend to take too much responsibility or tend to write ourselves off for any wrong we may have committed. Its al part of the plan, and we are not alone in that. Good to know I have a plan.