Amazon Discover Your Life Purpose Category:  Self-Help Publisher: Intuitive Arts Press ISBN-10:  097413340X Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 208 Copyright: 2003 ISBN-13: 9780974133416 The most comprehensive guidebook to finding your life mission. Past lives + Astrology + Numerology + Rayid Iris + Palmistry + Family and Birth Order = You! The first book to teach the top 6 methods of self-awareness. Reading this book will bring you face to face wtih your true self and help you discover parts of yourself never before encountered. Full of unconventional ideas, thought -provoking questions and engaging activities, this book will propel everyone, regardless of age or religion, to examine their life's mission in a new light. You will learn how to: Use your influences to create a joyful and purposeful life Discover the story in your eyes and hands Understand and improve family relationships Determine the significance of your birth date Link your past lives and current circumstances Find  a satisfying career Master lessons and challenges Remember: You Chose Everything! Your chocies make you unique. This book reveals the significance of the six choices you made before birth. The insights you gain will keep you turning pages to discover the essence of your being. Every chapter will empower you with greater self-awareness and a clearer picture of your life's mission, a secret worth knowing. Excerpt PRINCIPLES OF THE LIFE PURPOSE METHOD Choice The first and most important of the principles that form the foundation of the life purpose method is choice. We choose everything in life that will help us fulfill our mission. Free Will Free will, the most powerful influence in the universe, can override any other influence. Karmic Lessons and Gifts Life purpose is achieved by mastering karmic lessons and by developing gifts and talents. Lessons not mastered become stumbling blocks to using gifts and talents. As we build our gifts and talents, we encounter lessons to be learned. Familiarity Familiar influences are those already developed and understood through experiences from past lives. They give us a foundation of talents requiring little effort to bring out. To develop new understandings, we choose unfamiliar influences. They may be challenging at first, but experience will help us make these understandings permanent additions to our soul. Positive and Negative Every influence has both positive and negative forms of expression. Influences themselves are neutral; since we have free will, we choose the vibrational expression. For example, in astrology, the planet Neptune urges us to identify and develop our spiritual selves. We can use this energy in a positive way to make great strides in spiritual development or choose the destructive path of drugs and alcohol as a way to escape our troubles. This book identifies the higher and lower expressions of each influence so that you can choose with awareness at every moment. Opposites Attract In astrology, each zodiacal sign has an opposite. In numerology, each number is the vibrational opposite of the number preceding it. Of the four iris types and palm shapes, there are two pairs of opposites. The polarities between opposites create a strong pull because they hold lessons for us. To attain balance, we must often develop the qualities of our opposite. In a mate, these qualities may heighten passion, intensity, and learning potential. The Power of 3, 4, and 6 The numbers 3 and 4 have significant vibrations: “3” is the number of self-expression, “4” of stability. “4” also represents the building of a foundation. Through 3’s vibration, we find out who we are. We use 4’s stability to build the foundation of our identity. These numbers recur throughout the six approaches. In palmistry, there are four major palm shapes. In astrology, we speak of four elements and three qualities or modes. There are also three main players: the planets, the 12 (4 x 3) zodiac signs, and the 12 houses. Rayid iris comprises four principal iris structures. Numerology uses three numbers to calculate core numbers (date, month, and year of birth). Most numerological cycles are made up of four periods; there are four challenge numbers. Letters of the alphabet fall into four planes of existence (physical, mental, spiritual, intuitive) and three qualities (creative, vacillating, grounded). Our lives progress in cycles of nine (3 x 3). Within the family unit, your mother, your father, and you form a triad. There are six major influences. The number “6” concerns service to humanity. When we incorporate our gifts and talents from the six approaches, we can offer the greatest service to the world. Energy Energy is the link among all the approaches to self-awareness. To understand how these influences affect us and how we use them, we need to understand the nature of energy. Einstein told us that “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it simply changes form.” Energy is always in motion. The Universe is a pulsating energy field where everything is in motion, from the tiniest atom to the skyscrapers that line our city skies. Most things appear solid to us because we perceive only a portion of what exists. Every person, plant, animal, and object is surrounded by a vibrating field of energy: the aura. Auras reflect our thoughts and attitudes, which emit a powerful vibration that shapes our lives. The influences described by the six approaches in this book affect us through vibrating energy, which determines how we perceive the world and what we do with our lives. Wisdom attained during past lifetimes remains within our souls as a vibrating source of knowledge. Astrologically, we experience vibrations from various planets. Each number emits vibrations based on its unique characteristics. Patterns in our eyes and hands also vibrate with influences that shape our personality. Vibrations of the souls of our family members and other partners draw us to them. To effectively live our life purpose we must be in harmony with these energetic vibrations. When we understand the six approaches in this book, we can learn to harmonize with their energetic qualities, align ourselves with our life purpose, and be masters of energy rather than victims. Many of us experience this energy as urges or desires. Indeed, that is how the soul speaks to us. If we allow ourselves to follow these urges, most of them will lead us to lessons and experiences that will enrich our soul. When I follow my heart’s desires, I feel fulfilled and experience exuberant health. Suppression of thoughts or desires causes our energy to be misdirected, leading to imbalances such as depression and illness. Potential Even the most challenging energies offer the greatest opportunity to evolve. Through self-awareness we can use such challenging influences—as well as gifts and talents—productively to fulfill our life purpose. We must keep in mind that all influences describe our potential. Choosing the higher vibration affords us unlimited potential. It is up to us to fulfill that potential. We can think of our lives as a path that weaves its way through these influences. To fulfill our life purpose in a timely and productive way, we need to be aware of the influences along the road. When obstacles crop up, delaying or detouring us, we can see where we are out of harmony with our influences and realign ourselves with our life purpose. Soul Choices will bring us to a higher level of awareness and self-acceptance, and make it easier to trust our inner guidance. Those of us determined to find our life purpose will no longer depend on outside sources for answers. We will become our own teachers and the masters of our destiny. When we use all these approaches to self-awareness to the fullest, we can aspire to live in alignment with our life purpose. We will have more to give to ourselves and to others. If we fail to use these tools, we will not only go through life mostly unaware of our purpose, but we will have missed a great opportunity to learn about ourselves. We are divine souls, each with unique gifts and talents to share. No two souls have followed the same path. May this book lead you to appreciate the journey you have led and the person you have become.

Soul Choices: Six Paths to Find Your Life Purpose
Author Kathryn Andries is the founding director of the School of Intuitive Arts and Sciences. This comprehensive book includes past lives, astrology, numerology, rayid iris, palmistry and birth order. Each section is full of useful informative information for anyone on a journey to self. Although readers find bookshelves full of aids to self-discovery, it is good to find a book that combines several practices in one easy to read title. The chapters are concise and complete. The lessons are well laid out and easy to follow with various questions and answer pages for the reader to use. Well researched and written in layman's terms this is a handy reference guide. Although this reviewer does not often mention cover art, I felt this cover was worth mentioning because of the total suitability to the subject. Colorful, eye catching and most appropriate, it deserves mention. This book will provide the reader with many insightful processes for developing themselves and will aid in their search for their life purpose on their own or in a group.
Reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews

Soul Choices: Six Paths to Find Your Life Purpose
Author Andries accompany's willing seekers along six possible pathways to find life purpose in this well-conceived and competently delivered guidebook to understanding the mission of one's life work.
The Boox Review

Soul Choices: Six Paths to Find Your Life Purpose
This is the first book I've read that brings six well-known methods of self-awareness into one systematic method for discovering your life's purpose. Kathryn discusses the significance of your choice of parents, birth date, and your name. She believes that understanding these choices unlocks the key to your life's mission. Kathryn believes we choose our parents, name, date, place of birth, gender and personality traits that are in alignment with our life purpose. Each method reveals our karmic lessons, gifts and talents. Kathryn discusses the positive and negative forms of expression of each of these influences. These methods are tools. They do not override free will. I appreciate her emphasis on the fact that we can choose with awareness at every moment. In each of these methods, Kathryn discusses love and intimacy style, creative talents, emotional nature and vocational interests. This book attempts to solve the problem of dead-end jobs and unfulfilling relationships by teaching you how to discover and develop your gifts and talents and conquer your challenges. You are given questions, activities and tasks to assist you on your quest.
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