Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 27

Most people do not realize that, even before birth, we make spiritual choices, thereby co-creating our lives after birth and impacting other choices we make during our lives. The spiritual choices we make before we are born―such as choosing our body, gender, parents, and circumstances―impact our lives. Knowing that we are responsible for these prior choices can shift our consciousness and affect our current choices while living on Earth. The conscious awareness that we made such choices before we were born empowers us to make choices during our lives that, guided by spirit and inspired by love, help us shift to a higher vibrational frequency and perceive our life circumstances from a more spiritual perspective. At this particular time in our spiritual evolution, it’s imperative that we make discerning choices that resonate with our soul’s path. We are finally recognizing that we have the ability to consciously co- create our reality instead of relinquishing that power to others, our circumstances, or shirk our responsibility to make conscious choices. When we operate as the source of love, we can make enlightened choices that are not bound by gender, culture, or the dictates of others, and thus live more authentically and move in accordance with a universal perspective, one focused on what’s best for our world as a whole. For many of us, making a choice can be confusing, if not overwhelming. Our brains store so many beliefs of what we “should” do that selecting only those in alignment with our hearts can be baffling. It’s hard sometimes to pull ourselves out of habit or pattern to make the choice that truly resonates with our soul’s path. Living in this way, our energy stagnates. We feel uninspired and stuck. A heaviness permeates our choices, and fear of change impedes our creativity. Most people do not realize that, even before birth, we make spiritual choices, thereby co-creating our lives after birth and impacting other choices we make during our lives. Fearful that we will make a wrong choice, we may become paralyzed and avoid choosing altogether. However, not making a choice out of fear or insecurity is still, in fact, making a choice; when we do this, we are simply choosing to let external events, other people, or blind chance dictate our experience. If we desire to move forward spiritually, we cannot let such fears keep us from making the most choices that most support our well- being. Only when we begin making discerning choices 27 Even though many people think they are making choices based on a positive outlook―such as choosing “good” over “evil,” or “right” over “wrong,” their options have usually been limited by egos that see the world as polarized. When we make discerning choices inspired by love, on the other hand, we are propelled beyond such polarities, and beyond the egos which created them, into a more universal, encompassing, and compassionate worldview.