"Life is just a chance to grow a soul." -A. Powell Davies
 
 As we grow up life seems to become more complex because our inner world has more experience to check into. We make decisions about the current circumstance by checking into our little soul files from our past that remind us what to do and what not to do. We get so good at this that we start reacting by instinct to situations without feeling them out like we did when we had less in our filing system. Soul growing is finding our way back to the experiential and to experience things like we had no files to refer to.

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do."
Samuel Smiles
Expanding as a human being is where we find our satisfactory moments.  When you do something that you aren't sure that you can do and fail, it gives you another opportunity to go back and try again with the new information that you've learned.  When you do something that you aren't sure that you can do and succeed, then you celebrate and find something else to do that makes you feel unsure.

"That which you resist stays." - David R. Hawkins  
 It's easy to focus on what you don't want....I don't want that hurt. I don't like these things about my job. I don't like him. I don't see an end.... As long as you continue to put energy into this stuff, your energy is being used to hold up walls.  If you shift your focus to the things that you do want, then the do not's cease to exist because you aren't paying attention to them.

"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen.
 Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our
 attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to
  connect than the most well-intentioned words."

       -Rachel Naomi Remen


  How often do you listen to yourself, by the way?

"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears." - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Commitment.  We often like to give up the things that are most important to us because it feels like the easier road.  Each time we don't respect and listen to ourselves, the more baggage gets accumulated. What is important to you?  What parts of your life seem to be stuck?  This is where you've broken a commitment to yourself and the baggage looms......choose another way of approaching that which you don't want to see.