The Myths that Shape Us

We begin the study of Panache Desai's book Discovering Your Soul Signature. The first seven areas of discovery are fear, sadness, anger, guilt, shame, self-judgement, and patterns. Although we may not want to look at some of those, understanding them leads to our growth. What is our soul? Our soul is the I AM. Our soul can inform our thoughts, but if we never let it do that, we are building our life on our egoic nature, with no foundation. We can take any hurtful experience from our past and use it as fuel for our transformational work, and we must do that or our affirmations will just be covering over our troubles and using our teaching as a spiritual bypass. As we start to grow, sometimes things get worse because our old self is not quick to give up. Fear, sadness, anger, and other negative patterns can pop up; our continued spiritual practice gets us through this stage. Our Soul is part of the mystery of life. Brené Brown says it beautifully when she suggests we tell our children, "you know sweetheart, you are trip-wired for heartbreak, sorrow, sadness, disappointment, but you are so equipped to handle it."