Categories Of Spiritual Growth Part II By Lilly  2. Ways and Means Category:  Definition of "Ways and Means Category: "With the best of your ability you are supposed to solve basic life problems with as little outside help as possible in order to make further growth for your own Inner Strength ability".  This category is about achieving goals thoroughly without (as much as possible) others direct aid. It is meant to make the person more independent, more responsible, more adaptive, clever, and innovative in their life.   So in other words you are supposed to work out basic problems in life, (i.e. , problem solving with financial, job and career path, relationships, cooperating with others, all with as much your  own effort in decision-making as possible.  It is all right to ask for help When Necessary.  Sometimes people ask for help for even the most basic of life issues, and that is where they themselves rely on others way too much, causing an imbalance within their own decision-making capabilities which affects their own Chakra system.  So if a person relies way too much on others, then their dependency becomes a problem to them.  They could also be making additional mistakes, too, just by blankly following someone else's suggestion, if they didn't take the time to re-consider the options themselves first.  Self-reliance is a quality that is sought out for higher levels of understanding and growth. That is why it is a category that we are all supposed to work on while down here in incarnation after incarnation.  3. Coping Skills Category:  Each of these are what they call Primary Elements to learning for the Earth-Mind Consciousness plane, (planet Earth).  So with that said, you can see that learning good Coping Skills creates an Ascension process within the person. Coping Skills is a tough one, too. All of these categories are not easy really, especially the "Growth for the Soul Category"--that is where serious hardships come into people's lives. It is difficult on the person when they learn that they had these hardships scheduled to happen, too. Coping Skills include financial troubles, and serious illnesses, along with living with life expectancies that are hampered due to illnesses as well.  We basically write our own Life Charts, too, which is to say that we work on these Life Plans for several weeks to even months prior to coming into the birth process.  You can imagine that the higher the person is with their intellect, the more effort they put into these Life Charts. No one wants to backslide, especially when a person has reached a "High Soul Status".   So with the Coping Skills mastered, it can bring the person up higher and higher in the octaves or planes.  The wavelength is variating upon the level of frequency, and the higher the octave, the higher the level. If we try to reason it out and take in the broader perspective here that we are here on Earth for a purpose, a reason and that Earth is not our "Real Home"---Heaven is.  Expanding our reasoning makes us take into account the fact that we are Eternal Beings, and this Earth-School is only a temporary time for us.  It is fundamental to all Life Charts.  Once a person as all of the categories fulfilled, then they continue on into the higher dimensions, and don't even need "Earth School" again.  Each lifetime does variate to a degree, yet keeps with the theme of progression of growth.  That's where it can be troublesome when there is little or no growth.  I remember doing a reading about ten years ago for a 19 year old male.  He saw on his past lives chart that he had 10 lifetimes in a row of "no growth".  He had asked why this lifetime was so hard.  It was hard because of the past 10 lifetimes of no improvement or in other words stagnation.  He had been among other things a "wandering minstrel, a vagabond, a petty thief, and a mercenary soldier, vaguely traveling life's path with little or no thought about making himself better.  That only brings harder times for the subsequent incarnation after just so many lifetimes, just to force the person to get back on track.  There is an issue of "lack of motivation being the single-most problem in the Universe the Lord has told me, and you can see here with having little or no inclination to improve can cause one to languish with a lethargic attitude affecting their whole character.  4. Relationships Category: In this primary category we do have issues that are of a Karmic relation, and can do well to learn more about Coping with Each Other. With dealing with life in general, each level of growth comes forth in various ways and having multiple tasks for each lifetime can make the person feel a bit overwhelmed at times.  I know the Lord doesn't give us more than He feels we can "handle", yet we tend to feel put upon sometimes when we have multiple problems simultaneously.  It's like a personal juggling act, and we tend to drop the balls sometimes after a while.  But God doesn't judge us exactly like we think we are being judged either, and if our Hearts are sensed directly by the Lord, then we maybe surprised at how we think we are failing, yet are actually succeeding in mastering the INTENDED Goal. So in certain instances when we have failed at a life project, we may have learned what we actually came down here for.  We do tend to judge ourselves harshly at times.   We seem to learn a lot from our successes, yet we can and do learn Even More from our mistakes.  You may try to look at each "mistake" and then sense the theme of the Life Lesson that was there, and then take just that Lesson and highlight it in your mind, so that you will start to notice a "trend" showing up in your future experiences.  That does help with acknowledging the lesson or theme, thereby making you notice whenever that same type of episode or event in your future shows the same characteristics present.  All in all it is the hope and plan to have our relationships here on Earth become more of a life lesson experience rather than just having lifetime after lifetime going through the various stages of age and experiences without a higher theme here of Love, Forgiveness, Patience, Fortitude, Inner Strength, Integrity, Honor, Ingenuity, Cooperation, Compassion, and all of the many virtues that make us better human beings.               © Copyright 2006 - All Rights Reserved