The Soul Plan vs Free Will vs Manifestation

A fundamental truth that I've learned the last couple years is that the Source or God created souls to be creators as well. The Source gave souls free will to be the creators of their own incarnations. Oftentimes, humans will think that God is the reason for all the positive or negative experiences happening in a lifetime; however, I don't think this is correct. We are the reason for our own positive and negative experiences, we are the creator of our own life, we chose our incarnation, and we choose what we do every minute of everyday. I believe there is a Source....God, Creator, whatever you want to call Her but I believe Source created us to be our own creators, and then the Source evolves and grows as we all grow. We are the Source and everything we experience, the Source experiences as well.

Below are my high level definitions of the Soul Plan vs. Free Will vs. Manifestation:

The Soul Plan includes the experiences that the soul wants to have during an incarnation.

Free Will includes the soul's free will to choose whether to incarnate and then the planned experiences in the incarnation. It also includes all the free will we have as humans. The soul often leaves a lot of room for the human to make free will choices during the incarnation.

Manifestation is the ability to create certain experiences during the incarnation using our free will, intention, and thoughts. This is possible because humans have an energetic component to our bodies.

I've discussed the soul plan in many other blog posts. Essentially, before the soul embodies as a human, the soul will meet with guides and other souls to create a high level blueprint of the life. The soul will choose who will be their parents and siblings, as well as the location and time period for the human incarnation. The soul will also choose the purposes and challenges for the incarnation. The soul has free will to incarnate or not and then chooses their own life circumstances.

Then when we incarnate, we still have free will. Yes, certain experiences are out of our control for example who our parents are, where we are born, our experience as a child, and the death of loved ones. However, we still have free will as we start to grow and become an adult. There are certain experiences that the soul wants to have but as humans we still have free will decisions that determine our paths. No matter which path we choose, my understanding is that every experience we endure in life is productive and helpful to the soul's growth and evolution. So you can't go wrong as a human! Yes, the spirit realm always wants us to choose love over fear and hate, but every experience is for the learning. We will understand this when we go back to the spirit realm and review the life.

Then there is the concept of manifestation. Manifestation is the ability to create the experiences we desire using free will. In other blog posts, I discussed that when we are in the spirit realm, we are in a state of energy. When we are in the state of energy in the spirit realm, we can manifest what we want, for example when we think of something it appears. When we are in a physical body, we still have an energetic component which means we can still manifest but it takes longer to appear due to the denseness of our physical bodies. This is a good thing that it takes time to manifest what we think while in a human body because most people don't have discipline over their brains!

There are a ton of books on manifestation but I really like Julie Poole's book, From Hoping to Having so I'll quote her book.

Julie Poole says that there are two universal laws. This is just the way our universe was setup and how it works. There are other universes on God's shelf but this is the universe we chose to incarnate in. Below are the two laws:

1. Free Will - According to Poole, "We have free will to create, just as Source does. We create, we choose, we decide--simple. That is what free will is--it is free."

2. Law of Attraction otherwise known as Like Attracts Like: According to Poole (and every other book written on manifestation), if you think you are successful, you will continue to be successful. If you think you are kind, wonderful, hopeful, then you will attract these types of people. On the other hand, if you think you attract mean people, then you will keep attracting mean people. If you think you are a victim, you will continue to attract experiences where you are a victim. You get the picture here. This is a principle of energy and we have an energetic component to our human body. Another way to put it is "Thoughts Become Things". Thoughts and words send energy out into the Universe. It's important for humans to learn how to control our minds through meditation, and to focus our thoughts on gratitude and staying positive. When we do, we attract positive people and experiences.

When we look at the soul plan vs manifestation, what is happening here? I've been listening to Mike Dooley and Julie Poole, both experts on manifestation talk about this, so I'll share what they said. Mike Dooley said that the Soul Plan is just a high level plan but what's in the past is in the past. We have free will now to manifest what we want and change paths. Dooley is correct that Free Will is the number one key rule in the Universe. For example, the Soul Plan can include a relationship with a specific person but how that relationship develops is through Free Will. You can see in my blog post called Channeling the Higher Self that my Higher Self said that the contract between my husband and me is To Be Determined. So basically my Higher Self is going to eat popcorn and watch what happens like we are actors in a soap opera. Weird I know!

Mike Dooley also brought up another point that when our Soul creates a Soul Plan, there are probabilities established for the different paths. So there are going to be certainties, for example I am a middle child but there are probabilities on whether I go to college and then move to a specific location. So we still have free will to create our own path even if the spirit realm has an idea on the probabilities of which path we will choose.

Julie Poole brought up a good point on a podcast about manifestation vs the soul plan. She said that sometimes Souls want to work on something in a life for example struggle with money. Poole explained that a Soul will sometimes want to struggle with money because in a prior life that Soul had money and treated those that didn't have money poorly. So if the Soul wants to experience that struggle then even if Poole provides financial advice or gives the person books to read, it doesn't matter. The person will not listen to her or move forward with her advice. Of course this person has free will to change this but this is her observation of what she sees happening. I think we can all understand this. We have all watched a friend or relative go down a path that's not in their best interest. We will try to give that person advice but we can see that they aren't listening or they are unable to hear us. This is possibly because their Soul wants this experience.

Poole's book on Manifestation, From Hoping to Having focuses on 3 Rs:

1. Remember - Remembering who we are as a soul and our power to manifest.

2. Reset - Resetting by clearing out belief systems that don't serve us.

3. Receive - Receive by aligning with the energies and qualities that promote the flow of good things into our lives.

   
   

I'll have to create a separate blog post on manifestation and her book because there's a lot of great information there.

To summarize, we are the creators of our own lives and experiences. As a soul, we created a high level blueprint for this life based on relationships, purposes, and challenges we wanted to experience. However, every minute of everyday we have the ability to use our free will to manifest positive things and experiences in our life. We can always choose kindness, gratitude, and love. Even when we are having a bad day we can have gratitude for clean drinking water, a pretty blue sky, the stars, or shelter over our heads. Gratitude is something that we can practice daily. It's a high vibrational emotion and that's what we want. When we live in a higher vibration then we will attract higher vibrational people and experiences. Try it, test it out, what's the worse that can happen?