Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born [Paperback]

Robert Schwartz (Author)

Book Description

Release date: March 24, 2009

Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of physical illness, parenting handicapped children, drug addiction, alcoholism, the death of a loved one, accidents, deafness, and blindness?
 
Your Soul’s Plan (which was originally published under the title Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?) explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we are born for the purpose of spiritual growth. Through compelling profiles of people who knowingly planned the experiences mentioned above, Your Soul’s Plan shows that suffering is not purposeless, but rather imbued with deep meaning. Working with four gifted mediums, author Robert Schwartz reveals the significance of each person’s life plan and allows us a fascinating look into the “other side.”

Each personal story focuses on a specific life challenge, organized by type for easy reference. Accessible both to those familiar with the metaphysical aspects of spirituality and to the general reader, the moving narratives that comprise Your Soul’s Plan help readers awaken to the reality that they are transcendent, eternal souls. With this stirring book as a guide, feelings of anger, resentment, guilt, and victimization are healed and transformed into acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and peace.

Robert Schwartz is also the author of Your Soul’s Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, which explores the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage, abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness. There’s also a chapter about the pre-birth planning we do with our future pets.
 
Robert Schwartz is a hypnotherapist who offers general Spiritual Guidance Sessions, Past Life Soul Regressions, and Between Lives Soul Regressions. Visit Robert online at www.yoursoulsplan.com.

Editorial Reviews

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“The more we know about the meaning of life, the better we understand the important choices we must make. Robert Schwartz has done an excellent job of presenting the possible explanations of what we are doing here and why we are here. I highly recommend this book.”
—Dannion Brinkley, author of Saved by the Light and The Secrets of the Light

“Your Soul’s Plan is a deeply insightful guide as to why our lives unfold as they do and how to direct them to a deeper place. A powerful book . . . I highly recommend it.”
—Sonia Choquette, author of The Answer is Simple . . . Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit!

“Your Soul’s Plan is one of the most detailed explorations I have seen into understanding why we have chosen certain paths in our lives and how we may use that information to continue our journey as a soul here and now. This book will help thousands of people. A book you HAVE to have in your library!"
—John Holland, author of Born Knowing and Power of the Soul

“Schwartz provides a very special sense of seeing divine order everywhere… Your Soul's Plan provides a fabulous and much-needed compass for those of us seeking to regain the deeper awareness of our core spiritual strength. Highly recommended!”
—New Consciousness Review

“Your Soul's Plan is highly recommended to anyone trying to understand the suffering, tragedy or loss that has caused them to question life, death and/or God. And who among us is not inflicted by such challenges and questions in our lifetime? In my eight years researching life after death, spirituality and life purpose, I have discovered no better explanation of why human challenges exist than what is so eloquently written in Robert Schwartz's book.”
—Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor

"The serene cover of Your Soul's Plan belies the punch with which Robert Schwartz communicates the results of his research into pre-birth planning . . . Overall, it is one of the best books of this kind I have come across."
—Anna Jedrziewski, New Age Retailer magazine

From the Back Cover

So often, when something "bad" happens, it may appear to be meaningless suffering. But what if your most difficult experiences are actually rich with hidden purpose -- purpose you yourself planned before you were born? Could it be that you chose your life's circumstances, relationships, and events?

Within these pages are stories of ten individuals who -- like you -- planned before birth to experience great challenges. Working with four gifted mediums and channels, author Robert Schwartz discovers what they chose--and why.

Through these remarkable stories of pre-birth planning, you can:

*Learn why each of us decides to experience such challenges as illness, difficult relationships, the death of a loved one, and accidents

*Understand how you as a soul create your life blueprint

*Consciously use your challenges to foster spiritual growth and healing

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Product Details

• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Frog Books; Later Printing edition (March 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583942726
• ISBN-13: 978-1583942727
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (128 customer reviews)
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More About the Author

Thank you for visiting my author page.

As a counselor and hypnotist (certified by the International Between Lives Regression Network), I offer Spiritual Guidance Sessions, Past Life Soul Regressions, and Between Lives Soul Regressions to help people heal, resolve life issues, and understand their life plan. I care very much about my clients and infuse my work with compassion and empathy. Please visit my web site at www.yoursoulsplan.com for information about these sessions and my schedule of speaking engagements. Should you choose to work with me, I will be honored to be one of the lights on your path.

My books Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born (2007; previously titled Courageous Souls) and Your Soul's Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born (2012) explore the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we're born for purposes of spiritual growth.

Your Soul's Plan contains stories of people who planned physical illness (AIDS and breast cancer), having disabled children, deafness, blindness, drug addiction, alcoholism, losing a loved one, and severe accidents.

Your Soul's Gift explores the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage, abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness. There's also a chapter about the planning we do with our future pets. Yes, our beloved animal companions are part of our plan!

In both books I learned about people's pre-birth plans by working with several exceptionally gifted mediums and channels. Both books present the actual conversations people had with their future parents, children, spouses, friends, and other loved ones when they planned their lives together.

For readers, suffering that once seemed purposeless becomes imbued with deep meaning. Wisdom may be acquired in a more conscious manner; feelings of anger, guilt, blame, and victimization are replaced by acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and peace.

I have two DVD's available on Amazon. Your Soul's Plan: The Spiritual Meaning of Your Life is an 80 minute presentation I gave about my first book, Your Soul's Plan. Please note that it's not an audio version of the book, but rather a talk about the book and about pre-birth planning in general. The other DVD, titled Your Soul's Journey to Healing and Enlightenment, is a 4-hour video of a workshop I did with Barbara Brodksy, one of the channels featured in Your Soul's Gift.

Many blessings to you.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

140 of 150 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Why only growth through suffering? November 30, 2007

By Star Tulip

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Rundown of the book - It's not about helping you find your own purpose, unfortunately. It's got 6-7 chapters, each one focusing on traumatic or tragic life events and how they changed some people. Two to 3 people's traumas/tragedies are highlighted in each chapter. Their guides, angels or higher selves are channeled and they talk about the pre-birth agreement the soul made and how this tragedy would help the person achieve whatever he wanted to achieve in this lifetime - the reasons for their particular tragedy/trauma.

The chapters are: Physical Illness (2 people are highlighted, one with AIDS, the other breast cancer. Accidents; Deafness and Blindness; Alcoholism and Drug Addiction; Parenting Handicapped Children; Death of a Loved One.

I was bothered with the fact that the only way that souls, apparently, choose to learn is through suffering. It's the typical eastern and western philosophy, yet again. No one grew through insight or emotional searching, questioning or personal angst, only through paralysis or a son dying through drug overdose or having two very disabled children or getting AIDS or having a bomb blow up in their face or their fiance dying in a diving accident. There was no learning through chronic illness or emotional abuse or more benign "suffering." It always had to be really tragic, traumatic. It seems such an contemporary human way of looking at the world, always pain and suffering before one can grow. It's so typical of the philosophies/religions these days and days past.

The author asks the guides that are channeled why suffering has to occur for growth, and the answer is because the physical plane is about duality. This worn out example is used: How can you experience joy if you've never felt sadness? How can you experience light if you've never been in the dark? Although I understand this and see the validity, it annoys me that severe long-lasting suffering is the "only" way that people can seem to find their purpose, according to this book. Only through suffering can a person access his soul and then understand why he chose events in this lifetime. Only then can he proceed toward his true life's work.

Also, I found it annoying that the book focused on the people in the book and their plan. It says it helps you figure out your soul purpose, but without already having figured it out pretty much on your own by that point, this book would just talk about other people, who are interesting, and you might be able to find parallels, but contrary to the back cover, it doesn't help you access or understand your own personal blueprint at all.

Sure, you can see how your situation is similar to others if you have some similar tragedy in your life. I certainly saw distinct similarities between me and someone in the book, but all she figured out I had already figured out. If I hadn't done the emotional work I had, perhaps this book would have helped open my eyes, so I could see why the event "happened" to me. Maybe that explains all the 5 star ratings. People see themselves in these common human events and it helps them come to terms with their suffering.

My final assessment is this: Humanity is moving beyond the idea that the only way toward personal growth is through suffering. Up to this point, perhaps much of humanity needed something negative to change, but I feel we're moving beyond this concept.

This book perpetuates the myth that the only way to enlightenment is through suffering. I find this outdated and untrue. Humanity is ready to move beyond this destructive concept. That's what the Aquarian Age is all about, this New Age. We're leaving the Piscean Age of suffering, victimization, and martyrdom behind. What a relief!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars For me, the most healing book I have read. January 17, 2010

By Granville W. Angell

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What can I say in description of a book that has had more healing impact in my life than any I have read in a lifetime of 62 years? As a lifetime professional counselor, I have read and studied many books focused on the prospect of healing, but Robert Schwartz's Your Soul's Plan brought the events of my life more into focus than any I have read. I say this, not only as a healer, but also as a Vietnam Veteran, ex-helicopter ambulance pilot with a lifetime of challenge to overcome my own legacy of suffering.

Arranged in a series of case histories, tied together by the theme that there is an overarching life plan, planned pre-birth at a soul-level, we are made aware of how our own lives can fit the pattern he describes. With almost a hundred reviews here, I'll not go into repetition of the details so well described already. There are some things I would like to add.

For those of a skeptical scientific or conventional religious bent, the gentle narrative approach of Schwartz's writing will help you explore ideas that may seem unfamiliar or threatening to you. The consistencies in his discoveries that support his theme are particularly interesting. In my line of work, we might say that - while this may not be "good science" at this point, his discoveries have clinical validity when explored at the level he follows. My own life experiences and observations allow me to be open to the validity of psychic investigation, when it is genuine. Schwartz seems to have put together a good team of psychics to pursue his study. Obviously, it is difficult to establish validation, except on a personal level - but each of us ultimately can only establish truth on a personal level. Consensus and belief about truth can only take us so far.

What I find fascinating is how Schwartz is able to attain consistencies in details about each case he studies, when going from one psychic to another, without communication between the psychics. When one psychic reading of a person corroborates another of the same person, often elaborating or picking up where the other left off, even a skeptic would be hard-put to deny the significance! Such consistency in detail cannot just be made up! Beyond the attribution of clinical validity, where the person recognizes the healing/illuminating effect in his/her life, we now begin to approach the groundwork for scientific study.

Most of all, though, is the warmth and gentle compassion that Schwartz brings through in his work - done in a way that opens the reader to one of the most powerful insights we could have: that a Higher Power endlessly works through us, in total love and compassion, with an endless agenda to help us grow through the endless adventure we call life. Beyond being helpless victims of fate, we need only take responsibility for finding meaning in our experiences and for our endless God-given potential.

Granville Angell, author of The God-Shaped Hole - A Story of Comfort for The Child in All of Us

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars soul planning sessions for earth life December 24, 2009

By Janet E. Love

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Intelligently presented, fast-paced; here is your inside look at pre-birth planning sessions and why souls choose difficult earth journeys for soul growth purposes. It is script writing at the soul level for earth incarnations. This book was hard to put down.

The author has utilized talented mediums to access a soul's pre-birth planning sessions and the resulting stories have you right there watching the planning unfold. For me, this was the high point of each chapter; being present at the pre-birth planning sessions.

Some challenges a soul may wish to set up can be so great that other souls have doubts about being players, so often bargaining is done until agreement is either reached or another soul steps in to take the assignment, or the plan is re-written. This book has you right there, watching the planning unfold and hearing the actual soul conversations.

No abuse to, or affliction of, a soul on the earth level occurs without prior pre-birth agreement. You will learn the reasons why difficult lives are sought and how souls close to you participate in the planning process.