Soul, are we done yet?

When I started pondering meaning of life questions and soul questions (see my What If? post on the beginnings of that) one of the things that kept coming to me was the idea of seeing everything as an experience.  Not necessarily seeing it as good or bad but just an experience.  An experience to broaden your awareness.  Why broaden your awareness?  To make things easier.  To make things more enjoyable.  To make Life what you want it.

One of the subjects I talk about in the intuitive development classes I teach are Growth Periods.  Basically a growth period is a time of transition.  When you're releasing the old, to bring in the new.  Growth periods can be easy and fun or they can sometimes feel torturous and never-ending!  I think it is the lengthier ones that I started asking, "Soul, are we done yet?  Are we done with this growth period?  Are we done with this belief?  With this cycle?  With this topic of deserving, unworthiness or anger?"  Or any other subject matter you seem to have been tackling for the past 6 months, year, or more.

I've noticed a few times for myself that my life shifts when I make the clear cut decision that I'm done with something.  I kind of yell out to the Universe (not literally but really loud in my head), "Okay!  I get it!  You don't need to keep showing me (this or that)!  Let's move on to next thing!"  Mostly its because you don't want to feel a certain way.  We're creating our reality every moment so when we're fed up with the current reality, we want to change it (usually to something better).  I think when we make that conscious decision and heart-centered decision, magic happens.  It's as if when that shift happens, your awareness broadens and then you're able to see more - more opportunities, more of what's in front of your face (and it's probably been there the whole time you just couldn't see it).  And you couldn't see it before because your mind set wasn't there.  Or your alignment with your soul/spirit/higher self was a bit off.  When that shift occurs you get closer to that inner awareness.  That inner universe.  I don't even know what to call it.  The closest I can come to labeling the image I see in my mind's eye is an inner universe.

Then recently I've been having this thing that when you name or label something, it ceases to be what it really is.  That it loses its original essence.  The only thing we can do is come close to knowing or experiencing what it really is.