Written by Royce Morales, Transformational Facilitator, Teacher, Podcast Host, Speaker, Author, Columnist
Royce Morales is a renowned trailblazer and creator of an innovative, spiritually-based approach to inner transformation. Her program, Perfect Life Awakening, emerged from a lifetime of frustration searching for inner work that worked. She discovered that by revealing specific subconscious origins of self-sabotage and removing its persistent influence, life can shift.
Prior to embarking on my spiritual journey, life was rather predictable. Certainly not boring or average, but not too much drama. Then, everything changed when I ‘woke up’ and connected to who I really am.
At twenty-two I had married a man basically to please my parents. There was no deep connection, but it was tolerable. Honestly, I didn’t know what a deep connection felt like never having been in one. Then one morning, I woke up and realized I deserved more. Shortly after that epiphany, we divorced, and I raised our four-year-old son by myself. Joyously, I might add.
My interior design business began struggling when I realized I didn’t want to work with people’s egos for a living. Almost immediately, much to my astonishment, people wanted me to teach them what I knew about spirituality. They kept arriving in my living room by word-of-mouth, which led me to open a healing center. A few years later, I created an eco-friendly shop/gallery selling handcrafted, spiritually based items and local art.
These two life-changing things, among scores more, because I ‘woke up.’
What does it mean to wake up?
Waking up challenged me to question everything about myself and my life.
Although everyone is different, I’ve noticed that waking up often means discovering aspects of yourself that you didn’t know existed. You understand what triggering feels like and become conscious of not acting from a reactive place. It means being aware of energy, knowing what’s yours and what’s external to you. It could be learning to listen to and trust your intuition.
For me, all of that started happening when I began digging deep to find subconscious memories I brought with me from past lives. That enabled me to understand why my life is the way it is and know what I’m here to clean up, compete, express. It provided the impetus and the trust to do so, changing everything in my life.
It also allowed an understanding the Big Picture of my life. Like why that person I was madly in love with was not supposed to be my husband. Why my career as an artist was not the direction I was supposed to take. Why I needed to open a shop and struggle for 21 years. And even why my husband suffered a massive stroke and survived.
Although everything I went through may not appear to be a big deal to some. After all, I wasn’t living on the street, struggling with a disability or fighting an addiction.
But to me, they were the most challenging moments of my life.
And now, they make Perfect sense in terms of where they brought me, what they taught me, and what I got to understood about myself. It made sense as to why I would “sign up” for those challenges: It takes a shake-up to wake up.
As the saying goes, “Life always makes sense in retrospect.” Unless you get stuck in victimhood, continue to whine “why me?” and miss those valuable spiritual lessons.
Signing up for tough challenges
The lessons I learned could not have happened in any other way. Big Universal Ones such as patience, integrity, truthfulness, trust, authenticity, deservingness, compassion. And, of course, the true meaning of love.
Chances are, those might be your lessons as well. They’re why most of us are here.
They are part of what’s called a “Soul Contract.”
Soul Contracts are your Divine Plan, the loose blueprint that you create, along with several higher consciousness ‘consultants.’ You also make this plan with spirits you’ve been here with previously, agreeing to the roles you will play with each other, the tasks and trials you will go through, the lessons you will present.
Don’t worry: Soul Contracts don’t insist that everything is pre-destined. To some degree there’s “wiggle room” for free will in your choices. Of course, you can do things that go against what you agreed to do this life, but eventually you discover why you shouldn’t have made those choices.
Plus, according to your soul, even choosing “incorrectly” is a lesson you needed to go through to help you listen better when making your next choice.
Soul Contracts also present a list of the karmic baggage you are here to clean up, as well as the best way to do it. It reminds you about what you didn’t do in the last lifetime (or lifetimes) that you need to do in this one.
As a personal example, even though students kept arriving, it took quite a while to trust that I was supposed to be teaching my Perfect Life Awakening program. The voice in my head kept saying “Who do you think YOU are teaching people this stuff? You don’t know anything. You’re just a seeker like they are!” And blah blah blah.
Then, during a meditation, a series of past life memories showed up unexpectedly. I was shown rapid successions of images of all the lifetimes I’d been a spiritual teacher, each time not completing the task. Usually, I would let fear stop me. Or I would choose an easier direction. Occasionally I would just ‘forget.’
Most often, I would commit suicide rather than stick with the purpose I had signed on to do.
As the meditation wound down, a powerful message appeared: “This lifetime is your last opportunity to do what you came here to do.”
Well, you can imagine how that awareness shifted everything for me. My commitment became stronger; my reason for teaching became my top priority. Every time I wanted to give up, get a ‘real’ job or wonder if I was crazy to be doing this, I would be reminded of that serious proclamation.
So now?
A few decades after that revelation, arrival in my classes slowed down drastically. Eventually I closed my center. Then, unexpectedly, my extremely healthy husband had a massive stroke.
I started teaching out of my home, but then the pandemic happened. Teaching remotely was challenging to say the least.
Since I am just as committed as ever to spreading this important information, I am exploring the why of these roadblocks. More life lessons? More karma to clean up? Am I ahead of my times (as usual)? Am I doing something wrong? Am I just supposed to be writing more books? Or maybe it’s time for me to just stop?
Then, I remind myself: The more committed one is to being an authentic Higher Consciousness being, the more challenging life you chose.
Which translates to mean, this tough period is fast tracking my evolution. Again.
You chose it
I hope my story helps you understand why certain things happened or are happening in your life. You have chosen the tough route simply because you want to evolve.
And remember: Life is happening for you, not to you. You chose it all to learn your individual karmic lessons as well as those Big Human Lessons. Lessons that advance your soul. That awakens you to full acceptance of self and others; to know your power, your Purpose; to trust yourself; to start believing that you deserve; and to experience joy and presence in every moment.
Your spirit knows. It knows because it designed this blueprint. It’s constantly trying to lead you to follow that chosen path, to keep you on track. From a soul perspective, know that you are being led to your Highest Truth. Eventually you will understand all those “whys” in the Bigger Picture of your life.
Remember: You are not only steering the ship, but you also created the ship, the crew, the route and the weather report.
One more thing: You chose exactly what you know you are supposed to and are able to handle.
You chose to be here during these challenging times because you were ready to assist the world in its transformation from fear to love. You knew exactly what you were doing when you made that choice!
Royce Morales, Transformational Facilitator, Teacher, Podcast Host, Speaker, Author, Columnist
Royce Morales is a renowned trailblazer and creator of an innovative, spiritually-based approach to inner transformation. Her program, Perfect Life Awakening, emerged from a lifetime of frustration searching for inner work that worked. She discovered that by revealing specific subconscious origins of self-sabotage and removing its persistent influence, life can shift.
She developed a clearing technique that releases programmed, false beliefs from this as well as previous lives. Negative patterns and hidden fears resolve so paralyzing issues lose their impact. This exclusive, time-tested work takes students from triggered to empowered, uncovering their authentic, purpose-driven life.
PLA also provides applicable tools to navigate daily life – ways to rapidly shift from anger to calm, fear to acceptance, judgement to connection. The work emphasizes awareness of, trusting and following one’s innate intuitive wisdom, then taking bold, inspired, real-world action.
The Perfect Life Awakening courses take place remotely and are presented in small groups to provide individual attention. Royce offers private inner discovery sessions to facilitate deeper work, utilizing her proprietary spiritual clearing technique called Spiritual Cognition Integration.
Royce is the author of three books about her teachings: Want – True Love, Past Lives and Other Complications; Know: A Spiritual Wake-up Call and Back: Rebirth After Stroke, all available on Amazon.
Go to Royce’s YouTube channel where she shares enlightening information about her teachings. She posts weekly blogs and writes articles for several other publications.
