by Lynne Mcgee

Created on: June 27, 2008

As a Spiritual Teacher and healer I am always intrigued by the concept held by so many traveling the New Age pathway that 'Destiny' includes a detailed life plan from which one cannot deviate no matter what. Is it correct and why would one want to believe that it was?

"Destiny: the events that will happen to a person. The hidden power believed to control future events" says the Oxford English Dictionary. This tells us what the word means and how New Age believers feel about it but it is the interpretation of the 'hidden power' that I believe many of us interpret too literally.

Personally I believe that yes there is a 'Destiny' for every individual and yes I also agree with the second interpretation that there is a hidden power that does control future events to some extent. However, I also feel that the term 'Destiny' is now used to allow people to avoid having to make choices and therefore taking full responsibility for their own lives. It has become so easy for people to remain with the same partner in a relationship that does not work or to remain in the same job getting more and more dissatisfied with their so called 'lot' in life believing that it is their 'destiny'. They are copping out on the responsibility of taking action and living with the reaction or the results that that will have on their lives. It may have been their destiny to marry the wrong person for them to learn a life lesson but it would be a very unforgiving and punishing power indeed if he had not given them freedom of choice to do something to better their circumstances by leaving.

We have a life plan laid down for us by this 'hidden power' which you may name whatever suits you in this lifetime. However it is a very general plan, an outline if you like, of what you will have to go through in order to spiritually develop while on this planet. It does not lay down details so specifically that at any point you should remain frozen in a situation believing that you cannot make change, in fact recognizing that you can make change is one of life's biggest lessons. Taking responsibility for Self and learning from the resulting experiences is exactly what life is about! If you accept the credence that you are here to learn, then you should also be able to accept the belief that making change will create or recreate your destiny.

You may be destined to marry, to be famous, to die at forty nine years of age, or to live until you are ninety, but if you do not take action, or in other words, make

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