"Subconscious Patterns:
Stepping Fully into our Personal Power
by Ken Page and Nancy Nester   

"We believe that each of us continue to test ourselves by energetically finding people to reflect our issues. We do this normally on only three to five major issues, over and over again. Our subconscious mind reaches out and looks for energy patterns similar to what we still need to master in our lives. Our subconscious then attracts that issue to us, like a magnet. That person now standing in front of us is a mirror image of the things we need to look at within ourselves.
Perhaps we have forgotten exactly what we came to Earth to experience, learn and master. Even if we do not remember what those choices were, during our present life, we will energetically draw those experiences. Whatever we attract will reflect those things we have come to experience and master, whether it be in a business or in a personal relationship. ..........."

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