The important thing to remember about life lessons is that they are for our benefit; they help us grow, evolve, and flourish into the full capacity for which we were born. They are not here to beat us up or punish us. They are here to help us become more of who we really are authentically.

I also look at this from the perspective of the hands, since the hands are one of the best ways to understand the self. The archetypes, or personality traits, can be found in the hand shapes that form by the time you are about six years old. These archetypes reveal the ultimate desires of the soul to express through the personality.