Another Year

I'm having a birthday in a few days and I can't help but think of the people who have exited my life over the course of the last two years.

Birthdays always remind me of my mother, who was my daughter in a past life. I once shared that with her, and although she didn't understand or speak of such things, she acknowledged this part of me and said she felt it too

I haven’t written much about my beliefs on life and death, purpose and mission. It's a big part, actually it's the biggest part of who I am, but many are not ready to hear it. They stay at arm's length. And since I am not someone who imposes, I know I can't go deep with them and it's their loss. However, I recognize that I can help others understand that everyone wants to be seen, heard, and valued, and how we have a responsibility to honor all those who pass through our lives. With that in mind, I am providing a summary of soul unions.

Reincarnation, Contracts & the Law of Cause and Effect

My spiritual path has involved intellectually knowing about past-life connections between people. This knowledge is spiritual and energetic in nature and doesn’t lend itself to proof. Therefore, what I am sharing is what has been taught to me that my soul/ intuition/ higher-self as an accurate representation of truth.

The Anatomy of Souls

A teacher long ago presented this theory of soul anatomy; upon our death, our soul splits into three parts. The largest part, which contains our personality, dies with our body. The other two parts are reincarnated into babies waiting to be born. This can be immediately upon death, or it could take a very long time for a soul to come back into a body. One part of the soul will reincarnate within the family line, and the other part is reincarnated outside the family line.

This separation is what accounts for the concept of Twin Souls or Twin Flames. This is when two parts of your soul find each other in a later reincarnation. There is an instant attraction and recognition that is hard to explain. A familiarity that defies logic and reality since you have just met. You often become fast friends. There can be a lot of crossover in healing work between them because, for many lifetimes, you've been one soul. And that can be comforting in many ways.

Soul Contracts

Souls usually reincarnate with the same soul pod or ashram in every lifetime. A soul pod is a community of souls who have chosen to live together over and over while they explore being human and expand their consciousness.

The people we are closest to are often are part of that pod, not everyone but you’re nearest and dearest. It is common for a mother and daughter to have had a past life together, a husband and wife, or best friends.

Souls choose to come here in human form to expand their knowledge of the Universe, feel all kinds of different emotions, and have all kinds of different experiences. Souls make agreements or contracts with each other to incarnate together for specific experiences.

For example, one relationship I had provided me with an opportunity to learn to lead from the heart. It behooves us to learn using our heart and intuition to guide our decisions and choices; from career to family to friends.

Through my own self- healing, last spring, I had a friendship that was ending; it coincided with me getting sick. I was drained, but while I convalesced, I learned that we may have taken turns throughout our many lives together to teach one another toward heart-centered living. I was the one who understood the spiritual dynamics and my friend although uninitiated was sensitive to my energic field and vibration. There is rarely completion to these types of conflicts or patterns, they just continue to expand just like the Universe.

Broken Contracts

When living out contracts, some of these relationships are long lived, others are brief, and some never really take the shape that the souls intended. How a contract plays out is never known and certainly not predictable.

There are times when two souls intend to come here to be married to one another and if one of the two struggles, for example of a childhood trauma, they will not be able to carry out the contract due to their wounds.

Our experience on earth is predicated on free will, meaning we have choice, particularly the choice to heal or not, to feel or not. We can decide we don’t want to experience something despite our soul’s mission.

It is part of the package and the risks are known prior to our arrival. The variety of experiences available to souls is limitless.

There are consciousness expanding experiences happening all the time so no experience is without value from the perspective of the soul.

If you have experienced a relationship with a soulmate (two souls sharing a contract with one another) that didn’t last and you felt sure it would or should, that is an example of one of the souls choosing to cancel the contract in this lifetime.

Law of Cause and Effect

Known as karma taken from the Hindu tradition, the law of cause and effect simply means the energy you put out is the energy you get back. Some believe karma is about punishment but I don’t believe the Universe discerns good from bad, right from wrong, that's human limited thinking. We are made up of energy and the Universe simply matches the vibration you send out. 

This will show up in our experience living out contracts with our soulmates. We aren’t always able to understand how things play out now. We can’t see the whole picture that reveals what has transpired over many lifetimes.

Our Akashic records hold all of our experience across all of our lifetimes.  Even those confusing relationships and experiences that never seem to change; such as the never-ending story–and the patterns that play out the same way every time.

Often, those people with whom we have past-life patterns to clean up, also mean we have entangled energies. They can provoke strong responses from us, causing us to ruminate on the relationship in our minds.

Releasing the tension and healing the relationships in our past by healing ourselves can make life richer and our experiences deeper. But you can't have growth without change and real change is painful. Then and only then can move forward and experience new things for a brighter future. The key is, are you ready for your world to turn upside down and grow as a human being?