Why Bother Getting To Know Your Soul?
The soul. For aeons humanity has grappled with its meaning, its significance and at times, its very existence! Fortunately, as human consciousness is now rapidly expanding, we are becoming re-acquainted with the true nature of the soul and the reality that it is not something separate to us; it’s not a diaphanous, external entity floating above us in the ether like a balloon! Our soul is within us; it IS us.
As the vibration of our collective human awareness continues to rise, we are identifying more and more as spiritual beings living within a human experience. We now understand that there is more to our existence than what lies at the mental level of the ego and we are beginning to integrate this higher dimensional awareness of ourselves into our human experience. This is why many people are now ‘waking up’ to spirituality and feeling called to explore their soul purpose and live their authentic truth.
But why bother really getting to know yourself at soul-level?
Moving Beyond The Level Of Ego Towards Bliss
Who we identify as, at an egoic level can often be very different to who we truly are at soul-level. Egoic identification is a temporary mask that we gain during our human incarnation and while it certainly has its practical uses in helping us to navigate our way though the norms of society, it also limits us with a myriad of societal conditionings that we have been taught directly, or have had passed down to us through our ancestry and even our DNA! Most of these conditionings are fear-based and don’t at all reflect the truth of who we are as divine beings.
Cultural aphorisms such as: “Better safe than sorry,” “Beggars can’t be choosers” and “You can’t have it both ways” are so ingrained into our collective awareness that for generations they have assisted us in upholding limiting beliefs that consistently direct us towards staying in lack, obligation and fear. However, making choices based out of fear and doubt rather than joy and trust, is what takes us out of alignment with our soul-level truth and this separation lies at the root of all sorts of dysfunction and disharmony in our lives.
Our soul speaks to us directly through the voice of our heart. Ignoring that inner voice creates separation from our divinity and establishes a false perception of disempowerment that limits our creative potential to a shocking degree! We’ve all dismissed that amazing idea out of doubt it could ever work and we’ve all acted against that subtle sinking feeling in our heart. How many stories have we heard about people who have rushed blindly through life for decades, consistently ignoring the warning signals of unhappiness and resentment only to end up incapacitated with stress-related illness, or worse?
Many holistic therapies support the idea that disease is ultimately a manifestation of being out of alignment with our truth, while healing is an inevitable ‘side effect’ of moving into alignment. Those who have studied the chakra system have an understanding that mind, body and soul are interconnected and that an imbalance at one level of our being will affect us at other levels. Alignment of body, mind, heart and soul leads us to the bliss that is synonymous with our truth.
Understanding Your Soul’s Unique Identity
Your soul is as unique as you are! Just as we all have a very personal egoic identity, through which we experience and understand ourselves on a mental level, our soul also has its very own unique set of characteristics, talents, desires and even a memory system all of its own, which carry forward lifetime after lifetime! This is our inherent, eternal truth and is often referred to as our Divine Soul Blueprint.
This blueprint can be thought of as an energy spectrum, containing information about our soul’s origination and the unique energies that it is literally made of. On a human level this unique energy spectrum translates into very discernible characteristics and gifts and becoming acquainted with it assists us in gaining clarity around how our soul truly desires to be expressed in life, providing keys to our soul purpose.
Aligning with our soul purpose enables us to create true fulfillment, joy and abundance in every aspect of our human experience, because when we’re aligned with who we are at soul-level we’re literally drawing on the energy that flows most abundantly to us from divine source. Coming into this alignment feels as though we have the weight of the universe supporting us!
Creating An Empowered Life In Partnership With Your Soul
As divine beings we are here to experience ourselves as the powerful creators of our human experience. Our soul will always desire experiences that offer us expansion, true joy and growth. Our soul will urge us forward to take frightening leaps so that we can experience ourselves in new and exciting ways; leading us to discover evermore our unbounded, creative potential and power to thrive and constantly surpass our own expectations of ourselves!
To the ego, which favours the illusion of safety that is offered by stasis, opportunities that offer expansion and growth can look like unnecessary trouble and even just plain dangerous! Understanding who we are at soul-level allows us to bridge the gap between our temporary egoic identity and our eternal soul-level identity and effectively mediate between the two.
When we’re able to differentiate between the voice of our heart and the voice of our ego, we’re able to distinguish whether we’re being motivated from a place of love and expansion or a place of fear and constriction. Once we master this understanding we can really make sure that all of our action is in alignment with our highest good and our opportunities for growth, empowerment and authentic self-expression become limitless!