What Is A Soul?
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
Most people are committed to improving their body, yet few are dedicated to nurturing the health of their soul. What about you? Have you given attention to your soul? You might say: “I don’t know because I can’t see my soul.” And you would be right in thinking this way. In the following paragraphs, I’ll offer you insights on how to prioritize your spiritual well-being and cultivate a deeper connection.
The health of our soul is equally important to the health of our body. Since we cannot see or feel our soul, we believe it doesn’t need our attention. Our soul is the unobserved aspect of our physical being; it is our core nature. It is thought that our soul is an aspect of divinity, like a drop of water comprises the entire ocean. If you remove some water from the sea, it remains water, even when separated from the ocean. In physics, this is defined as a hologram, where every piece of the hologram contains the entire image.
We should understand what our soul is so that we can cultivate its presence in our lives. This is not a religious conversation because you needn’t follow religion to believe we have souls. The important point here is that we are connected to our soul, and our life on earth is expressed through the nature of our soul. Therefore, our soul can be considered the blueprint upon which we navigate our life’s journey, while our body serves as the vehicle through which we experience it. Whilst a little more complicated than that, we can use this metaphor to focus on the health of our soul.
Are you comfortable with this idea so far? You may have questions about these ideas, and I invite you to work through them in your journal. To become better acquainted with our soul health, we can look to our past to see what we’ve created. For example, what has been the theme of your life? What challenges have repeatedly shown up in your life? How have you faced those challenges? What have you learned from them? For example, the theme of my life can be summarized in four key areas: patience, trust, self-love, and forgiveness. Through these four virtues, I have faced numerous obstacles and challenges and learned valuable life lessons. You could say these have been my life lessons and what my soul intended for me to learn in this lifetime.
Soul Lessons
“You know you have mastered a soul lesson when the circumstance has not changed, but the way you respond has. This is true energy self-mastery.” — Vibrational Medicine.
To be clear, we have no physical evidence that our soul exists other than what is written in ancient texts and passed down over thousands of centuries. However, I can confirm from experience that these four lessons have repeatedly shown up in my life and pushed me to evolve. Yours might be different and unique to you, and I encourage you to discover what they are. If you’re unsure, ask a loved one, a family member, or someone who knows you well. It will go a long way to help you understand your life, so you don’t repeat the same lessons in the future.
Knowing your past allows you to follow the guidance of your soul. After all, what is the point of repeating the same mistakes and not learning the lessons? I often see this when coaching clients who stumble across the same soul lessons without knowing the key lessons. If we want to learn and grow from our experiences, we can gain wisdom from our soul lessons. I’ve had the privilege of coaching hundreds of clients over the years and seen firsthand how people handle their soul lessons. It has been both touching and inspiring to help them transform their experiences, allowing them to see them from a higher perspective. If we view our problems from a limited perspective, we will focus on our difficulties without seeing what is happening behind the scenes.
Therefore, to attend to our soul health, we can pay attention to our emotions but not be dictated by them. Our emotions reveal to us what we are creating in our lives, as they serve as our guidance system. Not everything will go our way, and it will force us into situations that are unfair and unjustified. However, if we focus solely on the injustice without considering the primary lessons, we miss the opportunity to transform our pain into something meaningful. Are you content with this understanding? I want you to know that your soul’s health is important, and we ought to cultivate it in our lives.
How To Nurture Your Soul
“Follow your soul. It knows the way.” — Anonymous.
Similarly, we can connect with our true nature, the ground of being from which love, kindness, and compassion flow. Love is the highest order in the universe. It is a healing agent and can transform pain and mend broken relationships. Love is the structural framework of the universe. Therefore, by connecting with our true nature, we see our earthly challenges from a higher perspective. This doesn’t mean we won’t experience challenges or hardships, but we view them as opportunities to guide and expand our soul’s evolution. This idea is echoed by the spiritual teacher Matt Kahn, who writes in The Universe Always Has a Plan that we often attract certain experiences into our lives as part of our soul’s journey. According to him, these experiences help us cultivate compassion and acceptance for every emotion we feel, with each one reflecting a different part of ourselves. Therefore, by developing an expanded awareness of our problems, we can view our challenges from the perspective of our Greater Self rather than our small, Limited Self.
As a result, we can nurture our soul health by living our Truth. Your truth may differ from others, and it is your responsibility to find your path. Our Truth is the language of the soul and signifies the breadth and depth of our life’s experiences. For example, there’s a common phrase which reads: “The truth will set you free,” demonstrating how abiding by our Truth can liberate us from the chains of our problems. Our Truth is our unconditional authority to live according to our highest agency. Thereby, living from a heart-based awareness (soul) will lead to our greatest freedom.
With this in mind, I invite you to journal your responses to the questions I posed throughout the article. Please spend a few days working through your soul lessons via journaling. Take the time to find out what your soul experiences have called you to learn about yourself. We may not always learn the lessons in this lifetime because of the challenges we face. But we can continue to show up in our lives, even when our experiences push us to our limits. Although we cannot physically see our soul, we can see the ripples it leaves when we neglect it, such as pain, difficulties, and repeated challenges. Nurturing our soul is important to our life, as tending to our physical body. One is the map of our life’s journey, while the other is the vehicle upon which we experience the journey. After all, to improve our lives, we will learn the key lessons our soul intends for us; otherwise, we resign ourselves to calling it fate.
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