Those we are close to are related to us in complex ways,
historically, biologically, and in terms of soul-connection.
Yet often, what outpictures on the level of the physical, does
not reflect the intensity and meaningfulness of the soul
connection that has brought us into proximity with another,
whether for a few moments or for a lifetime.
Where the bond is strong and one of commitment, we tend to
assume that there is a deeper connection. However, what is
actually true is that this connection exists even where
relationships do not function smoothly or carry a great deal of
difficulty. Even in such cases, the soul connection may be one
of a purely positive nature, though many serious problems or
challenges may be manifesting on the physical plane.
The confusion about levels of relationship comes up commonly in
two ways: when we feel a deep heart connection with someone,
whether for a few moments or for many years, and this sense of
connection is not reciprocated or acknowledged by the other, or,
when we have a great deal of difficulty with another or suffer
at the hands of another, and wonder why they are in our lives
and what, that is positive, could be the purpose of such a
relationship. In both cases, we are presuming a relationship on
a different level that is the explanation or cause for what we
are experiencing.
The truth of soul relationships is more complex than most are
aware of at this point. On the one hand, what one soul
recognizes may not be what another is capable of perceiving at a
given point in time. This does not make the relationship or
connection untrue. It just means that the other is bound in
their perception by limitations on the personality level and
cannot register or be aware of the deeper currents of
relatedness. The discrepancy between our own perception of
things and that of someone else can lead to disappointment and
even to sorrow if we do not understand that what exists at the
soul level has to find its way into physical expression in its
own way and time. In some instances this may not happen nor
serve the highest good within a particular lifetime.
Similarly, with relationships that have a strong negative
component, whether familial or introduced by external
circumstances into our life. Souls never come together to harm
each other. They always come together in order to further each
other's learning on the level of the heart and spirit. No
matter who we encounter in life, especially in the context of a
long-term connection, the other soul is crossing our path in
order to convey something that we have chosen to learn. What
this is, involves the mystery of embodied experience, and can
shape the course of a lifetime.
Suffice it to say that, often, the direction we think things
should go in with another, does not become the direction that
they actually go in. This is not because the inner connection
is not there or is faulty, but because the point of meeting with
another brings into awareness for each participant, the portion
of meaning they are capable of holding in the present, and what
is true within the perception of one person may not be true for
the other.
Souls, in their desire and capacity to help each other, may
also choose periods of time apart from each other. Sometimes
the separation is what is needed in order to further the
relationship. Sometimes, the learning that takes place can only
take place with periodic or intermittent contact with another.
In addition, there are many levels of meeting or contact between
souls. Souls have the capacity of meeting not just on the
physical plane, but on the plane of dreams which, for many,
involves actual meetings that are conducted within the
energy-body while asleep. The kind of communication and support
that can take place through these non-physical meetings can be
quite significant. They can further or continue a relationship,
even where one participant has left their body through death.
This is because those who have departed are still connected with
us as souls and can choose, for various reasons, to meet us
within our energy or dream bodies while asleep so that we may
share further experience as part of an ongoing relationship.
Where souls are meeting primarily in the dream body as opposed
to the physical body, it can happen either because the inner
directives of one soul have caused them to depart from the
physical plane while the other remains. It can also be caused
by limitations on the level of the personality that prevent a
soul from acknowledging the connection with another due to
defensiveness, fear, or simply to a lack of awareness within the
existing personality of what the soul knows on its own level.
And so the inner connection is maintained when the personality
has less say over making contact, generally at night, but
sometimes also during the day. At these times we may experience
the presence of others with us where it seems that there is an
intentionality to their being there, and a desire to communicate
in words or through feeling. Becoming able to listen and to
hear these communications without fear or self-invalidation, but
with a sense of wanting to help and to love, is a task of the
maturing soul that opens the door to the many faceted
relationships that exist within the spiritual universe.
Finally, let it be said that souls also meet outside of their
physical bodies because of the level of their spiritual
development and their increased capacity to do so in an
intentional way. These meetings are part of the growing
development of consciousness to manifest reality in a myriad of
ways.
In the end the connections with others on the level of the soul
enrich life immeasurably, and add to the dimension of the
physical, the dimension of the spiritual in ways that will one
day become quite natural and commonplace, which, for today, may
seem the exception.
About the Author: For other writings by Julie Redstone , see
Pathways of Light –
http://www.lightomega.org/PathwaysofLight.html. For more about
relationships, see the Sacred Relationships section of the Light
Omega website -
http://www.lightomega.org/Ind/Sacred_Relationships.html.
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