We have always been told that we humans are three (3) part beings, and that we have a Soul, a Body and a Mind. Wrong! We have often been told that our Soul is inside our body. Wrong too!
And because we as humans find ourselves in this physical world, using our 5 senses with our brains to perceive and process information, we have erroneously assumed that that is all there is to us. mother of all errors!
The real truth is that we do not have souls. We ARE SOULS incarnated in human bodies. Big big difference and big change in perspective, if you apply your mind to it. We as souls are not inside our bodies, but our bodies are inside us. We are not limited to our bodies. We are these expansive larger than life energetic beings who are not bound by this space-time reality.
This then begs the question, what is a ‘Soul’ and what does it mean to BE a soul?
Our Soul, Spirit, or Higher Self (whatever name you like), is the part of us that is unseen with the naked eye, a part of us that comes from, is an extension of and is infinitely connected to the Divine Being, to God, to Source Energy or the Universe. It has been said that ‘we are sons & daughters of God’, well that is not far from the truth, because we came from and are ‘individuations’ of this Infinite Divine Intelligence. This essentially means we as souls are not separate from God, we are simply an extension of it. It also means we cannot separate ourselves from God, even if we want to. We may think, feel or believe that we are, but we are not and we can never be separate. We have no choice about this one.
When I first learnt this, my whole world and perspective about ‘WHO I TRULY AM’ completely changed. You see, I used to feel myself as separate and disconnected from this infinite intelligence. I thought I was separate from God, and from all that is. I, therefore operated from a very limited perspective, as most of us humans do.
So, since our Soul (using the analogy of the 3 part beings) is the part of us that is connected to Divine Intelligence and is an extension of it, it, therefore, follows that our Soul knows everything, and I mean eeeerrrrrthing there is to know about us. E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. Your soul knows the real reasons it incarnated to the earth, your soul knows your passions, your gifts, your potential, your desires, your problems and their solutions. And because the soul knows everything there is to know about you, it holds answers to ALL the questions you have about your existence.
One begs the question then, If our Soul knows everything, why is it that most human beings feel a sense of disconnect, feel lost, feel like they have no sense of direction as far as their existence and purpose are concerned? Why are we constantly feeling like life is a hustle, as we struggle more than we thrive if indeed we are connected to this infinite intelligence?
You know the answer. Because most Humans do not pay attention to their Souls-that’s right. We are conditioned to operate from a place of mind and body in this third-dimensional reality. We are conditioned to pay attention to only things that we can see, hear, touch, smell and taste. Just because we cannot perceive our soul with our 5 senses we have assumed that it either does not exist or that it is less important. That is the mother of all errors that have cost humanity a great deal.
Why? Why do we pursue only physicality and less spirituality, if indeed we are divine souls? Again, because we have been conditioned to. We have been programmed to believe certain myths and untruths about the way things are as far as divinity and our relationship to it are concerned. My relationship with God changed many years ago after I read a book by Neale Donald Walsch called ‘Conversations With God’. In this book, Neale has these interesting conversations with God where a lot of these myths are demystified. The book will truly open your heart and draw you much closer to God. You will feel a great sense of connection, not fear, and a great sense of relief, especially regarding our relationship to God, and the reasons we were created.
For example I personally used to believe that to know God I must live a puritan-like lifestyle, a life in which one follows strict moral rules. I believed that pleasure is wrong and to prove my worthiness to God I had to stay away from it. I could not live a fun-filled life and hang around with God. These two to me were mutually exclusive. I believed that to know God is to deny myself a lot of things, because I thought that’s what Deity required of humanity.
Based on this premise, I then concluded that because my soul is the divine aspect of me, it means my soul wants things other than the things I want for myself in the here and now. I thought that my soul wanted only woo woo out there stuff that had no bearing on how I wanted to live my life at this moment.
Oh dear was I wrong!
Then I learnt that if your soul did not want to experience physicality in its full glory, it would have remained in the spirit world, period. We do have that option by the way, just like there are other divine beings of love & light who exist outside physicality like angels, spirit guides, and other extra-terrestrial beings existing on other planets. The truth is that God created physicality/the earth, so that we may fully live, express and experience everything and every part of ourselves we want to. It is your soul’s desire to experience everything you want to experience, bliss, fun, wealth, and all kinds of pleasures. The soul came to fully live its passions out and more because physicality was specifically designed for such.
That is why, one of the fastest ways to connect with your soul is through living your passions. If you want to ignite your soul, live with passion. Look closely at the things that truly make you happy, because they would soon lead you to your divine self. Are you passionate about art, music, sport, travel, dance, food, nature? What tickles your fancy?
The truth is that Passion is born from the soul not from the ego or mind. Your passion arises and is inherent in your soul. Your passion finds you, you don’t choose it, it chooses you. You don’t suddenly wake up and mentally decide that you are passionate about art or sport. You just know that you are passionate about something and more often than not you don’t even know why. It is what it is.
So, because most people think that their souls want things other than the things they want here in physicality or the things they’re truly passionate about, they have completely disregarded it, and understandably so. The truth is that your soul and Divinity want for you the things you want for yourself and more, with no exceptions and no judgment. I know this may be an extremely difficult concept to hear, because God is the father of all rules, dos, don’ts, and judgment, right? Wrong. That’s what we have been taught though, and this fallacy is the reason why most of humanity has distanced itself from deity.
What we end up doing in pursuit of happiness, is that we chase things devoid of soul/passion thinking that those things in and of themselves will make us whole. However, they will never ever be able to fulfill us because feeling whole, complete, joyful, love, true lasting happiness, and abundance is the function of the soul. True peace, contentment, and freedom can only be achieved through connection with our souls. Everything else is fleeting and vanity of vanities.
The seemingly bottomless pits in our hearts are a result of that disconnection. I realized that nothing was ever going to fill that dark hole inside me, not the next big house, nor the next big car, and certainly not that vacation. Even things that I hold very dearly in my heart like my family, my children, for instance, cannot do it. Based on my ego and my programming, I would aggressively pursue things thinking that those things would fill me up. If I hadn’t taken action though, I was going to one day exit this physical world having lived an unfulfilled life. I was headed in that direction.
The irony is that in our connection with our souls, everything is possible and achievable with so much ease. There is nothing we can not have, and there is nothing we cannot not be. This is not just a fantasy. It is divinity’s promise to us. I was taught that the trick is to consciously engage your soul in your pursuits, and your soul will deliver to you the grandest experiences that your heart and mind will never be able to contain, and your cup will truly run over filling up others cups as well.
The difference is that when we have achieved great things in this material world, we will not form our identity based on them and we will surely not cling to them, develop addictions, and live as if materiality is all there is. We will thoroughly enjoy our existence without attachments, knowing that in no time we will return to where we came from.