The Power in Facing the Truth and why it is Important to be Brutally Honest with Self!

There is a saying: Heal to become whole to be come holy!

Most of us are in the process of healing at this point in time.

After thousands (plus-plus-plus) of years of epic miles traveled, glory and mayhem, war and peace, love and loss, the time has come for the amnesia to lift and for our soul-selves to remember and to heal. In order to heal, we have to find the courage to face the truth as we gaze into the divine mirror of eternity and embark on the adventure of going deep within to remember who we really are.

And guess what, sometimes that just ain’t pretty.

Many ancient and old souls pride themselves in the memories of their glory days.

It’s easy to remember and integrate our favorite lifetimes.

The temples, the magic, the power, the pyramids and oh, how those crowds could cheer…next stop enlightenment.

And yes, you were beautiful and kind and the most popular person in your town.

And yes, you also were generous and a gifted healer and the voice of wisdom among your peers.

It is easy for many of us to twirl in the shininess and perfection of our favorite lifetimes, especially if we are not too amused with our present circumstances.

But whoawhoawhoa, not so fast! What about all those little seemingly unimportant pieces of the soul stuck somewhere in the timeline? What about all those painful losses, the time when you were so greedy that you were willing to walk over dead bodies in order to get what you want? And the time when you were too drunk to watch your toddler who ended up drowning in the river by your house? And then there is the trail of disappointed lovers whose heart you broke by walking away, cheating on them or making them pay for all of your unfulfilled dreams? And the pain you felt when your house burnt down and you watched helplessly as your whole family perished? And all the times you were abandoned and seemingly nobody wanted you? And the times you had to play second-class citizen and your back was aching so badly you could barley stand and your hands were bleeding and there was no end in sight to the misery?

Remember, you have to be whole in order to become holy. Making peace with your story and tying up loose ends is an important part of the process. It is not very glamorous, yet very necessary.

For many of us it is much easier to integrate all the bright and shiny aspects of ourselves but it is the parts that are still traumatized or/and feel guilty that will keep you from progressing on our journey.

At the end of the day, the truth is the truth, no matter what illusions you’d like to believe and hold onto. Sooner or later, it will have to be faced and if you indeed are an old soul, I reckon that it’s fair to say that it’s later. Unless of course, you are taking your time within the eternal NOW in which case you might as well skip this post for the time being.

Spiritual ego, move over! Courage, give me the strength to face myself!

As you walk through life your awareness will leak clues to indicate unresolved energetic issues. Pay attention!

If a specific pattern repeats over and over again, pay attention!

When you have a strong emotion to somebody or someone and you overreact, pay attention!

Here are some pointers and tools that I have found helpful in my own process and when I work with clients. As always, use your discernment and add on as needed:

1. Soul gaze with yourself in the mirror. Sit in front of a mirror and make intense eye contact with yourself. Take note, how do you feel about yourself? Can you send love, compassion, patience and forgiveness your way? At times, as you increase the duration of your soul gazing sessions, you might find that your face shifts and reflects distortion or the energetic haze of lifetimes you have lived (that could mean you get the brief impression of a different race, gender, facial features or time period). Once you reach a stage of having integrated and healed all aspects of self there will be stillness to your experience and the face will radiate a deep-seated clarity.

2. Some people find hypnotherapy and past life regression therapy very helpful. That way you can face certain aspects that need your attention on your internal screen and then decide how best to work with it. No matter what it is, remember, all experiences serve a purpose and will add to your wisdom and maturity as a soul once they are healed and integrated. Always, investigate your unresolved past life data wearing your student-of-life hat. Being stuck in victim or violator conscience will slow down your healing process.

3. Are you familiar with the psychological exercise of working with your inner child?

Basically, you play the part of the parent to yourself when you have childhood trauma and emotions surface, so that you don’t have to react from that place to the world around you.

The same approach and idea can be adopted to work with fragmented soul pieces.

When you feel like something within you is being triggered that goes beyond your now-persona, tune in to yourself and see what kind of aspect of self is acting out. Ask to be shown a visual and establish communication with that aspect of self.

See what it wants and needs for healing and what it has to say. When these soul-aspects are healed, they tend to merge with the rest of self and lose their specific characteristics. That’s the integration work of the soul. Like drops of water ceasing to be individuals when they hit the surface of a lake or the ocean.

All soul pieces are on their way back home in order to merge with all of you.

It is the job of the healing process to facilitate this process.

4. Pay attention to your judgments. Anything and anyone that we have a strong response to most likely points to some unresolved past life file. There is a good chance that you have played the part of the people that you judge the most harshly.

Internalizing and meditating on these feelings instead of projecting them outwards can be a helpful tool to alchemize deep-seated unaligned soul currents.

You know that you have completed the process when you can look at the same situation that you formerly judged with neutrality and compassion.

Godspeed

Enjoy the journey and remember that darkness is the absence of light.

Allow yourself to fulfill your divine destiny by embracing all of you and standing in your truth.

Everyone is welcomed home, no matter how messy the journey has been.

You’ll see in the end it’s all good!

Practicing For Enlightenment

Life is about lessons and evolution. All the people around you, including you are little, future Buddhas in training. Sometimes we are on seemingly huge detours, but let’s just consider this, if we are practicing for enlightenment, what kind of skills do we need?

Well for starters our hearts will have to evolve to a place of unconditional love, forgiveness and compassion. If you translate that into a lesson plan we need to alchemize arrogance, judgment, discrimination, revenge etc. Here are some examples of how a soul might choose to do that:

1. If you were really rich one lifetime, feeling superior to poor people, your soul might sign you up for a few lifetimes of poverty in order for you to overcome that stigma, to train your heart to see the essence of people, instead of judging only their costumes.
2. If you were very racist in one lifetime, you might find yourself part of that race in the future, or you might be the 'victim' of racism in order to grow beyond those beliefs.
3. At times we sign up with souls to 'wrong' us for we want to test our ability to forgive.(Sometimes those lessons backfire and we end up in Centuries long revenge matches 'he had it coming'.)
4. I would never be a corrupt politician; those kind of superior statements are another good way to karmicly draw yourself into the exact position you despise in order to develop compassion for the souls around you.

It is not always comfortable or clear to the ego/personality why we ended up in the circumstances we did, my suggestion is to meditate on what your soul might be learning towards enlightenment, there is always a teaching and I find that I surrender a lot better, when I have a clue of what it is.

Caught Somewhere Between Fate And Free Will

Ah, the age-old question of what the future might bring keeps returning throughout our journeys.

 Fueled by our insecurities and our inability to stay fully present in the "Now" we all wander off into the land of the future at times. We imagine, hope and wish for our dreams to be fulfilled, that we are blessed with what we are lacking in the Now, that a burden is lifted, a pain healed, a lesson learned, a disaster averted and a question answered. I have realized an interesting observation; there appears to be two very distinct teams in the future treasure hunting department.

The first is a group of souls that is fully resigned to fate. Their questions sound like this:

1.What am I meant to do?

2. When will I get married?

3. How many children will I have?

4. Where will I live?

5. What should I do in regards to this situation?

6. Which profession am I meant to have?

7. Etc.

The other group is so convinced of their free will that they feel like they just have to pray and manifest hard enough to get the life they want.

Their questions and statements sound like this:

1.What else do I have to do to attract the right partner?

I have already done xyz and it's still not happening, but I know I am so close.

2. What other blockages do I need to release within myself in order to manifest more financial abundance?

3. How many more times do I have to repeat the same mantra/affirmation to get what I want?

Here is my take on the topic:

I certainly don't think that the future is set in stone. The level of freedom to co-create a soul has in each life varies from lifetime to lifetime.

For some souls, it's a bit like taking a ride on a train. The fate aspect dictates the station you get on, the stations you will stop at and the station that will be your final stop. It also determines whom you share the ride with. You however have free will on how you spend your time on the train. Who do you socialize with? How much time do you spend sleeping, eating, meditating or educating yourself? What's your attitude like? Are you at peace with your fate or do you threaten your fellow passengers every five minutes that you've had it and that you will be jumping out of the window?

Furthermore, I believe that the way we conduct ourselves on the train ride we're on will influence future lives and realities.

Let's call these behavioral consequences karma. The more negative karma we have the less we might be able to enjoy co-creative freedom in our future.

Other souls journey might be more of a road trip than a train ride. They have their own car and can travel wherever they wish to go, as long as there is a road, gas and other necessary resources available. These types of lives that carry more freedom aren't necessary more pleasurable. At times, souls freeze and become paralyzed in their actions in the face of all the possible choices. It does take a mature soul that has gained great clarity to navigate these waters; otherwise you might end up with a lot less movement than the people on the train.

When you want to gain clarity on your status in this life, it is important to gain some understanding of the spiritual contract your soul made. Another interesting resource could be your astrological chart (if you know your exact time of birth - make sure to find a skilled practitioner though to avoid additional confusion!).

Things you will find in your spiritual contract are:

1. Lessons you want to learn this life.

2. Potential relationships and their function

3. Talents and challenges

4. Potential professions

5. Financial and material support/abundance

6. Health

7. Social/cultural backdrop

8. Spiritual awareness

9.etc…

Now, any of the items above could be strictly defined by the soul or kept flexible, which means you'd have more co-creative power while you are alive. The ones that are pre-determined will feel like they are fated while the rest aren't a solid reality yet.

Most of us are stuck somewhere between fate and free will. It is important to work with and surrender to the elements that we can't change and to have fun and be creative with the ones that are waiting for our input.

How do you know the difference?

Most of you will have an element of intuition in regards to the elements that are fated:

1. Deja-vu experiences

2. Dreams or a sense of a meeting or change in your life

3. A Feeling like a force of nature is moving through your reality and you didn't solicit it consciously.

If you are asked to co-create you might find yourself:

1. Feeling a bit confused

2. Insecure as what to pick

3. Too many choices that all look good

4. Life feels stuck until you give your input

5. Excited, running from opportunity to opportunity, yet nothing sticks

Wherever you are on the spectrum between fate and free will, enjoy it, know it will change and rest assured that it is perfect for your experience and evolution right now!

Update Yourself!

Most old souls I work with are stuck somewhere in the past. I mean the past, as in past centuries or millennia, not just a few decades.

It shows itself in form of nostalgia and by giving a lot of power and attention to ancient artifacts, ruins of holy sites, the worship of spiritual rituals from other cultures and the wearing of fashions (native American medicine man, ancient Egyptian high priest, Tibetan monk, African shaman etc).

While there is nothing really wrong with this approach, I still would like to remind you, that if you are one of the souls that is stuck worshipping the past, it might be time to update yourself.

Why? First of all, you most likely already lived the part that you are trying to recreate.

If you give too much power to the past and its form you run into the danger of becoming a bit rigid. The point you might miss is that it is not about the form at all, but rather about the spirit and the energy that runs through it. At times we might give too much power to a form and/or our own past. I.e. if you played a powerful spiritual role in a past life (and here it doesn't matter if it was Tibetan, Native American or Ancient Egyptian to name a few), you might feel drawn to rituals from these cultures more to boost your ego than to get actual spiritual work done. When we practice these we have to be aware of our motivation, because we might entertain the notion of superiority over others (other cultures/religions and souls that is), while not moving an inch closer towards enlightenment.

I believe that God/Divine Source is an infinite, creative energy that continually morphs.

In the moment you try to capture it as a constant, it runs like sand through your fingers.

We have to learn to dance with it, so that it can continue to flow through our hearts and beings. Trust yourself! Find the sacred tools/rituals and objects of today. Make your current home your temple! Send love via Facebook and the Internet. Bless your car and your blender and your washing machine, because collectively it took a long time to manifest these little helpers.

 And remember, God isn't closed minded. Any form will do for divine flow as long as the prayer and intention come from the heart, they will carry more power than any ancient mantra recited a million times from a place of ego.

What does your holy life look like in the modern world?

Ready for your update?

Then go and have fun!

Enchantments And Curses Now And Then

 Enchantments and curses sound like something from a fairytale, the Middle-Ages, or maybe Ancient Egypt. They sound like some make believe ancient concept, but they are alive and well. Really? Yes, and more accessible than ever. You can buy spell kits online, you can also get them at your local Barnes and Nobles, unless they are sold out (and these days, they very well could be).
But before you rush off to take revenge on your enemies or make the person of your dreams fall in love with you, please finish reading this post. Afterwards, go back to free will and I feel confident that you will make the perfect, well-informed choice for yourself.

First of all, let's examine how curses and enchantments work.
Every person has an energy field around them that attracts people, situations and opportunities to them according to their karma and desires. However, things need to energetically resonate for people to fall in love or for deals to go through. A curse artificially alters the magnetic field around a person, and through this alteration has the power to change that person's reality. At times the curse changes all aspects of life, at other times it specifies one or two areas, like money or power. We can have the destructive curse, which will make a person lose their good health, business or a love relationship. 

An enchantment, on the other hand, will artificially change the karmic code that draws energy, people, and situations your way that you don't qualify for. So the person of your dreams might fall in love with you, because of it, but they don't really love you. They have fallen prey to false advertising and as soon as the enchantment is lifted, they will leave you and quite possibly hate you. Meanwhile, you would be aware during the relationship, that they are not present out of free choice.
You can draw power, money and fame your way and maybe even enjoy it for a lifetime or two, but there is a price to be paid sooner or later.

First of all, your own curse(s) will come back to you ten fold, not immediately, it could be five lifetimes later and all of a sudden you can't get a leg up. Every business deal you touch will fall through, no matter how hard you work, people might not trust you, and your soul mate might not recognize you.
Then there is the karmic credit card to be paid; all the damage done to other's lives is listed there. Your mother might hate you because you were the one that ruined her life five lifetimes ago. Your business partner swindles you out of money because you still owe him.
Other than the debt you collect, enchantments also postpone your spiritual homework, which could allow you to ultimately create the kind of reality you wish for without any strings attached.

I have seen a few cases where people that have traveled to South America returned with items purchased that had curses on them. You may ask why would they do it?
Because there is a lot of projection on the rich tourist exploiting the natives and that is their way of excercising power when economically they feel powerless.
When you are dealing with a new curse your life will feel like a sinkhole; where from one day to another everything might feel like it's falling apart.
Please find somebody qualified to clear the curse and remember it shouldn't cost a fortune to get it done.
My advice if you are indeed an ancient soul in the modern world:
Don't cast any new spells, you know better! And roll up your sleeves and clean up any past messes before they bite you in the butt!