Everyone is fixing their body, but no one is attending to the health of their soul.
What is a soul?
Most people are committed to improving their physical appearance, but few are dedicated to nurturing the health of their soul. And you? Have you paid attention to your soul? You might say, “I don’t know because I can’t see my soul.” And you would be right to think this way. In the next few paragraphs, I will offer you clues on how to focus on the health of your soul and nurture a deeper connection.
The health of our soul is equally important to the health of our body. As physical beings, we focus on what we can see and touch, but since we cannot see or touch our soul, we believe that it does not need our attention. Our soul is the unobserved aspect of our physical being; it is our core nature as spiritual beings. Our soul is believed to be an aspect of divinity, like a drop of water that encompasses the entire ocean. If you remove a drop of water from the ocean, it is still part of it, even though it is separated from it. In physics, this is defined as a hologram, where each piece of the hologram contains the entire image.
It is important that we understand what our soul is, so that we can cultivate its presence in our lives. This is not a religious conversation because it is not necessary to follow a religion to believe that we have a soul. The important point here is that we are connected to our soul and our life on earth is expressed through our soul nature. Therefore, our soul can be considered the blueprint on which we navigate our life’s journey, while our body is the vehicle used to experience it. While it’s a bit 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? I am sure that you have several questions and I invite you to work on them in your journal, after reading this article. To better understand the health of our soul, we must look to our past to see what we have created. For example, what has been the theme of your life? What challenges have repeatedly appeared in your life? How have you met those challenges? What have you learned from them? For example, my life theme can be summed up in four key areas: patience, trust, self-love, and forgiveness. Through these virtues, I have faced many obstacles and challenges and have learned valuable soul lessons. You could say that these have been my earthly lessons and what my soul intended me to learn in this life.
soul lessons
To be clear, we have no physical evidence that our souls exist apart from what is written in ancient texts and passed down over thousands of centuries. However, I can confirm from experience that these four lessons have appeared repeatedly in my life and have pushed me to evolve. Yours may be different and unique to you, and I encourage you to find out what they are. If you’re not sure, ask a loved one, family member, or someone who knows you well. It will greatly help you understand your life, so that you don’t repeat the lessons in the future.
You see, knowing your past allows you to follow the guidance of your soul. After all, what’s the point of making the same mistakes? I see this often when I coach clients who stumble over the same soul lessons without learning key lessons. If we want to learn and grow from our experiences, we must draw wisdom from our soul’s lessons. I have had the privilege of training hundreds of clients over the years and have seen firsthand how people handle their soul lessons. It has been moving and inspiring to help them transform their experiences, to see them from a higher perspective. If we see our earthly problems from a limited perspective, we will focus on our difficulties without considering what is going on behind the scenes.
Therefore, to attend to the health of our soul, we must pay attention to our emotions but not be dictated by them. Our emotions show us what we are creating in our life because they are our guidance system. Not everything will turn out the way we want and will lead us to unfair and unjustified situations. But if we focus on injustice without considering the primary lessons, we miss the opportunity to transform our pain. Are you happy with this understanding? I want you to know that the health of your soul is important and we must cultivate it more in our lives.
how to nourish the soul
Similarly, we must get in touch with our true nature; the ground of being for love, kindness and compassion. Love is the highest order in the universe. It is a healing agent and can transform pain and repair 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 does not mean that we will not experience challenges or difficulties, but rather that we see them as a guide and expansion of our soul evolution. This is the message espoused by spiritual author Matt Kahn, who writes in The Universe Always Has a Plan: “How many times have you asked yourself, ‘Why am I attracting this?’ You are attracting this because soul evolution is about building unconditional loving relationships with all the parts of you represented as each emotion.” Therefore, by developing an expanded awareness of our problems, our challenges are seen from the perspective of our Higher Self.
As a result, we can nurture the health of our soul by living our Truth. Your Truth will differ from that of others and it is important that you discover your own journey. Our Truth is the language of the soul and signifies the breadth and depth of our life’s journey. For example, there is a biblical phrase that says, “The truth will set you free,” demonstrating how abiding in our Truth can free us from the chains of our earthly existence. Our Truth is our unconditional authority to live according to our highest will. Thus, living from a heart (soul) based consciousness will lead to our greatest salvation and freedom.
With this in mind, I invite you to write your answers to the questions I asked you throughout the article. I encourage you to spend a few days working on your soul lessons through journaling. Take the time to find out what experiences of your soul have called you to learn about yourself. We may not always learn the lessons in this life because of the challenges we face. But we can keep showing up in our lives, even when our experiences push us over the edge. Although we can’t physically see our soul, we can see the ripples it leaves behind when we neglect it, such as pain, hardship, and repeated challenges. Nurturing our soul is important to our lives just like taking care of our physical body. One is the map of our life’s journey, while the other is the vehicle on which we experience the journey. After all, to improve our lives, we must learn the key lessons that the soul has for us, otherwise we resign ourselves to calling it destiny.