T
he subject of soul mates is an
intriguing one for most of us. We are curious to know how we can meet our soul mate,
if maybe we have already met our soul mate without even realizing it, or why
the relationship with a soul mate,
especially if it is of a romantic nature, can be difficult many times. Mostly,
When we think of soulmates, we
refer to the romantic level, believing
our soul mate must be the person with who we can make a better and richer life
happen. While ultimately this is
true, there are almost always some stepping stones on our way, lessons we have
to learn, and exactly here our
soul mate steps in.
Before going into detail regarding the soul mate
as a life partner,
it
is important to realize that we have soul mates in all arrays of
life. Soul mates are groups of souls that travel together throughout
many life times. These groups of souls incarnate together
again and again to help and support each other, and ultimately
to teach and learn from another. You can have soul mates in
all areas of your life: parents, friends, teachers, business associates.
Whenever you meet a member of your soul
group, you will notice the
feeling that it seems you have known this person for a longtime even if you just
met. Your ambitions and general outlook on life
will be the same. Many times you will share the same projects and
strive for the same goals, however, there are challenges in
these relationships too. After all, you came here to learn new
lessons.
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Then, we meet a soul mate who has been a
partner in a previous lifetime.
The moment the eyes of these people meet, it happens: Week
knees, a strong heart beat, an inexplicable attraction. Welcome
to someone with whom you have shared at least one previous
lifetime in an intimate relationship. You both look different
in this lifetime, of course, but the eyes are the mirror
to the soul and when your eyes meet, you REMEMBER each other.
Without consciously remembering, your soul knows it all:
the joy AND the pain. It is all there instantaneously, at the
very moment your eyes meet.
And there is also the desire to work it
all out in this lifetime and
be happy together. If you enter into an intimate relationship with
a former intimate soul mate, it is very important to do so with an open and
loving heart. These relationships can many times be
very painful, because you already know each other so well, and you
know exactly which buttons to push to get a certain reaction
from your partner.
It is very important to see that whatever
pain a soul mate causes you,
it is done out of love. It is done to open your eyes to pain, and
thereby finally overcome your pain and hurt emotions, and understand
that your partner is merely reflecting back to you what is
inside yourself. You have heard about the law of cause and effect
(Karma). If someone willingly
hurts you to teach you a lesson, they load
Karma on themselves. Only a soul that loves you and
wants the best for you would do something like that for you.
This should not be regarded as an excuse
for somebody else to treat
us badly (still, on the grounds of the same law, the way others
respect or treat us is a reflection of our self-respect),
it simply means that only someone who is an intimate
soul mate of ours will agree to take upon themselves the
task to hurt with the goal to ultimately purify us. No soul
that does not belong to our soul-group would want to "dirty
their hands" in this way.
In this regard, there is a certain
hierarchy when it comes to
soul groups and the lessons the various members of a soul group
teach each other. We believe that all soul mate relationships are karmic. We all
meet again for the purpose of clearing
old debts and to learn from one another and grow. But there are
different types of soul mates, according to the different types
of lessons. For example, you may have intellectual soul mates
with whom you have debates on mental issues. The intimate
soul mate is the one that will be there for you to clear
the emotional issues.
Soul mates, and all the more intimate
soul mates, feel a deep love
and respect for each other. Therefore,
even if their relationship is difficult at times, it
is of such a nature that they support and nurture each other in
their ambitions, aspirations, and achievements on all levels - mental,
physical and emotional. This does not mean that they
agree 100% on everything, but simply that they respect and accept
each other completely the way they are .
Basically, they do not feel the need to
change their partner, and
the emotional lessons emerging in such relationships are
for the sake of purification of emotions only, and never for
the sake of manipulation or control. Not
necessarily do intimate soul mates stay together in this lifetime.
Even if we do not consciously remember it, it happens many
times that we agreed beforehand to meet again in this life time
to work out certain issues that will then help us to lead
a more fulfilling relationship with someone else, maybe even
someone new who did not belong to our soul group prior
to this lifetime, someone new with whom we can share new
lessons and teachings.
Or, it could be that after several
relationships we are about to
meet another intimate soul mate, and all of a sudden we realize
that one (or more) of our previous soul mates has already
prepared us for this relationship, which is
now much more harmonious than it would have been had we met
this person 20 years ago, before learning our lessons with the
help of our other soul mates. Wouldn't we be grateful to
these other soul mates?
Separations from intimate soul mates are
usually extremely painful emotionally at
the beginning, but after the necessary period of mourning is
over, previously intimate soul mates in most cases stay real
friends, helping and nurturing each other in true soul love.
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