Soul Connection, What Have We Learned?

Over the last week a theme has emerged a bit more frantic then normal in my psychic readings. I have been asked too many times to count, "Why Is This Happening To Me!!!!" :)  I have handed out this article below so many times, that I decided to post Steve's words here. 

Why am I posting an article about 'Learning' to a question about 'Why' because soul connections are the Universe's way to push us forward.   

Hang in there.

Souls connections - what have we learned ?

If there's a core issue to soul connections I really believe it's that they are such an insight into the methods of the universe...

In creating such a conflict between what logic tells us versus what we feel inside - begin that most vital and all important journey where we depart from the idea that we really know what reality is about from logic and reason, to begin existing on the multiple levels ...ie spiritual awakening.

Being very general - the first part of that journey is usually from a position of that we have found something thats so utterly magical , so utterly completes us...and it's taken away from us or we can't have it.

Thus follows the crisis and pain we all know so well...

In latter parts of the journey we will by then have begun to think, perceive and exist more on the multiple levels having experienced all of the mental confusion, romance, energetic and spiritual roller coaster effects of the entire experience where it becomes much more about a total and parallel inter woven multi level life experience than just about the other person or just about love. This is when we being to truly comprehend...

If i had to personally summarize what i feel is the key point of transition from stage 1 of the process - with all the pain and shock and comprehension, through to the later stages mentioned above, i would say its this...

We are mostly conditioned to think in a way that because God loves us he wants us to be happy and i don't have issue with that. Where it tends to go terribly off track is that we often make the mental leap to that being we will be provided for.. In other words what we seek we shall find and thus achieve happiness...

God, life , the universe does not teach most of it's lessons through providing what we need....Rather...if the universe requires us to find answers it poses questions. When it requires us to be strong it provides crisis.
If we need to learn to fight we are provided with a battle... NOT to say passing those tests isn't rewarded, because as we know in all things there must be ultimately balance ( primarily law of karma ).

BUT that the tests come first.

I suggest that when a soul connection comes into our lives it signals a time when we have work to do.

As in the usual laws of duality, the karmic burden doesn't reside with one partner but both and there's no accident that karma each mirrors the other if it manifests in the same way or the opposite way.

So the question we have to ask ourselves is "what lessons am i meant to learn, what issues has this connection brought to the surface, and what tests do i have to pass."

As per another important law of the universe, this person in our life isn't meant to be the answer but to highlight the issues that need resolution so that we ourselves can be the answer. ( The law of not being allowed to want from others what we can't first find in ourselves - ie love isn't need - it's choosing to share what we already have. )

So we have some karmic issue to work through singly and jointly.

As i often quote ( sorry i forget the source ) "When God wants us to learn strength he doesn't send strength he sends challenges."

Usually it will be something that's been a lifelong issue like power or boundaries or rejection or insecurity, something that the universe wants dealt with once and for all. And whatever has happened in the 'running' phase will have jabbed all those raw nerves in the issue department to bring them to the surface.

So when questioning oneself about the lessons or indeed Mystic whatshername and the answer that comes is "the lesson is patience"....be assured no it isn't.

The universe doesn't require waiting, ever. It requires lessons, progress, challenges, and change, especially at times like these. After all why else would she have sent us a soul connection?

Just before the romantic idealists begin throwing darts at my picture again - yes it's also about love but again never JUST one thing. back to the universe, always duality always balance always reconciliation of imbalance ( karma ).

I like to think of it this way - that first come the tests, then the rewards

by, Steve Gunn

Reality of Fear

I was so inspired by a blog post I found on fear and suffering. The post itself had many Buddhist references in it and I decided that I wanted to convey the message without the emphasis as it just wasn't necessary. The truth of reality is what it is.  It is our free-will to decide reality is something other...however,  it is what it is. We can run from reality, but in the end it always finds us.  

I hope you find the inspiration I did in examining this great scene from Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, a fantastic reference to the spiritual journey.

YODA: Careful you must be when sensing the future, Anakin. The fear of loss is a path to the dark side.

ANAKIN: I won’t let my visions come true, Master Yoda.

YODA: Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.

ANAKIN: What must I do, Master?

YODA: Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

Take another look at the first line quoted above. Think of the “dark side” as our own Fear/Suffering, Fear is the path to suffering. The only way to free yourself from the fear of loss is to detach yourself from whatever it is you fear to lose.

How do we let go? Yoda was correct when he said that Anakin must train himself to let go. Letting go requires a great deal of practice, discipline, and courage. But who wants to do that when it is easier to continue on the path of Immediate Gratification? Our concept that we have control is an illusion that we keep up, only to find that we are still unhappy. It is only when we commit to the practice, discipline, and courage and letting-go of our fear responses that we understand we are, we have and always will be all we need.

There is nothing to believe, no gods to embrace, and no dogma to adhere to. Instead, we must all look deeply within ourselves and find that the truths we seek are much closer than we realize. After all, you can’t change reality to fit your preferred vision of it. The only thing you can do is change your perspective to fit reality. It’s the only path to achieve freedom from suffering.