What is Your Life Reflecting? The Soul's Journey

What would it be like if you believed that every situation, every person and every event in your life is actually part of your Soul’s journey and Divine plan? Would you react differently to difficult situations? Would you wake up each day with a sense of purpose? Would you have more compassion for yourself and others? If you believed that your life is a mirror and is reflecting your unconscious programming, beliefs, and karma, what would your life be reflecting to you? We continue to create our own reality, and out soul is seeks wholeness by bringing the situations and people into our lives that will help us heal. Instead of suffering from the question of “why is this happening to me?”, we can begin to transform our lives by learning to understand, interpret and change our reflection. On our soul’s journey, we move through many situations that seem difficult, even traumatic in this physical form. However, every situation and person that we have encountered thus far, no matter how difficult, is part of our soul’s journey to help us grow and evolve. This article deals with the aspect of the unconscious.

The energy in our unconscious seeks expression. Whatever we’re holding in on the deepest level, needs to express itself at some point. Growing up we learn to deny many of our feelings. There are many times that we have felt rejected, not good enough, or helpless that just gets tucked away and suppressed on the unconscious level. We might tend to minimize these feelings, or think that we don’t have to deal with them. But it’s not like the commercial, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” What’s going on inside of us comes out for the world to see. This presents itself in many ways. One is to continue to attract the same type of people in our lives who “push our buttons.” Any part of ourselves that we deny or any quality we have that we don’t take responsibility for, we see in the people around us. We see ourselves in others, judging in them what we judge about ourselves. We often attract people in to our lives who treat us the way we treat ourselves on some level. Growing up we each had qualities in our family that were valued and qualities that were unacceptable. Those parts of us we determine to be unacceptable and want to hide from the world, can’t remain behind closed doors. The energy is too strong. So we attract people with those same qualities and then judge them for it. The phrase “You spot it, you got it” speaks of this. It’s not that we’re being punished, and doomed to be victimized by the ones “who drive us crazy.” Just remember that our soul seeks wholeness, and any part that’s not healed or acknowledged will continue to come forward until we deal with ourselves. Making peace with all parts of ourselves makes us more authentic as well as more compassionate with others.

This energy of the unconscious also presents itself in the reactions we have that we swear we will never do again. The ones where looking back we see we may have overreacted or misinterpreted a situation. And yet, as hard as we try not to, we continue to react the same way next time. Almost as if this reaction had a life of its own. It could be anger, jealousy, panic, hurt. It doesn’t matter. Our first tendency is to blame the other person or feel guilty and wish it would go away. We can’t change that reaction by ignoring it or by trying to control the other person or the external world, because it really has nothing to do with anyone else but ourselves. There exists within us an unresolved issue that needs to be healed. So, what this means is that we don’t have to be prisoners to those unwanted outbursts and pain, or to the “bullies” who trigger these reactions in us. We can see these reactions as a call for help from a part within us that needs our attention. Our soul seeks wholeness and will continue to attract people and situations in to our lives to help us clear these issues. They just don’t always come in pretty packages.

This is all the good news and the bad news. On the one hand, there is such freedom and safety in knowing we are all on a Divine path, and everything is to be used for our learning. On the other hand, there are no more excuses. It’s no one else’s fault. That doesn’t mean that we tolerate inappropriate behavior or abuse. It means that we become honest with ourselves and look at what’s not working within ourselves and in our lives, to know we have the power to change it, and to seek help in this process when necessary. Our soul’s purpose is often beyond our physical senses, but is always working for our highest good, guiding us toward our destiny. When the soul’s purpose can be seen in the patterns of our lives, life becomes a celebration. Begin to trust that we are all part of something much larger than our physical being, and that everything that happens is for our highest good. Our job is to cooperate with our soul’s expression.