| In Part 2 of this article, I discussed healing relationships | | | | times to have a conflicting mixture of qualities in these |
| and soul agreements. Please see Part 2 for this | | | | connections. For example, I've known clients who were |
| information. Let's continue with Part 3, in which we'll | | | | stymied in trying to understand why a person who |
| discuss Soul Connections: | | | | was ostensibly a friend somehow also subtly felt like a |
| Soul Connections | | | | rival or competitor. Once the soul connections were |
| "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers | | | | explored and unraveled, the mixed quality of the |
| connect us with our fellow men; and among those | | | | relationship made more sense.) |
| fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as | | | | In contrast to connections that may remain somewhat |
| causes, and they come back to us as effects." | | | | consistent, I will also see, as I mentioned, combinations |
| -Herman Melville | | | | of these types of connections. For instance, two |
| Starting to get information on soul agreements led me | | | | people may be from the same soul group or same |
| to continue to explore the concept of relationships on | | | | soul family and also be brother and sister or cousins or |
| another level and from another perspective. I next | | | | teacher and student. |
| began to explore various types of soul connections. | | | | The types of soul connections I've mentioned tend to |
| Now, the soul connection that we are generally the | | | | be between those we know and interact with over |
| most familiar with - and desirous of - is the soul mate | | | | and over again in different lifetimes. This continual |
| connection. It is certainly considered to be the most | | | | interaction over different lifetimes tends to forge a |
| sought-after one, and a relationship with our soul mate | | | | sense of connection that is generally stronger than that |
| is one of the major things in life that many of us yearn | | | | which would be felt from interaction in perhaps just |
| for and actively seek. For some, it can be a lifelong | | | | one lifetime. This soul "familiarity" may also enable us to |
| pursuit. Indeed, we tend to place so much value on the | | | | feel somewhat safer working out some of our stuff in |
| soul mate connection that we are often unaware of | | | | the framework of a learning relationship that is based |
| the existence of other types of soul connections that | | | | on these close connections. |
| we may have with those whom we may know fairly | | | | Soul agreements may be made both with people with |
| closely. However, other types of soul connections do | | | | whom we have soul connections, as well as with |
| exist, at least from the information I have received. So | | | | others to whom we feel no deep connection. And we |
| before we discuss soul mate relationships in more | | | | may have both pleasant and unpleasant soul |
| detail, let's look at some other types of soul | | | | agreements from one lifetime to the next with those |
| connections. | | | | with whom we have soul connections. The variety and |
| At present when I look at relationships in sessions, | | | | combinations appear to be limitless. Certainly if a |
| whether romantic or those with friends, family, work | | | | person we're interacting with closely comes from our |
| colleagues, children, or others, I will look not just at the | | | | same soul group and is also someone with whom |
| energy dynamics or the resonating issues or lessons | | | | we've had both pleasant and unpleasant soul |
| or soul agreements involved, but also at what the | | | | agreements, we may therefore experience mixed |
| overall soul connections may be. I do this because I | | | | feelings about that person, while at the same time |
| have learned that understanding what soul connections | | | | feeling a strong connection with him/her. And, similarly, |
| there may be on the soul level can give us additional | | | | having a same soul family connection with someone |
| insight into our relationships and their dynamics, as well | | | | with whom we've had problematic or antagonistic soul |
| as into why a relationship may have a certain feel to it | | | | agreements may help to take the sting out of the |
| or represent a certain type of challenge. I have thus | | | | overall connection or absolve the more problematic |
| far seen many different types of soul connections and | | | | flavor. |
| combinations thereof and have been able to sense | | | | Understanding what some of the soul connections and |
| how they can color the nature of what one | | | | or soul agreements may be operating in the |
| experiences in his/her interactions with others. | | | | background, so to speak, between people in |
| One type of soul connection I get quite commonly is | | | | relationships can enable us to begin to understand why |
| that the people involved, usually in some type of close | | | | certain mixed feelings may exist in different |
| relationship, are from the same soul group or same | | | | relationships and how we can best handle the |
| soul family. Although I can not yet completely delineate | | | | relationship or interact in it. Interestingly, I have seen |
| conceptually what that means in the greater scheme | | | | several cases in which two people had a general soul |
| of things, I intimate that the souls in a soul group or soul | | | | agreement to always come together in different types |
| family may have been created as souls at the same | | | | of relationships in order to stimulate each other's |
| time or in a group (although, given the nonexistence of | | | | growth, without any residual blame or "hard feelings." |
| time on the highest levels, I'm not sure that this makes | | | | (It's almost as if there were an agreement to have a |
| complete sense) and that these souls thus share a | | | | built-in "eraser" to eradicate any of the residual mutual |
| "kinship" not unlike families here on earth. Being from | | | | bitterness that any of their difficult relationships might |
| the same soul group or same soul family may | | | | engender.) The potential is endless for the variety and |
| contribute to an underlying feeling of closeness | | | | types of combinations of connections and agreements |
| between people or to a sense of coming from the | | | | we may have with other souls, including what the |
| same place, a feeling of kinship that can't be explained | | | | residual effects may be. |
| by other, more superficial characteristics (family | | | | We will usually experience a deeper feeling of |
| connection here, or race, or background). For some | | | | connection to someone with whom we have a strong |
| reason that I do not yet comprehend, every time I get | | | | soul connection and, concomitantly, less so to |
| a soul group or soul family connection, I always get a | | | | someone with whom we may have a one-time soul |
| visual impression of the numerous souls in the group or | | | | agreement. This may explain why we feel an instant |
| family arranged in a circle next to each other. Although | | | | connection to or bond with someone we meet or an |
| I feel that there is some significant meaning attached | | | | instantaneous sense of familiarity - that feeling that |
| to this geometric "being in a circle" configuration, I do | | | | somehow we know this person we're meeting |
| not yet know what that meaning may be. | | | | ostensibly for the first time. Interestingly, it will often |
| I have also, thus far on only rare occasions, seen a | | | | happen that we will meet someone for the first time |
| variation on this connection of same soul group or soul | | | | and feel a very strong soul connection - and then, over |
| family. In this variation, I have sensed that two people | | | | time, as we continue to get to know and interact with |
| came from different soul groups or families, but that | | | | this person in real time, experience the feeling of the |
| their souls are so similar that they are like distant | | | | soul connection subside, while the present connection |
| unrelated cousins or two expressions of the same | | | | takes precedence. |
| complex vibration. Up to this point in time, I have only | | | | The soul connections that can encompass diverse |
| seen this type of connection in souls that have some | | | | types of connections can really complicate some of |
| sort of inherent and greater than normal complexity, | | | | our relationships. For example, I've read clients whose |
| greatness, or potential for it here on earth. It's as if their | | | | soul connection to one of their children was that of |
| uniqueness or rareness meant that there were very | | | | student. In other words, the child was their teacher |
| few other souls who had a similarity. I'm still in the | | | | (over and above the usual way in which one's children |
| process of understanding this concept completely and | | | | can teach one lessons). This adds another element to |
| will probably only begin to do so when I encounter | | | | the usual relationship of parent-child, with the parent |
| more instances of it. | | | | trying to be the wiser and nurturing one! |
| There are other, more common soul connections. Most | | | | On the other hand, a combination of soul connections |
| of these are experienced and expressed in familial | | | | can also add a richness and texture to some |
| terms. I have sensed many soul connections that were | | | | relationships that might not otherwise have been there. |
| those of siblings, whether brother and sister or sisters | | | | Such soul connections generally underlie our |
| or brothers. I've seen parent to child and even uncle to | | | | relationships with those with whom we interact closely, |
| niece or nephew and cousins. Other soul connections | | | | for example family, friends, co-workers - not to |
| may be more non-familial. A very common non-familial | | | | mention romantic relationships. I've seen clients who've |
| one will be that of teacher or mentor and student. I | | | | had wonderful relationships with their bosses or |
| have also seen soul connections that were those of | | | | supervisors - only for me to find a positive soul |
| colleagues, sometimes expressed in a positive and | | | | connection with the boss as benevolent mentor in |
| cordial manner and at other times, in a negative or | | | | previous lifetimes. Conversely, I've also seen some |
| antagonistic manner. | | | | difficult work relationships, only to discover an |
| I am still not completely sure what causes or | | | | overriding soul connection of antagonism or unpleasant |
| contributes to the particular type of soul connections. | | | | rivalry. I've even seen instances of two people whose |
| The connection of being from the same soul group or | | | | connection was that of always and consistently being |
| same soul family appears to be an inherent connection, | | | | rivals or competing with each other. This is apparently |
| coming from the "moment" of creation of souls, as | | | | the means that they have chosen on another level to |
| mentioned above. Other types of soul connections, | | | | consistently stimulate each other's growth, which, again, |
| such as those of siblings or teacher/student, feel like | | | | may tend to remove any bitterness. |
| they may have been forged through various lifetimes. | | | | Soul connections like these can also be confusing in |
| Indeed, I've seen instances in which the soul connection | | | | romantic relationships. We will sometimes meet |
| between two people was varied, due to the different | | | | someone with whom we feel a strong soul connection |
| roles they had played with each other in different | | | | and interpret that to mean that, because there's a |
| lifetimes; they were (or had been) brother and sister (in | | | | strong soul connection, we're supposed to be together |
| one lifetime), but also colleagues (in another lifetime), for | | | | as romantic partners, whereas the actual soul |
| example, and others who were (or had been) spouses | | | | connection may just be that of being from the same |
| to each other, as well as parent and child. (These | | | | soul group or same soul family. I've seen clients who |
| varied soul connections, interestingly enough, will often | | | | were strongly motivated to be in a particular |
| be felt in the relationship of those involved, so that | | | | relationship because they had felt a strong soul |
| there is a mixed quality that they feel in their | | | | connection from the outset with the other person and |
| connection or an overlay of different attributes.) | | | | for this reason thought they were supposed to be |
| Sometimes these soul connections will have an added | | | | together. All the more reason why it's helpful to know |
| dimension of hierarchy, in that one of the two people | | | | what type of soul connection it may be. |
| (or souls) has traditionally been the "senior" one or the | | | | On the other hand, it can also happen that we may |
| one with more clout or power. | | | | sense an initial aversion to someone we meet, just |
| Interestingly, these flavors in soul connections may | | | | because of an unpleasant soul connection - and this |
| change over time. For instance, two souls whose | | | | sense of aversion may shift over time as we interact |
| overall connection may have been parent-child, with | | | | with and get to know the person in the here and now |
| one always having had power over the other, may | | | | for their present persona and essence. I've seen one |
| find that their connection equalizes over time or even in | | | | case in which a client had a strong initial dislike for |
| the space of one lifetime, so that the sense of | | | | someone with whom he later became romantically |
| hierarchy evaporates. | | | | involved. As his initial dislike mutated into a romantic |
| These various types of soul connections will flavor | | | | interest, he found himself having dreams of the other |
| what we experience in our relationships with others | | | | person, in which he felt that he was exploring his past |
| and often in a subtle manner. We may feel a particular | | | | life connections with her. In every case, he dreamed of |
| closeness to a friend, for example, and then learn that | | | | her abusing him in various ways. Interestingly, the |
| our soul connection is that of sisters or brothers. This | | | | present relationship between the two of them was |
| factor of soul connections helps to explain why we | | | | somewhat dysfunctional, but was also a strong |
| may be feeling some sort of connection with certain | | | | learning relationship as well. He ended up learning |
| people that can't be explained simply by the present | | | | strong lessons from this relationship that stimulated his |
| connection or nature of the interaction, or why we | | | | personal growth. In this particular case, his initial feeling |
| may be feeling a certain quality in the relationship that | | | | of aversion was indicative of a difficult soul connection |
| has inherently been there from the very beginning; in | | | | and a foreshadowing of painful interactions. However, |
| other words, why we've had a specific feeling from | | | | he was able to mine great jewels from the |
| the moment we met someone who has later become | | | | experience, even though the other person was not his |
| a friend that she has always felt like a sister, for | | | | soul mate. |
| example, or even a rival. (It can be very perplexing at | | | | |