What are soul contracts?
Soul contracts are the agreements our souls make with others or within ourselves. Promises, pledges, vows and oaths.
Soul contracts call on us to make certain choices and can hold us in recurring patterns. They can manifest as blockages or fears. We can't move forward with ease or joy when our soul is committed to something or someone that no longer serves us.
Soul contracts are deep commitments borne from strong feelings such as fear, rage, jealousy, passion, desire, loneliness or betrayal. Motivated by our strong feelings, we commit to our soul contacts with our utmost integrity and deepest sincerity. Our contracts each hold strong vibrations which become embedded in our soul and are thereafter carried from one life to the next.
We accumulate many of these agreements over lifetimes. Not all soul contracts are negative. Some are grounding and supportive such as contracts of friendship and alliance between kindred spirits like Imogen and her grandfather in Once Upon A Path
Soul contracts can lay dormant in our souls until specific events trigger them to awaken - a soul reunion or profound emotion. (betrayal, injustice, envy, adoration ... ). Sometimes soul contracts align with a person's main life purpose. For example the person who ran from a burning building in a past life, leaving others behind to perish. He or she might have felt remorseful for the rest of his days and sworn to himself that from now on he would always help others. This person’s challenge in his present life might well be finding the balance between caring for others and taking care of himself. Most likely this would also then lead to a life lesson around building self worth and self esteem.
"I promise I will always take care of you" is a soul contract.
It's not that we shouldn't take care of others of course. Words hold vibration and this declaration has potential to hold two souls in a pattern that inhibits them from living authentically in the future because they've signed up to a way of being. One soul in this promise is signing up to needing to be taken care of. The other is declaring their eternal availability for said care-taking. This soul contract can be made between two individuals of any species. Two adults in a romantic relationship. A parent and a child. A person and a pet as with the neighbour's two black cats in Once Upon A Path
It can be beneficial to both parties for a time ... until its not. Along our soul journey we change gender. We can change our role in a family. We move along with a group of soul (a soul pod). The soul who was your father can become your child. The soul who was your sister can become your grandmother. A soul contract that states that one soul will always take care of another can result in some tricky relationships, such as when the parent comes back as the child.
Marriage vows are soul contracts. Past life vows hold the power to pull us back into relationships that are no longer for our highest good. We can find ourselves stuck in patterns and partnerships feeling unable to move forward. A deal made with oneself to never trust anyone ever again is another soul contract that's going to make any relationship challenging.
There are also all our past life oaths and pledges made across time, aligning us again with paths that no longer serve us. An alliance to a cult or religion may or may not pull us back in, but that alliance can challenge us in other ways when we try to follow other paths.
We designed our own soul contracts. We can heal our redundant, irrelevant soul contracts. Take a moment to contemplate. Imagine your soul carries a filing cabinet and it's brimming with documents - your soul contracts. A first and important step to healing your soul contracts is to set the intention to gracefully and easily dissolve all soul contracts that no longer serve you.
As far as I can see, soul contracts are paramount in healing. I've published a fictional tale, a soul map, as a way to show just how profoundly soul contracts influence our journey. It's my purpose and a topic I am always ready to discuss. Soul contract reading and healing sessions available here
Soul contracts call on us to make certain choices and can hold us in recurring patterns. They can manifest as blockages or fears. We can't move forward with ease or joy when our soul is committed to something or someone that no longer serves us.
Soul contracts are deep commitments borne from strong feelings such as fear, rage, jealousy, passion, desire, loneliness or betrayal. Motivated by our strong feelings, we commit to our soul contacts with our utmost integrity and deepest sincerity. Our contracts each hold strong vibrations which become embedded in our soul and are thereafter carried from one life to the next.
We accumulate many of these agreements over lifetimes. Not all soul contracts are negative. Some are grounding and supportive such as contracts of friendship and alliance between kindred spirits like Imogen and her grandfather in Once Upon A Path
Soul contracts can lay dormant in our souls until specific events trigger them to awaken - a soul reunion or profound emotion. (betrayal, injustice, envy, adoration ... ). Sometimes soul contracts align with a person's main life purpose. For example the person who ran from a burning building in a past life, leaving others behind to perish. He or she might have felt remorseful for the rest of his days and sworn to himself that from now on he would always help others. This person’s challenge in his present life might well be finding the balance between caring for others and taking care of himself. Most likely this would also then lead to a life lesson around building self worth and self esteem.
"I promise I will always take care of you" is a soul contract.
It's not that we shouldn't take care of others of course. Words hold vibration and this declaration has potential to hold two souls in a pattern that inhibits them from living authentically in the future because they've signed up to a way of being. One soul in this promise is signing up to needing to be taken care of. The other is declaring their eternal availability for said care-taking. This soul contract can be made between two individuals of any species. Two adults in a romantic relationship. A parent and a child. A person and a pet as with the neighbour's two black cats in Once Upon A Path
It can be beneficial to both parties for a time ... until its not. Along our soul journey we change gender. We can change our role in a family. We move along with a group of soul (a soul pod). The soul who was your father can become your child. The soul who was your sister can become your grandmother. A soul contract that states that one soul will always take care of another can result in some tricky relationships, such as when the parent comes back as the child.
Marriage vows are soul contracts. Past life vows hold the power to pull us back into relationships that are no longer for our highest good. We can find ourselves stuck in patterns and partnerships feeling unable to move forward. A deal made with oneself to never trust anyone ever again is another soul contract that's going to make any relationship challenging.
There are also all our past life oaths and pledges made across time, aligning us again with paths that no longer serve us. An alliance to a cult or religion may or may not pull us back in, but that alliance can challenge us in other ways when we try to follow other paths.
We designed our own soul contracts. We can heal our redundant, irrelevant soul contracts. Take a moment to contemplate. Imagine your soul carries a filing cabinet and it's brimming with documents - your soul contracts. A first and important step to healing your soul contracts is to set the intention to gracefully and easily dissolve all soul contracts that no longer serve you.
As far as I can see, soul contracts are paramount in healing. I've published a fictional tale, a soul map, as a way to show just how profoundly soul contracts influence our journey. It's my purpose and a topic I am always ready to discuss. Soul contract reading and healing sessions available here