Healing Soul Wounds
An explanation for why we experience trauma
The world exists as you perceive it.
It is not what you see, but how you see it.
It is not what you hear, but how you hear it.
It is not what you feel, but how you feel it ..
~ Rumi ~
How can this be true?
Isn’t there right and wrong, justice and injustice?
Here is another perspective that may bring a little more peace to the human dimension.
Soul Wounds and Scarring
When we live a lifetime where we experience trauma and when that trauma remains unhealed at the end of that lifetime, we leave with unfinished energetic business.
It is neither here, nor there. It simply is.
The energetic coding of our pain, shame, guilt, anger, resentment, regret, unworthiness, etc, now belongs to us and the energy of all that is – mass consciousness.
As energetic beings we seek to know all experiences. Through our experiences we contribute to the knowing, the expansion of Source. An aside: some reference Source as God, Allah, Buddha, Divine Intelligence – these are simply names for the powerful collective energy that we are.
Why would we want to invite Wounding?
Fundamentally, Source (we) seek to know ourselves and we do this by creating a vast range of experiences or duality. (More on this in another article!) These experiences evoke certain emotions that each carry a vibrational signature. The beautiful experiences of wonder are high vibrational, and the uncomfortable experiences are low vibrational. The experiences that resonate, or feel good, reflect who we are.
The experiences that create discomfort show us who we are not and invite us to choose something different. If we don’t recognize that it is only a feeling designed to guide us away from what we don’t want, we can become confused and believe that this uncomfortable experience and resulting emotions define who we are. Each of these vibrations are anchored in our physical and energetic bodies and become part of Earth’s energy and the energy of all that is.
The beautiful experiences are just that, so let’s focus on the discomfort. And to be honest, it’s difficult not to. Now that we have created an unresolved vibration of discomfort, we hold that energetic signature.
Our signature
This means we now hold a vibration that will draw energetically similar experiences. This is not a punishment or fate. This vibrational ‘cause and effect’ is now a means for our Higher Self to guide us away from low vibration and the illusion that we are our emotions. Remember we are not our bodies, our thoughts, our emotions, our experiences nor our achievements. We are a divine part of Source energy having an experience in a physical body.
Now we have this low vibration signature, how do we move beyond it?
Firstly, by remembering that our experiences exist to guide us back to who we are. Joy invites us to find more joy, discomfort invites us to choose something different. A low vibration signature or Soul scar does not define us, nor is this signature the only vibration that we have. We do not need to fear it or resist it. It simply is.
Some will say, how is it possible that an innocent could possibly need a traumatic experience?
We are not ‘innocents’ or ‘culprits’ or ‘victims’.
Each human being is a complete soul with a divine plan and has been gathering experiences in the physical for many or very few lifetimes. One of our challenges as parents is to remember this. The more we can see our children as divine beings in a young body, the more we are able to respect their need for experiences and their divine contribution to all that is.
So we are each guided in this lifetime by the framework of our Divine contract or Soul Plan. In this plan, we seek to heal the unhealed wounds from previous lifetimes as we need to be in the physical body to do this work for ourselves. This is not the only scenario we are working from, however. We may also have agreed to assist another, often a member of our Soul Family, to remember and heal a wound.
The Planning Stage
We will have given this much consideration in the planning stage between Death and Life. We weigh up how the effects of our actions – that is, wounding another to help them remember what it is they wish to heal – will impact our own energetic evolution. In my experience, when we energetically seek a ‘villain’ the conversation goes something like this:
Energy 1 Will you be my bully? I need someone to show me that I have an ancient scar of ‘unworthiness’ and ‘undeserving’. I also want to clear a blocked throat chakra in the physical and learn to speak up for myself and honour my truth. Can you do it?
Energy 2 Oh there will be much Karma for doing this! It is so far out of my divine plan, I love you and I can’t do this for you.
OR
Energy 2 Sure, I can do this – it matches my need to heal ‘unworthy’ too. You know – a bully becomes the bully because they are also taught to disrespect themselves. This also fits my life plan to remember unconditional love and that we are all one energy.
OR
When we can’t find another energetic being to play a dastardly role, our Soul Family often steps in:
Energy 3 I love you, think of the many times you have helped me. I will do this for you.
Energy 1 But what about the Karma?
Energy 3 Think of the many times you have helped me – of course I will do this for you!
Bonus Points!
Further healing will occur in the physical if the individuals learn to love each other and trust that each was doing the best they could in the physical. Every relationship generally holds healing and potential evolution as we learn how to apply and accept healthy boundaries with unconditional love.
Soul Plan
Think of the soul wound as one of many fingerprints on a shiny surface- touched by many experiences but all with the ability to be wiped clear. As we allow painful experiences to rise to the surface, notice them, and notice the message they bring, they can be healed and released. The result of this work is we are no longer triggered by the relative experiences.
One more just to be sure
The Higher Self usually brings one or two more repetitions of triggers once we have worked through an experience. This is like our Higher Self checking in to see if we really have healed the wound, so don’t be surprised when, for example, another situation of bullying arises. The more work we do, the quicker we realise it is simply an old pattern and we can choose to see it as our metaphysical work to create healthy boundaries within and without, instead of someone trying to hurt us.
Remember that we can never heal someone else. They will continue to repeat their patterns until they are ready to step into their own power. We can, however, now choose to view it with objectivity, and offer compassion while holding our boundaries.
Mother Earth
We are all one energy, and she too is affected by the beings that occupy the earth plane.
While she offers us healing if we ask for it, she will also react to the suffering we inflict through our actions and through our low vibration.
We can expect more natural events to occur, see them as cause and effect, as she works to expel the experiences and heal her wounds.
Tips for Healing
Meditate – go within, you really do hold all the answers.
Grounding – connect with Mother Earth.
Lie on the ground or the sand, dig your fingers and toes into the earth.
See your energetic roots growing from each chakra and running deeply into Mother Earth, wrap around her core.
Breathe deeply and ask for her healing.
Journal – make sense of the experience by creating space to process it.
Breathe – circular breathing is a form of meditation and allows our inner self to be heard.
Breathe in for 4 seconds.
Hold for 4 seconds.
Breathe out for 5 or 6 seconds.
Hold for 4 seconds. Repeat.
Make an appointment – see an energetic healer who has the ability to heal the wound energetic point of creation and every layer that has contributed to the scarring. We are not meant to make this healing journey entirely on our own.
In our Higher Selves we can Trust
We may not understand all that occurs in this lifetime - and that is as it should be. But can we trust in our Divine Plan and the Higher Self that is helping us to navigate this physical life? Because it is.
Your Energy Matters
Blessings
Michelle
Michelle Cowles
Spiritual Healer
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