Who I Am Part Two

ADULTHOOD 

Nature-Nurture — Trauma and the Soul

Human life happens.  All sorts of good and bad influences impact nature’s course of consciousness development and growth.  Trauma, in particular, creates blindspots or blocks that can prevent people from seeing clearly.  This is because trauma impacts the ‘Core Four’ (mind, body, spirit, emotions), and so it also directly impacts our relationship with our ‘Sense of Self’.  When the Sense of Self is impacted by trauma, it gets weaker, smaller or less reliable; we feel ‘less than’ ourselves when we’ve been through a traumatic experience.  

So, when we feel ‘less than’ because of trauma, what happens to our relationship between us and the soul?

Trauma can diminish the strength of trust or bond between the self and the soul, causing a connection ‘breakdown’, and a reversal of growth of consciousness.  

The soul is like a compass, guiding our way.  When we have trauma, it can restrict access to this guiding compass, and can let an enfeebled and self-pitying emotional body take the ‘captaincy of the ship’.  In other words, trauma can have us let our ‘less than’ emotional body take over the soul’s crucial compass role.  This can lead to poor decisions and a worsening crisis in the Sense of Self.  

In times of trauma, sometimes parts of the soul will flee from the body as a survival mechanism, but the soul won’t leave entirely unless death occurs.  The remaining parts of the soul tend to quietly observe what is going on and will not interfere, unless requested to do so.  This is important to know because asking our own soul for help is a direct, powerful action that we can easily take that will elevate our consciousness, put us into ‘right relationship’ with the Self and greatly improve our lives. 

ASKING THE SOUL FOR HELP

The reason that we have to ask the soul for help, and it is not automatically given, is that our soul has a ‘free will is sacred’ approach to life and will not interfere, unless we ask it.  This is because the soul, the immortal part of ourselves, is divine and all divine beings revere free will.  

So, if we are to ask the soul for help, what part of us does the asking?  The part of us that is the identity currently.  The part of us that is the identity currently is the part of us that believes itself to be the identity.  Of all of the different parts of the self, meaning the Core Four, the soul, the traumatised parts, etc., the part that the person believes their identity to be, is the part that will have the most power and authority in the Self.  If that person believes that their mind, or their emotions, or their trauma defines them, that person is allowed to believe that, even if it is not true.  Our true identity is not any one of these parts of ourselves because all of these parts are mortal and we are immortal beings, spirits housed in a physical form.  

Our true identity is all of the experiences and beliefs and evolution we have achieved over many lifetimes and all of those parts of us are what make up the soul.  It is true to say that the soul is our true identity, whatever we may think.  

So, the soul, for the most part, will not speak out unless the mental body wilfully steps aside and asks for direct assistance from the soul.  If, and when, this happens, the soul will come forward, without judgement, to assist with whatever suffering is being endured at that time. 

This order of things is important to know, because often in our times of need we can feel very alone and vulnerable.  But in these times we can have great support from our wisest self and all we have to do is to ask.  But we do have to ask. 

THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL

Our growth journey is an evolving one, moving out of lower consciousness (human) into higher consciousness (divine), which means evolving our perspective out of ‘Core Four’ and into a ‘soul perspective’. 

Nature has provided us with everything that we need to grow, but sometimes outside factors (for example, trauma) can pull us down into lower states of consciousness.  

Sometimes, an adult human crisis can ‘wake us up’ and this can then catapult us into much higher states of consciousness, such as in times of war, when communities ‘bond together’ for the sake of everyone.

But while outside influences can impact growth, it’s important to know that evolution is not dependant upon experiences, but instead upon a readiness for growth.  We grow if we want to; evolution is subjective, not objective.  

The growth of the soul always involves embracing higher levels of consciousness, which require us to reduce our judgement to as close to zero as we can, and to greatly increase our compassion.  We are much more than we know, and to know it, we need to evolve.

In order to evolve, we first must bring our ‘Core Four’ into balance and to have it be ‘in service’ to the soul.  In other words, the ‘Core Four’ needs to be self-regulated and in a state of anti-ego, with reverence for the awareness that the soul can provide.  This is what I call being in ‘right relationship with self’. 

In Part Three of this blog, we will look at how to be in ‘right relationship with self’, by healing and regulating the ‘Core Four’ aspects of the self.  By doing this, we can move into an optimal ‘flow’ state, which helps elevate our consciousness, and see ourselves more clearly and make more authentic choices about who we choose to be and how we want to evolve.  Then we’ll look at how the soul operates in this dynamic.