🔒 Transcending Adversity: The Power and Purpose of Soul Contracts

Imagine stumbling upon a mystical map before you were born, a map that charts out your entire life journey, complete with its highs and lows. This concept, known as soul contracts, suggests that we might agree with our soul group before incarnate into this world. Fascinating. In this episode, I delve into how these soul contracts can provide comfort and purpose, transforming adversity into a platform for growth that benefits us and those around us.

But here's the catch - soul contracts are not about predicting your future. They're about understanding the dynamics of your life's journey and how adversity could be an opportunity for growth and transformation. I share a personal story of how my first medium reading opened the door to understanding soul contracts, changing how I navigated loss, change, and adversity. Whether you're skeptical or curious, this episode promises to provide a fresh perspective. So, put on your explorer hat, tune in, and let's journey together into the intriguing world of soul contracts.

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Hey there, they want to talk to you about a question that was asked by Jelena, one of my listeners, and she asked what I believe about soul contracts and her just her question was basically I want to believe in soul contracts, but it doesn't make sense to me.

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Why would I believe in soul contracts when someone leaves quote early, when it's not their time, and this is a perfectly natural question.

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And, ironically, a lot of times when we're first introduced this idea of soul contract, that we've agreed to this, it's when we've had something tragic happen in our lives, as opposed to when things are going along well, and this was actually my experience.

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My first introduction to the idea of soul contract was my first medium reading.

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It was with a woman named Suzanne Wilson, an incredible medium, and as she joined through and she's flying through the reading and telling me all these great things, she says oh, by the way, shayna says that this is planned, that this was kind of inevitable, that this was baked into the cake, and I was taken aback by this, of course, because why would anybody plan this?

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But rather than rejecting out of hand, I wanted to think about it.

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So I'd like to encourage you to do is.

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I'm going to give you some things to think about, but I want you to ultimately, at the end, to feel into your heart, to see what makes sense to you, what resonates with you, what brings you peace, what brings you purpose, what brings you passion, and go with that.

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Our intellect is great to think about these things and ask the questions, but we really have to listen to our heart when it comes to coming up with the answers.

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So, I said, on my own personal journey, I was introduced to this concept when Shayna passed away early and suddenly and I heard about soul contracts and I don't really like the term soul contract.

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I'm more like more of agreement or understanding.

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And here's the way I envision it when we're in the afterlife, or the between life or the real life, if you want to call it that, and we're with our loved ones, our soul group, the people would go through things together.

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I think we sit down and we come to some general agreements of things we want to experience and you might think, when we're planning our lives, that we were planned to have smooth, easy lives full of health and wealth and no bumps along the road, but that doesn't really make sense when you think of it.

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I think from a soul perspective.

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What would be the point of coming here if everything is going to be easy?

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But think from a soul perspective.

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We come up with things that we feel will be mutually beneficial beneficial for both us and ourselves.

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Now, as a parent, when we first hear about this idea of a soul contract, of course we tend to think of it from our own point of view, as, whether a parent or any other person, this is my contract.

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And we might think, oh, if I had this contract that caused my child to pass early, then it's my fault that I was early.

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We might feel guilty because they left early so that you could grow.

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Well, that misunderstands in several ways.

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One is no one, I believe, ever leaves early.

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I think we leave here when it's our time.

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Secondly, when we think about a child passing, we often think of a life quote cut short.

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We think of it as that's the end of their life, and when we leave this physical body, it's certainly not the end of our life.

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It's actually returned to what I believe is a much greater existence that we go back to.

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So when we think about our children passing early, from their perspective I don't believe it's ever a tragedy.

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The third thing is, I don't believe, if you believe that we live one life and you might think, well, this person only had one chance to be on earth and they were deprived because they left early I don't think that lines up with the evidence either.

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I believe that we live multiple lives, maybe hundreds of lives or even thousands of lives.

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So, from the perspective of an eternal soul, to have one life where we happen to leave early is not seen as that big of a loss.

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So the thing is, why would we build this in?

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Why would Shana and I, for example, agree that she's going to leave early, but again, I don't think it's so much of a sacrifice on her part saying I'm not going to be able to experience a long life?

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This time maybe so, but maybe not another time.

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But why would we do this?

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What's the point?

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Well, I think for the people that are left behind, the passing of someone can be an opportunity for growth, and I keep talking about passing with someone and talking about passing with someone early.

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But this could be anything, any obstacle, anything that we wanna push back again, anything that we don't understand.

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It could be the loss of a job, it could be an illness, it could be divorce, it could be a lot of different things, but humans tend to grow through adversity, just like a lot of things in nature.

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There's something we need to kind of push back against, and what kind of ways can we grow when we have a loss?

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Well, we could grow through inspiration.

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We might be inspired to go out and do great things.

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We might change jobs, we might start a scholarship fund, we might volunteer for an organization we think are love, on what like us to do.

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We could grow through becoming stronger, realizing that we have to keep putting one foot in front of the other and surprising ourselves with our strength and resilience.

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We could grow through compassion.

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We might become a more compassionate person.

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We might understand what other people are going through.

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So there are many different ways that we can grow through tragedy.

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And I think, from a soul's perspective, from the higher level perspective, from the higher self, I could see it saying I'm willing to make the sacrifice in order to get this game.

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And going back to another personal example from my life, I think about example where I actually said I am going to purposely put myself through pain.

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It was when I was at Ohio State and I was choosing my major and I chose chemical engineering.

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Now, when I was in high school, school was pretty easy for me chemistry, math.

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I loved chemistry and math and when I went to college I was like I wanna challenge myself.

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I know I could go and get a degree in something else.

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That would be pretty easy and I probably get an AI rich and breeze through it like I did through high school.

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But I said I wanna challenge myself.

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I believe I've got the capacity to do this.

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What's something I can apply my skills to?

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And I thought I'm gonna go into chemical engineering.

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Now quickly, I realized after my freshman year the chemical engineering was very hard.

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I started taking math, chemistry, physics at a level that I didn't know existed before I went into it and I struggled to get through it.

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I struggled for four years and I thought about the fact I was paying people to torment me like this.

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But why would I do it?

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Well, I did it because I wanted that degree.

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I did it because I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could do it.

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I did it because of the job that I knew it could get from me and I did it because I thought I had the skills to do it and since not everybody could do it, I wanted to be the person to contribute those skills to the world, to take advantage of what I had.

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From a soul's perspective, I believe we come into this world and we're planning our lives.

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You might say I'm gonna plan a challenging life.

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I'm gonna plan a challenging event because it's going to help me to grow, because it's gonna help others around me to grow, because it's gonna make me a more compassionate, more well-rounded soul and because we know that the contrast that we have in life help us to appreciate the high points when we have the low points.

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So those are some of the reasons why I believe it makes sense for us to plan hardships in our lives.

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Those are some of the reasons why I believe that soul contracts can be comforting to people, because if we think that we've planned this, if we believe that we planned it, it makes it a lot more likely that when something happens, we're gonna look for purpose.

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We're gonna say why would I plan this?

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Or why would my team plan this, why what's the point of this?

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And having that can actually move us forward more quickly than if we sit back and say this is just bad luck, or this is something random, or even that maybe God did this to me.

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So those are the reasons, I think, the pros and the cons for thinking about soul contracts.

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Again, there's no clear cut right or wrong answer.

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I like for you to take these things, to think about them, to mull them over in your brain, take them to your heart, see what resonates you with you, what brings you peace, what brings you comfort, what makes sense to you.

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Talk to your higher self about it, meditate on it and then go with the answer that works for you.

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So I hope that helps out.

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I hope that helps out.

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Jelena, if you're listening to this, if you have any questions you'd like for me to answer, I would love for you to send them to me and maybe I'll answer them on a future podcast.

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Have a great day.