Soul Contracts

Typically when one buys a car, they may sign a four year agreement with the loaning agency to make monthly payments to them until the car is paid off. Once it is paid in full, the agreement is complete. The car owner owns his car outright and the relationship with the loan agency is severed. ...Typically when one buys a car, they may sign a four year agreement with the loaning agency to make monthly payments to them until the car is paid off. Once it is paid in full, the agreement is complete. The car owner owns his car outright and the relationship with the loan agency is severed. Soul contracts work in much the same way.

Soul contracts are contractual agreements made by each of our souls before entering a new body here on Earth. They intricately weave our experiences together to create the teaching tools in our lifetimes. We agree who are parents will be. We agree on whom are friends will be; who are spouses and children will be; what kinds of jobs we will have; what types of experiences we shall have. All of these contracts are put in place in order for us to have the opportunity to learn and grow spiritually; ultimately in order to reach our goal of enlightenment.

I have heard there are those who become enlightened overnight and there are those such as Jesus who was born enlightened. But most of us have to go through many lifetimes taking with us a little bit more information each time towards our ultimate goal. Hence, the need for our contractual agreements.

Some contracts might be quite short. A random meeting, for example, between two people is made. One person will think of it as being insignificant, while the other person has a life altering shift because of something the other person said. Nothing more was required of the first person. He fulfilled his obligation and moved on.

Some life contracts are a bit longer. Perhaps a 20 year marriage agreement was drawn up before we were born. There are so many marriages that end, especially in the United States each year. Everyone thinks it is such a bad thing, I certainly always have. But now I question that mode of thinking.

I once taught a reiki 1 class to a student who told me she was ending her 18 year relationship with her husband. Intuitively I knew she had clarity on this matter and I did what normally would be unthinkable. I replied with an enthusiastic, “EXCELLENT!” She was not only surprised, but truly delighted that I responded in this way. It was her presumption that most people feel this way and they simply don’t speak truthfully. Perhaps that is true, perhaps not. My thought process, however, was that they have completed their soul contracts and it was time to move on. After conveying my meaning behind my words, I asked her if it was a good marriage overall and if she was glad she married him. She responded that she was. It was simply time to move onto other things.

I first discovered my feelings about relationships ending while I was listening to the radio. When the morning disc jockey announced that Renée Zellweger had married Kenny Chesney, someone called the radio station in a huff that it was a ridiculous match. She went on and on how the marriage would never last and how Kenny Chesney was too good for her. Her diatribe continued for some minutes. My first thought was who was Kenny Chesney anyway? My second thought was that it was none of this person’s business and she needed to get a grip on herself. I quickly moved beyond the caller and wondered why this situation was presented to me. I came to the conclusion that it didn’t matter if the marriage lasted five minutes, five years or fifty years. They got into the marriage for some reason that only the two of them were aware of. They loved each other in that moment. They signed up to learn something to enhance their spiritual growth and THAT was what was important; not how long it would last, but the quality of their learning experience.

Sometimes we are in either romantic or friendly relationships with people that are powerfully strong. We honor the other party and we are deeply committed to these relationships. One day they are singing our praises and the next they send the most scathing letter with words your worst enemy would never say to you. Do we become angry? Possibly. Do we become sad? More than likely. Honor whatever emotions you have in the moment so that you don’t suppress them and remember that all the anger and the sadness are part of the process. They are learning tools and they also help us appreciate the joy in life. But also don’t despair. The relationship still might be saved with hard work. Or perhaps the soul contract has ended and each of you has fulfilled your obligation.

With this time in our planetary evolution when everything is rapidly changing, we are feeling a lot of aches and pains along the way. Friendships may come and go with spitfire rapidity. Don’t blame yourself that you are the bad guy. Do look at what you are to learn from these experiences. Do grow from them. But do not judge yourself for these losses. Each loss only leaves room for new people and new situations to show up which match your vibrational output in that given moment.

Embrace each moment, every event and every person that has ever been in your life. Send gratitude and blessings to them all, the good, the bad and the ugly; as they are all your teachers.

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