When we acknowledge our soul and its voice a whole new world opens to us. Traditional therapy looks at our stories and what we feel are our shortcomings in life. We bring to our therapist what causes us emotional pain and is making our life wretched. We trace our pain and confusion back to our childhood incidents, parents, alcoholism, and our many addictions. We seek to remove the causer, the incidents and memories, the source of our anguish.

Each of us has a sense of something beyond our human existence. This has nothing to do with religion or your belief or lack of belief in a God. But rather it is what I call the over soul. The over soul is that sense that order emerges from the chaos, that an idea much greater than our small ego and existence permeates the consciousness and life around us. The concept of soul is caught in the patterns of beauty, math, and the stars we witness each day. Our puny human brain can’t comprehend the infinite expanse of the universe  or the timelessness of space. We seek edges, boxes, and familiar patterns that give us limited views and enclose us in our consciousness of pain and anguish. The whispering of our soul tells us in the middle of night we are okay, that there is life beyond this one. The whispers tell us we can endure. Most of all it tells us life is good, that we are good.

When we cultivate our soul we don’t fix things. We learn the language of the soul. Rather than deny our beingness, our soul, by fixing and removing uncomfortable aspects of our life we free our soul to express in a myriad ways in our life. Caring for the soul is not psychological or logical in process. The soul is not a thing. The language of the soul or the voice of the soul deals with the quality of life, the heart felt experiences and very substance of our life. The language of the soul attaches us, in an existential way, to all life. The soul is not something religious in nature nor does it deal with the immortality of our life, but rather the very core of our existence. The soul experience gives meaning and purpose to the everyday function of life. Without soul we live in an existential void…filled with hunger for meaning and purpose of being.

To care for our soul does not imply some gallant or superhuman action. The word care is related to the concept of watchful attention. To take care is to pay attention in a watchful manner to the flow of life around us. Care also relates to the idea of nursing. When we nurse something we become skilled in promoting and maintaining its health and wellbeing. In order to care for our soul we must learn its language and how it expresses itself in our daily wanderings through life.

To give our soul voice we must stop and ask what it is saying. Rather than ask ourselves what is wrong with me, what is causing my misery and wretched life ask what is my soul saying to me. What course of action am I being asked to embark? The soul does not ask for a divine intervention nor does it seek to take things away that are seemingly causing us angst.

When we learn the language of our soul, we learn to understand the ways in which the soul manifest in our life. When you observe the soul with an open mind you see that the horrible things we would cut out of our life such as illness and remorse have actual purpose and meaning. We learn not to cut and burn away our existence but to live in a more fully human way as children of Truth…

Give soul voice in your life… allow yourself to hear and understand the language it speaks.

From When God Whispers

 Suzanne Deakins