Your Soul Knows

By Colleen-Joy Page

"Mommy, why can't I remember what my soul knows?" my 9-year-old

daughter asked me. From the mouths of children comes the deepest and
most insightful of questions. My daughter had asked one of the most
important questions anyone could ask. "Why can't we access what our soul
knows?"

My life's work has demonstrated to me that we can access what our soul
knows and more, but that we need reminding... Firstly we need to remember
that we can, and secondly we need to remember how.

What if you are an ancient being, a soul that has travelled far to be here?
What if through the process of incarnating into a physical body, that your
awareness has become consumed by that of the consciousness of the body,
and that as a result you have lost your awareness of your soul (Soul
Awareness)?

During the process of physical living, most of us lose our soul awareness.
We are so dominated by the information supplied to us by the physical
senses, by the physical body's consciousness that our connection to soul
consciousness grows weak. As baby humans, we spend the first few years
of our life so focused on learning to walk, communicate and survive, that the
voice of the soul is literally drowned out. Like tuning out of "The Discovery
Channel" of our soul, we tune in to "Animal Planet" and then we forget that
we can change channels. As a consequence, the bulk of the information
available to our conscious mind from then on, is from the body.

While facilitating a past life regression, I once asked a hypnotised client who
was describing one of his incarnations, specifically his soul's merger with his
current lifetime's in utero baby body), when his soul's merger with his body
would be complete? "When does the integration of a soul into a physical
body stop?" I asked. Most would expect him to answer: "When I am born", or
perhaps after a few years of childhood, but his confident and immediate
reply was: "It's never supposed to stop."

The soul is meant to continue to integrate with the human body throughout
the duration of the human's lifetime. But the integration does stop. It stops
because our conscious awareness soon becomes overwhelmed by the body.
In addition, we are often conditioned away from listening to "internal"
sources of truth and wisdom. We are taught as children to trust "external
authorities" above our own inner authority. The combination of dominant
physical sensory information and sourcing our truth in externals leaves us
distracted and out of tune with the inner voice of the soul.

The only time we get glimpses of the inner guidance system of the soul is
when the "little inner voice" of intuition occasionally whispers to us. But even
then, we often ignore it or argue with it. How many times have you said, "I
wish I'd listened to my inner voice"?

You have two sources of consciousness, the body consciousness and the
soul consciousness. They exist like separate radio stations, where your body
is like the radio, the sacred instrument ready to gather information for your
human experience. You are mostly "tuned in" to your body consciousness.
Body consciousness is different to soul consciousness in that they have
different realities and different truths - different information structures.

Your soul exists on many levels. Let us imagine that your physical body is
like the pip in a peach. Except that this peach is so refined and of such a
high energetic frequency, that it not only surrounds the pip but penetrates
right through the pip. Now the pip feels physical and dense and it only knows
itself as the dense pip. It does not even consciously know that it is
surrounded by and penetrated by a subtle energy that is more of who it is in
essence. It also does not realize that if it were not for the peach, the pip
would have no higher existence. Your physical body is like the pip. To hear
what this less physical more non physical body was feeling and thinking we
would move the dial on our radio station up a notch or two, to be in tune with
the higher frequency that carries the information of the soul. There are
higher and higher levels of soul consciousness, i.e. in our analogy, more and
more soul consciousness to connect to.

The experience of more soul consciousness running through your body is

natural and not complicated. People have some or all of these experiences
when more soul consciousness runs through the body:

It feels like there is more of you present, you feel more like yourself.

You feel expanded and open

 You feel like there is more fullness of energy in the body - sometimes
described as a "warm fuzzy" feeling especially in the abdomen

You feel at peace

A feeling of unity, being connected to all things

A feeling of love (not romantic love) but rather of deep open hearted
compassion and yet less involvement in human drama

A feeling of presence that fills and radiates from your body

The more soul consciousness present in the body, the more intensely these
feelings are felt.

Did you know that just as you can bring more soul consciousness (more of
you) into your body, that you can evict soul consciousness from your body?
When you hold a belief in your body that is NOT TRUE to your soul, the
aspect of your soul's consciousness that KNOWS that truth, is evicted from
the body.

For example, you choose to believe that you are not worthy. You hold the
belief that you are not worthy in your body. The consequence is that the
aspect of your soul's consciousness that KNOWS that you are worthy (as a
part of the soul's truth) is evicted from your body. Try this, feel the words "I
am unworthy" in your body. Allow your body to experience the words and
monitor the feelings in your body. You won't feel the feelings listed above
that are associated with more soul presence in the body; you will feel some
or all of the opposite listed below, the feelings of soul consciousness being
evicted from the body. These include:

It feels like there is less of you present, you feel less like yourself.

You feel contracted and closed

You feel like there is less energy in the body - sometimes described
as a empty feeling, especially in the abdomen

You do not feel at peace

A feeling of separation, being disconnected from all things

A feeling of heaviness
 You feel smaller, as if your presence and aura has shrunk back (which
it has)

When you hold a belief in your body that is not true for the soul, the feeling
is of some your soul consciousness leaving. This energy, this vital life force
can be reintegrated, but it is necessary to bring new perspectives to the
body and to assist the body in claiming new understandings of itself. Feel
the words "I am worthy" in your body and you will feel a subtle energy filling
trying to occur. You may also feel flutters of fear. This is a most interesting
and telling example of the power of the body to dominate your experience of
yourself and life. Your body decides what it thinks will keep you safe and
thriving in the jungle of your life. If it has decided for whatever obscure
reason, that knowing that you are worthy is not a good thing, then it will feel
FEAR when you try to OWN that you are worthy and reintegrate the aspect
of your soul that knows your true worth. So watch for what your body feels
fear about and start challenging your body's fear.

Spiritual practices are not necessarily required to integrate more soul into
the body - this continued integration occurs naturally when you heal the
parts of you that have been suppressed and evicted from your
consciousness. Neither are strict diets or fancy meditations required.
Meditations are most helpful if they engage the body in the experience of
soul integration by continuing the merger that began when you were in the
womb.

The difference between an insecure frightened human and a confident,

radiant one is the amount of soul presence running through the body. The
difference between a twisted human psyche running violent and destructive
animal-like behavior and a person who is a vision of peace and powerful
gentle presence, (where often light literally seems to be radiating from the
person), is the amount of soul being allowed to integrate within the human
form.

Only you can determine how much soul is present in your own body - your
limiting beliefs about yourself are the single biggest factor in determining
how much of your soul's presence is being allowed in.

You were born to be your full soul self on this physical plane. You were not
born to hide in the shadows of the human psyche. There is so much more to
who you are, so much wisdom to download, so much presence to BE, so
much of your soul to discover.
You have an ancient spiritual heritage, you are a noble soul. Trust your
heart, it is the connection to your soul, it will help you to build a bridge to
your soul self. If your heart feels full or emotional (though frightened) at the
thought of this, then you are feeling a reminder. You are being reminded to
rise to the full stature of your being.

You walk two worlds, one physical and one as soul, your soul self is the you
that lived before this body and the you that will live beyond this body. You
don't have to wait until you die to remember who you are. You don't have to
die to rediscover what it is to be a soul - you are a soul right now. Your job is
to help your body to expand its awareness to remember and integrate the
fullness of who you are.

Copyright Colleen-Joy Page 2004

From the office of Colleen-Joy Page, The Academy of Metaphysics. Colleen
specializes in training others in powerful tools like intuition and dream work.
To find out about her InnerLifeSkills interactive CD and workbook home
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