Same Soul, Many Bodies by Brian L. Weiss

Author:Brian L. Weiss
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2004-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

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Bruce: Relationships

WHEN WE ARE IN HUMAN form, even though our ultimate goal is to merge with the spirit, the one soul, interaction with others physically, emotionally, and spiritually lies at the core of our life. How we handle this plays a large part in determining our future.

A woman I know who spent her adult life in an ashram was a spiritual person, but she complained to me that she couldn’t meditate at all. In one of my own meditations I understood why. She needed to go out into the world, to be in many relationships, to experience loss and grief, joy and love. For all her spirituality, she had vital lessons to learn.

We all have many different types of relationships: one-on-one; with our families and loved ones; with the people we work with—bosses, colleagues, and other employees; with our friends; and with teachers and students. Across our many lives their bodies may change and the relationships with them may change, but we are still learning the lesson of the importance of relationships, because we come around again and again with the same soul.

Maybe your mother has been pushing your buttons for many lifetimes. Maybe, in different lifetimes, you’ve been her mother, and maybe you’ve been in other relationships with her that are not mother and child. Eventually, we must heal all our relationships, and we must use all our skills to do this, especially empathy, compassion, nonviolence, and love. Communication is the key to every relationship. Love and openness are vital to the process, but so is safety, for if it’s not safe to communicate, you won’t.

How do you make the environment for communication safe? By knowing first of all that there are many ways of communicating—words, thoughts, body language, expression in the eyes and face, touch—and that each must be attended to. You should also understand that the soul with whom you have a relationship may have been important to you in the past during many lifetimes and over many centuries, and may be important in future centuries as well.

A recent patient of mine was horrified to think that a co-dependent relationship she had with an abusive man, one she had just managed to escape, was not over; she realized that the man might return to her in a future life. “How can I prevent it?” she asked. “I don’t want him back.”

The answer is to make sure there are no hooks in you that will pull him back—no anger, no violence, nothing negative at all. If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go.

You can choose to no longer have a relationship with that person or persons. You can interact only with those you feel a kinship to, only with those whom, in its broadest definition, you love. In future lives you will be together with many of your loved ones, your soul mates, because you are functioning as a family of souls.

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