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Opening A Window To The Soul Daeryl Holzer
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Quotes below ________________ The Earth Suit is a vehicle to travel in this world, much more than your body, your mind, your emotions.
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From Opening A Window To The Soul by Daeryl Holzer Okay, so what’s so great about having a body? When you are in the Spirit realm, you may not have to deal with the
challenges of the Earth existence, but you also don’t get to feel the
warmth of the sun or the satisfaction of being nourished by a delicious
meal. You can’t rejoice in the exhilaration of running or the sensual
pleasure of skin on skin. The human body (Earth Suit) can be viewed as a tool to experiment with,
a way of understanding and interacting with the world around you. What feels
good, what doesn’t? What keeps you healthy, what doesn’t? What makes you
thrive, what doesn’t? With a body, you are able to evaluate what is
happening, to make choices and take action and to interact with others
through language, expression and touch. How would you operate here without it? You would be as a ghost, unable
to actualize your intentions. The human body, with a sense of individuality defined by the ego, gives
a person the perspective of “who I am now” as compared to “who I have
been” or “who I am becoming.” You become aware of how you are growing
and changing within your life. This individuality also gives you the opportunity to sort out your
experiences from that of another person, to understand your feelings,
thoughts and choices as separate from another. “I feel sad,
even though people around me are
not.” Your physical bodies naturally create a certain distancing between souls
that is important for individual focus, but you are not meant to feel alone.
The challenge is to maintain a consciousness of shared experience while
existing in individual bodies. With your bodies, you relate by seeing and
hearing each other, and communicating. You can share love through actions,
words or touch. Though not always automatic or simple, there are many
opportunities to maintain communion with other souls who are also here doing
their individualized experience. Without a body, you wouldn’t be able to move. A tree cannot ask,
“Should I go this way or that way?” But you can choose with whom to be
connected, or not. In a body, you can say, “This feels good. I will stay
here,” versus, “This doesn’t feel good. I will leave.” Your body is
the vehicle that sets your choices in motion as you respond to the subtle
vibrations received from your environment and other souls. What do you mean, “responding to vibrations received?” The pulse of the universe moves as a wave of vibration, transferring
energy throughout. While in a body, you relate to that movement within a
system defined by the physical world. The particular vibration of your soul
essence, as well as energy from the environment, other people, and Universal
Soul, are modified as those frequencies move through your unique physical
structure, emotional energy, and thought patterns. Each human body is designed to receive these vibrations, interpret these
signals as harmonious or disruptive, blend the wave with their own
frequency, and broadcast the modified wave out into the world. Picture a
person standing at a microphone saying, “Testing.” The sound enters the
electronic device and is transformed into radio waves. As the signal is
relayed, the oscillation alters slightly, though without changing the sound
entirely. The word “testing” doesn’t become the word “animal” or
anything else, but the tonal quality that is projected out of the speaker
does not have the exact same resonance as when it first touched the
receiver.
Copyright, Daeryl Holzer, 2007.
From Opening A Window To The Soul by Daeryl Holzer Young
souls. Old souls. What does that mean? Some
people are the embodiment of souls who have been here many times before, who
have experimented with many different ways of being, and who are in more
advanced stages of learning and more evolved human behavior. Other people
are just beginning their cycle of lives here, in the earliest stages of soul
development, experimenting with the rawest of human emotions and behavior.
Just as a baby – inexperienced and vulnerable – is no less valuable or
important than a mature adult, there is no better or worse place for a
person to be in their soul age. The
perspective of understanding people – their choices and capabilities –
according to one’s soul age helps you to be less judgmental and less
disappointed in others when they do not act the way you would like them to.
It is assumed that a baby will be dependent and emotionally impulsive. It is
natural for a toddler to not share its toys. It is an appropriate stage of
development for a teenager to be self-absorbed and competitive. Just as we
cannot expect a child to have the capacity to learn or behave as an adult,
we cannot demand that baby and young souls will operate as older souls.
Chances are that you will not get your emotional needs met from a baby soul
parent. It is equally unlikely to get a young soul, whose focus is
competition and winning, to acquiesce in negotiation for the sake of
harmony. Each
soul age has certain characteristics, motivations, and challenges. Learning
to discern the level of development that a person, or even a culture, is
operating from brings insight and a greater ability to resolve differences.
This does not mean that you must allow harmful behaviors, but it is
important to know whom you are dealing with. Every person is only capable of
being what they are at the soul stage of development they are addressing.
Understanding the need or the learning that someone else is striving for,
keeps us from getting stuck in a right versus wrong mindset.
Copyright, Daeryl Holzer, 2007.
Your Childhood Training: A Soul's Choice From Opening A Window To The Soul by Daeryl Holzer Do soul agreements last for a whole life, or do we have different kinds as we move from childhood to adulthood? There
are phases you move through, with simultaneous agreements for challenge and
acceptance. Some agreements only serve you for a particular lesson, while
the ones of loving support are beneficial through out an entire life. Initially,
during your childhood training, you have agreements to toughen you up, teach
you skills, hone your talents, and develop latent qualities that would not
occur otherwise. Being given responsibility, as a teenager, to care for an
elderly relative (soul agreements with grandparent and parents) will develop
the skills of patience and compassion needed for a later agreement to care
for your handicapped child. There are also agreements that seem cruel, but
teach you what you’ll need for your life purpose. To be neglected will
bring self-sufficiency, an important characteristic for a pioneering leader.
Being teased by a sibling will provide the experience of toughening one’s
skin, a quality needed to present innovative and controversial social ideas
to the world. Childhood
soul agreements present an opportunity to balance emotional carryovers from
past lives – similar situations and associations trigger the memories. A
person you have had many lives of deadly conflict with shows up as a
competitive brother, a chance for you both to evolve your way of relating
beyond the stage of killing each other. Another scenario is the mother who,
is overly protective in this life, in contrast to when her soul abandoned
you in another life. Once
the childhood training and balancing are complete, agreements of conflict
and challenge are no longer useful. Children move into independent adult
lives, and siblings go their different ways. Relationship patterns can
continue beyond their value, and it is then a matter of acknowledging that
you are done. “I am tough enough. I no longer need anyone to pick on
me.” Some soul agreements endure as reminders of the lessons previously
learned. If your father was constantly critical and yet, you have learned
not to take it personally, when he says something negative towards you, you
make note of how his attitude no longer affects you and get to see how far
you’ve come. After
the childhood training, agreements for adult interactions begin, reinforcing
what has been accomplished or presenting what still needs balancing. A
marriage with a person who is possessive and controlling may be your test to
see how you have overcome the disempowerment learned from an overly
protective mother. To have a boss who is decadent and dishonest may be an
agreement to remind you what can happen in a life of greed such as when you
were the murdered wife of a corrupt politician. From a human perspective, these trials may feel like you are just being subjected to more victimization or punishment, but there is a purpose. Agreements that test and remind are designed to keep you from repeating past ways of weakness, give you an opportunity to make healthier choices, and signal the soul that you have learned what you need in order to embrace your more worldly tasks.
Copyright, Daeryl Holzer, 2007.
From Opening A Window To The Soul by Daeryl Holzer Why are so many relationships painful failures? Like
climbing a staircase to reach a higher level, each difficult relationship is
a step taken to get you from who you once were, at the beginning, to who you
became by the end. You have grown with each step. You
cannot go back and change a disappointing relationship, but you can choose
how you view it. Instead of focusing on pain, blame, or shame, look back
over your “failed” relationships and see how each one brought a specific
lesson, a shift to your awareness and abilities. Even if a painful
experience simply taught you what to avoid, there is an opportunity to see
what you have accomplished. From the soul perspective, the relationship is
not a failure. What
do you accomplish on a soul level that would make a troubled relationship
seem okay? There
are a sequence of different types of soul agreements that anyone goes
through as they transition from relationships that bring agony to the more
exalted unions – all opportunities to share, love, and grow. What kinds of relationships? Most
people begin with a series of soul
growth relationship agreements,
romantic encounters which compel a certain strength, talent or quality to be
acquired by either encouraging or challenging (which ever is more
effective). Like childhood agreements, you are developing what you will need
in order to achieve your life goals. Some
lessons can be learned gently, as when one person is an example of how to
be, while other lessons are best learned by having to address that which you
resist the most. If you are rigid about self-gratification, your desire to
stay in a relationship may shift your priorities and enable you to put
another’s needs before your own. If you are too passive and need to learn
not to be bullied, your love relationship may push you to assert your
authority. Emotionally
charged connections force you to master whatever skill you might be lacking:
learning how to ask for what you need, creating your own financial
self-sufficiency, or becoming aware of who to avoid. Just like falling and
skinning your knees a few times as you are learning to ride a bike, with
each experience you become wiser, stronger, and more skilled, even if it
hurts. There
are also soul balancing
relationship agreements where two
people come together to complete some kind of unfinished business. The
agreement may be to assist with balancing an extreme from childhood, such as
providing financial stability to one whose early life was impoverished. A
love relationship with a kind and reliable person helps overcome insecurity
and mistrust caused by a sibling who liked to trick you. Your lover could be
fulfilling an agreement to correct a previous failure from an earlier
lifetime. “I was your husband and treated you badly. This time I’ll be
devoted and responsible.” Balancing
agreements vary in their degree of struggle versus loving support depending
upon the tasks to be accomplished and the personalities involved.
Relationships can be everything from a harmonious compatibility that
nurtures latent talents to a hostile environment compelling you to get
tougher than you ever imagined. Why do I keep attracting
the same kinds of relationships? Perhaps
you are not quite finished with a particular challenge of growth –
learning is done in incremental steps. Or you could be encountering soul
growth testing agreements, to test
the skills you have developed, in the interest of becoming confident and
trusting yourself to make the right choices. Instead
of beating yourself up for what you are attracting, focus on how you are now
behaving differently. As you respond to old patterns in healthier ways, you
have proof that you can embrace a gloriously powerful love relationship
without repeating the earlier mistakes.
Copyright, Daeryl Holzer, 2007.
From Opening A Window To The Soul by Daeryl Holzer What is the Power of Pretend? The Power of Pretend recognizes attitude and perspective as the driving
force of what you create in your life. What you anticipate is what you feel.
What you hold in your vision manifests. With that in mind, you have the
power to design a new life for yourself. Create an image that only includes those things you want to bring into
your new life, and leave behind the things that cause you pain. It is not a
package deal. You get to be more selective. It is time to use your
imagination. Forget limiting yourself. Forget being reasonable. Forget being
realistic. It is time to use your imagination and pretend that you get to have a
better life now, because you
do. Positive affirmations can be effective, as they override the noise in
your head. If there is no real change, you may only be imposing your will on
a situation without addressing the underlying issues. When you try to
convince yourself of something that you don’t really believe while
everything in your being resonates with the opposite message, then you are
not working with the Power of Pretend so much as you are in denial. You are
missing important steps. With the Power of Pretend, the first step is awareness, the second is
imagination, and the third is revised action. You use the conscious mind
(observation and attention to truth) in partnership with the super-conscious
mind (imagining how it could be different), to avoid dwelling in the
subconscious mind (the same old feelings and reinforcement of the pattern).
With a new idea to put into practice, the Power of Pretend calls you to act
and feel as if,
while you move forward with thoughts and actions that are in alignment with
that new idea. As you also make practical, tangible changes, you rewire the
feelings and beliefs that you hold in your being. As those underlying
thoughts and emotions are transformed, you are no longer “pretending”
because things have really become
different.
Copyright, Daeryl Holzer, 2007.
From Opening A Window To The Soul by Daeryl Holzer How
does our Spirit Team interact with us? With
perfect wisdom and unconditional love, sometimes waiting and watching,
sometimes interjecting and influencing, these special guides show up at
different times in your life, whenever their particular function is most
important for you. Each
person has at least six guides on their Spirit Team that fall into
archetypal roles, similar for everyone. This system of helpers can be
thought of like a group of employees hired for a project, each offering
their unique skills for a particular task. It is not appropriate for you to
do their job or to try and handle the whole project single-handedly. The
project is your soul purpose. Your job is to move about in the physical
world, actualizing choices. Their job is to do what you cannot, create
miracles. What
are the six roles of the Spirit Team? They
are best described as the state of being opposite to the human challenge
that they assist with. Fear:
The Nurturer comforts in times of
fear, loneliness, and low self-worth. Chaos:
The Wise Protector, the one who
pulls you out of confusion or danger. Lack:
The Treasurer provides material
goods necessary to survive and thrive. Disease:
The Body Healer insures that your
Earth Suit functions well. Separation:
The Networker hooks you up with
human helpers and companions. Stagnation:
The Creative Muse with the
infusion of fresh ideas and spontaneity. Copyright, Daeryl Holzer, 2007.
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The human quality that sets us apart from the animal is the ability to improve one's situation. |
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All is vibration. |
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Fate is what appears to be laid out in front of us. Free will is what we do with that fate. |
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Every soul on this earth is doing exactly what they need to do for their own growth and evolvement - no matter what it may look like to you! |
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The key word for the planet, and the soul's experience here, is "balancing." Not arrival at balance, but the act of balancing. |
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See your adversaries as the ones who make you strong - the sand in the oyster that makes the pearl grow. |
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See your childhood pain as the training you needed to be who you have come here to be. What are the qualities you have gathered through the challenge? |
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Until you achieve the desired quality of
personal growth, you |
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Through union with another, you peel away the illusion that you are a solitary soul... |
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Sometimes we learn the wrong thing and need to retrain ourselves.
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To embrace whatever is happening in life as the next step in growth and learning is to enter into the playful wonder of this world. |
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A new choice |
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To imagine is to allow an image in,
a conscious intention to have an image in |
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Be careful of spending too much time around people who don't believe in miracles! |
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Punishment is a human concept. You are not required for any reason to endure suffering. |
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How life goes always depends on what you are willing to do with the mess you have gotten yourself into. |
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