Turning Towards The Soul

Do you feel lonely? Feel like something is missing from your life? We are inherently whole, yet we spend our lives looking for wholeness outside of ourselves. Awaken the fullness, the preciousness, the joy of connecting with the Soul in this deeply loving recording of one of Selena's Live Insight Timer classes. This session includes a guided meditation and a talk.

Note: Sound quality lower than normal due to the nature of the live class and the hum of the computer fan.

Transcript

Warm,

Warm welcome.

My name is Selena Layel.

I am a yoga and meditation instructor,

A transformational coach,

And an awakened life teacher.

One moment,

And I'm just going to make sure I sound okay good still on.

So you may have seen that the title for our time together today is turning toward the soul.

Just feel what that that is like for you to think those thoughts or even even maybe say those words out loud.

Turning towards the soul.

Turning towards the soul.

Let's just take a breath together.

Let's inhale and exhale.

Inhale.

Exhale.

One more deep full breath.

The soul.

The soul.

What is the soul to you?

Is the soul light?

Is the soul an energy?

Do you think of your soul as part of you or something that you wish you felt more connected to?

And there's no right answer.

And as always,

I welcome each of us in how we're feeling in this moment.

I welcome each of us in our beliefs.

Maybe you're here today without any kind of a concept or a belief of soul.

I welcome you in that also.

So some people are sharing the observer,

Light,

Energy,

Essence.

Yes,

Beautiful.

Yes.

So the soul.

The soul.

And we usually feel like the soul is something in some way separate from us.

Yes,

That the soul is a more expanded or divine expression of who we are,

Maybe who we'd like to be.

That it's maybe a pure part of us and we are impure.

We have many different perceptions of the soul.

The soul is experiencing this life.

Oh yes,

Jason.

Home.

The soul is home.

Mm.

I resonate with that so deeply.

And that's exactly why we're here today.

That's exactly why I've chosen to create this space today.

Because so many of us are longing to feel that sense of home.

And the word home could be different for each of us.

For some of us,

The word home resonates.

For others,

It's the word peace,

A longing for peace,

Or a longing to feel fulfilled,

Or a longing to feel a sense of know thyself,

To feel an innate wholeness.

But there is this longing.

There's this longing and humanity has many different ways of expressing it.

We've been speaking to this some in our five-week series for anyone who's been joining us.

We still have,

I think,

Two more sessions of the five-week series and it's open to all if you haven't joined before.

But this longing,

This longing to feel this fullness,

This peace,

This sense of home within us,

And how we don't really realize exactly what it is that we're longing for.

We may think we do.

We may think that that vacation is finally going to make us feel peaceful.

Or we may think that the lockdown being over and all of the world's problems being solved will allow us to feel free.

Or we may think that when we finally find our soulmate,

We'll feel more complete in our lives.

But all of those things are outside of us,

Aren't they?

Isn't travel outside of us?

Isn't getting to leave our houses and lockdown being over outside of us?

Isn't a relationship outside of us?

These experiences outside can be beautiful,

Can be fulfilling,

Can can enrich our lives deeply and profoundly.

But they're temporary.

They're temporary.

They come and they go.

This body,

It comes and it goes.

Relationships,

Even marriages where we have lifelong commitments,

They come and they go.

Our dream home or our dream job comes and it goes.

Whether we live in the dream home until we drop the body or something changes,

All of these experiences outside of us that we look to,

To feel a sense of inner peace,

To feel a sense of home,

They come and they go.

Let's just take a breath together.

And I invite you to just feel what's happening in your body.

Feel what's happening in your heart.

Notice what's happening in your mind.

This may seem like a conversation or something you've heard many times,

But I invite you to go deeper with it today.

This whole experience today,

And if you choose to look at it,

The whole experience of your life is about your relationship with you,

Your relationship with the experience of the fullness of who you are,

Your relationship with your soul.

So I invite you to consider today,

Again we all come from different belief systems.

I'd like to share first my tea,

I call them tea fortunes on the yogi tea,

Tea tags.

They have little quotes and sayings and the one today says,

If we are happy everybody looks up and shares our happiness.

If we are happy everybody looks up and shares our happiness.

Meaning our perception of the world starts within our own being.

The more I feel happy within,

The more I notice the happiness outside of me.

The more I feel connected to myself,

The more I feel at peace without not needing others to make me feel whole or better.

So again we all have different beliefs.

I invite you today to consider the possibility that this is not our only life experience.

Meaning that we have taken birth many times,

Reincarnation.

And even if you don't believe in reincarnation in terms of taking a physical form on earth many many many times with the same soul,

Maybe just envision because I know even in some different faiths there is the idea of the soul being eternal even if it doesn't take birth over and over.

So I invite you just to imagine this eternality of the soul and if you're open to it consider that this soul that is you takes birth many times for the sake of experience,

For the sake of the evolution of the soul.

You can close your eyes if you wish.

Let's take a breath together and you can just be however you however you feel.

You don't need to take some erect meditative posture.

Allow your body to be relaxed.

If you find that you're falling asleep you may wish to sit a little more upright.

And imagine that there is this beautiful Sun of light,

This source of light.

A thousand times larger than the Sun in our solar system.

A hundred thousand times brighter.

This light of all of life itself.

And from this light that we can call source or maybe God or maybe just life,

From this exquisite light of life comes a ray of light.

The same light of this Sun,

Of this source,

Pours out of this source light,

This beautiful ray of light.

And this ray of light is an expression of your soul.

Still connected to source,

Still source itself.

Now individuated,

Not separate from,

Just individuated.

And this beautiful ray of light that is your individual expression of life,

Not your personality.

Something beyond the personality.

This exquisite ray of light,

Your soul chooses to take birth on planet Earth in human form.

And so this beautiful ray of light that is your soul,

That is you,

Takes human body.

And in this human experience there's a forgetfulness.

There's a forgetfulness.

And the humanness,

We believe we're separate from this Sun of light,

This source energy.

And we believe we're disconnected.

We feel disconnected.

We feel like something's missing,

Something's wrong.

And so we start to look outside of us.

And this is also what we've been taught by our caregivers,

By society,

To look outside.

So we're in this human body and we've forgotten that we are soul.

We have forgotten that we are source.

And so we begin this journey,

This magical journey of pain and joy and longing.

Looking outside of ourself.

Looking for fulfillment in our accomplishments.

Looking for fulfillment in the approval of others.

Looking for a sense of wholeness in another person in a relationship.

And all the while on this search we have forgotten that we are soul.

Not that we have a soul.

That we are a soul having a human experience.

But the soul itself is still conscious.

Meaning the one who thinks it is living the humanness,

We could call the personality.

We could call the ego consciousness.

But the soul is with us consciously.

Loving us,

Serving us,

Supporting us in our forgetfulness.

The soul is conscious and knows it is one with source and is with us every moment of this life experience.

Every moment we have been in a ball on the floor crying out,

The soul has been right there.

Every moment we felt so angry or lost in our lives and so lone,

The soul has been right there.

Just waiting for us to remember.

Waiting for us to turn toward the soul.

Because haven't we been turning outwardly?

And I invite you to stay with your experience.

You don't need to write about this in chat.

Stay with yourself in this moment.

Imagine that the soul that you are loving,

Loves you.

Loves you beyond your imagination.

Cares for you beyond your mental capacity for understanding.

And this soul has just been loving you and waiting for you to remember.

Lifetime after lifetime after lifetime after lifetime the soul has been patiently waiting for you.

But you've forgotten.

Your back you could think of has been turned away from your soul.

You've been looking outside.

You've been looking for fulfillment in things or people or experiences that always end.

And there's this feeling of incompleteness.

Imagine just for a moment.

Imagine how this soul of yours,

Of you,

Would feel if after lifetime after lifetime after lifetime of your back being turned toward your soul.

Imagine how the soul would feel if you turned around and turned toward your soul.

This part of you that loves you and cares for you and is just life itself for you,

For you,

Its whole existence is for you.

Imagine how this soul would feel if you finally turned toward the soul rather than looking for everything outside of you to make you feel better.

Imagine the joy of the soul.

Ah,

You see me.

I've been with you lifetime after lifetime,

Lifetime after lifetime.

And you see me now.

This soul has just been patiently waiting for you to remember that there's something more than what you see outside of you.

For you to remember when you close your eyes that you are so much more than this body and this life experience.

So that when you open your eyes you become an embodiment of soul.

What would you be willing to give up in this moment if it meant feeling free?

I know many of you are here just dipping your toe in,

Maybe you're multitasking right now,

But I invite you to just consider this for a moment.

What would you be willing to give up in your addictions,

In your personality,

In your attachment to your stories and your thinking that there's something wrong with you?

What would you be willing to give up if it meant freedom,

If it meant peace,

Everlasting peace?

The fullness of life is right here my love.

The fullness of you has always been here.

Imagine in your mind,

In your heart,

That in this moment you are laying down your burdens,

You are laying down all of your attachments to the smallness that you identify with,

Your body,

Your mind,

Your emotions,

Your wounds,

Your traumas.

Imagine for just a moment what it would be like to just set them down and turn toward your soul right now.

This soul that is the fullness of life,

This soul that is everything that you long to feel and everything you long to be in your world,

This soul is the fullness of you.

You have never been separate from source,

You have never been separate from your own wholeness.

And you don't have to give anything up right now.

If you feel you wish to hold on to it,

That's okay.

Hold on to it and turn towards your soul just as you are.

Just as you are.

Just as you are.

Just as you are.

Maybe you imagine that you can see the eyes of your soul and you feel this light,

This loving-kindness pouring from the eyes of your soul into you.

Or maybe you feel yourself walking into the light of your soul and becoming one.

Maybe you'd wish to speak to your soul in this moment.

What is it that you wish to say to your soul?

And I invite you to set aside the limitations of doubt for this moment in time.

What do you wish to say to your soul in this moment face to face with your own beloved wholeness,

Your own soul?

What do you wish to say?

My beloved soul,

I feel so alone.

I have difficulty believing that you exist.

I long to feel whole.

I long to to merge with you.

I feel abandoned by you.

Whatever is there for you,

What do you wish to speak to the soul in this moment?

And maybe you express yourself just through feelings in this moment.

And you don't need to write this in the chat.

This is for you,

To you.

Every bit of fear or resentment or pain that you hold on to,

Let it out now as you speak to your soul.

This soul only holds love for you,

Only care.

Total and complete acceptance of every part of you,

Every part of you that you reject or push away,

Your soul embraces fully.

And remember to breathe,

My love,

Breathe deeply.

And as you come to a completion for this moment,

See or feel the depth of love that the soul has for you.

If you can't feel it,

Know it in your mind,

Imagine it.

Maybe you see or feel yourself enveloped in this light or this warmth in this moment.

Feel the magnificence of the presence of the soul.

And again,

If the word soul doesn't work for you,

Maybe you just use the word energy or light.

Feel the magnificence of this presence that you are,

You are not separate from.

Feel it in its fullness.

And now from your heart,

Feel yourself becoming even just a little receptive.

You don't have to feel open fully,

Even just a slight opening of receptivity in the heart.

Feel yourself in this way.

And take a deep full breath into the heart.

Exhale through the mouth.

Take a deep full breath into any and all resistance that is present.

Exhale through the mouth.

And now feel the presence of the soul,

Of this light,

Of this endless unbounded source of love speaking to you.

The soul speaking to you and saying all that it wishes to share with you in this moment.

All of these lifetimes it has been waiting,

Waiting for this moment for you to be even just a little open,

For you to turn towards yourself rather than away from yourself.

Your beloved soul has been waiting for this moment for so long.

Feel,

Hear what the soul wishes to say to you in this moment.

And welcome,

Welcome these feelings,

Welcome these words of your own beloved self.

What if the depth of the longing you have felt your whole life or during different periods in your life has been this longing to feel this connection right now in this moment,

This longing to feel the fullness of you,

This longing to feel the completeness of your own soul.

Welcome the soul as it speaks to you through words,

Images,

Feelings.

Welcome the soul.

My beloved self,

I have loved you since the beginning of creation.

My beloved,

I have been with you always,

Every moment.

I have never left you.

I have always loved you.

You are my heart in physical form.

You are the preciousness of life itself.

I will always be with you.

There is nothing you could ever do to be separate from me,

Your soul.

There is nothing you could ever do to be rejected from source,

From life,

From God.

There is nothing you could ever do to push me away.

You are love itself.

You are life itself in form.

You are soul embodied.

You've just forgotten.

It's okay.

It's all okay.

You are my soul.

And now in this moment,

Even if it feels difficult,

Even if it feels awkward,

Welcome your soul.

Welcome your soul with your thoughts,

With your words,

With your heart,

Even open your physical body if you choose.

Welcome your soul.

Start to create a relationship with your soul in this very moment.

Beloved soul,

Precious soul,

I welcome you.

Fill me with your light.

Fill me with your love.

Fill me with your peace so I may feel peaceful,

So I may be peaceful.

Welcome your soul with your feelings.

Take a deep breath.

Imagine that you are creating space inside of yourself.

However it feels authentic for you,

Welcome your soul right now as if you were creating the most important relationship of your life in this moment.

How do you wish to welcome the soul?

Breathe all the way up the spine from the base up to the crown of the head.

Exhale all the way back down the spine.

Inhale from the base of the spine all the way up to the crown of the head.

Exhale slowly back down the spine.

Inhale I am peace.

Exhale I am peace.

Slow the breath down.

I am peace.

I am peace.

Inhale.

Turn your attention fully to the breath.

Allow there to be a space between the teeth.

Breathe up the spine.

I am peace.

Breathe down.

I am peace.

Allow the thoughts to pass as you focus on the breath and the gentle repetition of I am peace.

I am peace.

I am peace.

Slowly deepen the breath.

Imagine,

Feel what it is like or what it would be like to fully welcome and embody the soul.

As you slowly move the body,

Imagine or feel the soul moving in the physical body as you.

And as you open the eyes,

See the world through the eyes of the soul.

Can you see the light?

Can you see something beautiful around you,

Maybe something you didn't notice before?

Can you see something that you feel grateful for?

Can you feel gratitude for life?

Gratitude for your own precious self?

Gratitude for the soul.

Thank you.

Ah,

Beautiful faith.

I can see the light around me and within me and I am the light.

Beautiful.

Thank you,

George.

Some of us may say words like soul or talk about soul,

But do you have a relationship with your soul?

Do you speak to your soul?

Do you welcome your soul?

Do you ask your soul to be the one who speaks through you or sees the world or feels?

My invitation,

Start to cultivate a relationship with your own precious soul.

Speak to your soul.

Imagine that your soul is right here with you when you feel lonely.

Imagine that you are binging Netflix with your soul right next to you or right inside of your heart.

When you have something scary or challenging to do,

Imagine that your soul is right in your heart or holding your hand.

When you feel lost,

Welcome your soul for guidance.

The soul is always here.

It has always been here and it is just longing for us to turn towards it,

To remember,

To remember.

Ah,

Right.

I am not these painful feelings.

I am not this body that changes.

I am not these wild thoughts.

I'm something more.

I can feel it.

I can sense it.

There's something more to life.

Start to make your relationship with your soul,

Your primary relationship.

Imagine how much more enriched your romantic relationship would be if you felt the fullness of your own soul.

Imagine how much more intimacy there would be if you were embodied in your own beautiful self,

Loving yourself,

Accepting yourself,

Cherishing yourself.

I mean,

Goodness,

Can you imagine what your romantic relationship would blossom into if you nurtured yourself like that?

Or your relationship with your children?

What you could teach your children about empowerment and self-love and deep,

Everlasting inner peace if they nurtured their relationship with their soul?

Heidi,

Why do we forget?

Ah,

That's a beautiful question.

My understanding is that we forget for the sake of life experience.

We forget for the sake of life experience.

There are many who would say,

Who believe,

That this whole experience of life is consciousness in a play with itself.

Meaning,

If the word God or source resonates for you more,

You could think of the word as God or as consciousness or as source,

But there's only one.

And inside of all of creation,

There is only that,

That one source of life.

And I'm not talking about in everything,

Like plants and animals and humans and the earth and the planets and creation.

I'm saying,

Imagine there was one blank canvas called God or called consciousness or called source.

And that consciousness evolved and the consciousness said,

I wish to know thyself.

I wish to experience myself.

So if there's only a blank canvas and consciousness wishes to experience itself,

Then it needs to have different things to experience itself within.

So you have a plant.

Or maybe for sake of understanding,

You have one human that is that consciousness,

That consciousness that is everything.

It takes form in a human.

And it says,

I want to experience myself.

So it takes itself a form and another human.

So now you have not only consciousness able to experience itself in a body.

Wow,

Look,

Look at me in a body.

Look at me.

Look at these thoughts.

Look at these emotions.

Wow,

I can feel all of these things as consciousness,

As God,

As life.

And then you have another form of consciousness,

Another human form of consciousness.

And now there is this one consciousness in two forms and it gets to play in the lila,

The dance of life with itself.

So the forgetfulness that we are whole,

That we are God,

That we are source,

That we are however you wish to think of it,

The forgetfulness is for the play of experience.

Because if we remembered,

We wouldn't have this play of the,

Oh life is so painful and terrible and oh life is so beautiful and I love you,

I don't love you.

None of this would be possible if we were in the full remembrance that all is one.

So we forget.

And some would also say that the purpose of your life.

So many of us long to know what our purpose is.

The purpose of your life is the remembrance,

Awakening,

Enlightenment,

Moksha,

Freedom.

The purpose of life is to go through all of the experiences lifetime after lifetime if you choose to believe so and remembering.

And the beauty in that remembrance.

Carol,

I surrender to soul.

In my soul I am free.

I am soul.

Yes,

Beautiful,

Beautiful.

Heather,

I am feeling somehow beyond my story and circumstances.

Beautiful.

That's that taste of remembering.

Beautiful.

Stephanie,

This is a wonderful practice.

Selena,

Thank you for being our guide.

It is my soul's honor.

The guide that I can take,

Or the journey that I can share with you is my own soul's journey of remembering.

We forget and we remember and we forget and we remember.

And it's this dance again and again and again.

It's my honor.

It's my honor.

It's my joy.

It's my heart's,

My heart's desire.

Ah,

Lord,

Fully trusting.

Beautiful.

Klaus,

And the miracle,

The beauty,

Love appears.

Ah and wonder.

No words,

Gratitude.

Beautiful,

My love.

Yes,

Yes,

Yes,

Yes.

Yes.

John,

The ego has a big mouth.

Sure it does.

It wants to,

It wants to have a place.

It wants to survive.

It wants to exist.

And many of us are familiar with teachings that say you need to annihilate the ego.

You need to cut that ego consciousness out.

You need to,

You know,

Burn it away.

The body of knowledge that I come from,

That has been shared with me,

Is that you welcome the ego.

We enlighten the ego and that is enlightenment itself because we actually need the ego to function in human form,

This aspect of consciousness.

We need the ego to function in this form.

So rather than getting rid of the ego or resisting it or trying to push it away,

We welcome the ego into the light.

We enlighten the ego.

We enlighten the personality with the divinity,

With the consciousness that we are,

So that it is in that fullness of remembrance with us.

Emma,

What do you do when you're involved in something that may not be in alignment with your soul,

Causes intense anxiety,

Questioning,

But you are not ready to let it go?

Your choice,

My love.

Your choice.

This is your life experience.

You are powerful.

No one is coming to save you and,

You know,

Maybe some of you feel like,

Oh,

Let's forget Selena.

You are your own savior.

You are your own source.

You are your own power.

You are your own love.

If you're not ready to let it go,

You're not ready to let it go and you will continue to experience what you're experiencing,

Right?

It's that.

It's that.

When you choose to let it go,

You choose.

It's your choice.

It's your choice.

I was in a very,

Very destructive relationship for like a decade,

Back and forth and drama and pain and all the things.

I knew better.

I knew how I felt being involved and I kept going back and I kept being part of it.

And I can say now clearly that the reason I kept choosing that experience that was out of alignment for me,

That caused such feelings of discord,

Stress,

Anxiety,

Depression,

Whatever you want to,

You know,

We could go down the list,

Right?

The reason that I kept choosing that experience that was out of alignment with me is because I wasn't choosing my soul.

I mean,

Think about it.

That may sound really out there for some of us,

But I wasn't choosing my soul.

My soul is home.

My soul is peace.

My soul is an expression of love for myself,

Eternally unbounded.

And I kept choosing something outside of me,

Hoping or wishing that it would change.

I kept choosing something outside of me for crumbs of love.

Crumbs.

You know what crumbs are for anyone who doesn't speak English as their first language?

It's like when you take a piece of bread and they're just tiny little pieces of bread.

Crumbs.

So many of us choose those experiences outside of us for just one little crumb of love.

So I kept choosing that thing outside of me because I didn't know yet how to nourish and feed my relationship with my soul,

Or I kind of did,

But I wasn't,

I wasn't choosing it.

So we're ready in our own time.

There are lessons in every life experience.

And when we choose to turn towards the soul to develop a relationship with the soul,

The things that are out of alignment become so excruciatingly painful or so clearly unattractive to us that we no longer choose them.

And for some of us it means coming,

You know,

The bottom of the barrel of pain,

Like hitting rock bottom with pain,

To finally say,

Okay,

I guess I'm ready to choose my soul or to choose life or to choose something different because I just can't do this anymore.

We all have different experiences of it.

Thank you for asking.

Thank you for your vulnerability.

You're not alone in that experience.

Yes,

Amy,

I love that.

Amy shared,

I believe the journey is forgetting so we can find ourselves again.

Yes,

It's such a,

It's that for me out of every fulfilling experience I've lived as a human being,

The moments of awakening to the fullness of who I am,

They,

Every other beautiful experience pales in comparison.

The moments where I have felt the fullness of embodying my soul and remembering who I am,

Not intellectually,

But remembering with every fiber of my being,

I have been in ecstasy beyond any substance,

Beyond any relationship,

Beyond any orgasmic feeling in my life,

Nothing,

Even the greatest love that I have felt for another person,

Pales in comparison to the ecstasy that it is to remember I am that I am.

Because in that moment,

Every pain,

Every feeling of shame,

Every feeling of guilt,

Every feeling of resentment,

Every feeling of fear and anxiety completely disappears.

And there's only the oneness of all of life,

Just the oneness.

And it's one of those experiences where you can't,

You can't tell someone what a banana tastes like.

I can't explain to you what a banana tastes like.

I can say it's sweet and I can talk to you about the texture,

But you have to taste a banana to know what it tastes like,

Right?

So I can share with you my experiences of absolute freedom and ecstasy and bliss,

But it has to be your longing,

Your attention,

Your focus that takes you there to know that taste,

To know that taste.

I'll read a few more comments and then we'll come to a completion.

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I'm inspired to give my soul a good ride in this body.

I love that.

Love that.

Beautiful Stephanie.

Oh beautiful Jen.

Jen shared,

I experienced my light.

Beautiful my love.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

Jason,

My toe is dipped in.

You introduced me to,

Introduced the ideas to me.

I'm trying.

Just not there yet.

I need to practice.

No worries my love.

This is pretty far out for some of us,

Yes?

So as you choose,

As you choose.

Even just speaking to ourselves with kindness is a nice beginning of developing that relationship.

Just that.

You don't need to believe in soul.

You don't need to believe in God.

You don't need to believe in light.

Just practicing true kindness and patience and love with ourselves nourishes that relationship.

That fullness,

That wholeness of that relationship.

Zoe shared the same thing.

My toe is dipped into.

Neil,

What is the best way to be with soul?

It's beautiful.

I think it's different for each of us.

Though there are some practices.

Many,

Many yogic practices and different meditation practices,

I feel in a way they were designed to cultivate that relationship.

So many of these ancient wisdom practices are there for us to merge with the fullness of who we are.

So different meditation and mindfulness practices.

Sometimes just being in nature we connect with the soul.

Sometimes it's through dancing,

Through yoga,

Asanas.

I mean there's so many different ways to connect with the soul.

What I would invite,

I would invite engaging in practices that truly nourish you in a deep,

Deep way.

And also just practice speaking to your soul.

Like actually practice speaking to your soul as if your soul is right here right now.

Because it is.

If you choose to believe.

Yours to take relief.

Just practice speaking to your soul with kindness,

With love.

Beloved soul,

Precious soul,

My sweet soul.

However you wish to speak address your soul.

Just practice speaking to your soul.

Yes I love that Neil exactly.

And name it.

Name your soul.

Give your soul a name.

Why not?

Yes.

And just speak to your beloved soul.

And let your soul speak to you.

And call on your soul when you're in challenging moments.

Beloved soul,

I'm going through a really rough moment.

I feel confused.

I feel upset.

I feel angry.

I feel sad.

Hold me.

Tell me what I can do.

Give me some you know positive reinforcement.

Whatever it is.

Just start to speak with the soul on a daily basis.

Thank you.

Beautiful question.

Honey,

Yes Alina.

This resonates strongly with me.

I hit rock bottom in every sense and I had a choice to start living life again.

It takes time to heal.

Beautiful my love.

Beautiful.

Thank you for sharing.

Yes.

Yes.

Sometimes we just need to be faced so completely with our self-destructive behaviors that we just get to a point where we say oh I'm so sorry I can't do that to myself anymore.

And if you wish I'm going to just drop a little seed of possibility here.

What if what if it doesn't take time to heal?

Just offering it as a possibility.

What if healing is instantaneous and it is our mental and emotional patterns and behaviors that makes the road to healing take so long?

What if healing is instantaneous and it's just our attachment to our stories and our pain that makes it last so long?

Now of course emotional pain comes in waves also right?

You know one moment you know maybe we experience some some deep grief or some kind of pain and it really lasts and then we give ourselves permission to just be and it starts to dissipate and then maybe it comes in another wave and then maybe it comes out and then maybe it comes in another wave.

Yes.

But what if healing is actually instantaneous and it's just working through the mind and the emotions that makes it feel like it takes so long?

Just for your consideration for each of us.

Oh beautiful John.

John shared I started this on my daily sunrise hike and the forest near me walking it was so beautiful beautiful.

Klaus I so often forget what I so deeply know.

It's like cheating myself.

Ah it's okay though.

It's okay.

Forgive yourself.

Forgive yourself.

It's okay.

It's okay.

This is what we do.

We forget and remember and we forget and we remember and we forget and we remember.

Not just lifetime to lifetime.

We do that trillions of times in a lifetime.

Yes it's okay.

How can we practice kindness and forgiveness for each of those experiences and moments?

Oh beautiful Maria.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

Ah yes Nancy.

My soul is smiling thanking me for turning around towards it.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes my love.

Yes.

That's it.

Just practice that.

Practice turning towards the soul.

Many of you have heard me share of experiences like personal experiences how my whole life was really colored by this search for the one from the time that I was young.

You know just longing for a soulmate or longing for you know the perfect relationship.

The person I was going to be with.

All of these things.

And this is one of the biggest ways that many of us especially in Western cultures we we take the longing for the soul and we project it outwards looking for a soulmate.

And not to say that we don't have soulmates.

Soulmates and twin flames are usually not what we think they are.

Many people think oh my soulmate means happily ever after.

Soulmates are usually the people we have some of the dirtiest most intense work to do with.

That we oftentimes don't even end up being with.

So of course there are many expressions of it but this seems to be very true for many.

So we we like many I was longing for this relationship outside of me.

And it was a longing you know it's an ache.

Not just thinking about oh is that person the one is this the relationship the one is this going to be the one.

But this feeling like something was missing.

Oh something's missing.

It must be that relationship.

And it's different for each of us.

Some of us are like oh if I just knew my purpose I wouldn't feel this sense of emptiness or lack or oh if I just whatever right you put you fill in the blank for you.

And I and this just this colored my life this longing this feeling that something was missing this desire to be with someone to share the beauty of life to feel that fullness in my heart to feel that love in my heart.

And I feel that fullness every day.

I feel that love every day and I have been single for three years over three years.

I don't long for someone to fill me anymore because I've learned to fill my own relationship with myself.

I don't long for a relationship or spend time thinking about my perfect partner.

Although it might be a healthy thing to do because what we put our attention on we create.

But meaning doing it that from a place of fullness inside of myself.

But I don't I don't long that way anymore.

And it's not because I'm special.

It's not because I've been bestowed with some magical superpower.

It's because I've practiced choosing my soul over temporary fulfillment over and over and over and over.

I practiced choosing alignment with myself over something that was not in alignment with myself over and over and over.

It has been the the commitment and the practice to choosing my own well-being and sacredness and sovereignty and peace and joy and health.

Physical,

Mental,

Emotional health.

Choosing of these things over and over again that has nourished my relationship with myself with my soul and that feeling of emptiness isn't there anymore.

Sure I long for things sometimes or I desire things but I don't feel empty anymore.

I don't feel a lack because I'm embodying the soul more and more.

So just a personal share of what this can look like in our lives.

Oh beautiful Nancy.

Yes,

Yes honey.

The waves of the emotions and turning towards the soul.

Yes.

Beautiful,

Beautiful.

Thank you my loves.

Thank you.

Thank you for being part of this exquisite journey that is life.

All of us forgetting and remembering coming closer and closer to remembering fully,

Embodying fully.

Welcome the waves of light from your own soul.

Welcome the love of your soul,

The peace of your soul,

The grace of your soul.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And welcome the joy of the soul.

The soul loves to play.

Welcome the playfulness of the soul.

Thank you.

I cherish you.

I cherish you as the exquisite life you are,

As the soul you are,

As the personality that you are.

Thank you.

Blessings,

Blessings,

Blessings of the soul.

All my love,

All my love.

And all my gratitude for you.

Reviews

Absolutely Wonderful. 🔥 🌟
Thank you so much Selena
for helping me to reconnect. 💓

Inspired and meaningful. There was a lot there that spoke to me. If I want change, I have to live in a way that invites change. For me, the fear of change seems to be worse than actually going through the change.

A beautiful teaching about the Soul - Selena is an amazing teacher who speaks with such clarity, such authority, and yet such gentleness and ease, about this play of consciousness we call life. A wonderful road map for those who are seeking, and a beautiful reminder to help us remember again. From one grateful soul to another 🙏

My soul says, "THANK YOU for all the Metta your are offering to our souls".

Really illuminating talk. Thank you 🙏🏾

Incredible !!! 💕🕊🌹🙏

Beautiful. Thank you 🙏

I’ve listened 3 times and I will continue to listen as needed. Thank you dear Selena ❤️🙏🏼☀️🌸

The sense of love and compassion that emanates from every word is deeply enlivening, healing, and profound. 🙏

This was so beautiful and intense. Everything you said resonated with my soul and my soul thanks you 🙏 every word, the light coming from you has been recognised. Namaste 🙏 blessings

I just stumbled upon this live recording from Selena (or more likely was divinely guided here;))
I listened and allowed myself to go deeply into the practice. It was profound and beautiful...., I can honestly say I felt my Light🙏 my divine goddess energy💫
I quickly became a fan of Selena as she spoke with gentle compassion & kindness when addressing the attendees of her live event and her wealth of knowledge learnt from experience🌸
Will be returning to my Soul daily when moments present themselves to further nurture this amazing connection I felt during this meditation...,, It’s so different knowing something intellectually to experiencing it physically and emotionally and that’s where Selena took me on this beautiful journey to Self❤️.
Gratitude & Love Kerry xx

I loved that. Thank you. I can hardly wait to listen to it again.

That was amazing! I’ve never thought of myself in this incarnation as having a doppelgänger called soul, The untainted fullness of being, love and light. So refreshing that Im blessed w this download that I can merge with this doppelgänger!