WHAT IS A LOST SOUL?
Lost souls are people who are spiritually adrift. For whatever
reason, these individuals have blocked the intuitive guidance coming
from their higher selves. In doing this, they have also cut themselves
off from feeling the infinite love of the universe, and this leads to
struggle, anger and sadness. As a result, a lost soul’s life is very
challenging.
If you are currently working to raise your vibration and follow
your highest path, you probably find it difficult to interact with lost souls.
These individuals can be some of the most frustrating people to
deal with because they radiate lower vibrational energy, and the way
that they interact with others can be quite off-putting.
However, if we want to help these people we must react with
sympathy, rather than anger and hostility. Lost souls need
unconditional love more than the rest of us because they are so starved for
it. Although this may be challenging at times, love and acceptance are
really the only things we can give to help others who have lost their way.
So, here are some of the frustrating symptoms of a lost soul,
and how best for us to react in order to help them:
1. Defensiveness: a lost soul is someone who is operating from their ego, not from
their higher self. Because they are largely ego-driven, lost souls will
often feel the need to defend their positions and assert that they are always
right, and always know best. Even friendly advice that will genuinely
help a lost soul is often immediately discarded with a “Yeah, but…”
followed by a list of reasons why they believe the advice won’t work for
them.
Your best reaction to this defensiveness? Accept it. Do
not engage in an argument with a lost soul, even if you feel like your advice
is exactly what they need.
Remember, lost souls are blocking their inner guidance, so they
will very likely block beneficial advice from wherever it is coming from.
The best you can do is lay your ideas on the table, but then back away from the
discussion when they push against it.Surprisingly, when I have done this in the
past I have noticed that many such individuals will later tell me “I remember
when you told me such-and-such, that was really good advice!” The thing
about lost souls is that they do not like to have their egos challenged, so if
you do not debate against their rebuttals they are far more likely to
listen to your well-intended advice because they didn’t feel threatened by your
approach.
2. Closed-mindedness: Many times lost souls will not be interested in accepting
different people and different choices.
Again, the higher self is all-loving, and all-accepting.
If someone is blocking the unconditional love from their higher self, they will
be unable to radiate unconditional love to others. As a result,
their “love” will only be given out to certain people who are behaving in
a way that their ego approves of.
Because of this, you will often see lost souls manifest
themselves into people who are intolerant of other religions, bigoted, racist,
homophobic or misogynistic.
Your best reaction? If you feel as if something a lost
soul tells you is intolerant or abusive towards others, very kindly tell them
that it bothers you when they say things like that and then drop it.
Remember, arguing with a lost soul is always a
waste of time. Speak your mind and then move on. If you do not
challenge a lost soul’s ego, you will have the best shot at being heard.
3. Repeating the same mistakes, over and over again: It may take any of us a few tries to learn a
lesson in life, but with a lost soul the pattern endlessly repeats itself.
You may often see a lost soul hopping from one abusive
relationship to another, chronically being broke and out of work or
even repeatedly being victimized.
To be clear, none of us is perfect, and we’re all making
mistakes in some way. However, a lost soul’s repeated mistakes are
very painful and can cause them a lifetime of personal grief.
Your reaction? Realize, yet again, that a lost soul has severed
ties with the love of the universe, therefore they do not understand how to make
choices based on self-love. A lost soul has forgotten how to care for him
or herself.
These individuals are not making their life decisions because
they are trying to hurt themselves or anyone else, but rather because they have
become blind to the guidance of the universe. In fact, quite
often they make poor choices because they are simply trying to distract
themselves or numb the pain of the emptiness they feel from being spiritually
disconnected.
Please do not judge them, do not chastise them, and do not
belittle their struggles. Accept them where they are, and love them
anyways.
This doesn’t mean that you should allow them to pull you into
their chaotic storms, but do let them know that you care about them and you
want the very best for them. Loving them from afar still counts!
It can indeed be very frustrating to deal with a lost soul.
The defensiveness, close-mindedness, and
continuous self-harm can be very unpleasant to witness and interact
with.
That being said, it’s good to remember that we are all on
our own paths, and we each have the option of traveling through life in
the way that we choose. Although we may have found a higher calling, the
lost souls are choosing to experience life in a limited way-and that’s their
choice.
Not a one of us would want to be forced to think or believe
something against our will, and if we want the freedom of choice for ourselves
we must allow the freedom of choice in others, even when we feel their choices
are damaging and hurtful. We can speak our truths, but
we shouldn’t feel the need to take on the job of changing the thoughts,
beliefs and actions of others.
At the end of the day, all we can really do for the lost
souls of the world is accept and love them as they are while being as happy,
healthy and prosperous as we can be. If we can shine brightly enough, we
just might provide enough light to help a lost soul find its way back
home.
Reference
Andrea Shueman
Thank you, Easton Harris for bringing this to
my attention.
