Discover The 3 Soul Commitments For Deeper Meaning and Purpose

Many people are awakening to the deep inner knowing that we’re more than our physical bodies. That we’re connected to something much larger than ourselves.

Have you noticed any of the following signs that your soul is beckoning you to become the next version of yourself?:

A sense that something is missing in your life?

An inner longing for more profound meaning and purpose?

A persistent hunger to feel more deeply connected with yourself, others, and the mysteries of life?

If so, these are all nudges from your soul inviting you to explore the three soul commitments.

They’re potent signs that something is awakening in you.

No longer satisfied by life’s material and superficial longings, our souls beckon us to grow and evolve so that we can become more fully our true selves.

Our soul is inviting us to embark on a new journey. One that shifts and expands our ways of knowing, often setting us on a path into the unknown.

Many people worldwide are confused by this call because they don’t know what the stirrings mean or how to respond. We often suppress this natural process and, as a result, feel that something inside us is dying.

Our souls are like seedlings that need to be tended to.

With the right conditions, our souls will grow and become the guiding light for our lives. When that happens, we live in more profound peace, alignment, fulfillment, and love.

The soul needs two essential things to grow – the integration of our life experiences, which becomes wisdom, and a growing sense of love and compassion.

How do we cultivate wisdom and grow love?

This is where the three soul commitments come in. These commitments require that we journey back home to ourselves; when we do, our load gets lighter, and our souls shine brighter.

We must realize we can’t skip over the three soul commitments. How we move through them doesn’t matter as much as that we DO move through all of them.

What are the three soul commitments?

1. A commitment to consciously heal the wounds and impressions from our childhoods and integrate the learnings into our present lives.

We all arrive in adulthood with childhood experiences that the soul needs us to integrate. For the majority of us, our youths, more often than not, pointed to who we were not rather than who we were.

This happens in all homes, even in the most loving ones. For some reason, that’s how nature has set things up. We must go through a process of knowing who we are not and all the discomfort and suffering that goes along with that to be motivated enough to uncover who we are.

The process involves cultivating self-love, forgiveness, and compassion and becoming more aware of the impact our families and conditioning have had on us.

As we journey through the past, we also uncover the golden threads and critical experiences that give us clues about our true path. What are our unique gifts? What brings meaning and purpose to our lives?

It is often said that time heals all wounds. The truth is that age and years alone don’t help with this vital soul commitment, which requires intention, opening to curiosity, and willingness to do the work.

2.  A commitment to live in the present moment with an embodied integration of the past.

This requires that we develop a healthy personality that serves as an instrument for expressing our souls.

What seems to happen for many of us over time is that our personalities become rigid and less porous. The more rigid and dense our personality structure is, the further removed we are from our essence and presence.

Our personalities are like life jackets. Initially, they help us stay afloat, but as we grow older, they become constricting – restricting the flow of our life force energy.

Learning how to create a personality that serves the higher needs of our souls can be challenging without a map.

The truth is that we all need different things, and a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work.

Perhaps that’s why we have been gifted with the wisdom of The Enneagram of personality. This powerful psycho-spiritual tool, rooted in ancient spiritual wisdom and modern psychology, provides a framework for transformation.

3. A commitment to co-create our lives with an intelligent universe to serve something larger than ourselves.

Ancient wisdom teachings believe that once a person’s soul begins to awaken, there is a deep desire to serve humanity in some way.

This commitment to being of service requires that we cultivate ways of knowing beyond our five senses. This is where we enlist the help of our intuitive ways of learning to bring another dimension to our experiences. Intuition is the soul language developed as our personalities become more fluid and permeable.

When you pay attention, you’ll notice that everything in your life points to an opportunity to revisit one or more of these three soul commitments.

With time, patience, and the spirit of curiosity, we slowly return home to ourselves. We’re on the path of awakening to our souls’ deeper needs, and our lives take on a whole new meaning.