Many people either lose heart at finding their soul mate or turn to clairvoyants to help them find them, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, not impossible, but almost? Or is it? Edgar Cayce believed that there are many soul mates for each of us. We just need to know what we're looking for and they will shine out. Will they be always gorgeous, will they all have brains the size of planets? Not necessarily, but they will outshine everyone else in one respect at least.
So in what way can we recognise them, as it seems we may find them around us, like treasure under dust sheets, below the ubiquitous and mundane routine of daily life our true love, our soul mate may be hiding.
We have all heard of love at first sight, that moment when a stranger by chance enters into our lives and though we know nothing whatsoever about them, we know they are 'the one' for us. We suddenly feel an overwhelming deep connection based upon no external evidence at all. Can this be mere attraction or is this true soul mates meeting and what we have been hoping for?
Attraction is indeed a powerful bonding process and of course no romance exists without it. When attraction is overwhelming we may bond with someone enough to stay with them for long enough to marry and settle down. But as we know, marriages do fail, so not every time we are deeply attracted to someone can we have cause to conclude, 'They are my soul mate!'
We all know the difference between thinking someone is powerfully attractive and that moment when our heart almost seems to stop and we hold our breath because this unknown person has just changed our life and our emotions in an instant and we feel compelled to be with them and give of our best to them. And yet how can we tell if this is truly more than being knocked off our feet by someone who fits all our criteria for sexual attraction? How can we really tell when we meet our soul mate?
Many agree, whatever their definition of a soul mate, as Edgar Cayce said, it is someone who helps us to achieve a greater self, a better self, that helps us to aspire to and become, a better person. So if someone thinks that having an affair with their secretary, while their wife waits at home with a charring dinner can be excused by thinking, 'I can't help it, my secretary is my soul mate,' they're woefully wrong. A soul mate would not encourage someone to do something that is spiritually negative and hurtful to others and to their loved one. Not because soul mates are always perfect and totally positive people but because that doesn't fit in with the experience they were destined to have together, elevating each other spiritually. A soul mate, by definition, is there loving you in order to expand your soul, not shrink it to subatomic proportions. A soul mate will make you realise and help you to be a better person, sometimes though it's not smooth sailing and we are confronted in this special relationship with the obstacles both were destined to be together to work out. Love, even for soul mates isn't always easy, but it is always worth it. So when you meet someone who brings out the best in you, and makes you want to elevate yourself, not just to impress them but through your relationship you see a better way to be and understand why it's preferable to grow and let go of negative or bad patterns, to be a nicer, kinder more worthwhile human being, congratulations, you've probably found your soul mate. Edgar Cayce used the term 'help meet,' for partners, not 'helpmate' because our 'better half,' is there to help us grow, as we are them. So when you are in a relationship that helps you to grow as a person and feel better about yourself, congratulations, you may well have found your soul mate.