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Lesson 11.4: Soul Relationships

Our souls come here to grow. We cannot grow in isolation and different souls cross paths in order to help each other and all of humanity to evolve. We do this through different relationships: karmic relationships, soulmate relationships, and twin flame relationships. A lot of the time we confuse these relationships and misinterpret their meaning, because they all do have overlapping attributes. However, all kinds of soul relationships are unique in their own way. 

Karmic Relationships

Karmic relationships are relationships with people who teach us lessons we didn’t master in our last lifetime. They usually don’t work out, but that’s because they’re not supposed to. Lasting forever would defeat the purpose of a karmic relationship. Your karmic soulmate should come into your life, teach you/challenge you through different experiences, and then leave. This sounds harsh, but it’s not bad. They are called “karmic” relationships because their purpose is to help both of the souls balance mutual karma. That’s why karmic relationships often form based on strong attraction (whether it be physical, mental or emotional), because both souls know that they need this connection in order to balance karma from a past life. There will be good times in these relationships and the end is not always abrupt or through heartbreak, especially if the two souls involved are mindful. It takes strength to be in these relationships, as sometimes it’s hard to let go. 

We may want to hold on for some reason, maybe there’s something in the relationship that we can’t let go of, but we have to understand that letting go is learning our lesson and afterward we will move on to better things and new lessons. Like any soulmate, you can have karmic relationships with your friends as well.

Soulmate Relationships

Soulmates are souls who teach us lessons as well. The souls we’re with in karmic relationships often teach us things that influence our perception of reality and help us to grow our perception. Soulmates often teach us things that help us to grow internally. 

“Soul mates share a common mission and comparable stage of spiritual development. They come together because they are working on the same type of karma and the same chakra simultaneously.

So soul mates have an attraction that is based on the sacred labor and on the path of self-mastery.

A soul mate is like the echo of oneself in Matter working at the same task to fulfill a blueprint for God.” – Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Soulmate relationships experience hardships just as any other relationship does. The difference is that in soulmate relationships, the hardships we face are usually centered around growth. The challenges help us to change and when we experience difficulty with a soulmate, we turn to introspection to see what we can do internally to help the situation. This is because soulmates are here to help us do that, to be introspective and see how we can grow. Soulmates often focus on you and how you can become a better person, whereas karmic partners focus on themselves. See, karmic lovers won’t directly encourage us to grow. Through their actions and the flaws in their personalities and our ability to let go of them, they help us to grow. Soulmates directly try to help us become better people. They even help us with self-awareness and realizing our greatness and our purpose.

Half of our soulmates won’t even be romantic. The purpose of a soulmate is to help us grow and evolve in this life and become better versions of ourselves, which doesn’t have to be romantic. A soulmate can even be a stranger you encounter for a few minutes, but within that encounter something will happen that helps you to grow. We often have “soul circles” or “soul families”, a group of other souls who we travel through lifetimes with. These will be good friends of yours who you become friends with in each lifetime. If you have friends who feel more like your family than the people you’re actually related to do, then they could be your soul circle.

Twin Flames

Twin flames are a little different. They are actually the same soul manifested in two forms, masculine and feminine (this refers to energy, not physical form). They usually continue to seek out each other in each lifetime. This is a once in a lifetime bond that not all of us will experience.

Twin flame relationships are divine on a grander level than soulmate relationships. Soulmate relationships happen so that the souls involved can grow and become better, whereas twin flame relationships contribute to raising the consciousness of the entire planet. Just like soulmates, the purpose of a twin flame relationship can be romantic, but it doesn’t have to be. The purpose of these relationships is far beyond this dimension.

We only have one twin flame but can have several soul mates. They may come together to achieve something specific on this planet and contribute to the evolving of humankind. We said that karmic relationships focus on your perception of life and components of it and helping you to grow to understand components like love, fear, etc.

Then soulmate relationships focus on your inner growth and looking within yourself to become a better person. Twin flame relationships, on the other hand, focus on all kinds of growth and service to others or humanity in general. Twin flame unions are based on unconditional love and oneness and will bring you to a very high level of consciousness. These unions also require a certain level of consciousness; you must have advanced to a certain level in your consciousness before you can meet your twin flame, which is why it’s said that soulmate and karmic relationships are practice for your twin. Many of us don’t even have twin flames until we reach a certain level of consciousness in one lifetime. After this level, the soul splits into two. So if you have this opportunity seize it before it's too late.