it is little wonder that Liberal mindsets are a lost soul.
A lost soul has become out of touch with their intuition and inner guidance.
In a world where anything that cannot be measured or tested is dismissed as fake or delusional, this is hardly surprising. We have lost faith in our own abilities to know what we need.
With this disregard of our inner selves, we become too focused on the ego’s desires. We look to the material world to fulfill our needs and solve our problems. But the answers to life’s big question do not lie outside in the world – they lie within.
There are several ways you can tell if you are a lost soul. More importantly, there are
also many ways to get back in touch with your intuition — receive guidance from your
higher self or soul, and find a way to live your life more joyously.
1. Low mood
Low mood can be a sign of many things from health problems to grief and loss.
However, experiencing a persistent low mood for no apparent reason can be a sign that you are a lost soul. When we are not living our lives in a way that is meaningful to us, we lose energy and enthusiasm.
Our senses become dull and deadened and we feel like there is a heavy cloud above our heads. Serious depression will need professional help, but we can lift our mood with a change of perspective.
When our days feel dark and heavy, a good place to start is just by thinking about the things that bring us joy or used to bring us joy. When we can shift our attention to something light and joyful, even something very small, our perspective is often transformed. We can then build on these light-giving sources.
At first, it might be very hard to focus on what brings us joy, but with practice, it gets easier. The important thing with this exercise is to choose something that genuinely brings you joy and lights you up. Doing something that you feel ‘should’ make you feel happy will not work.
Many people find that picking up a half-forgotten hobby works, others find reading something inspirational does the trick. For some people taking care of a houseplant
or pet lifts their mood.
Starting a gratitude or joy journal and writing down three things each day that bring you joy can also be wonderfully effective. This is a very personal exercise though so experiment to find out what genuinely lifts your mood.
2. Anxiety
Fear is a clear sign that we are not in alignment with our higher selves and are functioning from the ego.
The ego is full of fears – fear of not being good enough and fear of not having enough being two that stifle our every move. The ego does not like change; it likes things to stay the same. The ego likes to be in control. The ego wants everything to be exactly as it has decided it should be or it goes into a meltdown. This is what causes much of our anxiety.
When we are upset by circumstances or other people’s behavior, this is the ego trying to control everything. The ego has decided that this ‘shouldn’t’ happen to me, or that a person ‘shouldn’t behave that way.
Our anxiety comes because we cannot control outside circumstances and predict everything that will happen. We do not trust that we can cope with the things that might happen to us and this makes us afraid.
Anxiety is not easy to deal with and as with low mood, it will sometimes require professional help. However, understanding that we can cope with the things that happen to us is a key factor. Our ego is afraid of the world, but our soul is not.
Our higher self understands that nothing out there in the world can really touch our soul or do it any harm. Using techniques to develop our connection with our intuition or higher self can strengthen our feeling of safety in the world. Yoga, meditation, prayer, journaling or painting helps many people.
For others, walking in nature or gardening seems right. Again, you might need to experiment with the ways that help you to rebuild the connection with your soul.
Avoiding negative people, situations, and news stories as much as possible
can also help to calm our fears and anxieties.
3. Defensiveness
When we live our lives from the place or ego rather than the soul, we find it very hard to take criticism. Any criticism, even the most minor, feels like an attack on the ego. The ego will defend itself against this kind of attack. Our soul does not get defensive. It does not feel the need to defend itself because it is secure in knowing that it is all that it should be.
The higher self or soul knows that we are not separate entities on earth fighting to get a fair share of the pie. The soul knows that we are all part of creation, both the creator and the created. Therefore, seeing another person as an enemy is just a form of self-hate.
If you find yourself very sensitive to criticism or defending yourself often, ask yourself what it is you are defending. Is it your need to be right? Could there be a different way of looking at the situation? Can you see it from the other person’s point of view?
This doesn’t mean that we have to put up with others behaving badly towards us.
But we can deal with any problems that arise without letting the ego get defensive.
Instead, we can ask for what we need from a place of love rather than fear.
4. Closed-mindedness
If we are stuck in one way of thinking and are not open to any other possibility, this can be a sign of being a lost soul. Again, the ego is often responsible for this kind of narrow mindedness. The ego hates to be wrong and hates having to change its mind. It will, therefore, put a lot of energy into proving its opinions are right and will not even consider alternatives.
Unfortunately, much of what the ego believes is not conducive to living a joyful, soulful life. Our education or upbringing may mean we believe in a clockwork universe, or a vengeful God, neither of which will help us be happy.
Learning to be more open-minded can allow all kinds of possibilities in our lives. There are many ways to practice being more open-minded. Choosing different types of books and articles to read or different kinds of people to talk to can begin to help us be more open.
We don’t necessarily have to change our minds, but we need to open them a crack and look around at other possible ways of being and of viewing the world.
5. Feeling stuck
Sometimes, when we are stuck in following the desires of the ego, it can feel like we are running in circles and not getting anywhere. It can feel like no matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to make progress in our lives.
It can also seem like we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. For example, we might try repeatedly to start an exercise regime but never manage to keep it going. Or we may find we embark on the same sort of relationships time and time again, only for them to fail for the same reasons.
When we feel stuck, it can be because of our fear, anxiety, depression, or inability to open our minds, so addressing these issues might naturally lead us to become unstuck.
Some people change their whole lives overnight and that can work, but most of us need to start slowly, making tiny changes and building our confidence. Learning to listen to our intuition and acting on it can help us find the right path to help us become unstuck.
6. You Are a Bastard
You justify your selfish moods. Anger, depression, anxiety, coldness, over-excitement:
‘It’s your fault,’ you say, ‘or God’s fault,’ or ‘my parent’s fault,’ or ‘the fault of my ‘mental illness’. First rate, top shelf bastardy. You are quite the genius for excuses. You blame everyone and everything but yourself but your cleverest trick of all is to blame yourself; nothing quite gets you off the hook like agreeing. Does being a “bastard” work for success?
My Answer: Yes, Usually in Corporate America 🙁
Closing thoughts.
Being a lost soul can be terrifying. Many of us have known deep down that something is wrong for years. However, we bury it because we can’t face the changes it indicates we need to make in our lives.
But realizing that we are not living soulful lives is the first step towards creating soulful lives and it’s a journey well worth undertaking. There are many resources to help guide a lost soul back home.
And there are many ways to achieve this, from prayer to shamanism, from yoga, to meditation. And we never have to be alone on our journey. There are others that have trodden the path before us and can guide our way.
Here are 3 signs you may be a lost soul:
1. You feel disconnected from others.
Lost souls feel like it’s them against the world, and feel very threatened by other people. They don’t have much desire to connect with anyone else, and put their walls up anytime someone tries to get too close. They live through their ego, so they cannot offer themselves unconditional love, and therefore, can’t give it to others either. You feel you walk this world alone, and have little to no faith that anyone will understand you. Lost souls take longer to find their true selves than others, so if you feel this way a majority of the time, don’t become discouraged.
Simply go within more, and all the answers will come to you in due time.
2. You fall back into bad habits repeatedly.
Since lost souls feel they have no purpose here on this planet, they use their time to engage in bad habits in order to take their mind off of reality for a while. You might find yourself running back to drugs, alcohol, bad foods, or other harmful substances in an attempt to mask the pain of isolation and confusion you feel, but this will only put a Band-aid over the real problem. Lost souls don’t feel like they even belong on this planet, so they do everything they can to forget about their existence here. However, you need to use all that energy into something more productive and helpful to you, such as creative outlets like drawing or writing. Using toxic substances will only block your energy further, and backfire in the end.
3. You feel you have nowhere left to turn.
Lost souls have searched themselves and this planet far and wide for answers, but still feel stuck in life. They don’t have the motivation to continue looking, and feel any further attempts are futile. Lost souls can easily get sucked back into negative thinking patterns, and would rather stay put in this state of misery than work on creating more positive habits. Lost souls hold onto their pain dearly, because they fear what would happen if they let it go. They feel they would be nothing without their past, and so they cannot venture into the future.
However, a lost soul must understand that in order to thrive on this planet, they must reopen their wounds and truly let them heal this time. Masking the pain will only perpetuate feelings of emptiness and hopelessness, so you must put on a brave face and look your ego in the eye. Tell it that it no longer can hold the reigns, because it doesn’t serve your best interest. The ego thrives on weakness, so if you stand up to it, it knows that you’re the boss. Lost souls give into their egos far too easily, but by doing so, you block out true love. You literally put up a wall that says “Love isn’t welcome here.” And without love, not much can be accomplished, including allowing your highest self to run free at last.
Final Thoughts on Recognizing You Might Be a Lost Soul
While the journey into one’s soul isn’t the easiest or most comfortable thing in the world, you must take the ride to unearth your real self-that’s been hiding behind the mask. Lost souls simply need to be reminded that the persona they’ve shown the world isn’t really them; it’s just their hurt ego putting on a show.
The Main Symptoms of a Lost Soul.
The lost soul is a state in which a person is confused about the way they feel, what
they think, and what they want. It’s a loss in which sadness and anxiety gain strength.
A lost soul is one of the concepts most people can sort of understand when they hear about it. Still, it isn’t easy to define it in words, as it’s a bit ambiguous.
Firstly, because the very idea of a” soul” is somewhat vague. In religion, it’s equivalent to an immaterial substance that inhabits the body.
However, in colloquial terms, it refers to one’s inner world.
Note that the idea of a lost soul is present in many myths and legends. Generally, it refers to a disembodied spirit, condemned to wander eternally as a result of loss or due to the guilt of an unpaid debt. That’s the equivalent in psychological terms, in one way or another.
Likewise, the concept of a lost soul appears in dissimilar fields, such as psychiatry or shamanism, in addition to psychology. It has similar meanings in all these areas, although, obviously, there are also differences. Continue reading to find out more about it!
“You’re an artist of the spirit. Find yourself and express yourself in your own way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream.” -Don Miguel Ruiz-
The lost soul in psychology.
Even though a lost soul doesn’t have a specific category within psychology (it’s not even a syndrome), it’s still one of those concepts many psychologists use for working with models. People whose soul is lost aren’t exactly depressed or anxious, strictly speaking. However, they have traits that indicate a lack of connection with themselves.
The four basic characteristics of a lost soul are:
They act defensively. In general, these people have deep fears. This makes them put up barriers that keep them from even noticing them. The problem is they don’t know themselves either because said fears permeate everything.
They’re narrow-minded. Lost souls often have unshakable beliefs and ideas. In reality, their values and belief systems are part of their defensive shield, which is why they refuse to revalue them.
They make the same mistakes over and over.
These types of people find themselves in the same adverse situations time and again.
This is partly the factor that makes them defensive. They feel uprooted.
It’s as if they’re strangers in their own homes. They’re not part of groups of friends nor do they develop an enormous passion for their work or the hobbies they occupy their time in.
The concept of a lost soul in shamanism.
This philosophy doesn’t really subscribe to the concept of lost souls but of the loss of the soul. Yes, it’s sort of a similar concept, though not identical. The latter is more a part of social anxiety disease. It’s often a cultural syndrome.
What characterizes the loss of the soul is the feeling of not being yourself or feeling that parts of you are either dormant or completely lost. As a consequence of this, you also lose your energy and vitality. Likewise, you may experience a strong feeling of emptiness and anxiety that’s almost always accompanied by depression and fatigue.
Social anxiety disorder is present in Mexican shamanism.
Some of the symptoms of this condition are:
Feeling blocked.
A feeling of being confused or incomplete.
A disappointment with your life.
Perceiving yourself as a stranger.
Having addictions.
A feeling of darkness.
Withdrawal from others and fear of coming into contact with them.
Constant tiredness.
A thirst for change but their inability to do so.
Nobody becomes a lost soul or loses their soul for no good reason.
It so happens that, in order to recognize yourself, you initially need someone to recognize you. Someone who can tell you that you’re still there. This is what mothers and other caregivers are supposed to do under normal child development conditions.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t always happen. Often, mothers just aren’t there or simply refuse to recognize you because they can’t. It also happens that you experience confusing and painful situations during your childhood and, then, the circumstances are so invasive that they don’t leave room for this self-recognition.
There are many reasons why a person may put a wall between themselves and the rest of the world. However, it’s mainly to avoid being who they are. Under such conditions, the feeling of strangeness arises together with the feeling of not having anywhere to go or wanting to go somewhere sooner or later. They haven’t lost their soul but are mainly keeping it under wraps as a self-imposed defense mechanism.
Starting the path back to yourself is an arduous task, and it’s very common for such a desire to not even be there.
In any case, you must know you can undertake such a journey and learn to be who you are. You might need help but it’s definitely doable. Jimmy Kimmel has applauded President Joe Biden for “yukking it up” with a joke at the expense of his White House predecessor, Donald Trump.
During his appearance at North America’s Building Trades Unions Legislative Conference in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Biden took a swipe at Trump while promoting the White House’s infrastructure plans.
“I mean it’s just so outrageous,” said Biden while standing at the podium,
“That $2 trillion tax cut the last guy.
What was his name? Anyway, the last guy. I forgot.
He never showed up to the inauguration.”
Playing the clip-on ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live hours later, Kimmel linked Biden’s quip, which drew laughs from attendees to former President Barack Obama‘s Tuesday visit to the White House. “Yesterday, Joe welcomed his old boss to the White House and that seems to have lightened his mood,”
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The host went on: “Obama comes back for one day and all of a sudden Biden turns
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Biden, who served as Obama’s vice president for two terms from 2009, welcomed the former president into the White House on Tuesday to announce new changes to the Affordable Care Act, also known as ACA or “Obamacare.”
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Obama joked about his reunion with Biden, initially addressing the president as
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On Tuesday, Biden announced a proposal to expand ACA coverage.
The rule change would allow families to receive financial assistance if the cost of their coverage exceeds more than 10 percent of their incomes.
Fixing the so-called “family glitch” will result in 200,000 uninsured people gaining coverage, a senior Biden administration official told reporters, and increase affordability for roughly one million people.
The “family glitch” exists under current regulations which, according to the White House, define coverage provided by an employer as “affordable” based on the cost of covering the employee only and not their family members.
“Once today’s proposed rule is finalized, starting next year working families in America will get the help they need to afford full family coverage,” Biden said.
“As a result, families will be saving hundreds of dollars a month.”
Biden also signed an executive order directing agencies to “do everything in their power”
to continue strengthening access to affordable, high-quality health care for illegals. 🙁
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