Soul Families

Kathy Bjerke introduces us to the concept of Soul Families in this episode.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Hi everybody. Welcome to our imperfect podcast. We're gonna take a minute and introduce Kathy Bjerke. She's a master hypnotic coach joining us today for our podcast. Very excited to have her here. How long have you been a Master Hypnotic Coach, Kathy? Um, I've been practicing for three years. Awesome. Wonderful. One of my close colleagues. Happy to have you. Yes, thank you. Good. Well, Kathy.

SPEAKER_00 0:34

Yeah, welcome. Good. Thank you. I'm happy to be here. I'm excited about my topic today. I would like to talk about soul families, because we are all spiritual hypnotists here. And I really enjoy working with people and introducing them to their soul families. So to get started, we should talk about what a soul is. And I have a belief that we are an everlasting spiritual being, that in our core we are a soul. And that's a sacred essence, the sacred part of ourself. And the soul comes to have a human experience in this human body, which is what we are experiencing right now today. And it comes to learn lessons and it comes to grow and expand and have experiences, but it also comes so it can remember its true nature in the craziness of life. So the soul is the part of us that is beneath our personality, it's beneath our roles and our fears and our wounds and all of our accomplishments. So, as I said before, why do we come here? We come here to learn and have experiences that are you unique to be a human being. And I truly believe some of those experiences are to learn emotions, to master some emotions or to experience some emotions. And when we have these lessons, or and sometimes we call them challenges, right? Or difficulties, but they're truly just lessons and they're opportunities for us to advance our souls because the soul just really wants to grow and expand. So we come to this human experience having decided what lessons we want to learn before we get here. And then, of course, when we get here, we have to forget all of that. That's just part of the learning of what we need to do. And we also have other souls that will agree to assist us while we are here. And um, all of us, I'm sure, have had an agreement that we were going to help each other in this in this uh realm where we are right now, doing this podcast and and working on our careers together, supporting each other. And those are people that may be part of your soul family, or they are souls that you have made a soul contract with. So a soul contract is um an agreement with another soul before you come into this life that they are going to be here to assist you, and you are both going to assist each other, and these people can show up in different places in your life, and they can be different people in your life, and another um part of this is uh someone who is in your soul family, so the soul family are the souls that reincarnate with you lifetime after lifetime after lifetime, and you have a deeper bond with those souls than just maybe people that you see at the grocery store or something, and these souls can travel together and learn together through many, many, many lifetimes. Um, have any of you ever met someone that you hadn't known before? And then you have that instant connection, or you just have that familiarity of oh, I know that person. That is probably somebody that's in your soul with. And I want to talk a little bit about how our soul families show up and who they are. So, since these are the people that have that deeper bond and those agreements, they're generally going to be the ones that are closest to you. Maybe some in your family, your family members could be your partner, could be your spouse, could be your parents, your children. And then you can change um relationships in different lifetimes. I know for myself personally that my daughter in this lifetime has been my sister in a different lifetime. I've seen that. And I think that's kind of cool to know that we've been in different lifetimes together, and of course, we don't remember any of that, but I just think that's really cool. Um, other people in your soul family can be friends, they can be colleagues. Um, and an interesting, I had a really interesting client uh when we got to the part of her hypnosis session to talk about their soul family, and I just invite the soul family to come in and allow them to present themselves however this person would recognize them. And the client was quiet for a moment, and then she said, Oh my goodness, these are all my pets, all of my soul family are animals, they are pets from my long from my entire lifetime. And after she came out of the session, she said, I know you're gonna think I'm crazy, but she said, I had this this pet mouse when I was a little girl that would crawl up my arm and then perch on my shoulder. And she said, I knew it was something special, and she said, Nobody liked that pet mouse, but I just knew it was something special. And it turned out to be someone in her soul family, and that really just expanded my thinking. I had before that moment, I had not even thought that some of our soul family could show up in uh a pet or an animal. I just found that really, really fascinating. And recently I had another really, really interesting um discovery that somebody's soul family was a being from another planet, and I thought that was really, really interesting. And that gave her information on the planet. I wrote down the name of the planet. Of course, it's not in English, we can't pronounce it, but I thought, you know, once you start asking the questions, you're gonna get all sorts of interesting answers. And for me personally, I find it very comforting to know that we have beings that have been with us for many lifetimes, and I just always feel like somebody's got my back, that I'm not by myself. I mean, there's many people that walk around now talking about being so lonely, and um I just really try to encourage people to um have the thought process that you're just never alone. Maybe you can't see that presence around you, but I know there are so many souls that are gathered around us and they are here to help us. Does anybody have any um interesting stories about soul families and appliance?

SPEAKER_01 8:15

I had um I was at the symphony with my husband one night and it kind of transported me to a meditation. And in that meditation, I saw that my husband and I had our I saw us making our contract. And that was a really cool thing to experience. It really um deepened something for me. It really did.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Did you did do you remember what the contract is?

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Um no, but it was the the energy about the contract was deeply loving. So it was emo it was like an emotional felt sense that I had instead of knowledge. It was good. That's really cool. And that was not even in hypnosis, that was at the symphony.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

It can pop in at any time, can't it? Uh-huh. Is when you never expect it.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:18

I've met people over the years where started really in 89, when I uh look look them in the eye, I would think, I know you. So then the question though is, do I know them from a past life or do I know them because they're soul family? Yeah. And I don't know the answer to that.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

I am so how can we find the answer to that?

SPEAKER_02 9:44

I've often met people that how I can explain it best is that they feel at home in my spirit. It's a soul recognition right away that I can just I can really just sense the somebody that I know. Even when they might appear on the surface to be a little tad bit scary in this human life, but I know that I have a sense of safety with them. It's and it's a knowing, it's a soul knowing, you know. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I've felt that many a time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

And these souls are going to be some of our best teachers because they are here in support for us to kind of help us or assist us to learn some of these lessons. And the lessons aren't always the easy things to learn. So sometimes they're going to take on the role of being somebody maybe who's going to challenge you or going to push you to learn a boundary or something. And that is how they're going to show up in assistance to you as a teacher for you. Um, I had somebody that met me one day and she recognized me right away. She knew that we had we had known each other before, and I was completely clueless. And about six months later, I was in a a past life regression, and that person was there. So it was fun to be able to go back and tell her. I said, I'm so sorry I didn't recognize you, but you did recognize me. So that was really that was a neat experience as well. So, how do we meet these uh people who are uh we have soul contracts with or who are in our soul families? So, in transpersonal hypnosis, I raise my client to into basically a higher dimension, and it's a dimension higher than where we normally live, and that's where we are in a place where our soul can remember. And I do a lot of work with the higher self, but you don't really need to have the higher self in at that point. But the higher self could assist this person to get them back into soul form or take them to a place perhaps in um a different lifetime to meet a soul, or you could just be in again a higher dimension to meet the soul and invite them in and uh see if that if they will present themselves so you can know who they are. And sometimes you'll recognize these souls. And for myself personally, I recognize my sister or excuse me, my daughter, um, but the other ones I hadn't recognized. So either I haven't met them yet in this lifetime, or maybe I'm not gonna meet them in this lifetime, or it just was not time for me to know exactly who they were. So that's generally how we meet them. It's in um in a higher dimension when you are in a state of hypnosis, and you know, sometimes if you're in meditation and one can come to you or can just present themselves to you, that can happen as well. Um, but we can connect with them also through dreams. I don't know if anybody has had any dreams or you've connected with um other souls. Um, I was just gonna ask what kind of uh situations anybody else has had when they've either met their people that are in their soul family or you've witnessed clients and how they've met people.

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Um when I'm teaching um psychic development, I had a student that came in that she reported that um that there was a group of us that all lived together in a past life, that we're part of one another's soul family, and that long time ago we had tried to usher folks in the collective into the 4D and we all failed. We were doing it as a group, we were working together as a group, and some somehow it gives it kind of feels like the the time of the Library of Alexandria, that time period, um, that we studied and worked together to do this. And then what we decided was to come back together in this lifetime, live our life and have certain experiences independently, and at a certain juncture, we would all come together. And when we did, we would be activated and when we came together, share our experiences individually and find that there was a lot of similarities in our experience. And that has started to happen, I have to tell you. So, some of this I've gotten secondhand through the some of the other people that I've worked with that have I've facilitated the experience for and gotten the information to. So it comes in all different types of ways. That was interesting that we're supposed to get it done in this lifetime, but we had to all be a part, have our experience first.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

I think it's really comforting to know that we really are never by ourselves. There are spirits, and I, you know, we were talking about souls today. There are other souls that have really agreed to assist us, to guide us, and to help us through life. So that's one thing that I would like everybody to take away after listening to this, whether you agree with it or not, or you've experienced it or not, um, I promise you, you're never by yourself. And we always have other spirits and other souls uh looking out for us and helping us on this crazy thing we call life.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Can I add something, Kathy? Of course. To me, I think when I understand that some of the most difficult lessons I have are, I'll just say the word perpetrated by someone who I've contracted with, it sure does take away a lot of feelings. It's um when I understand it from the spiritual perspective that this uh person is behaving this way to fulfill contract obligations to help me, it just makes the whole experience very different.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

I'm glad you said that. One of the phrases that I keep reminding myself when I'm going through some challenging times is this is my soul work. This is not just life being bad to Kathy. This is Kathy working hard and expanding and growing and transforming. So this is my soul work, and that's really helped me. So yeah, thank you, Melissa.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

Oh, I'm glad you said that you were. I didn't want to be the only negative wizard here, but I always do say it's the biggest egg-holes that show up in our experience that are the most dastardly, the most, that do the most egregious things. You have to remind yourself that's the only thing that keeps me out of prison, is that they're doing God's work. But they're a really, really, really, really good teacher. And that's my soul work. I contracted for that so that they could be my teacher because I am hard-headed. So sometimes folks have to show up in unevolved ways for me to really, really, really get the lessons that I came here that I so thank you, Melissa. Thank you for opening that door for me to just throw that out there. And I feel better. Soul journey. It was in the contract. Damn, damn, damn. Wonderful. Always, always a beautiful thing on the other side of the lesson, though. I say that with with a sense of humor, but it's always, it's always for us, never against us.

SPEAKER_03 18:14

It is, it is. Thanks for that, Kathy. That was really good. Yay, Kathy!

SPEAKER_00 18:21

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 18:22

Thank you so much for joining us today and sharing sharing your great knowledge with us. Soul purpose, soul families. Good stuff.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

The most comforting thing I think I've ever thought is we aren't alone, we've never been alone, and we will never be alone. When I remind myself of that, I think, ah, there, I'm okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense, but it really is helping. I just can't.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Yeah, thank you. All right, so till next time.