Do you believe in soulmates? Don’t you think some people in this world are destined to meet at some point in their lives? Do you think that everybody has a soulmate?
In modern society, the term soulmate typically refers to a romantic partner with whom you wish to spend the rest of your life. Well, that is not how soulmates work. In reality, you can have more than one soulmate. Therefore, what are true soulmates or soul connections?
A soul connection is when two people feel connected on a spiritual level in a significant or extraordinary way. The bond transcends earthly boundaries, extending beyond the practical aspects of a relationship. You may feel you have known each other from past lives or that your souls agreed to meet in this life.
But an ideal soulmate does not enter your life peacefully; they appear to question everything in your life. They are someone who creates dramatic transformations, from finding your purpose to reshaping your realities. They are not the idealized human that society has painted on people’s minds, but they are ordinary people who manage to revolutionize your world in the blink of an eye. When soulmates enter your life, they stay until a task has been completed or a life lesson learned, and they leave. The chances of soulmates maintaining a marriage or lifelong relationship are low, though if they do, it might end before a decade. Nevertheless, on rare grounds, with better communication, transparency, honesty, trust, and commitment, many long-term romantic soulmates can remain together until death do them part.
The dilemma is, how do you recognize these soulmates? How many variants of soulmates exist? Well, there are many uncertainties and doubts when you contemplate the subject of soulmates. However, this article attempts to shed some insight into the concept of a few soulmate types, how to identify them, and the purpose they bring to your life. Although multiple Researchers suggest the existence of various types of soulmates, it isn’t necessarily inevitable that every person will encounter all of those kinds in their lifetime. Read on to know more.
ROMANTIC SOULMATES
As the name suggests, this is a soul connection that brings two individuals together to form a loving, sweet, and romantic union. It is the relationship that people refer to when they speak of soulmates in general terms. You naturally feel exhilarated and overjoyed pretty much all of the time when you find your soulmate and fall in love. This soul connection makes you go beyond euphoric, and you may have sore cheeks from all the giggles and laughter. Romantic soulmates have a reputation for being “one” of the happiest and healthiest soul connections.
Your romantic soulmate walks into your life to help you learn how to love, what to love about love, and the dynamics of falling in love. The passion and chemistry between such soul connections can be almost surreal and fairytale-like. However, even the most perfect romantic soulmates can have conflicts and struggles. Whenever two souls enter into an intimate romantic relationship, they automatically enroll in a class together. They tend to touch a “raw” nerve to make you feel uncertain or anxious. Likewise, while teaching life lessons, they can be insensitive and challenge you in uncomfortable ways. Most romantic soulmates can be short-term because of this. But hey, if you can get through a life-wrecking experience from this relationship and the timing is right, you might end up in a very successful romance.
SOUL COMPANIONS OR BFF
Not all soulmates are necessarily romantic. Your soulmate can also be your best friend or kin. These soul friends have a divine purpose in your life, fulfilling their role of offering unconditional love, encouragement, and guidance. Apart from making your life more interesting, exciting, and joyful, such a relationship aims to provide companionship, support, and comfort. You can count on them when adversity strikes, but they will not meddle or interfere in your affairs without your consent. Soul mate friends are everything. Never underestimate the importance of soul mate friends. As a matter of fact, Soul companions are necessary nourishment regardless of how long they are in your life. As the body needs food and water, the soul needs companions.
A companion soulmate relationship is also considered one of a positive union, like a romantic one. But there is a catch. Every soulmate connection enters your life for a purpose, either to shake your hidden traumas away or to uncover your repressed emotions. These relationships can also have their struggles and conflicts. Therefore, soul companions may last a lifetime or a short period, based on the traumas they have triggered for you and how you cope with them over time. In any case, the intentions of such souls are most vividly sincere and unambiguous.
TWIN FLAMES OR TWIN SOULMATES
This popular term describes an intense soul connection. Ancient spiritual texts believe that twin flames are two halves of the same soul, meaning one soul that splits into two bodies. And that they live many lives searching and yearning for one another. Therefore, unlike romantic and platonic soulmates or soul friends, there can be “only” one twin flame for one person. Additionally, not everyone gets to experience an authentic twin flame connection.
According to the research theories, twin flames can love, provoke, teach, and heal one another in a uniquely powerful way. As opposed to other soul connections, twin flames are mirrored in every way, making their relationship unpredictable and sometimes even toxic. The twin flame bond will help you see your strengths, potential, and positive aspects. At the same time, it will also reveal your weaknesses, shortcomings, and failings.
In short, the purpose of a twin flame in your life is to unveil your true authentic self to yourself. And being true to yourself requires accepting your flaws which is a daunting endeavor. As a result, twin flames often lead to conflicts and disagreements, making the relationship difficult to sustain. Nevertheless, the strong soul connection always pulls them back together at different stages of their lives. Breakups and reunions are inevitable for twin flames. Although every relationship, romantic or otherwise, has the potential to help you achieve enlightenment, the twin flame is the ultimate romantic experience. However, twin flames are overwhelmingly rare and seldom become a reality for most people. It is thus understandable why it is such a baffling concept to grasp.
KINDRED SPIRITS
A soul connection like this experiences an instant sense of love and understanding. Kindred spirits typically refer to people with ‘like-minded’ characteristics, but a true kindred spirit feels familiar with one another energetically, emotionally, and mentally. Even telepathically. They possess common interests, values, or worldviews, as though there is a matching frequency and energy between them. A kindred spirit is like having a friend you immediately bonded with during college and later stayed in touch with after moving across the country. It could also be a relative with whom you share a close relationship. Or it could be a stranger you meet at an event and instantly feel drawn.
Kindred spirits are similar to the concept of a romantic soulmate or twin flame but with subtle differences. Unlike “romantic soulmates,” who often describe their connection as two separate souls linked together, “kindred spirits” feel very familiar with each other. However, they are not as close as a “twin flame,” akin to one soul split into two bodies. Kindred spirits are generally peaceful, healthy, positive, and supportive. The purpose of a kindred spirit is to show you your true self, but this isn’t as emotionally draining as twin flames.
There is no question that this can result in a special bond and friendship that could last a lifetime, regardless of whether the relationship is romantic or platonic.
KARMIC SOULMATES
When passion and pain coincide in a relationship simultaneously, it is most likely a karmic relationship. In most cases, these are romantic affairs, which are magnetic and turbulent with the same intensity. Research theories suggest that we fight the hardest with those we have known the longest. And when you meet someone and start arguing like old married couples, it could be because you have known each other before and are reconnecting. The intensity of this relationship is often mistaken for twin flames.
Unlike twin flame relationships, karmic relationships bear the imprint of karmas from previous lives. Our planet is fundamentally a cause-and-effect dimension. Every time we interact with someone, we create karma. While there is nothing to be frightened about, we should be mindful. In all their forms, whether they involve positive, negative, or neutral interactions, karmic relationships can facilitate opportunities to improve our karma and how we behave in our lives and the world, enabling us to grow and evolve.
Karmic connections bring rollercoaster emotions and leave the relationship hanging in the air about where it will go and how it will end. In a relationship that is subject to push-pulls, stability is challenging. The connection is commonly one-sided and dependent. In this relationship, both partners find it difficult to break up and move on from one another due to its addictive nature. The chemistry you feel with Karmic soulmates can be very intense, passionate, and hot. Also, they can be very intoxicating every now and then, which is why the relationship usually cannot last. However, karmic relations have a purpose. Karmic soulmates come together to offer mutual learning experiences that provide opportunities for personal growth.
SOUL CROSSINGS
Did you ever meet someone who entered your life at the wrong time or under circumstances that did not lend themselves to a long-term relationship? Even if someone doesn’t stay in your life long, it’s still a soul connection. For example, when you move to a new city and find a hairstylist or an estate agent with whom you become close until you relocate to another destination.
Perhaps, a lover you meet during a vacation, only to lose them two months later. It can also happen with friends and cousins or coworkers when briefly you are thrown together and share enlightening experiences. Sometimes it can also be a random stranger you meet at the store or on public transport, and you get to share some miraculous minutes of your life. Regardless of the nature of the relationship you share with these people, your lives are too engaged to maintain meaningful connections. However, the lessons you learned and the time you spent together will last a lifetime, whether you remember them fondly or consider them a spirit guide. Soul crossings teach us not to judge a soul connection based on the length of the relationship.
SOULFUL TEACHER
A healer or mentor may appear in your life through divine timing because that person is your soulmate teacher. All kinds of soulmate relationships can indeed serve as soulful teachers. They can be your lover, cousin, kin, college professor, colleague, neighbor, or even a stranger. You might have known each other for a long time, sometimes not very long, but you’re bound together only by a few life lessons. Your spirit guides send them to you at specific times in your life to guide you in developing skills like patience, love, empathy, self-growth, and respect. When soulmate teachers show up to instruct you, they challenge you to go against what they recommend, encouraging you to think for yourself. Whether we realized it at the time or not, we have all been in both roles, student and teacher.