by Mark Pitstick MA, DC

If you’ve not already, please read . . .

  1. ‘The Great News‘ (article #19 at SoulProof.com/Articles)
  2. ‘Eight Developments for Widespread Conscious Living Now’ (#125)
  3. Greater Reality LIVING Program: Integrating ‘The 8 Developments’ Into Your Daily Life (#72)
  4. Greater Reality HEALING Program: Journeying FROM Deeply Grieving TO Brightly Shining (#82)

The evidence-based information and holistic resources outlined in these articles will help you to:

  • realize your true nature as an eternal being of consciousness / life-force / energy 
  • receive guidance and assistance from highly evolved energies and Source / The Light
  • heal old wounds, release lower energies, and update erroneous teachings
  • create the greatest life YOU have envisioned (YOU = your higher self / soul)
  • help others by sharing your greatest gifts
  • make our world a better place

As enough people do this, widespread personal and planetary change will naturally unfold. 

 

Are You ‘The Weird One’ In Your Family?

I often receive correspondences that start with: ‘I’m the weird one in my family.  I am so glad to learn that someone else thinks like I do.’ 

Wait a minute!  Are they saying I’m weird? 

Seriously, I take it as a compliment.   

Older root meanings of ‘weird’ included: supernatural, having the power to control destiny, and otherworldly.  Those all sound like good attributes to me.  However, the word is usually used today to convey strange or abnormal in a bad way.  As such, I’ll use the word different instead of weird this article. 

Six factors that may contribute to you being, seeming, or feeling different during your time on earth . . . 

1. You may seem different because, you are more evolved energetically / spiritually than most people living on earth.

Michael Newton PhD, founder of Lives Between Lives therapy, estimated – based on his 7000 cases over 35 years – that approximately 85% of humans are beginner souls.  He considered another 13% to have intermediate energies while another 2% are advanced.  Those estimates were based on clinical studies that now include 40,000 cases in 25 countries. 

Another way to look at this is to consider what emotions and energies predominate in a person’s life.  Higher energy emotions include peace, joy, love, gratitude, enthusiasm, and fulfillment.  Lower ones include anger, despair, hatred, resentment, guilt, and malaise.  More advanced people – again, whether living on earth or elsewhere – tend to focus on the first list.  This isn’t about being perfect.  It is about consciously choosing, moment by moment, to focus on life’s silver linings instead of the clouds. 

(Note: You’ve likely heard the term ‘old soul’ to describe more advanced beings.  However, that term isn’t accurate because growth and evolution aren’t guaranteed over time.  Some older persons – whether living on earth or elsewhere – might repeat the same mistakes and thus be less wise / balanced than younger ones.)

2. You may feel different because you are an atypical soul than those who usually incarnate on earth.

This factor considers experiential evidence that is based on firsthand experience.  Anecdotal reports hold that, after a visit to somewhere like earth, many souls return to a physical home in a certain star constellation.  (That is in addition to returning Home –by more clearly remembering they are part of the Light / Source Energy now and always.)  Perhaps you’ve heard of past life regressions that identify a person being strongly connected with Sirius, Alpha Centauri, or another star system.

However, there appear to be other types of beings who don’t have a home base like a star system.  These are, I’m told, more rare visitors to earth.  They may feel like a stranger in a strange land – at least initially – while visiting this planet.  (Raise your hand if you’ve felt like this.)  Throughout my life, I’ve been told by five different people independently that I’m different than the usual type of beings who come to earth.  They used terms such as ‘teaching soul’ or ‘blue printer’ who don’t have a home base but, rather, arrive at various places in the cosmos where most needed. 

3. You may be different because you and your soul group set that up.

A third facet to this discussion is that you may seem and/or feel different because close family members and friends are acting as contrast souls.  What?  Here’s what I mean.  Members of your soul group – some sources say about 25 primary soulmates and a larger number of secondary ones – may have purposely taken on limiting roles to assist your growth.  You may actually be the ‘slow learner’ in your cluster of dear ones who are deeply connected in different time / space scenarios. 

These soulmates – your cast and crew during this earthly experience – may take on a cruel or uncaring role to lovingly motivate you to reach down deeper.  Your struggle, and accompanying potential for a breakthrough, can help you better know and show your high nature. 

To understand how this makes sense, it’s understood – before entering a challenging earth visit – that you and everyone else:

  1. are eternal beings of light / energy / consciousness

  2. are integral and beloved parts of All That Is right now

  3. are inextricably interconnected with other people, animals, and life forms

  4. can’t lose loved ones despite outward appearances to the contrary

  5. know within that earthly experiences are totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventures amidst forever

Is it worth feeling alienated for a very short time to more deeply remember and demonstrate this great news?  Most awakening beings think so. 

4. You may seem different because you haven’t expanded your relationships.

It’s important to identify and spend quality time with members of your tribe – kindred spirits who love, accept, and respect you for who and how you are.  These people become your inner circle of relationships.  Unfortunately, your family members may not necessarily be in this group.  When I was young, I wrongly assumed that relationships with my immediate and extended family members would be the closest and most supportive.  I even felt guilty as I slowly realized that wasn’t the case. 

Now, many of my dearest relationships involve friends, not family.  Some are part of my life for only a short while, but they make a big impact on me.  Others seem to be enemies but, over time, I realize they are among my greatest teachers. 

By all means, try to be close with your family members.  But if that doesn’t happen for some reason, don’t feel badly about it. 

5. You may think you are different because you haven’t lived authentically and opened up to the right people.

Being transparent about yourself is one key to finding members of ‘your tribe.’  No matter how you live, some people won’t like it.  So you might as well be you and let the chips fall where they may.  Living authentically is a great barometer for finding those who accept and love you for who and how you are.  In my experience, it’s better to know who you can trust and open up with.  Openly sharing your beliefs is a great way to do this, but be prepared for some rejection and criticism as you explore who is in your inner circle.

Recently, I told a family member about my involvement in the SoulPhone Project.  (to learn more, visit SoulPhone.org)  I described the replicated university-based scientific studies that clearly show life continues after bodily death.  I explained the various devices used to allow rudimentary communication with these postmaterial persons. 

He listened quietly and then said, “Mark, I think you’ve gone over the deep end on this one.”  His religious belief, based on a 2000 year old book that has undergone numerous changes, is that souls stay in the ground until a judgment day.  Ergo, we couldn’t communicate with them because they are dead.  

Now I know to not share what is really important to me with this person.  Although he is a close and beloved family member, he isn’t in my inner circle. 

There’s another advantage to living transparently: it helps you discover just how many people are like you.  In the past, many people didn’t share their spiritually transformative experiences – such as near-death experiences and after-death communications – for fear of being considered kooky.  (Witch hunts and burnings were not that far in the past after all.)  Now, thanks to the abundance of books and media interviews, we know just how common such experiences are. 

Talking about your different experiences gives others permission to do the same, perhaps for the first time.  This is one reason we started Greater Reality Living groups – to create safe places where people can share their spiritual experiences without fear of judgment or ridicule. 

6. You may be different because of poor choices in the past that damaged your brain.

Finally, you may feel different because of poor decisions in the past.  During my theology school internship for pastoral counseling, I tried to help unfortunate persons in our state psychiatric institution.  Jim, a young man who tried PCP, basically fried his brain.  He ranted endlessly about topics that seemed very important to him but were gibberish to others.  Jim was different because he made himself so.  Others are different because of self-created brain imbalance by excess alcohol, drugs, poor self-care habits, and driving without caution.

I’m not, by the way, being judgmental about these paths.  In the long run, their suffering may be exactly what they or those around them needed.  For example, Jim’s plight may have touched many people and awakened them to the dangers of drug experimentation.  Beginner souls who need to learn to become caregivers need someone to care for.  Who knows, Jim might have been an advanced soul who chose to spend part of his life energy in the role of a brain damaged youth.  Why?  So others could practice becoming doctors, pastors, and other kinds of caregivers.  

Soul-utions

Six keys to living on earth in a more full / balanced way AND remembering that you are not solely of this world include: 

  1. Remember who you are. The more you recall your true nature, the more this brief earthly experience makes sense. To learn more, see articles #1, 11, 15, and 51 at SoulProof.com.  The Ask Your Soul Technique, available at SoulProof.com/Shop, is especially helpful for this and other solutions. 

  2. Release past abuse, fears, and misinformation. Realizing and expressing your inner light and loving nature may be blocked by old physical or emotional wounds, needless fears, and past erroneous teachings. To release and heal these, see articles #10, 16, 29, and 40.  The most powerful way I know to do this is the Holistic Breathing Technique. 

  3. If you are empathic / sensitive. People with higher energy emotions often are more sensitive than the average person.  This can lead to burn out or depression if the person isn’t grounded and centered.  Empaths sometimes self-medicate with drugs and / or alcohol in an attempt to numb themselves and not sense all the pain and suffering.  There are better long term strategies.  (articles # 12, 23, 31, 51).  

  4. Trust and learn from your spiritually transformative experiences. Some people have beautiful wake-up calls but don’t follow up on them. Others may, over time, consider these experiences to be their imagination or unimportant.  (articles #17, 51)

  5. Optimally care for your body and mind. The human body has been called the temple of the soul and for good reason. It’s your temporary earthly vehicle that gets the real you from womb to tomb.  Wise persons care for it like the precious and sacred creation it is.  Advanced souls may find it very difficult to function on earth and consider suicide to return Home but this usually isn’t wise for a number of reasons.  (articles # 5, 12, 24, 26, 32, 33, 36, 37, 43, 51, 54)

  6. Identify and fulfill your life purposes. Good evidence indicates that we each are on earth at this time for meaningful reasons. You will feel more happy, peaceful, and fulfilled when you are doing what you came here to do.  Those who feel different may have trouble figuring out what lifework they want to do.  This could be, in part, because they are capable of so much and can’t limit themselves to one job.  However, this can become a vocational dead-end and result in lower income and quality of life.  My advice is to start with something, especially what you are most passionate about.  (article 21)

There are other reasons you may seem, feel, or be different.  And there are other solutions for improving your life.  Everyone is unique, but this article provides a good start. 

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Thank you for telling others about this article!  Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:  

  1. read the article again so you really know it.
     
  2. discuss with close family and friends to more deeply internalize it.
     
  3. take action steps that seem right for you.
     
  4. share it with others via social media, discussion groups, and other ways.

Hugs, love, blessings, and let it shine!
Mark

Mark Pitstick, MA, DC
author, lecturer, counselor, and holistic chiropractic physician; spokesperson, research assistant, and strategic planner for the SoulPhone Project; founder of Greater Reality Living, Healing, Helping, and Sharing Programs

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Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is a master’s clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, and clinical nutritionist.  He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings.  His goal is to help you know and show that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity. 

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Note: This article is intended as a reference source, not to replace professional treatment for physical, emotional, or mental problems.  The author disclaims any liability arising directly or indirectly from the voluntary use of action steps discussed in article. 

I created this article while ‘wearing the hat’ of a clinician, counselor, and educator.  My statements are based upon some scientific research; much clinical and experiential evidence; my personal experiences; and my best current understandings.  This program does not reflect my roles with the SoulPhone Project since those require solid scientific data for all statements.