Recently I ran into this interesting article about soul mates on the web.

"You can almost always spot soul-mates, because they make each other more powerful as a team than they were apart! This is the first way to spot your soul mate.

If you are in a relationship, and you're having to rationalize how much this other person helps you (or hinders you) then they are not your soul mate. It's like two gloves of different shapes, purpose, and sizes. You can put them together, but they just don't look or work as good. Put two large handyman gloves together for the workman, or put two gardening size smalls together for the woman in the garden club, and now you can get some work done!

Take the word soul, add the definition with the definition for mate, and you've got a strong definition of a soul mate: "the core spiritual nature, immortal, inseparable even from death, mated to be together."

Considering this definition, let us also consider the second way to spot your soul mate: they are both aware of their spiritual nature. In most (I say most, because not all people acknowledge God publicly in the same way I do) cases, these two will have their eyes first upon God, second upon each other, third upon their purpose together. Their family, career, and other things will always follow in some priority after these three.

The third way to spot a soul mate is to recognize how the journeys of the two interrelate. All Soul mates are on a spiritual life journey. These journeys, when the souls coincide for maximum impact, almost always run parallel or coincide in such as way that that creates a relationship as much or more about the union, or the team, as the individual.

This is the third way to spot a soul mate: they put the team/partnership journey above their individual journey and desires. In the case of the woman and the man above, the choices are not so painful, as their joint purpose and joint relationship is going to support the individual's dream. The reason for this is that the individual's dream is complementary to the union in a soul mate relationship. At the same time, the relationship works in a way that each person's individual journey is fully supported. With soul mates, there is trust and respect. With trust and respect comes the ability to realize aspirations - both as a couple and as individuals.

The fourth way to spot your soul mate is to recognize how each partner (mate) brings real love into the other's life. If a person does not bring real love to you, but instead causes significant conflict, grief, angst, lack, and failure, then it is highly unlikely that this person is your soul mate. A soul mate helps to awaken your soul and makes it easier for you to learn the lessons you are meant to learn. A key difference is that the soul mate is not the lesson, they help you learn your lessons and support that growing process! The other relationships usually are the lesson and make it difficult to learn (especially when the participants are on a relationship merry-go-round of dysfunctional relationships).

Are you someone who is frustrated with searching high and low trying to find this soul mate, so much that you're starting to give up and feel it is a myth? You are not alone. However, there is hope for you in the faith of your clarity in the purpose of your mission. In the law of attraction, we must send out the thought and be something in harmony in order to connect with what or who we seek. This is the fifth way to spot your soul mate: there are harmonious and complementary natures between the two mated people.

Sometimes, when people are coming from ego, rather than spirit, the relationship becomes about what you have (possessions) rather than who, or who, you are (experiences). Soul mates are about experiences far more than possessions. Because you cannot take your possessions with you. Your spirit does not own your possessions. But your spirit does own your experiences."

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Never give up on searching. Soul mates do exist.