What is Soul Consciousness? What You Need to Know!
Do you sense that you are much more than just your thoughts, emotions, and physical body?
Some of us brave souls are curious about this part of existence and we want to know more!
As the author of The Butterfly Silhouette: 12 Principles for Following Your Soul, that won awards at the San Francisco Book Festival in 2012 for spirituality and poetry for the 1st edition, I know that the soul is the essence of who you are.
If you are ready to understand awareness as a soul, not just the brain, body, personality… you are being called to expand your soul.
This article will explore the nature of soul consciousness and how to use it for healing, clarity, and the highest good for all concerned.
What is Soul Consciousness?
Soul Consciousness is the awareness that you are a divine being. You have a soul that is eternal and temporarily in a physical body. It’s knowing that this part of you is here to learn, grow, and expand. It’s seeing all of life from this soul-centered point of view.
Imagine being 100 feet above your body, looking down at you from your soul’s eyeballs. Seeing yourself drinking coffee, walking around your home, washing your face. Imagine seeing yourself with loving, caring eyes and thinking something like: There she goes again, having the courage to begin a new day and do all of that. Bless her heart!
For a complete guide to following the soul including what is the soul, scientific views, world views, soul awakening, soul guidance, soulful living, and much more, read: How To Know and Follow Your Soul.
Consciousness: Original Source Energy
Imagine all life, love, and wisdom flowing through the universe as one giant, invisible ocean of intelligence… that is source energy.
Your soul is a unique drop of that ocean, containing all the same wisdom and potential.
The concept is this: The source energy that creates everything is the divine spark inside you, representing your soul’s connection to the divine. You are part of source energy. This is the idea behind unity consciousness or oneness.
For greater understanding, here’s my article: Oneness Spirituality And 7 Wonderful Ways to Bring it into Daily Life.
We are co-creators with divine source
You are co-creating your life with a higher power that has your highest good and healing at the center.
As you trust this relationship with the divine, you begin to live in the flow. It’s not easy, because soul growth is circular, not linear! At times, we’re in the flow, life feels easy… and then something happens that throws us out of flow and we have to choose it again.
Choosing and choosing again to love ourselves, to dial down the fearful ego, and to evolve the soul is choosing a higher form of existence.
When you feel a sense of limitlessness or ultimate truth, that is your soul essence remembering its home. By tapping into this, you are simply plugging into the infinite power supply that connects all things, animates all things.
One of my favorite books, and there are many for the soul curious person, is Journey of Souls by Michael Newton Ph.D. It’s so mind expanding and shines a light on what souls are thinking.
This book is fascinating.
The Difference Between Your Mind, Brain, and Soul
The biggest confusion people have is thinking their brain creates their consciousness. It doesn’t. The brain takes the infinite signal of your Soul Consciousness and compresses it, filtering out the overwhelming flood of information so you can function in the physical world.
The mind is the collection of human thoughts, memories, and beliefs that the brain gathers, forming your ego. But your soul is the constant observer, the awareness behind all those thoughts.
By recognizing this, you move from feeling defined by your limitations to living through your infinite potential, setting the stage for your soul to grow and evolve.
The Mechanics of Soul Awareness: Frequencies and Perception
Your soul communicates using energy, or vibration frequencies. Just like a radio station, you are always tuned into a certain frequency based on your thoughts and feelings.
Soul Consciousness speaks loudest when your frequency is high and clear.
My book The Thought Store is about a fictional store in the future that sells thoughts in physical form. The book uses the term vibration throughout to illustrate how our thoughts are energy.. and they each carry a frequency.
Recognizing Awareness Beyond the Five Senses
Your soul receives information in ways the five physical senses cannot.
This wisdom comes as pure intuition, a powerful gut feeling, or even a sense of being protected during a challenging moment.
This is your soul perceiving reality directly, without needing physical evidence. It is always online, gathering the facts that matter most.
These moments of undeniable internal knowing, often called inner guidance, are the direct language of your soul.
When you practice spiritual discernment—sifting the soul’s steady truth from the ego’s constant fears—you begin to rely on this inner wisdom more than external opinions. Trusting this guidance is essential for receiving true emotional healing.
The Vibration of Soul Consciousness
Every emotion creates a vibration. Heavy emotions like fear, worry, and doubt are lower vibration, making your connection to Soul Consciousness muffled and unclear.
Lighter emotions like gratitude, love, and compassion raise your frequencies, creating a clearer signal to source energy.
To consistently access your soul’s wisdom, your job is simply to manage your energy. However, and this is important: You don’t want to ignore heavy emotions. They must be felt. Keep this phrase in mind:
Feel it, don’t feed it.
When you choose thoughts that feel expansive and good, you are matching the highest vibration of your soul. This state of high frequency is key to shifting your reality, ensuring you naturally attract circumstances that support your highest good.
Discerning the Voices: How to Tell Ego from Soul
The loudest voice in your head is usually the ego—the worried part of you focused on survival and what others think. Trust me, you’re not alone in this!
The secret to living from Soul Consciousness is recognizing the qualities of these two very different voices.
Recognizing the Ego’s Fearful Patterns
The ego vs soul dynamic is one of contraction versus expansion. The ego always talks about what you lack, what you should fear, or what you need to control.
It focuses on past regrets and future anxieties, keeping your consciousness trapped in clutter. This constant chatter creates separation from your own power.
The ego requires constant external validation; it needs praise, money, or specific outcomes to feel safe. When you find yourself obsessing over what someone else thinks or pushing yourself to achieve something out of panic, you are listening to the ego.
It is a necessary part of human survival, but it is not who you are. Thank God!
How to Hear Your Inner Guidance and Soul Voice
Your soul voice is recognized not by the volume of its message, but by the quality of its energy.
When the soul speaks, the message feels expansive and loving, even if the guidance is gentle honesty. This inner direction always points you toward a path of flow and joy.
Cultivating the ability to hear the soul is one goal of spiritual practice. My Soul Alignment audio program can help you with that.
When the soul speaks, the message feels aligned with your true self, creating immediate inner peace and making the decision feel right in your body. This connection is how you move into consciously creating your destiny.
Activating and Maintaining Higher Awareness
Living from Soul Consciousness is not about escaping reality; it is about bringing the wisdom of your soul into your everyday human life. This integration is what generates profound healing, absolute clarity, and powerful alignment.
Soulful Practices for Daily Alignment
You don’t need to dedicate hours to silent meditation, although meditation is an important spiritual practice.
You simply need to dedicate moments of conscious presence, quiet time, and intentional time for healing and connection.
Again, my Soul Alignment program is short, easy and will help you have a daily routine. It’s the routine I use.
Simple spiritual practice like pausing to take three deep breaths or listing five things you are genuinely grateful for immediately shifts your energy.
You can also deepen your connection by making choices based on feeling: Does this feel expansive or contracted?
This quick self-check helps with spiritual discernment. A lot of this path is about mindfully and soulfully living your life.
The Profound Outcome: Healing, Clarity, and Highest Good
When Soul Consciousness becomes your guide, the practical, human-centered results are undeniable.
Emotional wounds and old patterns that your mind struggled with begin to resolve, generating deep inner healing. Confusion about your direction vanishes, replaced by effortless clarity about your next step.
Your entire life pivots toward your highest good because you stop resisting the flow of source energy and start collaborating with it. The surrender of control ceases to be a struggle and becomes an act of powerful trust. Living from your Soul Consciousness is the ultimate act of soulful self-love, ensuring your journey on Earth is filled with depth, purpose, and spiritual freedom.
Final Thoughts
You are not a person on a journey to your soul; you are a timeless soul experiencing temporary human form. You’ve heard the saying: I’m a spiritual being having a temporary human experience?
Well, if that’s what you choose, you’ll see your life from your soul’s perspective. It becomes about learning and growth and your Soul Consciousness is the most loving, powerful truth within you.
Embrace your higher self, prioritize your alignment, and let the guidance of your soul voice lead you. The world needs the unconditional love, clarity, and healing that flow only when you live from your true essence.
As we heal ourselves and follow the soul, we help heal the planet.
