Finding Your Soul Mate (Part 1), by Adam Sprackling, NLP Coach
Written by Adam Sprackling on 13th August 2010“In order to find love you need to love yourself first” – rubbish!
I’m not saying that being an emotional mess is attractive – it’s plainly not! – but the notion of there being a enlightened utopian state that you have to be in, in order to find love, is just not true.
I think it is a convenient stick (or excuse) to beat ourselves with if we find ourselves unhappy with the state of our relationship affairs. Indeed, the real reason we find ourselves without love is that we haven’t CHOSEN it – we’ve chosen something else.
When I say choice, I mean an unconscious choice that guides our actions, filters our experiences, colours our views and dictates what we end up getting in life. This choice may be one of independence – thinking deep down that we are better off alone in some way. But how do we do that?
- It may be due to a mistrust of giving ourselves up to someone else – I mean what will they do with us if we give ourselves to them on a plate??
- It may be due to feeling scared of commitment based on what we MIGHT miss out on – “Surely the grass if greener over there, hang on yes I think it is, look…!” “Oh, and now I’m there, the grass is even greener next door…” etc etc.
- It may be due to thinking that we’re not good enough to attract the partner of our dreams so we
a) end up not looking at all or
b) attract the wrong people and convince ourselves that it’s because all of the good ones have been taken
- It may be that we’re scared of rejection so we’d rather not try
- It may be that we just don’t know what we want or how we’ll know when we have it!
I went for years wanting a committed relationship, thinking that I was ready to meet “THE ONE”. But deep down, I was thinking or feeling all of the above!!
So if we don’t have to be a fully realised being before we can find love, what does it take to meet “THE ONE”?
You have to choose it! Whatever it takes, you have to DECIDE – not just consciously but unconsciously. Because your decisions in the past may have limited you from being “ready”, you have to address these old decisions and make new ones. Deciding on the relationship you want by a certain date is a great way to force you to clear out your emotional closet.
In Part 2 I will share with you the specifics of how I used this process and NLP coaching to meet my own soulmate.
Love life,
Adam Sprackling, NLP Coach


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