Dear Soul

Keep Going Dear Soul by Conscience works publication

We live in a generation that lacks authenticity, honesty, and empathy. We do not understand each other or each other's struggles as human beings. Today, my culture needs more love and understanding than ever before. We need more healing, growing, and development than ever before. Our souls are being killed by technology, expectation, and separation. Dear Soul is my attempt at laying the groundwork for recovery, healing, and moving forward. Dear Soul is my journey journal written in conversationalist tone, a very intimate, introspective style of poetry, and it shows the twisted romantic observations of the world, which we have all seen. This book connects to every human because it is based on finding love after pain. Pain is something that is common to each of our stories. Let's be honest-how many of us are still suffering from incidents from our childhood? When we struggle in life, the problem is not the problem. The problem is not having adequate solutions or resources to really move forward from the stresses. Dear Soul is the ultimate book to help you take an introspective look inside to uncover a deeper connection with self and a deeper scope for possible solutions for any type of pain. As a writer, my style has been dubbed "visionary poetry," and my purpose is to combine observations, poetry, and persuasive logic. My only goal is to cause an intense amount of thought or reflection inside of each reader. I do not put my words together to be "right." Right and wrong are relative and based on a person's perception and experience. It would be egregious of you to tell me that anything I am writing about is wrong, and vice versa. Nothing is wrong; everything in life is all about perception and perspective. The user who will get the most from this book is one who will relate to the topics that are relevant to his or her personal growth. The other user is someone who will step outside of his or her bubble and understand another's struggle. Once you can holistically understand another person's struggle, then you have activated empathy, and I believe that empathy is the most important quality missing from our culture. Once you have a culture of people who understand each other, are comfortable with self, and able to communicate effectively, then you raise the vibration of the entire world with that energy. We sit inside of our bubbles and internalize the pain of everything that happens to us, but we don't align with our struggles or successes. I am genuinely happy when I see people succeed at something they've worked for. I am able to share the joy as if it were my own accomplishment. I am able to feel the pain of a woman who doesn't feel comfortable walking down the street at night alone. No, I have never been a woman, but I have listened to those stories and tried to put myself there. Let's just be honest. This generation does not talk about sex, race, or pain from our childhood. We ignore those topics and we ignore self-love. I never heard the word self-love when I was growing up. As a child, I also didn't hear the word love much. I went on several spiritual journeys in my early twenties to discover the deepest version of self. What I present to you here is a continuation of the journey. I am happy, I am healed, and I am as healthy as I can be. Today, I am sharing a spiritual, emotional, and health journey with you inside of these lines.

Today, I know that everyone is looking for answers and trying to find a way to solve the crucial season of our time in history. We long for leadership and to be the ones that are right. The news overwhelms us. We are finding it harder to sleep and to know what to eat. We have more questions than answers. I wrote this book because I feel that this world needs a huge dose of love, a love that endures and holds the truth. It is also to fund my assignment, Jardin De Suenos (garden of dreams). In my thoughts, it goes like this: Our days are filled with listening to the seminars and daydreaming with the people who come to find their purpose as to why they came to this realm and what they will give to it. Three people would always be free to come to find their purpose and dreams, teaching sustainability, mission work, and health issues. We greet and listen to their dreams, and we all work on the gardens in our prospective cottages as a choice. And in the evening hours, we gather to hold their purpose with love in our hearts for the highest good. In the quiet hour is the garden of Vespers (the Evening Star), and this garden is silent. Then we each return to our cottages as we dream together. We connect in prayer and meditation. This provides each individual with the support and insight into who they truly are. Every month, we would hold a different topic, issue, or class that they may find their purpose for coming. We also use these grounds to come together for brainstorming sessions for the highest good of all. There is an abundance of love, kindness, wisdom, and courage to be and do. Sweet dreams! Blessings always, Arleen R. Fraijo

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