Why I Don’t Believe in ‘Negative Souls’
This is a tricky subject for me to write about because I know that it might be a controversial one in the psychic/Soul Realignment community.
Just to warn you, this article will probably only be of interest to you if you have been labelled a ‘negative soul’ or if you are a Soul Realignment practitioner or a professional psychic.
In the last couple of weeks, I did readings for two clients who had booked a reading partly because they’d been told by a psychic (a soul realignment practitioner) that they were negative souls. This caused a lot of distress to the two people involved and they wanted to know if it were really true.
Yet, the funny thing is – when I tuned into these people (their akashic record and their energy field), I didn’t find negative people at all. I found ordinary, essentially positive souls with some negative ‘stuff’ in their energy fields.
This is not the only two times this has happened. I have come across others who have been labelled negative souls when I found them to be positive.
This time it happened, it got me annoyed. I thought:
What could be more damning and awful to hear in a psychic reading?
You’re negative; on a path of darkness; basically evil.
These days, if someone said such a thing to me I would reject it, but at my more vulnerable periods (when I was in my late teens), it would have disturbed me to hear such a thing and it would have had me questioning my own identity to some degree.
So that’s why I am writing about it.
If you’re not familiar with this particular psychic training (Soul Realignment), you may be thinking…
Wait, when did psychics start telling people they’re negative souls?!
Soul Realignment as a training for psychics teaches you to check up on souls who come into you for a reading. There are two types of soul – negative souls and positive souls. Negative souls are souls who (and this is a really loose definition here) are like energy vampires – they drain other people’s energy. According to Soul Realignment, this is a choice they made on the soul level. They don’t receive their energy from Source, they receive it from other people. And they do this through negative behaviour – complaining, playing the victim, scaring other people, making other people think they have power over them, etc etc. I’m sure there are many more ways to drain other people that you can think of.
Soul Realignment teaches you to check up on whether a soul is negative or positive because you can’t do healing work for ‘negative souls’ – they are not interested in it, instead they are only interested in draining energy from other people.
Why it is very unlikely that a soul realignment practitioner would come across a truly negative soul in the first place…
The people who are truly on a path of darkness would never come in for a Soul Realignment reading.
In fact, the people who are truly on a path of darkness probably see themselves as healers and do-gooders (but it’s just that other people can’t see it) and that is an attitude that would never take to getting assistance or healing. Take Hitler for instance – I’m sure he truly thought he was doing Germany a favour at the time, yet he will be remembered by most as a truly evil person. If you’re worried you’re a negative soul, you won’t be one, because truly negative people won’t care about the effect they have on others.
How come two psychics see two clients so differently?
I believe that this can happen when two practitioners have two different beliefs about negativity in the world.
If you believe that some people are evil and with bad intentions, when you come across someone who energetically (AT THE MOMENT) matches a profile you have been taught (and buy into) for negative people who drain other people’s energy, that person may come up as a negative soul for you in a reading.
On the other hand, my belief is different. I don’t believe that the people (especially not the people who come in for spiritual healing) are ever evil so instead I see people with lots of stubborn negativity in their energy field. Those types of people who are invested in their negativity to a higher degree than other people and they may drain others because of it (and this a spectrum I believe – some can be really draining, others a little draining.)
Other possible reasons why a psychic ‘gets’ that someone is a negative soul:
A Soul Realignment practitioner in unusual cases may see someone as a negative soul because of their own issues with negative people. If a practitioner has lots of personal issues and vendettas against ‘negative people’ who did them wrong, that can affect their accuracy as a psychic because they’ll have their own agenda that they’re imposing on the client. For example, when they see a client whose energy reminds them of people in their life who were horrible to them, they may feel a need to go on a witch-hunt against those people (for their own personal reasons). A psychic like that will really hand it to a client, blame them and judge them when they show up with negativity in their energy field. I currently know of one person who is doing that in the wider psychic community, so it happens.
Secondly, someone you dislike may also come up as a negative soul in your soul realignment frame of reference if you’re a practitioner. Is that person evil/negative with no going back? Not necessarily (and probably not). It just means TO YOU, that person is a negative influence or factor in your life, because of things that have happened between you; because of the way you view them. Karmically, someone can be a real pain in the ass in your life to help you to learn something (as annoying as that sounds). Karmically speaking, we call that person ‘your negative’. You can also have ‘a karmic positive’ in your relationship with a person. And someone else may have an entirely different relationship to that person than you do. They may think they’re the best thing since sliced bread/a big pain in the ass. It’s all about perception.
So, it is my belief that this negative/positive distinction is not so black and white as we think. If you look below the surface, you will always see more layers of complexity. One of my teachers told me, on Earth you see things in black and white, where the angels see it in shades of grey. I agree with that. Your perception is where you look and where you decide to stop seeing the complexity. There is always more information to be had, but of course it doesn’t always serve us to be continually looking for another layer of understanding because then we’d never do anything in our lives!
So if you are a client who has been told you’re a negative soul by a Soul Realignment practitioner (and by my experience it seems there are a few of them around), ask yourself:
Does that message resonate with me?
Have I been acting very negatively or draining other people? Have my friends stopped calling because I always complain?
What can I do about the negativity?
If you don’t care enough to do anything about it, that’s a valid choice and that’s probably why you got called a negative soul in the first place (although I believe that’s a temporary state if you let it be).
On the other hand, if the message doesn’t resonate with you one bit, ask yourself how you feel about the psychic. Did the psychic ever resonate with you? Or did they give you a bad feeling from the start? Use your own instincts.
I am not slagging off Soul Realignment here or other Soul Realignment practitioners – it’s my background, I love the course and I know many Soul Realignment practitioners who do a great job. The only thing I don’t agree with (respectfully) is that people who are truly, absolutely negative souls on a path of darkness consult with psychics. And I don’t agree with practitioners who insist on telling their clients they’re negative souls with no going back. I suggest they check their own frame of references and prejudices before they impose that damning view on the client. I personally would reframe those findings in a way that shows the client their current energetic state and encourages the client to create change if they want to.
This is my opinion based upon my experiences with people and my experiences with the clients I’ve read for so far – (on a side note, I realized I read for my 500th client just recently – woohoo! 
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Do you agree with what is written here? Please feel free to share your views if you did or if you didn’t.
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Whoever gives readings to clients saying they are negative souls are deluding themselves.
Why would a negative soul purchase a reading in the first place? They’d rather use their time more productively by stealing energy rather give some stupid psychic money to get their negative soul read. I’m saying it’s very unlikely that a negative soul would choose to get a Soul Realignment reading. It just defies logic.
For those innocent people who are not negative and actually get a reading saying they are negative CAN BE VERY DAMAGING. So much so that whoever does this should lose their license to practise.
It’s just not PROFESSIONAL.
@Anna: Hmmm…. I disagree, I guess. Or not. I just think it is a matter of definition.
You seem to attach some judgment to the concept of negative souls. I don’t. I don’t see them as souls on a path of darkness. They’re just not on a path of evolution, which is different. They could be just stagnating around. I also don’t think they are evil in any way. It’s just a different choice. I know quite a few negative souls in my private life. They are lovely people and I love them just as much as the positive ones. As for the means they use (mostly unconsciously, btw) to get energy, I don’t see them as inherently evil either. Basically, I think there is nothing wrong with being a negative soul. (And I have nowhere in my Soul Realignment training seen anything about path or darkness or being evil.) This might be your judgment on it, but it’s just your judgment.
I see negative souls as people who are highly invested in their negativity which causes them to drain others – which is basically what you say too. The only difference is that you call them positive souls stubbornly charged with negativity in their energy field, and I call them negative souls. In the end, these are just labels. They have no meaning but the meaning we attach to them. In both cases, the practitioner can be judgmental about it, or not, and it can sound like being doomed, or not.
I think as long as we make it clear that it is a reversible choice, and as long as our attitude is non-judgmental and uplifting, it is really not important whether we call it negative soul, stubborn negativity in the energy field, or schwubbdiwubbblah.
So basically I think we agree and it’s all the same just under different labels.
Different frames of reference. But what counts in the end is our attitude.
Love.
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@Yang: I disagree with you.
First, I don’t see positive souls as “innocent” (or negative souls as “guilty”, for that matter). See what I wrote above about judgment or lack thereof. You’re free to judge, but that’s your choice.
Second, I don’t think anything we say can be “very damaging” for someone else. Your choices and feelings are your responsibility and nobody else’s. I think we should not try to over-protect our clients. I trust mine to take what serves them and leave the rest. Taking too much responsibility for their reaction and their feelings would be inappropriate of me. It would kinda imply that they’re not able to make their own choices, and that is disempowering. Believing that what a practitioner tells you causes you to feel bad means abdicating your responsibility, which belongs to you.
Third, about being professional… I told someone he was a negative soul. He was irritated about it and decided this wasn’t aligned with his values. He asked me for tips on how to learn how to communicate with his higher self and become a positive soul. He’s now better in touch with his higher self than most positive souls I know. Would he have done that if I hadn’t unintentionally kicked his butt by telling him about his being a negative soul? Who knows. But I think I definitely helped him align with his soul’s highest path and purpose. And that is being professional. Cause my job is to help people align with their soul’s highest path and purpose. It’s not to be nice and tell them what is comfortable for them to hear.
Love.
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Hi Rose! Thanks for your comment.
I get your point about judgment. You know, maybe there needs to be some new title for ‘negative souls’ because negative has a lot of well, negative connotations with it. It’s difficult to tell someone they’re a negative soul and for it to not sound damning.
The clients that I have come across who were labelled negative souls actually took it very badly because it was explained to them that they would probably not take a different path (which to me just sounds damning). And that they were essentially parasites – stealing energy their friends and family. So even if you have no judgment of ‘negative souls’, I can assure you that other people are assigning some pretty unpleasant-sounding descriptions of it. Because I have been hearing them from clients’ mouths. And when a practitioner makes a mistake or something goes wrong, it can be a pretty damaging thing to get wrong. So that’s my concern with this.
You can have a really nice definition of ‘negative’ but in the end, how much does it help to really call a person a negative soul? I prefer to call them people with lots of stubborn negativity in their energy field. I think it’s kinder and I think it helps them to disassociate from the negativity and see it less as part of who they are (if they want to). As opposed to you’re a negative soul (which is something about their soul nature).
Hey Anna,
thanks for the kind reply.
I totally get your point, I think. I guess you associate the word “negative” with “bad, wrong”. It’s all just semantics, but I don’t. I see it like in electricity: positive charges, negative charges. None is better or wrong. When I tell an electron it is a negative charge, that is not insulting to it.
It’s just a matter of polarity. Different polarities, all polarities are fine. Same with souls.
I can see how calling people someone with lots of stubborn negativity in their energy field helps them to disassociate from the negativity and see it less as apart of who they are – but at the same time, doesn’t this attitude imply that it would be “better” if they disassociate from it and become more positive?
What if it IS part of who they are – and that is perfectly fine?
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Rose,
Yeah. I guess I do associate negative with ‘bad’. And judging by what I’ve heard from clients who have been told they’re negative souls, they do too. It seems that association comes from the practitioners (judging by what the clients have said) but perhaps it was their perception of the information too. As I said, I think it’s pretty easy to take ‘you’re a negative soul’ in a bad way! Which is why I don’t like the term.
And it seems it’s also easy for practitioners to take the negative judgment that comes with the label ‘negative soul’ and run with it a bit.
That’s why I’m wondering if there could be some other way of labelling it, if it would help (a bit like being an LPI – I think explaining to someone that they’re an LPI doesn’t alienate them and close their heart to the message in a way that ‘negative soul’ does.) And also that way would have to emphasize that negativity is a choice, not something you’re condemned to.
Anyway, it sounds like you have a helpful, non-damning frame of reference when it comes to negative souls (as in, you don’t assign judgment to it, etc).
I think if using another word helps you and your clients to see it in a more positive way, that is great! And I agree that there could be a nicer sounding word for it. If you find one, let me know. I might adopt it too.
Love.
.-= Rosine Caplot´s last blog ..Are You Highly Sensitive? =-.
Anna, I haven’t ran into the theory of negative souls in my learnings but what you bring up is a valid point and I agree. I think the very fact that people react to being told that they are negative souls by becoming distraught says 1) that they really aren’t, and 2) that even if they are, they CAN change . . . because they want to and they’re distraught is evidence of that.
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Awesome discussion here. Really learning alot. I haven’t come across a negative soul yet in my practise. I dont like that word too and I know thats a judgement but sometimes I think when we’re told to not judge something, we are just suppressing our reaction cause deep down we are judging anyway even if we aren’t admitting it.
The thing I dont resonate with, is people who drain or leach other peoples energy. Gawd Im sure in my insecurity I do this. Im sure my kids would tell me Im draining lol. I have had friends who are draining too. But I dont see them as negative, I see them as having issues, usually fear of being alone or abandonment. Perhaps my frame of reference is more from a psychology angle than a Soul angle there.
I suppose too that theres a scale of negativity. I mean Hitler and child molesterers are up the top there, but then people who are draining are at the other end to me. To me negative implies the top end. The bottom end feels more blocked.
Rosine, not being on a path of evolution, I suppose at a Soul level thats this is the case lifetime after lifetime. I just dont understand why someone who wasn’t interested in Soul development would come in for a reading. Unless this is the lifetime it happens. And once again perhaps the judgement is about where I place them on that scale of negativity.
Very interesting discussion.
Thank you Anna, Often there is a fine line traveled by the reader when offering the elements of the reading that could be construed as “negative” or “bad news” to his/her client.
I believe that when the information is provided to the client getting a reading it should be presented in a calm and neutral way if possible that will place value on the corrective ways they can turn a “negative” situation or energy field into a positive one. Not to be bluntly referred to as a “Negative soul” or person.
Creating more stress or playing into common fears many people have about “Having evil qualities or being negative” is not the most beneficial for the client.
I truly enjoyed the questions that you posed for us and found the responses very interseting. Thank you for this article and I will be sure to send clients to view it and will be bookmarking it for my own site.
Hi Anna,
Thank you so much for sparking this great discussion!
You know, it was aspects of the SR frame of reference like this idea of negative souls that did not make sense to me and led me to give up doing readings for a while. (Must admit to having some “negative “judgments around the word negative too
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I’ve started reading again because I’m finding that, like Rosine mentions, there is more than one way to interpret the materials in the course. I can keep what resonates with me and discard, re-interpret, or change what doesn’t.
I agree with you that it’s easy to see how calling someone a “negative soul” could be really damning and not helpful. That’s my feeling about it at least. While I intend for my readings to be accurate and serve my client’s highest good, it will always be done in a way that resonates with me as very loving and supportive.
@Kate, I really like your perspective. Intuitively to me that idea of people draining the energy of others feels like a distorted way of thinking about things. Need to search for more insight within myself about this.
Needless to say, I am still coming to terms with the materials in this course and how I can best explain things my clients in a way that resonates with me.
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Anna,
Let me say up front how much I agree with you. I was hesitant to post my comment because of the whole “when in doubt, if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything”… My comments may sound angry. I apologize in advance for that. They are certainly not likely to be directed at anyone reading this.
But, Anna, I think the Level of the conversation that you’ve so bravely started here… You deserve to hear/know how much I have indeed reacted to it. Forgive me in advance for the length of my comment. Please receive it as my affirmation of the value of your blog.
I feel that there’s a “bottom-line” here which you called out quite accurately:
In what context would “negative souls” EVER be so invested in their spiritual development that they would seek the kind of spiritual healing or reading that we, as professional spiritual advisors, offer? That doesn’t even compute. That’s a vegan in a butcher shop.
Let me state absolutely for the record that I am not a Soul Realignment practitioner so I can not comment on the modality or techniques from that frame of reference. My comments come from a more general perspective of working as an intuitive… I hope that my input is still welcome, despite coming from outside that community. Please accept me entirely as an “outsider” if necessary.
It is SO difficult for me not to respond in a judgmental way. I commend you for finding a tactful tone for discussing this issue, as I have more “eternally drafted and side-lined” posts about this kind of thing than I care to admit — articles that I can’t seem to find a way of communicating without great anger and outrage.
I will go further out on the limb here and confess to my visceral gut reactions — I receive far too many requests for readings that I privately refer to as “Clean Up” sessions. These clients come to me in varying states of depression, panic, outrage, and disappointment… All states of Fear, where the Fear has resulted entirely from, or at least been compounded by, the work of another intuitive.
These “clean ups” revolve around Three Main Mess(ag)es:
1. They’ve been told they have “Negative Entities or Attachments” — What is WITH all the intuitives who offer this so readily as a “catch-all” for every imaginable situation and circumstance? Is it just easier for them to offer trifling labels that exacerbate superstition than it is to work with their clients in a real, practical context?
“You’ve got a negative attachment; and I can clear it for you.” This is snake-oil sales and fear-based marketing. It is an empty, pointless service with little to no constructive value. Those who employ it often must do so from at least (being very generous, here) ignorance.
2. They’ve had their “guides fired” — without their consultation, input, or express desire. They haven’t been presented with this as an option beforehand; just told it’s been done. This is the “Thing” that Makes. Me. Apesh*t. Is it possible that there are circumstances where this might be desirable? I’ll allow that there indeed may be. Are there careful, constructive ways of going about reassigning guides where the client is coached through the process as the rightful Leader of their Team? Sure there are!
Should any professional intuitive be assuming this role, taking this kind of action, and simply announcing it to a client — without first carefully exploring it as a possibility? I would argue NEVER. While I am not a member of the SR community, I am an Angel Therapist and have presented this practice to literally thousands of ATPs with a 100% HORRIFIED reaction.
This is a “Don’t even get me started…” topic.
3. Much more rarely this whole “You’re a negative soul” diagnosis, which is the point of your post. This is actually the easiest “mess to clean up” as the client needs very little re-evaluation and support to arrive at how inaccurate, even ludicrous she already knows this to be. It takes very little prompting to allay these fears with a client who is truly invested in her spiritual development.
So, preaching to the choir here:
The examples that you and the other commenters have alluded to “The Hitlers & The Child-Molesters” — this may be a perfect illustration to use here, of an extreme, but what is an example of a “more common” context where these “Negative Soul” diagnoses are warranted?
I mean, seriously, even the most sociopathic client is SO RARE, is it not? And even then, do they really even come close to a “Hitler-slash-Child-Molester”?
Is it just my practice, but are you guys attracting even the victims, family members, or associates of such extreme personalities?
What is going through the mind of a professional intuitive confronted with this information?
Would it not warrant SO MUCH confidence, checking and double-checking — not to mention careful crafting of a delivery that borders on agonizing — before one could comfortably and with integrity communicate such a thing?
The Over-simplification and Dualism of “Positive/Negative” is so dangerous. It’s a slippery slope of justification for so many evils and exclusions perpetrated from one group of broken human beings onto another…
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Great discussion Slade. I want to address what you wrote about entities. Only from my perspective as a practitioner and my own healing journey. The way I operate is that I dont say you have an entity and I will charge you money to clear it. If I detect an entity then it is cleared as a part of that session. The thing is, an entity as you say can be a catch all phrase but a good pracititioner should go into detail about what this entity is and why its there. Demystify it. So its not seen as some kind of scary monster lurking around them. A good pracititioner will empower the client so they see they are not a victim in all this. I dont ever see that engaging with an entity is like making a deal with the devil. Far from it. In fact clearing entities was what bought me to Soul Realignment in the first place. I think it depends on the delivery and how much peace the practitioner has made with that term.
Hi Darla – I agree!
Kate – that is a very good point, the bit about repressing judgment. We are human and judgments occur, especially around a word like ‘negative soul’. I truly believe that if anyone says they can’t feel any judgments whatsoever around it, they are denying their human side and they are disconnected to some degree from those they’re serving because I’m pretty sure the ‘negative soul’ will feel some judgment around it.
Also interesting what you said about draining people. I actually like people who are real and not afraid to express negative emotion and feel sorry for themselves once in a while if they want to.
People who are never happy and always complaining about everything obviously can be draining. But I think it’s much healthier to embrace negative emotion and express it if need be, than to be disconnected from how you really feel. I have found that if you are OK with the negative emotion, it passes quicker. I find so many spiritual people who emphasize positivity are not OK with feeling negative emotion and they think there’s something wrong about it, so they put on a front or they spin it so it seems better and that’s not a healthy way to deal with negative emotion.
As you say, the really negative people like the Hitlers and the child molesters are not going to come in for a session of soul realignment. The other people who are very invested in their negative state and sort of want to stay there, to me that also seems like a blocked place to be in – whereas a truly negative soul intends to cause drainage to others.
Getting told you’re a negative soul in that blocked state of mind is useless. Some Soul Realignment practitioners seem to think it’s a kind kick up the arse. I really think that not only is it useless, but for certain people it is an upsetting thing that does more harm than good, according to what I’ve seen from clients who have experienced it first hand.
Hi Adrianne! I think that is a good approach – to take what resonates and chuck out the rest.
Slade – it is good to get your input on this too because it makes me realize that I’m not the only one who thinks like this. I’m sure you’ve seen more cases than I have of this sort of thing and I totally understand your feelings around it.
I like what you said here:
The Over-simplification and Dualism of “Positive/Negative” is so dangerous. It’s a slippery slope of justification for so many evils and exclusions perpetrated from one group of broken human beings onto another…
I have come to the conclusion that our individual perceptions of ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ are so subjective. And given that we are all getting intuitive information through our unique and subjective frame of reference, it is impossible to say to someone ‘you’re a negative soul’ and for it to be objectively true for you, for them and for everyone else, because it’s through your own filters of what’s negative and what’s positive. And we all have different filters which are affected by our beliefs, past experiences, our relationships with loved ones, and the very different ways in which we all react to different types of people.
So I am going to be a bit provocative here and say that I believe imposing on another soul that they are negative is a kind of spiritual fundamentalism. The kind where you are imposing your rigid perception on that person with a view to them needing to change. In the end, how different is that from the fundamentalist Christians who impose their truth on others and ask for conversion? Other practitioners might disagree with me here, but to me, it’s the same sort of behaviour.
I can definitely see your point about firing guides. I have never found myself in a position where I feel I need to fire other people’s guides. Not sure what that would look like….My first reaction is that it is probably ineffective anyway if the client is not involved.
As for entities, yep I see your point there too. Some of this entity stuff gets abused. I have known people who abuse it.
I was trained in releasing entities. When I scanned for stuff in people’s energy fields it sometimes came up as astral-level (low-level) entity attachments. At some point probably about 18 months ago I realized there was no truth in that for me anymore – that people’s stuff was specifically ‘entities’ and I began to see the ‘stuff’ as negative frequencies. So I always talk of it in terms of negative programming and patterning and frequencies and don’t talk about entities, because just explaining what an entity was is like mind clutter and doesn’t add anything.
I think what also put me off was that when I was living in London, I met a guy who claimed to be able to see entities no other healer could see. And to him, everyone was riddled with them. You’d be talking to him and he’d say ‘I don’t know how you trust yourself, because you have 8 entities and they are messing with you!’ He used it to manipulate everyone around him when people disagreed with him or refused something.
Kate,
Let me assure you that I would not view the care you take in your approach as a “target” of what I disapproved. I was specifically referring to healers who use “The Devil made you do it” as a catch-all, cop out for more in depth work and guidance.
It’s dis-empowering to “blame” psychological, behavioral patterns on “a negative entity” when there is much that a person can and should consciously claim responsibility for changing.
(I think Anna’s example of the guy in London who claims to see entities no one else can, and uses that as a means of setting himself in a “I know something you don’t know” position – that’s the kind of person I was calling out…)
Anna,
I think your identification of “fundamentalism” is brilliant and EXACTLY what I was getting at in the part of my commented you quoted… Yes! The idea that someone who subscribes to a “New Age” spirituality must by default be incapable of fundamentalism is so NOT a given. Fundamentalism is a willful ignorance that simplifies and deflects challenges to one’s belief system by reducing another person or group to “less than human” as a justification for isolating (or potentially destroying) them.
I impress upon my professional students, in the Automatic Intuition Program the importance of leaving a client with “tools” for their own self-exploration and practical self-growth that extends beyond the moment or context of the reading or session.
I don’t feel it’s ever enough to identify a challenge or a “cause” for a client without offering an action plan that she can use to move forward on her own, independent of my insights.
That’s always where the change or evolution she wishes to see will come from — not from my reading, but from the confidence to exercise her own free will. I don’t believe it’s our job to “heal” anyone — but to present some perspective and offer some confidence and practical tools that will allow her to effect, to receive, and to manage her own healing.
I don’t see how this “negative soul” scenario could ever achieve anything but the opposite of that goal.
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oh i love this discussion.
Ive now decided Im not going to use the word entity anymore in my practice. Im going to use something like spirit attachment cause thats probably more my frame of reference. I dont see entities as *bad* and so feel that perhaps the contracts vows etc that we made in our past lives are still keeping us bound in some way to that soul. I think spirit attachment is more of how I see it. My journey was that I had an abortion 7 years ago and for 6 of those years Ive been working on finding a way to release that energy because on some level I haven’t wanted to let this spirit attachment go.
Anna, you know I realised after what you wrote, I find people who are only positive probably more draining than so called negative people and moaners and whingers. Perhaps its that being empathic I can feel all the shit that theyre suppressing lol. And being only positive is actually really controlling more than anything and coming into contact with it, theres not alot on the table for discussion other than one viewpoint. Happy and joyful. lol
Hi Kate,
I know exactly what you mean. I don’t like being around people who are bottled up either because I can feel exactly what they’re not expressing. So much healthier to have a rant and a cry and accept that it’s OK to feel like crap and feel angry at times.
But on the other hand, I’ve been a total expert at bottling it up too because I *hate* burdening other people or coming across as negative to others. That’s something I’ve found coming to Oz because I’ve had lots of bad days!! I’ve been learning to make peace with my negative emotion until it passes and the only way to do that sometimes is to just accept that you feel like crap and find a way to get it out.
I know that some people say that if you have nothing positive to express, say nothing at all. But I think that everyone (secretly if not openly) values realness in people because we can all relate to people who have bad days and bad moments as well as good ones.
It’s interesting, I was reading an article today by a woman who was married to a famous broadcaster in the UK and her husband died. She said she was shocked when she was grieving and no-one wanted to hear about her negative emotions or her grief. She felt totally unsupported and as if it should be avoided and she should brush it under the carpet. This really reminds me of some spiritually minded people who think negative emotion is quite unspiritual and definitely undesirable. To feel it at times I think is a natural consequence of a life well lived and one where you are taking on challenges and learning a lot. It’s human and we can make peace with it in any way we want to. For me, making peace doesn’t necessarily mean doing ‘the work’ on it or EFT or something (as much as I LOVE Byron Katie). Sometimes making peace is getting angry and smashing a dish!!
Aaargh! I’m going to argue with this definition of a negative Soul on behalf of Soul Realignment!
“Negative souls are souls who (and this is a really loose definition here) are like energy vampires – they drain other people’s energy. ”
Yikes! That’s a REALLY loose definition!!!!
I would agree with “not receiving energy from Source.” Lots of people disconnect from Source. And – well – they have to receive energy from SOMEWHERE, which pretty much leaves other people.
Are the intentions bad or evil? Of course not. And let’s not forget that no-one can do anything “to” us. If we surround ourselves with people who feel like they suck the life right out of us (and hey – we’ve all met some) then we’re attracting them for a reason.
But we have to call this phenomenon SOMETHING. When we’re not connecting to Source as … well, the source of our energy … we can’t evolve ourselves. Which means we’ve polarized into de-evolution i.e. “negativity.” Pretending it doesn’t exist doesn’t get us very far. Look around – separation from Source is everywhere.
We can charge that with a whole bunch of emotionality. Or we can witness that, perhaps, what makes us uncomfortable is that WE sometimes don’t connect fully to Source, that WE sometimes give our power away.
Naturally, I agree that telling someone in a psychic reading that “You’re a negative Soul – you’re beyond help” is ridiculous. And damaging. And, actually, just plain old mean.
Slade – I have to disagree with you about negative entity attachment. It happens. It’s a huge cause of human suffering. And it made me thoroughly miserable until I had a clearing done … and my life HUGELY changed. A total turn-around. Some psychics might use it as a catch-all, but in Soul Realignment, entity attachment is thoroughly investigated. Why, how did it happen, and what CHOICE did the client make that allowed it … all of those things need to be addressed.
However – yup, “firing” Guides summarily is something I’ve heard of and I find it ridiculous. Negative Guides do happen, and those are cleared and replaced. But just dismissing an entire Guide team – that’s just nuts and interfering. And I’m not even sure it can be done.
At the end of the day, we can all quibble here about what’s “true” etc. BUT the big question is: Are we serving our clients? And if we are, who gives a s%# if we call it an entity attachment or a negative frequency? Language is always, always going to be lacking somewhat.
Here’s why I LOVE talking about entities. Because it allows the client to KNOW that what is going on may be going on for them out of choice, but it is NOT WHO THEY ARE.
As for judgment – we’re human. We judge. We shape our reality through our perception, our judgments, our beliefs. EVERY person imposes their judgment on others. We have to view the world somehow.
Anna – if you’re going to write about how Soul Realignment defines something, I’d appreciate it if you included the subtleties. Or be clear that this is your perception of how the modality defines something.
All in all, I have to say that I feel my work just got slammed in this article. I’m very sad to have it be so misrepresented. A shame … it’s how a bunch of you all entered into this field.
.-= Andrea Hess|Soul Realignment´s last blog ..Intuition and Manifesting =-.
I can’t handle reading all those comments, so I’ll just throw this in and let others of more patience and robust constitution see where it sticks.
First off, while it’s probably very rare for a negative or non-evolving soul to sincerely seek healing, I don’t think it unlikely at all that they would go for “psychic readings” or whatever. In some circles it’s a status symbol – not to mention the high degree of negative energy they could create by telling the practitioner he’s full of crap. If the intuitive tells them they’re special somehow, bonus! Not to mention the fact that they can simply lie to their friends and tell them whatever they want the practitioner to have said. So if they have the money to throw away, there are all kinds of reasons for negative souls to seek us out.
That said, I’ve only come into professional contact with what I think was one – it was just a counseling session and she told me I was full of crap right off the bat. But she might have just been an afflicted asshole. She got her money back. No biggie – small price to pay for an education.
The very idea that a practitioner could project their personal tastes, preferences or experiences onto a client as you’re saying is simply unacceptable. If you’re right, Anna, these people should not be in practice. They’re full of crap. They damage us all and I hope they go away. Soon. You know I’m a Michaelite – I just ain’t gonna put up with it and if and when I know something for sure (an admittedly unlikely scenario) , I’ll name names. Period. I’ve put far too much of my own inner and outer resources into this to put up with people just playing at it to f*ck it up.
Next, my teacher (and yours) notes that many, many people simply don’t choose. They do what’s covenient at the time. Gray. But, I will stress that I do believe there are negative souls, make no mistake. In fact there are entire groups of them. They’re not gray – they exist to enslave and manipulate and abrogate free will. Negative to the max.
Lastly, since I’m running out of steam: I recently listened to a lecture on the topic of accuracy. I accept most of the ideas presented therein. One was that any reading can be “accurate” if its effect is in the highest good of all. Suppose those two people had gotten that upsetting information because they’d picked the wrong practitioner – wrong for them? The net effect of the reading was that it sent them scurrying to you. There;s no telling how synchronities are going to guide us in the direction we need to go. Perhaps they’d made the wrong choice because of a faulty recommendation from a friend, or because the other intuitive’s website was prettier than yours, or they were cheaper.
Anyhow, there you have it – for now. Sorry for the long comment.
.-= Michael´s last blog ..Unleashing The Beast =-.
Looks like Andrea was typing while I was – she hit the submit button first, but I can’t say I’d change anything I’ve said.
I’ve said it before: if you’re going to work within a framework, that’s what you do. When you begin to stray outside that framework, it might be as good for some purpose, but it’s not the same thing any more and shouldn’t be represented as such. Not a slam on you, Anna – you know how I feel about you. I just feel that when we begin to venture out on our own we need to keep things in perspective and take other things into account.
.-= Michael´s last blog ..Unleashing The Beast =-.
Hi Andrea,
I feel sorry you feel your work has been slammed in this article.
Maybe I didn’t keep consideration for you and your course in my mind enough while I wrote it – truth be told, I have a lot of respect for your work and got so much out of Soul Realignment (as you say, it’s how I entered this field and I am thankful that your course existed at a time when I was ready to enter this field.) If I didn’t love Soul Realignment, I wouldn’t recommend it to people.
What I am saying I don’t agree with is the practitioners who have told others that they are negative souls. All my reasons for that are spelled out clearly in this article. I wrote it not to slam your work but to make those people think. I did that not to be annoying to anyone or to be controversial (Lord knows I hate confrontation!) but because it REALLY bothered me that this had happened to a few clients who were in a vulnerable place at the time. And as I said, it’s not the first time. It’s about practitioners taking this theory about negative souls and running with it in a way that I have seen first hand is damaging and I won’t pretend that it isn’t.
I can’t put that down to ‘but this client attracted that experience so they must take responsibility’. If I see something that I don’t like, I have to speak up and say so.
But you personally are not to blame for this and I apologize if it sounded that way.
Andrea,
Thank you for adding your perspective to these topics.
This idea of “negative entities” attaching to souls has always been confusing to me. How can you really say with 100% certainty that negative entities exist? In your personal example that you mentioned, how do you know for sure that they were causing your suffering? Couldn’t it have just as easily been your belief that this was the cause and that it had been cleared by the practitioner that led to the positive changes you experienced?
Like you said in the accuracy teleclass, it’s all about what resonates for the client as helpful. And, we all have our own frame of reference and interpretation of what is going on at a spiritual level. So is any of this really so black and white?? I love the quote that Anna mentioned in her article that “what human beings see as black and white, angels see as shades of gray.”
Don’t get me wrong, I do REALLY appreciate your course as the stepping stone it has been for allowing me to experience my ability to help others in this way. It’s just that parts of the course (*to me*) has always seemed overly dogmatic and confusing. But, finding my own answers has been a HUGE blessing… so it’s all perfect!
Much Love,
Adrianne
Adrianne, if you’ve ever had a personal reading with Andrea and can still ask how she knows there are negative entities (or anyhting else), you weren’t paying attention. If you haven’t, you have no basis to judge.
The lady can defend herself perfectly well, but this is one area where I won’t entertain shades of gray: she knows what she’s doing.
Again: You either work within a framework or you don’t. If you don’t, call it something else.
.-= Michael´s last blog ..Unleashing The Beast =-.
“Again: You either work within a framework or you don’t. If you don’t, call it something else.”
I agree Michael. Because only some of the framework resonates with me… for the record, it seems that it is no longer accurate to say that I work within a soul realignment context.
I have had a personal Soul Profile and Realignment reading with Andrea (and done my best to “pay attention” to all SR materials I’ve encountered). But still, despite my open-mindedness and eagerness to lean, a real understanding of and belief in things like negative entities eludes me.
I DO NOT mean to intentionally “slam” anybody here… it’s just that this whole blog post and discussion would have been really helpful to me two years ago when I began this course in a state of naivete about such things.
Just trying to speak my truth because it feels good to do so and because there may be others reading who can relate to what I’m talking about.
Much Love,
Adrianne
.-= Adrianne´s last blog ..My Law of Attraction Relationship Testimonial Part Two =-.
Andrea, I dont feel your worked got slammed at all, I thought it was really focused on how a few practitioners have dealt with their clients being negative souls and the fall out from that and how it should be handled.
As for negative entities, Adriane, I suppose you have to call it something, negative entities is just a phrase, but really its about the delivery to clients and not scaring them but empowering them. Im sure most of us who are on a personal journey of healing know the difference before entity clearing and after entity clearing. I think though theres a sliding scale on this phrase too.
Oh another thing I wanted to add, its just a pity we dont have discussions like this on the SR forum.
You know what guys?
I must admit that I am being a total hypocrite — I’m guilty in my comments here of judging and criticizing the work of other intuitives, and identifying them as “separate” or “less” than me.
Bottom-line is: No matter how “true” my opinions may be, or how “justified” in my outrage — it’s really NOT constructive.
I think I usually do a pretty good job of presenting positive, practical, useful tools and techniques — and I’m confident the one thing my students would tell you about my mentoring is that they feel empowered and affirmed in doing this work.
I’m conscious of the fine line that exists between Critiquing What’s Wrong and Creating a Better Alternative… So, this is one of those times when I’ve crossed that line.
I apologize.
.-= Slade Roberson´s last blog ..The Best Way to Use Tarot Cards to Develop Your Psychic Abilities =-.
Oh well done for spotting that in yourself Slade. And very honest to put it out here. Must go check out your website lol
That’s OK Slade, I’ll do it for both of us. I have no problem whatsoever calling bullshit. If I’m to be excommunicated for it, it wouldn’t be the first time.
.-= Michael´s last blog ..Unleashing The Beast =-.
To everyone I wanted to say my aim with this article has been to make people think and put forward my views which I know are a bit different in this regard. Just to clarify, my main qualm was with what a few people have done with the soul realignment information, not necessarily with Andrea’s work itself.
I know that some of my comments got a bit on the ranting side which betrays the fact that this whole experience of doing ‘clean up readings’ as Slade called them, made me feel angry. I hope that it has stayed on the constructive side apart from that!
Kate wrote:
“Oh another thing I wanted to add, its just a pity we don’t have discussions like this on the SR forum.”
Yes, that would be (/would have been) nice. I never felt very comfortable doing it. So I am thankful for this. Even though many people reading these comments might be pretty confused. (Lol, if they get this far through *all* that we’ve written!)
“As for negative entities, Adriane, I suppose you have to call it something, negative entities is just a phrase, but really its about the delivery to clients and not scaring them but empowering them.”
Exactly Kate. It’s just the semantics of it/ parts of the specific definition of this term (and others in the course) that do not resonate with me. This part of what Anna said in her comment above describes really well how I feel about it:
“At some point probably about 18 months ago I realized there was no truth in that for me anymore – that people’s stuff was specifically ‘entities’ and I began to see the ’stuff’ as negative frequencies. So I always talk of it in terms of negative programming and patterning and frequencies and don’t talk about entities, because just explaining what an entity was is like mind clutter and doesn’t add anything.”
I feel like telling someone they have an entity attachment that is causing their negative “stuff” is disempowering if the cause is really just limiting patterns of thought and emotion that the client needs to consciously shift in their own way. Does that make sense?
Michael wrote:
“I have no problem whatsoever calling bullshit. If I’m to be excommunicated for it, it wouldn’t be the first time.”
Lol Michael, your authentic way of expressing your opinion is awesome! Even if we see things a little differently.
Slade wrote:
“I’m conscious of the fine line that exists between Critiquing What’s Wrong and Creating a Better Alternative
Amen to that! Everyone can just use whatever solutions/ alternatives work best for them and be done with it as far as I’m concerned.
.-= Adrianne´s last blog ..My Law of Attraction Relationship Testimonial Part Two =-.
Ohh, going to see your blog too Adrianne, sorry I misspelt your name the first time.
Ive got so much out of this, this is really the student dissecting the info and seeing what resonates, because of course we will attract the clients that are right for us in that context. I made my peace with entities for myself a while ago, but what I tend to notice in my work is that people have spirit attachments, but they weren’t always negative. So calling it spirit attachments feels right for me.
For me its not learning something and throwing the baby out with the bathwater because something doesnt’ resonate, thats why I like various opinions so I can have a sounding board to work out why I feel something and what I can do about it. Not feeling disempowered because I cant break it down and see whats going on within myself.
Kate, no problem about the misspell (lol, for some reason that extra ‘n’ is often tricky for me too when I sign in cursive!)… thanks for your considerate apology though
And, thank you for checking out my website. I made it using Site Build It! so it’s more of an info site than a blog at this point (sadly, *to me at least* at this stage it doesn’t have the functionality for comments)… but I digress.
I’m glad to know that you are getting a lot out of this discussion too. These are things I’ve been thinking/ wondering/ asking for higher guidance/ sometimes stressing out about for a while.
Thank you for contributing in the ways that you have and for sharing your perspective on what’s working for you
.-= Adrianne´s last blog ..My Law of Attraction Relationship Testimonial Part Two =-.
Aww aren’t you sweet Adrianne. Same back at ya.
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A lot has been said already, but I’m feeling compelled to responding to the Hitler/child molester thing.
There seems to be a big confusion going on between being a “negative soul” and being a “bad person according to our moral values and judgments”. These things are completely different.
Hitler is not necessarily a negative soul. Child molesters are not necessarily negative souls. And besides, I’ve read that most of them are people who were abused themselves in their childhood. Sounds more like hurt people than like bad people to me. I have never come across one in my practice so far, as far as I know, but I have checked one rapist’s record, and he is a positive soul. Most negative souls I know are absolutely charming and nice and doing nothing morally reprehensible at all.
I don’t know… This whole discussion here leaves me perplexed and wanting to raise my eyebrows. I agree with Kate: why is it not taking place internally on the SR boards? Sounds like there’s a lot of confusion and different opinions around the concept of negative souls. Why don’t we talk about it and align our frames of reference?
Love to all.
Rosine.
.-= Rosine Caplot´s last blog ..How to Solve the Problems in the World =-.
Rosine, we probably dont talk about it on the forum cause its basically where you go to ask questions, not get into debates. Pity. Its a bit like preaching to the choir in the forum.
I would think Hitler was a negative soul. Sure he had a childhood that can explain away his actions etc but the extermination of 6 million jews? he has no empathy and is probably a psychopath for sure.
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Hi Rose,
I think you have a good point that people who do dreadful things are not necessarily going to be ‘negative souls’.
You know, my problem is that I don’t actually believe in negative souls so I used the example of Hitler as someone who if there is a negative soul, let’s talk about him.
I don’t believe that souls take a negative status and stay that way lifetime after lifetime. Instead, I believe that we take different roles over lifetimes. I know that some souls choose perpetrator lifetimes where they do things like rape and kill or more minor things. If we look it up, most of us (if not all of us) will have had a perpetrator lifetime or several even.
People who come up as negative souls in a SR frame of reference could be in one of those lifetimes. Or they could have lots of negativity they are immersed in right now which keeps them in victimhood. I just don’t believe they have a negative soul status that they keep lifetime after lifetime, as their permanent soul status (unless they have chosen a series of perpetrator lifetimes in a row).
I like my intuitive information to be relevant and practical and meaningful. For example, if I tell a client that they have damage in their energy field, I want to know exactly what behaviour this manifests as. And how they can overcome it. And where it originated. So if a person comes up as a negative soul, but it’s someone who’s charming, nice, otherwise not negative or engaged in behaviour that drains others, I would be asking myself – why would they come up as a negative soul? What does it mean for them? What in their life reflects it? If it’s nothing, then that sounds like useless (and potentially hurtful) information in my eyes. I believe that it is unrealistic to say that negative doesn’t mean bad. If we say that then we are out of touch with the perceptions and mindset of most people and need to serve those with very flexible mindsets who can wangle the word negative into something that is OK.
After all, it states in the course – negative souls like to manipulate to gain power. They drain others’ energy in order to get their vital life force, they create drama to siphon off a bit of energy, they play the victim. None of those behaviours are particularly positive. They are unsupporting of those around or draining for those around them. And that’s who they are on a soul level?
How can we make that into something positive? I don’t believe I can.
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From my own little experience, I wouldn’t say that there are negative souls, but I would say the person’s ENERGY is negative. In some cases, the soul is not ‘negative’; it’s corrupted. This case applies to serial killers, etc.
SO, there’s quite a difference between negative auric bodies and negative souls. We need to separate between the two.
Also, in the former case, their auric field has more negative energy than positive. This is due many things. Their previous actions is mostly what determines this energy as we all may know…And this is easy for a sensitive to detect.
I remember when my Empathy started to kick in, there was this particular best friend of mine who I didn’t like to be around. He always held grudge and hate inside of him, he cursed A LOT (words hold vibrations, and this also does effect his auric filed), he listened to satanic and heavy metal music, he always did negative actions, and the energy was just too much for me to handle – I was drained around him!
In closing, I think it all comes down to how ‘negative’ is defined. Different psychics will tell you different things, but I doubt they will argue over someone who DOES have negative energy.
P.S. It’s worthy to mention that negative energy and the nature of the soul are connected. IF a person develops upwards (to spirituality), their energies become of positive/light nature. But if they do the opposite and develop downwards, their energies become negative/dark nature.
Hmmm…
I have been told people around me are ‘negative souls’, but I don’t feel that the word negative applies here. We’re not talking about bad people, so are we talking about people that are not of the ‘Light’?
We might say that Hitler was a truly evil person because of his atrocious actions, yet I don’t feel any resentment or hate towards the man. Would I be ‘blinded’ by Light, then? Isn’t that negative?
I don’t believe anything can be negative if there is not a chance of improvement.
Now that the fire has died down here…
Thanks for sharing this article Anna. I was informed that someone I know rather well is a “negative soul.” It really rubbed me the wrong way, because the person in question feels quite “light” to me – specifically not negative, and also because it sounded like a death sentence – like you are either black or white for eternity.
Intuitively, it was absurd to think a person is “negative” in the same way that a light switch is either on or off. Not only is that suggestion absurd, it’s impossible.
I proceeded to ask if I was negative, because I really have been negative all my life. However, I am quite sure the practitioner has me pegged as “positive.”
I didn’t know what “negative soul” meant, so I searched and found this. I am really glad to read this opinion, and I think it is quite a valid and true one–but that’s my opinion, as well as my personal experience, unclouded by any dogma.
Negativity and positivity in people, like temperature, occur in DEGREES and not in absolutes.
Now, when considering the definition given – that a negative soul is an energy vampire (definitely a bad judgment), and nothing more, I can say with 110% certainty that the person who was labeled a negative soul is categorically the OPPOSITE, while I AM a negative soul!
And it seems quite cruel to inform someone that they are an energy vampire and, because their immortal soul chose to be negative, it is hopeless for them to try to do anything to come out of their misery. Not only is it cruel, it is a lie.
Shall I just sit here continuing in my life to make liars out of everyone who says a “negative soul” is damned to be negative for all of life, if not longer? (For anyone who doesn’t know, being an energy vampire is both a state of and a result of suffering–more bad connotations.)
Which reminds me – why is everyone saying that people who are energy vampires/negative souls would never make their way to healers and psychics?! Hello, I am right here!
What perhaps worries me most is that the healer in question has been absolutely perfect all along. I did ask for the source of this particular information, but I didn’t get an answer. Maybe she was the source and not the usual guides.
If the guides were the healer’s source, and the guides have been spot on for 3 sessions in a row, why would they say this about someone who is the antithesis of an energy vampire? And then not label me as one, when evidently that’s pretty much all I’ve been…
And yet, not one of 4 different healers I’ve had has informed me I’m a negative soul–2 even think I’m positive.
What is really going on?
All this is my opinion sprinkled with a generous dose of confusion.
Hi Bitsy,
Just because a psychic gets an awful lot right doesn’t mean they are right about everything. Sometimes a system they have learned might have a few flawed aspects. I personally consider the idea of negative souls to be a flawed one. Instead I believe in perpetrator lifetimes, where a soul can be on a path of destruction for one lifetime, in order to learn something from it. Most of us have had perpetrator lifetimes. However, this is not a permanent state of being for a soul.