The idea of a soul mate is fairly limited in the traditional sense. Most people, when they think of a soul mate, think of their one true love that they will spend the rest of their lives with.
The truth is that soul mates are not restricted to just your life partner. They can be, but they are also so much more. They can be your best friend, lover, or good friends you just always intuitively connect with.
Whether you share the same spiritual journey, learn from each other, or are here to aid one another, you are in a soul mate relationship. I believe this is a very positive outlook as it will open your heart and mind to more opportunities and make self-discovery easier.
If you haven't already, read this amazing excerpt on soul mates from Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers by Orin and Sanaya Roman. You can learn more about them at Orindaben.com
Excerpt From Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers
By Orin
Orin: Soul mates are friends and loved ones who are responsive to your love, and with whom you are deeply connected and share a common path and purpose. Your soul mate may be someone who has come to be with you and learn similar lessons. Or, it can be someone who has come to assist you in your spiritual growth by showing you more about yourself and offering you ways to open your heart. I will call these people soul mates. A soul mate can be someone who is connected to you from other lifetimes and with whom you are continuing a well-developed past-life relationship. Or, this may be your first lifetime together on earth.
Most people have more than one soul mate. You may already be in several soul mate relationships with friends and loved ones. A soul mate can come in the form of a life partner, treasured friend, child, or lover. A soul mate can be someone with whom you share a spiritual path, a joint work in the world, or a commitment to be parents to certain souls. It can be someone whose growth you are sponsoring, such as a child.
Soul mates can be an older,
younger,
or same-age soul.I will define soul age as the amount of soul love, soul will and purpose, and soul light that people are able to express through their personalities. Soul age reflects the degree to which people are living as souls and the receptivity of their personalities to their souls. The age of a soul in the examples that follow is relative. You may be a very old soul, and a soul you are with may be a very old soul, yet a younger soul than you are. Or, you may be with an older soul than you are, yet still be an old soul yourself. If you want to attract a soul mate for an intimate relationship, decide if you want to attract a younger, same-age, or older soul as your soul mate. Or, you can leave the choice to your soul.
Being in an intimate relationship with a younger soul offers you many opportunities to develop the qualities of teaching, serving, and empowering. Younger souls can provide you with a chance to pass on much of what you have learned and to recognize the growth you have gained. Being a teacher can be very rewarding when the younger soul is willing to grow and wants to learn from you. If the younger soul does not want to change or grow, you will most likely feel drained and frustrated rather than energized. If someone's soul age is a great deal younger than yours, you may expend much energy with few results.
Love is truly a wonderful emotion. But equally as important, love is actual energy. Love itself, defined as affinity for anything and everything, is the creative force that gives power and manifestation to the universe and everything within.
When love is realized to be energy, and when it is directed at a desire, just as electricity is used to power a light bulb, we can end all despair, win the "earth game," and move forward into our next epoch (with our soulmate(s)).