Meeting the 10 Emotional Needs of the Soul
Every winter, I enter into three days of meditation as part of an ancient and on-going visioning ceremony for the world.
These ceremonies are always powerful and deep, but this year’s insights caught me by surprise, and I want to share my discoveries with you.
In this ceremony, the elders and I enter into the depths of Sacred Feminine essence, Holding without judgment all who come to be Held.
We don’t fix, heal or mend anyone. We don’t try to make anyone better. We simply hold all—people, animals, aliens, and the earth—in unconditional love.
We typically begin by Holding ourselves and then for three days we Hold individuals within various groups like: politicians, judges, people in prison, children in hospitals, mothers, fathers, etc.
A New Way to Approach Emotional Pain and Emotional Healing
But this year, we received a new way to Hold people. It began with a vision from a past life in which I remembered what it was like to be wanted and received at the time of my birth. I had no idea I needed to remember this, or that it could fill me with so much joy.
We then Held people whose spirits came to us, according to their fundamental emotional needs.
These emotional needs were more expansive what I have learned and have taught over the years.
For years, I have taught that in order to heal and expand in consciousness, we need to discover and meet our unmet emotional needs.
Those emotional needs have included feeling heard, seen, respected, honored, validated, appreciated, worthy and accepted.
I’ve shared with you the story of my MS, and my own need to feel special—as well as the changes that took place—as I allowed my need to be filled from deep in my soul during quiet moments.
During this recent ceremony, I was given a new way to look at our emotional needs.
The approach I received was created by women who, on a daily basis, observed and consciously worked with the development of their emotional bodies and souls.
Their insights, as given to us by Grandmothers on the other side of the veil, are part of the Path of the Sacred Feminine. And we have discovered that their wisdom about the healing of emotions was (and still is) quite profound.
All the core needs identified above are encompassed within these 10 emotional needs of the soul.
Here are the emotional needs the Grandmothers suggest lie at the root of your soul’s development, beginning before you were conceived and concluding after you cross over:
(These are general categories of ages, and vary with each individual.)
- Feeling Wanted – anticipating you with desire (pre-womb and in the womb)
- Being Received – welcoming you into family (at the time of birth)
- Held in Wonder – delighting in your unique explorations and perceptions (ages 0-3)
- Being Appreciated – honoring your attempts as much as accomplishments (ages 3-7)
- Feeling Needed – helping you see how your community involvement counts (ages 7 – 13)
- Being Accepted – recognizing the significance of your ideas and feelings (ages 11 – 19)
- Being Acknowledged – nurturing and challenging you to make a difference (ages 20-40)
- Feeling Recognized – honoring your bodies of work and legacies (ages 40-90)
- Being Released – letting you go from earth to make a joyful transition (dying)
- Being Remembered – honoring you for touching people’s lives (other side)
Those emotional needs have included feeling heard, seen, respected, honored, validated, appreciated, worthy and accepted.
I’ve shared with you the story of my MS, and my own need to feel special—as well as the changes that took place—as I allowed my need to be filled from deep in my soul during quiet moments.
Because of humanity’s current state of evolution and each person’s karmic lessons, not all of these needs get met at their appropriate times.
But if all our soul’s emotional needs were not met with the love and help of our communities, the needs can still be met.
We can emotionally heal our soul’s unmet emotional needs through Holding.
I was amazed at how quickly an individual’s energy shifted as they were lovingly Held in the core need they most longed to fulfill.
In my letters to you, I’ll be sharing insights from each of these fundamental needs, so you can consider how they might be showing up in your life. Here’s an article about the significance of the first emotional need, feeling wanted.
I’ll also show you how to take each of these needs into Holding.
I hope you will join me in this journey, as we meet the soul’s emotional needs.
Ah! So looking forward to it.
Thank you dear Special Misa !
Misa – thank you for your work with the 3-day meditation and healing work that brings to the world. I’m looking forward to learning more about these emotional needs of the soul. With kind regards, Amy K.
I have been learning from so many different sources in the past couple of years how very important our emotions are. And now this email from you, Misa. I have know that illness is emotion based. And, of course, there is mind over matter. So all this weaves together and makes perfect sense. I would love for my cousin to heal from her Parkinson’s as I believe this is possible and I have come to believe the cause is emotional. I am SO interested in hearing more on this from you. I would love to bring her a mode of healing. Also, so many I know suffer from back pain, disc problems, surgeries. Plus all the other illnesses. It would be wonderful if Holding can be the answer/cure.
Janet, it is so difficult to watch our loved ones suffer. I have found it can make a great difference in healing to be active and engaged with one’s own energy body and spirit. Some of our loved ones are able to do that and others are not. What I have loved about learning to Hold those I love is that it gives me a way to lovingly support another, without ever attempting to over-ride their soul’s journey. Feeling how much we are loved can be a great source of strength. Of course, like any good practice, it all begins in learning how to Hold ourselves in profound, unwavering love!
I am very interested in your work. I healed myself completely from anorexia. I have been writing and reflecting on my own journey for almost 7 years now. What I come to is this holding and honoring.
<3 Laurie
I love this exploration. I have been paying attention to observing patterns of how I interact with family and friends. Yes, unmet needs have some interesting pattern of behavior. I will be following, Thank you!!!
Barbara, those subconscious needs are sneaky little things. 😉 And I agree, they certainly create some interesting patterns of behaviors. I’m very grateful to be able to share the Grandmothers insights and look forward to hearing about what your observations are showing you as we explore them in more depth.
This resonates so resonates with me. I love the concept of “holding”
and am anxious to hear more about the needs you mentioned and taking them into holding. Thanks for sharing and for holding us!
Kate, I’m looking forward to sharing the 10 emotional needs of the soul in more detail. I’ve been taking some of them into Holding, and they do indeed move energy in a powerful way. I look forward to hearing about your experiences, as we explore them together.
Yet again, you contribute something so powerful and transformative… Thank you always for your generous sharing of insights, wisdom, and love. 🙂
So glad it is helpful Errity! 🙂
I would love to hear more about this. Thank you.!
Great Laura! Stay tuned. We’ll be exploring each one of these needs of the soul and take them into Holding so they can be fulfilled. 🙂