Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 4, Issue - 5, 1 November 2019 | Page 33

• What is the meaning of life?
• What is my true purpose?
• What is authentic within me?
• What is inauthentic within me?
• What does happiness mean to me?
• What would truly fulfill me?
• Where is my ego an obstacle?
• What is a Soul quality of mine?
• What legacy do I want to leave?
These are only a few examples of soul searching questions, so feel free to
create and ask your own. Also, you might like to turn these questions into
journaling prompts to regularly reflect on and answer.
7. Find your soul space and place
Sound confusing? I’ll explain.
A soul place is a physical location that deeply calls to you: it speaks to your
Soul. You might feel a sense of nostalgic longing for this place, a sense of
deep resonance, and almost mystical significance.
Soul places can be mundane areas (such as your backyard), untouched
areas (such as a place in the wilderness), or holy sites (such as Stonehenge,
Uluru, Notre Dame Cathedral, etc.). 
You will feel a sense of expansion in these places, deep peace, and like you
have finally ‘found home.’ What has happened is that you’ve found an
external representation of the inner heaven within you. That’s why Soul
places touch us so deeply.
Your soul space, on the other hand, is an inner experience of your True
Nature. We often inhabit our soul spaces in moments of prayer,
contemplation, altered states of consciousness, and deep meditation. 
As Mark Nepo writes,
Each person is born with an unencumbered spot—free of expectation and
regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and worry—an
umbilical spot of grace where we were each first touched by God. It is this
spot of grace that issues peace. Psychologists call this spot the Psyche,
theologians call it the Soul, Jung calls it the Seat of the Unconscious, Hindu
masters call it Atman, Buddhists call it Dharma, Rilke calls it Inwardness,
Sufis call it Qalb, and Jesus calls it the Center of our Love. To know this spot
of Inwardness is to know who we are, not by surface markers of identity, not