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How to Select a Sport to Support Your Soul, by Cyndi Dale

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

During my life, I've often been more of a bench warmer than a figure on the field. One of the reasons is that I've always wanted to relate to a sport. If I was going to put time into getting good—or even okay—at an athletic endeavor, I wanted it to help me express my "real self."

I assume that the most successful athletes often feel this way, even if they don't talk about it. Why shouldn't you be spiritually into your sport? I mean, there is only a single Simone Biles or Tom Brady, but you can still do "you."

I'd love to see you engage in activities that will aid you in embodying your true self.

Personally, I'm firmly committed to my sports, which aren't glamorous: walking and hiking. (Let me be real. The walking occurs with the dogs. The hiking? It's often in foreign countries, which is cool, but I usually make sure there are taxis available in case I desire to skip climbing the mountain.) Because my soul is fully into my sporty endeavors, exercising doesn't feel like exercise.

Ready to see how this works?

First off, I'm going to define a few terms. Then I'll share lists of subtle elements, or basic components of reality, that can each describe the personality of a soul. You'll select the descriptors that best suit you. Finally, I'll overview several categories of sports in relation to their use of the same elements, so you can find a good match.

Let's start with some terms.

Your soul is a part of your spirit, or essence. Your spirit is your full self, which knows it is completely part of whatever you call Source. Your soul is like a slowed down version of your spirit.

Basically, your soul is that part of you that has been traveling across time to learn about love. Sure, it can incur wounds and injuries, but it is also growing and developing. Your soul has probably been incarnating for who knows how long to better understand its own unique beingness but also to enjoy this world and the relationships in it.

In relation to your soul, your body is the vessel for a soul's experience. It contains information and conclusions from your soul's experiences across time and is also encoded with data related to your ancestry, childhood, culture, the earth, and more.

A sport is an activity that involves physical exertion and skill. This focus on physicality is a vital component of movement. After all, you can't exactly call writing a sport, although it can be hard. And yet, a sport involves so much more than bodily expression—as I'll explain, it also ideally involves your soul.

This is because a sport is not only about the body; it is really about energy, which I define as energy that moves. When exercising, we're all about spending, making, and increasing our energy. BUT—there are two types of energy. And physical energy composes less than 1 percent of all of reality. The rest of all energy, 99.9999-plus percent, is subtle. Subtle energy could also be called psychic, spiritual, and quantum energy.¹

Many parts of you are made of subtle energy, to include your soul. When your unique soul is melded through your body during an activity, its subtle energy increases the health of the body—and your soul gets to exercise its own vital way of being. By selecting a sport that matches your soul's special personality, you exponentially improve all areas of your life every time you exercise.

Selecting a soul-based sport starts with figuring out the basic ideals or traits of your soul. To do so, read through the list of descriptors that relate to the different elements, or subtle building blocks, that create concrete and immaterial reality. Your soul relates to one or two elements more than others. And so, simply select the one or two lines shared next to choose the signifier that best describe you.

Soul Traits by Elements
Select one or two lines that best describes your inner self:
Fire Traits: Dedicated to passion, purification, and physical power
Water Traits: Moves with intuitive flow and according to emotional desires
Air Traits: Devoted to mental ideas, organizing systems, and workplace success
Earth Traits: Loves to build, fortify, support others, add strength, be protective
Metal Traits: Fights negativity and evil, angel of truth and justice
Stone Traits: Holder of history, provider of stability and solidity
Wood Traits: Known for cheeriness, optimism, and adaptability
Ether Traits: Transmitter of higher truths, font of insights and conscious
Star Traits: Made of fire and ether, or passion and higher ideals; doesn't fit in with normal earthlings
Light Traits: Always and only about love and healing
Sound Traits: Always and mainly about power and productivity

Next, you are going to read through the following descriptions of various sports and the elements used within each. Through this process, pay attention to how you react to the categories that include one or two of the subtle elements related to your soul. Your conclusions will help you gauge what sporty expressions might qualify as a soul-sport.

Sports Categories—By Elements
Following are descriptors of the major sports categories and the types of elements usually employed in each.

Baseball, softball: Earth, fire, and air. Souls who love these types of sports are dedicated to building and fortifying. You play "the long game" and are prone to quick bursts of energy. These types of games will help you bond with others, add to your energy reserves, and release pent up feelings and physical blocks. The mentality of this category speaks too to your natural and innate intelligence.

Basketball: Fire and metal. You like moving like quicksilver and are dedicated to keep the "other" (not your own) team from scoring, like metal types do. Engaging with this and similar team games highlights your ability to block out negativity while creating awesome gains.

Bicycling: Air. Everything you do in cycling is about air—moving air, posing in air, and moving speedily through the air. Any type of bicycling will clear dysfunctional beliefs and keep your thinking smooth and fit, tasks your soul excels at.

Canoeing: Water, and either metal or wood. Canoes propel through water, and you excel at encouraging intuitive and emotional flow. In a wood canoe, or while carrying the canoe through forest portages, you indulge your ability to plan and execute goals with optimism. If you employ a metal canoe, you are strengthening your innate ability to defy negativity and expand higher thoughts.

Dance: Sound and air; sometimes star. Dancers defy the ground, as if flying. So do you, following an internal or external source of music to empower you and higher ideas. If your dance style is highly unique, you probably own star traits, faculties that are extraordinary to you.

Football (American): Also covers rugby and Lacrosse. Earth. Earth is about protection, fortifying, and moving slowly. This and similar games will increase your ability to hold the line while meeting goals. This category of sports will also bolster any warrior attitudes and resilience.

Golf: Air and wood; possibly also light. Whoosh! The ball flies over the green. Of course, the elements involved are air and wood. What occurs in the mind of the golfer but how to maneuver through woodsy areas with a sense of optimism? Visualization, a capability of light, is also vital to most golfers. During golf, your soul can accelerate loving thoughts with positivity and optimism.

Hiking/Walking: Earth or stone; possibly light, water, or wood as well. The elements of hiking and walking are dependent on where they are executed. For instance, when on solid earth, you are activating your grounding strengths. In the mountains or on sand, you cultivate your stability as a stone or protective being.

Other elements depend on your location. As shared, my personal sporty love is hiking. When I traverse lakes, I am exploring my intuition and soothing my emotions. In the desert, I am also absorbing light or love. Via the desert, I fill my soul in with the smiles from the wood element.

Horseback riding: Light and sound. Horses are incredible beings, says anyone who knows how to blend with one like a centaur by connecting through light, or love, heart-to-heart. No matter the gait, you let your soul activate your sound element. And the best riders know how to "horse whisper," or use psychic sound to earn a horse's trust.

Martial Arts: Ether and air. All martial arts, ranging from Tai Chi to karate, ideally activate your own and a partner's higher consciousness, which is related to ether. These practices depend on employing higher truths while you entrain body and soul.

Running or jogging: Always accesses air and sound, and possibly also earth, light, stone, or wood. Running is always an air activity, aiding you in cleaning your mind of negativity by encouraging mindfulness and mindlessness. Performed in syncopations, running also activates your abilities to employ the sound element, creating a percussion of rhythm for soul expressions.

The other elements stimulated depend on the location of your running. Are you running in relationship to the ground? You are building strength. On a gravel path or mountain road? You are getting in touch with your stone-based powers. Jogging in the sun? Your soul can focus on what you dearly love. In a forest? You are increasing your woodsy or merry nature.

Skiing or Skating: Water and air, possibly other elements. Think of it. Water skiing involves standing (or trying to) in the water. While performing this heroic and ballet-like sport, you are restoring balance to your emotions and mind, cementing them together—an innate skill if you have a water soul! Snow skiing and skating incorporate the same soul strengths, except the water is frozen. If you are winter skiing in a lot of light, you are also in an ideal position to reflect on what you love. If you are cross-country skiing, the movements are rhythmic, empowerment sound strengths.

Soccer: Earth, sound, and air. Soccer is performed in a grounded manner, which activates your instinctive power and strength. It is also highly rhythmic and sequenced, which brings out your ability to self-empower through sounding. Of course, soccer is also a running sport. As an air activity, it helps your soul cleansing your mind and move you into a natural timeless, mindful state.

Swimming: Sound and water. Swimming is rhythm and fluid. Sound is empowering, and with every stroke, you are getting in touch with—and balancing—your intuition and emotions.

Tennis: Air and earth. This is typically a singular sport, and a mental game for the player. Your soul strength, however, comes from the earth—the ground from which you spring. Tennis will aid your soul in releasing fears so you can draw power from the earth and your soul.

Do you get the gist of what we're doing? Whenever you want, go ahead, and analyze other sports according to your soul aptitudes.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2023. All rights reserved.

I have been hearing and seeing spirits since I was very little. I'm an adult now and my abilities have gotten stronger, but lately I have been overwhelmed by voices. They sound like people talking but it's not one or two - more like thousands. It is becoming increasingly difficult to concentrate and meditate. It's starting to become crippling, and I am starting to lose myself to them. I can find no real cure or relief from this. Are there any suggestions you can offer me?

Susyn:

It would seem you have accessed a vortex through which you are privy to exchanges in the spirit world. You don't mention if these voices are talking to you personally, only that the spirits' conversations are becoming too loud to ignore. This is not uncommon when people begin to open to their psychic abilities.

To begin, start a journal to document when you hear the voices. It may seem random at this point, but take notes to see if there is a rhythm to what you are hearing. For instance, do the voices seem louder while you are meditating or sitting quietly? Does this happen more in the evenings, mornings, or middle of the night? Examine the course of your experience for patterns.

We sometimes forget that we can speak to the spirit world and that spirits can hear us as clearly as we hear them. When the conversations become too loud, pause, and in a commanding voice, ask them to stop. Like noisy neighbors, spirits may not realize that some of us can hear them. Unfortunately, unlike the people next door, you can't bang on the wall. You may have to repeat yourself a few times, but this should help eliminate some of the ruckus.

If this doesn't work, try shifting your location. For example, if you always meditate in the same area and this appears to be one of the times the voices are the loudest, move to another room. You can also add a water fountain or play instrumental music in the background to lessen the interference.

At times, you may feel like these voices are speaking directly to you. This can be annoying as well as frightening if you are not familiar with the spirits that are addressing you. Again, remember that you can ask them to stop and that you have no reason to listen to what they are saying.

I recall a friend who experienced what you are talking about when she visited the World Trade Center disaster site about six months after 9-11. There were so many souls there who were eager to get messages through to their loved ones. Because she was sensitive to their pleas, she became overwhelmed by the numerous voices all clamoring to be heard.

I have had similar experiences during readings in which a clientís spirit guides all lined up to talk at once. Though they all may have had something valid to say, I had to ask them to stand back and come forward one at a time to share their messages. You can use this practice too if you feel that the spirits are benevolent and have information you want to hear.

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Mata Maya:

What you describe is the experience of a natural medium who lacks the development necessary to control his gift. Though it may seem counter-intuitive to pursue further psychic development, at this point, you're already in psychic waters, so you'd be wise to learn how to swim. Perhaps the most helpful thing you can do is find a local Spiritualist church, for there you'll find a medium who can mentor you and a development circle you can join.

It should comfort you to know that you're not being harassed; it's more like you're trying to tune in to one radio station (this reality), but are picking up interference from a nearby station. By learning how to tune in to the frequency of your choice, you can get clearer reception whether you are trying to stay focused in this world or purposefully trying to communicate with beings in other realms.

Since what you want is less of these voices, you'll have to be more grounded in this physical dimension. There are many ways to go about that. One of the best is to get out of your head and engage in mundane physical activities. All sports are good for this, though yoga and martial arts may be especially helpful.

Your goal is to simultaneously get more grounded in this reality while at the same time learning how to shift your vibration higher, for a high vibration and high level of conscious awareness will lead to a high level of spiritual/psychic experience.

Perhaps the most helpful thing you can do is develop a strong, clear relationship with your spirit guides. This will be tricky since you are trying to silence some voices while drawing others' forward.  In general, this process will require you to get into a very high vibration and then begin to purposefully dialogue with Spirit, asking for help with this matter and receiving guidance on what you need to know and do in order to create what you want in your life.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.