How Judgment, Emotions and Blockages in the 21 Layers of the Soul are Keeping You Stuck! by Annemiek Douw

Today, I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 8 of Annemiek Douw’s Virtual Blog Tour.

Annemiek’s book 21 Layers of the Soul: Healing the Karmic Ties with Friends, Lovers, Family and Enemies is celebrating its launch from December 2^nd to 16^th, 2013 at 21LayersOfTheSoul.

ANNEMIEK DOUW, MSc is a management coach, light-worker, medium, energetic therapist, trainer and author. Her personal experience with long-term illness combined with her own work as a healer have led her to understand how the soul is an internal compass that continuously guides us. She has helped thousands of clients heal at many levels, teaching them how to read this compass for themselves. In 2011, she shared her unprecedented work in the Dutch language book De ziel in het licht van haar hogere auralagen, which is now available in English under the title 21 Layers of the Soul.

Today, I’d like to share with you a recent interview I had with Annemiek when I got to ask her some questions on The 21 Layers of the Soul, discovering emotions and tips to help us stop judging. I hope you enjoy it.

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KRYSTALYA: I’m curious about what you call the “21 Layers of the Soul”. Can you share with me what those 21 Layers are, how they show up in our lives and what it means when they do show up? Is this a message for us?

ANNEMIEK: The 21 Layers of the Soul refer to the 21 Layers of the aura. Traditionally, we are taught that the aura has just 7 layers but, over the last 15 years I have discovered that there are more than that. The great thing about these layers is that when problems arise in life, you can see blockages occur in the corresponding layer. Simply put, the energy gets stuck.

Every layer has its own theme, and all your important life experiences are designed before you incarnated and are put into the appropriate aura layers. You can therefore determine in which layer the problem is to be found, deduce what the original purpose was for the experience you now have a problem with and that can help you deal with your issues.

So your aura mirrors your life and your Soul Path, and when something get’s stuck in your aura, you know that you have some important homework to do because it is part of your life plan – that’s the message. When I found out how this works, I really wanted to grasp the system behind it so I began to explore all the layers and eventually wrote my book so that I could share the insights that I’d learned and could make the healing energy of the layers accessible to other people.

KRYSTALYA: Annemiek, I find that most people block their emotions and have trouble discovering them, therefore becoming stuck. Can you share your thoughts on why we block our emotions? Could you also share any tools or techniques you have to help people discover the emotions that keep them stuck that prevent them from healing the underlying issue?

ANNEMIEK: For many people blocking emotions has become a habit, while in fact it is a self-protection mechanism. Sometimes we encounter experiences that are almost too hard to overcome. Then our bodies can lower the pressure by blocking the difficult emotions that the experience triggers. It’s a way to survive.

But, somewhere down the line, people sometimes find it easier to feel nothing at all. Because when you feel emotions, your body gives a signal as to whether or not a certain situation or person is good for you. And sometimes our heads don’t agree with our bodies and we choose to ignore the signal and suppress the feeling. It’s like knowing that chocolate isn’t good for you and still deciding to eat it, just because it tastes so good! You just ignore your inner voice and do what you want.

This suppressing of emotions makes us wander off our original Soul Path since we make ‘bad’ decisions or decisions we weren’t supposed to make – decisions that conflict with our original purpose. These choices result in more experiences that aren’t completely right for us, and so they create more uneasy emotions that we ‘need’ to suppress.

The solution lies in accepting that we just need to feel what we feel without coming to any conclusions. Some feelings we will like, some we won’t, but they will all pass in the end. As long as we don’t draw any negative conclusions that may stick with us, emotions are only our body’s temporary signals that try to help us make the best possible choices for ourselves. Nothing more.

KRYSTALYA: I believe that one of the worst things we can do to ourselves and others is judgment. What are your thoughts on how judgment of ourselves and others affects us? Do you have any tips or tools to help us to stop judging?

ANNEMIEK: Judging someone hurts. Not only because you say or think negative things that are hard to forget and make the other person feel inferior, but also because energetically you wound the other person’s aura. This means that the toxic thought you sent creates irritation in his aura, like a bee sting in his skin, and forces him to deal with that negative energy, normally without him having asked for it.

The easiest way to minimise the effect is not to try and stop judging, but to notice when you do judge. We all are human and sometimes we make judgements. The worst thing to do is to think: ‘I shouldn’t judge,’ because then you are judging yourself as well and the problem becomes bigger. Instead, just think: ‘that was a judgement,’ and stop that train of thought. Then think: ‘Apparently I prefer something other than what I encounter now and that’s okay’. That way, you voice the uneasiness inside you that was brought up by the experience and you keep it to yourself. If you complete this experience by saying sorry and sending some love to the person you judged – even if you only do this in your head – you will neutralize the negativity you created and no harm is done.

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I hope you enjoyed this interview with Annemiek Douw and that you’ll check out her beautiful new book 21 Layers of the Soul. Again, you can find it at 21LayersOfTheSoul.com.

21 Layers of the Soul can help you tap into and master your inner guidance system, to help you navigate to your right path in life. In this book, Annemiek shares more than 100 case histories gathered over 15 years of healing work. During this time she discovered the 21 layers of the aura – something never before revealed in any other healing book. Meticulously analyzed and defined, Annemiek shows us how exploring these layers can provide us with a clear blueprint of the intricate system that leads us to incarnate on the Earth.

If you’re ready to unravel mysteries that have perplexed you for decades – or perhaps even lifetimes – pick up 21 Layers of the Soul and start to navigate the wonderful journey back to your Self.

*** FREE GIFT FROM ANNEMIEK DOUW ***

To show her appreciation for your support, when you buy 21 Layers of the Soul at 21LayersOfTheSoul.com, Annemiek would like to give you a free, downloadable poster of the 21 aura layers, which you can print out and hang on your wall, so you can get a deeper understanding and connection to your own Soul.

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