464. Dark Night of the Soul: What It Really Means & How to Spiritually Overcome It

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Kara Goodwin: Welcome to the Soul Elevation Podcast, guiding your ascension to new heights. I'm your host, Kara Goodwin. And I wanna talk today about a couple of things. One being the dark night of the soul and another is a very powerful method to combat the dark night of the soul. Very, very powerful and time tested so.

The dark night of the soul is when you come up against, uh, I mean, when you have low moments in your life and. Unfortunately, I know that this is happening with a lot of lightworkers right now. A lot of people who have been working on embodying as much light [00:01:00] as they can who have been working to provide healing for people who have been working on their own ascension, and also, you know, might have branched out to try to help others in their ascension as well.

And, uh, sorry, just wanted to check something there. Um, and many people, unfortunately right now are experiencing dark nights of the soul, and there are a lot of things behind that. You know, one, one thing is that we are going through this huge shift. Through, um, the, the whole globe is going through a huge shift in consciousness right now, and there is a, there is a spiritual war that is part of that.

There is a light versus dark, and we can zoom out more. [00:02:00] And know that everything is source and even the perceived dark is ultimately working in our favor to help us to overcome challenges. So, you know, we can zoom way back and get, uh, you know, the source perspective and see that everything is as it's meant to be.

But that's only so comforting when you are actually going through a dark night of the soul. It is a really, really hard. Thing to go through because you feel, you may feel that you've been forsaken, you may feel that you, uh, are worthless, that you have, um, you know, you're not who you thought you were, you, you're not who you're trying to be in terms of bettering yourself.

And all of that is an initiation. You can think of it as an initiation. It isn't true. You are light, you are a child of [00:03:00] God, but you may be going through an initiation period where you feel forsaken. Um, you know, Jesus Christ went through famously dark, a very dark night of the soul, and so. It's up to you to keep your faith and it's up to you to continue your practices even when.

There might be a part of you that is saying that it doesn't matter, you don't wanna do it. I don't wanna meditate, I don't wanna do my, I don't wanna go out in nature. I don't want to, um, exercise. I, I just wanna eat junk food and watch TV and not care about anything. And you wanna just be really careful if those kinds of thoughts start to come in [00:04:00] because.

That is probably not you. So it is possible that dark, lower vibrational energies can find their way into your thoughts and your thoughts very much feel like they're coming from you. So you may be hearing thoughts that are saying things to you like, I don't wanna meditate. It doesn't matter. It doesn't do anything.

I'm not, I'm not worth it. Whatever it might, it's not worth it. I'd rather watch tv, whatever it is that's not coming from your higher self. Those are very sneaky. Tricky energies [00:05:00] that can come in and influence you. This can also happen. Um, you, you may also be feeling attacked in dreams. I shared last week about an astral experience that I had.

They came through as a dream and I was under attack. And that was a very energetic experience. That was um, uh, and even when I opened my eyes, there was light pulsing in the room and I was in a lot of fear and I had to work. It took everything I had to work through that fear because I knew that it was through that fear that I was most vulnerable.

I felt that there was a dark presence there, and I knew that if I didn't choose to. Come into a higher vibration, to come into love to come into God that I would be [00:06:00] vulnerable. Uh, that would be my most vulnerable way for that, that lower entity to have access to me was through that fear. So that's another way that you may be experiencing these things.

Uh, I was a guest on somebody's podcast last week. Um, Rena, I will, it's not out yet, but I will, um, put that out when it is available. And we talked about this. She was talking about people that she knows who are in the public eye and they're having trouble. They just feel that they are. Under a lot of attack, whether that's in this realm, um, or in, you know, other realms where it's just, but when it's, when I say other realms, that can just be like a, it can be our own, come through as our own psychology where there might not be.

A person or people who are coming after us who we feel are coming after us. It's our own thoughts. It comes through as our own thoughts. It [00:07:00] comes through as our own motivation, and so that can feel very, very personal. It can feel like, you know, you're, it, it's, it feels like it's your own mind. But do understand that there are a lot of energies at play in this realm, in this 3D experience through Earth, through your human experience.

There are many, many energies here and many, many energies that you can tap into and that can try to influence you. So. If you are listening to this and you are going through a dark night of the soul, what next you're, you may be recognizing, okay, this does sound like something that I can relate to. I have been, I haven't been feeling myself, I haven't been feeling motivated.

So first of all, you want to keep up [00:08:00] your practices or if you ha if you don't have practices yet, start. Making steps to. Develop practices. So you guys, if this is not the first video you're watching of me, you'll know that meditation is very, very important to me. That has been a huge, huge part of my spiritual journey.

So I will always, first and foremost, recommend meditation. Now, if you're not a meditator and you. Are interested in it. There are all kinds of guided meditations out there. I have a lot of free resources on my website, kara goodwin.com, and if you're really serious about wanting to learn meditation, I have a very accessible 21 day.

Um, learn to meditate course, you can just do that. They're like bite-sized information to help you develop that habit. Um, but if you don't wanna take a formal course, I mean, it's not formal. It's, it's, um, a joy and it's, I. Easy, [00:09:00] but it will help to guide you so that you can develop a sustainable meditation practice, because that's one of the things with meditation, you can meditate today and feel a lot better, but you're gonna feel so much better if you allow it to build up.

If you do it every day, you don't have to do it for like an hour every day, but just a few minutes every day, let it build up. And that cumulative effect is really what's gonna move the needle. It is what has moved the needle for me. Um, get out in nature. I'm sure you know how powerful nature is, but get.

Off the couch. Outta your bed, outta your house. Get out in nature. Get your bare feet on the ground if you can, depending on the climate where you are right now. Breathe in the air. Go into a wooded area and breathe in that mineral rich air. Get by a body of water. Get. In a body of water [00:10:00] if you can, but just hearing the sound of water moving and what you're breathing in as that water is moving is it's all very, very powerful.

You have been designed, your human biology and chemistry has been designed lockstep with nature. We are meant to. Commune with nature regularly. So that is a very easy healing balm. I say easy if you're in the city. I know that it might be hard, but do what you can. There should be a park nearby. Get your feet on the ground.

Um, do what you can. Notice the birds, notice the sky. Um, so that is a, uh, a great way to the really powerful, um. Key if you are going through a dark night of the soul, and if you feel that perhaps you might be [00:11:00] under the influence of a negative entity, a lower vibrational entity, Psalm 23. Psalm 23. If you have a Bible, open your Bible to Psalm 23.

Read it out loud. If you don't have a Bible. Look it up online. I will put the words to Psalm 23 in the show notes. Once I'm finished recording this, um, read it out loud and be in a, be in a commanding mode. I. Put your energy behind it. Put your heart behind it. Take command and speak these words out loud.

Speak them into your home. Speak them into your energy layer. You are, you have energy within your body, but you also have energy around your body. That's what the aura is. You may have heard about [00:12:00] an aura. Some people can see the aura with their physical eyes, but is it is this energy that surrounds your body?

It is part of you, but it is an mostly invisible part of you. So let me read Psalm 23 here. I. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pa in green pastures. He lith me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He lith me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Ye though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou prepare us to table before me. In the presence of my enemies, thou anoints my head with oil. My cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the [00:13:00] Lord forever.

Very, very powerful. Um, I have had a guest called Philip Smith on the podcast a couple of times. He's the author of Walking Through Walls, which is a fantastic book, particularly if you're interested in the healing arts. I highly, highly recommend this book, walking Through Walls by Philip Smith, his father.

Was way ahead of his time. He was a master energy healer, but he was also like a, an interior decorator in Miami, um, in the fifties and sixties. So very eclectic, um, background for this person. Very entertaining book. This book is so entertaining, but it's also very, very rich in, um. Beautiful healing energy, uh, and just fascinating.

I love this book so much. Uh, and I love Philip. He's an amazing artist. Um, [00:14:00] but anyway, he talks about his father. He witnessed his father doing an exorcism and he used Psalm 23. And what's really interesting for me personally is that after I read this, I can't remember how long after, I don't think it was immediately after, but I dreamt that I was.

Um, performing an exorcism, and I was reading Psalm 23 and I was, there was a young girl, I mean like, I think a toddler, um, little, little girl. And as I am. Reading Psalm 23 and I think I was holding a cross, or, and I think I was invoking Jesus Christ. Um, you know, kind of saying in the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave.

And I could see this dark spirit lifting out of her. And I also, like, while I'm watching it, I can subsequently feel it lifting out. So it was as though like I was watching it, but I also. [00:15:00] Was perceiving this lifting out of this entity from her. So, um, it's very, very powerful. That was another dream that felt like it was just, felt like more than a dream.

Um, so Psalm 23, read it out loud, command it, invoke the name of Jesus Christ, Yeshua, Ben Joseph. Very, very powerful. So I will leave you with that. I give you so many blessings and I will see you next time. Have a great week. 

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