Is there a certain place in the world that calls to you? Is there somewhere that you could call home, that isn’t your home?
I like to call those places my soul homes. I believe you can have more than one, but often one speaks to you louder than all the others.
Close your eyes for a minute, and imagine a place that calls to you. Maybe it’s a cabin in the woods, a chalet below a mountain, or a bungalow on the beach.
You’re not sure why, but the intense desire or fascination about that place won’t leave you and you have this overwhelming urge to book that plane ticket.
Maybe it’s time you start searching for your soul home…
What is a Soul Home?
A soul home is a place or destination where you feel at peace. It’s not, contrary to popular belief, necessarily a place you go to after you die.
It’s a place in the world that gives you a sense of belonging, a sense of calmness, and the feeling of being at home – even though it’s not where you consider to be your true home.
A soul home can be anywhere. It’s a different place for different people. For some, it could be an entire country, for others, it could be a small town in Mexico. Wherever you feel at peace, and somewhere you would love to return to, can be considered a soul home.
Typically though, to find your soul home, you would need to visit that place first. Take it from me, when you visit a place, it’s often different in reality to how you imagine it. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
Your soul home is a place that’s calling you there for a particular reason – it’s part of your journey of growth.
Where Is My Spiritual Home?
When I need to look deeper into a situation, I often consult my friend and mentor, Belinda Davidson. She’s great at helping me understand situations for their spiritual meanings and lessons.
We were talking about places being portals of power and places that hold special lessons for us.
When I think about soul homes, I think of the places that were calling me and have presented me with an important lesson.
Being aware of the purpose of your callings, helps you to not be afraid, to embrace it, and to allow for the change to happen.
I felt that calling to visit Vietnam. I was obsessed with it as a child growing up. So in 1999, I found the opportunity and went.
I learned some of my most profound life lessons about gratitude and peace that completely transformed me. Once I left Vietnam, that calling and fascination with the country disappeared.
It had served its purpose. It wasn’t a soul home, though I thought it was.
Sometimes you might not feel called, you might just arrive in a new place and suddenly feel like you’ve returned home.
This happened to me in Raleigh, North Carolina. I hadn’t even stepped on the soil yet; I looked out the window of my airport transfer shuttle at the forest of pine trees on either side and felt this soul pull that said, “I’m home.”
It was the craziest thing I’d ever felt. I knew nothing about this area of the world, yet my soul had many stories to tell of it. That feeling of North Carolina being my soul home has never left me.
Belinda had the same “I’m home” feeling when she arrived in the Black Forest of Germany.
You usually know pretty soon whether you’ve landed in your soul home, or not. It’s an instant feeling of calmness, of content, and of peace.
How to Find Your Soul Home
If you’re not sure how to find your soul home, or where to start looking, the place you need to look first is within yourself.
Meditation is a great way to focus on yourself. It helps you to tune out all the distractions from the world, and to be in tune with your inner voice and thoughts.
Contrary to what people think, meditation is not about turning off the brain, but about listening to it.
Picture yourself in your most comfortable state. Think about yourself sitting on a chair in your home, and concentrate on the world around you – imagine the sights, smells, sounds, how the air feels on your skin.
Then imagine the room getting bigger, you portal through the window – where are you?
What do you see around you? Do you see palm trees? mountains? lakes? forest? wildlife?
Once you have an idea of what your inner self is calling you to, you can start researching destinations that match.
You’ll definitely want to go to that place before you can consider it your soul home, but I guarantee once you arrive, it won’t take you long to realize this is your soul home.
What to do if you can’t get to the soul home
If you’ve found that feeling of home, and believe you’ve found your soul home, then what do you do?
This is ultimately up to you. We moved to my soul home, but that’s not possible for everyone.
I know someone who considers the remote island of Koh Kood in Thailand their soul home. She returns there whenever times get tough, maybe that’s once a year or every other year. It’s the place to escape to when home becomes overwhelming.
If you do want to move to your soul home, it can present a lot of challenges; mostly visa related.
It can be incredibly frustrating. We had a problem with a visa getting in the way of our dreams to live back in Raleigh, and Belinda had the same problem with her German soul home.
Before you start cursing borders and nationalities (yes, we should be able to live where we please!), instead think about how you can still make your soul home a part of your life wherever you are.
Maybe it isn’t really your destiny to live there, perhaps it becomes one of those soul homes that calls you to dip in and out, like my friend in Thailand.
It’s hard to let it go. We yearn to live there because we think it’s the only place that helps us feel a certain way. I definitely had that opinion of the States. Australia held a lot of bad memories for me, so I didn’t think it could give me the “home” feeling that living in the States did.
Focus on what makes it your soul home
Belinda says that instead of feeling down, focus on the feeling you’re actually going for.
It’s not really Raleigh, or Spain, or Germany, that calls you to your soul home, but more that you feel alive, inspired, loved and supported in these places.
It’s about vibrating on those feelings and allowing them to live within you. We do that through meditation and clearing our chakras. Then we start to feel good and so attract those experiences into our life that help us to continue feeling this way.
Belinda related it to the devastation she felt when her dream to live in Germany collapsed.
She didn’t think she could feel good living in Australia. She decided to instead change her inner world and focus on creating those feelings Germany gave her within so it didn’t matter where she lived.
She said, “I’m now starting to feel the way I did in Germany, in Australia. When we release our attachments to things and focus on feeling great, we become great at manifesting things that continue to bring us those feelings.“
Just from changing her perspective in this way a whole trip opened up where Belinda can live in Europe/Germany for six months of the year.
I have felt that in my own life – a kind of diminishing of my calling to move back to Raleigh.
I don’t think about it much anymore as I feel comfortable and happy in Burleigh, Australia. I didn’t understand why it had changed until chatting this over with Belinda.
Watch more of the conversation
We spoke about many more things, which you can watch on this webinar, including the importance of traveling with your children.
Belinda had a six-year-old at the time, and like me, she says travel is one of the best forms of education you can give your children.
It helps foster their creativity, decision-making skills, and independent thinking. It opens their world to differences and teaches them how to be kind and have fun.
We also spoke about travel as being exploration, not escapism and why it’s such a powerful portal of self-discovery.
In the webinar (at 50min, 55 secs) Belinda shares Eckhart Tolle’s thoughts on the reason we love travel so much.
He says it’s because we suddenly become like a child again, viewing the world for the first time.
When we stay in the same place all the time, we become desensitised, and life loses its magic.
Travel makes us feel alive and it helps us tap into the present moment. It helps us awaken to life again!
Final Thoughts
I told a friend, that if I had a guru, Dr Wayne Dyer would be my male one and Belinda Davidson, my female!
Let’s go for the term spiritual mentor instead. I love learning from Belinda, she makes everything so practical and fun.
Wayne and Belinda are the two people I recommend the most to those looking for a more enriching path to an exceptional life.
Both believe in self-power and tapping into your own strength and ability to heal yourself and create a life that you love.
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Where are you being called to visit? What are some of your soul home experiences? I’d love to hear your stories and experiences in the comments!
