Hi Leigh - greetings, welcome to Openhand.

Firstly let me comfort you in sharing that plenty of people go through complex multidimensional experiences like yours. You are not alone in that way. The key now is, that whatever has happened, is to integrate the sense of rightness that is your own soul.

Now the challenge is that this can come with complexities. Yes, a soul exchange is possible in such challenging circumstances that you experienced - it may well have happened through a difficult birthing experience where you lost consciousness. Especially considering the differing experiences and feelings you had to your daughters after the birth of your younger one. So that's certainly possible. It's important though NOT to attach to the idea that it did. Perhaps it did. And in time you may get to understand and know more about that. But the real key now is to embody the new sense of yourself, and to respond to the world accordingly. You may well feel different towards your older daughter. When it happened to me (which began during a near death experience), then my relationships to biological family changed greatly - including my children. But nevetheless, I felt great compassion towards them, realising that they would struggle to understand what had taken place. So it felt essential to express the loving connection - although as they've come of age, we are very separate now, which has happened naturally and rightly. So there's a need to be compassionate and careful about the nature of the old biological relationships.

Onto the Twin Flame contemplation. There's a tremendous amount of misunderstanding in the spiritual mainstream about what the nature of the Twin Flame is. The Twin Flame is the unmanifest aspect of your soul that stays close to the source when you incarnate. The Twin Flame does NOT incarnate - it's the other polarity and aspect of your whole self. But when you awaken to your own soul and have worked through plenty of lower density, then you'll start to feel the pull and loving connection of the Twin Flame - and this can activate/amplify your Ascension process. And the connection can get so strong, that the dynamic can create reflections of your Twin Flame in the world around you in other people. It may feel like they are your Twin Flame but they are not. You can experience union with your Twin Flame through connection with another, and that can be an immensely beautiful and fulfilling experience.

Here's Openhand's Lead Article: Twin Flames and Soul Mates

We need to be careful of Opposing Consciousness getting in the mix - of pruposefully trying to cause inner confusion and dissonance so as to activate a release of energy into the field, which entities might then perpetuate and feed off. This often happens when an attachment builds to someone outside of yourself - I see it happening all the time. It may be that the soul who passed on has some etheric connection into your field that must now be released. My suggestion would be to connect in meditation with the other soul and be clear that their path continues apart from yours now. Be clear that you seek a sovereign path that is rightly yours. I would suggest this Releasing Entities Meditation and adpating it to your needs.

I would also suggest to you to seriously contemplate the importance of attending one of our upcoming Ascension Activation Retreats. Because I do believe it would help you help you make inner sense of what has happened, and most importantly, realign energetically and centre in your true sense of soul rightness.

You can find full details here... Ascension Activations Online November

Very best wishes

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