What Still Holds You
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard someone say,
“I’ve done so much healing… so why do I still feel stuck?”
I’ve felt it too – that quiet frustration when the same pattern circles back, even after you’ve cried the tears, walked away from what no longer served, and honored your process with everything you had.
And still, something feels held.
A part of you aches or resists, but you can’t quite name what it’s loyal to.
The truth is, sometimes what holds us back is not trauma we can see.
It is soul agreements we once made in silence.
What Soul Agreements Are
Soul agreements are energetic promises made by your conscious or unconscious self, or inherited from your lineage, culture, or upbringing.
They shape your patterns, relationships, and identity long after the moment has passed.
They come in many forms:
- Vows, like “I’ll never love again”
- Oaths, like “I swear to stay loyal to this family, cause, or God”
- Pledges, like “I pledge allegiance…”
- Contracts, often unspoken, like “I’ll sacrifice myself to keep you safe”
- Declarations, like “My kids are my whole world” or “I owe everything to my mother”
- Marriage vows, spoken as sacred contracts, like “I will love you forever” or “until death do us part”
These can be made:
- In heartbreak or devotion
- Through repetition in childhood or religious ritual
- As a trauma response
- As a cultural expectation
- Or inherited from your ancestors without ever saying a word
Most were never questioned.
Some were never even spoken aloud.
But all were remembered by the soul.
Everyday Examples
You may have legally divorced a partner but never cleared the vow that said “forever” or “until death do us part.”
You may have walked away from a religion but still feel guilt for having done so.
You may have promised a parent, “I’ll always take care of you,” and now wonder why you feel conflicted about building a life of your own.
One of mine was: “I’ll always take care of you, Mama and Papa.”
It wasn’t something I promised out loud. I made that vow inside myself, quietly and completely.
So much so that I once believed I could never start my own family until both of my parents had died.
Because of that vow, I slowed down or postponed the creation of a life centered in my authentic self.
And even when I moved toward it, I carried guilt for doing so.
You may have declared, “I’ll never be like them,” and still find yourself reacting from the same pain.
You may have pledged your allegiance to a country, a role, a movement, or a lineage without realizing that something in you stayed bound there.
Even a simple statement like, “I love my mother more than anyone in the world,” may make it difficult to fully open to a partner if the subconscious reads that love as exclusive or absolute.
These may seem small or sentimental, but to the energy body they are binding.
It could be that at the point of invoking these vows, they helped and protected you… until they don’t anymore.
Until they are seen and cleared, they continue to shape how you live, love, lead, create, and choose.
You may not remember the vow.
But you may recognize some of these symptoms:
- Repeating patterns with people you’ve already outgrown
- Feeling like love, success, or rest always slips through your fingers
- Sabotaging opportunities right before they land
- Loyalty to people or systems that no longer feel true
- Deep fear of being seen or punished for being visible
- Feeling bound to someone long after they’ve left
- An unexplained sense that you must keep paying for something
- Inner conflict between what you say you want and what you allow yourself to have
These are not flaws.
They are echoes of agreements made in the past, consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly.
When you feel called to read this transmission, your soul is now ready to complete all or some of them.
The Inner Mechanics
You may not consciously remember making these agreements, but your subconscious mind does.
More importantly, your energy system, including your subconscious mind, still carries them.
When soul agreements like these are not acknowledged and consciously cleared, they do not dissolve with time.
They do not automatically expire.
They remain active beneath the surface and become part of your internal operating system that shapes your sense of self and what you believe is possible.
They create fragmentation: a split between the part of you that wants to move forward and the part still loyal to a past promise.
This inner conflict can affect how you receive love, how you create, how you allow yourself to be seen, and how much freedom you feel in your own life.
Even if the mind says, “I’m ready,” the energy body may still say, “I can’t.”
When your body remembers the vow, it is trying to stay faithful to it even if it no longer serves you.
What Becomes Possible After the Clearing
When soul agreements are seen, acknowledged, and cleared, your body begins to soften.
Your mind stops fighting itself.
Your energy starts to return home.
Something real begins to shift, even if you can’t explain it.
You may notice:
- Space where there was once pressure
- Peace where there was confusion
- Openness where there was contraction
- Energy where there was fatigue
- Clarity where there was looping thought
- Movement in areas of life that once felt frozen
- More honesty in your relationships
- A deeper ability to choose what truly supports you
You may find yourself:
- Saying no without explaining yourself
- Letting go of guilt when choosing what brings you joy
- No longer texting someone who keeps pulling you back into an old version of you
- Sleeping more deeply because your nervous system no longer needs to stay on guard
- Feeling calm after expressing something you once feared would cause rejection
You may find yourself speaking what you used to silence.
Resting when you once would have pushed.
Receiving what you used to deflect.
Creating from joy instead of obligation.
And walking away without guilt.
This isn’t about perfection.
It is about remembering that you are allowed to be whole again.
When what once held you no longer has a hold, you don’t need to try so hard to move forward.
You simply begin to return to yourself.
A Living Transmission Begins
You do not need to keep promises you made from fear.
You do not need to protect others by abandoning yourself.
You do not need to carry what you were never meant to hold.
It is safe now to see these hidden threads.
It is safe now to set them down.
I dissolved mine completely and thoroughly and it changed my life.
Welcome to the remembering.
The real work begins with truth.
And it begins right here.
Let what you read land in your body, received by every cell in your body.
There is nothing you need to do apart from receiving.
Companion Video Transmission Coming Soon
A transmission is not just a message.
It is a spoken energetic field.
A living invitation for your soul, your subconscious, your body, and your heart to remember what has always been true beneath what you were taught to believe.
In the upcoming companion video transmission, I will guide you through this field.
We will dissolve what was never meant to stay and call home the parts of you that were given away in the name of love, survival, or silence.
To be notified, stay close to my upcoming post.
With love,
Astuti
P.s. Please share this with someone in your circles who would breathe deeper remembering themselves within this perspective. Thank you!
“May the remembrance within you bloom in perfect time.”
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