Soul pollution happens when we refuse to acknowledge responsibility for our life. Soul pollution occurs when our energies settle or become stagnant. There is no right or wrong, good or bad, about soul pollution. It either is or isn't. The results are visible in your life and in your emotions. Soul pollution looks like dozens of different manifestations of failure, lack of control, and apathy. It appears to come from the inside as rationalizations, intellectualizations, and denial. It grows with guilt, blame and shame.

Let us explore the way that pollutants arrive in the soul:

To stop soul pollution in our life we must stop negative thinking and piddling away our personal life force. Just as we have created a large hole in the protective ozone layer of earth, we have burned away our own protective layers. We do not exercise care in what circumstances or energies we put ourselves into, such as bars, cluttered environments, choice of friends and unfavorable working conditions.

We add pollution through our diminished protective layers by instant gratification, taking the path of least resistance, forcing the situation, and circumventing the natural cycles. The most caustic pollution to our soul is an adversarial attitude. We do these things without the least bit of thought to their effects on the whole, insisting that we be right and in control.

The part that insecurity plays in soul pollution is like the industrial plant that dumps by-products into a stream claiming the town needs employment and not water. When we participate in insecure acts like being greedy, living on credit, postponing responsibilities, and dumping blame on others, the pollution is continual. Then we claim that we need a miracle.

To clear the pollution from our lives, we need to take responsibility. We must own what we have done to ourself and stop adding to our mess with unconscious habitual acts. When one notices pollution happening outside or inside the self, take action. Realize that taking no action is a decision by indecision.

One's personal environment is a mirror of the amount of lift-threatening pollution in the soul. When you clean your environment of clutter and old papers, the first step to cleaning up your soul pollution will be complete.

The second step is to clear, integrate or release all undigested experiences. Anything that we withhold or that has lingered inside for years spawns pollutants that eat away the integrity of clean experiences. Holding onto old grievances from the past attracts more similar experiences so that you will notice them in order to clean them up. (Trash by the side of the road will attract people throwing more trash there.) Not only must you clean your past undigested experiences, you must release all that you have read and watched. Then pay attention to what you read and watch so as not to pollute your self with fear. A sponge soaks up everything. Learn discernment and discrimination.

The third step to deal with your pollution is to "let go and let God." Stop trying to control and manipulate others and situations. Open yourself up to suggestions from your higher self. Learn the difference between wishful thinking and guidance. The energies used to control are tremendous and can be used to remove pollutants rather than polluting yourself with attachment to outcomes.

The fourth step is realizing that words anchor your reality. Observe what you say. Gossip and put-downs create cesspools for negativity to gather. Constantly speaking against others will bring energies "against" into your soul and pollute the way you appear to others. Our words anchor a reality closest to what and how we speak.

Soul pollution can be healed with time and attention. The most important thing is to recognize what pollutes the soul and what clears the soul. The things that we tend to recycle in our daily lives either clear our personal soul pollution or add to it. Pay attention and use clear intention.