August 17, 2025 • 22 mins
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Feeling like you've lost parts of yourself along life's journey? You're not alone.
Sometimes after challenging relationships, career transitions, or difficult events, we notice that certain qualities we once possessed—playfulness, trust, imagination, or inner peace—seem to have disappeared. This isn't just nostalgia or aging; it's a genuine energetic phenomenon where pieces of our essence get left behind, attached to people, places, and circumstances.
When we claim ownership of experiences by calling them "my relationship" or "my career," we transform neutral situations into energetically charged ones that carry our personal investment. As these situations end or change, we often leave behind not just the experience itself, but valuable parts of ourselves. The good news? These parts can be reclaimed through the gentle practice of soul retrieval.
Rather than overwhelming ourselves by trying to retrieve everything at once, the most effective approach focuses on identifying specific characteristics we miss and want to reintegrate. Through visualization, we can see that past version of ourselves, appreciate how we've grown since then, and invite that specific energy back into our current self. It's not about reverting to who we once were, but becoming more whole by reuniting with valuable aspects of ourselves while maintaining the wisdom we've gained through experience.
This process requires forgiveness—of ourselves and others—and a willingness to recognize that these past experiences, however difficult, helped shape who we are today. By consciously retrieving what serves us and cutting cords with what doesn't, we move forward more complete, more at peace, more ourselves. Ready to reclaim what you've left behind? The journey toward wholeness awaits.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hello, patreon community, we're here.
Hello, we're back.
We are talking about this month.
The theme for this month, firstof all, is soul retrieval and
peace, those two things.
They seem separate, but theycan have many parts of them that
(00:34):
are overlapping, especiallywhen it comes to internal peace.
And, yeah, getting parts ofourselves back from past
situations and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's all part of the process, it's a great way of
finding peace yeah, exactly,exactly being at peace with
something that was in our past,with someone with some
relationship.
It's amazing how thinking ofthings takes them from yeah,
(01:08):
nothing or or meaninglessness todeep, deep meaning, right yeah
like to think about.
I think about the word my,right.
We add the word my to somethingand it becomes all completely
different, like my high schoolyeah, we take ownership.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It means like some sort of ownership my high school
.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I went to school with 1500 different people but every
one of us had our own versionof that high school because we
all had our own thought forms.
There were parts of that schoolwe spent a lot of time in.
There were people that we knewin that school.
Are we talk about my friends?
It changes the character ofthose those things.
(01:57):
Yeah, the word my, you know,takes something that has
absolutely no meaning as totalneutrality and it turns it into
something completely differentyeah and that's really the idea
of thought forms.
you know, when we think aboutthe relationships that we have
with people just saying that wasmy relationship, yeah, or my
(02:25):
partner, my girlfriend,boyfriend, these are ideas that
take something that is otherwiseneutral and create a character
to them that involves our energy.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, and I think if you've looked at the content in
Patreon this month, you'veprobably heard me say this at
least once or twice before.
It's almost like, for example,we start out with a thousand
particles of energy.
Obviously it's not a thousand,but it's just for example's sake
(03:03):
.
Obviously it's not a thousand,but it's just for example's sake
but a thousand particles ofenergy at birth.
And then we go through life andwe leave five here and ten
there, and so we find ourselvesfeeling sometimes not whole,
feeling down, maybe depressed,feeling down, maybe depressed
(03:35):
just in cycles of just feelingout of control or not knowing
what to do.
I mean, there's lots of thingsthat can be caused by leaving
our energy in different spacesand places and even with people
in different spaces and placesand even with people.
And it doesn't mean that theperson from your past, let's say
, knows that they're carryingaround your energy, but I
believe it can be sort of stickyright, let's say the energy is
(03:56):
sort of stuck in there, or anenergy if you can hear our
dishwasher behind us it's justour dishwasher, but your energy
might be just attached to theirsand there's a process to kind
of retrieve.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
One of the telling ideas, I think, is that we feel
changed after events or afterrelationships.
We feel like we're different.
You know, we enter into arelationship and we bring with
us a curiosity and a playfulnessand an excitement, and then
that relationship, we imbue itwith energy, with thought energy
(04:39):
, and it becomes ourrelationship.
And that relationship is about acombined energy of you and me
and we put it into it and then,as relationships end they don't
generally end pleasantly- yeah,and then there's this almost
tearing apart or anyway, like anend to that relationship, which
(05:04):
is an end to that energy, andwe find that we say to ourselves
I'm different since thatbreakup, or I'm different since
that event, and it's reallyabout having left behind a
quality of energy that you putinto that particular thing, that
you don't have anymore becauseyou kind of left it there.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And when you look at yourself in the mirror and you
say, geez, you know, I'm not asplayful as I used to be, or I'm
not as Trust trust Trusting as Iused to be, or I'm not as open
(05:49):
as I used to be.
These are all ways of seeingourselves that when we put them
in a place and a time and attachthem to people and events, we
can leave them behind when wemove on.
And sometimes what we leavebehind is good to leave behind.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But sometimes what we leave behind, with those things
that are good to leave behind,are some really wonderful parts
of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, I think you know, asthis month has gone on and as
I've thought about it more, it'simportant to take time to
integrate and or first of allbring it back and then have it
integrate.
This podcast now there's somemeditation a few days back that
(06:48):
helps you integrate that, and anand a technique.
But, um, yeah, I think it is animportant process to go through
because we want to feel whole.
We want to not move forwardwithout having trust in others,
or you know an element of trustat least, or you know just
(07:10):
feeling good about life or orloving ourselves.
Yeah, I think it's all part ofthat process yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So I like to um, to think a process.
I like to think, to think ofprocess.
I like to think that, you know,I'll look back on different
periods of time in my life andI'll think about how I've
changed since then and how I'mdifferent, in good ways and in
ways that I don't particularlylike, um, and I think about.
(07:42):
You know, one of I think one ofthe most valuable
characteristics that we lose aswe age is our playfulness and
our imagination.
And with that, you know,sometimes our imagination gets a
little bit beat up becausethings don't turn out the way we
(08:02):
imagined.
Because things don't turn outthe way we imagined and then we
start hanging on to how itturned out and we don't bring
that imagination energy with us.
And so I think back to timesand relationships and events and
I ask myself how am I differentnow?
What was different about methen?
(08:23):
and what were the good thingsabout me that were different
than I am now.
Yeah, and that's the energymanifesting that.
(08:44):
That's what I want back yeahright, I want to have that back.
I think, first of all, there'sgoing to be a step of
forgiveness.
There's got to be a step ofsaying well, you know, I did
nothing wrong, they did nothingwrong, we were all doing our
best.
You know, these kinds of thingshappen and I just want to have
(09:05):
in me the energy of thatprevious self.
I want it back, those aspectsof it.
So I forgive the fact that Ileft it behind, I forgive the
fact that those events caused meto to move forward without it
and then, with that sort ofsense of forgiveness, with an
(09:28):
appreciation of that, I wouldn'tbe who I am today.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But for those wonderfully difficult times in
my life, yeah, I want that partof me back yeah, yeah, it
reminds me of someone that Iworked with a long time ago who
felt like they couldn't imagine,like they couldn't see in their
(09:54):
mind or.
And then they said when I wasyounger, I used to have a great
imagination and what ended uphappening was they had someone
in their life in their teenageyears who broke their heart and
they shut down their imaginationwith that person, in a sense
(10:17):
right, and didn't want toimagine anything moving forward,
because imagination meant thatfor that person at least, it
meant that you know it wouldhurt, it's bad things will
happen if I imagine.
So they just shut that wholepart of themselves down.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Another type of that kind of situation is we talk
about my career, right, we getinvolved in the work world my
job, this is mine and it's aboutme and we get ourselves trapped
(11:01):
in an energetic state withinthat work environment and then
we find ourselves having toleave it or having to change it
or having to reconsider it andwe start to feel like, you know,
there was a time in my lifewhen I was this, you know, I
(11:23):
remember when I was very young Iworked in childcare and there
was a certain person there thatwas giving up the childcare and
I decided to move away from thatinto something else.
Right At the time I moved, Iwent to law school and I started
to become a lawyer, and so theway I viewed myself as a working
(11:45):
person contributing in theworld was shifting dramatically
in my identity, the way I sawmyself as a child care worker
and the way I saw myself as alawyer.
We're starkly different, and Igot a figure that if I brought
some of the analytical nature ofbeing a lawyer into being a
(12:06):
child care worker, I might havebeen better at it, and if I
brought some of the compassionand caring that I had as a child
care worker into practicing law.
I might have been better at it,and this is just sort of saying
that I'm a whole lot more thanwhat I'm exhibiting right now.
I can look back on times in mylife when I was different and I
(12:30):
want to draw thosecharacteristics back to me now
that they're not isolated inthat era or in that relationship
or in that part of my life.
I want them back and I wantthem today.
I want to be able to use themtoday as I move forward into my
next thing.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So how would you do it?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah.
So I mean, there's all kinds ofways of doing it.
There's all kinds of ways ofdoing it, but the one that I
like the most is focusing on one, not all, and just imagining it
as energy, like a flowingenergy out there around the
person, around the specificsituation, around the event, and
(13:18):
you are calling that energyback to you.
If you're imagining this, maybeit looks like flowing bright
energy back towards you.
If you're sensing it, thenmaybe you feel it coming towards
you.
But there needs to be agentleness to it.
It's not like a, a hoovervacuum just going, you know,
(13:41):
sucking it up.
Um, there needs to be agentleness to it because, just
like parts which we work withwhich we can talk about at
another time, um, there needs tobe integration.
There needs to be some sort ofintegration.
We don't work with a part andthen say, okay, come on in, like
you know, invite them in, openthe doors all the way.
(14:03):
This energy needs to be, likeyou said, forgiven.
It needs to be maybe spoken toin gentle ways.
It needs to be understood forwhat it stood for at the time
and what it's going to stand fornow.
I've had clients do theseretreats where I don't, I can't
(14:29):
believe I've had more than one.
But these retreats where, onthese retreats, you go and you
do soul retrieval exercises andyou retrieve all your soul from
everywhere in the universe, allover the world, all at once, and
they are messed up.
They come to me afterwards,they found me somehow, and, uh,
(14:54):
then we have to integrate slowlythat energy, um, because it's
just so overwhelming to have itall come at you at once, um, I
think another good way is tosort of see it uh, try to
simplify the energy.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Like you, you don't have to bring in all dimensions
of your energy that were in thatcertain circumstance you might
say, I just want you know.
I remember at this time in mylife I felt a little more
carefree.
I felt a little morelight-hearted about things.
I was always hopeful because Iknew I had lots of future ahead
(15:30):
of me.
And I want to have those kindsof feelings back and so it's fun
.
The technique I've used formyself and for others is just to
imagine, picture that versionof yourself Just focused on that
characteristic, just focused onthat one type of energy that
you want back and see that self.
(15:50):
You know, just sit quietly withyour eyes closed, take yourself
back in time to that period,see arising in front of you a
version of yourself that wassteeped in that energy, filled
with that energy, and you wantto bring that energy back.
And so you simply allowyourself to appreciate the
(16:11):
energy, appreciate that you'vegone through an experience
that's allowed you to grow, andyou've grown so much that now
you're open to have some of thatenergy back, maybe that playful
energy back, and then allowthat to be a version of yourself
there in front of you and justhave that version of yourself
walk into you and you walk intothem and you form again that
(16:35):
whole being again and seeyourself as capable of being
that person again, having thatcharacteristic as part of your
more grown and elaboratepersonality.
Because life makes us sowonderfully complex.
It's not that we want to giveup who we, who we be, who we
(16:57):
have become.
We want to bring back some ofthose characteristics.
So to me is a nice sort ofmeditation you identify the
characteristic, you build your,your vision of yourself back
when you had that.
Allow those two versions ofyourself to merge.
Be at peace now.
Give yourself permission in thefuture to be that, that
(17:18):
characteristic that you wantback.
Picture yourself in the futureusing that energy, that
characteristic back.
And it's amazing how quicklyand easily it feels so at home.
It it feels so natural.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
How might I mean?
I have some answers of my ownfor this, but how might number
one, one person recognize thatthey're I don't know if the
right word is missing, but howwould they know that they have
parts to call back, or haveparts of their soul, let's say
energy, to call back?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
My opinion is that you know, if you sat quietly
with the question of what have Ileft behind, what parts of me
that I admire and that I lovethat I've left behind, yeah,
what parts of me that I admireand that I love that I've left
behind, or what energies have Ileft behind that I could really
(18:20):
use, now these kinds of eventsand relationships and
circumstances are going to cometo mind and just trust that.
Just trust that Because it canbe just such a quiet, playful
thing.
You know it can be.
You know, 10 o'clock at night,sitting in your favorite chair,
you just turned off the TV.
(18:41):
You know you just saw somethingon the TV that reminded you of
some past thing.
Allow yourself to just dwell onthat past thing and just
playfully say I remember whenand I want that energy back,
yeah, and then take yourselfthrough a simple, simple I think
(19:02):
.
You reach back and you find theenergy, you pull it forward in
some form, um, you reintegrateit in yourself.
You thank the past experience,the past situation for helping
you grow, but you're finishedwith that now and you say
goodbye to it and you cut tieswith it and you can literally
(19:24):
cut ties and he's like.
You know, imagine yourself witha chainsaw, imagine yourself
with a pair of scissors, orimagine yourself with just
something you break in yourhands and say that's the past,
and I bring forward all myenergy and all my
characteristics that I loveabout me and I bring those into
my future and I leave theexperiences of the past in the
(19:48):
past, yeah, having learned allthe lessons I need to learn yeah
, yeah, I think another word forit is cord cutting.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Um, yeah, I think it's.
I think it's an excellentexercise to move forward in life
with um.
It makes me think I mean, theseare rabbit holes we could
discover another day.
But it makes me think about ifapparitions are these energy
(20:25):
parts that are left over right,that somebody left behind on
Earth, that somebody left behindon earth.
If you're wondering what anapparition is, it's sort of
these ghost-like forms or formsthat sort of get stuck on earth
and part of me wonders you know,from working with so many
people that have died NDEexperiences and such part of me
(20:50):
just wonders if, yeah, that'sjust a part.
Your soul, most mate, your soul, most of your soul moves on,
but these feelings of attachmentto different areas of your life
can get stuck here.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think, in a really practical way.
It's important to remember thatquantum physics really says
that out there there is a field,and it is our thoughts and our
interaction with the field thatcollapses things into what we
might call physical, and I thinkthat there are degrees of that,
and so we can have thoughtforms, our thought that's why I
(21:26):
say that characteristic, that'ssaying well, that that was my
career right at that time.
It collapses all of that.
That was my career at that time.
It collapses all of that spaceand time into something that's
deeply attached to you and it isreally shaped by the way you
think about it, and so I thinkyou know understanding that
(21:48):
that's how we create our reality, and so that things don't have
to be rock solid to have form,and so that our thoughts can
create forms and these forms canexist out there and we can
literally walk away from them,um, leaving behind things we
might want to keep yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, that was a fun little topic.
Did you like that topic?
Sure yeah sure the mind isalways fun to look at for me
yeah, well, if you're interestedin hearing more of our podcasts
, we've got over a hundred bingeworthy podcasts on our website.
(22:31):
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see you next month.
Hello, patreon community, we're here.
Hello, we're back.
We are talking about this month.
The theme for this month, firstof all, is soul retrieval and
peace, those two things.
They seem separate, but theycan have many parts of them that
(00:34):
are overlapping, especiallywhen it comes to internal peace.
And, yeah, getting parts ofourselves back from past
situations and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's all part of the process, it's a great way of
finding peace yeah, exactly,exactly being at peace with
something that was in our past,with someone with some
relationship.
It's amazing how thinking ofthings takes them from yeah,
(01:08):
nothing or or meaninglessness todeep, deep meaning, right yeah
like to think about.
I think about the word my,right.
We add the word my to somethingand it becomes all completely
different, like my high schoolyeah, we take ownership.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It means like some sort of ownership my high school
.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I went to school with 1500 different people but every
one of us had our own versionof that high school because we
all had our own thought forms.
There were parts of that schoolwe spent a lot of time in.
There were people that we knewin that school.
Are we talk about my friends?
It changes the character ofthose those things.
(01:57):
Yeah, the word my, you know,takes something that has
absolutely no meaning as totalneutrality and it turns it into
something completely differentyeah and that's really the idea
of thought forms.
you know, when we think aboutthe relationships that we have
with people just saying that wasmy relationship, yeah, or my
(02:25):
partner, my girlfriend,boyfriend, these are ideas that
take something that is otherwiseneutral and create a character
to them that involves our energy.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, and I think if you've looked at the content in
Patreon this month, you'veprobably heard me say this at
least once or twice before.
It's almost like, for example,we start out with a thousand
particles of energy.
Obviously it's not a thousand,but it's just for example's sake
(03:03):
.
Obviously it's not a thousand,but it's just for example's sake
but a thousand particles ofenergy at birth.
And then we go through life andwe leave five here and ten
there, and so we find ourselvesfeeling sometimes not whole,
feeling down, maybe depressed,feeling down, maybe depressed
(03:35):
just in cycles of just feelingout of control or not knowing
what to do.
I mean, there's lots of thingsthat can be caused by leaving
our energy in different spacesand places and even with people
in different spaces and placesand even with people.
And it doesn't mean that theperson from your past, let's say
, knows that they're carryingaround your energy, but I
believe it can be sort of stickyright, let's say the energy is
(03:56):
sort of stuck in there, or anenergy if you can hear our
dishwasher behind us it's justour dishwasher, but your energy
might be just attached to theirsand there's a process to kind
of retrieve.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
One of the telling ideas, I think, is that we feel
changed after events or afterrelationships.
We feel like we're different.
You know, we enter into arelationship and we bring with
us a curiosity and a playfulnessand an excitement, and then
that relationship, we imbue itwith energy, with thought energy
(04:39):
, and it becomes ourrelationship.
And that relationship is about acombined energy of you and me
and we put it into it and then,as relationships end they don't
generally end pleasantly- yeah,and then there's this almost
tearing apart or anyway, like anend to that relationship, which
(05:04):
is an end to that energy, andwe find that we say to ourselves
I'm different since thatbreakup, or I'm different since
that event, and it's reallyabout having left behind a
quality of energy that you putinto that particular thing, that
you don't have anymore becauseyou kind of left it there.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And when you look at yourself in the mirror and you
say, geez, you know, I'm not asplayful as I used to be, or I'm
not as Trust trust Trusting as Iused to be, or I'm not as open
(05:49):
as I used to be.
These are all ways of seeingourselves that when we put them
in a place and a time and attachthem to people and events, we
can leave them behind when wemove on.
And sometimes what we leavebehind is good to leave behind.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But sometimes what we leave behind, with those things
that are good to leave behind,are some really wonderful parts
of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, I think you know, asthis month has gone on and as
I've thought about it more, it'simportant to take time to
integrate and or first of allbring it back and then have it
integrate.
This podcast now there's somemeditation a few days back that
(06:48):
helps you integrate that, and anand a technique.
But, um, yeah, I think it is animportant process to go through
because we want to feel whole.
We want to not move forwardwithout having trust in others,
or you know an element of trustat least, or you know just
(07:10):
feeling good about life or orloving ourselves.
Yeah, I think it's all part ofthat process yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So I like to um, to think a process.
I like to think, to think ofprocess.
I like to think that, you know,I'll look back on different
periods of time in my life andI'll think about how I've
changed since then and how I'mdifferent, in good ways and in
ways that I don't particularlylike, um, and I think about.
(07:42):
You know, one of I think one ofthe most valuable
characteristics that we lose aswe age is our playfulness and
our imagination.
And with that, you know,sometimes our imagination gets a
little bit beat up becausethings don't turn out the way we
(08:02):
imagined.
Because things don't turn outthe way we imagined and then we
start hanging on to how itturned out and we don't bring
that imagination energy with us.
And so I think back to timesand relationships and events and
I ask myself how am I differentnow?
What was different about methen?
(08:23):
and what were the good thingsabout me that were different
than I am now.
Yeah, and that's the energymanifesting that.
(08:44):
That's what I want back yeahright, I want to have that back.
I think, first of all, there'sgoing to be a step of
forgiveness.
There's got to be a step ofsaying well, you know, I did
nothing wrong, they did nothingwrong, we were all doing our
best.
You know, these kinds of thingshappen and I just want to have
(09:05):
in me the energy of thatprevious self.
I want it back, those aspectsof it.
So I forgive the fact that Ileft it behind, I forgive the
fact that those events caused meto to move forward without it
and then, with that sort ofsense of forgiveness, with an
(09:28):
appreciation of that, I wouldn'tbe who I am today.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But for those wonderfully difficult times in
my life, yeah, I want that partof me back yeah, yeah, it
reminds me of someone that Iworked with a long time ago who
felt like they couldn't imagine,like they couldn't see in their
(09:54):
mind or.
And then they said when I wasyounger, I used to have a great
imagination and what ended uphappening was they had someone
in their life in their teenageyears who broke their heart and
they shut down their imaginationwith that person, in a sense
(10:17):
right, and didn't want toimagine anything moving forward,
because imagination meant thatfor that person at least, it
meant that you know it wouldhurt, it's bad things will
happen if I imagine.
So they just shut that wholepart of themselves down.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Another type of that kind of situation is we talk
about my career, right, we getinvolved in the work world my
job, this is mine and it's aboutme and we get ourselves trapped
(11:01):
in an energetic state withinthat work environment and then
we find ourselves having toleave it or having to change it
or having to reconsider it andwe start to feel like, you know,
there was a time in my lifewhen I was this, you know, I
(11:23):
remember when I was very young Iworked in childcare and there
was a certain person there thatwas giving up the childcare and
I decided to move away from thatinto something else.
Right At the time I moved, Iwent to law school and I started
to become a lawyer, and so theway I viewed myself as a working
(11:45):
person contributing in theworld was shifting dramatically
in my identity, the way I sawmyself as a child care worker
and the way I saw myself as alawyer.
We're starkly different, and Igot a figure that if I brought
some of the analytical nature ofbeing a lawyer into being a
(12:06):
child care worker, I might havebeen better at it, and if I
brought some of the compassionand caring that I had as a child
care worker into practicing law.
I might have been better at it,and this is just sort of saying
that I'm a whole lot more thanwhat I'm exhibiting right now.
I can look back on times in mylife when I was different and I
(12:30):
want to draw thosecharacteristics back to me now
that they're not isolated inthat era or in that relationship
or in that part of my life.
I want them back and I wantthem today.
I want to be able to use themtoday as I move forward into my
next thing.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So how would you do it?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah.
So I mean, there's all kinds ofways of doing it.
There's all kinds of ways ofdoing it, but the one that I
like the most is focusing on one, not all, and just imagining it
as energy, like a flowingenergy out there around the
person, around the specificsituation, around the event, and
(13:18):
you are calling that energyback to you.
If you're imagining this, maybeit looks like flowing bright
energy back towards you.
If you're sensing it, thenmaybe you feel it coming towards
you.
But there needs to be agentleness to it.
It's not like a, a hoovervacuum just going, you know,
(13:41):
sucking it up.
Um, there needs to be agentleness to it because, just
like parts which we work withwhich we can talk about at
another time, um, there needs tobe integration.
There needs to be some sort ofintegration.
We don't work with a part andthen say, okay, come on in, like
you know, invite them in, openthe doors all the way.
(14:03):
This energy needs to be, likeyou said, forgiven.
It needs to be maybe spoken toin gentle ways.
It needs to be understood forwhat it stood for at the time
and what it's going to stand fornow.
I've had clients do theseretreats where I don't, I can't
(14:29):
believe I've had more than one.
But these retreats where, onthese retreats, you go and you
do soul retrieval exercises andyou retrieve all your soul from
everywhere in the universe, allover the world, all at once, and
they are messed up.
They come to me afterwards,they found me somehow, and, uh,
(14:54):
then we have to integrate slowlythat energy, um, because it's
just so overwhelming to have itall come at you at once, um, I
think another good way is tosort of see it uh, try to
simplify the energy.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Like you, you don't have to bring in all dimensions
of your energy that were in thatcertain circumstance you might
say, I just want you know.
I remember at this time in mylife I felt a little more
carefree.
I felt a little morelight-hearted about things.
I was always hopeful because Iknew I had lots of future ahead
(15:30):
of me.
And I want to have those kindsof feelings back and so it's fun
.
The technique I've used formyself and for others is just to
imagine, picture that versionof yourself Just focused on that
characteristic, just focused onthat one type of energy that
you want back and see that self.
(15:50):
You know, just sit quietly withyour eyes closed, take yourself
back in time to that period,see arising in front of you a
version of yourself that wassteeped in that energy, filled
with that energy, and you wantto bring that energy back.
And so you simply allowyourself to appreciate the
(16:11):
energy, appreciate that you'vegone through an experience
that's allowed you to grow, andyou've grown so much that now
you're open to have some of thatenergy back, maybe that playful
energy back, and then allowthat to be a version of yourself
there in front of you and justhave that version of yourself
walk into you and you walk intothem and you form again that
(16:35):
whole being again and seeyourself as capable of being
that person again, having thatcharacteristic as part of your
more grown and elaboratepersonality.
Because life makes us sowonderfully complex.
It's not that we want to giveup who we, who we be, who we
(16:57):
have become.
We want to bring back some ofthose characteristics.
So to me is a nice sort ofmeditation you identify the
characteristic, you build your,your vision of yourself back
when you had that.
Allow those two versions ofyourself to merge.
Be at peace now.
Give yourself permission in thefuture to be that, that
(17:18):
characteristic that you wantback.
Picture yourself in the futureusing that energy, that
characteristic back.
And it's amazing how quicklyand easily it feels so at home.
It it feels so natural.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
How might I mean?
I have some answers of my ownfor this, but how might number
one, one person recognize thatthey're I don't know if the
right word is missing, but howwould they know that they have
parts to call back, or haveparts of their soul, let's say
energy, to call back?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
My opinion is that you know, if you sat quietly
with the question of what have Ileft behind, what parts of me
that I admire and that I lovethat I've left behind, yeah,
what parts of me that I admireand that I love that I've left
behind, or what energies have Ileft behind that I could really
(18:20):
use, now these kinds of eventsand relationships and
circumstances are going to cometo mind and just trust that.
Just trust that Because it canbe just such a quiet, playful
thing.
You know it can be.
You know, 10 o'clock at night,sitting in your favorite chair,
you just turned off the TV.
(18:41):
You know you just saw somethingon the TV that reminded you of
some past thing.
Allow yourself to just dwell onthat past thing and just
playfully say I remember whenand I want that energy back,
yeah, and then take yourselfthrough a simple, simple I think
(19:02):
.
You reach back and you find theenergy, you pull it forward in
some form, um, you reintegrateit in yourself.
You thank the past experience,the past situation for helping
you grow, but you're finishedwith that now and you say
goodbye to it and you cut tieswith it and you can literally
(19:24):
cut ties and he's like.
You know, imagine yourself witha chainsaw, imagine yourself
with a pair of scissors, orimagine yourself with just
something you break in yourhands and say that's the past,
and I bring forward all myenergy and all my
characteristics that I loveabout me and I bring those into
my future and I leave theexperiences of the past in the
(19:48):
past, yeah, having learned allthe lessons I need to learn yeah
, yeah, I think another word forit is cord cutting.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Um, yeah, I think it's.
I think it's an excellentexercise to move forward in life
with um.
It makes me think I mean, theseare rabbit holes we could
discover another day.
But it makes me think about ifapparitions are these energy
(20:25):
parts that are left over right,that somebody left behind on
Earth, that somebody left behindon earth.
If you're wondering what anapparition is, it's sort of
these ghost-like forms or formsthat sort of get stuck on earth
and part of me wonders you know,from working with so many
people that have died NDEexperiences and such part of me
(20:50):
just wonders if, yeah, that'sjust a part.
Your soul, most mate, your soul, most of your soul moves on,
but these feelings of attachmentto different areas of your life
can get stuck here.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think, in a really practical way.
It's important to remember thatquantum physics really says
that out there there is a field,and it is our thoughts and our
interaction with the field thatcollapses things into what we
might call physical, and I thinkthat there are degrees of that,
and so we can have thoughtforms, our thought that's why I
(21:26):
say that characteristic, that'ssaying well, that that was my
career right at that time.
It collapses all of that.
That was my career at that time.
It collapses all of that spaceand time into something that's
deeply attached to you and it isreally shaped by the way you
think about it, and so I thinkyou know understanding that
(21:48):
that's how we create our reality, and so that things don't have
to be rock solid to have form,and so that our thoughts can
create forms and these forms canexist out there and we can
literally walk away from them,um, leaving behind things we
might want to keep yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, that was a fun little topic.
Did you like that topic?
Sure yeah sure the mind isalways fun to look at for me
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