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Soul Retrieval: Finding Inner Peace Through Energy Integration
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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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Hello, patreon community, we're here. Hello, we're back. We are talking about this month. The theme for this month, first of all, is soul retrieval and peace, those two things. They seem separate, but they can have many parts of them that are overlapping, especially when it comes to internal peace. And, yeah, getting parts of ourselves back from past situations and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: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 of things takes them from yeah, nothing or or meaninglessness to deep, deep meaning, right yeah like to think about. I think about the word my, right. We add the word my to something and it becomes all completely different, like my high school yeah, we take ownership.
Speaker 1:It means like some sort of ownership my high school.
Speaker 2:I went to school with 1500 different people but every one of us had our own version of that high school because we all had our own thought forms. There were parts of that school we spent a lot of time in. There were people that we knew in that school. Are we talk about my friends? It changes the character of those those things. Yeah, the word my, you know, takes something that has absolutely no meaning as total neutrality and it turns it into something completely different yeah and that's really the idea of thought forms.
Speaker 2:you know, when we think about the relationships that we have with people just saying that was my relationship, yeah, or my partner, my girlfriend, boyfriend, these are ideas that take something that is otherwise neutral and create a character to them that involves our energy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think if you've looked at the content in Patreon this month, you've probably heard me say this at least once or twice before.
Speaker 1: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. Obviously it's not a thousand, but it's just for example's sake but a thousand particles of energy at birth. And then we go through life and we leave five here and ten there, and so we find ourselves feeling sometimes not whole, feeling down, maybe depressed, feeling down, maybe depressed just in cycles of just feeling out of control or not knowing what to do. I mean, there's lots of things that can be caused by leaving our energy in different spaces and places and even with people in different spaces and places and even with people. And it doesn't mean that the person from your past, let's say, knows that they're carrying around your energy, but I believe it can be sort of sticky right, let's say the energy is sort of stuck in there, or an energy if you can hear our dishwasher behind us it's just our dishwasher, but your energy might be just attached to theirs and there's a process to kind of retrieve.
Speaker 2:One of the telling ideas, I think, is that we feel changed after events or after relationships. We feel like we're different. You know, we enter into a relationship and we bring with us a curiosity and a playfulness and an excitement, and then that relationship, we imbue it with energy, with thought energy, and it becomes our relationship.
Speaker 2:And that relationship is about a combined 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 an end to that relationship, which is an end to that energy, and we find that we say to ourselves I'm different since that breakup, or I'm different since that event, and it's really about having left behind a quality of energy that you put into that particular thing, that you don't have anymore because you kind of left it there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say, geez, you know, I'm not as playful as I used to be, or I'm not as Trust trust Trusting as I used to be, or I'm not as open as I used to be. These are all ways of seeing ourselves that when we put them in a place and a time and attach them to people and events, we can leave them behind when we move on. And sometimes what we leave behind is good to leave behind.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But sometimes what we leave behind, with those things that are good to leave behind, are some really wonderful parts of ourselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I think you know, as this month has gone on and as I've thought about it more, it's important to take time to integrate and or first of all bring it back and then have it integrate. This podcast now there's some meditation a few days back that helps you integrate that, and an and a technique. But, um, yeah, I think it is an important process to go through because we want to feel whole. We want to not move forward without having trust in others, or you know an element of trust at least, or you know just feeling good about life or or loving ourselves. Yeah, I think it's all part of that process yeah.
Speaker 2:So I like to um, to think a process. I like to think, to think of process. I like to think that, you know, I'll look back on different periods of time in my life and I'll think about how I've changed since then and how I'm different, in good ways and in ways that I don't particularly like, um, and I think about. You know, one of I think one of the most valuable characteristics that we lose as we age is our playfulness and our imagination. And with that, you know, sometimes our imagination gets a little bit beat up because things don't turn out the way we imagined. Because things don't turn out the way we imagined and then we start hanging on to how it turned out and we don't bring that imagination energy with us. And so I think back to times and relationships and events and I ask myself how am I different now? What was different about me then?
Speaker 2:and what were the good things about me that were different than I am now. Yeah, and that's the energy manifesting that.
Speaker 2:That's what I want back yeah right, I want to have that back. I think, first of all, there's going to be a step of forgiveness. There's got to be a step of saying well, you know, I did nothing wrong, they did nothing wrong, we were all doing our best. You know, these kinds of things happen and I just want to have in me the energy of that previous self. I want it back, those aspects of it. So I forgive the fact that I left it behind, I forgive the fact that those events caused me to to move forward without it and then, with that sort of sense of forgiveness, with an appreciation of that, I wouldn't be who I am today.
Speaker 1:But for those wonderfully difficult times in my life, yeah, I want that part of me back yeah, yeah, it reminds me of someone that I worked with a long time ago who felt like they couldn't imagine, like they couldn't see in their mind or. And then they said when I was younger, I used to have a great imagination and what ended up happening was they had someone in their life in their teenage years who broke their heart and they shut down their imagination with that person, in a sense right, and didn't want to imagine anything moving forward, because imagination meant that for that person at least, it meant that you know it would hurt, it's bad things will happen if I imagine. So they just shut that whole part of themselves down.
Speaker 2:Another type of that kind of situation is we talk about my career, right, we get involved in the work world my job, this is mine and it's about me and we get ourselves trapped in an energetic state within that work environment and then we find ourselves having to leave it or having to change it or having to reconsider it and we start to feel like, you know, there was a time in my life when I was this, you know, I remember when I was very young I worked in childcare and there was a certain person there that was giving up the childcare and I decided to move away from that into something else.
Speaker 2:Right At the time I moved, I went to law school and I started to become a lawyer, and so the way I viewed myself as a working person contributing in the world was shifting dramatically in my identity, the way I saw myself as a child care worker and the way I saw myself as a lawyer.
Speaker 2:We're starkly different, and I got a figure that if I brought some of the analytical nature of being a lawyer into being a child care worker, I might have been better at it, and if I brought some of the compassion and 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 than what I'm exhibiting right now. I can look back on times in my life when I was different and I want to draw those characteristics back to me now that they're not isolated in that era or in that relationship or in that part of my life. I want them back and I want them today. I want to be able to use them today as I move forward into my next thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So how would you do it?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I mean, there's all kinds of ways of doing it. There's all kinds of ways of doing it, but the one that I like the most is focusing on one, not all, and just imagining it as energy, like a flowing energy out there around the person, around the specific situation, around the event, and you are calling that energy back to you. If you're imagining this, maybe it looks like flowing bright energy back towards you. If you're sensing it, then maybe you feel it coming towards you. But there needs to be a gentleness to it. It's not like a, a hoover vacuum just going, you know, sucking it up. Um, there needs to be a gentleness to it because, just like parts which we work with which we can talk about at another time, um, there needs to be integration. There needs to be some sort of integration.
Speaker 1:We don't work with a part and then say, okay, come on in, like you know, invite them in, open the doors all the way. This energy needs to be, like you said, forgiven. It needs to be maybe spoken to in gentle ways. It needs to be understood for what it stood for at the time and what it's going to stand for now. I've had clients do these retreats where I don't, I can't believe I've had more than one. But these retreats where, on these retreats, you go and you do soul retrieval exercises and you retrieve all your soul from everywhere in the universe, all over the world, all at once, and they are messed up. They come to me afterwards, they found me somehow, and, uh, then we have to integrate slowly that energy, um, because it's just so overwhelming to have it all come at you at once, um, I think another good way is to sort of see it uh, try to simplify the energy.
Speaker 2:Like you, you don't have to bring in all dimensions of your energy that were in that certain circumstance you might say, I just want you know. I remember at this time in my life I felt a little more carefree. I felt a little more light-hearted about things. I was always hopeful because I knew I had lots of future ahead of me. And I want to have those kinds of feelings back and so it's fun.
Speaker 2:The technique I've used for myself and for others is just to imagine, picture that version of yourself Just focused on that characteristic, just focused on that one type of energy that you want back and see that self. You know, just sit quietly with your eyes closed, take yourself back in time to that period, see arising in front of you a version of yourself that was steeped in that energy, filled with that energy, and you want to bring that energy back. And so you simply allow yourself to appreciate the energy, appreciate that you've gone through an experience that's allowed you to grow, and you've grown so much that now you're open to have some of that energy back, maybe that playful energy back, and then allow that to be a version of yourself there in front of you and just have that version of yourself walk into you and you walk into them and you form again that whole being again and see yourself as capable of being that person again, having that characteristic as part of your more grown and elaborate personality. Because life makes us so wonderfully complex. It's not that we want to give up who we, who we be, who we have become. We want to bring back some of those characteristics.
Speaker 2:So to me is a nice sort of meditation you identify the characteristic, you build your, your vision of yourself back when you had that. Allow those two versions of yourself to merge. Be at peace now. Give yourself permission in the future to be that, that characteristic that you want back. Picture yourself in the future using that energy, that characteristic back. And it's amazing how quickly and easily it feels so at home. It it feels so natural.
Speaker 1:How might I mean? I have some answers of my own for this, but how might number one, one person recognize that they're I don't know if the right word is missing, but how would they know that they have parts to call back, or have parts of their soul, let's say energy, to call back?
Speaker 2:My opinion is that you know, if you sat quietly with the question of what have I left behind, what parts of me that I admire and that I love that I've left behind, yeah, what parts of me that I admire and that I love that I've left behind, or what energies have I left behind that I could really use, now these kinds of events and relationships and circumstances are going to come to mind and just trust that. Just trust that Because it can be 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. You know you just saw something on the TV that reminded you of some past thing.
Speaker 2:Allow yourself to just dwell on that past thing and just playfully say I remember when and I want that energy back, yeah, and then take yourself through a simple, simple I think. You reach back and you find the energy, you pull it forward in some form, um, you reintegrate it in yourself. You thank the past experience, the past situation for helping you grow, but you're finished with that now and you say goodbye to it and you cut ties with it and you can literally cut ties and he's like. You know, imagine yourself with a chainsaw, imagine yourself with a pair of scissors, or imagine yourself with just something you break in your hands and say that's the past, and I bring forward all my energy and all my characteristics that I love about me and I bring those into my future and I leave the experiences of the past in the past, yeah, having learned all the lessons I need to learn yeah, yeah, I think another word for it is cord cutting.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, I think it's. I think it's an excellent exercise to move forward in life with um. It makes me think I mean, these are rabbit holes we could discover another day. But it makes me think about if apparitions are these energy parts that are left over right, that somebody left behind on Earth, that somebody left behind on earth. If you're wondering what an apparition is, it's sort of these ghost-like forms or forms that sort of get stuck on earth and part of me wonders you know, from working with so many people that have died NDE experiences and such part of me just wonders if, yeah, that's just a part. Your soul, most mate, your soul, most of your soul moves on, but these feelings of attachment to different areas of your life can get stuck here.
Speaker 2:I think, in a really practical way. It's important to remember that quantum physics really says that out there there is a field, and it is our thoughts and our interaction with the field that collapses things into what we might call physical, and I think that there are degrees of that, and so we can have thought forms, our thought that's why I say that characteristic, that's saying 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 space and time into something that's deeply attached to you and it is really shaped by the way you think about it, and so I think you know understanding that 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 can exist out there and we can literally walk away from them, um, leaving behind things we might want to keep yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:Well, that was a fun little topic. Did you like that topic? Sure yeah sure the mind is always fun to look at for me yeah, well, if you're interested in hearing more of our podcasts, we've got over a hundred binge worthy podcasts on our website. I'll link the direct link in the description below and we'll see you next month.
