What I call Soul Retrieval work is a process of dealing with traumas in this current lifetime.
The way I explain it, in very simple – and symbolic terms – is this:
As we move through our lives, we face traumas. It may be the unexpected death of a beloved pet, or it may be falling out of a tree when we had been told not to climb it in the first place. It may be coming home from school one day to find an empty house and your parents saying, “we’ve moved, get in the car.” (yes, that does happen). It could be the messy break-up of your first serious relationship, or your parents’ messy divorce as you were going through important exams. Whatever the trauma, it causes a fragment of the soul to split off and get left behind as the rest trundles on along the road of life. Even though this fragment has been left behind, there is a cord that links the “little one” to the adult, so that the little one can keep in touch with what the adult is doing. If the adult finds him / herself in a situation which – in the eyes of the little one – echoes the trauma that caused the little one to split off, the little one twangs the cord. I liken it to plucking a guitar string – it vibrates all the way up to the adult, who at a deep level receives that vibration of whatever emotion was involved.
What are these emotions? That depends on what the trauma was. There may be a mix of, say, confusion, sadness and rejection; or anger, resentment and frustration. It may be loss, grief and pain; or betrayal, abandonment and shame. It is not unusual for several of the “little ones” and older ones too to have a similar range of emotions, so that when those guitar strings are plucked, the adult gets a really strong ripple of that emotion.
How does the session work? First, I need to know which years we need to look at. I don’t ask the client directly – that would trigger the use of the cognitive brain, the conscious mind – “I remember when I was six, this happened” and so on. I put the client into a deep state of relaxation and then ask the unconscious or Higher Self: that is far more accurate, and goes back much further than the conscious mind can remember, back into the womb in some cases. For this I will use IMRs (Ideo Motor Responses) or, more often, my pendulum.
Then, using visualisation, I guide the client to a pathway of their life and I walk the client along the pathway finding the “little ones”
that have been split off. It always seems odd to the client sitting in the chair before the real work starts, as I explain what is going to happen, when I say, “I will ask you to find, for instance, the six year-old.” I can see them asking themselves how on earth they are going to do that – but in that deep state of relaxation, they do. And my next question is not “what happened?” – I don’t need to know that the little girl was wearing her favourite pink frock when Uncle George did something he should not have done – but rather “how is the little one feeling?” It is a very different question, and keeps things in the emotional state rather than the cognitive / memory state.
This is where the little one tells me how she / he is feeling – afraid, confused, lonely – whatever it may be. I then separate the little one from those emotions and, using a cushion, encourage the client (still in the deep state of relaxation) to bring the little one home, to re-integrate the fragment of the soul that has split off.
The emotions that have been released / cut away are then gathered and disposed off, so that they are gone for good.
Invariably, getting rid of all that “stuff” is very cathartic, and re-integrating all of the fragments of the soul – putting back the missing pieces into the jigsaw of the soul, as I call it – gives a real sense of wholeness and completion. It is often the case that some people realise there has been an emptiness inside, and they have been trying to fill the emotional void by putting food (or drugs, or alcohol) into the physical level which clearly does not work.
The process is rounded off with cleansing, healing and balancing before I bring the client back to the “here and now”.
Very often, if it has been a long and involved session, the client can come back exhausted. And sometimes it can take more than one session to walk the path of this lifetime. But invariably at the end of it all, there is a sense of lightness, of wholeness and of having let go of so much old “stuff”.
A very powerful session – and I always make sure there are plenty of tissues to hand!