Soul Retrieval: Finding Your Inner Child
I am sitting in my room about to take a shamanic journey. I prompt up my pillow and place my shaman crystal in my hand. I’m ready to dive into the unknown. The drum starts to play and I enter into the tree.
Usually I travel into the Lower World, but this time was different. Instead of going down the tree trunk to meet my Spirit Animal, I start to climb up the tree. I haven’t been up the trunk in a while. The change of pace will be good. I start to climb and then stop at a tree branch. I walk onto the branch and sit down.
As I look down, I can see mountains and within these mountains are towns. Houses and roads line the way. But I become startled because I know the branch won’t hold me. It’s wobbly. It’s limber and is bouncing me this way and that. I decide to go even further up the tree.
Up the trunk, I continue to climb until I reach another much taller branch. I walk along the branch and again it’s wobbling. I sit down to look at the view overlooking the town, but I feel so uncomfortable. What’s wrong? I think to myself and just like that, I pop out of meditation. I’m irritated with my experience. What did it mean? I chalk it up for a “well that sucked” meditation experience.
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Later that day, I’m in the shower which is my best place to meditate at. As I wash my hair, I decide that I’m ready to reveal a deeper connection. My drive is ignited and burning inside me and once again I find passion. I’m ready to lead. I know what I have to do. But then I instantly go into my meditation space.
This time, I’m taken to myself as a little child. She is sitting on her bed back at the first house we lived at. She’s crying and upset. I bend down next to her and ask, “What’s wrong?” She sobs and through the tears she says, “I hate this world! There’s so much wrong and bad in it. Why do people choose to do things wrong? Don’t they know we have so much to offer?”
I empathize with the little girl and see that she is quite burdened with bigger events. She must not be older than 10 to tackle on the problems of the world. She cries for the animals, she cries for our Earth, she cries to save humanity.
I look at her with a big smile and say, “Hey! You know what? I’m tired of it too. Did you know that I decided to make a commitment to lead? To teach people how to find themselves so they stop looking on the outside of who they are. A commitment to our Earth to protect and love her. It’s going to be different, but I’m going to lead. Do you want to come with me?” She wipes away her tears and smiles. She places her hand in mine and we walk outside the room.
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I am then transported to the top of the tree. Here I sit again overlooking the town below. This time, I’m on a strong branch and feel secure. I watch the view as an energy shift moves inside me. I feel good. I know exactly where I need to be.
Then, the tree branch starts to move. It pulls out like a sling shot and soars me across the forest. I start to fall. Going through all the tree branches falling further and further down. I land on my two feet strongly and as I stand, I’m eye to eye with a mighty big tree trunk. I make out a face from the tree knots and have a puzzled look on my face. “What am I supposed to do now,” I think. Then the tree spoke to me, “Hi, Amber. I’m the Great Oak and I will assist you on your journey.” I pop out of meditation.
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What is soul retrieval?
It’s hard to describe such a profound experience in this little article and text which is why I showed you an example of it. Did you ever experience your power or an essence of you taken away?
In order to understand this concept, we must first look at SOUL LOSS.
Soul loss is where you don’t feel whole. You may not really be able to explain it, but there’s something that feels missing inside. Maybe you can’t put your finger on it, or perhaps you know exactly when you loss that sparkle in your eye. Either way, it’s a feeling of lack or emptiness inside. Soul loss can be from a result of trauma, loss of loved one, surgery, out of body experience, accident, illness etc.
Soul retrieval is where you go back and find the missing soul fragment and bring it back home. As in my example above, my child self felt hopeless from all overwhelming actions going on in the world. I went back and spoke with this soul fragment who felt LACK, SACRED, DEFEATED and in essence retrieved her to come home.
I do this for clients often in my work. The Spirit Guides will show me an age that I need to discuss with them. Usually the client can pin point where they were however sometimes we “block” things out and can’t gather the information consciously. There is something that comes up that needs to be addressed or discussed in that period. A loss soul fragment that can come home.
ARE YOU READY TO COME HOME?
I am transitioning our Chakra Transformation Membership to include work on a deeper level. This will include how to reach your inner child through meditations, learn how to create ceremony, work with your spirit animal and more.
My vision is to:
- create a community of members who support one another no matter where they are on their journey
- to assist members how to break down the walls to their own inner truth
- live an authentic life
Together I do believe we can make a better place for all of us. It starts from within and then moves out.
