Diy Soul Retrieval
DIY SOUL RETRIEVAL A SPIRIT GIVES ME SOUL RETRIEVAL
Jenny Funkmeyer’s
One of my daughter's classmates visited us at our house. He
gave me a book his mother wrote, saying, "My mom is strange like you. I
think you'll like her book." I said thanks and took the book. The boy was
not memorable, of average height and looks. I don't remember much about him. My
daughter said he was not a particularly close friend. That was the one and only
time he visited our house.
The book was Gifts for the Soul by Dawn E. Clark.
The book was about how spirits led Dawn to Soul Retrieval –
a technique of going into the past to bring home your lost soul. Dawn began the
book with a moving account of her communication with her father after his
death. The most interesting part to me was the evidence for Dawn’s belief that
her father had actually reincarnated as her son.
So...in a way, Dawn's father came to me in the body of his
grandson to give me Soul Retrieval. I know, I know, this sounds very fishy.
After reading it, I realized Soul Retrieval is something I
had been doing without knowing that it had a name. Dawn had developed a method
for retrieving lost soul fragments using what she calls soul images, which are
different images that you draw on a piece of paper, look at, and rotate, and so
on. I tried her method but it didn't resonate with me. I felt as if this was
her method of doing soul retrieval, so I didn’t actually follow it. With her
method as a baseline, I devised my own way that worked for me. DIY, my way!
The night I finished the book, I was pretty excited to try
it out. Synchronistically, many traumas had arisen for Otis. I called him in
and I put Otis into deep meditation. He started to see images of a past life.
We recovered one soul fragment, then another, then another and another. The
defining moment was when he said, "I see someone, his name is..."
Otis and I said the name "Philippe" at the same
time! Okay, this is strange. You don't have to believe me. But the truth was
clear to me and now I present the truth of soul retrieval to you. "May you
walk a blessed path as you fill your life with love and light."-- Dawn E.
Clark
INTRODUCTION
Every time you encounter trauma – whether in this life or a
previous lifetime a bit of your soul goes into shock and proceeds to chip off
and hide. This bit of lost soul becomes stuck in your psyche, replaying this
trauma over and over. For all of eternity, the soul bit relives the scene until
it is one day retrieved and reintegrated into the whole.
As an integral part of your soul’s journey, you voluntarily
experienced the trauma in order to gain greater wisdom and compassion. Before
the trauma occurred, you might have been more innocent, happier, or more vital.
The process of gaining wisdom wore down your innocence, happiness, and vitality.
You're wiser at the expense of your innocence. In other words, you've lost a
part of your soul.
If you’ve lost a bit of your soul in the past, you are
incomplete. You're like a car that doesn’t function at maximum capacity because
you’re missing some parts. Try driving sometime without a battery or radiator!
The same applies to the missing piece of your soul – you need to get it back.
There are several clever components at work in the soul
retrieval process.
NLP(neuro-linguistic programming)
The general idea behind NLP is that each of your memories
has a specific home in your brain. When you retrieve a particular memory, your
eyes go to a particular place to access it.
TRY IT NOW!
Think back to a childhood memory of your mother; notice
where your eyeballs are pointing. Now think of an embarrassing memory from your
adolescence; notice where your eyeballs are pointing now. Two different
locations! Every memory has it own place!
NLP is the process of changing a memory by relocating it. So
you can either shift a bad memory to a new location or replace it by putting a
new memory in its place!
I'm no NLP expert, so I will not go further on this. Suffice
to say, when we retrieve the lost soul bit we are in effect replacing where
that lost soul bit lives in our brain. Simple and brilliant! You're not stuck
in one point-of-view; you have the benefit of many angles of understanding.
Memory Loop
We call our thinking a process a “train of thought” because
it just goes on and on – one thought after another without stopping!
Memory is on a circular loop; it goes on and on and then it
goes back on itself and repeats, eternally. It doesn't even change in form or
content; it simply replays itself over and over again. That’s why if you have a
bad memory and don't deal with it, it just comes back to haunt you over and
over again with exactly the same details, emotional content, feel, smell, and
look.
DIY!
This is why in soul retrieval we freeze the scene into a 3D
holographic still image. The memory loop can only stay in tact while the memory
has not been fully examined. In soul retrieval, we effectively end the memory
loop in one fell swoop. Let’s turn our lives into cinematic masterpieces.
When you feel you're ready to deal with it, you can start to
play the scene in slow-motion – let it move forward slowly, one frame at a
time. You can roll it back and forth – go forward and backwards. I was a video
editor and I've often done this to analyze a scene. This technique helps me
become aware that this scene is under my control. This is one of the chief
benefits of soul retrieval – taking a memory where you felt helpless and
bringing it back into your control.
As a filmmaker, I've always understood that although the
script, the direction, the acting, the production, the music, and the art, all
play a major role in shaping a film, a film is really made by the editor in the
editing room. When you live an incident in your life, it's like a film being
shot. However, the final say is still in your hands when you edit it in the
editing room of your mind.
Talk Therapy
Talking to your lost soul, one-on-one, heart-toheart, is
like hiring the best psychoanalyst and having as long a session as you like.
You can stop the session if things get too out-of-hand and then come back later.
No appointments necessary. You know yourself better than anyone! Trust
yourself! DIY.
In this section, I’ll share three kinds of soul
retrieval techniques that allow you to revisit the traumatic
event give the scene new meaning reintegrate the soul fragment.
Gather the Missing Pieces
In meditation, relax and allow the memory of a past
traumatic event to come to you.
Freeze the most impactful moment into a threedimensional
still image like a hologram.
Look for the lost soul bit that is hidden in the scene. The
soul bit is the exact replica of the body but with less density. She or he
could be anywhere in the frozen scene. The telltale sign is she or he is moving
and not frozen. The lost soul bit is in the scene but not part of the scene.
Usually the soul bit is hiding behind the body, standing over it, or up in a
tree, but she or he could be anywhere.
Interact with the soul bit. Introduce yourself, ask
questions, and explain the situation. Use your imagination. Take your time.
Gain the trust of the soul bit. Invite him or her to examine the scene with
you.
Together with the soul bit, walk around the scene. View the
people involved, including your own body, from different points of view. This
is very important: see things from a new perspective. Keep communicating with
the soul bit and exchanging views.
Bring the Lost Soul Home
Explain your current life. Tell the soul bit how she or he
can make your life whole by reintegrating into wholeness with you. Invite the
soul bit to come home to your current life with you.
Listen to the soul bit's concern. Make a deal regarding what
she or he will do with you in the integrated whole person. Obtain the soul
bit's agreement to come home with you.
Together, walk through a tunnel of time from the past back
to the present moment where your body sits in meditation.
Hug and allow the soul bit to merge into you and then merge
back into the body.
Integrate into Current Life
This is the easy part. There is no action to take, nor
things to remember. It's done. You've retrieved your lost soul. Now, trust the
process, and move on to living life. There is no need to check up on the
effectiveness of the work. Indeed you will find yourself doing things
differently. Sometimes immediately and sometimes it might take a while. Be
patient; trust the process.
Once integrated, the lost soul bit will rarely split apart
from you. You will live as a whole. But if a situation occurs that is very much
like the traumatic past and you do not react in favor of yourself, the lost
soul bit that you've retrieved will emerge again, caution you, and give you
advice. This is actually a big benefit of the work. Once you've learned to deal
with the past in new positive light, the soul bit will not be separated from
you ever again.
THE TECHNIQUE
I will now share with you three examples of soul retrievals:
beginning with a childhood soul retrieval and then moving into a past life and
then future-self soul retrieval.
CHILDHOOD
SOUL RETRIEVAL
It's a nice day at work and suddenly my boss comes into my
office. He yells at me for not doing something right. My face turns red and my
temper flares up. I swallow my pride and keep my mouth shut.
I feel like a seven-year-old being scolded by a teacher...
ah!
Myself as a seven-year-old...
ah...this thought triggers a memory...
When I get home from work that night, I find time to sit
comfortably, turn off the phone, close my eyes, and go into an empty state of
mind:
meditation.
A scene presents itself: In a classroom during my childhood
in Hong Kong, a little girl stood with her head hung low. I recognize the
little girl as myself in second grade. I'm being punished for "talking too
much" in class. The teacher looks mean as she ridicules me in a harsh,
loud voice. The rest of the class laughs at me.
At this moment, my soul jumps out of my secondgrade self's
body and flies to the top of the ceiling.
She hangs on, frightened, sad, and confused.
My modern-day self freezes the scene – capturing the
teacher, the classmates, and my second-gradebody in a three-dimensional still
picture – a hologram. I'm in control of the hologram; I can stop the action and
take my time examining the image. I can move around the image the way they do
in The Matrix. The entire scene is in my control. It feels much less scary
already.
I wait until I feel emotionally capable of handling the
situation – only then do I proceed. I place myself as I am today into the
scene. I look up to the ceiling and spot my second-grade soul, who looks
exactly like my second-grade body, but with less density.
With a gentle voice, I tell my second-grade soul who I am,
almost as if I’m cooing to a baby, "I am you! All grown up!" She's
amazed. "You! Are me?" It takes some convincing but eventually she
believes who I claim to be.
I invite my second-grade soul to study the frozen scene in
front of us. The soul agrees and comes out of her hiding place on the ceiling.
We walk around the hologram of the classroom, marveling at how each person is
as still as a statue. We examine the teacher, the students, and our
second-grade body – from many different angles. We look at the teacher's mouth
frozen in an ugly shape, the students' faces frozen in unkind merriment. We see
their body postures from the back, from the sides, from the top, and so on. We
see the image from many perspectives – not just one viewpoint – giving the
scene new meaning.
My modern-day self slowly processes my secondgrade self's
feelings and emotions in the situation. I listen to my second-grade soul's
complaints, confessions, regrets, wounds, angers, and hurts. As an older and
wiser adult, I show my appreciation and sympathy by listening intently. I don't
offer "advice" or tell her the "correct" thing to do. I
simply allow myself to be fully present with my second-grade soul and allow her
to freely speak her mind.
I keep telling her I'm on her side and offer my appreciation
at her strength in handling intense emotions under pressure in a highly charged
situation. We're talking like kindred souls. "Bravo!" I say to her
and she begins to feel vindicated.
From our intense observations, a new understanding arises:
the teacher is having a bad day, and she takes it out on her helpless students.
The other students are simply little kids – unable to comprehend the
consequences of their actions; they have yet to learn to have kindness in their
hearts.
After a while, we both feel complete. I ask if my
second-grade soul wants to do anything. I tell her I'm here to support her in
whatever she wants to do.
To my surprise, my second-grade soul wants to kick the
teacher's butt. I say, "Yay!" My second- grade soul goes up to the
teacher, tells her to bend down, and kicks her butt.
We laugh and enjoy ourselves as the teacher tumbles over and
falls. My second-grade soul demands an apology. The teacher apologizes, and my
second-grade soul makes her promises never to talk to her students in such
hurtful way.
My second-grade soul then proceeds to give the entire class
a scolding on what a shame it is to laugh at another's misfortune.
Bring the Lost Soul Home
I tell my second-grade soul that we are one. She still lives
– as me – in a current life!
I ask if she will return to the present with me. I tell her
the incident has caused me to feel inadequate in dealing with other unkind
people. I need her perspective and cannot be whole without her. She agrees to
alert me when others are acting unkind toward me and give me strength when I
defend myself. We look into each other’s eyes and smile.
Together, we walk down a tunnel of time, traveling from my
childhood to my youth to my present-day self where I sit in meditation.
We hug and she merges into me. We are again one.
Integrate Into Current Life
The next day when my boss yells at me again, I don't know
where my strength comes from, but I stand up and tell him, "Don't talk to
me this way! Even if I didn't do the job right, you have no right to be
impolite to me!" He is totally taken by surprise.
All I can say is that, while I may get fired, nobody has
ever talked to me in an unkind way again. I feel her presence inside me. She is
loving, she is poised, she is forgiving. She is who I am becoming.
My second-grade soul is now inside me. She protects me and
does not allow any harm to come near me again.
PAST LIFE
SOUL RETRIEVAL
The technique sometimes yields unexpected results. You may
encounter yourself in a past life situation. I will give you another example of
how I recovered a frightened bit of my lost soul from a past life.
Gather the Missing Pieces
A scene presents itself: A young man I intuitively know to
be myself in a former life is walking down a country path. Another man jumps
out of the bushes, knife in hand, and stabs my past-life self in the back. At
that moment, the soul bit jumps out of the body and flies to the top of a
nearby tree.
Clinging onto a tree branch, the soul bit watches in horror
as the man murders my past-life body.
My modern-day self freezes the scene – capturing the
murderer, the victim, and my former-life body into a holographic image. The
hologram of the scene is under my control so it's less scary. I’ve successfully
stopped the action so I can take my time examining the images and process the
emotions. No harm comes to me because I know I am the one in control. I know I
can take as long as I like to process the images.
If I feel I'm not ready to deal with the situation, I can
stop the entire soul retrieval process altogether. I can keep this hologram in
my memory for another time. I don't have to deal with it today. I wait until I
feel emotionally capable of handling the situation – only then do I proceed.
I put myself, as I am today, into the scene. I look up into
the tree, where I spot my frightened soul bit. In a gentle voice, I invite him
to come down – and then remain patient while waiting for his response.
When the soul bit comes down from the tree, he expresses his
shock, dismay, and anger that someone took away his life while he was in his
prime. I comfort him and ask if we can study the two men who are in the frozen
hologram. The soul agrees.
We walk around, examining both the murderer and the victim
from many different angles. We look at their faces, their body postures, the
hand with the knife, the back with the blood, and so on.
We see the image from many perspectives – not just one
viewpoint – giving the scene new meaning.
From our intense observations, a new understanding arises:
the murderer was a deranged, starving, homeless man, unable to comprehend the
consequences of his actions. My soul bit slowly processes the dying body's
feelings and emotions. The scene also takes on new meaning when we affirm and
recognize that the soul has survived death and move forward into new lives and
new experiences.
After a while, we both feel complete and then share our
feelings, talking like kindred souls. My past-life soul and I decide to forgive
the murderer. We remove the knife from his hands and bury it so he’ll never
again have this weapon. We offer food to the starving man and tell him to leave
– and he complies. We give the dead body a proper burial, burn incense, and say
our prayers.
Bring the Lost Soul Home
I tell my former-life soul that we are one. He still lives –
as me in a current life.
My former-life soul expresses much interest. I ask if he
will return to the present – and alert me to danger and offer protection. I
tell him the attack in the past life has caused me to fear other people. He
retains his trust in others and his carefree happiness because he took refuge
in the tree before the man died. I need his perspective and cannot experience
wholeness without him.
I convince him that it’s better to lead an integrated life
than to hide in a tree crying over his dead body. I tell him about my wonderful
life. He nods in agreement and tells me my words are music to his ears. We look
into each other’s eyes and smile.
Together, we walk down a tunnel of time, traveling from my
childhood to my youth to my present-day self where I sit in meditation.
We hug and he merges into me. We are again one.
Integrate Into Current Life
After I complete this Soul Retrieval, my bottomless fear
about walking alone in the wilderness is gone. I'm still cautious about wild
animals and strangers, but I am rarely afraid. The old, unfounded,
psychological fear is gone.
Your past is not set in stone – and neither is your future.
You can retrieve your soul from a future you desire. Your power of creating who
you are is in the present moment. Your imagination is your ticket to create the
person you want to be.
Go far! Reach for the stars! You are limitless in your
creativity.
FUTURE SELF
SOUL RETRIEVAL
Now I’ll walk you step-by-step through an example of how I
seek guidance from my future self.
It's a sunny day outside, and I'm sitting at home with no
place to go, no one to see, no performance to give, no money to make. For
someone as "famous" as I, I feel very small. I close my eyes, and go
into an empty state of mind: meditation.
Gather the Missing Pieces
A scene presents itself: Jenny Funkmeyer – inspirational
speaker, performer, healer, goddess – giving a speech and dancing on stage to a
packed house. Thousands of fans clapping their hands, swooning over the
material I'm presenting. She's changing the audiences’ lives – leading people
to a higher place, to a better day.
Jenny takes her attention away from her adoring fans for a
moment to look behind a small fold in the curtain. There I am, my today-self,
squatting, looking up at my future-self with my jaw hanging open, eyes wild
with admiration.
I will never forget how my future-self smiles at me,
bringing me on stage and introducing me to the audience. "This is me! Only
a few years back!" She looks me in the eye, "Keep doing what you're
doing! You're on the right track. Don't give up! I need you to be fully you, to
sail forward without
fear, to reach for the highest goals, so that I can be who I
am today!”
Gather the Missing Pieces
I survey the audience. I see who they are. I examine the
stage, I see the decorations and the equipment. I closely observe Miss Fabio
Jenny Funkmeyer: I see her clothes and her hairdo; I examine how she stands and
how she talks. I take note of her confidence, which I lack. I see that she
knows she has something amazing to offer, whereas I'm not so sure I actually
know what I'm doing.
I ask for her advice, "Do you think I should go to
England this summer?" She says without hesitation, "Absolutely!"
Hmm....I think to myself, absolutely, huh?....
We continue back and forth, as I ask all kinds of questions
and she gives me unconditional love and encouragement.
Bring the Lost Soul Home
After a while, I have a whole notebook full of things to do,
and I feel complete. I ask my future- self to come back with me to today.
"Please stay inside me and give me advice whenever I need it."
"Of course!" she says with a twinkle in her eyes. Holding hands, we
walk down a tunnel of time, traveling from the stage to the present-day self
where I sit in meditation.
We hug and he merges into me. We are again one.
Integrate Into Current Life
Armed with my own successful self from the future, I copy
her shamelessly. I dress like her, I talk like her, I walk like her. I am her!
A few things to bear in mind...
In meditation, your mind is in an expanded state. Insights
and images come to you. You might think to yourself, "Am I making this
up?"
The answer is not an easy one; it’s both yes and no. Yes,
it's all in your imagination; every thought that ever comes to you is in your
imagination.
There is no real difference between making things up and
having a connection to the divine.
But there is something indeed magical in how certain
thoughts, sounds, and images come by themselves – almost as if they have lives
of their own. Each of us has a higher self that supplies information through
our imagination. There is nothing wrong with that. Your imagination is you. The
gut feeling is you. The strange little scenario that comes out of the void is
you.
IMAGINATION IS
REAL
There is no such thing as a "correct image," and
you don't have to get it "right". The images that come from out of
nowhere are from the land of your juicy mind! Run wild!
So what if the teacher in my example was actually justified
in punishing me because I was a wild child? I felt and still feel the
consequences of being belittled. That's reason enough for me to go back into my
memories and remake my past. This is my life and these are my images. I can cry
at my own party if I want to – or I can kick some butts!
So what if I was never a man murdered on a country road by a
homeless man? Look at this as a treat from your higher self to you – like a
nice movie complete with free popcorn! Why not simply have fun? Enjoy the story
and have some imaginary popcorn too. Go heavy on the butter and sprinkle amply
with sugar or salt – to your heart's delight. You might be surprised!
As for my future-self, Miss Fabio Jenny Funkmeyer, the jury
is still out. Who’s to say whether I’m right or wrong?
BE CREATIVE
What I can tell you from my own experience with soul
retrieval is: IT WORKS!
Slowly but surely I gain a certain trust in myself. I care
less what others say. I stand up for my rights. I love my shadow, ugly, fat,
unkind self. I accept my dark side with grace.
This technique is not about achieving success in one
session. It's about a slow process of regaining trust in yourself, re-imagining
your past and creating the future of your dreams!
TRUST YOURSELF
Every emotion, every fear, every sadness, every anger has an
emotional link to the past. As I mentally reassess the past and imagine a
better outcome, my life gets better and better. I can handle my life in a more
reasonable manner, with more composure.
That you create the future from the present is easy to grasp.
But how can your outlook about your future create your present? In a way, your
desire for the future is drawing you to it.
Do you know that you create the past in the present as well?
Cause and effect are two sides of the same coin. The past is not set in stone –
you can recast the past in any way you like.
I recommend practicing Soul Retrieval on a regular basis.
Whenever you feel fear or sense that something is bothering you, give yourself
time to really feel the emotion. I make DIY Soul Retrieval a part of my daily
life.
DO IT OFTEN
Now that you understand the principle of Soul Retrieval and
the way to do it, it’s time to have fun.
Think of DIY Soul Retrieval as your creation. Approach it in
any way that suits you. At first, you may want to follow my methods step-by-
step or might even want to gain the help of a healer or shaman.
Eventually, you'll find your own techniques. I know your
life will be enriched by the process.
Good luck!
HAVE FUN!