One of the most beneficial and life changing experiences for the client is to find and integrate a lost part of the self and return that part to the person to achieve healing wholeness.

Sometimes it is not possible for a client to find those missing parts during normal session work. We can detach and dissociate so completely during times of stress and upset as children that part is lost to us. We are unaware not only of the event that caused us to separate but that there is even a missing part.

These soul parts hold great gifts as well as opportunities to heal the past and move forward to the next step.

There are two ways of working with this aspect of healing. Both have huge benefits although it is, in my experience, far more beneficial for the client to find the fragmented part themselves.

In the first method, having induced a state of relaxation and altered consciousness, the client journeys to find the missing fragment and the time and place when and where it left.

This fragment can be experienced as a stone, a knife, a cone or some kind of object as it ‘flipped out’ of the person.

The fragment, having fully expressed itself, is then integrated using a breathing technique known as Quantum Dynamics.

I have found this process to be astounding in its positive results and my clients endorse this wholeheartedly.

The second method that is sometimes appropriate for the client, is when the therapist can journey on the client’s behalf, to retrieve these missing parts whilst giving a commentary so that the client is involved in the process.

This is known to be a shamanic process. It also has huge healing value for the client and often a trauma can be faced more easily this way.

INNER CHILD HEALING

This is an aspect of Soul Retrieval but utilizes other methods. Inner Child work can be done whilst in a light hypnotic state or whilst fully aware, through dialogue.

It involves connecting with those parts of us that separated during our lives when times were stressed or too difficult for us to cope with and we perhaps felt that we had to do it alone. Inner child work is interwoven into all the processes and is seen as an integral part of healing.

This is a large and involved subject on which there is much literature. Please see reading list>