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Do you have trouble feeling
grounded or present?
Speaker:Do you feel disconnected from your life
or from your creativity or from others?
Speaker:All of these things are signs that there
is a part of ourself that is not fully
Speaker:integrated, that is waiting for us to
come collect it and bring it back home.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You Are Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect to yourself and remember
the most important thing of all:
Speaker:why you're here. I'm Asia
Suler, author, earth Intuitive,
Speaker:teacher, and today I wanted
to share a recording,
Speaker:a video that I've never shared before.
Speaker:It's one I recorded before I
started the podcast and just never
Speaker:got around to sharing before Remember
Why You Are Here came into being.
Speaker:What I'm covering in this video
has really been up for me as I
Speaker:start this sabbatical. So if you
saw my podcast episode last week,
Speaker:you know that I'm
currently on a sabbatical.
Speaker:Starting at the beginning of August,
Speaker:I am in the process of
working on my next book,
Speaker:this book that I have been
dreaming about creating now for six
Speaker:years.
Speaker:So the idea for this book came
in before my first book was
Speaker:published. It was already in the
mix. It had already been submitted,
Speaker:and was being worked over.
Speaker:But this book has sort
of been sitting now in
Speaker:my unconscious and in
this sort of Otherworld.
Speaker:And now I've had this really incredible
experience of decided to kind of clear
Speaker:the decks and start working on this.
Speaker:And it's been so cool to
see what has come up so
Speaker:far. The good stuff, the
hard stuff, the deep stuff.
Speaker:It's amazing to me what
a process like writing
Speaker:can bring up.
Speaker:Like just how spiritual this process is,
Speaker:how much spiritual reclamation
can happen through just
Speaker:deciding to sit down and start to write.
Speaker:And it's something I've always
been aware of with myself,
Speaker:or for a long time I've been aware of,
Speaker:that writing really is
a form of channeling.
Speaker:And one way in which I get
in touch with my deepest
Speaker:self, my guides, my
ancestors, is through writing.
Speaker:And so that's very much at the heart of
this project that I'm working on right
Speaker:now as I just begin the sabbatical that
is going to last until the end of the
Speaker:year.
Speaker:And so I thought it was the perfect
time to share this video that I
Speaker:made that is all about
writing as soul retrieval.
Speaker:So in this recording I'm going to
talk about what soul retrieval is,
Speaker:if you're with the term,
Speaker:why writing is such a potent tool
for engaging in self-led soul
Speaker:retrieval. And then there's
going to be a prompt, a question,
Speaker:that will really help you
unlock and call home to yourself
Speaker:these pieces of yourself that are
ready to come back into the fold.
Speaker:So if you're ready to reconnect
to yourself on a deep level,
Speaker:to step back into wholeness,
Speaker:to experience new levels
of integration, creativity,
Speaker:and possibility in your life,
Speaker:then sit back and take a listen
to this recording called Writing
Speaker:As Soul Retrieval. Parts of
us have a tendency to get
Speaker:lost throughout our lives.
Whether it's through trauma,
Speaker:hardship, loss, depression,
Speaker:it's normal to feel like we've
lost a part of ourselves,
Speaker:like here's a part of ourselves
we are not connected to anymore.
Speaker:And yet there's a process called "soul
retrieval" that can help us reclaim these
Speaker:parts of ourselves, can
help them to come back home.
Speaker:And there's one simple practice that
we can use no matter where we are,
Speaker:no matter what we're doing,
to help these parts come home.
Speaker:In a shamanic understanding,
Speaker:soul loss is when a part
of our essential self steps
Speaker:away. Now, it doesn't mean that
a part of us is lost forever.
Speaker:It's like a child hiding
in the coat closet.
Speaker:There's a part of us in that moment
that departs because it's too
Speaker:scary, it's too overwhelming,
it's too much, it's too hard,
Speaker:and it's actually really
smart that our soul does this,
Speaker:or that our psyche does this,
Speaker:because normally a part of ourself leaves
in that moment because it's just too
Speaker:much for it. We all have
sensitive, vulnerable,
Speaker:tender parts of ourselves that if they
were exposed to whatever that hardship
Speaker:was, might've been really hurt by that.
Speaker:So this ability to separate, to hide,
Speaker:to be like a child in the coat closet's
actually an important part of protecting
Speaker:ourself and protecting our psyche.
Speaker:How do you know if you have some
soul loss stuff going on? Well,
Speaker:here's a few things to look for.
Speaker:Do you have trouble feeling
grounded or present?
Speaker:Do you feel disconnected from your
life or from your creativity or from
Speaker:others? Do you deal with
depression, anxiety, or addiction?
Speaker:All of these things are signs that there
is a part of ourself that is not fully
Speaker:integrated, that is waiting for us to
come collect it and bring it back home.
Speaker:In psychology, this is
often called parts work,
Speaker:bringing home these parts of
ourselves and reintegrating them.
Speaker:So of course you can work with a
psychologist or someone who's a shamanic
Speaker:practitioner to call these
parts of the soul back home.
Speaker:But we can also do some powerful work
ourselves to ask for these parts to come
Speaker:back home. These parts left
because it wasn't safe for them.
Speaker:So for example,
Speaker:maybe you had a teacher when you were
young who told you that your artwork
Speaker:wasn't any good, that you were never
going to be a true artist. Well,
Speaker:the artist part of yourself might've
hid from that, might've ran away.
Speaker:It was just too painful to be around.
Speaker:So your goal as an adult is to
invite that artist self back in,
Speaker:invite your creativity back in,
Speaker:to feel like a whole person again
because that creativity is intact.
Speaker:And how we do that is by creating a
safe space for these parts to come back,
Speaker:to know that they're safe,
that they're welcome,
Speaker:and that you are a safe person for
them to come back and be engaged with.
Speaker:So what is one way that we
can do this? Through writing:
Speaker:writing or journaling is a
really powerful yet simple way to
Speaker:create spaces for these
parts to come back.
Speaker:Oftentimes we know exactly what parts
of ourselves we're missing or we
Speaker:want to integrate more fully,
Speaker:and yet we don't make space or
time to communicate with them.
Speaker:So writing is one way that we can
really invite these parts back in.
Speaker:You can try writing a letter to this
part, or maybe even writing as this part.
Speaker:What does this part of you have to say
right now? What are they dealing with?
Speaker:What are they asking of you?
Speaker:What do they need from you in order
to feel safe enough to come back?
Speaker:Writing can really help if any of the
parts of ourselves that we left behind
Speaker:were also tied to our
creativity, our expression,
Speaker:our academic ability.
Speaker:Oftentimes writing gets really wrapped
up in our mind with accomplishment,
Speaker:with talent.
Speaker:And so we might have shut down the
parts of ourselves that are writers,
Speaker:the parts of ourselves that love to write
or love to journal or love to express
Speaker:themselves.
Speaker:If any of these parts of yourselves feel
shut down or feel like they're not in
Speaker:their fullest expression, writing,
having a practice of journaling,
Speaker:can really help bring those parts back in.
Speaker:I know that poetry was one of my
first loves as a child and as a
Speaker:young adult. It was my primary mode
of communication and expression and
Speaker:creativity. But at some
point in my early twenties,
Speaker:I shut this gateway down.
Speaker:Through a mixture of going through a
traditional school setting that seemed to
Speaker:dampen down my creativity,
Speaker:and also coming into greater levels
of self-judgment and worry over
Speaker:what my peers would think, I
eventually shut this channel down.
Speaker:And it wasn't until I started writing
poetry again that I really felt like I
Speaker:became my whole self once more, that I
got in touch with these parts of myself.
Speaker:I had shunted away because I
thought they weren't good enough.
Speaker:So here's an exercise you can try if
you're ready to reconnect with any lost
Speaker:parts of yourself.
Speaker:Get a piece of paper and
a pen and set a timer for
Speaker:five to 10 minutes, and
then answer this question:
Speaker:who is it you're not allowed to be?
Speaker:And just let yourself write stream
of consciousness. See what comes out.
Speaker:I guarantee you,
Speaker:whoever this is that you think you're
not allowed to be is a lost part of
Speaker:yourself that your own soul and your
own psyche is ready to welcome back
Speaker:home. And the cool thing about
welcoming these parts back,
Speaker:is that when we welcome them back, we
access their gifts again. Once again,
Speaker:they're able to bring their innate
talents, their perspectives,
Speaker:and we can benefit from that. We can
then access those talents, skills,
Speaker:and gifts ourselves. And at the end
of the day, we become whole people.
Speaker:So if you are loving this idea of
writing as a creative practice to
Speaker:bring you deeper in connection
with yourself and your gifts,
Speaker:I'd love to see you in my class
Writing the Earth's Voice.
Speaker:This is a nature writing workshop
that's all online that will help you
Speaker:communicate with the living world
and through speaking with the trees,
Speaker:the rivers, the stones,
these denizens in nature,
Speaker:you can start to see and
understand the nature of yourself,
Speaker:what your wholeness is,
Speaker:and the gifts that you were
meant to bring to this world.
Speaker:There's been so much amazing writing
that has come out of this workshop.
Speaker:I'm so excited to share it with you.
Speaker:Is there an archetype or persona or
person you were in the past that you are
Speaker:ready to invite back in now?
Speaker:Because you deserve the full
spectrum of your experience and you
Speaker:deserve to be able to give the full
spectrum of your gifts to this world.
Speaker:Even though I recorded this video before
I knew I'd be starting this podcast
Speaker:when I did, I really feel like I
wrote it for right now in my life.
Speaker:It's exactly what I need to hear.
It's exactly what I need to remember.
Speaker:And it really just,
Speaker:it frames this creative project
that I'm in so beautifully.
Speaker:And I'm hoping that it's framing
the moment of time that you're in
Speaker:beautifully as well. Because these times,
Speaker:these moments when we're ready
to bring back pieces of our soul,
Speaker:it's indicative of the fact
that we have done so much work,
Speaker:we have gotten to the point now where
actually we're ready to welcome back this
Speaker:wholeness. It's a celebration of sorts.
So I hope after listening to this,
Speaker:you take some time to celebrate yourself
as well as taking some time to try that
Speaker:writing prompt and see what comes up.
Speaker:Even though I'm currently on my
sabbatical, my voice notes are still open.
Speaker:So if you would like to leave me a
voice note letting me know about your
Speaker:experience, head on over
to asiasuler.com/remember.
Speaker:And if you like this episode,
Speaker:I would love it if you
gave it a rating, a review,
Speaker:if you just gave it a sprinkling of stars.
Speaker:It really just means so much to
me and it's so supportive as I
Speaker:step into this really radical
thing that I've never done before,
Speaker:this thing of taking this
sabbatical, of taking that leap,
Speaker:taking that risk of stepping away
in the ways that I am from all of
Speaker:my ongoing teaching and the running of
my programs to just focus on this next
Speaker:book, to be in writing as soul retrieval.
Speaker:So thank you for
supporting me in that way.
Speaker:It really just means so much.
Speaker:So may you just continue to come home as
you walk through the rest of this week,
Speaker:this month, or even the
rest of this year ahead,
Speaker:may the pieces of you that
are ready to come home,
Speaker:come all the way back, be welcomed,
be reintegrated once more,
Speaker:and as they arrive, may they help you
remember the most important thing of all,
Speaker:why you're here.
