Step 1: Using MMT, ask: “Are you 100 percent in your physical body?” If no, use MMT to determine what is the exact percentage of embodiment.
Step 2: Ask: “Do you know why you are not fully embodied?” You will often get a lot of information about clients’ experience of dissociation. They may even have recollections of when they began dissociating.
Step 3: Set the intention for the client to be 100 percent in his or her physical body.
Make sure there are no objections to attaining full embodiment from any inner parts of the client.
Step 4: Check for psychoenergetic reversal:
I want to be 100 percent in my physical body.
It is safe for me to be 100 percent in my physical body.
It is possible for me to be 100 percent in my physical body.
I deserve to be 100 percent in my physical body.
I will be 100 percent in my physical body.
It will be in my overall highest good to stay 100% in my physical body.
If you find any psychoenergetic reversal, correct it before moving on to step 5.
Step 5: Begin inquiring about energetic origins using the Dynamic Energetic Healing®
protocol.
It has been my experience that many clients come to therapy not being fully embodied. It is becoming increasingly clear to me that when one is not fully embodied, chronic symptomatology tends to persist.
In the traditional Western psychological model, dissociative identity disorder can result when trauma is extremely severe. From the shamanic/indigenous worldview, soul loss can result when aspects of our inviolate core split off and do not return. My
observations and ongoing research indicate that this consequence of trauma is pervasive. It is important for me to get a complete description of presenting symptoms from the client once I have identified this problem. Common complaints include the inability to concentrate or stay mentally focused, uncharacteristically forgetting things, a tendency to daydream or space out, queasiness or occasional dizziness, watching oneself perform tasks, not feeling fully present, and reports of the “astral body” trying to leave the physical body, particularly in the middle of the night when spontaneously awakened. Some of these symptoms can also be descriptions of depression. More and more, I see these symptoms related to both soul loss and depression, with soul loss often being a large (and often causal) component of depression.
Dynamic Energetic Healing® strategies are usually sufficient to correct dissociation. I continue to rely upon MMT as my guide for the best intervention to integrate the split-off part. Since soul loss usually has an energetic origin, retrieving and integrating a lost part may take more than one session to complete.
Occasionally, it is necessary for me to do a formal soul retrieval through the shamanic journey method. The client’s body and soul wisdom make that determination.
That is why I have chosen to describe the unique consequences of trauma as soul loss instead of as dissociation. Soul loss for me holds a much broader definition of the problem. I have learned from my clients that when a part of the soul is retrieved, accompanied by the gift that part possesses, it is easy to understand why these individuals have not been able to experience more complete healing or resolution of the problem until now. My research indicates that when people are not fully embodied due to soul loss, a weak or compromised immune system and the proclivity to become ill frequently can be a common and persistent problem.
When I have completed my interventions, I use MMT to determine if clients are now completely in their physical body (“Are you now 100 percent in your physical body?”).
If not, I continue asking to determine what the percentage of embodiment is—it should be 100 percent. I continue asking using MMT to determine what else may be interfering.
Sometimes it is necessary to establish energetic boundaries with the client’s physical body in order to ensure that the newly integrated part(s) feel safe in the physical body. I always ask using MMT if energetic boundaries are required. Sometimes it is also necessary to teach the client some grounding visualizations to establish a firm connection to the earth to prevent the reoccurrence of the problem.
It is important to keep in touch with clients after they have been newly embodied. It is not unusual to require some additional integration work over the following two to three weeks. The degree of integration seems to depend upon how long they were out of body and to what degree there was psycho-energetic reversal. If the soul loss was from a traumatic incident in their childhood, you can expect a longer integration time than if the incident occurred four weeks ago. I continue to inquire in follow-up sessions about any prior symptoms returning, and I use MMT to determine whether clients continue to
have 100 percent energetic boundaries with their physical body and to recheck for psychoenergetic reversal. When clients have had chronic physical symptoms or illnesses, a part of them might be disinclined to be in their physical body. It is important to stay with them on this. When all of our energy is fully integrated in our physical body, healing of various problems accelerates dramatically.
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