The Soul Journey Within Soul Coaching
by Irene Speirs-Caskie
"If you really want to help this world,
what you will really have to teach is how to live in it"
Soul Coaching
Soul Coaching is an inspired, not driven, way of learning how to live in the world by accessing our true self and reconnecting to our inner essence. Some call this the ‘inner self’, ‘higher self’ or ‘intuitive self’. Others may refer to this learning process as a ‘remembering of who we are’; or the accessing of the creative, intuitive, right side of the brain. What is more important, is that this connection may have got lost along life’s path for many different reasons. A drifting away from our true dreams may have unconsciously built up over the years. The good news is that we can reconnect to this feeling of inner knowing-ness within soul coaching sessions. Soul Coaching can assist us to get back on track by working with our heart as well as our head.
Soul Journeying
Soul Journeying is one of the tools used in a Soul Coaching session. Soul Journeying takes the form of a guided, deep relaxation and meditation where all life’s distractions and resistances get peeled away, like an onion with many layers. It takes us beyond the noise and the clutter of daily living, to a small, still, quiet place within us. There can be no uniform description of this experience, as it is unique to each individual.
During a Soul Journey, we may meet old friends, an animal guide or an ancestor who acts as a way-shower to our inner wisdom. This connection to inner wisdom or stored experience, begets outward knowing-ness as it provides information that is not accessible in everyday consciousness. In turn, this lends a greater awareness of what we truly can be: our true self. The Soul Journey leads us to our essence.
As a result of the Soul Journeying experience, our inner self starts to become congruent with our outer self. It is then that we can fulfil our hearts’ desires and be in harmony with our true needs: we just need to recognize them as true needs. Campbell referred to this as "learning how to live in this world", that is, living by following our heart, mind and soul.
The True Self
Our true self can be discovered by going inward beyond judgement, fear and difficult challenges. Soul Coaching helps us find the courage, initiative and enthusiasm to be the self that is clutter free. This allows us to develop a roadmap that will take us beyond our conditioning, or other peoples’ expectations, to responsible freedom.
You may say that surely we already know how to live in this world? All we need to learn is how to cope with working relationships, marriage, earning a living, parenting, etc. However, while these roles are important, we sometimes get ourselves into roles unwittingly, due to others’ involvement in our lives and without listening to our inner, wise self to check whether these roles are suitable for us.
Maybe we have forgotten how to be ourselves in a world full of role playing. We become, for example, the person who can accomplish the most, the quickest. On whose criterion must we become the quickest? This type of life roadmap is directed from without ourselves and these roles can become ingrained. Due to these outer influences, we can lose sight of our essence and of who we actually are. In soul coaching, the Soul Coach is the catalyst that inspires the start of the Soul Journey. We alone are the ones who take a consciously aware route to being our true selves: the Soul Journey and the Soul Coach are there to assist, not to direct. Conditioned responses to life will be left behind. We become inspired to find the right track. A bonus is the understanding that happiness is not a commodity to be purchased or craved from the outside, but is actually something that develops from within. This understanding increases as we become aware of, or are guided by, our own inner knowing-ness. The Soul Journey can be the means whereby we re-connect to something solid and strong; our inner, wise self.
Re-connecting to who we truly are
During the guided relaxation, our inner wise self can be met meandering through valleys, rivers and mountains. This is generally labeled as our imagination, but the experience is very real, none-the-less. An open mind assists the process. Another Soul Journey may take us to a timeless place or just a feeling of love; in my case, a feeling of being loved. Maybe a familiar figure or sign may appear. Often, a feeling that something has changed is experienced after embarking on a Soul Journey. There is no right way of connecting to our inner knowing-ness. All we have done is re-connect to who we truly are: unique and beautiful souls all working within a collective unconscious that knows no separation.
How we do this, in part, is to put aside our fears, doubts and criticism in order to enable the journey into our innermost reaches of the self via the unconscious mind. Within our unconscious mind, we can access our karmic storehouse of wisdom and past experiences. These inner experiences may have laid dormant over the years. What can be said implicitly is that our soul’s storehouse, the unconscious mind, will only reveal what is needed at this present moment in time. "The Soul Loves the Truth", i.e. what is true for the individual self.
On a soul journey, there can be a feeling of timelessness as if everything is happening simultaneously, but still relaxed and focused. We can drift to time gone by or feel a connection to our ancestry: it is a healing and nothing is incorrect on our soul journey, also, nothing is excluded. We can feel a sense of continuity where all time exists at once.
Soul Coaches
The sense of calm and encouragement a Soul Journey can give is priceless. Soul Coaches trained by Denise Linn have their hearts truly in this work. They have been inspired by their own soul journeys, experienced first hand in Denise Linn’s Soul Coach Training. Denise gained her experience from her global teachers in the skill of "remembering who we are". We are fortunate to have such wisdom passed down from generation to generation.
Soul Coaching is a global network of dedicated holistic practitioners from all professional backgrounds and nationalities. Denise, with integrity and grace, spearheads her community of Soul Coaches, training them to assist us in "remembering who we are". Her students are blessed with such a source of inspiration: the world truly has a teacher who teaches "How to Live in this World".
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