Used to Limitations and Not Even Noticing -The layers you've “normalized” and how to dissolve what you didn't know was holding you back
Many of us think we've already done a lot of inner work.
That we're doing pretty great.
And some of us are! But here's what I keep discovering in my own journey:
There are always more layers.
Like limitations we've gotten so used to. Obstacles we don't even see anymore. Emotional patterns we've normalized. Inner, self-imposed restrictions we've accepted as: "that’s just how I am."
We don't realize how much MORE FREEDOM, how much MORE LOVE, how much MORE ALIVENESS is waiting to be discovered... by us.
What if you're only experiencing… say HALF of what's really possible in your life?
The Problem: You've Normalized Your Limitations
Here's the thing about long-standing emotional blocks and limiting beliefs:
You've adapted to them.
They've become part of your baseline experience. Like living in a house with dim lighting for so long, you forget what sitting out in full sunlight feels like.
You might say:
"That's just how I am"
"I've always been this way"
"It's ONLY realistic to expect..."
"I'm doing pretty well compared to most people"
But these statements reveal something crucial: you've stopped questioning whether these "settings" can be changed.
On my journey over the past three decades, I've found that most of us are operating with energetic agreements—like switches in a fuse box—that were set years or decades ago:
Agreements about how much love we're allowed to feel and receive
Beliefs about our worthiness and capacity
Roles we took on in childhood that no longer serve us
Pain layers we accepted, compressed and simply learned to live with
These settings seem hardwired -but they're not.
Why Mental Approaches Often Fall Short
If you've done therapy, read self-help books, or tried positive thinking, you've likely experienced this frustration:
You understand the problem mentally, but the pattern persists.
You know your trigger is out of proportion. You've analyzed where it came from. You've set intentions to change.
And yet, it keeps showing up.
Here's why:
Most approaches work at the mental level—understanding, reframing, or managing your responses.
But in my experience over 30+ years of intensive spiritual practice (Siddha Yoga, Tantra Yoga, and more than 500 shamanic drumming journeys), the real dissolution of root causes doesn’t happen at the mental level. It also doesn’t happen by transcendence during meditation. It happens at the energetic level.
Think of it this way:
Your emotional blocks aren't just thoughts or memories. They're energetic fields—compressed layers of old emotions that live in your energy body (what yogic traditions call the prana body).
Mental work can help you understand them and start to manage them. Meditation and chanting may help you temporarily transcend them.
-But energetic work actually dissolves these causes and settings at their root.
The Fuse Box: Your Ecosystem of Agreements
Imagine your inner world as an energetic fuse box.
Each switch is an energetic field containing information, that was “set” through an agreement you've made with yourself—consciously or unconsciously—about how life works:
"I need to stay small to be safe"
"Showing emotion is weakness"
"I can't trust people fully"
"Success requires suffering"
"I'm responsible for others' feelings"
Some of these agreements were made in childhood. Others were inherited from your family line. Still others were absorbed from culture without conscious reflection. All of them are set in their position until you change them on the energetic level, not just at the mental level, not just by transcending them in meditation.
These switches have been in their settings for years.
Never investigating them means they keep running your life on autopilot—draining your life force, limiting your joy, restricting your capacity for love and connection.
But here's the powerful truth:
Once you become aware of these settings, you can change them.
This is why experienced practitioners and coaches are increasingly seeking training in shamanic methods—they've hit the limits of talk-based, analytical or meditative approaches and are discovering training programs where you learn what actually works at the energetic root level.
The Soul Bath™ Method: Energetic Technology, Not Philosophy
After decades of yogic and tantric practice and literally hundreds of shamanic journeys, I developed the Soul Bath™ method—a simple, daily practice that works at the energetic root level.
This isn't vague "let it go" advice.
It's precise, energetic technology for dissolving old agreements and establishing new ones.
Here's how it works:
Step 1: Identify the Limitation
Through what I call "Inquiry Space Time," you investigate the roles, beliefs, and agreements that are blocking rather than serving you.
You ask:
What behavioral patterns of mine keep showing up?
What triggers keep coming up?
What beliefs am I operating from, without questioning them?
Step 2: Call Up the Energetic Field of What You Have Found
In your daily Soul Bath practice (which takes 20 minutes), you call up the specific energetic field of that limitation.
For example: "I call up the energetic field of my agreement about needing to stay small to be safe."
You visualize this field appearing in the spirit space in front of you. You feel the information of your agreement.
Step 3: Dissolve It
You then say out loud: "I now dissolve this agreement in the liquid rainbow light."
You visualize it dissolving—all the way back to neutral source energy.
This isn't just imagination, philosophy or positive thinking. In shamanic practice, you're working in the spirit realm where these energetic structures actually exist.
Step 4: Establish the New Agreement
Once the old field is dissolved, you create a new one:
"I now establish a new agreement: I am safe to be fully seen and expressed."
You feel this new energetic field forming.
Step 5: Anchor It with Self-Love
You invite this new field into your chest. You place your hands on your heart and hold it there with your own self-love energy.
You say to yourself: "I hold this close to my heart and safe with my self-love."
Step 6: Repeat Until the Switch Completes
The proof of dissolution is in the feedback that you get from the world around you.
You keep going until this area of your life noticably changes!
Here's the key that most attempts at change miss:
You have to repeat this twice daily until there is a real change and the new "setting" is firmly established.
Why? Because old agreements are like old riverbeds—your energy is used to flowing along certain lines, certain values. In Sanskrit, this is called a vasana (energetic habit).
One journey, one intention, one workshop isn't enough. The old riverbed will try to reassert itself.
But persistent, regular practice over weeks or months permanently changes the “setting of the energetic switch”.
Eventually, energy must follow consciousness, as you probably know. Now you getting to know a new frame work with which you can apply this knowledge methodically.
While Soul Bath™ focuses on emotional blockages and soul part healing, many men discover they're ready to apply these same energetic principles to another crucial area: sexual energy. Learn how tantric energy transmutation uses the same root-level approach for sustained masculine vitality, as an advanced level integrated into the Soul Bath™ method.
Real Example: My Own Soul Bath Work Right Now
Let me share what I'm working on —because this practice isn't just something I developed. It's alive and ongoing for me also.
This week, I identified a limitation I've been carrying around for a good 15 years:
"Laid back, hedging energy"—a pattern of making myself smaller to avoid being "too much" or "too dominant."
I realized I've gotten so used to this buffer that I didn't even notice it was limiting my capacity to serve men fully.
So here's what I'm doing:
Twice daily, I:
Call up the energetic field of "laid back hedging energy"
Feel it arrive in the spirit space in front of me
Dissolve it in the liquid rainbow light—all the way back to source
Call up my new energetic field: a new agreement to allow "constructive proactivity"—the capacity to lead powerfully, claim space fully, and direct with clear intention
Invite this new field into my chest, hands on heart, holding it with self-love
Repeat until the old is dissolved and the new is established
I'll know it's done when the new setting feels natural—when "constructive dominance" is simply how I operate, not something I have to remember or ramp up with positive thinking. The energetic fuse box is simply set and the way my life flows reflects this naturally.
This is the power of Soul Bath™: methodical, energetic transformation of patterns, roles, beliefs or old triggers that seemed unchangeable, unhealable.
This isn’t so much a self-optimization according to some ideal version of myself. I methodically move layers out of the way, heal old wounds and discard old roles, so that I can naturally live my life according to who I really am, unencumbered by old baggage.
Why This Works (And Other Methods Don't)
Here's what makes Soul Bath™ different:
1. It's Energetic, Not Just Mental
You're not trying to think your way out of a pattern. You're dissolving the energetic structure that holds it in place.
2. It's Regular, Not Occasional
One workshop or therapy session creates a moment of clarity. But without daily practice, the old “riverbed” reasserts itself.
Soul Bath is designed to be sustainable—20 minutes, twice daily—so you can maintain momentum over weeks and months.
3. It Works with Soul Parts
Many inner obstacles aren't just beliefs—they're frozen soul parts from difficult moments in your past.
A version of you at age 8, for example, might still be stuck in overwhelming emotion, unable to process what happened.
In Soul Bath™, you learn to "hold" these soul parts with your adult self-love, comforting them and helping them thaw and integrate.
Soul parts are slow to respond—but with persistent, gentle practice, they unfreeze and release old pain.
4. It Creates Real-Life Results
After 2-3 weeks (or 2-3 months for bigger obstacles), you'll notice:
Triggers that used to derail you barely register
Chronic pain dissolves (because it was caused by compressed energetic layers)
You feel "fuller"—more present, more solid
People notice a change in your eyes and your presence: “there’s more of you there”
Life situations that felt stuck suddenly shift naturally
This isn't just managing your triggers. This is fundamental transformation.
The Soul Parts Experience: Becoming "Fuller"
One of the most beautiful outcomes I've witnessed—both in my own life and in the men I've worked with—is what happens when frozen soul parts integrate.
We’ve all had moments in our life when we froze—when something was too overwhelming to process, so part of us just... stopped.
That 8-year-old version of you, staring at a shouting parent, not knowing how to respond.
That teenager who got rejected and decided love wasn't safe.
That young man who failed publicly and decided, to from then on, play it safe forever.
These soul parts are still there—frozen in those moments.
And until they're brought back, there's literally less of you available in the present.
Through Soul Bath™ and the accompanying Integral Men’s Initiations™, you are empowered to:
Call up these soul parts
Hold them with your adult self-love
Connect them with healing energies (like the collective, energetic field of the "lower world mother soul" or "father soul" in core-shamanic practice)
Help them thaw, release old emotions, and integrate into your adult self
When this happens, you fill out energetically.
The feedback I have received from men I have worked with in private sessions, in workshops teaching Soul Bath™ and giving the Integral Men’s Initiations™:
"The practices to follow, that Simon teaches, have emphasized in me a self-awareness and non-judgmental attitude, radically transforming me." -Massimo Montana
"I was able to experience my own male initiation. This allowed me to reconnect fully with my masculine power. I feel powerful, courageous, and have more clarity!" -Thomas Engel
"Through the Soul Bath practice, I was able to reconnect deeply with my inner strength... I feel freer and more self-empowered... Simon led me there faster than decades of intensive practice in Tibetan Buddhism and many practice-oriented psychological methods.” -Christian Weitbrecht
“I have been struggling with skin issues for years, and I wanted to find underlying causes behind them. The immersion … allowed me to re-visit difficult events of my past and recall my energy from unhealthy relationships back to me. One month after the course, I am enjoying my healthy skin again, free from inflammations.” -Yan Patsenko
“I truly do not believe I would be where I am right now, if you had not come into my life. What happened was nothing short of a miracle… a gift I never imagined I would receive…” -Andreas Nater
Coming into your full power is visible—in your eyes, sometimes even in subtle changes to your face and body.
You become more fully yourself.
Experiencing this depth of healing, often awakens something unexpected: a calling to facilitate this work for others. If you're feeling that pull, discover what it takes to become a certified facilitator of Soul Bath™ and Integral Men's Initiations™.
But first, How to Start: An Overview of the Soul Bath™ Practice
The full Soul Bath practice has three phases:
Phase I: Connect and Clear
Getting into the Soul Bath posture (sitting, grounded)
Connect with the Earth energy
Ask the Earth to be cleared of stagnant energy of the now
Let healing earth energy flow into you
Phase II: Soul Work
Call up 1-3 specific topics you're working on:
Old agreements to dissolve
New agreements to establish
Soul parts to hold and heal
Pain layers to clear
Speak your soul work sentences aloud
Visualize the energetic shifts happening
Anchor new agreements with self-love
Phase III: Bathe and Integrate
Connect with the Being of the Sun
Invite its healing energy to flow through you
Simply sit in the healing energies
Integrate the soul work
Invite inspirational, harmonious masculine energy to flow through you
Total time: 20 minutes (5-10 minutes can work too when you're busy)
What to Expect
When you start this practice, you'll likely notice:
Week 1:
Feeling clearer and more energized
Sleepiness dissolves (even before coffee)
A sense of positive momentum
Weeks 2-3:
Specific triggers start to lose their charge
Old patterns become visible (so you can detect and dissolve them)
A feeling of "filling out" emotionally
Weeks 4-8:
Permanent shifts in how you respond to life
People comment on changes they notice in you
Life situations that were stuck start to move
Months 3-6:
Deep soul parts integrate
Chronic issues (emotional or even physical) dissolve
You discover capacities you didn't know you had
This is energetic technology, methodical magic.
Not instant transformation, but sustainable, permanent change.
The Question That Changes Everything
Here's what I want you to ask yourself:
What if the limitations I've accepted as "just how I am" are actually just old settings in my “energetic fuse box”?
What if there's twice as much freedom, love, joy, and aliveness available—and I just don't know it yet because I've gotten used to living only half of my potential?
Most men never find out.
They live their whole lives managing triggers, coping with patterns, accepting "good enough."
But you don't have to.
Start Your Soul Bath Practice Today
I've created a free Soul Bath™ mini-course to introduce you to this practice.
In this video course, you'll learn:
✅ The exact Soul Bath posture and 3-phase method ✅ Why this practice works at the energetic root level ✅ How to start dissolving old patterns immediately ✅ The daily practice that reunites modern men with primal strength
This isn't theory. This is practical, actionable energetic technology proven to facilitate actual transformation.
Get the Free Soul Bath Mini-Course →
A Final Thought
I've been doing deep spiritual practice for over 30 years.
Siddha Yoga. Tantra Yoga. More than 500 shamanic drumming journeys.
And I'm still discovering layers I didn't know were there.
Limitations I'd gotten so used to, I'd stopped questioning them.
This week, it was my "laid back hedging" pattern.
Next month, it'll be something else.
This is a journey.
Not arriving at some perfect, finished state.
But methodically, lovingly dissolving the layers that cover your original light—one practice at a time, over weeks and months and years in a manageable way.
Until you discover what you didn't know was possible.
Until you experience the maximum of what's available in this body, in this life.
That's what Soul Bath offers.
It’s not a weekend epiphany.
It is a sustainable practice for becoming fully yourself.
Ready to begin?
