Jonathan Parker - The Soul Solution: Enlightening Meditations for Resolving Lifes Problems

The Soul Solution is a beautiful, heartfelt, clear, wonderful guide to resolving our problems and challenges in life. Jonathan Parker shows us that the solution is simple, something everyone can do. I highly recommend this book to everyone on the entire planet.

This wonderfully inspired yet eminently practical guide will take you on a journey directly to the Soul.

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Copyright 2011 by Jonathan Parker

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The material in this book is intended for education. It is not meant to take the place of diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical practitioner or therapist. No expressed or implied guarantee as to the effects of the use of the recommendations can be given nor liability taken.

Edited by Nancy Carleton and Jeff Campbell

Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress in Cataloging Publication Data

Parker, Jonathan.

The soul solution : enlightening meditations for resolving lifes problems / Jonathan Parker.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-932073-52-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Meditations. 2. Soul. I. Title.

BL624.2.P37 2011

158.1'2dc23 2011017935

First printing, August 2011

ISBN 978-1-932073-52-2

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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T here are many who have contributed to this books creation, but I first of all want to acknowledge and thank the many who have attended my workshops, classes, and retreats, as well as those who have spent many hours with me in soul-searching meditations and private sessions.

I most especially want to express my deepest love and gratitude for my greatest teacher, friend, and beloved wife, Jackie, for her generous spirit, loving support, and meaningful suggestions, which enabled me to refine this book and delve into the depths of the soul and spirit.

In addition, my lifelong friend and literary professor David Joplins suggestions and comments were invaluable in the preparation of the manuscript. His recommendations were a great help, and his friendship and support have been most important to me.

Most certainly of no less importance is Nancy Carleton, whose depth of insight and experience were a most valued contribution to refining The Soul Solution. She greatly helped me translate many of the concepts I have used in my workshops and private sessions into easily accessible written language.

I am also grateful for my assistant Karen Shulman for her always cheerful spirit and helpful voice in answering countless questions and phone calls for me for more than twenty years.

I send my deep appreciation to Renee Swisko, a remarkable healer and friend, who encouraged me from the earliest stages of this book with many supportive recommendations.

The publication of a book can only happen with a wonderful team, and Georgia Hughes, Tracy Cunningham, Kristen Cashman, Jonathan Wichmann, Tona Pearce Myers, Kim Corbin, freelance editor Jeff Campbell, and others at New World Library have been most supportive in bringing The Soul Solution to the world.

And my deep gratitude goes to the vision and suggestions of Linda Kramer, whose guiding light is responsible for bringing this book to publication.

W ho are you? Where did you come from? Why are you here, and where are you going? Are you just a body with a compilation of memories? Each time you explore these questions, you enter the deepest mysteries of human existence and realize that theres much more to you than can be explained through the workings of body and mind.

Im an author, counselor, and spiritual teacher who has spent the past several decades exploring these deep questions. Ive been on many remarkable journeys, which have included spontaneous shifts in consciousness, to discover the miraculous transformational and healing qualities of the soul, which I share with you in The Soul Solution. As you follow the processes in this book, youll experience your own realizations, bringing a deep and rich awakening to all your soul has to offer.

You are more than your body and your mind. Who you are is found in the core of your soul. Your soul already contains the many wonderful and beautiful qualities that we admire in saints, spiritual leaders, and revered teachers, and as you deepen your relationship with your soul through the soul-solution process, these qualities will automatically and quite naturally emerge in your life as a result.

For more than thirty years, Ive refined the soul-solution techniques through classes, workshops, and thousands of counseling sessions to reveal the secrets to clearing the control and dominance of the ego. By tapping into simple meditative techniques and attuning to your soul, you can merge with the souls presence and spontaneously release painful thoughts, memories, and emotions and live fully in the present moment. Using the meditations in this book, not only can you explore and heal painful childhood patterns, but you can soar to the heights of enlightenment through spiritual surrender. Ill show you how to access the power of grace to discover all of the souls gifts.

So that you can better understand why I believe that knowledge of and connection with the soul are so important, let me share with you how I came to have a deeper understanding of it. In the fall of 2002, I was leading a two-week meditation retreat at Mt. Shasta, which is in Northern California a bit south of the Oregon border. Mt. Shasta has a reputation as one of the worlds sacred mountains. Many books describe the spiritual experiences that people have had on this mountain, and I was aware of the mountains power and had already conducted dozens of retreats, workshops, and classes there.

At that point in my life, Id been on a dedicated spiritual path for some forty years, and Id been working for many years as a counselor and teacher, and yet my experience that fall of 2002 opened me up to a new level of whats possible. I had arrived at this retreat with the specific intention of finding a way to help more people with their physical and emotional problems. Beyond that, I held the intention of wanting to be shown how I could facilitate miracles to help people, and specifically how I could connect with the same miraculous Source that biblical personalities had used two thousand or more years ago.