“It is believed that
whenever we suffer an emotional or physical trauma a part of our soul
flees the body in order to survive the experience.
The definition of soul
that I am using is soul is our essence, life force, the part of our
vitality that keeps us alive and thriving.” –
(Sandra Ingerman,
author of Soul Retrieval )
Most shamanic cultures
around the world believe that illness is due to the loss of the soul.
Soul loss is an adaptive mechanism that allows us to cope, and in
some situations survive a terrible experience, in which the
dissociated soul parts depart, carrying the pain or an extreme
emotion which may be unbearable to the sufferer at the time it
occurs.
This survival area
cannot be tapped ordinarily and only under the intervention of a
Shaman, who can tap this non-ordinary reality, the soul can be
facilitated back into the body.
Traditionally, a shaman
would conduct a soul retrieval within three days of someone
experiencing soul loss. According to Ingerman, “It is important to
understand that soul loss is a good thing that happens to us. It is
how we survive pain.”
Many of us feel like we
are missing an important part of ourselves or feel like we are not
quite whole. Sometimes we also experience soul loss as a chronic
illness or face debilitating emotions such as sadness, anger,
depression etc.
According to Jung, the
only way to address the deep loss of connection to soul that we are
experiencing as a species is to re-establish our connection to the
sacred.
The soul is what
connects you not only to your own value and essence, but to the value
and essence of every other living being.
The inevitability of
soul loss in modern times cannot be overruled. Most of us do not know
that we have disconnected from our soul and have come to accept as
normal a numbness and lack of meaning in our lives.
What are the causes
of Soul Loss?
Apart some of the
obvious causes of Soul loss like serious surgery, accident, shock
etc. here is a short list of causes for soul loss:
Any form of abuse from
sexual to emotional to mental
An event of prolonged
grief, pain and fear that made you feel trapped without any
possibility of escape
When you feel shameful
enough that you would like to shut out from the world for quite some
time.
Giving a part of your
soul unconsciously in a dependent relationship to another just like
giving away your power to the other person.
A sudden, shocking
incident traps a part of our soul in that time or situation like a
ghost.
An event where we are
rejected, bullied, insulted or are unsupported
Under the spell of
addiction we sign a part of our soul to that thing
Constantly suppressing
the intuition until the part of intuition leaves the body
Self-inflicted soul
loss is another vital reason.
By blocking the part of
our personality that is socially unacceptable, we shun that part of
our soul. Gradually the shunned part splits and goes into hiding
where it is revered.
For instance, as a
child, we are constantly reminded of the do’s and dont’s. So if a
child is noisy or naughty, he is constantly reprimanded & asked
to suppress this emotion.
A constant suppression
blocks a vital part of his personality, thereby facilitating
fragmentation of that part.
Are you suffering
from Soul Loss?
Modern wo/man, lost in the
circle of creation and victimization of the dog-eat-dog ideology, has
lost an integral part of their soul.
Here are symptoms
that indicate soul loss:
A sensation of
fragmentation and feeling incomplete like a part is missing
The flat, indifferent
attitude towards development in life.
The feeling of low self
esteem and considering oneself as unimportant or not worthy.
Depression or panic
attacks
Inability to decide and
a feeling of being aimless & lost.
Fearful attitude
before doing anything.
Lost in the loop of a
bad relationship, situations or places.
A sense of
non-recovery from a past traumatic event.
Anger management
issues and the helpless feeling on the inability to shake off anger,
stress, fear or grief.
A constant desire to
go back in the past and make things good.
Most importantly, if
you feel soul retrieval is the answer to your worries.
The last one is
significant to our understanding because generations ago, each &
every person practiced Shamanism.
To be more precise,
they breathed and lived Shamanism.
This central way of
living required them to perform soul retrieval each time a trauma
occurred.
This vital knowledge of
our ancestors still remains in some part of our unconscious mind
still.
And if an ardent need
is experienced to get a soul retrieval performed on oneself, it is
highly likely that your ancestral wisdom is guiding you.
What happens in
Soul Retrieval?
The first obstacle in
soul retrieval is to actually find the lost soul piece/s.
Since, we’ve drifted
away from the connections we once had with our soul, the shamanic
healer has to drift into the past.
“Today, as we have
not been practicing soul retrieval, modern day practitioners are
going back ten, twenty, thirty, or forty years or even more looking
for lost soul parts.”, says Ingerman.
Earlier individuals
knew the real reason for illness and recovered by spiritually
practicing soul retrieval on their own.
With the help of
drumming, rattling, crystals, the shamanic practitioner connects
herself with the patient.
The shaman relies on
the assistance of her spirit guides and power animal allies to aid
her in this process.
Journeying into inner
and outer realms, the healer persuades the missing pieces of the soul
to return back and removes the obstacles as well.
Upon completion of the
journey, the healer returns the missing soul parts by blowing them
into the heart chakra, and into the the crown of the head.
The reaction to the
process canat times be felt immediately or after some time when analysed in
retrospect. The ability to receive and store on the part of the
patient, is a great factor that determines the impact of the process.
Sometimes more than one
session can be necessary, if the lost piece requires more attention,
persuasion or more than one piece is lost.
Mother Earth demands her children to return back to their
natural state of happiness, wholeness and harmony within themselves
and externally too.
Imagine a world where all souls are whole and
complete; each day would be a celebration.
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