Soul Work - Soul Loss - Soul Retrieval
SOUL-LOSS
Recently I was chatting with a friend who confided that recently-achieved material goals in her life, instead of providing the expected fulfilment, satisfaction and happiness, had served only to put her back in touch with lifelong sense of "Having something missing!" - a lingering sense of being unfulfilled.As she touched this mournful, "self-incompleteness" reality, the words "Maslowe's Hierarchy" came into her mind - an echo of her past professional training. She asked me to review with her "Maslowe's Hierarchy of Human Needs" and to explain the top level: "Self-actualization".
Self-actualization means to "Fulfil one's potential".
Part of this personal growth process involves re-connecting with the bits of ourselves we have lost along the way of our life journey - a process which is well recognised in the ancient personal and spiritual development path of Shamanism under the name of "soul retrieval".
Symptoms of Soul-Loss
Inner Emptiness, Depression, Weariness
Pervasive sense of insecurity, sadness or anxiety
Never feeling good enough
Perfectionism: Nothing & No-one ever good enough
Superficially nice - dark feelings beneath
Jealousy or Resentment of others
Self-sabotaging talk & behavior
Low self-esteem, Lack of confidence, Neediness
Cravings & Addictions: sugar, junk food, coffee, sex, drugs, smoking
Withdrawn, Defensive or Controlling
Unhealthy relationships: Clinginess, Infatuation, Possessiveness
Difficulty having fun, being playfulSOUL RETRIEVAL
Soul-retrieval and soul-connection lie at the heart of any bona fide spiritual path, and there are many spiritual and psychotherapeutic practises which can help us to "remember" our full spiritual nature and potential.Incarnation is a very distracting experience for our soul, or inner spiritual essence. We easily lose identification with our spiritual essence and become identified with our feelings, needs, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, ideals, agendas, dreams, perceptions, roles etc.
Traumatic early-life experiences can also lead us to abandon our true identity and take on an identity given to us by powerful adults, peer groups or siblings e.g. we are "bad", "stupid", "mad", "inferior", unacceptable" etc.
We then spend our lives building up a "false identity" or "mask of acceptability/competence" to cover up the painful negative identity we were earlier "trained or traumatised" into accepting.
SOUL RECLAMATION
Soul remembrance is the process of re-identification with our deep inner spiritual identity, guidance and wisdom. As we dis-identify from the dominating identity of our survival self (ego) we become free to reconnect to our full life force and the deep wisdom that can guide us towards our life's purpose and the journey of experiences (not always within our comfort zone!) that will bring a fulfilled life that does shrink in terror from the ultimate and inevitable challenge of dying and death.Three particularly powerful ways to re-connect with our soul essence are:
- Connecting with the natural world - becoming "at one" with Nature
- Expressing our divine nature in sacred chants, rituals and healing work
- Connecting with divine beings and with the divine aspect of our fellow human-beings
- Shamanic Soul Retrieval healing practices (Day Workshop Newmarket Suffolk UK)
Do you Remember when you were a child and the world was a magical playground, full of wonder?
Could you ever return to that experience?
"Of course not!" you say - "I was just a child and that experience of the world was unreal - just an illusion!"
Well, the world always was, and always will be, a magical wondrous playground.
We CAN recapture the excitement and joy of that magical way to live....
Yes! Even sad, weary, burdened, unfulfilled, disillusioned adults
can return to wonder, amazement, lightness and a deep inner sense of nourishing love and connection to life!We can once again experience that upsurge of playful, joyous energy within us!
"Grounding" the soul - The Soul's Connection to the Earth
See also "All Things are Connected"
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Soul Retrieval in a New Age Western Society: Shamanism Healing in the 21st Century
Sceptical about Soul Retreival?
In Cambridge UK & N.Wales in 2008 we are facilitating the soul-recovery process in a series of shamanic workshops.
Details of coming events can be found here: www.sunflower-health.com/workshops.htm
Soul Consciousness - Transcend Ego: Transcendental Meditation Techniques
Medieval Soul Retrieval
The Magic & Mystery Of
Live long and Prosper!
[Mike is a U.K. Physiologist, Stress Management Trainer & Shamanic Healing Practitioner]
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