Healing the Human Soul
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 - called "individuation" in Jungian psychology - 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".

Technically speaking, true "Soul Loss" has to be distinguished from "Self-Disempowerment" due to PROJECTION OF FEELINGS AND PERSONAL POWER which can be brought into consciousness and healed by less invasive techniques (which are also less demanding on practitioner skill, authenticity and experience) such as a simple Drummed Shamanic Journey (to find a Power Animal representing the disconnected or projected archetypal resource. Alternatively a psychotherapeutic Inner Journey can be undertaken, once the projected archetype (=sub-personality) has been identified.

 

SYMPTOMS OF SOUL-LOSS

Inner Emptiness: Depression, Weariness
Pervasive sense of insecurity: "Human Jungle" perspective on life, Free-floating worries [Generalised Anxiety Disorder GAD], Constant worrying, Over-Controlling
Low Self-esteem: Lack of Confidence, Neediness, Never feeling good enough, Falseness, Lying, Shame or Guilt-Prone
Perfectionism: Nothing & No-one ever good enough
Egocentricity: Excessive pride, Arrogance, Domination or Abuse of others, "Drama Queen"
Emotional Dependency (on people or "drugs"): Workaholic, Alcoholic, Sex addiction, Criminality, Victimhood
Duplicity: Superficially nice - dark feelings beneath, Lying to, or manipulation of, others
Loss of Social Cohesion: Jealousy or Resentment of others
Self-sabotaging talk & behavior
Cravings & Addictions: sugar, junk food, coffee, sex, drugs, smoking
Depression: Withdrawn, Defensive, Hostile
Unhealthy relationships: Clinginess, Infatuation, Possessiveness, Unrequited love
Disconnection from Inner Child: Difficulty having fun, being playful or creative, being a "team-player"
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: disconnection from soul-centred living.

 

SOUL RETRIEVAL
Soul-retreival 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 Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self   by Sandra Ingerman With warmth and compassion, Sandra Ingerman describes the dramatic results of combining soul retreival with contemporary psychological concepts in this visionary work that revives the ancient shamanic tradition of soul retrieval for healing emotional and physical illness. Click the book image for Book Depository Special Offer Amazon Reviews/Order pages: UK   Canada   USA

 
 

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.

 

3 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
 
• A Personal Soul Retrieval Session with an experienced UK Shamanic Practitioner
   
• Shamanic Soul Retrieval healing practices (Shamanism Workshops)

 

 

 

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!

 

Shamanic Soul Work - Soul Loss - Soul Retrieval The Music is "Descent to the Lowerworld" from Sacred Earth Drums if film window below does not display, click "Allow ActiveX" or "Allow blocked content" at top of your screen Problems playing this video? Soul-Connections? - See "All Things are Connected"

[MORE SHAMANISM SOUL RETRIEVAL VIDEOS ON OTHER PAGES OF THIS WEBSITE!]

 

Soul Retrieval in a New Age Western Society: Shamanism Healing in the 21st Century

Extreme & Total Soul-Loss: Terror, Terrorism & Terrorists as Lost Soul Experiences

 

 

 

Training in Soul Retrieval

A primary aim of our Intermediate Shamanic Practitioner Training Course is to develop skill at Soul Retrieval [SR] work. SR is not simply about following a technique, it is also about knowing how to prepare ourself and the client for this type of work, and being aware of the legal and ethical implications.

Most of all it is about having made our own journey of clearing the key distortions to an AUTHENTIC SR journey that arise from "our own stuff". This means working regularly with the processes for bringing our personal subconscious "issues" ["inner demons"] and "ego-agendas" into awareness, and knowing the technologies for clearing or transforming them.

Transforming our inner and outer "demons" is the source of the "radiant power" [peaceful unconditional love] that marks out the accomplished shamanic healer.

If you wish to train in shamanic Soul Retrieval practices, we are facilitating the soul-recovery process in a series of shamanism workshops in Cambridge UK, Essex & N.Wales.
Details of coming events can be found here: www.sunflower-health.com/shamanicworkshops.htm
 

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Shamanic Soul Healing: Terror, Terrorists & Terrorism - Extreme Forms of Soul-Loss

 

Medieval Soul Retrieval The Magic & Mystery Of The Holy Grail Quest!

 

Live long and Prosper!

Author of this page: Michael [Mikhael] Meredith)
[Mike is a U.K. Physiologist, Stress Management Trainer & Shamanic Healing Practitioner]