What is Soul Fragmentation and Retrieval and why would one require it.
re·triev·al
noun
re·triev·al
noun
- the process of getting something back from somewhere.
*Take the time to read this, you will be quite intrigued and amazed by this information and relived that there is an answer to what may be tormenting and troubling you.
It is believed that whenever we suffer an emotional or physical trauma, no matter how big or small, a part of our soul flees the body in order to survive the experience.
There are many common symptoms of soul loss. Some of the more common ones would be dissociation where a person does not feel fully in his or her body and alive and fully engaged in life. Other symptoms include chronic depression, suicidal tendencies, post traumatic stress syndrome, immune deficiency problems, scattered and not feeling grounded or able to focus and just all over the place with no real direction and grief that just does not heal. Addictions are also a sign of soul loss as we seek external sources to fill up the empty spaces inside of us whether through substances, food, relationships, work, or buying material objects. Also a hard time with giving and receiving love.
The types of trauma that could cause soul loss in our culture would be any kind of abuse, mental, emotional, physical, sexual, torture and ritual cults. Other causes could be an accident, being in a war, being a victim of a terrorist act, acting against our morals, being in a natural disaster (a fire, hurricane, earthquake, tornado, etc.), surgery, bulling, ridicule, embarrassment, addictions, divorce, or death of a loved one. Any event that causes shock could cause soul loss. What might cause soul loss in one person might not cause soul loss in another since everyone perceives experiences somewhat different and often times similar. This could also be something as simple as a parent really scaring you, emotional abuse, physical and life threatening trauma as well as death of something close to you and seeing things that no human should ever have to experience.
In our culture we are unaware of what is out of spiritual harmony that is creating illness. And because often our soul loss happened so young we are unaware of the unconscious patterns we are living out due to our first experience of soul loss. We are always trying to retrieve our soul. And how we do this is by repeating the same trauma over and over again. The names might change of the people involved in our life story, but the story is often the same.
It is important to understand that soul loss/fragmentation, is a good thing that happens to us. It is how we survive pain and from dying from this shock. If I was going to be in a head on car collision the last place that I would want to be at the point of impact is in my body. My psyche could not endure that kind of pain. So our psyches have this brilliant self protect mechanism where a part of our essence or soul leaves the body so that we do not feel the full impact of the trauma.
In psychology we call this disassociation. But in psychology we don’t talk about what disassociates and where that part goes. In shamanism we understand that a piece of the soul leaves the body and goes to a territory in what shamans call non ordinary reality where it waits until someone intervenes in the spiritual realms and facilitates its return.
It is believed that whenever we suffer an emotional or physical trauma, no matter how big or small, a part of our soul flees the body in order to survive the experience.
There are many common symptoms of soul loss. Some of the more common ones would be dissociation where a person does not feel fully in his or her body and alive and fully engaged in life. Other symptoms include chronic depression, suicidal tendencies, post traumatic stress syndrome, immune deficiency problems, scattered and not feeling grounded or able to focus and just all over the place with no real direction and grief that just does not heal. Addictions are also a sign of soul loss as we seek external sources to fill up the empty spaces inside of us whether through substances, food, relationships, work, or buying material objects. Also a hard time with giving and receiving love.
The types of trauma that could cause soul loss in our culture would be any kind of abuse, mental, emotional, physical, sexual, torture and ritual cults. Other causes could be an accident, being in a war, being a victim of a terrorist act, acting against our morals, being in a natural disaster (a fire, hurricane, earthquake, tornado, etc.), surgery, bulling, ridicule, embarrassment, addictions, divorce, or death of a loved one. Any event that causes shock could cause soul loss. What might cause soul loss in one person might not cause soul loss in another since everyone perceives experiences somewhat different and often times similar. This could also be something as simple as a parent really scaring you, emotional abuse, physical and life threatening trauma as well as death of something close to you and seeing things that no human should ever have to experience.
In our culture we are unaware of what is out of spiritual harmony that is creating illness. And because often our soul loss happened so young we are unaware of the unconscious patterns we are living out due to our first experience of soul loss. We are always trying to retrieve our soul. And how we do this is by repeating the same trauma over and over again. The names might change of the people involved in our life story, but the story is often the same.
It is important to understand that soul loss/fragmentation, is a good thing that happens to us. It is how we survive pain and from dying from this shock. If I was going to be in a head on car collision the last place that I would want to be at the point of impact is in my body. My psyche could not endure that kind of pain. So our psyches have this brilliant self protect mechanism where a part of our essence or soul leaves the body so that we do not feel the full impact of the trauma.
In psychology we call this disassociation. But in psychology we don’t talk about what disassociates and where that part goes. In shamanism we understand that a piece of the soul leaves the body and goes to a territory in what shamans call non ordinary reality where it waits until someone intervenes in the spiritual realms and facilitates its return.
Although soul loss is a survival mechanism the problem from a shamanic point of view is that the soul part that left usually does not come back on its own. The soul might be lost, or doesn’t know the trauma has passed and it is safe to return.
It has always been the role of the shaman/healer, to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.
Anytime someone says I have never been the same since a certain event and they don’t mean this in a good way, soul loss has probably occurred.
Coma is also soul fragmentation. But in coma there is more of the soul out of body than in the body. Coma is very complicated to work with today for many reasons. It takes skill on behalf of the shaman/healer to find out which way the soul is trying to go. Does the soul want to reenter the body or does it need help transcending which would lead to the death of the patient? There is a lot to say about this topic and it beyond the scope of this article.
Today there has been a resurgence in the interest of the practice of shamanism and modern day shamanism. We now have many hundreds of wonderful shamanic practitioners reintroducing the practice of soul retrievals into our culture. 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.
The effects of having a soul retrieval vary person to person. Some people feel that they are more grounded in their body and feel more solid. Some people feel lighter and a joyful way of being returns to them. For some memories of the past traumas might be triggered bringing up a variety of feelings that must be worked through. And for some people the effects are too subtle to notice a change until further work to integrate the soul is done.
As people feel more present in their bodies and in the world they become more conscious of behavior that might be out of balance and disharmonious. When we are numb we might be aware that things in the world are not right but we can easily distract ourselves from feeling a need to change. When we are fully “inspirited” there is no place to retreat to and we are more inspired to change our lives.
If these are symptoms you are experiencing and would like to schedule your own individualized Healing Soul Retrieval/Integration Session you may contact me.
☯ Yღur Ascension Journey ☯ Cherîe Hebert ~
It has always been the role of the shaman/healer, to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.
Anytime someone says I have never been the same since a certain event and they don’t mean this in a good way, soul loss has probably occurred.
Coma is also soul fragmentation. But in coma there is more of the soul out of body than in the body. Coma is very complicated to work with today for many reasons. It takes skill on behalf of the shaman/healer to find out which way the soul is trying to go. Does the soul want to reenter the body or does it need help transcending which would lead to the death of the patient? There is a lot to say about this topic and it beyond the scope of this article.
Today there has been a resurgence in the interest of the practice of shamanism and modern day shamanism. We now have many hundreds of wonderful shamanic practitioners reintroducing the practice of soul retrievals into our culture. 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.
The effects of having a soul retrieval vary person to person. Some people feel that they are more grounded in their body and feel more solid. Some people feel lighter and a joyful way of being returns to them. For some memories of the past traumas might be triggered bringing up a variety of feelings that must be worked through. And for some people the effects are too subtle to notice a change until further work to integrate the soul is done.
As people feel more present in their bodies and in the world they become more conscious of behavior that might be out of balance and disharmonious. When we are numb we might be aware that things in the world are not right but we can easily distract ourselves from feeling a need to change. When we are fully “inspirited” there is no place to retreat to and we are more inspired to change our lives.
If these are symptoms you are experiencing and would like to schedule your own individualized Healing Soul Retrieval/Integration Session you may contact me.
☯ Yღur Ascension Journey ☯ Cherîe Hebert ~