SOUL RETRIEVAL

The essence of the soul is eternal, but that doesn’t mean it cant experience separation, loss, or injury while here in the temporal world.  Experiences like trauma, shock intense stress or loss can occasionally cause parts of the soul to “flee” from the body as a survival technique.  This is often referred to as soul loss, which can cause a person to feel disconnected, fragmented, or incomplete – and in severe cases it can manifest as depression, heartbreak, anxiety, or mental illness. 

In shamanic healing, the shaman’s role is to locate and retrieve the lost part of the soul and deliver it back to the persons energy field.  These fragmented parts of the soul are often reluctant to return and typically require some form of persuasion or healing before they are able to return to the body.  Occasionally, there are also obstacles that need to be overcome in this process, like protective spirits that need to be worked with to keep them from holding these parts of the self in the ukhu pacha (interior realm).

Yet, before the shaman can accomplish this feat on behalf of another, they must learn to do this for themselves first.  Only then can they acquire the wisdom to truly facilitate a soul retrieval for another person. 

This is where we must begin.  By calling all of the disparate parts of ourselves back home in cohesive wholeness.