Soul
Retrieval, Soul Restoration
Shamanic Soul Retrieval / Soul Restoration is a technique
whereby the shaman journeys to find vital soul essence that has been
shed or expelled by a person in times of great shock, need, or even in
times of great joy. Our souls do this in order to protect us in
times of extreme need.
Living without this vital soul essence means that we are underpowered,
mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Soul Retrieval and Soul
Restoration is the process by which the shaman journeys to retrieve
this essence and re-integrate it into your vital energetic body.
Traditionally, Soul Retrieval was and is done in times of extreme
sickness and distress. As this characterizes much of the Western
person's daily life, Soul Retrieval and Restoration can go a long way
toward restoring vitality, cognitive abilities, and proper emotional
responses to every day life.
The Soul Retrieval / Soul Restoration Journey
To begin, the shamanic practitioner makes a "diagnostic" or
"assessment" journey
to determine whether a Soul Retrieval is indicated. His or her
allies make that determination during the diagnostic journey when
figuring out
what is amiss with the client and his/her energy body. If the
determination is made that portions of the client's soul essence are
indeed missing and are able to be returned, the shamanic practitioner
partners with his or her allies to go and find these parts and see if
they can
be returned.
Soul parts leave for a reason. If the underlying reasons for the
departure are not changed, the soul part may or may not agree to return
to be re-integrated into the client's essential energy body. The
shaman journeys to find the soul parts, and frequently sees details
related to the circumstances surrounding its departure. After
dialogging, and oftentimes negotiating terms, the shaman gathers up the
willing soul pieces to bring back to the client. Before being
reintegrated into the client's energy field, soul parts often need
healing work done on them.
The shaman's allies indicate what sort of healing is necessary for the
soul parts before it is safe to proceed beyond this point. The
healing for the soul part can be exactly like healing a client:
several steps may need to be taken before the soul part's energy is
sufficiently "clean" and ready for reintegration.
Upon returning
from the journey, the shaman relates these details with the client,
detailing the soul parts, and discusses the circumstances of the
departure (frequently related to the shaman by the dialogs with the
soul part itself), the healing that was necessary to cleanse the soul
energy, and speaks with the client to make certain the client is able
to "make room" for
this departed essence. If the underlying reason that the soul
part left the client is not addressed and changed, it may well leave
again if it finds itself unsatisfied under the new circumstances.
When the client agrees and is able to receive these lost soul
parts now having a deeper understanding of the circumstances of their
departure, the shaman blows
or camays this held essence
back into the client's body and energy field. This is frequently
done by the shaman blowing into specific parts of the client's body
followed by rattling and/or "sealing" the new soul energy into the
client's body into some way. Frequently the allies direct how the
camaying and sealing is
to be accomplished, blowing soul energy into the vertebra prominens, the big toe,
the heart chakra or the crown chakra. Or somewhere else.
For Soul Retrieval and Soul Restoration, following the
shamanic healing aftercare suggestions
is extremely important and can play a strong part in the reintegration
process.
Following the re-integration phase, there is a time period of
re-integration that the client undergoes to re-absorb and re-mix these
portions of him or herself. This may take up to a few months to
stabilize as the client reaches a new state of equilibrium, of
homeostasis to incorporate these newly regained energies of self. Sometimes the shamanic
practitioner assigns or suggests homework for the client to help "make
room" for these reclaimed energies.
Soul Retrieval / Soul Restoration can be a truly
life-changing experience, re-balancing the energies of the day-to-day
and easing responses to certain formerly intractable stresses. It
is a gentle and invigorating, renewing method of shamanic healing.
Here's what Sandra Ingerman has to say about
soul retrieval, the technique she re-introduced to Western shamanic
practitioners.
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Jeffrey
Rich
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