Soul Retrieval: Soul loss is a spiritual illness

By Michael Millett

Soul loss is a spiritual illness that causes emotional and physical disease. We all spend a tremendous amount of psychic energy looking for lost parts of ourselves. We do this unconsciously, and we do this in many ways: generating dreams and daydreams, experimenting with numerous spiritual paths and creating relationships that mirror back to us our missing parts, to name but a few. Many of us today don't feel totally whole, don't feel as if we are all here. Few of us live as fully as we could.

Techniques exist for dealing with this common human situation, but these methods have either been almost entirely forgotten in modern society or people are unaware of their existence. For tens of thousands of years a practice known as shamanism has brought healing to people in many cultures around the world. According to the shamanic perspective, one of the major causes of illness is this very soul loss.

Today we often find soul loss as a result of such traumas such as abortion, abuse, accident, addiction, illness, incest, loss of a loved one, miscarriage, surgery, or the stress of combat. The basic premise is that whenever we experience trauma, a part of our vital essence separates from us in order to survive the experience by escaping the full impact of the pain. Soul loss can be caused by anything a person experiences as traumatic either in this life or a past life, even if another person would not experience it as such.

The shamanic perspective is that this part of our essential life energy can split off and become lost in non-ordinary reality. The shaman will travel or journey there for the client in an altered state of consciousness in pursuit of these lost soul parts. The shaman will then retrieve the lost aspects from these worlds and reintegrate them with the body of the client. It is important to note that non-ordinary reality is different from and not the same as the unconscious mind.

In formal past life regression therapy, the practitioner retrieves the separated (dissociated) parts of the past life character and integrates them into the past life persona as well as into the client during the healing process. In transpersonal therapy and transpersonal inner child work, the separated parts are again integrated into the client during the healing.

Examples of soul loss are when a beloved spouse, child, or friend dies, and one also "deadens" for a while. It may feel as if the light has gone from the world, and like sleepwalking. Or on return from having major surgery many people feel as if they've have not come fully out of the anesthesia. People who have been involved in a serious car accident often report feelings of being "spaced out." Others involved in abusive intimate relationships may be aware of being locked into destructive patterns but feel too fragile and powerless to move on. Or in leaving or having left such a relationship, they might feel as if something would be or was left behind with their partner. Another sign of soul loss can be a gap in memory to avoid pain. The soul may also separate from a child who does not feel loved or who feels abandoned by his or her parents. Being sickly as a child or suffering serious or chronic illness can often indicate such a soul loss. Chronic depression is another symptom of soul loss. A soul might leave the body to survive physical or sexual abuse.

In each of these cases, the traumatized person escapes to survive the ordeal. Shock is the word usually used to describe this condition. Shock is a normal reaction in itself and no cause for alarm. But often, for reasons we don't fully understand, the part of the self that left fails to return and that is a predicament. Often this fragmentation or loss of one's essential being keeps him or her from being able to create a path of love and joy and realize their goals or desires in life. Using hypnosis to access these fragmented parts through past life healing and transpersonal therapy, the practitioner first accesses the buried parts of our unconscious mind, then the subtle energy which is non-physical and part of overall consciousness, the corona of energy around living beings. This corona is parallel and part of the shaman's spirit world (non-ordinary reality).

This corona of subtle energy holds a great deal of information: well-being or disease, emotional states, mental attitudes and past lives. It is also often where our lost parts go. Through hypnosis, we can access this etheric blueprint or body to retrieve these separated parts and through the various healing processes integrate them back into the client.

Shamanism, past life healing and transpersonal therapy provide not only diagnoses and descriptions of these widespread problems, but also act as powerful tools for intervention and treatment.

Michael G Millett is a certified counselor, hypnotherapist and psychotherapist. He holds certificates in Transpersonal Therapy and Past Life Healing from the London College of Transpersonal Hypnosis and Healing and is a member of APRT in the USA. He is also an NLP Practitioner approved by the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming USA and the Association of NLP (UK).

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