Depression ¨ Addictions

Dissociation ¨ Chronic Illness

Chronic fatigue ¨ Chronic misfortune

Feelings of constant victimization

Feeling like part of you is missing

Inability to move beyond unhealthy relationships

Feeling like you really should be doing more with you life, but feel stuck.

The above are common side effects of soul loss. Many people often report in healing sessions that they feel like they are not doing what they came here to do or they just have no “joy“ in their lives. These are two more signs of soul loss. What is soul loss and how can it be retrieved?

First, let me define “soul”. The soul is that part of us that is our pure essence, or life force. It is “pure Light”, that which is created by God and is eternal. That which returns to God and most likely will choose to return again to another body. Now, I am putting a little extra energy on that last statement for a reason and I will bring it up again soon.

When physical or emotional trauma occurs, the soul fragments to alleviate the body from feeling too much pain. Unfortunately, when this happens, not all of the fragmented soul parts return. Over time left unaddressed, this soul loss begins to create more of an issue in the emotional and physical bodies through energy disturbances.

Mental, physical, and sexual abuse are all major factors in soul fragmentation. Soul fragmentation can also be a result from an accident, surgery, being in a war, the death of a loved one, and surviving natural disasters. Children often experience soul loss due to parents who fight with each other in front of them.

So are these soul parts lost forever? No, only until the loss is recognized and addressed. So how do you address it you ask! Most Shaman are trained in Soul Retrieval. A Shaman is a healer who “see’s in the dark” or journeys into the inner landscapes to locate illness and imbalance that may latter lead to more serious illness. Most all indigenous Shaman and Shamanic practitioners believe that most illness stems from soul loss.

Shamanism is the oldest Spiritual practice known to mankind dating back 40,000 years. The word Shaman originated in Siberia, but is found in most indigenous cultures still today. Until recently, Shamanism was reserved for the “chosen medicine people“ of a tribe or culture. But today many westerners are being taught the old “authentic ways” of healing through Shamanism. And as an “aside”, Jesus was said to have been a Shaman!

Could living in balance in the authentic way reduce illness in our society? YES it can, but we have to stop thinking that illness is only about the physical body. I too believe that most illness begins with emotional imbalances. Scientists have begun to study this concept and are beginning to collude with the belief that our Spiritual bodies are as important to our well being as our physical bodies if not more important.

We all know someone who has chronic illness, one thing after another seems to manifest in their bodies. Is this Gods revenge for something bad they did in their past? No, God is not vengeful. Are they clearing Karmic debt? No, sorry, you can’t pull the karmic debt card either. I have had an epiphany from higher sources that karmic debt is something our ego mind makes up to keep us small. That is a whole other story to come soon!

If you understand that everything is energy, our bodies, words and thoughts, actions and deeds, and there is negative and positive, and our bodies are like little energy magnets, then you can begin to understand how our little magnets attract and hold negative words and expressions. When someone has a trauma occur in their life, and the energy of that trauma is not healed and released, later in life this energy can become denser energy and create an energy disturbance. Like a splinter, this dense matter can begin to fester and create an energetic infection that when left unnoticed, can turn to disease in the physical body. When we have suffered severe soul loss, we do not have the energy to fight these heavier energies from manifesting as dis-ease.

I hope that this is making sense to you and that you realize how very important it is that we tend to our Spiritual body, our Soul or pure essence, as much as we tend to our physical bodies.

Now back to an earlier statement and to complicate things even further. When our earthly body dies and we are “pure Spirit” again, that essence holds and takes with it, all of the imprints of this life time. The good, the bad, and those things that were not healed in this incarnation. So we take our collected junk with us. And then, in our next incarnation, our Spirit, our eternal essence, inhabits another body, and somewhere along the road some unexplainable issue gets triggered and bam! We have “stuff” going on that we can’t even explain. So in the new incarnation we have the ability to heal this again or not. When I see into peoples past lives, I can sometimes see the same issues playing over and over. Transcending the “mundane” is what evolution of the Soul is all about. Often times Soul Retrieval will take me into another life time that needs to be healed.

Soul loss is real, and Soul Retrieval is a beautiful way to bring one back into total balance! Think of Soul Retrieval as “preventative medicine”!

By: Teresa Arney

Energy Medicine Practitioner

Shaman/Healer

Reiki Master

Aspiritdoc Mysticism, Shamanic Healing, Shamanism, Spiritual Healing

Over the past few days it seemed that the wind has been fast and furious more so than we‘ve had in a long time. I’m not sure if I’ve experienced that strong of wind for that length of time since I’ve lived here. Yesterday morning was very intense and as I was walking through my shuddering house, I said a loud, “God!!! This wind is annoying”. Then it came, that voice that comes from no where and every where. “Did you not know the wind has a Spirit too? You are speaking of as if it were an inanimate object.” That is the voice that stops me in my tracks. I pondered that for a moment, but just for a moment as I was preparing myself to go to work.

In Shaman School one of the first things we teach is that all things have a Spirit. The mountains have a Spirit as well as Mother Earth and all of her children including the plant and animal kingdom. The rivers and waters have a Spirit, and we even honor and bless water these days as experiment to create more pure the water for us to drink.

When we do fire ceremonies we honor Grandfather fire for all that he transmutes. In fact, if you think about it, we (those who live close to Nature and the Natural World) we honor all the other elements including the wind but we tend to curse it when it is blowing harder than we like.

My second client of the day mentioned the wind. I proceeded to share with her what “the voice” had said and that opened a little discussion on wind. We thought of all the good things that wind does for us such as helps to pollinate plants, move and dissipate heavy energies including smog, shifts the weather, and dusts us off. I’m sure we could come up with lots more good things that the wind does, but this is the general idea.

The wind even speaks to us if we are willing to listen. I remember my son once in his infinite wisdom, said something very profound one day while I was visiting with him on his back porch in Arizona. I don’t remember what it was that he said, but it was how he said it and the energy behind his hypnotic stare that got my attention. I asked him how he knew that and he said, “the wind told me”. This is the same son who often would roll his e eyes in the back of his head when I would speak to him of my own Shamanic adventures. “Oh how that which goes around, comes around!”

As my client and I were speaking of the wind, an energy came in “much like the wind” pun intended, and entered my body. It was a very strong energy and my client even said, “oh my, what’s going for you, your face is glossing over”. She kind of faded away as the energy entered my body but the feeling I was feeling was gratitude and deep love. And then the energy was gone like the wind! I felt like the Spirit of the Wind was grateful for some praise and acknowledgement. And who knows, maybe the Spirit of the Wind has emotions much as we do and just wants some positive attention.

And today there is calm!

Teresa Arney

Aspiritdoc Mysticism, Shamanic Healing, Shamanism, Spiritual Living