Soul Retrieval: 4 Impressive Ways to Heal Soul Loss

A thin layer between our conscious selves and our soul thickens with time, making us forget that a deeper part of ourselves ever existed in the first place. While experiencing this, we lose sight of the treasures, gifts, and personal purpose that we came into our life to use and accomplish.  As we do so, we may transform ourselves over time to conform to family’s and society’s norms and expectations of us, all the while consciously or unconsciously , compromising our deepest self in exchange for comfort and avoidance of conflict. Sometimes, we may even find ourselves hurting others,  and numbing ourselves with various addictions. These are just a few of the symptoms of soul loss. 

You know you have  when you have a persistent  feeling of emptiness, unhappiness, and loneliness. Today, in this article, we will learn how to get back in touch with your authentic, core self and values  using an effective method known as “Soul Retrieval.”

What is Soul Retrieval?

Soul Retrieval is a shamanic concept that refers to reintegrating missing soul parts into a person to promote healing. It is also the process of rekindling the  dissociated and repressed aspects of self  into everyday consciousness to achieve greater wholeness.

Ensoulment is another name for this reintegration procedure. It refers to when we form intimate contact with the soul within, through and around ourselves. We are initiated into the secrets of our deepest being, learning to listen to and trust our essential nature, rather than numbing or denying its presence.

The Soul Retrieval Journey

1. Meditation and visualization journeys

Using the power of your imagination may bring back lost aspects of yourself and create a more complete sense of contentment. At the level of the subconscious, the psyche  does not differentiate between fact and fantasy. Hence, we can seek out a lost soul part through active imagination or a guided journey into the inner self. This opens up a portal to our soul where old and new parts of self can be retrieved and reseeded into our conscious self-expression. In many cases, we may need to go to a professional who can guide us or do it for us.   

2. Entering altered states of consciousness

Working in an altered state of consciousness, from a light trance while in meditation or a shamanic healing session to a deep trance induced by plant medicine, penetrate the ego’s barriers to the subconscious. The ego in its healthy, balanced state determines what material, memories, and aspects of self can be accessed consciously. When the ego is out of balance–very common in our world today–there can be forces within our subconscious adversely affecting our state of mind and outer life. 

Altered states of consciousness enable the process of Soul Retrieval and reconnection to our Higher Self, or Soul. However, this technique should be done thoughtfully with clear intention.  There are numerous ways to enter trance states; for example, you may practice breathwork, mantra and prayer, primal rhythms, beats and sounds, visualization, etc. Once you do, you can begin to find the lost and yet to be manifested positive parts of self (soul parts) and archetypal energies that will restore you to harmony and balance. 

3. Retrieving lost soul parts

One dimension of soul loss relates to how traumatic and difficult life experiences can drive certain positive, healthy qualities to leave our conscious self-expression. This can happen consciously or unconsciously.  In our world today, a very common form of soul loss is when a healthy child goes underground in the face of abuse, neglect and/or abandonment. Without knowing it, we then grow into adulthood without having gone through healthy, balanced developmental stages in aspects of our life. An example would be if a child was sexually molested at a young age, then the part of self of the child who is connected and grounded in their body disappears. This can lead to problems later in life such as promiscuity, being the victim again of sexual assault, or simply low self-esteem and body hatred.  

Soul Retrieval, following an extraction of a wound in shamanic healing can bring back and reconnect the child part who has a vibrant and natural relationship with their body. 

3. Healing and retrieving inner archetypes

Archetypes are primordial and  eternal patterns of thought, feeling, energies, and potentialities within us that seek integration within us throughout our life span.  They mirror perennial shared roles and personality types across human expression and experience. Examples of some are Mother, Father,  Child, Artist, Lover, Savior, Victim, Bully, Healer, Prostitute, Addict, and Warrior. We all have a variety of positive and negative archetypes. Some will be more prominent in our character, relationships, and activities. Together they form the key forces affecting our lives. 

Working with archetypes can be a potent form of soul communication. When doing a soul retrieval, in some cases, rather than specific parts of self being brought back, such as a child part that went underground in the face of abuse, neglect or abandonment in childhood, an archetype will come forward.

For instance, if you are struggling with addiction, in a shamanic healing session, the shaman would engage with the archetype of the Addict to discover what the underlying personal and ancestral causes and conditions created that pattern in your life.  Then, they would do a wound extraction to remove the traumatic imprint that evolved out of that archetype. After that is done, the shaman would then retrieve an archetype that would counteract or counterbalance the Addict, such as the Peaceful Warrior. 

To find completeness and remove obstacles, we must engage with every archetype that is part of the larger constellation of your soul’s expression in your personality, activities, triumphs, and challenges! 

4. Self-love and cultivating compassion

The connection with your heart is the most important aspect of the soul recovery procedure. The heart is believed to be the home or the doorway to the soul. 

To practice self-love and self-compassion, you must first learn how to befriend yourself. The most excellent place to start is with some essential self-care and then progress to more directed self-love routines.

Final Words

We hope you have the answers to the questions: What is soul retrieval, and how can you heal your soul? It is a healing practice that involves consciously using newfound energy to cultivate healthy choices that support wholeness.

Sometimes, when things get really tough, you must have searched “spiritual healer mentor" or asked your friends and family for advice, hoping to find help. We recommend you connect with Rachel Mann PhD. She is a compassionate and highly skilled shamanic energy healer who does wound extraction and soul retrieval in addressing patterns of trauma.With her expertise as a trauma-informed shamanic healer who has developed a cutting-edge, modern and  innovative healing method using 21st century shamanic energy healing, somatic-emotional trauma release, and soul-spirituality. With this powerful combination of approaches, she can help you overcome and heal from the personal and ancestral trauma that has led to soul loss.

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