What is soul retrieval?
Soul retrieval is an ancient healing art most notably associated with shamanism. Soul retrieval is performed in order to seek out and recover broken fragments of your spirit that ware severed by a trauma. Emotional experiences that exceed the limits of comprehension can cause part of your soul to break away from you. Soul retrieval is a way to recover these fragmented pieces. Soul retrieval is a spiritual journey that can take you anywhere from the astral planes of spiritual existence (places that stretch far beyond the cosmos), to beneath the strata of your inner soul, in order to recover the abandoned and forgotten pieces of who you are.
For some reason, soul retrieval is often conveyed as a mystical journey draped in mystery and danger. Generally, soul retrieval is not promoted as a process for one to take on themselves, rather, it is encouraged that a shaman be sought out for such a practice. Keeping in continuity with the art of healing as a whole, one must remember not to surrender his or her health or well-being to anyone, even a shaman. However, the right shaman who is able to form a healthy relationship with you may be able to guide you in a more effective or efficient way to the lost fragments of your soul.
The help and support from a community and/or a spiritual healer is great, but even if soul retrieval is successful, it is ultimately you who will need to come to understand how and why parts of your soul went missing in the first place. It will also be up to you to figure out a healthy way to re-integrate these essential pieces (no matter how painful of a truth these fragments represent) back into your essence, your soul, in a healthy way. Healing isn't something that can be achieved by a single grand event. Healing is an ongoing journey of accepting, understanding, and integrating the parts of ourselves, or of the world which we do not wish to acknowledge. Once we are able to accept, understand, and integrate a truer version of ourselves and of the world, we elevate, or heal, and the process begins all over again. Healing is a reoccurring event. Healing is a cycle.
A shaman may be able to play an important role in your soul retrieval journey, but finding or hiring a shaman is by no means a prerequisite for soul retrieval. Everyone has the capacity and ability to perform a soul retrieval themselves. We all have ancient wisdom within ourselves and the infinite potential to explore and discover many paths toward health and balance; still, many of us are hindered by the perceived limits and restraints we place on our mind as well as the emotional limits we adopt to keep us comfortable. Generally, people are afraid to expand these limits because to push our boundaries and grow, we must put forth effort, experience pain, and manage the fear of possible failure.
Contrary to what others may say, performing a soul retrieval on yourself is not something that should be draped in mystery and danger. If you understand the basics of spiritual harmony and have the courage, humility, and will to do your own work, then you should. All I recommend is having someone with you—someone who you have a deep relationship with and can trust to help you with the experience. Remember, soul retrieval is an enduring emotional experience and having someone who can ground you in a loving way through the process is very helpful.
The ‘problem’ many people encounter with healing is that they are seeking out permission to heal from others. People would often rather have others respond to their weakness with pity than respect their intrinsic value because to invoke respect takes the belief that you are of value in the first place. Being of and maintaining value means taking responsibility and holding yourself accountable for your health, life, and existence within the world.
Maintaining and building value takes a certain type of emotional endurance (the type of emotional endurance that can deal with massive amounts of effort, pain, and possible failure), and for some reason, there are people who would forego the type of emotional endurance to build themselves up in value, and instead, emotionally endure the pain and shame of being weak and unhealthy. For example, before Bruce Lee became an international martial-arts superstar, he broke his back during a martial arts training exercise. Doctors told him he would never do martial arts again. At that moment, Bruce Lee could have chosen to surrender his value to the professional opinion of others and emotionally endure the pain and shame of his circumstances. Instead, Bruce Lee embraced his value and chose to endure the long and exhausting journey of rehabilitation.
Bruce Lee eventually recovered, not by denying the severity of his situation or the traumatic event itself, but by accepting his circumstances with humility, understanding his limitations with courage, and integrating his resolve along with his creative genius to heal the best way he could. Bruce Lee went on to achieve international fame and recognition for his passion of the martial arts. I’m sure Bruce Lee didn’t heal all by himself, he probably had professional help, support from his family, and encouragement from his friends, but the secret ingredient to his recovery was himself.
Embracing weakness allows you to give up your power in a socially acceptable way because society accepts weakness and victims. If you view yourself in an unhealthy way such as weak, or a victim, then for the most part, society will view you with an unhealthy perspective as well. Once you give up your power, you surrender to the answers and solutions others would impose upon you. You surrender your creative genius, which provides to you the ability to express and experience love in its infinite potential.
Don’t get me wrong, if you are sick or injured, if you feel weak or insecure in any way, you should seek out help. Healing should be a collaborative effort with you in the center learning from others who can help guide and support you on your unique path toward healing, but it must be you who does the work. Always maintain your value. Healing can be a slow process, and it should be something you are working toward with the help and support of others, but the best team of professionals in the world will not be able to heal you if you believe you are not worthy of being healed.
If you truly believe you are weak, no test, no doctor, no spiritual advisor can prove to you otherwise. Healing may test your resolve and push the limits of your endurance, but so will choosing to remain weak. Remember, by choosing to embrace and endure weakness you not only give up your power and surrender your creative genius, you also submit to a limited definition of love that will never be full enough, broad enough, or wide enough to allow you to heal. Still, for some reason it seems so much easier to maintain a perspective of little value so you can rely on others for permission to heal. When you believe that you need the permission of others to heal, then you can remain weak and relinquish responsibility for your health, life, and existence in the world, while blaming others for not catering to or responding in the appropriate way to your weakness. It is a sad truth, but some people would rather have others give them permission, along with a solution to heal, or reason or excuse to remain weak, than to explore the infinite possibilities of love that would expand their ability to heal themselves.
What does Soul Retrieval mean?
What does soul retrieval mean? Think of your life not as a timeline, extending in a two-dimensional one-way diagram with an abrupt end, but as a three-dimensional ring (like a sphere) that expands upon itself to produce more rings, much like that of a tree, and like a tree, when you die, the rings don’t just disappear, but dissolve into the very building blocks of life itself so that its physical essence may be born again in some way, shape, or form (while its spiritual essence merges with the energy (What is Energy Medicine?) of the universe to be born again in some way, shape, or form).
Tree rings are produced as a tree expands and grows. Each ring represents the effort and endurance of experiencing one year (or cycle of the seasons). Each ring encapsulates the experiences of the tree during that year (or cycle). If the tree was exposed to destructive fires, insects or drought, the tree finds a way to integrate these burdens into its rings in a healthy way. A tree does not deny what it has been through, nor does it dwell on its past experiences. A tree embraces and embodies everything that it has endured while managing to stay connected to the heavens and the Earth in a harmonious way.
The soul is much like the rings of a tree. The soul builds on itself and expands its understanding of love through experiences. The rings which we create around our soul are formed through our understanding of love. These rings are meant to widen our ability to express and experience love, but that is not always the case. Our understanding of love, like a tree, begins with our own unique emotional blueprint, and for a tree is the seed.
Unlike a tree, our seed (or emotional blueprint) is a highly sensitive system that can be influenced in many ways. The rings we build around our soul may not always be to expand the understanding of love within our soul, but instead block our ability to express or experience love. If our soul is exposed to destructive emotions and stressful situations, our ability to understand how to integrate these burdens into our understanding of love (which becomes the next ring around our soul) may be compromised.
When we are unable to properly integrate potentially destructive emotions caused by traumatic events and stressful situations in a healthy way, then pieces of our soul may break away from our spirit and be banished out into the spirit world, where the spirit animal or animals associated with that part of our soul will guard it for us (learn more about spirit animals here: What is a Spirit Animal?), or become trapped within a soul ring.
Lost or trapped pieces of ourselves can create spiritual blocks, inhibiting or blocking the flow of energy (What is Energy Medicine?) within our soul. Poor spiritual circulation can manifest into physical illness because all systems are connected. Spiritual systems can affect physical systems just as physical systems can affect spiritual systems.
What does soul retrieval mean? Soul retrieval basically means a journey out into the spiritual plane or within the strata of our soul to find the fragmented pieces of ourselves that may be blocking or hindering our ability to express and experience love in its infinite potential. In a sense, soul retrieval is like the practice of unblocking chakras, for the rings that block the ability to express or experience love within the soul are similar to the emotions that can block the flow of energy through our chakras. Both soul retrieval and the cleansing of chakras require the proper amount of acceptance, understanding, and integration to revive the soul, harmonize the chakras, and heal.
Soul retrieval may seem romantic and mysterious, but the reality of it can be a painful and enduring journey, although it will ultimately help you to accept the parts of yourself you had once denied out of fear. Though a shaman is not required for a soul retrieval, courage and humility is, and if you should choose to employ the help of a shaman, he or she should help you understand and prepare for the journey in ways that are centered in love. A shaman should also explain that retrieving fragments of your soul during a soul retrieval isn't the end of the journey, nor will a soul retrieval allow you to heal and feel complete if you don't find a way to accept, understand, and integrate the lost-and-found pieces of yourself back into your soul in a healthy and empowering way. A shaman cannot do this for you. You must have the courage and humility to do it yourself.
What happens after soul retrieval?
What happens after a soul retrieval? Let’s put it this way, the work has just begun. A person doesn't miraculously become whole again after a soul retrieval. After soul fragments are successfully reacquired, you must figure out how to integrate the soul fragments that were found back into your soul in a healthy way.
Soul retrieval itself can be a painfully exhausting and enduring experience. Facing parts of yourself which were broken and seemingly lost to the spirit world or within the rings of your soul can bring about many painful memories and shameful feelings. After such an experience it is easy to feel like the journey has concluded, but the real work is just beginning.
After a successful soul retrieval you must not ignore or neglect the fragmented pieces that were just excavated from the strata of your soul, or plucked from some astral plane in the spirit world. If you believe you are healed after a soul retrieval without accepting, understanding, and integrating these lost pieces of yourself in a healthy way, then the soul fragments you just found may just as quickly become abandoned and forgotten to the barren and forsaken areas of your soul, or become lost somewhere in the spirit world all over again.
Abandoned and forgotten soul fragments within you can eventually petrify into a numbing feeling that blocks your ability to express and experience love in its infinite potential, while lost soul fragments that are cast out into the spirit realm can leave you feeling incomplete, or even worse, hollow. Either way, neglecting to incorporate your soul fragments often puts you right back where you started.
To continue to promote healing after a soul retrieval requires constant effort. A spiritual healing art like shamanism should not be confused with the one-stop remedies and miracle fixes that western medicine so commonly misrepresents about healing. I am not saying that western medicine is bad. Western medicine has its place as a system of healing, but what you must remember is that western medicine is just one system among numerous other systems (like Shamanism, Ayurveda, Qigong, Yoga, nutrition, etc.) that support the overall connection to health, life, and existence.
I have made a career in western medicine as a licensed nurse and do my best to uphold the sanctity of being a healthcare professional, and in accordance with being a good healthcare professional I do not advocate the idea that one pill, one drug, one surgery, one diagnosis, etc., will fix everything. Healing is a never-ending journey; like the endless repeating seasons, and like the seasons, healing is more like a cycle than a destination. Healing, like the seasons, requires constant and consistent effort toward balance.
After a devastating illness or injury, people tend to dwell on how they were before the traumatic event. Instead of focusing on healing, sometimes, all thought and effort may get stuck on how things used to be. A person can become fixated on returning to 'normal' and when their efforts are unable to produce the desired results, frustration and a sense of helpless depression may start to sink in.
Frustration and depression can begin to monopolize our emotions and overthrow our ability to understand love. The rings we form around our soul are developed through our understanding of love, to help expand our ability to express and experience love. When emotions like frustration and helplessness overwhelm our ability to understand love, then a soul ring with a perverse understanding of love is created. This ring, made of mostly fear and pain and guarded by the spirit animal of our sacral chakra (again, to learn more about spirit animals click here: What is a Spirit Animal?), can block or hinder a person from not just healing, but from aligning with the healing process in general.
The first part of the healing process is being able to accept what happened. You must accept what you went through and who you are now, but also who you always will be no matter the circumstances—your emotional blueprint. The second part of the healing process is understanding your new reality, your new limitations as well as your new abilities to overcome and persevere toward harmony in creative and amazing ways. The third part of the healing process is integrating your new reality, your new limitations and abilities, into the unwavering essence of who you are so you may become whole again with a broader definition of love. By aligning with the healing process and accepting, understanding, and integrating not just traumatic events, but all emotions and experiences, your effort toward balance in the healing cycle will always allow you to heal. You only need to have the courage and humility to understand that you may not heal the way you want to, but you will heal the way you need to.
How do you retrieve soul fragments?
How do you retrieve soul fragments during a soul retrieval? You retrieve soul fragments during a soul retrieval by acknowledging the wound, the trauma, the painful experience which has blocked the soul from expressing and experiencing love in all its potential through denial or numbness of emotion.
When a tree faces an obstacle, it grows around it, and in some cases, with it. That’s why sometimes you may see a tree growing into a house, fence, or even another tree. An obstacle becomes part of the tree itself. A tree finds a way to work with its surroundings. A vine doesn’t shy away from a physical hurdle, it uses it. A vine grabs and clings to its surroundings and uses whatever it can to help pull itself up and into the light.
If it can, a tree doesn’t cut off a traumatic experience by denying life giving water to the affected area; if it must because the damage is too great, then it will still find a way to thrive the best way it can. A tree lives so long because a tree heals the way it needs to. If it can, a tree will revive damaged parts of itself by encouraging the flow of water to the affected area.
The soul is much like the spirit of a tree, and like a tree, when the soul is damaged, all you need to do is find a way to rehydrate it. You retrieve soul fragments by feeling them again, by allowing yourself to experience a part of yourself that you once denied. If you want your spirit to be full and your soul to be whole, you must unlock and face the fear and pain and shame that the severed and abandoned parts of yourself may make you feel.
You retrieve soul fragments in a soul retrieval through accepting what you experienced. This takes a tremendous amount of courage and emotional endurance, but it will also require a tremendous amount of humility and understanding, for you must be able to integrate these parts of yourself, these abandoned soul fragments, back into who you are in a healthy way.
You are not damaged because you experienced some form of trauma—you are not what you have endured—you are a unique expression of love and your potential goes far beyond any experience. No matter what a tree had to endure to create a ring, it fully integrates every experience in the healthiest way possible so that it may fully experience its connection to the world. If it can, a tree will find a way to allow energy, love, and life to flow through every ring; for it is love—the experience and expression of love in all its wondrous forms (sunshine, earth, rain)—that allows the tree to expand and branch out from the center of its soul, its seed, and to reach into every aspect of life (heaven and Earth) so it may connect with all of existence.
Can the soul leave the body during trauma?
Can the soul leave the body during trauma? In short, yes. Now brace yourself for the long answer. It doesn’t need to be trauma to trigger an out-of-body experience. Any time we experience something we cannot comprehend, our soul can extend beyond our body in one way or another for a period of time. Shock, surprise, and euphoria are some of the emotions one might experience while our soul travels beyond the limits of our body, which may manifest in many different ways.
An out-of-body experience doesn’t always end with severed soul fragments. If we become overly excited, happy or surprised, our soul can expand to seemingly immeasurable proportions of love.
It is our aversion to what we perceive to be pain and discomfort that eventually leads to a severed soul and soul fragments. Soul fragments are usually the product of exceptionally intense and overwhelming traumatic experiences. Experiences that spike our emotions to a place beyond our ability to handle and comprehend are cut off, blocking the flow of energy to and from these severed soul fragments.
Traumatic experiences are not the only factor that can contribute to a weakened or incomplete spirit. Mild but consistent emotional discomfort can also lead to symptoms of chronic spiritual fatigue. Chronic spiritual fatigue can eventually block or inhibit our ability to express or experience love by numbing certain emotional experiences within our soul. This spiritual numbness is caused by the lack of spiritual energy in certain areas of the soul, and can be compared to poor circulation in the body, which may lead to a physical manifestation called peripheral neuropathy.
Despite the overwhelming experience that certain types of emotional trauma may inflict, trauma itself is not the cause of a broken or blocked soul. Trauma is not what causes the soul to break away and become severed or fragmented: we are.
The consequence of any trauma is up to us. It is our aversion and inability to incorporate undesired experiences as part of life, as part of existence, as part of who we are, that divides our soul.
Denial in any shape or form can trigger part of our soul to break away from us. If we are able to accept and manage shock and surprise to a certain degree (the threshold for spiritual pain is different for everyone) so the emotional experience does not escalate too far beyond our physical parameters, then our soul can be easily recovered without any damage.
Despite how weak we may perceive ourselves to be, we are actually spiritually and physically resilient beings. However, there are certain circumstances and situations where shock and surprise can prompt our emotions to travel so far beyond our perceived limits that they escape from our body, leading our soul to unravel and merge with the vast and infinite potential of the universe. This kind of emotional spill can lead to unconsciousness, coma, or even death.
For a greater understanding of out-of-body experiences, it may be helpful to understand more about one’s unique oversoul, emotional blueprint, and soul.
Soul Systems
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Figure 1. One’s unique ego is made up of the Id and the superego, which help to navigate the spiritual systems of one’s soul.
At this point we will venture off topic a bit to explore the different spiritual systems that make up the soul in order to explain more about how the soul can leave the body during trauma. The soul is composed of many different spiritual systems (chakras and spirit animals are some of them), just as our bodies are composed of many different physical systems (i.e., the endocrine, respiratory, skeletal, digestive, muscular systems, etc.). I am not aware of all of the spiritual systems that compose the soul, but from my understanding, the chakras are the main spiritual system of the soul and are governed by spirit animals.
We navigate our chakras through the ego and all its parts: the “id,” as Sigmund Freud termed it, and the superego (Figure 1). In other words, the ego helps identify an emotional experience in relation to the unique emotional energy of our spiritual systems. We use our unique ego as an interface to interact and respond to the emotional experience of existence.
Our morals and values (superego) are made up of our beliefs (not the beliefs we were taught, but our true beliefs, the beliefs we naturally and organically gravitate toward), and are balanced by the superego’s counterpoint, or complement, the id—our instincts and the will and drive to survive.
The ego is the product or combination of the id and superego. The ego is a dynamic system because it is always changing through the fluctuating balance between the id and the superego. When our ego doesn’t change, it’s because our superego has been crystalized into a doctrine that governs our will and drive (id) to only respond to a certain type of belief structure. That’s why the only real way to change is from within. We must change our belief structure to help ourselves adapt and heal in an ever-changing world. When we are aligned with the healing process, our belief systems are constantly being formed and broken apart only to be put back together in more authentic and relevant ways.
As our belief systems (superego) mature and grow, so do our will and drive (id) to survive and flourish within the ever-evolving belief structures we adopt. The id (our will and drive) constantly changes gears while steering our spirit in the direction of our faith so we may identify with and move toward our concept of health and balance in our ever-evolving belief structures.
To promote healthy systems and relationships, our ego moves between the superego and the id so that it may integrate the information obtained by either polar force in a way that widens our ability to express and experience love. When we are able to expand our ability to express and experience love, we form a sphere around our soul--a sphere with a broader understanding of love. The combination of the id, ego, and superego is a system that is meant to allow us to evolve and elevate our understanding of what it means to be a spiritual being.
Just as our bodies grow and change, so does our soul. The soul undergoes many metamorphosis-like transformations, but stays true to its original blueprint, just like how a giant tree can emerge from a tiny seed, but still stays true to the blueprint of the seed. The soul has a blueprint as well, an emotional blueprint. The emotional blueprint of the soul is the essence of one’s spirit, the part of a person which is everlasting, authentic, and among other enchanting adjectives: invulnerable. The emotional blueprint is made up of many different spiritual systems that help compose the over-soul.
Our over-soul, the being above who we think and feel we are, is what manages and keeps all our systems together. The over-soul is what bonds all the spiritual and physical systems together to work as one (Figure 2).
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Figure 2. The oversoul bonds the spiritual and physical systems together. The emotional blueprint is responsible for generating the unique characteristics of one’s ego and the unique characteristics of one’s spiritual systems, which come together to create a unique soul.
The ability of our bodies to contain the incredible systems that compose it is almost beyond comprehension. For example, some scientists claim that if you took the circulatory system of just one adult and laid out all the veins, capillaries, and arteries end-to-end, they would stretch to around 50 to 60 thousand miles. There are claims that the nervous system can stretch as far as 90 thousand miles. The physical human body is a wondrous miracle, how much more the human soul?
Just as the combination of all our physical systems ultimately composes our unique body, the combination of all our spiritual systems ultimately composes our unique soul, while the over-soul binds all systems into a spiritual and physical being. Basically, the term, soul, is the combination of all our spiritual systems, while the term over-soul refers to a spiritual force that has an awareness and understanding above even our soul, so much so that the over-soul represents our authentic identity and is so powerful that it is responsible for maintaining the bond between our physical and spiritual selves.
Much like the ego is a product of the ever-shifting and evolving balance between the id and the superego, the soul is the product of the ever-shifting balance between our physical and spiritual experiences. The soul however, cannot be measured by any human scale, so when our emotions influence our soul to extend beyond the parameters of physical limitations (the human body), we can experience a unique phenomenon we call an out-of-body experience.
Emotions, like the universe, are infinite and immeasurable and can produce limitless experiences. When we experience some form of trauma, our emotions can expand to a point where they begin to merge with the infinite potential of the universe. During trauma, our soul can stretch farther than our physical ability is able to extend and comprehend. When this happens, the soul begins to tear away from the bond (our over-soul) that unites it with our physical body.
Yes, the Soul can Leave the Body during Trauma
When the soul breaks the physical barrier and crosses the boundaries of our body during a trauma, the experience is like that of any mortal wound. When any barrier of our physical body is broken, we can (but not always) experience pain and must mend the physical systems that were damaged in the event. If the soul breaks out of the physical shell of the body during a trauma, we can experience spiritual pain in some way or another.
In the event of a physical trauma, we often experience more spiritual pain than we realize because the spiritual pain is overshadowed by the physical pain that we immediately feel. To fully heal from any trauma, the physical systems need to mend while the spiritual systems of the soul need to be reunited with the physical systems of the body. Again, as stated earlier, an out-of-body experience doesn’t always end with spiritual pain and/or severed soul fragments. “Spirit walking”, for example, is a peaceful experience facilitated by our spirit guides through the amplification of an undefinable, unconditional love, that can expand the spirit to limitless proportions on another plane of existence, allowing us to experience a connection to all life on a different level.
Unconditional love allows the spirit to expand and extend beyond the body without pain because our soul has found a balance with all polar energies and complementary forces. Unconditional love is not the absence of fear or pain, it is the harmonization of it. When we are able to balance polar energies like fear and love, joy and pain, light and dark, heaven and Earth, etc., we can experience a gravity, a connection to all things and a relation to all aspects of life.
It is during a trauma that we may (but not always) experience spiritual pain because our version of love has become distorted and out of proportion. When polar energies and complementary forces become unbalanced, when fear outweighs love and pain overwhelms joy, there is a potential to experience spiritual pain. If we do experience spiritual pain during and after a trauma, the pain of the spiritual wound can far exceed that of any physical wound (losing a child, for example).
Mending physical injuries can be much easier than mending spiritual ones, and because the experience of a spiritual tear or break from the body can greatly exceed that of any physical pain, the immediate response to a spiritual trauma is to sever the part of the soul which extended beyond the limitations of the body. We disconnect from the portion of our soul which extended beyond our capacity to understand and endure so we can stop the spiritual hemorrhage and prevent too much of the soul from leaking out or separating from the body. In a panic, we cut a piece of ourselves away and cover the spiritual wound so the rest of our soul can remain protected.
When we manage spiritual trauma by severing a piece of our soul, we can end up feeling lost, incomplete, and disconnected from a portion of our energy. This disconnect can leave us feeling exhausted and drained. The feeling of being incomplete and exhausted because of a spiritual detachment is why so many people look to superficial remedies or material gain to fill the hole in their soul. What we don’t realize is that when we sever a part of our soul during a trauma and cover the spiritual wound to stop the pain, we render ourselves unable to recover the portion of our soul which exited the physical limitations of our body. We can be left feeling inadequate, in such a way that we interact with and experience life in an incomplete way. Basically, our over-soul knows that part of our soul is missing and wants to get it back in order to restore the bond and balance between our spiritual and physical systems.
When we sever a portion of our soul during a spiritual trauma, the spiritual wound is covered by forming a premature soul ring. This premature soul ring prevents the part of our soul that left our spiritual body, the part which experienced trauma, from merging back into the spiritual systems that house the soul, causing part of ourselves to become lost to the spirit realm. This is why right after a trauma, we may already feel incomplete. When a soul retrieval is performed freshly after a trauma, the journey to recover the missing soul piece will be to the spirit realm, to some far off astral plane that our soul has not yet reached through our experience and understanding of love.
Sometimes we need time to deal with the trauma. Even though there is a spiritual pain from the wound and we feel incomplete in some way, we may not want to endure a soul retrieval yet because we may not have the courage or humility to face what happened to us. Before we realize it, much time can pass and as we grow and expand after a trauma, additional soul rings may extend wide enough to reach the soul fragment we cut and lost to the spirit realm. It is even possible for our soul to form a soul ring around the severed piece of our soul from a past trauma, bringing the soul fragment back within our soul rings again but not in a way that connects and integrates it with our spiritual and physical systems because by this time, the severed piece of our soul has already petrified. Outside of the spiritual systems that give it life, meaning, and energy, a soul fragment withers and dries up like a leaf torn from its branch. Though the soul fragment may be within our soul again, it is now just a fossilized piece of ourselves buried within the strata of our soul—a long lost experience unable to find its place or connect with the spiritual systems that would allow it to perform its ultimate role within the soul, the role of expanding our ability to express and experience love.
Even if we are able to recover a soul fragment that was lost to the spirit world and incorporate it within our soul again, we will not feel whole or healed. Until we align with the healing process and complete the cycle of healing, any petrified soul fragment within us will remain a form of plaque within our spirit, a kidney stone within our soul.
Soul retrieval is either an outward journey into the infinite potential and experience of the universe to retrieve a severed portion of the soul, or a journey somewhere within the soul to an old trauma. The purpose of this inward or outward journey is to recover the lost soul fragment and re-hydrate it by integrating it back into our soul in a healthy way. Once we retrieve a severed soul fragment, we must fully accept, understand, and integrate it—this part of our soul that we denied even existed for a period of time—back into the spiritual systems that make us whole.
To fully heal after a soul retrieval, whether it is a journey out into the mysteries of the universe or within the mysteries of our experiences, we must re-experience the traumatic phenomena with the courage and humility to accept what happened, understand how it affects and changes us in both limitation and ability, and integrate the full truth of the experience into the whole of our systems (the over-soul) in a healthy way.
Soul retrieval is a healing method that may not align with the version of how you want to heal, but it will show you how you can heal to become whole again. Our longing for wholeness, our sense and desire to feel complete, are messages from within, prompting us to heal so we can continue to grow and expand. A soul that is full of courage and humility, a soul that is full of love and understanding, a soul full of abundance will allow us to experience life, health, and existence in all her wonder.
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