the tools, methods and techniques can be very supportive to us in this act of releasing. It is because the unconscious memories are difficult to access, that contact with the Spirit people, Spirit animals, and teachers can be helpful. The Spirit teachers and animals, know us perfectly, they know our personal history, our strengths, our qualities, our foibles, the symbols we work with, and they can help us in this.
A Ceremony to Release Soul Parts that we are holding onto.
To do this we can embark on the shamanic journey, (and I write this in the first person) with the specific objective and intention, to ask the spirits, “to tell me the names, or show me the faces, or let me know in any way which I can understand the people whose soul parts that I have taken, and am still holding onto”. This journey can be carried out in either the Upper or Lower worlds.
I recommend that you allow your self about twenty minutes for this journey, where you may be told what you need to know, taken by your Power animal in the other reality to a place where people whose soul-parts are gathered together or you may simply become aware. All are valid; there is no right or wrong way to do this.
When you have returned from the journey, it is a good idea to write the names down on paper whilst the memories of the journey are still fresh in your mind. Please keep in your mind that you should not judge yourself for this, it is something that we all do. The difference is now that you have an opportunity to restore the balance.
Now you know what you need to release and return, and this can be best achieved by a ritual or ceremony. Rituals and ceremonies have great power in this