Soul Retrieval
Soul retrieval – a contemporary therapeutic practice rooted in the 50,000 year old tradition of shamanism – is attracting significant attention in the modern Western world as the holistic healthcare movement continues to gather force.
Shamans believe that we are all born with an amount of energy or power, which is enough to sustain us through life. But we can become attached to events or relationships with others (such as ex-lovers) and can give our energy away. Once this energy leaves us, it creates a ‘hole’ in our energy field which other energy can enter, which shamans call spirit intrusion. Or our own energy can continue to ‘leak away’, a situation known as soul loss.
In shamanic terms, therefore, illness comes about in two ways:
1. The loss of our power when we give away our energy, and
2. The entrance into our bodies of other, useless energy (shamans believe there is no such thing as ‘bad’ energy, just energy which is not helpful to us or which is in an inappropriate place)
The trick to maintain health or to recovering from illness is to recover the power (energy) we have lost. Soul retrieval is an effective way of doing this.
WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS
The practice of soul retrieval, in the last few years, has become seen by many people as a powerful alternative to psychotherapy, although shamanic healers would rather see it as an adjunct to therapy, since the approach itself is action-orientated rather than discussion-based or led by analysis.
Despite its name, soul retrieval is an intensely practical, ‘down to earth’, approach which produces surprisingly immediate and