Soul Retrieval: Personal & Ancestral Linage Soul Retrievals

Soul Retrieval is a powerful process to recover separated or lost parts of self that have occurred through shock, traumatic experiences, injuries & illness.

This is a powerful process to recover and integrate separated or lost parts of the self associated with both genetic memory from our ancestors, and the aspects of self that have become dissociated through shock, trauma, spiritual, & psychological injury, attachment injuries, and extended illness. In healthy circumstances our psyche is the organ of experience that integrates our lived experience, in the interest of wholeness, individuation and community relatedness. However, in traumatic situations our psyche can split or fracture, dissociating information and experience to ensure our continued survival. Hence this results in an organismic life directed towards survival rather that related individuation and wholeness. From a shamanic psychotherapy perspective the process of splitting or dissociating for survival results in the lost, frozen or disconnected aspects of soul. Traumatic experiences are lost or frozen out of  awareness because the shock and pain was too much to bear at the time of trauma.

William James (1908) described trauma as a shock that if not resolved would reside like thorns in the soul. These thorns remain disconnected and frozen within the broader field of consciousness/ unconscious continuum and transpersonal spirit realms. Simultaneously they can sometimes be felt to be lodged deeply within the physical body as a somatic memory for example in the felt sense of knots in the stomach, tightness in the chest, anxiety associated with being in certain places.  Soul retrieval is a central transpersonal  shamanic healing process that seeks to not only remove the thorns in the soul but also to recover dissociated/disconnected aspects of our Self for wholeness.

In many regards traditional depth psychotherapy is a form of soul retrieval. The methodologies utilised in traditional psychotherapy to undertake this process   differs somewhat between psychotherapy and shamanism. In shamanism there is a knowing that split off parts are not solely a brain repressed or suppressed phenomena. Shamanism advocates that because we are interconnected with the broader cosmo, split off and dissociated soul parts can reside anywhere from the skin encapsulated self, or with the auric field, at the specific place the trauma occurred, or even out within the cosmos. Radical yes, but a know fact to shamanic practitioners.

It is also the case that the integrative journey of wholeness can at times involve addressing phenomena such as ‘spirit or entity’ possession or occupation. This is a skilled and delicate area of therapeutic facilitation involving clear understanding of what is of the ego’s origin and what in fact has been ingested as ‘another’ from the environment and people as introjects. Identifying these differences and their connecting points is vital to discern the mythology of treatment.

Combined psychological psychotherapy and shamanic processes of  soul retrieval is an effective therapy for transforming deep seated traumas and injuries. The approach of Transpersonal Shamanic Psychotherapy & Counselling in the soul retrieval process is one that brings attention to embodiment of experiencing and nervous system functioning. Aspects that are dissociated can be tracked, resourced and then re-integrated in a healthy embodied way allowing for more resolution, and vitality. Both personal and ancestral linage soul retrievals are offered utilising scientific findings from DNA research, dreams, and journeying.

Traumas can be released, the lost or separated parts of our vital life essence can be restored, and our wholeness, truth and freedom can be reclaimed.

Copy Right ~ Christina Manfredi

 

Contact Christina on 0422 648 243 via text, or email:  christina.manfredi@iinet.net.au