It is an ancient shamanic practice/skill brought into contemporary use. It is about recovering spiritual pieces of ourselves which can "fly off" or separate from us as a result of trauma or difficult life experiences. The truth is that you are a spirit with a body learning the human experience. That, among other reasons, is why you are here.
From a shamanic viewpoint, you are soul/spirit, a vital force or essence that can lose pieces under duress or split off during crisis. The reason a piece of you, any piece of you would split off is that the trauma or experience and the shock or the feeling that was associated with it was great enough that you left to free yourself from it. Or, it may have been an experience that was just too hard to forget and you want to go "back there" and relive it again because those were the "happy days". It can be likened to feeling stuck in the past while living in the present....
A few people know instantly when they lose a piece of themselves; but most do not. You might start feeling as if something were missing in your life, a sense of incompleteness, a numbing of feelings or a less joyous sense of being alive than before. If the pieces remain split off, then your entire being, over time, can start to suffer spiritually, mentally, emotionally and lastly could manifest a dysfunction of an organ or system in your physical body. It might take years before you become aware of the loss.
A piece that is split off is "stuck" in the framework of another dimension and trapped there. If you feel "stuck" in the past, for example, this is a red flag to tell you that a piece might be missing. Another way a piece can split off is if you were so happy in one phase or part of your life, it decided to stay there and not continue to grow and move forward with your evolution. The piece stays behind because it's very happy and fulfilled.
Here are some other warnings signs of soul loss:
1. Depression that comes and goes or has been hanging on for years.
2. Inability to ground yourself which can include feeling "spacey", as if you were in a daze or perhaps feeling really disorganized.
3. Addictions which can also include making the same mistake over and over again by not being able to release "old" patterns of behavior.
4. Chronic illness which can include ones starting from birth and continues through puberty.
5. An empty feeling in which you may wonder or ask why you are here on this earth. There is an instinctive knowing that you don't feel connected or don't belong, as you should. You might even sense that you're not quite whole, but unable to place your finger on exactly why you feel this way.
6. Abuse which can pertain to any form of abuse.
7. Blocks of memory loss where there is an inability to remember certain events in your life that cover a block of time (years) could indicate soul loss has occurred.
These are some, but not all the signs of soul loss. In my experience in facilitating SR/E, major breakthroughs have been made more quickly. With the adjunct of counseling, clients have made positive major shifts for themselves without having to wade and struggle through long periods of therapy.
Another facet of our work in the shamanic way of healing is extraction.
Extraction means "taking out" something. That something is known as a "block" or thought form that has made itself at home in one or more of the auric fields that enclose our physical body. On an unconscious level, if enough energy builds up due to our emotions or desires, a thought form is created. And not all thought forms of energy are positive. The nasty ones can become lodged in your energy field(s) or they can be projected and sent into someone else's aura. You can receive one by simply walking into a seemingly bad situation or circumstance when your auric field is not as strong or protected as you'd like it to be.
Extraction work can include the chakra centers, which can be subject to trauma by becoming clogged with ion "debris", bent, or at times, critically damaged or "blown". Extraction work can help repair and mend these centers to get them up and running once again.
Wholeness is a combination of body, mind and spirit being in harmony and balance with one another. SR/E promotes this. Taking care of one part of you means taking care of all parts. It all works together.
Each journey I have done as a shamanic practitioner has been amazing to me. Whether I have done it remote or in person for them, the clients' reports on what has happened to them have indeed been a miracle of sorts.
Every one of my clients who has completed this process is more than grateful, elated and even astounded at the results soul recovery creates. I honor the process and am happy to serve in that capacity.
I congratulate my clients for they are the ones who are really doing the work-- once the pieces are returned to them. They have made the decision to keep those pieces and it has made monumental differences in their lives. Welcome home!
To read personal validations about Soul Recovery and Extraction, from some of Karen's clients, please go HERE.
- By Karen David
To book an appointment for a Soul Recovery and Extraction consultation with Karen, either email her or call her at 440-439-9599. Please leave a message if Karen is not available and she will call you back.
