Soul loss occurs when you've suffered through having spirit, connection, passion, and intention threatened or damaged somehow. Soul loss shows up in recurring patterns where a person repeatedly recreates strikingly similar patterns.
Have you experienced any of the following?
- Goes through romantic relationships, constantly feeling abandoned.
- Experience chronic health problems.
- Has addiction problems.
- Has a hard time distinguishing one's own emotions from another.
Any of the listed above are a sign that someone is experiencing some soul loss.
Going through life can teach you that certain ways, feelings, and being aren't acceptable; this makes it so that you don't process all of your emotions and can show up as trauma symptoms.
You become severed from the soul and disconnected.
If your soul is full and not fragmented, then you don't experience ruminating thoughts.
You're confident and sure of yourself.
You're soulful.
Shamanism is the oldest form of spiritual practice known to mankind. Shamans view trauma as a form of soul loss and believe that whenever trauma occurs, your soul fragments, creating soul loss.
When we go through traumatic experiences, as a defense mechanism, we go into a flight or fight response. With soul loss, your soul fragments, and you lose touch with those parts of your soul. They go to another realm called non-ordinary reality. It's a form of dissociation. If you've ever experienced soul loss or If you ever experienced a traumatic event and then suffered memory loss or never felt the same again, then that's an example of soul loss.
- A physically traumatic event like an accident or surgery.
- An emotional, emotionally traumatic event such as the death of a loved one, divorce, or unexpected ending of a serious relationship.
- Abusive relationships.
- Witnessing something traumatic happening to someone.
To recover from the traumatic event, a shaman travels to the non-ordinary world to retrieve the soul piece by negotiating with a spirit. Upon retrieval, the shaman blows the soul piece back into the person's heart, restoring the soul.
Have you experienced any of the following?
- Anxiety, fatigue, and depression
- Harsh inner critic
- A deep feeling of loneliness yet unwillingness to seek connection. Even though it's what you truly desire.
- Goes through romantic relationships, constantly feeling abandoned.
- Experience chronic health problems.
- Has addiction problems.
- Has a hard time distinguishing one's own emotions from another.
- Not being present
- Overly tired
- Sensory overload
- Overwhelm
- Feeling misunderstood
- Perfectionism
- Neglecting self-care
- Burnout
- Hard time coping with change
- Low confidence
- Harsh inner critic
- Difficulty setting boundaries
- Using unhealthy coping mechanisms
- Not being present
- Difficulty expressing emotions and feeling emotionally numb
- Avoidance of stepping outside your comfort zone
- Attracting toxic relationships
- Repeated patterns of self-sabotage
- Being a people pleaser
- Overthinking
- Feeling misunderstood
- Procrastination
- Difficulty finding purpose
- Issues with trust and abandonment
- Perfectionism
- Neglecting self-care
- Experiencing a spiritual awakening, a dark night of the soul, or a spiritual crisis
