16 Feb WHAT IS SOUL LOSS?

“FOR WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT MAN, IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD, AND SUFFER THE LOSS OF HIS SOUL”? CHRIST JESUS

     Soul Loss is a sort of a fragmentation of the inner-body that caused a person suffering from soul loss to remain disconnected from his/her physical, spiritual and emotional bodies in a given time. In most cultures everywhere in the world, soul loss is a true phenomenon that the shamans and spiritual healers all agreed that all illness is linked to a typical loss of the soul in general. Soul loss is also usually caused by any traumatic experience that causes an intense shock to the person’s mind and inner-bodies. It is always an unexpected event that surprises the mind of the person, an event that comes with pain and suffering to a point that for the soul to cope and don’t feel or share the pain, the soul has to step out, away from the person’s mind and body. That’s why soul loss is considered an inner fragmentation because the person will lose some of the primary connections with his/her soul’s true nature including some connection with his/her mind also, once the soul steps away during trauma. 

     In a simple word, soul loss does not mean that you have lost your full soul. Your soul always belongs to you and will not go anywhere if it will comfort you to know. Soul loss means that you have lost vitality, inner-insight, vital energy and sensitivity. You have lost touch of some parts of your own soul. Soul loss might sound or look like a bad thing, but it really helps the person cope better during intense pain and suffering. Soul loss is needed and necessary for your soul, your psyche or your entire being to cope with pain and it is the only avenue the soul has and knows how to protect you and itself. The soul jumps out to avoid sharing and witnessing an excessive pain inflicting upon you. And in doing so over and over at each imminent threat and the likeliness of experiencing a pain, it causes you the bearer of your soul to suffer what you now know to be “soul loss”. And over time it might build up just like any other issue that don’t get a proper care. 

THE CAUSES OF SOUL LOSS

     The causes of a soul loss or loss soul are multiple. The most common one are accidents, breaking one’s body parts, fighting in a war, being politically persecuted, running for your dear life, surviving a domestic violence, being wrongfully jail, incarceration, death of a relative or a friend, forced labor, slavery, colonization, police brutality, false imprisonment, lynching, victim of an earthquake, fire, hurricane, tsunami, and tornados etc. More causes will be victims of a terror attack, long-term sickness, death of a love-one and near death experiences. Even surgery, illness, extreme poverty, pandemic, divorce, heart-breaks, intense disappointment, betrayal, heart attacks, unstable relationships, broken relationships, abusive relationships, sexual abuse, rapes, child abuse, molestation, domestic verbal abuse and loss of freedom of movement-speech can be directly or indirectly linked to soul loss and actually cause any person to lose touch of his/her true nature beyond the silent sufferings, scars and wounds. Any physical, spiritual and emotional upset, verbal abuse or pain that lead to a psychological unbalance could be considered causes of soul loss. I must remind you that soul loss is as in comparison to a loss of vitality, loss of the essence of life, loss of the vital life force that sometimes lead to hopelessness and desolation. It is equal to losing your soulful energy, your mental stability, your courage, your charisma and even a loss of the sense of direction to take in your life. 

THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOUL LOSS

     The consequences of a soul loss on the person is remarkably noticeable when paid attention. After a soul loss experience, the person will feel empty like missing something or a piece of herself/himself. The person becomes aware that something is missing in his/her life. Most people don’t know that what they are looking for as a missing piece to feel whole again is linked to their soul losing vitality and energy to tackle day to day life expectations. During the event of a soul loss, the person loses parts of his/her soul in different places including in different spiritual dimensions via dreams, nightmares or near death experiences. Soul loss can also be linked to witchcraft or to the negative effect of an evil eye from someone to the person experiencing the soul loss. What is important for you to know is that the soul parts left the body and carry with them your joy, your gifts, your spiritual gifts, your desires, your peace of mind, your self-esteem, your light, your glow, your creativity, your insights, your ambitions, your mojo, your health, your sensitivity, your empathy, your compassion, your will, your patience, your goals, your inner-sense of direction, your common-sense, your taste for life, your capacity to focus, your self-respect, your imagination, your self-love, your self-worth, your dignity, your grace, your third eye vision, your sixth sense ability, your tolerance level, your charisma, your kindness including your trust level and your vital endurance. Because the soul parts are lost and can no longer find their way back to your body, most people will experience a feeling of emptiness or a feeling of not being whole. Imagine how in a single life, how many times have we experience some or all of these consequences of the soul loss described up there upon on our minds, souls and bodies? Now, if I consider that you might have been existing millions of years ago to present, your past and present soul loss must be grafted in your DNA by now.  

THE EXPERIENCES FROM SOUL LOSS

     People react and experience soul loss in different ways. But the most shared are when you start wondering what happened to your old you in a negative way; chances are, you are already experiencing a soul loss. Whenever you catch yourself saying how you have become different after a previous event in your life in a negative way, parts of your soul are loss. Basically, what can cause you to suffer a loss soul might differ from another person since it depends on how impactful the situation affected the inner-body to be fragmented. Also, when your heart becomes cold and insensitive, it is best to start getting care. In most cases, when you noticed yourself seeking external satisfaction in order to fill up the empty spaces within you, you are experiencing a soul loss. Some people cope while taping into an external source hoping to fill the missing parts of their soul’s vital energies dispersed in between worlds and spiritual dimensions. 

SIGNS OF SOUL LOSS AND WHEN TO KNOW YOU ARE EXPERIENCING A SOUL LOSS

     Signs of soul loss involve a difficulty forgiving, a difficulty being present/focus, immune system deficiency problems, chronic depression, prolonged stress, anxiety, mental health issues, substance abuse, addiction, loneliness, eating disorder, memory gaps, angry for no reason, irritated for any reason, mood swings, suicidal, unapologetic, self-incrimination, lack of self-control, uncontrollable emotions, lack of pity, inconvincible, and insomnia, including difficulty holding a relationship or a need to be in one regardless of the company. In the attempt to fill the void within you and to find what is missing, most people resolve to drinking excessively, living a reckless-careless life, living a fast life, having excessive sex with multiple partners, and the rest of us have developed an ego as a survival mechanism. With the ego, you have forged yourself a new and fake personality that you jealously protect from being discovered or dethroned by others. Therefore, we have become compulsive liars, ungrateful to life, too much pride, pathological liars and narcissists, couple with identity disorders, post traumatic disorders, self-incriminatory attitude, mental disorders, self-hate and co-dependent. The missing pieces in your life caused by the soul loosing parts of its vital characteristic have pressured you to seek external solutions.            With the confusion, you end up feeling alienated from your own self, alienated from others and even alienated from your divine self. You the person experiencing signs of soul loss will unintentionally live in fear, in shame, in guilt, in hopelessness, numbness, heartless, and tend to be unforgiving to yourself and others. You are experiencing all these signs because you have lost control of your consciousness, of your soul’s parts and your source of life and security. That’s why you created an ego, a pride, or a multiple alter egos and in a worse-case scenario, you might become suicidal or supper-aggressive with self-destructive behaviors or compulsions. 

You might be wondering now what you can do in a case of a soul loss. The solution is the retrieval of all the parts of your soul that are missing in your life because chances are, you might be experiencing a soul loss right now. And frankly, it is an endless battle because every day, a lots of events in our lives might always bring soul loss into our door-steps. No-one is immune to it, not even the healers, priests, pastors, imams and spiritual guiders. It is a constant self-inner work that requires discipline and endurance continuously.  

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO CURE SOUL LOSS

     As a result of the soul loss, until you retrieve the missing parts of your soul, you will not be able to live a true healthy life, a true creative life or a life fulfill full of happiness and peace. In order to reconnect with your soul, you will need to do inner engineering that consist of practicing mindfulness, meditation, inner work, singing, chanting, dancing, yoga, visualization, breathing control, plant medicine (guided by a knowledgeable herbal specialist), nature immersion and mind/emotions control etc. It is important for you to understand that soul loss does not fix itself. You need to put in work and intent to be successful in retrieving your soul’s missing parts to be whole again by getting personally involve. Since the parts of your missing soul cannot find their way back to you by themselves, there is an urgent need for you to be wanting to go through your own journey of retrieving your soul’s parts. Inner-engineering is the way and the process might take a little bit longer than you probably anticipated or expected. Because it can takes months, even years to reconnect back all the soul’s missing parts that are your vital strength. Imagine a life time of missing soul parts throughout your life? and it is clear that you need to take the journey with the knowledge that only you can sustain and maintain your mental, spiritual, physical, emotional, psychological and divine health. This process has nothing to do with your religious appurtenance and beliefs system. It doesn’t matter if you are Muslim, Animist, Christian, Buddhist or an unbeliever; every-body experiences soul loss just like scars and wounds are equally shared in our lives. And those silent scars and wounds are not going to fix and healed merely by themselves. You need to participate and understand that health is a constant maintenance. If it is your first time hearing about soul loss or having it break down in writing for your understanding, remain open-minded because we all learn something new every day and apparently it is for sure that you don’t know everything either. This exercise of retrieving the parts of your soul that are missing have nothing to do with religion and you should not be a fool to think otherwise. Your stomach ache doesn’t care if you believe in God or not; nor is your loss of self-worth. It is your duty to care and heal your own temple (body, mind and soul); but sometimes we need knowledge to rescue us from perishing and since you don’t want to perish, stay open-minded when it comes to knowledge. Soul loss doesn’t care whether you are saved or a born again Christian just like diabetes and corona-virus didn’t. You can also seek the help of a specialist when needed or if you think that you will not be able to properly care for yourself; as sometimes a little help will not hurt. 

SOUL RETRIEVAL WITH THE HELP OF A PROFESSIONAL

     Instead, if you don’t think that you are up to undertaking your own soul’s parts retrieval, you can always hire or seek the help of a shaman, a spiritual healer, a soul doctor or a professional soul’s retriever. Some real pastors, imams and ministers can be helpful as long as they are not just telling you to pray about it and have faith without putting in some work. Even with the help of a professional, you will still need to maintain consistently your health after being healed. Remember that it is just like going to your regular doctor or physician, but even though, you still have to watch your diet, your thinking, your emotions, your whole life style in order to keep your optimal health.   

     An additional point of view of soul loss in shamanism is when the soul while traveling to other realms or spiritual dimensions, often time and most likely, the soul gets possess by spirits. In the process of your soul rubbing against a different entity of beings via possession, parts of the soul and energies stay there in those spiritual realms. The retrieval of the said soul from possession is to recover all the parts of the soul in order for the person to be whole again, thereby finding inner peace and completion as a full being. Each time that your soul get possessed, a little bit of your soul gets left behind and has to be recovered. You may then have parts of your psyche or in some cases the entire aspects of the psyches totally blocked out or unintentionally repressed. In a situation of a trauma, the missing part of your soul might not even be aware that the trauma that caused it to step out of your body is over; and that it is now safe to come back. Instead, that part of your soul is still out there wandering and hurting; living his/her own life. In some cases of soul’s retrieval, the part of the missing soul might be even reluctant to come back due to the fact that the missing part is not even aware of the dissociation, or simply just don’t want to return back to the body. And when a successful retrieval happens in most cases, the soul’s part comes back again with all the pain just like it experienced going out of your body. One of the reasons why, you the individual has to get personally involved in the soul retrieval process even if you hired a professional, is to be able to address your own health (with help or no help) for the life after healing. You will still need to maintain your health after being healed. And it is for this reason that the cure of the mind must simultaneously take place with the cure of the soul for the healing of the body to follow suit as a result. Therefore, start your process of Retrieving back all of your scattered vital energies that are your soul’s pure and true essence; divine, full of serenity and bliss.   

     These two books could be a good start (Soul Pathway to Total Health and The Path to a Long and Healthy Life @ www.ahmedtatieta.com) and might brighten your journey. You will get a lot of useful information and guidance in retrieving your soul’s parts and for the after healing care. Verily, what is the use for you to gain this world if you are experiencing a soul loss? What are you really gaining in this life if you are experiencing signs of loss soul? Just like Jesus Christ said in conclusion: “For what shall it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul”. 

By: Ahmed Tatieta, LLM, author, spiritual healer and counselor, minister, lecturer, publisher, life and wellness coach.