Mastery of the Spirit // The lost child
Our soul processes experiences and lessons on different themes in this life and in this body and develops
cognitive and emotional functions, acting on the basis of memory.
The soul, as it were, collects life and responds with life through growth and development.
The soul is the energetic spiritual aspect that manages our mental, emotional and physical immune systems and our health. When your soul, your true self is fully integrated and present within yourself, then the soul controls you as a whole.
Then you experience life from your whole body and your whole being.
Then you see the world through your own eyes and through your own perspective in all sensory ways.
Then you can translate all the experiences in your life into awareness of thoughts, feelings and behavior.
To be able to live your life the way it’s good for you.
That’s what you’re here to learn; to be good; to be light and love.
But when the soul is separated, split, disconnected, or partially disconnected, we often feel that we are seeing ourselves and our lives from a distance, rather than being the one living it. Then your life can feel like a dark night, where you can hardly see the road and where it doesn’t always feel safe and good for you.
If parts of your soul have split off, you can experience this by:
- mental blurriness/many thoughts
- difficulty breaking free from thought processes and the internal conversations you have
- a feeling of being disconnected
- can’t feel
- can’t remember
For example, you notice that you can’t remember where you put your keys. When reading a book, you often have to stop and scan the previous paragraphs to keep following the story. Sometimes you may feel that the world is just a dream that you are wandering through. When you go out or engage with other people socially or at work you may feel a state of being overwhelmed; the thoughts, feelings and even the health conditions of the people around you become yours somewhere too. It is difficult to say which emotions, thoughts and experiences are yours and those of others.
Everything is intertwined….
For those whose souls are separated or disconnected, these experiences are not temporary or atypical, but a daily struggle. Maybe not all of these and maybe not all at the same time, but recognizable as a continuous part of ‘how life is’. For many who are “sensitive”, highly sensitive and actually more soul than human being a reality. Which is not to say that others who do not experience this do have a mo
The soul is the energetic spiritual aspect that manages our mental, emotional and physical immune systems and our health. When your soul, your true self is fully integrated and present within yourself, then the soul controls you as a whole.
Then you experience life from your whole body and your whole being.
Then you see the world through your own eyes and through your own perspective in all sensory ways.
Then you can translate all the experiences in your life into awareness of thoughts, feelings and behavior.
To be able to live your life the way it’s good for you.
That’s what you’re here to learn; to be good; to be light and love.
But when the soul is separated, split, disconnected, or partially disconnected, we often feel that we are seeing ourselves and our lives from a distance, rather than being the one living it. Then your life can feel like a dark night, where you can hardly see the road and where it doesn’t always feel safe and good for you.
experience the bridge between man and soul. Many will even discover the two parts that really comprise our existence here. For those who do have the feeling, the feeling of being lost or lost is an opportunity to develop a higher and whole consciousness as a person and soul. If only we understood what exactly is happening. For that we go back to the knowledge that the shamans and the old tribes still understood and experienced. To get it back in our society where many got lost just like you and me.
Because life doesn’t have to be like that. When our soul is functional, healthy and whole, connected and integrated into our human body of thought and action, we experience life to the fullest. Pure in every experience. We can meet and perceive every person and situation without judgment. Our memory is active and engaged; names come easily when we meet that person again. Logical progression of information is held and can be viewed in relation to new incoming information and your heart/soul aligns with your head what this information is telling you. How it feels and if and what it means to you. We can experience empathy (understanding what another is undergoing by relating it to our own repertoires of experience) rather than sympathy (feeling their experience in our own selves, as if it were now part of our experience) with that person. We experience insights into cause and effect of our choices and actions is to be clear and reliable, as opposed to fluctuating and vague. Then we see our own way clearly before us.
Autonomy is the ability to create our life experience from our own strength, from a very integrated and grounded being. Instead of surrendering to the thinking ego, believing that the condition of our life is in the hands of someone or something else, that if we can only control and please the other person enough, everything will be fine.
When your soul resides in your body at home, you feel the pulse of life coursing through your physical body. A feeling of vibrant energy. When you are at home in your body, you are emotionally present in response to the situations life throws at you. This is how life in its full moon, its full consciousness is experienced when your soul is integrated into your whole Self.
Trauma is usually what causes the soul to disconnect and generally happens when a person is young, before maturity has grown in the person. As children, we are hardwired to trust those adults around us to care for, protect, and nurture us, and provide for our needs. When an adult in our environment acts in a way that threatens our safety and trust, the conflict we experience as children is so intense and so out of reach that the child’s response to understand and deal with the situation, is to separate from the threat. Since physical separation is not an option for a child who depends on adults for their well-being, the second option is separation or soul splitting from the outer threat and situation. From that moment. The piece of experience, development, the soul, which learns and develops, becomes detached. As if that piece of time freezes and sinks to the bottom in your subconscious. That part of you is no longer growing. With all the emotions, lessons and cognitive functions that come with it. Everything sinks down to a piece that you don’t have to feel actively anymore, so you can move on.
Here are some of the most common ways we felt unsafe and experienced trauma:
How much can you relate to?
- You learned that it’s not ok to have your own opinion as a child.
- You were punished when you tried to speak or act differently or express yourself the way you did as a child.
- You were discouraged from playing or having fun.
- You couldn’t be spontaneous.
- You were not allowed to show strong emotions such as anger or joy.
- You were ashamed of your parents or relatives
- You were regularly verbally criticized / abused.
- You were physically beaten.
- You feel responsible for your parents and their level of happiness.
- You were not given emotional and physical affection eg hugs and kisses, hugs.
This list is by no means complete. So if you think I left something out, fill it in for yourself.
This is your truth.
When the soul withdraws from these experiences of trauma, it will retreat to a safe place to avoid further threat to its sanctity. The place where the soul retreats is usually in the Dream Realm. There, in that realm of fantasy and imagination, mythical structures of the dream soul exist. This construction of our dream is a place that we shamanically call the cave. We enter the cave to isolate ourselves from the perceived threat of the outside world. The moment we enter the cave, our own dream soul offers us a guard to stand guard at the entrance of the cave to make sure no one enters and he makes sure that the little lost boy or girl who is there comes safes cannot sustain further damage. The special thing is that I myself always had nightmares of how I was lost all alone. In the dark, in a cave. Before I learned about the shamanic significance of the cave. My soul often wandered in this cave at night.
The Guardian is also tasked with ensuring that the Lost Child does not leave the Cave and go back into the world that has been found so painful and threatening. The guardian will take on the shape and face of our own associations of who or what is a protector. The imagery and character can come from our personal Myths, spring from our own imaginative constructs, or be drawn from something beyond.
In the cave, the little girl/boy resides, unaware and unconcerned about the passage of time. The maturation of emotion and perception stops. The Lost Child has been in the Cave so long, and so long has the Guardian been there, that the Cave has essentially become a prison; the guard is a jailer – not by design, only by the long period of no maturation.
The soul, meanwhile, is engaged in the purpose and activity that expresses it, for which it was incarnated.
Endless, timeless (literally), the little boy/girl is consumed by his pursuit of being allowed to come out. The soul does continue its own development from within the cave, but dares and is not allowed to come out with it. Since the soul is not anchored in and to the body, the growth of the soul is not brought into the person’s life as knowledge. Not until the guard moves aside and the coast is declared clear. Only then will you fully become yourself as soul and human being.
Retrieving the soul is a necessity for one to be able to live life in full consciousness.
If you have lived through the original trauma, so going back to the moment of that separation from the soul, this is often enough to realign the soul with the rest of you.
It is literally retrieving those parts of yourself that you have had to leave behind. The parts you’re missing right now; mental and emotional abilities that you so need in life and the realization that you are ‘home’ again.
For those whose souls are left ajar, it is usually necessary for them to seek help in returning the soul home.
This is the service of the energy worker, the shaman, a technician of energy.
During a treatment, the shaman will follow through the silver-blue thread that connects a person’s body to their soul. On the emotional body, the shaman will encounter all blockages. These are usually the tears, the fears and the traumas. Their guilt, shame, and resentment that are tucked away because that person was unable to effectively feel and resolve those emotions by acting on them. When these are touched by the energy of the shaman, they are released and transformed, purified, that is how the compassionate embrace of the shaman works.
The goal of a treatment or Soul retrieval meditation is to bring the lost child home to the world from which it escaped.
It’s not uncommon for the Lost Child to scream, “Nooo! Why would I want to go back there? It’s painful and dangerous there.
Since the Lost Child in the Cave is unaware of the passage of time, he/she also has no knowledge of growth; physically, mentally and emotionally, of the autonomous personality that already resides in the world.
To the best of the child’s knowledge, there is still abuse or danger or threats to his/her survival.
The lost child first wants to know: “Is there someone for me now? “Is there someone who will love me, take care of me, provide for my needs, put me first above all others?” “Is there someone who will challenge me to grow and support me through those challenges?” “Is there really someone for me?”
The answers must come from you.
From you, reading this and wanting to bring home your lost child.
“Will you stand up for this Child and bring your own soul home?
“Will you welcome this Child, your soul, and embrace it in love?”
But of course you do, that’s why you’ve come this far……..
Unfortunately, the adults who were supposed to care for you like the little kid you were were the very ones who threatened or simply ignored your needs.
And now you have grown to incorporate all those qualities of caring and love and protection of innocence and trust and security into yourself, as yourself, for yourself.
Those qualities that your soul needs to heal, grow and develop.
You have become the one you needed so badly when you were so young.
You separated your Soul from the events and situations that were so threatening and harmful, so that the sanctity of your light would be protected and preserved.
Safe from further damage.
You survived.
And besides surviving, you succeeded!
You have succeeded in becoming the person to take care of such a tender soul as your own.
It is now time to bring home the lost child.
To become whole again.
To fully function in your life again.
Welcome home❤️
I send you love
Danielle
