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"Something's missing." This commonly
heard and felt sentiment is expressed by people of all ages in
widely diverse circumstance. To ease the unsettling
discontent, confusion and grief around the elusive missing pieces,
something or someone eventually gets used to fill up the empty
places inside. Shopping for more stuff. Creating
busy-ness and stress. Addictively reaching for foods, drugs,
alcohol and sex. Joining the frenzy of competitive sports and
political battles. Filling the void with a bigger house, a new
car, a better body, a different lover or spouse, another baby, a
grander guru, a more impassioned social cause, a trendy tattoo or
body piercing, the latest technological gadgets, a hip pair of
sunglasses or shoes.
The desire to live
fully, to have a rich and delicious, juicy life, is not to be
diminished or squelched. The pursuit of personal happiness and
wholeness is a sacred quest. It's just that the maps we've
been given by our modern-day world don't get us where we're
really trying to go. Grabbing onto someone or something to
fill up the empty spaces is only a temporary fix, a convenient
distraction, a band-aid to conceal unhealed wounds. Because
that recycling "something's missing," the haunting sense of
emptiness, means what's missing are precious pieces of you. Pieces
of your spirit. Elements of your joy. Aspects of your
awareness and power. Pictures of your dreams.
Expressions of your creativity, freedom and voice. Feelings of
connection and belonging. Knowings of unconditional
love.
Vital aspects of
your spirit, your self, are lost as a result of traumatic life
events that occurred long ago or recently - accidents, unexpected
change, surgery, illness, lack of emotional and physical safety,
violence, abuse. Pieces of your spirit leave the energy
field of your body for purposes of protection - so these vital
aspects of your very essence can stay alive; so you can survive the
traumatic circumstances. Missing soul pieces are not lost
forever. They are held in safekeeping in the spirit
world. They can be reclaimed when you are ready to call them
back. Although modern-day psychology and other approaches to
health don't address these dynamics, indigenous healing traditions
offer ceremonial processes for retrieving lost pieces of your soul.
In the unique
ancient ways of Ka Ta See, the soul retrieval ceremony offers vital
healing along with self-empowering tools. Through a guided
spirit journey, you seek out, find and reclaim your own soul
pieces. The history of the traumatic events is not necessary
to recall or relive in order to heal. The focus is on
reclaiming and retrieving what got left behind. The soul
retrieval ceremony offers first-hand experience of your journey to
wholeness, a self-acquired healing, an unshakable knowing to be
carried within you. The skills and knowledge gained through
this unique spirit journey open up the opportunity to pursue soul
retrievals on your own. Once experienced and learned, the soul
retrieval journey can be repeated as often as you choose to reclaim
diverse and essential aspects of your being - awakening potentials
to feel whole again, to live fully in the vastness of who you really
are.
In your wholeness,
you have everything to live for. No longer distracted by
endless searchings to fill up the emptiness, you are free to
cultivate happiness from the inside. Feeling the abundance of
your own being, you discover the abundance of all life.
There's no room for scarcity or not-enoughness. Re-membering
your very essence and re-weaving your connection with all that
is, soul retrievals are sacred
homecomings.
 Contact JoAnne to explore your interests in receiving the Soul
Retrieval
Ceremony
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