Preventing Soul Loss and Spiritual Intrusions

The shamanic view is that poor spiritual health is caused by soul loss, power loss, or spiritual intrusions. Poor spiritual health can, in turn, cause emotional, psychological, or physical challenges.

You can prevent soul loss for yourself by creating environments around you that are not traumatic to your soul, that nurture your soul. This means having people in your life at home, in your community relations, and at work, who are kind and supportive. The people in your life should also have good personal boundaries, which means that they will not try to solve your problems for you or invade your space, yet they can be intimate with you. In other words, people who will not try to make up for their lacks by stealing your soul or giving their soul to you.

Soulful environments are also aesthetically pleasing, naturally paced, and physically healthy.

You can prevent creating soul loss for others by not traumatizing them and not stealing their souls. You can prevent yourself from soul thieving by monitoring and controlling your inner intentions when you are around others. If you find yourself saying "I wish I had his . . . (an essential quality like joie de vivre or self-confidence)" then change that intention to something like "I sure like his . . . (essential quality) and I'm glad he has it so I can enjoy it by being with him. I can learn or create that for myself if I want to." If you find yourself excessively honouring or admiring others, or excessively helping others with things they could or should do for themselves, you may have a desire to give your soul to them. Again, monitor your inner intention and change it if needed.

The best ways to protect yourself from picking up spiritual intrusions are:

1. to stay well-connected with your power animals by honouring them and using their strengths that are within you
2. to be full of your own radiant soul by receiving soul retrieval healing, if needed, and nurturing your soul.

To prevent yourself from creating spiritual intrusions or energy blocks within your body, do not stew on your emotions and do not suppress them. Allow them to flow through you as children do--laughing one moment, crying the next, and recovering quickly. Address, or let go, of situations that are creating the emotions.

If this sounds like an unattainable ideal, it is because much of modern western culture is traumatic for the soul (e.g., fast pace, constant noise) But we can create environments and communities for ourselves that nurture soul, even if just by small steps. And as we do, we contribute to creating a more healthy, soulful world.

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