Curanderismo Soul Retrieval: Ancient Shamanic Wisdom to Restore the Sacred Energy of the Soul - Erika Buenaflor M.A. J.D. 2019
Soul Loss in Modern Times
The Soul: Concentrations of Sacred Essence Energy within the Body
The concept of soul loss may seem foreign and perhaps impossible for people who see the soul as an immutable essence that reflects the divine presence within us. While this is an ideal, it is likely that this ideal has not been a constant throughout a person’s life. The soul is sacred essence energy that originates from divine source, but this energy can be depleted if we allow it to be.
Modern Mesoamerican curanderx may identify the soul by many different names, including spirit, tonalli, ch’ulel, and chanul. The soul may also encompass many different manifestations and forms of embodiment, and its loss may be diagnosed and remedied in many divergent ways. Nevertheless, there is one underlying and pervasive understanding of the soul: it is sacred essence energy. Because my training in soul retrieval is derived from modern Mesoamerican curanderx, my explanation of soul loss and retrieval stems from this understanding.
Some of the most common symptoms of soul loss are depression, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, reoccurring unpleasant patterns, lack of motivation, eating disorders, destructive behavior, and being too emotional or, on the contrary, very unemotional and detached.
Soul loss can occur as one traumatic event, such as a heartbreak, severe car accident, sexual trauma, physical abuse, physical injury, receiving shocking news, and other types of emotionally jarring events. It can also occur as a continuing and ongoing trauma, including working in unsatisfying jobs, putting up with pernicious bosses, exposing ourselves to unhealthy relationships—friendships, romantic, or familial; ongoing sexual or physical abuse; and putting our health at risk.
This soul retrieval process helps to bring back soul pieces that have left because of a specific trauma or continuous and ongoing traumas. A single soul piece can be lost, although frequently other issues arise out of that trauma, which then often result in the loss of more soul pieces. Whether we are working with one soul piece or many, this practice is fluid enough to work with any situation.
Sacred essence energy supports, heals, purifies, and amplifies the human framework—the physical body, energetic core, chakras, meridians, and subtle energy bodies. Our subtle energetic bodies (etheric, emotional, mental, astral, etheric template, celestial, and causal), also identified as the aura, are energy bands that surround the body, and increase in frequency and color as they move outward, continuously receiving and transmitting energy. The more soul pieces we retrieve, the more sacred high-frequency energy we have to influence our surroundings and world in beneficial ways. We can manifest with greater impeccability.
Personally, I can say that after losing and retrieving much of my sacred essence energy from ongoing childhood sexual and psychological abuse, I am no longer attracting horrific patterns in my life. Rather, every day I spend my time doing what I love, with resulting abundance, and am in an ideal and loving marriage. I have been blessed to see the same for many of my clients, whether or not they encountered traumas of the severity that I once experienced.