7 Reasons You Should Have a Soul Retrieval

Soul Retrieval can assist in attaining life goals, restoring health, releasing old behavioral patterns and emotional and psychic pain. Here are some additional reasons to consider soul retrieval.

1) Going through Life Is Easier With All Your Limbs

Likewise, a complete and whole energy body just makes life easier. I deeply honor the courage and creativity of people whose life journey doesn’t include the luxury of being able-bodied. Similarly, I know people who have sustained a great deal of trauma who, through a deep commitment to personal growth and healing, have done an amazing job of working around the empty spaces created by soul loss in order to live a vibrant, healthy life. While it’s not impossible to thrive with missing soul parts, there’s an ease in navigating the world that comes with simply having your complete energy inside of you and available.

2) You Become Far Less Vulnerable to Other People’s Bad Behavior

Remember that self-defense class that where they talked about carrying yourself with confidence because perpetrators generally are looking for folks less centered in their power? Wouldn’t it be great if the folks who push boundaries picked other people to play that out? Sure, there are a ton of skills you can learn that protect, diffusion and deflect unappealing energies and behaviors from others. The cool thing about soul retrieval is that the resulting power and solidness of your energy field automatically helps redirect those with poor boundaries and harmful intentions away from you.

 3) It Can Help You Have Better Body Odor

People often say, “You smell nice.” when they hug me. While I mostly attribute this to compliance with cultural standards of personal hygiene and the pleasant aroma of the leave in conditioner I use to tame my naturally curly hair, the soul retrieval session can help as well. So many people are walking around with their fight or flight response turned on at a low level all the time. This causes the body a lot of stress, including the release stress hormones that don’t smell all that nice when we sweat. I often include a process that lays the groundwork to sooth the fight or flight response in my soul retrieval work. This reason could also be title as “Have the Flu Less Often and with Less Severity”, “Get Better Digestion”, and/or “Relief for Insomnia”.

 4) If you’ve Moved on from Your Ex, It’s Good To Stop Accepting their Chat Requests on the Etheric Plane

In soul retrieval work, I get back parts that you’ve left behind with your former romantic entanglements. Sometimes that pull to your ex isn’t about them at all, but about the fact that you’ll never really lose your connection to your own essence. If a part of your essence resides with that person, there’s an ongoing tie to them. Plus, not everyone knows to release the energetic connection when they give back their ex’s CDs and take them off speed dial. I’m really good at cleaning up the old, outdated cords and structures.

5) Codependency and People Pleasing Become Far Less Compelling

People take other people’s soul parts to try to fill the holes left by their own soul loss. The person they take from (often a child or romantic partner) is diminished. The person taking the soul part is burdened with unuseable energy and both parties experience an unhealthy soul tie to one another. This is a recipe for codependency. When you have all of your energy back, the need for others to feel whole within yourself is instantly reduced. Also, once you’re filled up with your own energy, it’s harder for other people’s emotions to intrude into your space. So, you’re less compelled to try to keep other people happy just to create peace inside your own skin.

6) Effortless Psychic Protection Is Your Friend

Within the shamanic framework, illness is caused by energetic intrusions. Even if it’s not something you think about, as energetically sensitive people are keenly aware, humans can be messy with their energy. Especially as related to former lovers and when sharing the freeway. One of the most powerful forms of psychic protection is a soul retrieval. When your energy is full, with no gaps or holes, there just isn’t room for other people’s energetic messiness to intrude, by accident or design.

7) It Can Increase Your Personal Charisma and Sex Appeal

Wholeness and self-confidence are sexy. People with all their energy dancing inside of them are less needy and desperate. Wholeness and personal health create an appealing energy that can magnetize people to you, professionally and personally.

So, as you can see, there are a number of benefits to soul retrieval above and beyond the alleviation of fatigue, depression, and lack of passion. It also increases feeling secure in who you are, living in your power, speaking your truth, and finding your passion and soul purpose. In my admittedly biased opinion, the cost benefit ratio is great when you consider my soul retrievals are a single session healing that cost $125 and an hour and half of your time. I don’t claim that soul retrieval will complete resolve every challenge in life. However, I do find it provides a strong and stable foundation that strengthens other forms of personal healing as well as your ability to achieve your goals.

For more information on Soul Retrieval, please visiting the “healing” page at www.handsoverheart.com. Prefer to watch a video? Check out http://youtu.be/2ch4NKJyiw4

About Katie Weatherup

My commitment to healing work is part of my deep commitment to my own growth and healing. As a former mechanical engineer, I have always understood the necessity of system integrity. The human spirit is a highly complex system, which can break down in complex and subtle ways. Much of my shamanic work is oriented towards wholeness. I help people find their way back to themselves, all the parts they’ve lost, forgotten, denied and disowned.

To better pursue my vocation, I constantly explore additional healing modalities and techniques. I’ve studied with Hank Wesselman, Alberto Villoldo, and Maria Yraceburu. I’ve also received training at the Natural Healing Institute and through Michael Harner’s Foundation for Shamanic Studies. My books, “Practical Shamanism, A Guide for Walking in Both Worlds” and “Sex, Shamanism and Healing, My Kissing Quest” are available on Amazon.com.

The Relationship Garden

When it comes to relationship, I build these beautiful gardens and sacred spaces. I create a container and fill it with dynamic energy to facilitate flowing our energy together. I tend the connections with love and mindfulness. Most of all, when I fall romantically in love, I create a garden for myself and my beloved. When I learn new tools, like how to honor and empower men or compassionate communication, I joyfully rush back to the garden space and begin weaving it in.

Most men who are invited into this beautiful partnership space really enjoy being there. Many find that this space I create provides safety and soothing for their heart like nothing ever has before. They rest in the beautiful space and it feels good to them. In retrospect, I can see that many of the men who I’ve tried to share that garden with have been those who have a huge deficit in some major human needs such as love, attention, being important, feeling respected, mattering to someone. Meeting these needs in someone who has experienced a great lack often results in them authentically meeting my need to feel adored and special.

My best friend, Mara, has a beautiful physical garden. I love to share time with her in it. It sooths my soul deeply and it’s a sweet place to enjoy flowing energy with her. But, I’m not interested in the care of actual plants, so I’ve never pulled a weed or picked up a spade in her garden. And that’s okay, because she and I both know that this is where I’m at with it. I may keep her company while she works and appreciate the beauty of her efforts. But she has her garden for her own reasons that have nothing to do with me.

When I build these shinning strong energetic spaces to share with people, it works out really well in my practice and my friendships, because I’m creating the garden for my own sake and finding people to share it with who value the space and take good care of it while they are there. My dear friends are uniformly good considerate, honoring guests of the space I hold open for them in my life and many of them do co-create and help maintain the container for our connection.

But it gets messy in partnership because I build much more elaborate gardens. And they take a lot of energy and attention to maintain. Sooner or later, while I’m pulling weeds and my partner is lounging in the hammock, I start to get resentful and try to make them pick up a spade and work alongside me. I get tired of being the only one working on clear communication, cleaning up shadow stuff, finding the balance between our needs. But I’ve been asking the wrong question of my potential lovers. I’ve asked them if they want to play in my garden, not whether they want to work and play and co-create a garden with me.

From there, the story plays out in much the same way. I start to get more and more resentful and frustrated with my love’s lack of participation and then the control comes in of trying to make them do what I want them to do. Things become less joyful and abundant from there. The man is confused because suddenly I’m unhappy where before I was joyful just to have him sharing my space. And he really can’t win, because just as I am not interested or skilled or willing to garden in a physical garden, that’s not how these men were ever available to engage with me. It would be like my friend inviting me over to hang out in her garden then getting mad at me for not trimming the roses while she cleaned the pond.

My energy around space I share with people is moving and changing. One of the things that has been alive for me is deepening into community and expanding the people I hold in my sense of community.
This weekend I was running about 5-10 minutes late to Taste of Tantra Palooza, which turned into 25 minutes when I followed a different set of directions to the wrong location. The whole time I was getting there, from the time I thought it would be 5-10 minute until it turned into 25 minutes, I had all this stress and shame. I was going to be late, I’d miss important stuff, everyone would see that I had failed to arrive on time. And, here I was, traveling to a beautiful event with people I adore and nothing bad was happening to me except my self-talk. Sometimes I don’t enjoy my insight when I see so clearly that only I am causing my suffering, but I haven’t figured out in the moment how to stop.

When I arrived, the people there were dancing. I put my stuff down and got it organized where I would need it, then took a deep breath, aligned my energy to the group, and flowed into the dancing. The people there had been building the garden for the day with their dance and movement and conscious connection while I was occupied struggling to arrive. Much of that energy was already in

place. My community, those I knew and loved and those I didn’t reached out to me with their arms, their energy, their smiles and flowed me inside the beautiful golden web of connection that had been woven. I was awed with this new experience. I was play in an energetic garden I’d done less than my fair share to create and all was well. (The image I posted has me in the center with my eyes closed as the dancing was coming into stillness, held by my community).

The shadow side around choosing

to participate in connections where there is co-creation rather than my creating and maintaining the energy is control. My friend’s physical garden is laid out exactly how she likes it. I admire and appreciate her efforts, but I’m not part of the vision and I don’t make suggestions about what I think would be pretty. So, the work as I move into this more satisfying place of co-creation, is working with my little girl who has this old pattern of tying to create emotional safety through control. I don’t want to do all the work alone to arrange the tea party, but I can find the part of me that still wants the tea party exactly her way.

If I stopped sorting my potential partners by men who love the space I hold in relationship because they don’t know how to create it for themselves and instead looked for men who want to co-create, I have the potential to get what I really want. And I give up a lot of control because I’m not connecting on the basis of meeting a deep deficit.

But the control, doesn’t really serve. And when I found someone who was wounded, offered them the sanctuary of my love and all that went with it, they grew and healed and became healthier, clearer and stronger. So, the hook of needing me begins to diminish from the moment I put it in. I grow in relationship and most of the men I have been intimate with left healthier, happier and stronger from our time.

It’s in perfect alignment with the

energy exchange with my clients and students that I hold maintain and hold a beautiful space along with the other services I provide. This garden, maintained by me, is right and good. And, when it comes to lovers, I find a renewed commitment to keep my healing practice where it belongs and to seek out healthier people for my lovers and friends and community. I want those who will co-create the garden of our connection.