Soul Loss

Anytime someone says I have never been the same since a certain event and they don’t mean this in a good way soul loss has probably occurred. ~ Sandra Ingerman    Soul loss is when you give away or lose a piece of yourself, or your soul. This often occurs at traumatic events such as the loss or ending of a relationship, an accident, an illness, the death of a loved one. At some point in time a part of yourself detached from the rest of you and either stayed with someone else or went into the non physical world and became trapped there. Often soul loss occurs when an important relationship does not continue or does not occur the way you would prefer it to occur. Many times we give parts of our soul away to people or even animals that we love. When that object of our love either dies or ends the relationship, we lose that part of our soul. It is so important to have all the pieces to our soul in order to be a healthy, functioning human being. The idea that we are incomplete without that other person in our life is completely unhealthy!! In order to have and maintain positive, healthy relationships, it is so important to retrieve all the pieces of ourselves which over the years we have lost or given away.  It is also possible for a part of our soul to be stolen by someone when they desire a relationship with us in a way that is not healthy or reciprocated. If you constantly find yourself thinking about someone with whom you do not have a healthy relationship, then that person probably has a piece of your soul or  you have a piece of theirs.    I have found pieces of souls also attached to locations. If a traumatic event occurred in a location, then it is very possibly that someone lost a part of their soul that has gotten stuck in a location. Also, if there is a place that someone really loved, then it is also possible their soul stayed there. Often hauntings happen because pieces of souls have remained in a particular location. It doesn't always mean that there is a spirit that has not crossed over. It could be the soul of someone who has crossed who left a piece of themselves behind or it could be a piece of a soul who is still alive!!    If you feel you have lost a part of your soul or that someone has knowingly or unknowingly stolen a part of your soul, you can get it back!! If you know who has it, it is not difficult to contact that person's soul and ask for it back. If you need help doing this, I often do sessions to retrieve lost pieces of souls. Many times they do not realize that they have given a piece of themselves away or that they are not whole.    Here are some signs that soul loss has occurred or that someone may have a part of you that you need back:   You feel like sometimes you are not all there, like part of you is somewhere else.   You find yourself thinking about someone constantly with whom you may or may not have frequent contact.   Inability to stay present   Feeling fuzzy or detached from everyday life   Forgetfulness   Now if you have any of these symptoms, it does not necessarily mean you have soul loss, but it is a possibility. It is important that you have and maintain all the parts of your soul so you can live a full and rewarding life. Once I even recovered some soul parts for a client who later told me that the scenes I saw in my meditation did not occur until two years later!! It appears that I did a soul retrieval in advance of the soul loss. This is a concept that is difficult to understand but when the events actually occurred, then she remembered the soul retrieval and was grateful that the Universe knew in advance what she would one day need. It also tells us that when we are in a session with a healer and we do not understand the things that come up,just wait. In time we may understand the significance.   You can start the healing process by contacting me or a shamanic practitioner who will recover these lost pieces of your soul. Or if you are a seasoned meditator, it is possible to recover parts of yourself on your own.    It just makes sense that in these times we need to be whole in order to experience our lives to the fullest and be at peace. Let us look outside of our realm of understanding and reach for the best possible life we can achieve.    Here is another wonderful blog on the same subject...  www.simplynumbers.com/2012/07/soul-loss.html

Some Random Thoughts

Sometimes I get a message and it might be a few days or a few months or even a few years until I know what it means. I am not so sure of myself that I think I have the corner on intuitive wisdom. I am just a channel for the messages. I can only relay the information I am given.

Some messages I have been given I had no idea at the time what they meant. Once I was given the message that I had a helmet on my head which prevented me from hearing from Spirit. This was given to me probably thirteen years ago. I am just now realizing how true this was. It was necessary that the helmet be in place so that I could experience those things that I needed to go through for the growth of my soul so that I could be where I am now at this point in my life.

Take heart if you are going through a time when you feel your Angels and Guides have deserted you. They have not. There must be something you need to experience that you would benefit from that you may not experience if your Angels and Guides were close at hand directing your steps. Sometimes you will not feel Spirit around you for awhile so that you will know that when you are hearing from Spirit that it is not just your imagination. I hear this all the time.

"How do I know that what I am hearing is not just my imagination?"

Okay. Just for kicks. Try making something up. I know for myself when I try I come up blank. When I come up blank then I know. When I am hearing I am not just making it up. My imagination is not that good.

Once I had an appointment with a client for the following day and the night before the appointment I had this very vivid dream of the client and I was sure what the direction for our session together would be like. Guess what. She cancelled. Never think you have all the answers. You don't.

All I can ask of Spirit is that I be a clear channel for Spirit to come through to minister to the person for whom I am helping. When I get out of the way then I am at my best.

Never think you know more than someone else.

 Sometimes I get my best messages from people who have no intention of giving me a message in the first place. It may be the person who is in the next aisle in the grocery store who happens to be talking about something I am thinking about. It may be a song on the radio. Never discount a message if you think it is a message. Just write it down. Days or weeks or months or years later you will pick up that piece of paper you wrote it on and it will be just what you need right now.

Always thank the Angels and Guides out loud when you get something you asked for. Always give gifts in return for the kindness of the Angels. Today I gave a fly a gift for not bothering me while I ate my dinner outside. No form of life is too small to appreciate kindness. Intention is the key. Every blade of grass and every form of life can feel our thoughts and intentions. Do no harm.

Red Lights Don't Necessarily Mean Stop

A while back I was out running and I ran into Jesus. Not literally, mind you. If you have read any of my previous blogs you know that I frequently connect with Higher Beings when I am exercising. I wasn't intending on connecting with Him, but I was made aware of His presence when I got to that place during my run when my mind is out of the way and my spirit is cognizant of the world beyond this one. It is my belief that the unseen world is not millions of miles away, but just beyond our ability to physically see and sense it. There is a thin veil that separates us from the multitude of presences that are not in body, and this particular time it was Jesus who intercepted me.

At that particular interaction He reminded me from where I came and how much my thinking had changed in the past few years. I had gone from a traditional Christian viewpoint to now a much more expanded one and there were several messages that He gave me at that time which I felt needed to be put in print. I had published a few of the messages into blogs but was trying to compile the rest into what I thought was to become my second book.

Here it is several months later and it seemed that I had come to an impasse. I was unsure of how much to reveal in my story of how I got here from there and wondered if I should even be writing it. I had felt after this contact from Jesus that day during my run that He had wanted me to expound upon some of the information He had given me that day.This weekend was to be my writing weekend, since my husband was out of town and I should be facing several hours of quiet time. The material was struggling to come forth in written form. While I was struggling with the story, I got a message for my blog which I took time away from the writing of the book to publish. I was amazed at how the message had just flowed through my fingertips and what a difference from the struggling I had been facing with the book.

I remembered a message I had gotten a couple of weeks back as I was driving from one side of town to the other. I was headed to my husband's place of business and I had been instructed by Spirit that if a traffic light was red I was to take the alternate route. There were several ways to go to my destination and it seemed that every time I was faced with a red traffic light, there was an alternative. I could turn a different way and keep moving forward. The message I had gotten that day was that if I hit a red light, then I was to take an alternate route. I was told by Spirit that I would always have an alternative if I came up against an obstacle to moving forward.

I am one who believes that if faced with a closed door, then another door must be open somewhere. I do not believe that my path forward is engraved in stone or that there is only one way forward. The message that I have gotten is that if something isn't working, then something needs to be changed. I am therefore putting the book to rest until Spirit gives me the go ahead or shows me an alternative way to spread the message.

My message from Spirit for today is that there are others out there who are struggling with what they felt like was their instructions from the Spirit realm. They have been trying to put into action what they felt at the time was direct instructions from Source on their best plan of action. Sometimes we may feel like we have been led by Spirit in a particular direction and then the path seems to disappear from view or be overcome by obstacles. Spirit says not to have your path set in stone. Be willing to change your direction if the way forward continues to elude you.

There is a story in the Bible about Abraham and how he felt like he was led by God to sacrifice his son Isaac on the alter. Isaac represented to him God's promise of a nation that would be born of his seed and Isaac was that seed. Then God told him to kill his son. On his way to obey what he felt was the instruction from God, an alternative plan from God emerged. This story could be a parable of how sometimes what we feel like is direct instructions from God may not be exactly what we thought or that there may be an alternate plan that comes forward after we have moved forward with the original plan. The message is... be willing to change your course of action if the original course of action is not working.

One lesson I have learned in my study of Shamanism is that one of the ways to get stuck on your path is to think that there is only one way forward. Be willing to have your plans change. This represents flexibility.

Just for today, think about how something you have been working on has not been bearing fruit or moving forward. Think of an alternative plan of action and take a step in that direction. Sometimes a closed door may mean that there is a better way. Let us all be open to a change in plans. This year is a year of changes. What you think is your best path may be open to change. Let us all move forward in the way that is best for all concerned.

Ants and Jesus

This is a bit of a humorous story to illustrate how our friends in the animal kingdom often come to relay messages to us.

About a week or so ago I came into our kitchen to the sight of an army of ants marching across my kitchen counter. A couple of years ago we had engaged in warfare with the ant kingdom and lost. We were forced, after an unsuccessful attempt to contact the soul of the Ant and negotiate, to call an exterminator. After that, we had only seen them on occasion outside. It seems that they had returned. My husband sprayed some sort of spray and rid the kitchen counter for the time being, but I knew that we had tried that before and they just returned with a vengeance. So I decided to try again to communicate with them.

I will mention that I have had success communicating with the animal kingdom in the past. I was able to negotiate with the squirrels to stop eating my tulips. I telepathically communicated with a mommy cat who had either had kittens under our shed or moved them there from somewhere else, and convinced her to move them again. I frequently communicate with my ally the Crow. But the Ant has always been resistant to my efforts. This time I tried a different approach.

I asked the Oversoul of the Ant kingdom if there was a particular message it was trying to communicate to me. Ants represent community and working together. They also represent moving forward on a project, and the warnings against laziness. They also speak of planning ahead. In this particular case I felt the Ant was telling me to move forward on the projects that Spirit had been leading me to do, and not to procrastinate. I have begun to hold classes in my home on spiritual subjects, and this speaks of community and the need to work together with others. I thanked the Ant for the message and asked them to please move their projects outside. I told them I would give them a gift in return. I took the jar of honey that they had located on the counter and poured the contents outside in the garden, thanking the Ant for the message and inviting them to partake of the honey outside of the walls of my home. I also told the Fairies and any others of the animal kingdom that they could share the honey with the Ant as long as it was okay with them. No more ants have appeared in the house!! Success!!

But this is not the end of the story. A few days later I had a dream of ants crawling up the basement walls. Although we don't have a basement I thought this may be symbolic: possibly relating to something hidden or underneath or subconscious? Maybe.

The next day an interesting thing happened. I was at work at the Post Office when I was privileged to wait on a street preacher. I had waited on him before and we exchanged pleasantries. He left but then came back in and told me that for some reason he felt he had a message from the Lord for me. He told me that he had had an experience that he wanted to share. He told me that he was in his basement the other day when he came upon an army of ants crawling up the wall of his basement!! He felt like it was a message from the Lord and had gone to the Bible to look up any references to ants. He had found a verse in Proverbs that speaks of the ant and its message of working hard and not being lazy. He told me that he would pray for me and he asked me to pray for him. At first I was puzzled and was unsure of the meaning of the message. I am not of the opinion that I am lazy or need to be encouraged to work hard.

The next morning I was out on my run and decided to send out a "prayer" for this street preacher. Normally I just pray for whatever a person's highest and best good is that it will be done. I felt the presence of Jesus and he told me not to judge this man because his beliefs were different from mine. He told me that he has a special place in Jesus' heart and that he loves him very much. I realized that working together in community means that we love all our brothers and sisters, not just the ones we agree with. I deliver messages from Spirit and so does this man. He is dearly loved by Jesus and who am I to think that my beliefs are any more evolved or spiritual than his?

It is easy to be tempted to judge someone because their interpretation of spiritual laws is different from our own. Our news the past few days has been full of the Chick-Fil-A incident, and I have friends on both sides, some who flocked to the Chick-Fil-A and some who boycotted it. The message I received from the spirit of the Ant and from Jesus was that I am not to judge someone who is different from me or whose beliefs do not match mine. We are all loved by our Creator.

Thanks to the Spirit of the Ant for the message and thanks to Jesus for explaining its significance. May we all love one another, even as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us... ( that is somewhere in the Bible...if I remember correctly)....

Relationships

This message is about relationships. Recently my Guides have been encouraging me to work on my second book, and there are some parts in the book that I want to include but I am hesitant due to the sensitive nature of some of the material.

I had a friend years ago. She was in my estimation the best friend I had ever had in my life up to that point in time. I remember the day she first walked into the church that I attended. She came in and sat with her family in the row in front of the one in which I was sitting. There was something magnetic about her energy. I knew from the first moment I wanted to know who she was.

It turned out that she was a person who heard and received messages from Spirit. In the church I attended we called them prophecies. Up until that time my gift was either nonexistent or dormant. She woke up that part of me that listened to Spirit and gave and received messages. She became my best friend and mentor. We had what I would call a somewhat tumultuous relationship. I imagine at that time in my life I was a difficult person. She always told me that I was the person who she could depend upon to tell her the truth, no matter how painful the truth was. In other words, I had no tact. Some of the messages I received were difficult for others to receive. I challenged everyone and everything. I had not learned the lessons of acceptance and tolerance yet.

Anyway my friendship with this woman was at times difficult. She saw me through my personal demons at the time. The last time I saw her she was in a minor car accident on the way to visit and the vehicle she collided with happened to be a Postal truck. To me this was a sign that we would once again collide. And I never saw her again.

The reason I tell this story is because all of us in our lives have relationships with people that are important to our soul's growth but at some point in time it becomes difficult to maintain this relationship for one reason or another. Many times we are hesitant to let go of these relationships. However, our souls are on a mission. In this lifetime we have many roads to travel and many lessons to learn. Along the path we tend to find relationships with those who are on a similar path. Our vibrations are similar and this is what attracts us to certain people and away from others. But at some point we grow and they grow in a different direction and Spirit knows that our souls need to learn lessons and have experiences that do not include one another. And so we may move away from each other or we may have a fight or a disagreement. Spirit finds a way to separate our souls. Today Spirit wants you to know that it is okay.

Over the years I have had many relationships that fed my soul and then it seemed that I didn't have any contact with that person for a very long time or it seemed that circumstances took us in different directions. I often would wonder what happened. Spirit has let me know that when our energies change, so do our relationships. We may find it hard to tolerate an individual who we once adored. It is so important in our day to day relationships with others to honor the soul of the other person as they work out their own journey and, if it is necessary, send their soul love as they move away from us in one form or another.

For this reason I have become hesitant to use the word "forever" when talking about a relationship. My husband and I are very close but we have been at odds at my unwillingness to say "forever" when speaking of our commitment to one another. To me, this was a condition I could not commit to. Who knows what paths our souls may take in this life or the next and I wanted to allow my husband and myself the freedom to walk the path that was in our highest good, without the burden of a promise he or I could not keep.

Eventually, however, he won me over when he explained that love was not a chain holding us to one another but instead a gift we gave one another. In whatever form our relationship takes, he said, I will love you forever. This I could commit to.

So to my friend from the past who I credit with awakening within me my gift, although it lay dormant for many years after our friendship had ended and was once again reawakened by another gifted individual, I say, thank you. And to all the other people who have walked in and out of my life, I am grateful for the imprints you have left and the gifts you have given me. And to all those relationships who currently mean the world to me, I say, yes, I will love you forever. For love has no chains or bonds, but it is a freedom to be who you are and for me to be who I am, and for this I am grateful.

Pay Attention!!

Spirit has many ways of communicating with us. Many times we in our busy lives don't take time to pay attention to the signs all around us. The good news is that Spirit understands the heavy energy we live in every day in comparison to the energy they live in and they take that into consideration when trying to send us a message or communicate with us. They will most often send signs to us multiple times until we realize that it is not just a coincidence that we are seeing or sensing the same thing over and over.

What may be a sure sign of something in particular to me may be totally different for you. For example, if I see a bluebird or a white egret it is a sure sign to me that my mom is around. My mom passed a few years back of cancer and frequently makes herself known to me from the other side. If I see or sense one of these two birds around, I know it is her. These were her two favorite birds while she was in body and even though she didn't believe in power animals while living, I am sure they were her spirit helpers. Now she uses them to let me know she is around. However, if you see one of these two birds, I doubt if you will interpret it the same way as I do. Once I was giving a short reading to someone and I saw a peach tree. I kept trying to get something else but this is all I saw so I told the person what I saw and she immediately knew that it was her grandfather from the other side making contact. It meant nothing to me but everything to her. Items in nature are often signs from our guides or loved ones. We just have to interpret their meaning to get the message. There are scores of websites and books that give universal meanings to particular animals or nature objects, but we have to personalize the meanings to our own experience.

Many times Spirit uses numbers as well to communicate a message. If you keep seeing the same number over and over, chances are, Spirit is trying to give you a message through the meanings of the numbers. A while back, Spirit let me know that when I saw the number 222, it was a sign that I could release worry about a family member, that they were going to be okay. Usually I saw this number when a family member was going through a hard time and I was worried about them. The Angels gave me this number and told me what it meant. I have done some studying into the meanings of numbers according to numerology, and according to one of the books I recently read, two energy denotes the energy of nurturing, sometimes to the tendency of smothering. Yes I have a bit of a tendency to do this, so perhaps Spirit was telling me to let go and let the family member experience his or her life for themselves, and only through their own experience would they overcome their obstacles. I have always loved the number 8 and recently have been seeing it everywhere. I am really excited to have the energy of this number making itself known to me repeatedly. The energy of this number relates to abundance, prosperity, power and control. Of course, these energies are wonderful but only if used properly with humility and grace. Sometimes the energy of this number is as much of a challenge as it is a blessing. Several years ago when in the market to buy a house, one of the deciding factors was that the house my husband and I ended up buying was the one whose numbers added up to eight. Also when I was choosing my PO box, I chose a number that added up to eight. In past years all the significant events in my life happened on 8 days.

These are just a few examples of the ways Spirit communicates to us. The key is to pay attention to things that happen repeatedly, whether it be numbers you see repeatedly or particular animals that cross your path or events that seem to happen over and over. If something happens to you over and over and you are unsure of the message, sit with Spirit and ask for the message. Spirit would not take the time to send the message if they knew you would never understand it significance.

Always thank the Angels and Guides when they send you a message. They really do appreciate gratitude and take it as a sign that you are open and receptive to communication from them. We are not here to prod along alone and without direction. Help is available to us. All we need to do is pay attention.

The Ascension?

I have noticed a bit of a change in my energy in the past couple of weeks.  I asked the Angels about this and they have told me that there is an adjustment taking place within me and many others.  There is a change in the frequency on our planet and our bodies are going through some adjustments. In a moment I will tell you of some of the symptoms I have noticed in myself and a few others around me who have mentioned to me feeling somewhat out of sorts.

There has been in the metaphysical circles talk of what is called "the Ascension". I have steered away from this line of thinking because it sounds too much like the theory of "the Rapture" which I was grilled on constantly when I was a child due to my Pentecostal upbringing. In the Rapture theory, at some point in time, Jesus would come back to earth and take all the people to heaven with him who had accepted him as their personal savior. All those who had not said the "sinner's prayer" would be left behind to cope with life on earth with no good on it: no force of good to keep people in line, which would give rise to an "antichrist" or some person of power who would eventually take all those left on the earth who had not made the "Rapture" straight to hell.

So in this "Ascension" talk, there are different theories, but apparently there is another "earth", just like this one, and we are being made ready for it. Some of us will rise to this new "improved" earth, and some will stay here. In some theories, our bodies will go through changes, termed "Ascension" symptoms, making us ready for this change. In other theories, there is not another "earth" but this one is going through changes, and some of us are being made ready for the upgrade in the energy field.

I had been asked what I thought of the "Ascension" and I always said that it sounded similar to the Rapture, which had tortured me as a child growing up. I was always waiting for Jesus to come, afraid I had made some mistake that would doom me to miss the boat, so to speak. I would get up in the middle of the night and go to make sure my parents were still in their bed, because surely they would go and what if they did go and I got left behind? When I finally came to my senses as an adult and realized that no Higher Power in their right mind would leave behind a child to fend for themselves just because they told a lie that day or lost their temper, then I threw the whole theory out the window and chalked it up to a means of controlling the masses. If people are afraid of some kind of harsh punishment for bad behavior, then they are more likely to walk the line and obey the rules.

So what of this ascension? It is not a theory formulated to generate fear. It is just a theory that our energy fields are changing to make us able to live on a new improved planet. Yes, there is theory in some circles that some will wake up one day on another planet that looks just like earth, only better, and some will not. I don't know about that.

What I have noticed is that I am losing the capacity to allow my boundaries to be crossed. I have lost my temper lately which is extremely out of character for me. I have noticed changes in the behavior of others also who could be going through changes in their energy field. It is possible that our energy fields are being upgraded. It is also possible that the changes are occurring in me because I have been spending more time in meditation. It is also possible that I am going through changes due to my hormonal clock. My sleep has changed. My body temperature has changed. Foods and drinks that I either like or dislike have changed. However, it seems to me that I have noticed a pattern in the past few weeks of others doing things that are out of character for them as well. Not everyone is going through menopause.

Are these ascension symptoms? I have asked my Angels and Guides and they have told me that there are indeed changes going on in the atmosphere and in the energy fields around us and within us. These changes would likely cause some adjustments that at first may seem uncharacteristic of our normal vibration. We may sleep more, or less. We may find activities that we once enjoyed to hold less appeal. Or vice versa.

Don't worry. You are not going to wake up one day and find that half of the inhabitants of the earth have disappeared. Or, then again, maybe you will. But either way there is no reason to be afraid. Remember that many of these theories come about by someone attempting to control people's behavior. This is often done by instilling fear of tragic consequences if some sort of behavior is not adhered to. However, this is my theory. As long as we are living in love, everything will be all right.

So do I believe in the Ascension? I don't know. My first tendency is to say no. But I have learned that the more I think I know, the less I know. All I know for sure is that I do feel changes. I feel the messages that I get from the Angels and Beings of Love and Light getting more specific. And sometimes I feel nothing at all for quite some time.  And even when I try if the Angels are not talking I cannot make them talk.  I am more aware of indications in my physical body that let me know when there is someone around who is not in body.  I have recently noticed messages coming from deceased family members increasing. Are these ascension symptoms? I don't know.

Be aware. Walk in love. Be kind. Do no harm. If there is an ascension, then don't worry. You will make the boat. If not, be kind anyway.