{"id":4910,"date":"2012-07-04T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2012-07-04T22:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T02:50:30","slug":"how-a-dream-fragment-can-lead-to-wholeness-and-soul-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2012\/07\/how-a-dream-fragment-can-lead-to-wholeness-and-soul-recovery.html","title":{"rendered":"How a dream fragment can lead to wholeness and soul recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“All In One” by Shannon Brown<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the shaman\u2019s perspective, soul loss<\/em> is the root cause of much illness and affliction in our lives. We suffer deep grief, abuse or trauma \u2013 or succumb to negative habits and addictions \u2013 or are torn apart by wrenching life choices -and a part of our vital soul energy goes away. Chronic depression, lethargy, memory gaps, low resistance to illness and emotional numbness are among the most frequent symptoms of soul loss.<\/p>\n

Our dreams can tell us which parts of ourselves may be missing, and when it is timely to bring them home. Recurring dreams in which we go back to a scene from our earlier lives may indicate that a part of us has remained there. Dreams in which we perceive a younger self as a separate individual may be nudging us to recognize and recover a part of ourselves we lost at that age. Sometimes we do not know who that beautiful child is \u2013 until we take a closer look.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, a common effect of soul loss is dream loss<\/em>. Indeed the absence of dream recall is often a primary symptom of soul loss \u2013 as if the part of the sufferer that knows how to dream and travel in deeper reality has gone away, out of pain or disgust. It is fascinating and deeply rewarding to observe what can happen when people who have forgotten how to dream start dreaming again. This can amount to spontaneous soul recovery.<\/p>\n

A middle-aged woman approached me for help. She told me, “I feel I have lost the part of me that can give trust and know joy.” As preparation for our meeting, I asked her to start a dream journal, although she had told me she had not remembered her dreams for many years. When she came to see me, she had succeeded in capturing just one tiny fragment from a dream.<\/p>\n

She remembered that she was standing over a table, looking at three large-size “post-it” notes. Each had a typed message. But the ink had faded and she could not read the messages.<\/p>\n

Slowly and carefully, I helped her to relax and encouraged her to try to go back inside her dream. Quite quickly, she found herself inside a room in the house where she had lived with her ex-husband prior to their divorce, almost twenty years before. Now she could read the typed messages. The first read in bold capitals, “YOU CAN DO IT.” They were all about living with heart, and trusting life.<\/p>\n

She realized that she had left her ability to love and to trust in that room for nearly twenty years. I asked her what she needed to do. She told me, “I need to bring my heart out of that room and put it back in my body.” She gathered up the messages and made the motion of bringing them into her heart. As her hands crossed over the place of her heart, we both saw a sweet and gentle light shine out from her heart center. She trembled, eyes shining, and told me, “Something just came back. Something that was missing for twenty years.”<\/p>\n

As this story suggests, soul recovery can be a gentle and spontaneous process, midwifed by dreams. In the most literal sense, dreaming can make us whole. It not only connects us with lost or buried aspects of ourselves. It connects us with our larger identity \u2013 our Higher Self \u2013 and our larger purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the shaman\u2019s perspective, soul loss is the root cause of much illness and affliction in our lives. We suffer deep grief, abuse or trauma \u2013 or succumb to negative habits and addictions \u2013 or are torn apart by wrenching life choices -and a part of our vital soul energy goes away. 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