POWER LOSS

It is a wonderful first step to recognise that you may be giving away or taking power from another. This awareness is already healing, as many people go through lifetimes oblivious as to why they feel depleted. When our power returns, it begins to unwind many karmic cycles and limiting patterns that date back many generations.

The shamanic belief is that each person is born with a certain amount of life force or power. However, as each of us journeys through life, we can lose our personal power for various reasons, such as difficult life circumstances that arise and repeat until we embrace them, and often controlling and co-dependent relationships. We can give our power away to family members, managers, work, religion, governments, institutions and life events etc. Examples of where we often give our power away:

• Compromising our needs to satisfy a partner

• Suppressing our truth, in order to avoid tension

• Allowing another being to make decisions for us

• Investing in connections where our boundaries are not respected

• Returning to unhealthy and toxic partnerships

• Cutting ourselves off from Mother Nature- extensive time indoors and excessively using technology

In these circumstances, often resulting in a power loss, it is possible to retrieve this vital light-force energy we need in our life. I find the most challenging yet empowering thing one can do for themself is to take full responsibility for their own power, recognising with loving awareness that it is only us who can give our power away, and only ourselves who can claim it back. While I am a guide in facilitating your powers return, I cannot nurture it for you, yet I do encourage you to be an active part of the process- hence the preparation and after-care of this soul work. We can actively do this work ourselves and yet calling in support is very wise and can save much confusion and hardship. When our power is given away, it can be more challenging to call it back to ourselves- since this is precisely what we feel is ‘missing’ and inviting in other perspectives of spirit can highlight your ‘blind spots’. Throughout shamanic tradition across the globe, it is the healer of the community who often retrieves the sacred power parts for the individual in need, by journeying to alternate realities and collecting the missing parts. This is the magic I have a natural affinity towards and have been trained to specialise in, as I am gifted with the power of psychic vision to make these spirit journeys.

These power parts often return in the form of ‘power animals’ and are returned to your body. Each animal holds great symbolic meaning and it is important to note that all are equally as powerful whether they be an elephant or a mouse. I encourage you not to research the animal(s) you receive for at least a week, allowing you to connect with their symbolic medicine yourself and integrating their gifts into your being. It is an incredibly expansive feeling to work with the medicine animals. It is the energy and spirit of the trusted tiger who accompanies me and shows the way for each journey I make. The owl and deer have also been paramount helpers for crucial shadow work along my path. In the animals I trust.

Both Power-loss and soul-loss leave holes in us, allowing other things to get into us. In shamanism, these are known as intrusions, and their removal is known as extraction. Some intrusions are simple, like unhelpful thought forms, introjects (“should”, “must”, “ought to”, etc), and similar. Others are more complex and result in possessions – entity intrusions – and removing them is known as de-possession. At the beginning of your main session, it is often common for me to be guided to remove extractions before the power retrieval can take place.