The Three Basic Causes of An Illness From Chronic Principles

Although not limited to these, the three basic causes of an illness that are drawn from universally accepted shamanic principals are...

-Soul Loss

-Loss of Power

-Spiritual Intrusions

1. Soul Loss

To understand soul loss, it's best to think of the soul as a holographic image.  Holograms result from a laser beam passing through a special type of film within which contains the potential for a 3D image.  If a small piece of the holographic film is chipped off, you will still get a 3D image, but it wont be as clear.  This is a fair analogy for soul loss and that it sin't someones entire soul that is lost, but a piece of it, much like when the field that holds the holographic image is broken,  The individual  function is OK, but he or she may have a feeling that something is missing.  The more extensive the soul loss, the more severe the symptoms can become.  To varying degrees the person may experience feelings of alienation, forgetfulness, lethargy, fragmentation, or psychic numbness - a lack of feeling physical sensation.

These symptoms may be treated in many ways, but the spiritual cause, which very well may be, soul loss is examined first.  This is the best determined by a diagnostic assessment typically through a shamanic or guided mediation journey.  From there you can have a soul retrieval  done on your behalf, or you can elect to do one for yourself.  Either way can be effective however I suggest that if it's your first time, have someone who's been trained in the process, performing the retrieval on your behalf.

When people have been traumatised, they are particularly vulnerable to soul loss.

Psychological and physiological victims disassociate as a result of extraordinarily overwhelming events,  The nervous system becomes so agitated that its shuts down to some degree while physiologically the individuals feel disconnected from their body and their usual self. 

Spiritually, victims are at risk for soul loss.  Wearing an aspect of their soul, not only detaches, but remains separate from the remainder of the soul. 

It is highly unusual to go through life without some soul loss, and even though you can function quite effectively, restoring those aspects of your soul that have been left beg=hind, allows you to emerge more fully into your complete and authentic self.  Not only can soul loss result from trauma , but you can also give away pieces through strong attachments you make with others, where you "lose yourself."

For example: This can occur in a romantic attachment when people become overly dependant on their needs and unwittingly give them a piece of their soul.

Also be aware you can inadvertently without conscious intention, steal an aspect of another Peron's soul.  By clinging to someone out of fear or desperation, especially after you've ended the relationship there is a risk that you are unwittingly keeping a part of that person with you.

2. Loss of Power

From birth, we have  power animal, one that comes to us, even as we were being formed in our mother's womb.  Thus, we are spiritually protected from day 1.  However, in most contemporary cultures, this concept inst supported or reinforced and the spirit animal that is our main guide and protector, as well as a primary source of spiritual power and protection, leaves us due to a lack of attention,  The result is a generalised  feeling of powerlessness, depression, insecurity, and a lack of confidence.  While there are other factors that can influence these feelings, the spiritual cause is the loss of the power animal.  The restoration of power comes from retrieving your power animal, which can be done through a harmonic journey, or by looking for a particular spirit animal that shows up repeatedly in your life.  Either physically or symbolically such as in your dreams.  Once the power animal has returned, it's important to develop and maintain the relationship.  As you'll see, there are a few different ways.  You can honour your power animal by giving it your love and attention.  Right now suffice to say this is a highly significant relationship and deserves an esteemed position in your panoply of spirit helpers/guides.

3. Spiritual Intrusions

Unlike soul loss and loss of power, spiritual intrusions, also called psychic intrusions are best described as spiritual toxicities or parasitic energies that exist, but don't belong in someone.  They range from relatively minor intrusions, all the way to full blown spirit possession.  Although spirit possession is relatively rare, spiritual intrusions are more common.  Again, someone can function when they are present, but he or she may experience, periodic or chronic symptoms, such as addictive, or other compulsive behaviours, self destructing behaviours, obsessive thoughts, thoughts of rage, or intense anger, or even physical illnesses.

There are a number of ways the psychic or spiritual intrusions can be picked up along your journey.  Referring to these energies as power intrusions,

Michael Harner in "The Way of the Shaman Rights."

"Power intrusions like communicable diseases seem to occur more frequently in urban areas where human populations are most dense.  This is because many people without knowing it possess the potential of harming others with eruptions of their personal power when they enter a state of being emotional, this equilibrium such as anger.  When we speak of someone "radiating hostility" it is almost the late expression of the shamanic view."

You may be the recipient of a psychic attack that you're barely aware of because it has occurred so subtly.  On the other hand, it can be quite obvious such as when someone attacks you verbally, physically, or sexually.  Another type of intrusion can result in someone placing a curse on you.  People may do it without conscious intentions, such as swearing at others, or they may do it deliberately by uttering extreme statements such as "I hope you rot in hell."  Yet another possible cause of an intrusion.  Emotions that have been brewing inside a person for a while without a chance or discharging or expressing them in a healthy way.

This is also true to accumulative stress.

Emotional, physiological, and psychic energy that is stored is fertile ground for the manifestation of an illness as true with other forms of spiritual intrusion.  Any traumatic experience induced by another human being, not only makes you vulnerable to soul loss but according to Jade Wah'oo Grigori earth shaman, because you are so vulnerable it is possible that you have picked up a spiritual parasite.  Jade's point of view which he learned from his spirit guides is that there is an epidemic of spiritual parasites that make their way into a person's spirit body when someone is violent towards the individual, either through verbal rage or physical violence.  The parasite within the person "spawns by getting him or her to act out with rage or violence in some way toward someone else.  Thus the cycle of of violence continues to expand to a larger and larger number of people.

Jade further believes that in an attempt to keep the parasitic intrusions in abeyance individuals who are affected will often turn to behaviour such as drug and alcohol abuse.  The addiction can be self-destructive, even though the souls intent was to prevent the individuals from expressing rage or violence.