A Human's Passage Through Time

They say passage through time marches on relentlessly, implying inevitable drudgery. My son, now in his forties, talks about time speeding up. My dear partner and I marvel at how we enjoy being together and wonder why our 27 years seem suddenly like no time at all.

Funny how I look at time now and feel urgency as if I've wasted most of my life doing, rushing, accomplishing. Funny how learning, being, and living don't feel like wasted time. Is time a concept that stretches and shrinks depending on how we think of it and what our priorities are?

 “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

Abraham Lincoln

When I was younger, I read this quote and thought, I get it. Prepare for the job properly, and the job will be well done. When I read it now, I think, the first four hours are like learning about life, and the remaining two hours bear the fruit of that learning. My life is like that.

In the first part of my life, I learned everything I could from everything–jobs, people, traumas, illnesses, healing practices, wins, losses, relationships. Learning was satisfying, even when I learned the hard way. But now, I'm learning to listen to my soul and the small nudges from my heart. They guide me to what I need to focus on. Time, then, becomes a matter of focusing, not spending.

On the other hand, my experiences with soul suggest that time extends beyond my time here on earth. While I have a mission and a purpose here, they are part of a much bigger plan or picture. How many of you have experienced visions from a past life, or did you do something really well the first time you tried it? Could both those instances result from your past or a past life? In my life, I expect they could, but I can't speak to anyone else's life.

If soul, mission, and purpose are integral parts of a human's passage through time, then soul loss and retrieval is a human condition we must address to move forward. I was so excited to reconnect with my soul after so many years, but I felt I was missing something, something I couldn't put my finger on. As a ThetaHealer, I know about soul fragments and how intimate relationships sometimes cause people to leave fragments of their soul with others. We may have had a difficult time with certain people, so to help make the relationship better, we give them parts of our soul. I have done this returning soul fragments many times for myself and others.

Another way to return parts of one's soul is through a shamanic soul retrieval. Like ThetaHealing,

The Shaman relies on her spirit helpers and guides to bring the power (energy) to do the work, and to bring her into contact with the client's own spirit power (soul) in order that it may be brought back home to the client's body. This means that the shaman must know her way around the land of the spirits, and that she has a powerful and clear working relationship with her spirit contacts there.

Horwitz, Jonathan, Coming Home: the Shaman's Work with Soul Loss, Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies. https://www.shamanism.dk/article-soul-retrieval.

At this point in my life, I feel like I'm just about ready to come into the fullness of what I'm here on earth to do, but like I said, I felt something was missing. I knew a local shaman and had met her once. Her power, vulnerability, and humbleness were clear, but remarkably (to me) she was powerfully and authentically herself, too. As a former "hiding" person, I longed to be authentic inside and out. I was done with hiding, but how do I become my own authentic person? Time wasn't getting any longer.

The shaman did two soul retrieval sessions. She has found 18 false beliefs in my past lives so far where I lost parts of my soul, and 14 situations I must deal with to truly welcome these lost soul parts home. I don't need to go into details, but the work is real. ThetaHealing helps enormously when changing false beliefs from past lives into empowered beliefs in this life.

One standout result was that after the first session, I felt full inside. The first soul reconnection I did on my own was similar. I had a hole inside me just below my rib cage and above my belly. After the work I did, the hole filled up. After the first shamanic soul retrieval, my whole torso felt full, satiated, solid. The second standout result was that I no longer had any pain from a family situation I'd struggled with for years. It was just gone. Jonathan Horwitz, also says in his article:

Another important teaching I've often observed is what I'd call 'the step beyond forgiveness.' The realization that the thing which caused so much pain, perhaps for years, no longer matters. Most importantly, people start to see how the things they do fit together and are connected with not only their immediate surroundings, but with the rest of the Universe as well.

Of course, it doesn't mean I've dealt with my family situation, but I no longer carry the pain of it. I have taken "the step beyond forgiveness." No wonder I feel lighter! Those were just two of the incredible results from the soul retrieval sessions. As the false beliefs that surfaced heal, more results will certainly appear.

This post began with the description of the passage of time marching and implied relentless and inevitable drudgery. That is certainly not my opinion or what my life is like. My passage through time began with finding out what my path in life was, reconnecting with my soul, and living a more purposeful life. I have discovered that struggling with one's power and how to use it is what we all go through. Look at what's going on in your life, and if it's not what you want it to be, perhaps your soul wants to claim its seat at the table of your life.