What are soul parts?

The soul

Explanations of the concept of the soul alone vary widely. Every belief system, every religion and, of course, every spiritual direction has its very own model of explanation. Does a human being have a soul? And if so, where does it sit and what does it look like?

You won’t find THE one truth in this article either. But let me explain how I see it.

In my understanding, “the soul” is nothing other than the spiritual being that we are. Our familiar material world is not everything, it is only a small part of the whole. Fundamentally, we are energy.

Spiritual beings in a dimension without space and time. We create our material world from this energy and incarnate in it. This means that we create a body in order to be able to act in matter.

The soul is nothing other than our energy with which we create our matter and act within it. And we do this time and time again. When our material life is over, we return to the level of energy and from there we come back. Into a new life.

Why?

The question of why we do this is a very good one. I often reply jokingly that I’ve probably lost a bet and that’s why I have to be here … 🙂 But joking aside, I think we do this to gain experience.

To develop ourselves. To experience something like duality or dense matter, which cannot exist on the purely spiritual level. I cannot answer whether we only incarnate here in this world or whether there are an infinite number of different ones. In principle, I think both are possible.

Incomplete?

But how can it be that soul parts are lost? Is that even possible? So, if the soul is the energy with which we incarnate here, then none of it can actually disappear anywhere, can it?

That is not what is meant. Basically, each of us incarnates with our full energy. Nothing is missing, everything you need is there. Always.

But in this incarnation we often find ourselves in situations very early on that make it difficult for us to use all this energy in matter. Especially when we bring skills with us that are not seen or not wanted in the environment in which we end up.

If this happens in early childhood or even before we are born, then we adapt and put the parts of our energy that we cannot use into a drawer, so to speak, and we close it.

And forget that this drawer exists or what’s in it. And this is exactly what the shaman means when he speaks of a split-off or lost part of the soul. It’s not really lost, it’s just stored away and usually forgotten.

Like a tool that you have in the cellar, but you no longer know that you have it. And you don’t seem to need it either, because you can somehow manage your things with other tools. You may feel that something is missing, but you don’t know what.

But shares that you have already brought into life can also find their way into such a drawer. Trauma is a common cause. In other words, everything that you experience but cannot process at that moment.

This can be a drastic experience such as an accident or violence. But also seemingly small things that you may not even perceive as traumatic. This can be something sudden or a situation that has been tormenting you for a long time and to which you seem to be helplessly at the mercy of.

Since people are not made to actively carry unresolved problems with them, they put them aside. In a drawer like this. Together with the part of his energy that seems to have triggered the problem. In this way, the problematic part of life is excluded and locked away.

Example

Imagine you have a car and suddenly the air conditioning stops working. Instead of having it repaired because that may not be possible at the moment, you remove it completely and store it in the cellar. You forget them there. From now on, you’ll be driving without air conditioning. It works, but you just sweat.

Not so bad, you say now. Imagine it’s the engine …

But on with the text …

The same applies to parts of ourselves that seem socially or morally undesirable. With the “dark” parts of us, with the “evil” parts. With everything that “one” does not do, does not live, does not say.

What that is always depends on the social and religious context in which we find ourselves. Classic themes include sexuality, but also money and power. These are complexes that are often suppressed, marginalized and tainted with guilt and shame. So we put them in the drawer.

Even our “normal” everyday life can cause us to store parts of ourselves. Job, children, school, money, everyday life itself, can overwhelm us to such an extent that we limit our lives to pure functioning.

The car again

Imagine it drives perfectly. But the society you live in condemns it if you move fast. People see it as bad if you are fast. So you throttle the engine so that your car only drives at 30 km/h. Now you have to live with it and at some point you forget that it could actually go 200. You’re at a big disadvantage because of it, but you no longer know that you can change that.

But what then?

So when the shaman talks about split-off or lost soul parts, he means the parts that you have in your drawers. Some have been with you all your life, others perhaps only recently.

What they have in common is that they are not gone. They are there and they want to be lived. Whether you are aware of it or not. And these parts report back to you. They do this very timidly at first, but if you ignore them they become louder.

If you’ve ever tried to ignore a small child, you’ll know what I mean. It doesn’t stop tugging at you, it just gets louder and louder and at some point it goes completely berserk.

Soul parts do this too. They pull, they scream and if you don’t listen, you get sick. This can be classic depression or burnout, or it can be physical illnesses.

It could be tinnitus, it could be a cold every two months, it could be a migraine or stomach ache, it could be cancer. And this increases the longer you ignore it.

Addictions, from nicotine and alcohol to hard drugs and adrenaline, can also be desperate cries from your stored parts. Or you suffer for long periods of time without being able to pinpoint exactly what it is. There is always a latent feeling of dissatisfaction, of being uprooted, of not belonging.

And time and again we find ourselves in situations that aggravate our symptoms, make us feel powerless and helpless, overwhelm us emotionally and seem to be stimulated from outside. Without being able to see a solution.

In this context, we speak of “triggers”. Triggers that seem to come from outside and repeatedly put their finger in precisely those of our wounds that hurt the most.

Effects

In addition to the illnesses already mentioned, “stored” soul parts can also cause other things. They are able to prevent stable partnerships or even any form of partnership.

They are able to prevent us from having children, they are able to put us in financially hopeless situations. They are capable of making our lives so miserable that we are dissatisfied even in outwardly perfect situations.

They prevent us from being happy, they prevent us from feeling joy. They ensure that we always feel homeless and uprooted. They rush us, they torment us, they lead us into the role of victim.

And what they all have in common is that we generally have no idea why we are so miserable while everyone else is happy.

Example

You have locked away a part of yourself, which ultimately means that you cannot enter into a satisfying partnership. You could accept that, of course, but life will seemingly keep nudging you in the nose that you’re missing something.

You will always get into trouble, always see that others seem to be doing better. You will always find yourself in situations that make you suffer terribly. Until you recognize the issue and solve it at the root.

It’s exactly the same with money, power, sexuality, self-determination, etc.

What to do?

As hopeless as it may all seem to you, there is a way out. You just can’t see it yourself. You may know that there are such things as locked away parts of you because you have read my article up to this point. But you can’t see them yourself and you certainly can’t release them.

Your whole system will rebel if you try. Because there was a reason why you locked her away. There are huge fears in between that will prevent you from simply bringing out your parts and living them again.

This is exactly where you can start. It’s about going back to the cause. Wherever this may be, it often leads very far into the past. Sometimes even into your past lives, very often into your ancestral line and almost always into your childhood.

Fears that can split off parts of the soul are often passed down through generations. In such cases, you put the parts of yourself that don’t fit in the drawer before you give birth. So you don’t know them at all.

And if you try to get to it, the patterns of your ancestors from countless generations will turn against you. But it can be solved, you just have to go deep enough and get to the root of the problem.

The goal of the human being is to be fully incarnated. Only then can you be truly happy and healthy in the long term. The aim is to find and reintegrate all these split-off parts piece by piece.

Not so bad

This all sounds terribly dramatic, but in practice it is not. Of course, it sometimes takes overcoming and courage to tackle the very topics that scare you the most. But there is no courage without fear.

I always say: “Behind the greatest fear, lies the coolest path”

What will happen to me then?

Do I have to give away all my money, do I have to leave my family, quit my job, walk the Camino de Santiago or will everyone laugh at me?

Such fears seem to stand in the way of your path. Especially when you are responsible for other people. For your family or your company.

I can reassure you. You will certainly jump over your shadow at one point or another and those around you won’t think everything you do is super great if you go down one path.

But at the end of the day, there is nothing better you can do for your children or your employees than to come into your own power. This is the only way you can accompany them into their power. You don’t have to give away your money or leave your family. Unless you want to.

The process

Of course, this doesn’t work overnight. This is a process that is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter, that can sometimes be painful, but that also brings a lot of joy. And at the end of it, there is a person who can live their soul potential fully and freely.

However long your personal journey may be, it starts with the first step. With the realization that there is a way and with the decision to set off, even without being able to see the destination yet.

Questions, or are you ready to go? Then write to me: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com or take the first step directly with the starter package.