Spiritual Issues We Address

Some clients struggle to heal despite trying multiple therapies, experiencing only temporary improvement or none at all. They often describe feeling incomplete or disconnected, as though part of themselves is missing. This sense of fragmentation can lead them to addictive behaviors, used either to fill the void or to numb their constant awareness of the loss. As Sandra Ingerman explains in her book Soul Retrieval, therapy only reaches the parts of the self that are ‘home,’ while the missing soul fragments remain untouched.

Soul fragments can be lost in different ways—frightened away by trauma, held by another person, disoriented through substance abuse, or wandering off to protect survival. Traumatic experiences such as abuse, surgery, miscarriages, or major accidents can cause fragmentation, as can emotional events like loss, bereavement, moving house, or ending relationships. Spiritual factors, including past vows, psychic attack, or religious fear, may also play a role. These fragments remain apart, often as a protective mechanism to shield the individual from overwhelming pain.

Healing the wounded soul and retrieving lost fragments is deeply transformative. It restores wholeness, bringing empowerment, serenity, and the ability to cultivate loving, authentic relationships. With soul reintegration, individuals are freed from the need to rely on addictions, unhealthy patterns, or toxic relationships to feel complete. Instead, they gain strength, stability, and the capacity to live with joy in the present moment, regardless of life’s challenges.

In Integrated Healing, raising your vibration refers to shifting our energy state to a higher, lighter, and more harmonious frequency. Everything in the universe, including the human body, thoughts, and emotions, vibrates at a certain energetic level. Low vibrations are often associated with fear, stress, anger, illness, or trauma, while high vibrations are linked with love, joy, peace, vitality, and spiritual alignment.

The benefits of raising your vibration are profound. On a physical level, it can promote relaxation, boost immunity, and support the body’s natural healing processes. Emotionally, it fosters resilience, joy, and the release of negative patterns. Mentally, it clears confusion, enhances clarity, and strengthens focus. Spiritually, it deepens connection with intuition, inner wisdom, and the sense of oneness with life. Over time, living at a higher vibration helps attract positive experiences, harmonious relationships, and opportunities that align with well-being and growth.

Sometimes, personal development and healing are held back by vows made in the past that still carry spiritual and energetic weight. A common example is marriage vows. With so many marriages ending in divorce, the formal relationship may be over, but the energetic and spiritual vow of commitment may still remain. These lingering vows can create invisible ties that prevent people from truly moving forward in their lives.

Many clients describe this struggle, saying things like, “I thought I dealt with the memories or issues around him/her,” yet the same person or associated experiences continue to resurface as stressors. This is because, at a deeper level, the vow still binds them energetically, even if consciously they believe they have let go.

Such redundant vows act like blocks, restricting freedom, clarity, and the ability to fully embrace new opportunities or relationships. Releasing these vows is often essential for healing, as it clears outdated energetic contracts and restores a person’s capacity to grow, expand, and live in alignment with their true potential.

Incongruent beliefs refer to thoughts, values, or attitudes that conflict with one another within a person’s mind. When two beliefs are incompatible, they create inner tension because both cannot fully coexist without causing discomfort or contradiction.

For example, someone might believe “I am worthy of love” on a conscious level, but hold a deeper, unconscious belief of “I am not good enough.” These opposing beliefs clash and create an inner struggle. This can lead to feelings of confusion, self-sabotage, anxiety, or difficulty making decisions, because part of the person is pulled in one direction while another part resists.

Incongruent beliefs are often tied to Carl Rogers’ concept of incongruence, where a mismatch exists between a person’s self-concept (how they see themselves) and their lived experience or internal reality. They can also overlap with cognitive dissonance, the discomfort felt when one’s actions or beliefs do not align.

Addressing incongruent beliefs in therapy is important, because these hidden conflicts often fuel low self-esteem, stress, and unhealthy patterns of behaviour. By bringing the conflicting beliefs into awareness, challenging the unhelpful ones, and integrating more supportive beliefs, people can reduce inner conflict and live with greater clarity, authenticity, and peace.

In Integrated Healing, the term ‘Invasive Energies’ is used to refer to any energy that is interfering with the balance of your being. This includes things like geopathic stress, radiation, overhead power cables, computers, someone else’s hostility, the effect of witnessing major traumas such as 9/11 as well as spiritual, psychological or psychic attacks etc. In short, any energy that comes from outside the body to which the body reacts negatively.

We are all connected to other people on an energetic level via energetic cords. Negative Cords are ‘the ties that bind’ inappropriately.

Negative Cords are created when there is an emotional attachment with, to or from another person to meet our, or their, needs. Although the cord may appear to be a good idea, the link is often based on fear and/or self-limiting beliefs. As such they usually compromise our energy system in some way, so we need to remove these negative energetic cord(s).

One of the reasons negative cords cause problems is that they can be formed at any time during our existence, linking one body to another, one mind to another, one soul to another in any combination of body/mind/soul. Unfortunately, in most cases they are not dissolved with the passage of time; we have to deliberately sever them. Cutting these cords can free us to move on with our lives.

Transformation begins with awareness—recognising old patterns, unresolved wounds, or limiting beliefs and refers to the deep, internal change that occurs when a person shifts their thoughts, beliefs, emotions, or behaviours in a way that creates lasting growth and healing. The aim of this process is focussed on releasing what no longer serves and replacing it with healthier, more adaptive ways of thinking and being.

The transformation process is beneficial because it helps people move from states of fear, pain, or limitation toward greater clarity, empowerment, and wholeness. Ultimately, transformation allows individuals to let go of an old way of living and embrace a new, more fulfilling version of themselves.

At an energetic/spiritual level, an inactive spiritual layer commonly feels like a lack of inner guidance, meaning or connection. People describe this as emptiness, numbness, or a sense that life is “flat” or colourless. There’s little or no sense of awe, gratitude, or an experienced link to something larger than themselves; synchronicities and intuitive hits either disappear or feel unreliable.

Emotionally and mentally, you may feel persistently adrift, restless, or disconnected from your values. There can be an ongoing searching or chasing for purpose (often through external fixes: relationships, work, substances) without lasting fulfilment. Increased anxiety about existential issues, chronic apathy, difficulty accessing compassion for self and others, and trouble sustaining spiritual or contemplative practices are common signs.

In the body and energy systems the effects show up as low vitality, frequent fatigue despite reasonable sleep, poor recovery from illness or stress, and a sense of being “ungrounded” (e.g., scatter-brained, light-headed, or spacey).

Behaviourally you might see avoidance of introspection, resistance to rituals or practices that once nourished you, and repeated patterns that block growth (self-sabotage, staying in unhealthy relationships, or compulsive activity). Conversely, some people over-identify with spiritual ideas without doing the inner work (“spiritual bypassing”), which is itself a sign the deeper layer isn’t genuinely active or integrated.

Relationally there’s often a lack of depth or reciprocity, difficulty feeling compassion, trusting guidance from others, or forming soulful connections. Decisions are rarely value-led; life feels pragmatically driven but empty. You may also lose interest in creative or devotional expressions that previously gave meaning.

Reactivating the spiritual layer of the aura means restoring, strengthening and integrating the part of your energy field that carries life-force, soul connection and higher-level awareness.