Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 4, Issue - 5, 1 November 2019 | Page 27

Soul Searching:
7 Ways to Uncover Your True Path
You feel lost in life. You’re sick of your job, your relationships are mediocre at
best, your friendships are bland and unsupportive, you feel empty inside, and
you’ve lost the zest for life …
If you can relate to most of these experiences, you are undoubtedly going
through an existential crisis. In other words, you’re at a crossroads in life:
you’re feeling stuck and you’re starting to crave for a more meaningful
existence.
The solution to this gnawing angst?
Soul searching.
When we are disconnected from our Souls we feel anxious, depressed,
lonely, isolated, and chronically dissatisfied with life. 
To overcome this pain, we need to reconnect with the deepest, rawest, most
alive and fundamental part of ourselves. 
In this article, my intention is to show you how.
What Does Soul Searching Mean? (Definition)
n a general sense, soul searching is the quest to answer life’s problems and
questions. When most people refer to ‘soul searching,’ they are talking about
uncovering truth and happiness by questioning our thoughts, habits, and
motivations. But soul searching also has a deeper meaning. At its core, soul
searching is a return to the center of your being. Quite literally, it is a journey
to find your Soul or True Nature; it is a spiritual path.
Soul Loss is the Root Cause of Soul Searching
Why do some of us have such an intense, visceral desire to soul search? 
The answer is soul loss.
Indigenous and shamanic cultures for thousands of years have known about
the phenomenon of soul loss, and it’s an increasing epidemic in our society.
In our age of technology, in the era of ego, in a society run on materialistic
ideals, we are becoming increasingly disconnected from the wild, raw, and
primal Center of our being.
As Gary Zukav writes:
We have not turned our attention to the needs of the soul. We have not
considered what is required by the soul in order to be healthy. We have not
studied the soul, or sought to help it attain what is necessary to its evolution
and its health. Because we have been fivesensory, we have focused upon the