In the shamanic way of looking at life consists everything  of energy or power. If a person looses some of her power she can gain it back when she is in contact with her spirituality and the power of the universe and she will experience achieved harmony with the situations as they occur. 

Our soul is part of the universal energy. The soul can be viewed as the energy we have in order for us to live, and when we die the soul leaves our body and become a part of Great Spirit again.

Sometimes we feel more or less without power or our energy level is way down. When this occur illnesses, depressions or imbalances might set in. It isn’t so that we “die” when we loss some of our power, but we don’t function advantageously, to say the least.

If a person takes seriously ill for a short or long period of time, it is usually combined with lots of questions. She or he can experience that a great deal of responsibility for their lives are surrendered to other people. This can be experienced as loss of power and powerlessness. The person might feel as if they surrender the command of their life and thereby loose their authority. 

The shamanic way of looking at illnesses is that either the person has “gotten something” which should not be there, an intrusion, or the person has “lost something”, a loss of power, or loss of parts of the soul. 

It is not our body loosing power, but it is a part of our soul whom has lost its power, or a part of our soul that all together has left us. When a part of our soul is leaving us it actually is a way of surviving trauma, illness and chock, as it is the part of the soul that is afflicted by the situation that is taking of.