Shamanic Healing
Shamanic healing is one of the most ancient healing modalities, widely practiced in most human societies.
About Shamanic Healing:
As a 100,000-year-old spiritual practice, it still carries immense transformative powers for modern men. Call it mystical or archaic, shamanism has transcended common misconceptions, doctrines, and dogmas. Today, shamanic healing is widely sought by people who need healing and guidance beyond the physical all across the world.
Shamanic healing is a powerful way to shift your energy, transform your life, and unlock your potential. Shamanic healing is a ceremony performed by a shaman to receive information for healing purposes. In this process, also known as the shamanic journey, the shaman travels to the otherworldly realms to connect with helping spirits, who guide and assist them in healing individuals, communities, and the planet.These spirits come in the form of spirit guides (humanoid beings) or power animals (also plants and insectoids). They take on these familiar-looking forms to be more relatable to human perception.
Spirit guides of love & light:
Spirit guides are gods and goddesses of the community and benevolent ancestors. They tend to come forth in these altered states in a humanoid form. They help shamans safely navigate unfamiliar realms and retrieve the information they need. Think of them as teachers, protectors, companions, and spiritual partners. In fact, some shamans form a spiritual marriage with their spirit guides. Shamans sign a spiritual contract with these spirit guides of love & light & invoke them for healing help.
Power animals:
According to shamanic wisdom, every person is born with the spirit of one or more animals, which remain with us throughout our lives to guide and protect us. You can have one or more power animals during a lifetime. As you move through life, you can let go of old and acquire new power animals, depending on the guidance you need.
What is a shaman?
The word ‘shaman’ comes from the Siberian Tungus tribe. And it means ‘spiritual healer’ or ‘one who sees in the dark.’ Shamanism is an ancient collection of traditions based on the act of voluntarily accessing and connecting to non-ordinary states — or spirit realms — for wisdom and healing. It organically arose all over the world, throughout history, as a response to the needs of people. Generally, there is one shaman per community. These shamans access the spirit realm for individual and communal growth and healing.
One becomes a shaman by:
- Birth: When the shamanic ability is passed down ancestrally. It’s said that Spirit chooses to incarnate as a shaman before it’s even born into physical existence. And then, it’s known by the spiritual elders of a tribe upon birth and trained by the elderly shaman.
- Shamanic initiation: When they undergo a process of facing their darkest fears and overcoming them. As a result, they get entirely dismembered, bone by bone, and reassembled as a newly born shaman.
- Calling: When they have a near-death experience of any kind. They can become shamans from these experiences because they are said to have known death, returned from it, and thus, have a secret of life not attained by others.
What does a shaman do?
Shamans perform multidisciplinary healing under shamanic traditions. You can think of them as doctors, mediums, mystics, and spiritual teachers all in one (like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) who:
- Restore and remove energetic pathways
- Find answers to life’s challenges
- Retrieve soul parts
- Discover the spiritual aspects of ailments and imbalances for healing
- Mediate between the worlds to bring the higher wisdom, articulate and teach it to the collective
Sounds like a mad deal of work? Indeed, shamanism is more than just their superpowers, as with great power comes great responsibility.
It may seem that they access invisible worlds for the healing of individuals. But this access is granted for them to apply the wisdom they gain to heal and transform the physical realm.
On top of that, their highest purpose is to create and maintain a balance between humankind, nature, and the spirit realm.
Usage of Shamanic Healing
Who should go to a shamanic healing session? If you face any physical, emotional, or mental disease or imbalance and have tried conventional approaches to heal it with no improvement, you can benefit from a shamanic healing session. Unlike the conventional western approach to health, based on treating the symptoms, shamans heal the very cause of your ailment.
What Does Shamanic Healing Do? Depending on your initial healing inquiry, shamanic healing addresses three causes of mental, emotional, and physical illness: disharmony, fear, or soul loss. Let’s look at them in detail.
#1: Disharmony (or power loss): Disharmony, or power loss, occurs when you feel that life has lost meaning. This loss of connection can happen subtly or catastrophically. Either way, losing your will or life power directly affects your energetic matrix and can make you vulnerable to illness.
#2: Fear: Fear is the most common cause of illness and mental states such as anxiety, chronic stress, and depression. Scientists and researchers agree that fear triggers stress producing hormones that disintegrate the protective mantle of the body’s immune system and overall energetic matrix, making illness inevitable.
#3: Soul loss: Soul loss is the most extreme cause of illness and even premature death. It is experienced after a traumatic event, such as fighting in a war (a common trigger of PTSD), a bitter divorce, or intense bullying.
Sometimes these events can be so shattering that one’s soul gets fragmented and dissociated. At worst, these soul parts get too far lost and fail to return. This is why people, after a severely traumatic incident, feel like a part of them died that day.
Here are other symptoms which may signify soul loss:
- Feeling split or fragmented
- Blocked memory
- Emotional distance, or complete apathy
- A lack of joy, motivation, or enthusiasm
- Addiction
- Suicidal tendencies
- Chronic depression and negativity
Within any shamanic tradition, the shamanic healing session isn’t a stand-alone treatment but a part of the multidisciplinary approach. Usually, it’s combined with physical healing modalities, plant medicine, and dietary changes. Shamans too get signs through dreams.
Healing Ancestors with Shamanism
What is Ancestors Healing
Ancestral healing is the process of revealing and releasing inherited wounds and traumas that have been passed down by our ancestors. Anyone researching their heritage will uncover both positive and negative issues that pass through the bloodlines from one generation to the next. Shamanic healing offers a unique approach to ancestral trauma by working directly with the spiritual realms and the energies of our ancestors. Shamanic practitioners, often known as shamans, act as bridges between the physical and spiritual realms, facilitating healing and transformation. Through various shamanic techniques, such as journeying, soul retrieval, and ancestral healing, they help individuals connect with their ancestors, release inherited trauma, and restore balance and harmony to their lives. Shamanic Healing is a best way to heal nature, animals & birds as well. Shamanic practitioners believe that everything—people, animals, birds, plants, the Earth and its minerals—has a spirit. When something happens to that spirit through trauma or life circumstances, there is soul sickness that expresses itself through the physical body and mind. Shamanic healing addresses the spiritual aspect of an illness or injury. The practitioner acts as a bridge between this world of Ordinary Reality and the spirit world of Non-Ordinary Reality where compassionate spirits provide healing for the animal. As a witness to the healing performed by these compassionate ones, the practitioner brings through energy, communication, and strategies to further the healing of an animal. Animals are particularly responsive to shamanic healing, because they mostly live in their soul spirit. As humans, most of us are focused on our body’s spirit and day-to-day functions. Animals inhabit their body as a vessel for their life force, their soul spirit that is connected to ‘all that is’. It is this soul spirit that enables them to communicate telepathically, to live in the present moment, and to leave their bodies at will to help manage their physical pain.
