What is shamanic healing?
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Shamanic healing is ancestral healing. It uses our connections to the heavenly realms or the astral realms and the physical realm. In energy work, we will say “As above, so below.” Everything in this universe is a mirror. Everything is showing you something about yourself.
So Shamanic healing has three elements. It's about the upper world—the cosmos and upwards; the middle world—where we live on the earthly plane; and the underworld—this is kind of like the dark depths of the subconscious. What a shaman does is they help an individual heal by trying to figure out where within their body their traumas exist based on experiences, mindsets, illness, and other events. And then a shaman takes an individual either into the upper world or into the lower world in order to balance any healings, any traumas, and to reconnect any fragmented pieces of their soul.
This is where people start talking about “calling their power back.” For example, say that as a child, we had a traumatic event and we were beaten by our parents every day. And as a result, we came to expect this behavior and we came to have certain things that we do to cope. What happens is part of our soul fragments off of it because it's such a horrible experience, so we try to disassociate from it, but this is where unhealthy things in our life come from because we're missing things. A shaman goes with this person into the underworld to find that piece of the soul that's fragmented, to go through a ritual, to do the healing, and have this piece of the soul reconnect and reintegrate back with this person’s soul so that this person can heal.
With shamanic healing, we follow the principles of the four directions when it comes to our healing path. And what I mean specifically by the four directions is earth, air, fire, water, north, south, east, west. In the Indigenous communities, everything is based on four and on balance. And if you look throughout our entire world, you'll see that theme running through everything. Spring, summer, fall, winter; Black man, white man, yellow man, red man; mental healing, emotional healing, physical healing, spiritual healing. When we know how to work with the medicine wheel in all aspects of our lives, we know how to heal everything in all aspects of our lives.
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So Shamanic healing has three elements. It's about the upper world—the cosmos and upwards; the middle world—where we live on the earthly plane; and the underworld—this is kind of like the dark depths of the subconscious. What a shaman does is they help an individual heal by trying to figure out where within their body their traumas exist based on experiences, mindsets, illness, and other events. And then a shaman takes an individual either into the upper world or into the lower world in order to balance any healings, any traumas, and to reconnect any fragmented pieces of their soul.
This is where people start talking about “calling their power back.” For example, say that as a child, we had a traumatic event and we were beaten by our parents every day. And as a result, we came to expect this behavior and we came to have certain things that we do to cope. What happens is part of our soul fragments off of it because it's such a horrible experience, so we try to disassociate from it, but this is where unhealthy things in our life come from because we're missing things. A shaman goes with this person into the underworld to find that piece of the soul that's fragmented, to go through a ritual, to do the healing, and have this piece of the soul reconnect and reintegrate back with this person’s soul so that this person can heal.
With shamanic healing, we follow the principles of the four directions when it comes to our healing path. And what I mean specifically by the four directions is earth, air, fire, water, north, south, east, west. In the Indigenous communities, everything is based on four and on balance. And if you look throughout our entire world, you'll see that theme running through everything. Spring, summer, fall, winter; Black man, white man, yellow man, red man; mental healing, emotional healing, physical healing, spiritual healing. When we know how to work with the medicine wheel in all aspects of our lives, we know how to heal everything in all aspects of our lives.
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