Is shamanic healing for you? By studying the lessons of the ancients together with modern tools, one is given a self-help guide for inner healing and more.
Many would try to deride shamanic healing as magical thinking, a hoax, or another New Age trend that is sure to fade away within the next ten years. That is certainly not the case, mostly because shamanic healing is not a new trend, not even close. It has existed unbroken since the first humans looked up at the stars; it has been passed on from generation to generation in the form of oral tradition, ancestral customs, and folk practices—and it will continue onward until humanity itself has ceased.
Shamanic healing is a potent and life-changing approach to recovery that helps patients wash away internal wounds and alleviate spiritual suffering. By practicing shamanic healing, or at least being directed by a master practitioner, we are given the opportunity and the tools to wash away emotional trauma, mental blockages, burdens, troublesome beliefs, and baggage—offering us a new slate to grow and thrive again in the garden of our minds and spirits.
It is when we are cleansed of all these that we regain the capacity to fully and truly better ourselves, becoming our best versions and succeeding further in the path of life.
There may be many worries and questions when it comes to shamanic healing. Chiefly asked by new patients and practitioners seem to be if they have to call forth spirits and the like to help them.
While some shamanic traditions do involve communing deeply with the spirits and other higher dimensions, most forms of modern shamanic healing (which involves a bit more technology) are more practical and focus only on inner healing, what the body itself is capable of doing.
Shamanic healing is not a faith-based discipline. It does not require believing in that which you may find a hard time comprehending. It is fully based on the practical and the self. Google searches might bring up mysticism and occultism as associated or adjacent subjects to shamanism, but this merely exacerbates the misconceptions already clouding the practice.
This is because most of the body of work produced by shamanism comes from ancient times, and, as such, there is an ancient air of secrecy and dignity obscuring it—which makes for a fertile ground for conspiracies and hoaxes.
The truth is that shamanism goes beyond any working notions of religion. It is more comparable to yoga or tai chi, both of which provide frameworks for exercise and self-understanding. What shamanism offers is not a lens for understanding the world, nor is it an avenue for people to evoke higher entities. Shamanism, in practice, is more of a lifestyle than a set of beliefs and exercises. It is a commitment to bettering one’s self in conjunction with the spirit and the world’s vital energies.
How Does Shamanic Healing Work?
Shamanic healing, at its essence, is nothing more than deep introspection and comprehension—a more extensive attempt at understanding the body to untangle the knots burbling in the spirit. Of course, this is easier said than done due to the many layers of mental and spiritual walls we may have built, unconsciously or deliberately, throughout our lifetimes.
This is why shamanic healers exist; they are there to help us when we find our road to recovery blocked and we can’t find the way ourselves. Naturally, shamanic healers are merely there to direct you, and there is no substitute for the self-help guide for inner healing that dwells in the depths of your heart.
When undergoing shamanic healing, the patient only has to lie down and be guided by the words of the healer while also immersing themselves deep into their unconscious. The healer does this in a variety of ways, either via aromatherapy, relaxing music, massage, etc, etc. This is to fully relax the mind and the body, letting the spirit wander more freely and get more in touch with itself.
The goal of shamanic healing is to clear out the impurities of your internal energies and rebalance them into equilibrium with the energies of the outside world. This imbalance is the root cause of many of our problems, especially those issues that involve personal relationships and self-understanding, which may not mean much in writing but greatly affect our day-to-day dealings.
Everyone can be healed via shamanic healing, and everyone deserves a chance to.
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