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| by Laureen
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Shamanic healing is an ancient
and powerful practice that can:
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Reconnect you with qualities of self you have
banished or buried. |
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Unhook you from people or events of your
past. |
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Remove blocks that hold you
back. |
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Heal physical ailments. |
If you are ready, shamanic healing can
restore you to who you were before the hurts and trials of life that battered
your soul. |
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| WHAT IS SHAMANIC
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Shamanic healing is healing at the spiritual level. Essentially
it is spiritual reconstruction; bringing back lost parts of our soul and
removing spiritual blocks or |
baggage from our bodies or energy fields. It leaves us lighter
and brings us to our full selves; who we were meant to
be.
Although shamanic healing works with our soul, it
generally heals our emotions, our psyches, and our bodies too, because
everything is interconnected.
Shamanic healing works
quickly and powerfully and usually is best performed by a trained and
experienced shamanic healer on behalf of the client. When a shaman connects
with non-ordinary reality to ask for healing for a client, the healing
practices
that may be identified are infinite, but three are common: soul
retrieval, power animal retrieval, and extraction.
Soul
Loss
Sometimes we may separate from a part
of our essential self. In contemporary shamanic practice we refer to this as
soul loss. This soul loss is usually a healthy natural coping response to
trauma e.g.: car accident, abusive situation, a job or family in which
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we cannot be our full selves. When we are
traumatized, it is too painful for us to be fully present and aware, so a part
of our soul leaves to wait in non-ordinary reality. This state of soul loss is
often referred to medically as shock, or psychologically as
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When we are more ready and able to cope, or
when we are out of the traumatic situation, the soul part that has left can
spontaneously return to us. Often in therapy, or other healing processes, a
person has such a strong intention and readiness to heal that they call their
own soul home. This is usually marked by breakthroughs in behavior and thought
patterns, renewed energy, and the surfacing of forgotten memories. Sometimes
the soul part does not come home on its own, though. This is usually when the
traumatic situation has gone on over time, or we become so used to our state
that we do not have a strong desire to return to
wholeness.
When we are adult, significant trauma is often
necessary for soul loss to occur. Children are more prone to soul loss because
so many things, that may seem trivial to an adult, can be traumatic for a
child. Most people I see as clients have had soul loss as children, or in
adolescence and early adulthood.
Giving and Taking Soul
Parts
Sometimes we experience soul loss
because we have given a quality of our essence to someone else, or allowed them
to take it. We often give away a quality of our essence (e.g., patience,
assertiveness, zest for life) to someone
else because we want to
help
them, or they may want this quality of ours for themselves.
Sometimes we experience soul loss because we
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given a quality of our essence to someone else, or allowed them
to take it. We often give away a quality of our essence (e.g., patience,
assertiveness, zest for life) to someone else because we want to help them, or
they may want this quality of ours for themselves.
No one
can make use of our essence but us though, and when it is with another person,
they are weighed down and we feel unnaturally connected to them. We may have a
feeling of over closeness and neediness that is often labeled as co-dependency.
Or we may just think about the other person more often and more intensely than
is warranted.
Soul
Loss Symptoms
When we have soul loss, we
feel something's missing, we have an emptiness, and we may try to fill it
through addictions, compulsive behavior, taking energy from others, or we may
simply become depressed. We may look and act competent on the outside, but feel
inadequate or disquieted inside. We may have done much personal growth work at
the emotional and psychological level but still feel stuck, like there's
something we can't get at.
Soul Retrieval
Healing
Working at the spiritual level, a
shamanic healer retrieves our soul, finding and returning those lost parts of
our essence. The healer will usually do a shamanic journey to her helping
spirits to ask for healing for the client. In this shamanic journey, the
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and may see the traumatic incident(s) that caused the soul loss and/or another
person who is holding a soul part. The healer must convince the soul part to
return. |
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Usually, as a healer, I will heal the soul
part, if needed, before bringing it back. If another person is holding the soul
part, the healer must convince that person to let go of the soul part.
Ancient shamans used to trick the person and steal the
soul back. I find it is more helpful for the long-term relationship between the
two people, and for the well-being of the 'soul thief' to use a gentle process
of negotiation that usually involves offering healing to the thief so they will
be willing to let go. In any soul retrieval healing, the healer may bring back
more than one soul part. It is important not to overwhelm the client, though,
with too many new qualities of soul.
If we are open and
ready, soul retrieval changes us instantly and then our work begins in
integrating the essential qualities brought back into our lives. We are usually
called to change our lives to reflect our wholeness. Everyone in our lives ...
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by Laureen
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Definition of Shamanic
Practice
Shamanic practice is an ancient practice for
accessing intuitive or spiritual realms for guidance and healing. Shamanic
practice is a common heritage of almost all cultures and has been around for at
least 30,000 years. It is the way our ancestors expressed their spirituality
and was integrated into every aspect of their lives. It is a wonderful
complementary practice for almost any spiritual belief system. It is also a
powerful vehicle for personal transformation.
Contemporary core shamanic practice is an easy practice
to learn to tap into intuition or spirit, for guidance and healing. The
guidance can be helpful in addressing challenges and resolving issues. The
healing is at a spiritual level and usually has profound positive effects with
people becoming more self-confident, alive, and physically healthy.
In my experience, 95% of people can learn contemporary
core shamanic practice within a few hours. It seems to be part of the human
birthright to be able to do this; we can see this in children who are usually
adept at connecting with imaginal realms. Shamanic practice uses our natural
sixth sense, that many of us have lost touch with, but can easily
regain. |
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| Non-Ordinary Reality |
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Shamanic
practice is the practice of deliberately connecting with "non-ordinary reality"
for guidance, power, and healing. Non-ordinary reality is present in the same
time and space as ordinary reality; in which you are now reading these words,
and maybe eating lunch, but we are usually not consciously aware of
it.
It touches us through our intuitive hunches; we know
who is calling on the phone, we feel strongly we should take another route and
miss a car accident by doing so; we probably experience it in some of our
dreams; it may be our own imagination or subconscious, or Jung's collective
unconscious; it is what some call the "spirit world", others the "dreamtime".
Someone who can work with non-ordinary reality to provide guidance and healing
for others is called a shaman; the word comes from the Siberian Tungus
tribe.
Regardless of our beliefs, religious or otherwise,
about non-ordinary reality, it is a realm which we can access to make our
ordinary reality lives richer and more fulfilling. When we can consciously move
in and out of this realm, we have access to resources that can transform our
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| CONTEMPORARY CORE
SHAMANISM |
History
The method that I have
learned, and find easy to teach, is
Michael Harner's core
shamanic practice. Harner is an American ...
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