The healing power of shamanic journeying recognizes the ability for the shaman to heal him or herself through the journey process as explained by Maine shamanic teacher, John Moore.
When it comes to shamanic healing, the shaman essentially works in tandem with spirits, often referred to as helping spirits, in the spirit realms. These shamans enter the spirit realm for the purpose of individual and community growth and healing. It is important to note that shamans believe that despite their greater accessibility to the spiritual realm, all healing is self-healing. A shaman healer knows how to move and manipulate the energy of another's body and spirit and can transmit wisdom through the spiritual realm, but true healing must take place within the person's spirit.
While a shamanic practitioner mostly works on behalf of others, journeying is also self-healing.
Although the repertoire of shamans varies from one culture to another, they are generally believed to have the ability to heal the sick, communicate with the other world, and often accompany the souls of the dead to that other world. Their spirit guides not only work with the shamans for the purpose of healing, but also provide wisdom when and where needed. The spirit assistants of shamanic healers are able to diagnose the cause (because the spirit assistants are spirits, they can easily see everything that happens on a spiritual level) of the disease, give insight and thereby help facilitate the treatment necessary for healing. Shamanic healers act as a kind of "hollow bone" or mediator, merging with the spirit realm and connecting with the spirits who help channel energy and wisdom to aid in the healing of people in that dimension.
Some examples: Soul retrieval is a healing journey in which a shaman travels to the spirit world to find a lost body part or essence person's soul. For millennia, shamans have practiced extraction ceremonies to remove unwanted energies. A shamanic healer can perform powerful animal retrieval, ancestral healing, past life and dream work, and a host of other procedures.
Engagement with the spirit world goes beyond the traditional ideal of reality, and when a person goes on a journey, the shaman can draw incredible knowledge and healing power from the depths of his being. The shaman is unique in that not only does he or she travel to non-ordinary worlds, but he also uses his spiritual relationships to create changes that will manifest in the physical world, to heal individuals or communities. While a shaman can restore the energy balance in a person and remove spiritual blockages in the soul, the person is responsible for using shamanic healing sessions to look within and heal themselves. Thousands of people are capable of astral projection into the spirit world, but only a shaman can enter the spiritual realms with the intent and knowledge of how to heal and work with shamanic helping spirits.
While shamans may view physical illness as cancer, infection, or depression, they are dealing with a spiritual aspect, that is, a "disturbance of spiritual energy," says Cecile Carson, MD, New York State physician and editor of Spirited Medicine. an anthology of shamanic healing in modern health care. If people live in a shamanic culture, shamanic healing is usually part of a multidisciplinary approach used to treat any disease or imbalance, in collaboration with physical healers, herbal medicines, dietary changes, and other therapies.
The more a shaman journeys, the more he or she becomes a hollow bone, healing the self and becoming a clearer channel for spirit to work. This video discusses the theta brainwaves and altered state a shaman reaches to facilitate journeys.
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