What is Shamanic Healing? by Strix d' Emerys
08/04

“Shamans heal themselves. By working through their emotional pain, they learn to help others." -Wounded Healin'

"But the primitive magician, the medicine man, or the shaman is not only a sick man; he is, above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself." -Author Unknown

Shamanic healing is a spiritual and medical practice based upon the belief that all healing includes a spiritual dimension. Shamans enter altered states of consciousness to communicate with other realms of reality. The shaman's journey is to help the patient or community to rediscover their connection to nature and spirit.

Shamanic medicine is a tradition dating back 25000 years. The shaman is responsible for the health of the individual as well as the community. This is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. Shamans are the ritual leader, herbalist, and mediator between the community and the spirit world. The spiritual healing methods of shamanic are now receiving increased and significant attention in our culture, because shamanic healing affects the energy field of a person.

To better understand how a shaman heals it is important to understand some of the fundamental concepts of what shamanism is. It is a specific set of methodologies for accessing the spirit or energy field of anything or anyone. The shaman heals by working unseen/inner/ spiritual reality to create changes, which in turn create changes in see/physical/everyday reality.

The essential perspective of the shaman is:

-Everything is alive. Everything has spirit and awareness.
-Energy and matter are the same. Everything is vibration. Everything that exists is an energy system within a greater energy system.
-Everything that exists is connected to everything else in a web of energy or life.
-Unseen/inner/spiritual reality affects visible reality. ###