How does Shamanic Healing Work?

Shamanic healing is a potent, life-altering therapeutic method that enables us to let go of the emotional traumas, obstacles, burdens, false beliefs, and baggage that prevents us from reaching the maximum of our abilities. The idea might appear daunting at first. So, what is shamanic healing? In what ways does it alleviate the impact of trauma? How can one anticipate the outcome of this endeavor?

Let this guide answer all your questions about traditional healing practices, its core, and how its practices work.

What is Shamanic Healing?

Shamanic healing is considered one of the oldest spiritual healing methods. Dating back millennia to prehistoric times, it emphasizes the interconnectedness of mind, body, soul, and spirit for achieving balance. Across various shamanistic cultures, universal techniques are employed to achieve this balance. Some of them can be clearing the energy body and chakras, wound extraction, soul retrieval, and entity extraction. What is shamanic healing? At its core, shamanic healing focuses on the interconnectedness of mind, body, soul, and spirit, aiming to achieve a harmonious balance between these elements.

The Spiritual Rituals that a Shamanic Practitioner might perform.

Shamanic practitioners can choose from a wide range of healing rituals and ceremonies based on the needs of their clients. Furthermore, a shamanic practitioner will always undergo a journey to diagnose or assess the spiritual causes of illness.

Shamanic Journeying

Shamans embark on journeys not just inward into the individual psyche, but beyond the physical world. They seek information about the root causes of ailments like depression or anxiety. These journeys may involve encounters with spirit beings – power animals, ancestors, or guides – who offer understanding and healing.  Lost soul parts, gifts, and energies are brought back, creating a sense of wholeness.

Somatic-Emotional Awareness

Somatic-emotional awareness is a practice where you learn to listen to your body’s whispers and shouts as a means to track into the stored trauma in your physical and energy bodies. You can learn how emotions influence your experience and investigate the complex dance of the nervous system. Moreover, shamanic healing can involve a guided somatic meditation that lets you directly experience emotions within your body-mind and help you develop a deeper understanding of what is showing up for healing. . This experiential process  helps you better understand your inner emotions and strengthens your intuition. 

Soul Retrieval

When trauma leads to soul loss, soul retrieval becomes a vital part of the healing process. Using  this method, shamans travel outside of the physical world in search of lost soul fragments. Many times linked to previous traumas, these missing pieces are thought to hinder emotional and spiritual health. The shaman seeks to bring people back to their original essence and promote healing. 

Energy & Chakra Clearing

Unseen psychological and emotional scars are thought to produce imbalances and obstructions in your energy field, which affects your health and well-being. These obstacles can show up as a sensation of heaviness, a mist obscuring your vision, or a depletion of your vitality and soul. 

Shamans try to break through these imbalances and bring harmony back. Your chakras (energy centers) may be realigned, and stuck energy may be released during a shamanic healing session through focused visualization, chanting, or drumming. 

Wound Extraction

Life’s accumulated traumas, be they personal, ancestral, and even past-life can leave us tethered to negative patterns and emotional burdens. Traditional therapies often focus on the conscious mind, leaving the roots of our struggles untouched.

That’s when shamanic wound extraction can be of great help. Through shamanic journeying, practitioners enter a deep trance state to access the subconscious mind, where imprints of these traumas reside. These “wounds” are believed to be energetic blockages that hinder our well-being.

The shamanic practitioner then acts as a guide, using techniques like focused visualization or sacred tools (crystals) to “extract” the wound at its source. This process aims to release the trapped energy, freeing you from the burden of the past. 

Read more about Understanding Soul Loss and the Role of Soul Retrieval in Healing

How does shamanic healing help your body heal?

Shamanic healing addresses spiritual illness. It recognizes that we are more than just our body, but rather, that we are multidimensional–body, mind, soul, and spirit.  If any one of these parts of self are out of balance or impaired, the rest will be affected. Numerous studies demonstrate the benefits of mind-body healing.

Consequently, addressing spiritual health helps the body and mind heal naturally. Shamanism complements allopathic medicine and mental health therapies, as spiritual conditions are best treated with shamanism.

Shamanic healing works well with trauma. For thousands of years, shamans have retrieved souls to heal the broken self. However, it’s essential to remember that shamanic healing should be seen as complementary to traditional therapy, not a replacement.

Endnote

Finding peace through spiritual healing can be transforming for people who have experienced soul loss as a result of life’s tragedies. Deeply spiritual as it is, shamanic healing can also enhance contemporary therapeutic approaches.

If you’re thinking about shamanic healing, you really should put your health first. Think about if your values and beliefs are in line with traditional healing practices. Lastly, ask any questions or voice any worries you may have in an honest conversation with a shamanic practitioner.

Contacting Rachel Mann, PhD is a wise first step for anyone looking for direction to ease the weight of trauma, anxiety, or depression. Motivated by her healing path, Dr. Mann offers individualized support by fusing shamanic energy healing with somatic-emotional transformation and psycho therapeutically-based methods.