Shamanic Healing

The shamanic healing session

      An essential part of shamanism is the healing of clients by the spirits and the shaman. In this chapter I am presenting some guidelines for conducting shamanic healing sessions, which are helping to avoid typical beginners mistakes. These guidelines are being tested by myself and many friends which follow the path of the shaman for years. I am not describing special technics, please refer to your shamanic teachers in the (non ordinary) reality for this.

     In germany shamanic practitioners are not allowed to heal professional by law. In any country there are different legislative regulations, dealing with healings. Please refer to your own countries laws, before considering a professional career as healer. An important prerequisite for shamanic healing is an excellent contact to your guiding spirits. The spirits know your abilities and borders exactly and are giving correct instructions concerning your own way of healing.

      First of all, you have to be charged by the client to do shamanic works. Clients which are not communicative (inability, comatous state, to young) should be contacted via their tiergeist to get a clear charge of them. Even if the client is desiring the help of a shaman, it could be that the spirits refuse to help. It must be clear to you, when to say „nay" to a shamanic treatment. Never forget to ask your spirits!

     I have made good experiences with a full trance state during healing sessions. I call in my tiergeist or other specialists, dealing with shamanic healing. Rarely I use the drum for inducing the trance. I rather use it to induce the trance for the client. When beating the drum I am already in trance and have a clear picture of how to act accordingly. The client´s trance state makes it easier for him to let things go and to feel, what I do with him. Then the daily consciousness is not hindering the clients awareness. Sometimes I use different methods to induce trance, like magnetising or the hypnotic shock. It is much easier to make energetic manipulation with an entranced client than with a client with normal consciousness. The client is more sensitive and open to changes.

     One well-known shamanic technic is the shamanic extraction. The shaman cleanses the energetic body of the client by sucking, extracting, flaming, driving away or other actions. During shamanic journeys the bad energies are seen as insects or other creatures, not belonging to the healthy human energetic body. NEVER touch the extract unprotected, as long as you are not in good animal trance or the spirits allow it. Imagine protecting gloves or plates of lead (for example). Throw the bad energy away into flowing waters or in special prepared crystals. The assistants have to be protected well from the energies released. Don´t throw the extract at your assistants.

     The placebo - effect is a thousands of years old shamanic invention. Remember this during your session. Material representations of the bad energies can be used to bind these energies as well as giving the client a better connection to the actual healing process. This is especially useful during sucking (which is not a technic for beginners). The skill of trickery should be developed for this. The shaman as trickster is a well-known theme. During the seance many other aspects of therapy are covered (at least during my own seances). Reflexzones at the feet, akupressure, the meridian-system, runic lore and chiropractic elements are woven into the shamanic session. The patient undergoes a holistic therapy. If you are finding yourself massaging certain points at the feet (for example), you should try to further your knowledge in these ways of therapy. Seminars and literature on these holistic therapy forms is easy to access.

     The energetic deficits can be filled with various forms of energies. Ask your spirits about the nature and origin of such energies. I am using runic energies or the chaotic energies from the universe. An auric balancing is a valuable hint. Using your own energy is O.K., if you are not overdoing this. In long terms it is harmful to yourself, especially if you do it on a regular base. Your own well-being is as important as the clients healing during a session. Physical exhaustion is O.K. after a session, but spiritual exhaustion is not. Check up your technic, if the latter is fact.

    Who is treating Whom? An interesting question, especially in connection with the shamanic seance. My friends and I myself perceived that during suffering from a certain problem, the clients are having exactly the same problems to be treated. I myself had two months problems with an intruding spirit. The clients I had during this time showed the same problem with variations, until I get rid of the spirit. An experienced friend told me that if he had heart-problems, his patients were having heart problems, and when he had problems with his back, then patients with the same problems came to him. The examples could be continued, but I think the principle behind this phenomenon is comprehendable.

     It is illusionary in most cases to assume a healing solving every problem. Sometimes a shamanic healing heals the client but not the bad surroundings which cause the illness. Without proper after-treatment some clients suffer a relapse to the former problems after a short time. A combination of psychotherapeutic and shamanic treatment would be ideal. Shamanism is not a solution for every encountered problem, but can help a little bit in most cases. Some cases of course are purely shamanic. Staying in contact with shamanic practitioners is a good hint for clients.

      The shamanic sessions are visited in own responsibility and there is no healing guarantee. Anyone telling different things simply lies. In germany your session must not be of a professional kind, unless you fulfill the terms of the law.