| Shamanic healing is a spiritual and medical practice | | | | field of a person. |
| based upon the belief that all healing includes a | | | | To better understand how a shaman heals it is |
| spiritual dimension. Shamans enter altered states of | | | | important to understand some of the fundamental |
| consciousness to communicate with other realms of | | | | concepts of what shamanism is. It is a specific set of |
| reality. The shaman's journey is to help the person to | | | | methodologies for accessing the spirit or energy field |
| rediscover their connection to nature and spirit. | | | | of anything or anyone. The shaman heals by working |
| "Shamans heal themselves. By working through their | | | | unseen/inner/spiritual reality to create changes, which |
| emotional pain, they learn to help others." -Wounded | | | | in turn creates changes in physical/everyday reality. |
| Healin' | | | | The essential perspective of the shaman is: |
| "But the primitive magician, the medicine man, or the | | | | 1. Everything is alive. Everything has spirit and |
| shaman is not only a sick man; he is, above all, a sick | | | | awareness. |
| man who has been cured, who has succeeded in | | | | 2. Energy and matter are the same. Everything is |
| curing himself." -Author Unknown | | | | vibration. Everything that exists is an energy system |
| A Siberian mystic tradition, Shamanic medicine dates | | | | within a greater energy system. |
| back 25,000 years. The shaman is responsible for the | | | | 3. Everything that exists is connected to everything |
| health of the individual as well as the community. This | | | | else in a web of energy or life. |
| is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. | | | | 4. Unseen/inner/spiritual reality affects visible reality. |
| Shamans are the ritual leader, herbalist, and mediator | | | | The Major Differences between Conventional & |
| between the community and the spirit world. The | | | | Vibrational (Energy) Medicine |
| spiritual healing methods of shamanic are now | | | | (From A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine, |
| receiving increased and significant attention in our | | | | © 2000 by Richard Gerber, M.D. |
| culture, because shamanic healing affects the energy | | | | |