In addition to shamanic treatments with clients or when using shamanic principles and practices for oneself, it’s useful to augment these treatments with other activities that support the healing of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In particular, understanding how trauma impacts the individual and initiates instinctual responses that are aimed at survival. These adaptations are necessary for survival but once the traumatic event has passed, they simply aren’t as useful for living a full and healthy life. What is often useful is to augment the shamanic treatments with other activities that help the shamanic healing. Here Dr Steven Farmer discusses some of these activities and why these augmentations are important to heal the whole person.
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Finding Power in the Darkness:
The Medicine of the North
Here we are, together, in the dark time. The dark is physical, as in the long winter nights in the northern hemisphere. And it’s metaphorical, as in all the dark energies washing through the daily world. On the Celtic Medicine Wheel that I work with, we are now in the...
A concise guide for blending different healing approaches. thanks
The audio on Shamanism and PTSD: Treating the body and soul can useful to many people who listen. The healing of post traumatic stress disorders has given me more knowledge to help myself and others in future. Thank you Dr. Steven Farmer for your good guidance.
You’re very welcome. Thank you for your comments – I’m glad that it made sense to you!