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Thank you for sharing these potent healing stories. I wonder if you call it “shamanism” with your clients? Or do you use alternative language?
Great article! I It seems the author of this article has pioneered a highly effective hybrid practice. I love that she gets such good results with soul retrieval and other methods that recognize the reality of spirits that bother people –“reality” meaning being able to have an effect on something or someone in ordinary reality.
I also applaud the idea of helping clients replace their negative thoughts with positive, healthy thoughts. As a teacher and practitioner of shamanism, I like to learn new methods that work well in psychotherapy to incorporate into my shamanic practice. Michael Harner said you can know someone is a shaman if they do miracles and journey to other realms. A big difference between shamanism and psychotherapy is that shamans’ clients don’t usually need to keep coming back for more sessions because miracles so often occur in the first session. (Could be bad for business, those miracles.) But miracles are more satisfying for the practitioner as well as for the patient than pills and the long, slow practice of conventional psychotherapy.
Jill thanks for sharing these stories with us. I am a retired and former shamanic practitioner. I am also a Registered Nurse with two masters degrees and have taught in academia for 13 years, then in a public institution for 19 years.
There is still much reluctance to accept shamanic methods as positive healing strategies. The uninformed think there is something dark about spirits. Spirituality is still viewed as part of religion. The indigenous way toward mental and emotional balance is viewed as “old fashioned” and even dangerous.
When you publish your next book, perhaps you can offer ideas about how you counter these beliefs and attitudes. How do you explain the shamanic world without scaring the client?
Thank you for this beautifully powerful healing practice using Shamanic tools. It felt healing, therapeutic and nurturing just reading the article.
With deep gratitude for sharing your research and practice in healing soul trauma!