So, what is shamanic healing? What is it, which on a spiritual level needs healing?
Often the illness turns out to be caused by one of two things. Either something is missing that should be part of us or something is in us that should not be there. Of course, these two often go together.
You may have part of you missing. This could be either a part of your soul or the energy that you need to be healthy. Soul retrieval is becoming widely known as a way of helping a person feel more whole. Often the soul part has been lost due to some trauma - indeed you sometimes hear a person say "I have never felt complete since...". The shaman will seek out and return the soul part, restoring your loss. Or maybe what is missing is your power – your own primal energy, lost over months or maybe years of being ground down by work, family or neighbours. A common symptom of this ‘power loss’ is when nothing goes right . You know the type of situation – the main wage earner in the household is made redundant, the dog dies, you lose your purse with this week’s housekeeping in it ... or worse. This run of bad luck continues and eventually you become ill. You have lost your energy, literally. The shaman can find your power for you and return it, often in the form of an animal.
And if our power or a part of our soul has got lost, this leaves a space. Other things can find their way in and get stuck - like a spider in the bath, or a stone in your shoe. Not evil, or even bad, but not in the right place. In shamanic terms this is called an intrusion. The shaman's job is to remove the intrusion (a process known as 'extraction') and return it to where it should be. Both retrievals and extractions are ways of re-balancing you.
Houses and places of work can get ill, as well, often manifesting as poltergeists. So can woodlands, parks, a town or your household pets. The shaman can help all or any of these.
