Shamanic healing is the healing of illness, problems or unhealthy patterns with the help of compassionate spirits. Types of shamanic healing include the divination and healing of illness caused by imbalances, clearing and removal of emotional and spiritual negative attachments and entities, extraction of intrusive energies, and soul retrieval.
Just as modern psychology recognizes that people can experience dissociation and fragmentation, shamanism recognizes that people can experience soul loss. Soul loss can occur when someone experiences traumas, emotional loss, abuse, accidents, illness and injuries. The loss of our vital essence known as soul essence occurs as a survival mechanism and coping strategy that we unconsciously employ when faced by events that are too painful or traumatic to be endured. This fragmentation happens when parts of our soul essence leave us in order for us to survive the experience with less pain. This reduction leaves us as a survivor. The parts of our soul essence that leave are not just random quantities of our energy, but are most often some of our most treasured aspects. It is not unusual for the soul essence loss to include our self-love, joy in life, our creativity, our confidence, our ability to bond in loving relationship, or our deepest connection to our self.
Just as modern psychology recognizes that people can experience dissociation and fragmentation, shamanism recognizes that people can experience soul loss. Soul loss can occur when someone experiences traumas, emotional loss, abuse, accidents, illness and injuries. The loss of our vital essence known as soul essence occurs as a survival mechanism and coping strategy that we unconsciously employ when faced by events that are too painful or traumatic to be endured. This fragmentation happens when parts of our soul essence leave us in order for us to survive the experience with less pain. This reduction leaves us as a survivor. The parts of our soul essence that leave are not just random quantities of our energy, but are most often some of our most treasured aspects. It is not unusual for the soul essence loss to include our self-love, joy in life, our creativity, our confidence, our ability to bond in loving relationship, or our deepest connection to our self.
Betsy Bergstrom
Artwork by Juan Ulloa