An integrative approach of ancient and contemporary modalities
Investigators of health missed the one element in their explorations that is the crux of all shamanic healing: The Spirit.
The work of Shamans create extra cerebral pathways in the brain!
A Shaman enters a different state of consciousness similar to meditation and some yoga practices (Also known as alpha and theta brainwaves).
Psychotherapy is a wide domain with over 500 modalities. The major traditions in psychotherapy are known as “talking” therapies.
Through talking, one works predominantly on the symbolic level or the awake Beta state. A lot of research has taken place around the question what the active ingredients in therapy are since all 500 forms of psychotherapy are shown to have similar effects and are equally effective. Despite some claims to the contrary, it is known in the scientific world that “All therapies win prizes” also referred to as the “dodo effect”. The only effective therapeutic ingredient found that is inherent to all therapies, is the therapeutic alliance, the quality of the connection between the therapist and the client.
This alliance, the energy, that flows between two people goes beyond the “talking”, it is at the energetic level. This phenomenon has long been marvelled on and is only gradually better understood in the world of science. Methods are being developed now to direct, harness and consciously apply this energy.
By focussing on and cultivating this energy, the healing process gets engaged.
Some therapies, the experiential, creative therapies such as psychodrama (drama of the soul) and Emotional Mind Integration (EMI), that include all aspects of the life of the client, including “surplus” or imagined reality, do work on the literal, symbolic and the mythic level (beyond cognition), bypassing the talking through mindful awareness of the body, acting and experiencing. They are known to create fast positive “shifts” or “healing moments” in the world of the client.
A Shaman is a portal, a vessel of the purest universal energy and works with it and it works through them.
Ancient energy medicine enables us to experience infinity, an experience to make us whole. Recent research and leading scientists in the field of neurobiology and psychiatry are now also recognising this sense of “infinity“ and are able to locate this as an activity of the brain that heals and integrates a chaotic and rigid psyche, creating this sense of Wholeness. They are finding evidence of the existence and the importance of the collective experience, the connectivity between people (the therapeutic alliance) and the major importance this has for our health.
Traditional psychology focuses predominantly on the internal mental life of the individual.
The significance of the effect of non-talking therapies is now recognised in modern science in the field of neuro-biology and techniques within the existing experiential therapies are used to obtain wanted results, for in particular the deeper and patterned psychopathology as is seen in people who have suffered considerable trauma.
The Shamans have always known the healing effects of the energetic and have worked on these levels for thousands of years. Their ways have been preserved in little remote pockets of different societies despite the destructive influence of western culture throughout the ages. Some diligent people have painstakingly retrieved this wisdom, put it together and created applications suitable for our nowadays-modern society. The work of shamans lay extra cerebral pathways in the brain.
Blended with modern science, the understanding of humanity and the universe will accelerate and grow, ultimately creating a new human, one that lives and dies differently and one that will take their share of responsibility for all of life.
Because Shamans are connected to and have an experienced understanding of the energetic and universal, their way of being in this world is different. Shamanism is not only a form of healing, it is a way of life.
Pathway to Wholeness 