Shamanic Healing in Psychotherapy

Monday, August 6th, 2012

Maintaining the energetic connection in shifting from collective experience back into daily living requires intent through practice and daily ritual. Living in the modern world, I have learned to work the sacred link during dreamtime. I fall asleep holding quiyas stones from my mesa, as I transition into deeper layers of the psyche from conscious to dream states, moving into and reaching for connection with the winged beings and my allies.

During the day, I speak with them continually as I am working with clients, asking for their guidance and direction. I do not question their input but work with it as it is given to me. They often bring me images of patterns that are playing out in clients’ lives, or show me how to work with the client to move energy in their body. Sometimes what I am being shown doesn’t always makes sense to me, but I have learned to trust the information I am given. Occasionally I am shown that a client is being weighted down and needs to drop into the weight in their bellies. Sometimes, I am given verbal information about a client’s lineage, about a pattern that has been passed down through generations in a family. I try to explain to clients that identifying how they developed a wound or negative pattern is not about assigning blame. Usually the person that passed it also received it from someone else that came before them. Although healing often comes through acknowledging feeling that has been unexpressed, there is often something to be gained from going through the experience, greater strength or insight.

Frequently, I am able to see the client’s wounding from a bird’s eye view.  In working with analytic and psychotherapy clients, I must be able to see them in a healed state. Yet the overview only provides the map for healing – it does not bring about the healing itself. It is equally important to experience connection with a client by experiencing heart-centered compassion for what a client has been through, while at the same time holding the vision connection of the healed state. I feel what a client is feeling, that surfaces as they are telling their stories but I do not try to remember the details of the stories themselves. The details are relevant only in that they are what the feelings are often attached to. Sometimes a client will need to tell their story repeatedly to stay connected to the feelings. Feeling the feelings brings compassion, forgiveness, and understanding. In these kinds of feeling states, clients are finally able to let go of the past and move on. Then they are no longer claimed by past life events and are able to become open to new experience.

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