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The essential perspective of the shaman is:
1. Everything is alive. Everything has spirit and awareness.
2. Energy and matter are the same. Everything is vibration. Everything that exists is an energy system within a greater
energy system.
3. Everything that exists is connected to everything else in a web of energy or life.
4. Unseen/inner/spiritual reality affects visible reality.
Working within this system of perceptions, the shaman strives to create balance and harmony of the spirit. This can be focused
on the individual or the community. This also can be applied to anything that exists. What distinguishes the shaman from other
types of healer are his methods. The journeying, or shamanic state of consciousness, allows the shaman to send out their consciousness
to obtain information from the spirit world. This information is retrieved and used for further insight or healing. Example:
a shaman might assist in healing a broken bone by opening up an increased energy flow to that area, or help a person half
from an emotional depression by restoring energy lost as a result of a traumatic even.
By using shamanic practices a wide spectrum of healing is possible. Traditional shaman healing is done by journeying to the
bat of a drum or rattle to visit a teacher/spirit/totem for guidance or wisdom. Shamanic healing takes place in many forms,
depending on what the spirits recommend. This can include plant and mineral spirit medicine, through ancestral memories, soul
retrieval; extraction and soul escorting. Shamans employ many different healing methods besides those acquired during journeying,
these are herbs, visualization, and hands on, use of aroma, gemstones, and basic psychology. The shaman will use their lore
of nature along with the ability they have to read auras and apply the knowledge of chakras to heal. The shaman understand
the necessity to use both nature and spirit in healing. All of the above used in any combination may be used, along with journeying
to heal. All depends upon the situation.
The Seven Shaman Principles[credits]
by Serge Kahill King
1.
The World is What You Think It Is
Positive thoughts attract positive people and events, and negative thoughts attract negative people and events.
Corollary: Everything is a dream
Dreams are real and reality is a dream. The only test we use for a reality check is whether or not someone else experiences
it. Hallucination means "your dream doesn’t match my dream." "Reality" to a shaman is a mass hallucination, or a shared
dream. If this life is a dream and if we can wake up fully within it, then we can change the dream by changing our dreaming.
Corollary: All systems are arbitrary
All meanings are made up and the Absolute Truth is whatever you decide it is. What matters is how well the system works
for you, not how true it is (which is an arbitrary concept).
2.
There are No Limits
We experience two kinds of limitations: creative and filtered. Creative limitation assumes the purposeful establishment
of limits within an infinite universe in order to create particular experiences, made by God or our own Higher Selves. These
enable us to experience life as humans on Earth (to play by that particular set of rules - breaking the rules changes to another
game).
Filtered limitations are imposed by ideas and beliefs that inhibit creativity rather than enhance it, like beliefs that
engender hopelessness, helplessness, revenge and cruelty. They generate focus without the potential for positive action.
Corollary: Everything is connected
The usual metaphor is a web of interdependence.
Corollary: Anything is possible
All you have to do is believe. However, because you are not alone in the Universe, the degree to which something can
be shared depends on the beliefs of others around you.
Corollary: Separation is a useful illusion
Pure empathy makes you as helpless as the one suffering. Fear make you lose sight of your role as dreamweaver.
3.
Energy Flows Where Attention Goes
Meditation and hypnosis are simply different techniques for doing the same thing - refocusing your attention toward
more positive beliefs and expectations. As states, both are identical conditions of sustained focused attention.
Those aspects of your present experience which seem enduring are the effect of habitual sustained focused attention
carried on by your subconscious.
Corollary: Attention goes where energy flows
Attention is attracted to all kinds of high energy intensity.
Corollary: Everything is energy
Thought is energy and one kind of energy can be converted into another kind of energy.
4.
Now is the Moment of Power
Karma exists and operates only in the present moment. It is your beliefs, decisions, and actions today about yourself
and the world around you that give you what you have and make you what you are.
Thanks to memory we may carry over habits of body and mind from day to day, but each day is a new creation and any habit
can be changed at any present moment - even if it isn’t easy.
You select out of the immense resources of your gene pool those characteristics that best reflect your present beliefs
and intentions. Your parents/social background have nothing to do with your present, but what you believe about them now and
how you react to those beliefs does.
Corollary: Everything is relative
You define "now" based on your focus (second, hour, year, lifetime).
Corollary: Power increases with sensory attention
Many people living today aren’t even here - most of their attention is focused on the past or the future. To the
degree they diminish their awareness of the present moment, their power and effectiveness in the present also decreases.
5.
To Love is to Be Happy With
Love exists to the degree that you are happy with the object of your love. The unhappy part comes from fear, anger and
doubt. To be deeply in love means to be deeply connected, and the depth and clarity of the connection increases as fear, anger
and doubt are removed.
Corollary: Love increases as judgment decreases
Criticism kills relationships; praise builds and rebuilds them. When you give praise you reinforce the good and it grows.
When you criticize you reinforce the bad and it grows.
Corollary: Everything is alive, aware and responsive
You subconscious takes any praise or criticisms it hears to heart, even if it’s directed elsewhere, even if you’re
saying it. Each criticism separates you from and decreases your awareness of what you criticize, until you end up responding
to a secondary creation of your own that may no longer resemble the original. When someone criticizes you, praise yourself
to counteract it.
6.
All Power Comes From Within
For every event that you experience you creatively attract it through your beliefs, desires, fears and expectations,
and then react to it habitually or respond to it consciously. This does not mean that you are to blame for your abuse or injury,
because you were probably not conscious of your negative beliefs, attitudes and expectations. It also does not mean the other
person is innocent.
Corollary: Everything has power
You do not have ALL the power in the world - everyone has the same power. The good news - you can work with these powers.
Corollary: Power comes from authority
Confident authority is the key to conscious creation.
7.
Effectiveness is the Measure of Truth
The means determine the end, not the ends justify the means. What is really important is what works.
Corollary: There is always another way to do anything
Every problem has more than one solution. If the goal is important, you should never give up, just change your approach.
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