PERSONAL HEALING

Restoring the balance

No-one goes through life unscathed; we all, at one point, encounter events or people that cause misery or sadness. It is part of what it means to be a human being.

However, sometimes these feelings can be too overwhelming or the become persistent and affect your life in a negative manner. You are unhappy, not living in harmony with yourself or the people around you and you are unable to deal with the challenges of life. A Shu’em Shamanic Healing can help you to regain your harmony and balance and rediscover meaning, joy and happiness.

Shu’em Shamanic Healing

The ritual

The Healer performs a Healing ritual; during this ritual a powerful and loving energy is evoked in which Healing can take place. Often people are aware of a shift in energy during the Healing and a soothing, calm feeling or the experience of joy or strength arises. Sometimes people don’t notice anything during the procedure, but they gradually do start to feel better, without being able to state precisely what happened.
A Shu’em Shamanic Healing is almost always acknowledged as a change on an existential level as it puts an end to a sometimes long period of pain, fear and insecurity.

Within this form of Healing, understanding, consciously processing, or reliving a trauma is unnecessary and superfluous. When something like trauma has recovered at the “Soul” level, your entire psyche will automatically adjust to the new condition, without the need to think about or analyse it.

You will be able to notice this in your life by the fact that both inner and outer events will not disturb you in the way they did and you will find that it is easier to stay unaffected. In balance.

As life adapts to this new balance, new opportunities often arise.

Soul-Loss

Emotional and psychological problems

Emotional and psychological problems mostly originate in what Shamans call the ‘Soul’, a subconscious and interpersonal field. In daily life we are hardly aware of these fields, but we do experience its consequences.

When you have had a traumatic experience that was too shocking to handle emotionally, or when your ability to rationalise the experience has not yet developed fully (as is often the case with children, but can also occur in adults), the only way to deal with it, is to ‘isolate’ the experience from your sense of self. The experience and its associated feelings are pushed away and a wall is built around it, which expresses itself in the adoption a defensive attitude in life, like being overly shy, frightened or aggressive.

This is an automatic and unconscious survival mechanism.

As a result, you no longer experience the pain directly, but from its protected position it continues to emit the same signals of pain, sadness and disstress. This can be very disturbing, especially when it comes to early childhood isolations, and is buried deep underneath.

Part of the feelings have become stuck in the past experience and when situations that unknowingly remind you of this past experience occur, you suddenly react like the child.

This is called “dissociation” in psychology. Shamans call this Soul-loss, literally: loss of Soul or feeling, because you have lost the conscious use of a part of your ‘Soul’ or feeling experience.

Some causes that can lead to Soul-loss in children are:

• A problematic or unhappy childhood
• A change (of scenery) at a young age
• A difficult birth
• Separation from the mother as a child (eg hospital, crèche)
• Difficult family circumstances
• Parental divorce
• The death or departure of a parent or significant other
• Physical (sexual) abuse
• Emotional blackmailing

Some causes that can lead to Soul-loss in later stages in life:

• Illness
• Accidents
• Chronic stress
• Loss of a loved one
• Traumatic divorce
• Disturbed relationships
• Pent-up frustrations

Symptoms or behaviours that are often rooted in Soul-loss:

• An inexplicable and deep sense of frustration and lack of strength
• Anxiety or panic attacks, psychological as well as physical
• Feelings of inferiority
• Depression
• Chronic fatigue
• Fears and phobias
• Hypersensitivity to others or situations
• Obsessions, obsessive behavior
• Inappropriate behavior
• Inability to make or maintain contact
• Loneliness
• Some forms of criminal behavior
• A tendency to addiction (drugs, sex, work, food etc.)
• Some forms of psychosis

Soul-theft

A special form of soul-loss is the so-called “Soul-theft” (literally: theft of the soul or feeling). In most cases Soul-theft takes place by the mother or by a partner, that claims part(s) of the victims’ feeling (Soul).

Usually this takes the form of emotional domination (blackmail) of one over the other.
For the “thief”, this always involves an attempt to compensate for his or her own Soul-loss. Often, women are looking for compensation by Soul-theft for their own Soul-loss, especially with their children. Men mostly seek compensation in an (over-) activity or in an addiction.

A relationship in which Soul-theft plays a role is always problematic and heavily burdened by conflicting feelings of shame, guilt, duty, dependency, frustration, emotional blackmail, love and hate. Another characteristic is that none of the people involved is happy with the relationship, but neither are able to change it. Even after the death of one of the involved, a situation of Soul-theft persists.

Influences

Sometimes you are in contact with people that make you feel very tired. This is caused by influences, that are the result of communication in feeling (Soul) which you unknowingly register. This unconscious communication is a natural aspect of life. However, if the (negative) influence is too strong and you are weakened by stress, illness or soul-loss, it can become a psychological problem.

The Shaman can help you to better deal with the influences that you unconsciously register. This can be done through Healing, but is also a major focus point in the Shamanic Healer Training.
By acquiring power and implementing focus, impressions and influences have less control over you. It is advisable to regularly “clean” yourself from all influences, especially if you live or work in a stressful environment, meet many people in need or are recovering from a long-term illness or traumatic experience. 

Black Magic

Some cultures have a tradition of intentionally directing negative influences towards others. This is usually referred to as ‘black magic’. These influences can have a strong and lasting effect and can be very dangerous. Therefore, it is important to remove these influences so that the system can restore itself.

A Shu’em Shamanic Healing is a powerful and effective tool to remove negative influences.

Often recurring symptoms of Influences

• Inexplicable fatigue
• Development of tumors
• Cara
• Pressure on certain body parts
• Rheumatism
• Infections
• Headaches
• Persistent bad luck
• Inability to engage in social or intimate contacts
• Indecision
• Recurring daydreams
• Disturbing inner voices
• Schizophrenia and the Multiple Personality Syndrome

In the case of Black Magic it is strongly advised to call in the help of an expert (e.g. a Shaman or priest).

Pricing

US$ 175 per session, whether in-person or online (Distance)