Shamanic Inner Child Healing – Recovery of your inner child work
Shamanic inner child healing can, in a very explicit and direct manner, achieve mental and spiritual health by addressing and healing childhood experiences (PTSD) such as trauma, emotional abuse, physical abuse, or sexual abuse; is the recovery of your inner child.
The idea that childhood experiences come to bear on who we are as adults is common knowledge. Shamanic healing of the inner child is an inner child journey process allows for clients to become their own loving parents. By learning to listen, care for and respond to one’s inner children, we create a foundation for a new way of being – one of wholeness.
Shamanic Healing Inner Child
Inner Child Healing suggests that the human psyche has child-like aspects and that these aspects or parts can be accessed and communicated with to facilitate healing. In the course of Shamanic Healing the Inner Child, the focus is given to the wounded, traumatized child inside of you and the emphasis of the therapeutic work itself is on healing and nurturing this wounded aspect of your Self.
This is achieved in the course of shamanic journeying and interacting with the child as a healthy adult would with a frightened child. Much of my Shamanic Inner Child work is developed to help people who have been emotionally, physically, or sexually abused as children and display symptoms of post-traumatic stress as adults to come to terms with, and heal their past. However, the relevance of inner child work is not limited to persons who suffered such severe trauma.
We are all shaped by our childhood experiences, and this, at times, has a negative impact on our adult lives. As a psychotherapist, I find Shamanic Inner Child Healing work to be most effective in helping people heal their past traumas, and I use the technique extensively.
Psychological Inner Child Healing vs Shamanic Inner Child Healing Work
One of the most significant differences between visualization work and shamanic work is the presence of a mediator, or therapist. While inner child work done by visualization is necessarily directed by the therapist, when working shamanically, we are interacting with the child without human mediation and under the watching eye of our spirit teachers.
The benefit of not having a human mediator lies in the fact that as humans, even if we are experienced therapists, we inevitably make assumptions that may lead us to direct the interaction between child and adult in counterproductive ways. Interacting with the child in the spirit world removes the mediation, and thus removes the risk of shaping the interaction according to the therapist’s assumptions.
Working shamanically with the inner child holds even more benefits. From a shamanic perspective, trauma is one of the main causes of soul loss. According to the shaman, when we suffer trauma, parts of our soul escape and the shaman must journey to the spirit realms to return them.
While psychologists referred to the inner child as dissociated aspects of our psyche, the shaman sees it as lost parts of our soul that left us due to the force of the trauma. And although this is ultimately done for the survival and the wellbeing of our soul, as we lose that part, we also lose the wisdom and strength it has to offer us.
Trapped Trauma Preventing Healing The Inner Child
From the perspective of the inner child, we say that when the child suffers its first trauma it is trapped in us and as years go by, it is covered in layers, like walls which surround and protect it, gradually becoming thicker and thicker. One could liken this to an onion, with the child being at the core of the onion.
To access the trapped child, we must gently peel the layers surrounding it. If we try to rush or ‘bulldoze’ into the inner child, our attempt will fail and the layers will only get thicker to protect the child.
This is why, when working with the inner child by visualization, therapists would typically take a long time to approach it. The advantage that working shamanically gives us is in bypassing our critical mind (fears or ego) while journeying, something which is very difficult to achieve during visualization or active imagination. When working with the traumatized inner child, we are naturally afraid – afraid of letting go, afraid of what we might hear. We are trapped, in other words, in our critical mind.
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Distance healings are extremely powerful as energy is not bound by time or space. It can be felt across the Universe at anytime, anywhere. My healing abilities are enhanced in a deep, meditative trance-like state. This why my energy healing sessions are *NOT* done by phone, or chat.
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