By Mystic Mag — 2021
Renee Baribeau, also known as The Practical Shaman, tells us more about Wind Work, an unusual but ancient practice that uses the many Wind Gods and Goddesses to align our Spirit and Magnetic North and keep us shifting in the right direction.
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The following is a version of an interview I held over several days in September 2006 with my mother, Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro, one of the most distinguished representatives of the traditions of the thousand-year-old Mazatec culture, which is centered in the northern mountains of the state of...
When we decided to explore healing in this issue, we knew that Dr. Bolen could contribute a depth of understanding about healing, in general and about healing of the psyche, in particular.
According to conventional wisdom, when you’re sick, you call the doctor. (And maybe your mom.) But your trusty MD may not be the only one who can cure what ails you—especially if you’ve paid him or her a visit already and still aren’t feeling well.
As long as you can prove that it works, it doesn’t matter what you call it.
Sound has been utilized in various cultures for thousands of years as a tool for healing.
The application of sound healing vibration to acupuncture points has been proven to be a highly effective treatment.
Sound baths are all the rage right now, but sound healing goes deeper than *just* those feel-good mental health benefits.
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Sound healing therapy uses aspects of music to improve physical and emotional health and well-being.
Autoimmunity—which affects three quarters more women than it does men—encompasses a range of conditions and diseases that involve the immune system mistakenly attacking the body’s own organs, tissues, and cells.
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In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.