Shamanism, quantum healing, meditation and “HERE AND NOW”
In your opinion what is Shamanism?
The term shamanism comes from the Manchu-Tungus word “šaman”. The noun is formed from the verb ša- ‘to know’; thus, a shaman is literally “one who knows.”.
The shamans exist all over the world in different countries and cultures. They have included women, men, and transgender individuals of every age from middle childhood onward.
Nowadays Shamanism is said to be generalised word to describe indigenous groups in which roles such as healer, religious leader, counselor, and councillor are combined. It is a designation for people who connect to the universe, spirits, the stars, Gods and nature. It is a spiritual practice.
How did you get in contact with it?
I am a curious being. I always felt there is much more to life than what I was told. So I searched and as it usually is in my life, what I look for just pups up at the exact moment that I need it. So many “coincidences” started to happened that brought me to meet Shamans from different countries, cultures and practises. Of course nothing is a coincident.
I was lucky enough to learn from them different life hacks, rituals, about their perception of life, about nature, animal symbolism, totems, medicine plants, working with the elements and other interesting things.
I heard you practice shamanic rituals. What can we imagine under that?
Not exactly in the way you would perceive it. I do not engage in shamanic rituals such as work in an altered state through medicinal plants.
I learned different methods of healing the soul under the guidance of shamans. It is not always about rituals, even though rituals are a big part of the practice. It is more about the perception of the whole person, his soul, body and mind in this world, nature and the universe. It is about finding where the disharmony arose, and how to fix it.
I remembered that shamans normally live over a hundred years. Why do you think it is so?
The shamans I know live an average of 120 years. I think it is because they are constantly working on themselves, helping and supporting each other. Once in a while they meet and consult not only about what problems their clients have, but also help each other with their own problems.
What I like the most is tin some Shamanic practices a person who wants to be a shaman can become one only after the age of 50, because until then he or she is only considered a "teenager". And even though he/she has a lot to learn throughout his/her whole life, he/she is still unfit to be a full pledged Shaman and work with people and help heal them as a Shaman, because he/she has not resolved himself/herself and his/her life yet.
What is the first thing you learned from them?
At one ritual, the Shaman began the prayer with the sentence "Mitákuye Oyás'Ing".
I asked him what it meant. He explained to me that in translation it can mean "Everything is related", or "We are all related", or "All my relations". It comes from the Lakota language and it means the unity of the world, nature and the universe.
It reminds us that we are not alone, that we are all connected to everyone and everything, that everything is connected to everything and that we are an integral part of the world, nature and the universe.
Our life in this world is about relationships. Relationships define, reflect, inspire, motivate, teach and move us.
The most basic meaning of our life is our relationships. From the relationship "I and I", "I and God" (or the universe or Spirit, or whatever you consider creation), "I and the world around me", "I and family, friends", to the relationship "I and coffee" and others.
"Show me five of your closest friends and I'll tell you who you are."
You practice quantum therapy too. What exactly is it?
I will use the definition: Quantum therapy is a method that draws on the knowledge of quantum physics. It is based on the assumption that everything is made up of quantum particles that are constantly oscillating. According to modern physics, our entire reality can be described as vibrations and wave patterns that contain information and from what we are made of.
We are a biological information field. These vibrations and waves can be changed, so everything can be influenced using a quantum wave.
Simply put, our subconscious codes and beliefs that we have accumulated throughout our lives are the information that influences us. They are in the form of energies, and when those codes or blocks hinder us in life and affect us negatively, through quantum therapy we can figure them out, remove them and set new, more constructive information that will move us to a better, healthier and happier life.
For this, quantum cleansing is used, which is similar to psychoanalysis or Emotional Therapy, where the client comes to the cause of their problem (either health or psychological problem that mostly is stem from childhood from family relationships) that is coded in their subconscious. This is followed by these three steps: understanding, forgiveness and lovingly letting go. In this way, the code/belief actually loses its power over us and over our actions, body and mind, and stops influencing us negatively. It is like computer decoding. The client consciously searches, finds, deletes, recodes.
It is also very similar to some shamanic processes. Since psychosomatics says that all our health problems come from the psyche, i.e. from everything we carry inside us, this method is also excellent for solving the essence of our health problems.
Meditation is also a big part of Shamanic teachings. I recently completed a 10-week Wim Hoff course. It also included meditation to learn how to work with the cold without stress. I'll admit, meditating is difficult in my opinion. I can't stop thinking... Can meditation be learned?
Anyone can learn to meditate. A lot of people think they have to stop thinking, but that's not always the case. We cannot stop the brain and thoughts, they only stop when brain death occurs. In meditation, it's just the ability to direct your thoughts somewhere else or keep them in the background.
Which means that in the background your thoughts run, and in the foreground our perception is focused, for example, on breathing, or on visualising something specific. We can even concentrate on |nothing”. The essence of meditation is about taking time for ourselves and calming down, perceiving the here and now. It is a mental healing process.
It is the moment when we get more oxygen into our body because we focus on breathing, or through breathing we calm our soul and our physical body. Through visualisation, we get answers to various questions that we have in ourselves or imagine the ideal state in which we want to be.
The brain cannot tell the difference between the reality we are in and the reality we imagine in the visualisation. So, when we imagine something beautiful, our physical body reacts to it as if we are already in that situation.
There is a lot of talk about the Here and Now method. Do you manage to live life and be in the here and now?
Yes, good, and I like it very much. It brings me much more joy than stressing about tomorrow or yesterday. There are things we cannot change or influence. The only thing we have power over is today and that is a gift. Therefore, in English, the Present is the present tense, and it can also be translated as a present in the meaning of a "gift".
What do you enjoy the most in life and what moves you forward?
Silence, to be alone. Traveling, meeting new people, new cultures, new environments, new philosophies, new thought processes and new foods. Books, especially fantasy, which cross the boundaries of reality and open other horizons. A glass of wine, a cup of coffee or to eat something delicious that pleases not only the taste buds, but also my soul.
Such enjoyment is a kind of meditation for me. The sea is something that pulls on my heart strings. I am most connected to the sea. And what moves me forward the most is when I can sit with my friends over a drink and discuss the immortality of things. Just enjoying their company and laughing.
I enjoy humour the most. My best friend has the best sense of humour. He always says "what doesn't make you laugh, at least makes you laugh" A Shaman once told me that we Europeans take ourselves too seriously, that we are neither as interesting nor as important as we think we are.
We lose our sense of humour and therefore slowly die inside.
I keep repeating this sentence to myself, I often say it out loud to my clients whenever I get the chance. Shamans also say that depression is because we haven't danced, sung and laughed at our own mortality in a long time.