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Praise for Michael Samuels and Mary Rockwood Lane "Filled with the truth about how spirit can heal us. I was very moved by this powerful book." -Christiane Northrup, M.D. (on Spirit Body Healing) "Dr. Michael Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring." -Bernie Siegel, M.D. "Healing is a creative process. These heartfelt stories and beautiful visualizations inspire the reader to see all life as a healing journey." -David Simon, M.D. (on Spirit Body Healing) "Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every person’s healing journey." -Dean Ornish, M.D. Ancient spiritual wisdom-practical results Long before there were medical doctors, surgical procedures, and prescription drugs, shaman healers learned to combat illness and restore physical health using the tools and skills of the body, mind, and spirit. Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing shows you how to harness the power of these ancient shamanic traditions to expand your ability as a healer. This practical, prescriptive guide offers a step-by-step program that shows you how to focus the power of your mind, open yourself to your visionary life, and allow the healing spirit to flow through you. You’ll learn how to heal yourself and others using proven techniques drawn from both Native American and Asian traditions, including: Heeding the call, Creating a sacred space, Inviting spirit through prayer, Using guided imagery and moving healing energy, Invoking spirit animals and the spirits of ancient ones, Using a medicine wheel and cultivating visions
Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

PART ONE: CREATE SACRED SPACE.

1. You Are Called.

2. Sacred Prayer.

3. Heal Yourself.

4. Shamanic Love.

5. Sacred Commitment and Mindfulness.

PART TWO: SEE VISIONS.

6. Visions of the Shaman.

7. Spirit Animals and Guardian Figures.

8. Healing Medicine Wheels.

PART THREE: HEAL NOW.

9. Restorying Changes Reality.

10. Art and Creativity as Shamanism.

11. Moving Energy, Healing Energy.

12. Honor Suffering and Death.

13. Heal Your Community and the Earth.

14. Your Shamanic Initiation.

Appendix 1: The Garthering of Medicine Women for Peace.

Appendix 2: For Professional Healers

Index.

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Prayer

Spiritual

Healing

Michael Samuels

mysticism

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	22 décembre 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781118039816
Langue	English

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Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
RESEARCHING THIS BOOK
STORY: A MEDICINE MAN HEALS
THE HISTORY OF SHAMANISM
THE NEW SHAMANISM
THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY

PART ONE - CREATE SACRED SPACE

Chapter 1 - YOU ARE CALLED

THE BODY OF THE STARS
A LIFE EVENT MAKES A SHAMAN
HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
BECOMING IMMERSED IN NATURE
EVERYONE IS YOUR TEACHER
SOUL RETRIEVAL IS FINDING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF
LOOK AT YOUR LIFE STORY AND YOUR ELECTION

Chapter 2 - SACRED PRAYER

STORY: A SHAMAN’S HUT
SACRED SPACE
TRADITIONAL SACRED SPACES
PRAYER CREATES SACRED SPACE
HOW TO CREATE SACRED SPACE WITHIN YOUR BODY
PREPARATION OF THE PHYSICAL SPACE
THE SWEAT LODGE

Chapter 3 - HEAL YOURSELF

THE SACRED BODY
USING THE SPIRIT BODY HEALING PROCESS TO HEAL
USE YOUR BODY AS A VORTEX TO HEALING
STRENGTHEN YOUR BODY
DO BODY WORK
KUNDALINI FOR SHAMANIC POWER

Chapter 4 - SHAMANIC LOVE

STORY: THE EARTH SPEAKS AS THE CRESCENT MOON
THE AYAMI AND THE ABASSY
FALLING INTO THE BODY OF THE BELOVED
SPIRIT WANTS TO BE LOVED AND TO LOVE
EXPERIENCING SELF-LOVE
FORGIVE YOURSELF
GOD’S LOVE AND HEALING
HUMILITY

Chapter 5 - SACRED COMMITMENT AND MINDFULNESS

THE MOUNTAIN STORY
BE FULLY PRESENT
BE PRESENT
OBSTACLES TO PRESENCE
LEAVE THE PLACE OF FEAR
CULTIVATE THE EXPERIENCE OF SILENCE
CLEAR INTENTION
FOCUS HELPS YOU SEE DEEPLY
COMMITMENT GIVES YOU POWER
STORY: ALL THE WAY WITH POSTAGE

PART TWO - SEE VISIONS
Chapter 6 - VISIONS OF THE SHAMAN

STORY: THE FLYING HORSE
ENTERING THE SPIRIT WORLD THROUGH VISIONS
WORKING WITH GUIDED IMAGERY
HEALING ART
BODY MIRRORING
A NURSE SEES GOD BEHIND HER PATIENT
SEE SPIRITS, CREATE CHANGE
LISTEN IN THE OUTER AND INNER WORLDS AT ONCE
SEEING TO DIAGNOSE

Chapter 7 - SPIRIT ANIMALS AND GUARDIAN FIGURES

ABOUT SPIRIT ANIMALS
GO INTO NATURE EVERY DAY
THE SENSUOUS SPELL OF THE ANIMALS
SPIRIT ANIMALS
HOW TO FIND YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL
OWL
EAGLE
LION
BEAR
TURTLE
SERPENT
BEAVER
LIZARD AND ALLIGATOR
COYOTE
WOLF
SPIDER
DEER
BUFFALO
DOLPHIN AND WHALE
MAN AND WOMAN
HOW TO HEAR YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL SPEAK
QUIET DOWN
HUMAN-ANIMAL TRANSFORMATIONS
HUMAN SPIRIT GUIDES: VISIONS OF THE ANCIENT ONES
GO TO WHERE THE ANCIENT ONES AND ANCESTORS LIVED
CALL THE SPIRITS FORTH
VISION QUEST TO SEE SPIRIT ANIMALS AND ANCIENT SPIRITS

Chapter 8 - HEALING MEDICINE WHEELS

THE HISTORY OF THE MEDICINE WHEEL
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN MEDICINE WHEEL

PART THREE - HEAL NOW
Chapter 9 - RESTORYING CHANGES REALITY

STORY: HE TOOK THE BOYS TO HEAVEN
OUR LIFE IS OUR STORY
RESTORY YOUR LIFE TO BE LOVED
HOW TO RESTORY YOUR LIFE
RESTORY THE PAST
RESTORY THE PRESENT
RESTORY THE FUTURE
RESTORY ILLNESS
MAKE NEW MEANING
THE POWER OF WORDS

Chapter 10 - ART AND CREATIVITY AS SHAMANISM

SEE LIGHT AND BEAUTY IN YOUR VISIONARY SPACE
USE WRITING, ART, MUSIC, DANCE AS A SHAMAN HEALER
SHAMANISM AND ART WERE ONCE ONE
CREATIVE HEALING
EXPERIENCE LIGHT AND BEAUTY

Chapter 11 - MOVING ENERGY, HEALING ENERGY

HEALING ENERGY
HEALING ENERGY IN MANY CULTURES
CHINESE MEDICINE AND QI
THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD OR AURA
CHAKRAS
LIGHT YOUR FIRE OF ENERGY
INCREASE YOUR VELOCITY
MOVING ENERGY IN SHAMANIC RITUAL AND CEREMONY
HEALING RESONANCE
ROLLING THUNDER DOES A HEALING CEREMONY
SHAMAN RITUALS

Chapter 12 - HONOR SUFFERING AND DEATH

STORY: THE LITTLE BOY
PAIN AND DARKNESS AS A DOORWAY TO HEALING
ALLOW THE SUFFERING TO HAPPEN
PROTECT YOURSELF
FACE DEATH

Chapter 13 - HEAL YOUR COMMUNITY AND THE EARTH

THE SHAMAN CREATES COMMUNITY
CLEANING UP A RIVER
PRACTICE SERVICE
FROM ONE TO MANY

Chapter 14 - YOUR SHAMANIC INITIATION

CALLING FORTH THE SHAMAN HEALER: AN INVOCATION

APPENDIX 1 - The Gathering of Medicine Women for Peace
APPENDIX 2 - For Professional Healers
INDEX

Copyright © 2003 by Michael Samuels, M.D., and Mary Rockwood Lane, Ph.D. All rights reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Samuels, Michael.
Shaman wisdom, shaman healing : deepen your ability to heal with visionary and spiritual tools and practices / Michael Samuels, Mary Rockwood Lane.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-471-41820-X (cloth)
1. Shamanism. 2. Mental Healing.
[DNLM: 1. Shamanism. 2. Faith Healing—methods. 3. Imagery (Psychotherapy). 4. Relaxation Techniques. 5. Spirituality. WB 885 S193s 2003] I. Lane, Mary Rockwood. II. Title.
RZ401 .S186 2003
615 . 8’52—dc21
2002153115

This one’s for the family—Valentino and Tamae Agnoli, Fred and Keitha Miller, Bill Niman, and the second and third generations—I’m thankful for a lifetime of love.
—Michael Samuels

To Jane Rockwood, my mother; Hope, Larry, Frank, and Peggy; and in memory of my father, William Peck Rockwood.
—Mary Rockwood Lane
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank the Creator, the directions, my guides, and my spirit animals.
I thank Mary Rockwood Lane and all the healers and shamans we interviewed for this book. I want to thank some two-leggeds, too. For healing: Rolling Thunder, Turtle Hawk, Randy, Ed, Tudor Marinescu, Edmund, Roberto, Paco, Kelly, Dan, the bear dancers, Alan, White Bear Woman, Yashoda, the Hopi people, the Denai people, David Cheek, Irving Oyle, Jose Silva, Kurt Hirshhorn, Sidney Cohlan, Joel Reiter, Richard Bernstein, Stan Terman, Dean Ornish, Bernie Siegel, Christiane Northrup, Michael Lerner, Bill Buchholtz, Emmett Miller, Sam Spivak, Rachel Remen, Frank Lawlis, Geanne Achterberg, Vicki Green, Marshall and Phyllis Klaus, Lewis Sandner, John Small, Jen Anderson. For writing: John Berry-man, Kees Bolle, Alan Watts, Nancy Samuels, Don Gerrard, Jim Silberman, Mark Chimsky, PTA, Linda Bennett, Wendy Frost, Hal Bennett, Susan Muldow, Jeremy Katz. For healing art: Christiane Corbat, Vijali, Alex Grey, Marian Weber, Gina Halpern, Anna Halprin, Lee Ann Stacpoole, Dominique Mazeau, Annette Ridenour, Linda Samuels, Kenn Burrows, Kumari Fabio, Mimi Farina, Annette and Petros Dellatolas, Sigrid Hacker, Maurice Tuchman. For houses: Hurford Sharon, Valentino Agnoli, Herry Holdorf, Tara Allen, Harris Wall and the boys, Joseph Saccocci, Ingrid, Uta, Heidi Kramer, Gorgo. And family and friends: Rudy, Lewis, Florence, and Iggy Samuels, Owen Lampe, Stephen Rosenwasser, Jimmy and Carol Katz, Kurt and Karen Willig, Sarah Singer, Andrew Singer, Elizabeth Nelson, and, finally, our editor, Tom Miller, and our agent, Elaine Markson.
—Michael Samuels

I thank my family—Tim Lane, Anneliese, David, and Francesco—and Norman, Jan, Melissa, and Michael Lane. I’d also like to thank Jan Poser, LeeAnn Dodson, Patty Hall, Missy Fox, Tara Emily Allen, Mary Lisa Spano, Jill Sonke Henderson, John Graham-Pole, Tina Mullen, Debbie Olgetree, Judith Comeau, Cynthia Bush, Shelley Waters, Ransom Friedman, Barbara Orban, Gina Zeitlin, Lyn Goodwin, Bill Schaaf, Randy Brower, Selma Wood, Annie Pais, Jana Borino, Celia Cade, Marilyn Thursby, Cathy DeWitt, Fro and Lori Warren, Margaret Tolbert, Jill Lacefield, Wilma Siegel, Linda Wilson, Liz Bedel, Allen and Myrna Neims, Randy Batista, Jean Watson, Martha Rogers, Nell Page, Rodger and Katie Powell, Madeline Austin, Yashoda Yehudit, Sally Hutchinson, Alex Grey, Annette Ridenour, Laurie McLaughlin, Vickie Noble, Stuart Krantz, Christine Feldman, Vijali, Sandra Arey, Carol Reed Ash, Nancy Lasseter, Heidi Kramer, Ana Puig, Christiane Corbat, Albert Alcalay, Linda Samuels, Bernie Siegel, Herb Benson, Joan Borysenko, Sue Bassett, Al Rhoton, Mark Pashayan, Tom Zavelson, Jeff Smith, Anne Morgan, Gail Ellison, Ellie Sommer, Eleanor Blair, Rachel Veronica Williams, Ann Peckman, Fletcher Th