Therapeutic Shamanism
Our website designer spontaneously pulled up the image of the armadillo together with the caption ‘My Pet’ and installed this onto the home page!!! Thus the totem of the Therapeutic Shamanism Page at One & One was birthed to my shock, horror and incredible OMG sense of bottomless humour and laughter thinking what will you all think!! at the immediate sight of such a creature on a therapeutic website… how apt and appropriate is that!!….
The almost ‘curious way’ our problems appear before us is somehow represented in the ‘curious sight’ that is the Armadillo!
Protected by an almost impenetrable armoured shell, the Armadillo, reflects somehow the armoured protection our problems possess, giving them the ability to continue to wage mayhem, defy solutions and influence the negative self talk and beliefs individuals engage in. Cycles of thought that perpetuate the belief ‘problems’ have no answers or solutions.
The Armadillo insect totem teaches us to gather insights and answers to our questions, to ‘float up’ rather than be held down by the weight of the emotions and held prisoner.
It reminds us to nurture ourselves and balance the unconscious habits, impulses and intuition we each posses. It reminds us we can create a bodily shield made of energy for ourselves guarding and protecting the totality of the self; spiritually, physically, and safeguarding our hearts where necessary to bring trust, peace, balance and compassion.
Therapeutic shamanism uses shamanistic and psychological knowledge, wisdom, tools and technologies for shifting consciousness and facilitating transformation of all, embodied within the psychology of self, the synthesis that is hope and liberation from our mental processes
The wisdom of ‘so above’ ‘so below’ encompasses the understanding that all individuals can strengthen their personal connection to nature, that the very act of doing this causes transformational changes within community and nature.
The ceremonies of shamanism creates a space, where ancient tradition together with ‘life’ in the modern world merge. Where the problems of life merge with the healing and the journey commences ultimately to promote harmony and balance.