What is a Shaman?
A Healer
First and foremost,
The Shaman is a healer. Whether it be with emotional trauma affecting our mental space, or the illness and injuries affecting the health of the physical form, the Shaman’s first role is to provide a path toward healing. Using both, the medicines found in nature of the Earth (with the help of the Norse goddess Jord), or using the abilities of healing revealed by the Norse goddess Eir with the wisdom of the Norse god Odinn, or the magic of the Norse goddess Freyja, to help our fellow life forms obtain their true, authentically healthy selves.
Whether the necessary path of healing is within the physical body, or the mind. Or, whether it be embracing of the energy of magic, or the reality of herbal medicines, the Shaman uses the many different parts of this physical life to assist his “friends” in re-obtaining the balance within their existence. Using traditional rituals, spells, staves, potions, salves, or tinctures, encouraging the use of each of these energies to assist the physical form to recenter itself, and align to our congruent self, thereby restoring the physical health of the individual.
NOTE: Certain Shamanic treatments should be aligned to an opinion of a medical professional, therefore we ask that one consults with their medical professional before undergoing any natural or herbal treatment by our Shaman.
The primary source of healing within the physical form is that of belief. Belief of the self. For it is through the societally programmed authority of medical doctors that we believe that their magic or chemical decoctions will cure what ails us. It is this same belief that our ancestors had in those who could rally the resources of the Earth to provide the same results. It is this “belief”, and emotional alignment to that belief that dictates the success of any healing.
There are many different methods to treat the mind and body, of both the physical and spiritual selves. Remembering that these two remaining in balance with one another is a critical key to our health and well-being. As a Shaman of the physical plane, using the many resources available on the physical plane, to help our friends to “re-balance” their internal existence, by adjusting the energy influences that can upset this.
Energy of Healing
As a Shaman, he interprets the energy given to him by the many spirits around us, into terms and ways that the modern-layperson can use them to obtain a better mental space, while working with the constant influence of negative and unwanted influences. This role that he has embraced has led him on a discovery of many different aspects of spiritual living, to include the use of. nature’s gifts to provide medicine for the people, and understanding the spiritual energy involved in the magic of my ancestors. With an abundance of experiences in the runic magic and translations, as well as the detailed usages of staves and other forms of magical expressions, he has come to a deep understanding of the energy that encircles us, whether it be from the gods, other physical forms (including the non-human forms), as well as the Landvætti (or old-Norse spirits of the land).
The mind is the central point of our perception of the reality in which we experience a physical life. Understanding the energy transference with all the many different influential energies of this plane of existence offers an insight into helping others to manage those energies for their own benefit. Working to understand these influences helps to recognize our true values, thereby arriving at a life of congruent living, therefore more authentic to those beliefs. This recognition helps many to reveal their own contentment and inner peace, as well as physical health.
As a student of life’s experiences and a connected spirit with his ancestors, he has been educated that many of the medicines that we need can be found in nature, using the gifts of the goddess Jord, or Mother Earth. (we will be putting some of the recipes I use here on this page), as well as many of them with the original Norse runic explanations will appear on our Patreon page. Please understand, for those of you who seek medical advice and/or prescriptions, that the primary ingredient for these natural remedies to work is one’s absolute belief in the solution, be sure to use your mind (make sense), and your heart (feels right), to seriously consider solutions offered. The Shaman is not, nor have ever been associated with the medical community, therefore, consider consulting with your medical professional team prior to engaging in natural remedies.
Continuing our understanding of the energy and energy management between the universe and the physical form, the Shaman has completed an in-depth study regarding the use of runic magic to perform treatment of the physical form. Using both the Norse Runes, and the same energy contained within the understanding of Reiki, in addition to ancient “Staves” for healing purposes, he has come to recognize the energy management patterns that exist between the use of magic, and the control of our mental space. Arriving at the place where he realizes that the cornerstone recognition must be the understanding of the energy moving between the physical form and the world around it. Stave and runic translations and understandings can be found (as we upload them) on our Patreon site.
The sound of music can be a vehicle on the emotional superhighway that we can use to transport our feelings from one place to another in addition to utilizing their healing properties.
As you may, or may not be, aware, there is healing that can be found within the sounds processed by our physical sensory input, or absorbed by our skin and our ears. Regardless of the disabilities that are found in the human form, sound can be an important healer of those symptoms that may be altering our lives. As sound is energy moving through the vacuum of space, it can alter the frequency of the space around each of us, thereby altering the frequency within the mind, releasing the proper hormones within the blood stream to change our focus. More importantly, it can alter the chemical composition that the brain is interpreting as a “feeling” and changing it to comfort.
Shamans are teachers. With lessons given to them by the gods, the spirits, and many others, to include the experiences of living a long, trial filled life of learning, they offer an explanation of each of our journeys. Whether using the aged-old tool of divination with Nordic Runes, or the experiences of his ancestors passed to him during his altered states of consciousness, or trances, the Shaman brings an in-depth understanding as to the application of our spiritual connection to our every day lives. The Shaman is capable of teaching these many lessons from antiquity to the modern-day viewers/listeners who wish to continue their evolution.
Both, in person, and across the airwaves of television, the internet, and sometimes other media sources, Shamans teach the generations a message of hope, harmony, peace, joy, and most importantly, love. They teach about using the lessons of spiritual connection to maintain our mental and physical health against all the negativity and unwanted energy of the modern day.
Teaching the value of the information that can be gathered by the use of the Nordic Runes, in a process called “Divination”. Although the runes are but one form of divination, the messages carried from the surfaces are transmitted through the Shaman to us, the viewers. Our Shaman uses these small tiles in which to communicate the deities and spirits to bring information that we can use to guide our experiences within this physical lifetime. The Shaman offers insights into the many different layouts that can glean different information about our individual trajectories, connecting to and relying on our individual experiences to make the intrinsic associations necessary to properly manage this new energy.
Shaman offer an understanding of the universal energies within our existence to conjure and utilize for magical purposes. Whether this magic be for intrinsic or remote healing, or whether it be for emotional control and management, even if this magic is used to manifest material items here on the physical plane, Shaman have the understanding to teach this process to those who are ready to learn these lessons. Using the understandings given to them by their ancestors, they offer an in-depth understanding of these energies, and their transmission throughout all of existence.
Connecting us to our Ancestry,
In addition to the healing connections, Shaman offer themselves as a conduit between the spiritual realm and our everyday life. Through our physical life time on this plane of existence, we are supported constantly by both: our ancestors, as well as the ancestors of those around us. Each of these spiritual sources brings forth an understanding as to how we can tap into our own spiritual energy of healing and growth. By offering their wisdom and guidance, we can find our way through the most confusing and difficult times within this existence. By letting go of the defensive mechanisms, we are able to communicate with those spirits that offer us energy. Our Shaman refers to them as the Landvætti (spirits of the land), that many Shaman can provide a connection chain between their existence in the spiritual realm, and our friends here on the physical one.
Nattleysi (Summer Months)
Skammdegi (Winter Months)
The image of the Shaman is credited to April Olsen 2024.
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