The Healer’s Code Shaman Alliance

 

Shamans come in many forms and work in many different ways today which makes it difficult to define the modern day Shaman. When we hear the word Shaman we automatically envision an old person draped win animal skins, wearing animal parts around their neck mixing strange herbs and performing strange rituals.  That’s what our society and environment has taught us to believe. But today there are thousands of you out there who are doing Shamanistic work and are not recognized or supported for your true talents. This Healer’s Code Shaman Alliance was designed for those of you who feel you do the work of Shaman and wish to enhance, encourage and  develop shamanistic qualities in whatever healing work you do.

The men and women who have joined come from a variety of backgrounds: Clinical social worker, hypnotherapist, massage therapist, psychic and tarot readers, chiropractors, Reiki healers, Life Coaches and many others. 

To join the Healer’s Code Shaman Alliance please email : creatingfromthesoul@yahoo.com . We want to hear from you. This is a no charge alliance for the support and assurance that Shamanism will aid us in our conscious evolution.

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The Healer’s Code

BY Mary Shell

 

To be a Shaman is to “See things not for what they are, But for what they can be”.

 

 “The unquestionable need to heal is a shamanistic quality”

Listed below are the 5 basic rules for all healers to read, understand and allow them to be part of their healing qualities.

These are guides for soul caretakers.

 

 

1. See with Closed Eyes and an Open Heart

 

This is the most crucial fundamental foundation of the healer; to see with an open heart and not through judgmental eyes. Nothing that is viewed through the eyes should be accepted as the truth. This was one of the hardest lessons for me to learn for I am an artist and my visual perception of the world has always been my method to find the truth. It was the tool I used to allow others to find their truth and it was the purpose for my artwork.

 

Although I have been saying truth is within art there is also a misconception that occurs when we demand truth instead of allowing it to show itself. Seeing art for what we think it should be is the same as seeing a person for what we think they should be. Whenever we do this, use our conscious judging eye to determine a person, we are always wrong. Allowing the truth to show itself is an art in itself and may take the trickster in the healer to do the work of bring truth forward from its hiding place.

 

Put no time limit to a person’s ability to discover their truth.  Use all your tools, as a trickster or not, in your efforts to bring out the truth. 

 

Never allow your ego to stand in the way of your mission to help others find their truth. Leave yourself open for the messages the soul’s truth will send, listen to the words between the lines. Remember; you are dealing with the conscious belief system of your clients and it has a very persuasive voice that has been successful in convincing the soul to be quiet. These conscious beliefs will do anything to keep you from setting the soul free if it. You must rely on your creativity to overcoming it.

 

Remember you are dealing with people who have had perhaps years of conditioning who they think by the deceit of their fears, and may in fact be the only way they know to think in order to survive.

 

You must be careful when you remove a belief system…always put something good in its place, don’t leave an empty space; they will only fill it back with old patterns and beliefs.

 

Ask other healers for help if you find yourself overwhelmed or simply unable to help in a particular situation. Remember your objective is to heal…don’t let your ego stand in the way. No one person holds the answers to everything.

 

My friend Mary, who became a healer after completing one of my Shaman Drum Making Workshops, came to visit my husband Ivan and me in the redwoods and gave me a necklace made of porcupine needles in the shape of a turtle. It was from the Lakota reservation in South Dakota. It was the ancient Lakota symbol for patience. I took the advice becoming aware of my anticipation to heal, speaking too soon and too fast. I was excitable and impatient. I learned a lesson.

 

This lesson of patience has had profound results in my work and I appreciated the lesson. By being patient and not rushing to answer a question the minute it was asked I allowed my clients the time to find the answer themselves. By permitting clients to verbally exhaust themselves with their words I allowed them to vent uninterrupted. I oftentimes find my silence to be the key to finding answers simply by letting them talk it out.

 

You don’t have to be the hero all the time, let them find the hero within themselves; they will need it to guide them in the future and it is the purpose of a healer to heal, not to keep them in need of our services.

 

2. Assume Nothing

 

Anything that is assumed does not exist

There are spaces between spoken words, between thoughts and all seeing things. When the space become alive and in focus, and if you listen carefully you will find the truth.

 

When I was a small girl my mother told me to believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see. An express I learned at a very young age and have used to guide me in making decisions and finding truth throughout my life. To assume is to take for granted, without full knowledge, and using false information to come to a conclusion.

 

Assumptions are arrived through lack of knowledge. Our minds are designed to think, to solve problems, to be creative and sometimes we go a little too far in being creative with problem solving and accept whatever our brain “assumes to be the answer” and we fill in the blanks when we don’t know the truth.

 

We also assume answers based on our personal experience and repeated patterns. Healers are in constant struggle with achieving the truth and often fall into false conclusions in the search. We find a treatment for one patient that works and assume it will work for all with the same problem. This doesn’t necessarily work; the soul isn’t a virus that can be cured with antibiotics. It is different in all of us and must be treated with an open mind regardless of how we may think we understand their condition.

 

 It is easy to assume when you are seeking the truth and unless you are 100% sure you understand the problem you are dealing with, do not act upon it.

 

I did an entire workshop on assuming with amazing results. Assuming is a cloak that covers and distorts the truth and there are ways to avoid it. One of the first ways to avoid it is to be very comprehensible when listening. Whenever you are not completely clear in what you are hearing ask for more information until you are confident you are receiving the truth.

 

There is a question I frequently ask when in council with a client who is explaining their turmoil: “And what’s behind that?” It’s a simple way to get to the truth but may take some time.

 

 Listening and reacting to lies is different from assuming. Assuming can be avoided; lies may require the aid of the trickster to be exposed.

 

Whenever you are in a healing session with someone who starts a statement with “I think” be sure that assuming is in full command. Whenever a person is left to assume they will always, I guarantee, go to the worse case scenario.

     

 

3. Learn to guide and never decide

 

The pathway to the truth is as different and unique as our fingerprints. Guiding people to their truth is a journey a healer should have some scheme of where they are sending their clients while allowing them to decide which road to take along the way.

 

In most cases I advised people to act and avoid reacting. Taking command of a situation before it becomes a problem is always good advice. That is unless you are a spiritual healer, in which case the opposite is the rule of thumb. You will never find the truth if you put words in your clients mouth. Let them choose the way; tell their story, their pains, lies and troubles. Your job is to listen and follow their lead but you must be prepared for wherever it may take you. You must be prepared for anything possible and don’t be afraid to say you don’t have the answer if you are unsure.

 

It is very difficult for a Shaman to see people repeat bad habits, stay in stale situations or abusive relationships. It is the job of the healer to guide these lost souls to their truth and give them courage to lose their fear of change and the unknown.

 

Whenever someone comes to you for advice and guidance in their troubles life it is so hard for the Shaman to watch them retrieve to old patterns and painful situations. It is not the position of a healer to decide what is best for a person (this would be a judgment call; not the Shaman way) and you must respect the final decisions made by your client, regardless of your good intentions.

 

I have worked with some people for years watching them face their fears, make decisions to live in their truth and suddenly return back to their old negative painful patterns. It hurts my soul to see this happen and I never feel I have wasted a minute of my life working with them. Life is a process, a journey with the end only being death (which begins yet another journey). It’s never a question of living and learning life’s lessons; it’s a question of if you decide to learn at all.

 

A healer’s position is never to decide if a lesson is to be learned or experienced. What you think is best for someone else may not be a consideration for the person to experience. Never, ever tell a client they have made wrong decisions in their life. This is not for you to decide...another judgment call.  People make good and bad choices, we all have one time or another in our lives.

 

You are called upon to guide, not decide. You are there to give them the tools to find, recognize and live in their truth, it is their decision to use them or not; not yours. Watching someone disregard your advice and make bad decisions is one of the hardest things for a healer to experience, for it goes against everything you believe in and your purpose. Some people must reach the bottom of their tolerance before they make changes. Remember, you are there to guide, not decide, and once a person makes a decision you must honor their decision. But there is always hope and never let someone you have worked with leave thinking the door is closed. Always be there for them if and whenever they decide to return.

 

Be clear that their return would be based on continuing the process and don’t become a co-dependent in their process.

 

I worked three years with a woman whom I adored as a person but a part of her soul needed to destroy everything that was handed to her. She finally found herself living in the streets with nothing but a few paper bags clutched in her hands. She blamed everyone for her failures and made sure everything she owned would be taken away to prove she was a poor victim of an unjust divorce. She wanted the world to see how her x-husband had forced into poverty.

 

She proved the point that she created havoc in her life and I refused to be part of her process, to be sucked into her destructive patterns. She was part of a bond I had made between three women and that bond was unconditional love. My love for her had not changed but I did decide that I was not willing to join her in her negative spiral but left the door open if she were ever to return. I still hold unconditional love for this person and always will.

 

The decision she made were out of desperation and demands for others to make her life good.  As a healer with the insight to know the difference between a person in need and a person in demand I decided to allow her to travel that path without my help.

 

To come to a conclusion on this matter, the rule I live by is this: There may come a time when your work and advice reaches deaf ears. Whenever you find yourself, as a healer, in a situation where your clients continually make the wrong decisions or refuse to take any of your advice or suggestions, remove yourself from the situation and leave them to continue their process themselves. Leave them with well wishes and an open door if they decide to return. Never, and I repeat, never attempt to convince them you have the answers to their happiness. No truth is found from another’s belief. Remind yourself this rule often, for you will find yourself working very hard in the attempt to heal a person only to watch them return or make the wrong decisions. It is their lesson to learn, allow them learn.

 

 

4. Provide Others with Tools to Heal

 

One of the hardest things healers find is to give away their secrets. If you are truly a healer your secret methods of healing are to be gifts to the people you heal so they may continue their path of truth. To deny them this gift would be a selfish act and there is no room for selfishness in healing. Give them whatever they need to become happy.

 

Watching a person transform their pains into peace is your goal and they should no longer need your services when they find their truth. I know what it’s like for someone to walk away after working with them for a long period. It is like watching a child grow up and leave home. I have often watched healers find reasons for their clients to remain in their care simply because they need to be needed.

 

Some healers feel depressed when they are no longer needed. Get over it! Remember the position of life you have chosen; to heal, and heal you must. When you are done, you are done. Never attempt to dig or create further for issues to deal with in the attempt to continue working with them on the same level. Change the basis of your relationship and make sure your door is always open to them. 

 

5. Never seek gratitude

 

Some healers find themselves in the glory of their healing abilities and seeking appreciation for their work. I’m not talking about monitory gratitude; I’m talking about thankfulness for helping others. To be praised is wonderful unless you find yourself performing cures for glory. I call it the God syndrome and I have seen several of my colleagues fall under this spell. Watch for the signs.

 

These are the manipulators, the seekers of personal praise and empowerment and many people who go to them have suffered as a result of their drive for personal recognition.

Be humble in your work and do not glorify yourself for your success as a healer. So often I have see healers see themselves as a Godlike figures of self importance.

 

Remember you are nothing more than the means to a solution, not the cause or the solution. True healers find gratitude by the success of their work and not by the work of their success. Whenever I watch someone find and live in their truth I feel honored to be part of the awakening, not glorified for what I have done, but grateful to have the ability to show the way.

 

These rules were written by personal experiences. Add your own rules that you feel would support the efforts.