#shamanism

How a Shamanic Medicine Bundle Opens the Doors to Manifesting Our Mission in Life

Mar 14
3 min

How a Shamanic Medicine Bundle Opens the Doors to Manifesting Our Mission in Life

“ Beloved Condor Spirit and Spirit of Macchu Pichu, I am feeling stuck around manifesting the next step in my mission and purpose in life. Please give me guidance!” I was sitting in front of my mesa—the word used by the Q’ero people of the Andes in Peru for a power-packed medicine bundle. I said more—about what I had done so far, about my ideas and thoughts, wishes and dreams. But I knew once I opened Sacred Space by praying to the 6 directions—East-West, North-South—Mother

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Why the Mystical is Essential to Trauma Healing

Rachel Mann PhD

Jan 23
4 min

Why the Mystical is Essential to Trauma Healing

In my early 20s, I got myself into therapy. Talk therapy, that is. I had a lot to say and process. It was extremely helpful to have a compassionate witness and guide as I tried to understand the complexities of my complicated relationship with my narcissistic mother (though I didn’t have that word back then). My self-confidence was low, my anxiety high. Frankly, I didn’t know who I really was. This was the beginning of a long journey to heal from family trauma. Therapy was a

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A Solstice Ceremony to Catalyze a New Vision for Your Life

Rachel Mann PhD

Dec 21, 2022
3 min

A Solstice Ceremony to Catalyze a New Vision for Your Life

All around the world for millennia, human beings have understood the power of the Solstices to magnetize highest visions and elevate consciousness. I have had the privilege to visit powerful sacred sites—some dating back to the Mesolithic ) (10-8,000 BC and Neolithic (10,000-2,200 BC) in places like Ireland and the island of Malta in the Mediterranean—that archaeoastronomers have definitively proven are aligned to the Solstices. I have walked among the stone shrines of the an

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5 Guiding Principles Out of Seeing Yourself through a Glass Darkly

Rachel Mann PhD

Sep 21, 2022
6 min

5 Guiding Principles Out of Seeing Yourself through a Glass Darkly

(This blog is part of an ongoing series in which I share intimate details about my life in order to inspire and educate my readers about trauma, healing and spirituality and what it has to do with helping this troubled and beautiful world heal into peace. Please excuse any repetition; I must write each piece assuming my reader may not have read the others.) When your natural, authentic personality and talents are not seen and nourished by those who are your parents or caregiv

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Mother Earth Loves You: Awaken the Connection

Rachel Mann PhD

Mar 3, 2021
2 min

Mother Earth Loves You: Awaken the Connection

I know it sounds corny and even like a platitude to say Mother Earth loves you. Lots of people say it everywhere, all the time. It can be like saying "God loves you," which is just a concept until you feel his/her presence in real time, whether in a dream, a vision, or just in an astonishing moment when suddenly, there s/he is. I'm not trying to call anyone out here. Love is the fabric of the universe. Out of love arises all form, all experience, all of life. By whatever n

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Rachel Mann PhD

Jul 9, 2019
5 min

Feeling Overwhelmed by What is Going on in the World? Read on for Hope!

Do you feel pain of the world and even how it seems to intersect with the wounds you have carried? Are you feeling weighed down by events on the world stage? Do you want to know how to live in this world of chaos and turmoil without getting dragged down into despair and hopelessness, fear and insecurity? Do you want to know what it means to heal yourself, heal the world? How transforming your wounds and forging a powerful connection between body, heart and mind can ripple out

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Why Am I Doing this Again??! Some Insight into the Spiral of Healing

Rachel Mann PhD

Jan 28, 2019
5 min

Why Am I Doing this Again??! Some Insight into the Spiral of Healing

Have you done a lot of therapy and personal growth work—perhaps years or even decades—and one day, you realize that what you thought was healed or resolved is still active in some way? Or some aspect of it resurfaces? Maybe because some outer event seems to reactivate it? I have heard this lament from friends, clients and students over many years: “I thought I had resolved this! Why do I have to do it again? I’m so tired of this!” I have been in the same boat myself. Starin

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Rachel Mann PhD

Dec 30, 2016
4 min

Healing Inner Violence

As our country has been thrown into division and conflict in the wake of November’s election, I am moved to write about the importance of healing our deepest wounds as a path towards transforming fear, anger and hatred into cooperation and peace. As a shamanic healer, spiritual teacher and anthropologist, I have studied the effects of trauma on individuals, communities and humanity as a whole and the pathways for its transformation. Unhealed pain from violence and betrayal in

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Rachel Mann PhD

Aug 6, 2015
2 min

Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions: Introduction

I have a mission to make contemporary western shamanic energy medicine relevant and understandable to practitioners in mainstream clinical psychology, psychotherapy, medicine, and science. This desire has grown out of my personal journey as I sought healing from chronic anxiety, depression and symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through a combination of western talk therapies and various energy healing modalities, most notably what is known as shamanic medicine.

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Rachel Mann PhD

Aug 6, 2015
13 min

Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma: Keeping an Open Mind

One day, I was cleaning my house and listening to a radio program on the problem of post-partum depression in women. The researcher being interviewed had done a study of a large group of women who had experienced depression and more mental and emotional imbalances following the birth of their child. These were women who otherwise had been happy to become mothers, loved their babies, and prior to their pregnancy and birth, had never had any serious problems of a psychological

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Rachel Mann PhD

Aug 6, 2015
14 min

Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, Part 2: The Science

In my blog entitled “Dreaming Violence into Peace, Part 1″, I shared that I had recently had a series of violent dreams which seemed to presage the beheading of the American journalist, James Foley in August, 2014. That series is a call to all of us to understand how deeply we are impacted by violence and to dream together a new vision of peace–even if our immediate lives lack direct conflict. This blog is also relevant to Dreaming Violence into Peace, but extends the topic

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