Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing: The Secrets of Deepening Your Ability to Heal With Visionary and Spiritual Tools and Practices [Hardcover]

Michael Samuels M.D. (Author), Mary Rockwood Lane PH.D. (Author)

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Publication Date: April 25, 2003

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

Editorial Reviews

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Ethnographic reports on shamanism portray a varied and specified practice, describing each shaman as identifying with a specific type of medicine power, such as the ability to find lost objects, change weather, or manage stomach trouble. However, contemporary nonnative practitioners seem to have borrowed the term in a very generic sense. Samuels, the author of numerous books on conventional medicine and creative imagery and visualization (Seeing with the Mind's Eye), and Lane, a registered nurse, author and director of the Arts in Medicine program at the University of Florida, introduce practices that readers can use to become a visionary healer. The authors focus on guided imagery to strengthen intention and commitment, invoke guardian or animal spirits, and "restory" reality. They also provide instruction on making a medicine wheel, moving energy, and creating sacred spaces through prayer and ritual. Undoubtedly, Samuels and Lane are accomplished healers. But while they do remind readers that the shaman's path is a lifelong endeavor, their book gives the impression hat a few exercises can create an at-home, do-it-yourself shaman, without the rigors or the years of apprenticeship under qualified teachers that traditional shamanism often demands. Recommended for larger alternative healing and New Age collections. — Andy Wickens, King Cty, Lib. Syst., WA (Library Journal, May 1, 2003)

From the Inside Flap

Perhaps you can sense it–the power to heal yourself and others, deep within, waiting to be reclaimed. And you can reclaim it by gathering the spiritual and visionary tools of the shaman and mastering the skills you need to use them wisely and well. Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing shows you how.

In this practical guide, one of the world’s leading experts on healing through guided imagery joins together with a recognized authority on creativity and healing to help you harness the power of ancient shamanic traditions. Drawing on Native American and Asian mind-body-spirit practices, Dr. Michael Samuels and Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane provide a complete, step-by-step program that shows you how to use creative imagery to focus the healing power of your mind and spirit while achieving real results.

You will learn how to answer the call to healing and create sacred space using shamanic prayer. Next, you’ll discover how to heal yourself, experience transcendence, and transform your body into a healing tool. As you move through the practices, you will learn the secrets of shamanic love, find your way to sacred commitment, and discover the visions of the shaman. You’ll master the art of invoking spirit animals and the spirits of ancient ones, and you’ll use guided imagery to see through their eyes. You will also learn how to use medicine wheels to bring visions and manifest change.

Filled with inspiring and beautifully written stories of people who have helped others recover from illness, trauma, and loss, Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing gives you the keys to unlock your visionary life and allow spirit to flow through you. This illuminating, practical guide will help you maximize your healing powers by adding a dimension of deep spiritual healing to your life.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047141820X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471418207
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #831,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting how to book on wisdom and healing naturally., July 29, 2008

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This review is from: Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing: The Secrets of Deepening Your Ability to Heal With Visionary and Spiritual Tools and Practices (Hardcover)

Since i am a healer, this is naturally interesting to me. A healer by any name is usually suspect in the societal norms of the USA. It is good having a book written by two from the medical community, refreshing.

This is a: 'How to become a Shaman', instruction manual. If you have not studied how to prepare yourself mentally, physically and spiritually to become a Shaman, with this book you have and excellent start. There is sufficient detailed to start you along the way in this book. Try these also-Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell
The Healer's Manual: A Beginner's Guide to Energy Therapies (Llewellyn's Health and Healing Series)
Cell Level Healing is particularlly good. Small book, soooo much data.

There is much written to assist one wishing to become a healer.
A--ask
S--seek
K--knock
as you seek assistance from your spirit guides and totems much will come to you as if by some magical means. Alas---it is all naturally from our Loving Source----
peace and love...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This one is great!, July 11, 2009

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This review is from: Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing: The Secrets of Deepening Your Ability to Heal With Visionary and Spiritual Tools and Practices (Hardcover)

This is a book that touches the center of you. Even as I have read about this subject before this one gives me a lot to add from every chapter.
I belive I'm gonna read this book over and over again and still find more to learn.