While many other modalities cross my path, I think about these two the most.
Shamanism, the way Shaman Durek teaches it (shamandurek.com)
Simple, oh so simple - so much can be done by simply declaring what you are and are not in alignment with, and an emphasis on how much the things that enter your “imagination” are real. Everything you can see or not see, and everything that you perceive, is in some way real. Healing is rapid, intuitive (if you can get past your programming), and wholly seated within your ability to respond.
Drawbacks: Shaman Durek has so many hacks that it can become overwhelming, with an answer to everything through every dream world possible, archetypes, dimensions, aliens, connections, and communications.
Conclusion: the ultimate answer is rooted ultimately in being honest but this requires an expansion for non-shamans about what that is.
Internal Family Systems - parts work
Look up any Richard Schwartz guest appearance on a podcast and you’ll listen to him run the host through some parts work. The benefits include a reconfiguration of meaning around what every tendency you have means and a deep and intimate ability to connect to your emotions in an anthropomorphized way. You can literally talk to your anger. And, within a governing framework, set it free.
Drawbacks: I have a warning in me around parts work via the IFS model. Like giving the parts too much attention can keep me and others lost in a sea of interviews that falls short of becoming an integrated and strengthened human being. I think many of these parts are spirits that are better taken care with via shamanic methods.
Conclusion for now: I find the principles valuable but the method seems to have sunk to the level of most things I’ve studied a bit, which is that they are not quite right in most situations. Parts work itself is insanely valuable. People need to understand that given direct attention, most aspects of themselves will calm, and that all things (and internal experiences) contain positive intent, though the method may not be desirable. Parts work works well with shamanism.
Intuitive and felt sense
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