Spiritual Healing and Depression

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By Linda Kingsbury

Anytime you pay attention to your spiritual self, whether through meditation, yoga, inspirational reading, or heartfelt music, it nourishes your whole self. This naturally brings your physical, emotional, and mental selves into alignment. It is similar to honoring the needs of your own inner child, in that your spiritual self becomes more integrated as you give it daily attention. You may a feel more relaxed and sense a gentle smile inside your being. You will find yourself make healthy choices more easily and feeling connected to the Divine within and around you.

Both receiving Spiritual Healing sessions and learning new skills can uplift your mood. Depression can be eased by nourishing your spiritual spark through practicing techniques that connect you to your spiritual self. When you work in the invisible realms of spirit it transmits positive healing vibrations to the rest of yourself helping you to make healthy choices and take positive action to help you manifest your highest potential. Part of the journey is an emotional cleansing as toxic patterns are released.

There are many types of spiritual healing, but I will talk briefly about the methods that I use in my practice that can ease depression.

1. Aura Cleansing and Chakra Balancing

2. Clairvoyant readings

3. Soul Retrieval

4. Rebirthing/Circular Breathing

5. Life Clarification Reading

6. Shamanic art and journaling

Aura Cleansing and Chakra Balancing

These healing sessions are a form of preventative medicine and holistic healing. They bring your mind, body, and spirit into balance and help you to live consciously. An Aura and Chakra Balancing moves the healing life force in the subtle energy fields around your body. This clears stuck thoughts, feelings, and experiences. It allows positive spiritual light to nourish your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual selves. An Aura and Chakra Balancing can help you feel more relaxed, make clearer decisions, and feel connected to your spirit. This is a way to acknowledge your spiritual self. I have a meditation CD where you can learn to do this on your own.

During a Clairvoyant Reading, the healer sees pictures or images of what contributes to your state of health, sometimes seeing past experiences and sometimes seeing what can help to balance your energy field. Patterns in relationships with people, places, and things can also be sensed. Sharing these images helps bring them to your conscious awareness so they can be transformed. A Clairvoyant Reading can help you to validate your intuition, make positive life choices, and ease stress. Usually whatever is seen is also healed, brought up to the present moment, to facilitate your process so that after the session you feel more calm and clear.

About your aura and chakras

Everything in the Universe, people, plants, buildings, land, all creation has an energy or vibrational rate. Even though this life force energy, aura, and chakras can not usually be seen, our other senses, especially our feeling self picks it up. This life force is also what moves the sun and moon and helps all life grow.

Your aura is the energy field around your body. It holds your feelings, thoughts, and experiences. When you feel stuck or depressed in your life, it may be due to old programming that no longer serves you conflicting with your new thoughts and ideas about what is meaningful in your life. Aura boundaries helps you align your truth with your souls needs.

Your chakras are like filters that naturally spin and allow energy from the universe in and your energy out. We pick up beliefs from our family and social groups that can get stored in our chakras. Other people’s thoughts, feelings, and projections can get in the way of our own truth shining through. Working with your aura and chakras is a form of preventative medicine that works with your emotions and thoughts amplifying life-affirming ones and preventing negative ones from affecting your health. Each chakra has different experiences to offer us. See the chakra charts on my website under articles for more information.

Soul Retrieval

These sessions involve the shamanic skills of drumming and journeying to connect to parts of the soul or spirit that disassociated due to trauma. Once connected these parts are rewoven into the template of your being. A sense of relief and relaxation occurs. I often integrate this process into other healing sessions if needed.

Rebirthing/Circular Breathing

Rebirthing is a healing process involving patterns of circular breathing that cleanse away toxic patterns of being on a cellular level. As you learn to breathe in light and oxygen, all the cells of your body have a chance to uplift and transform. You feel more alive, relaxed, and connected to your spirit even after 1 session. As you choose more life, there is a rebirth of the personality through the integration of suppressed experience.

Life Clarification Reading

Readings validate your own intuition and help you to sort through your own thought, ideas, and feelings. It helps you to connect to your higher self or your own spiritual voice. A reading can help you to feel more focused and inspired to continue in an affirmative way on your life path. Readings provide inspirational guidance from the realms of love and light for life clarification in business, health, and relationship issues.

Shamanic Art

Drawing, creating with clay, painting, writing, and even dancing can be helpful especially if you are a kinesthetic learning. This helps to keep your process flowing between sessions. These skills are especially helpful to help lift you out of the well of depressive states by acknowledging rather than repressing your feelings. I lead weekend retreats with Mask making, and talking sticks that help you to increase your tools for transformation.