Heritage of Healing
This podcast episode delves into the traditional practice of curanderismo, focusing on the relationship between an apprentice and her master healer, La Maestra Michelle. Michelle explains the various types of curanderos and their specialties, which include massage, midwifery, herbalism, and spiritual healing. The episode also discusses the interchangeable use of terms like curandera, shaman, and medicine person, as well as the cultural roots and misconceptions surrounding these practices.
Listeners are cautioned that the podcast is for entertainment and not medical advice. The episode highlights the importance of lineage and the apprenticeship process in becoming a curandera, emphasizing the long-term dedication required to master the healing arts.
Heritage of Healing
Protection Against Evil With Curanderismo
Unlock the secrets of energetic protection with our magical mystic and master healer, Michelle, as we explore the ancient wisdom of curanderismo. Have you ever felt inexplicably drained or experienced an unusual streak of bad luck? Discover how these could be signs of a spiritual or psychic attack and learn how to shield yourself from such negativity. Michelle demystifies psychic attacks, revealing that not all stem from malicious intent but can manifest from everyday negativity. With practical tips like smoke smudging and using protective objects, she'll guide you in fortifying your personal energy and teaches the potent power of our words in shaping our reality.
This episode serves as a gentle reminder of the mystical aspects of life and the ancient practices available to safeguard our energy and well-being. If you find value in the wisdom shared, don't forget to rate and share the show with those who could benefit from these powerful insights.
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When do you need to protect yourself energetically? Can you spot the signs and symptoms of a hex or a spiritual attack? On this episode, we are breaking it all down and discussing what you can do, all on your own, to protect yourself energetically if needed and, spoiler alert, it's needed. Understanding life takes an understanding of energy. This was foundational to the wisdom of the ancients. Whether we're looking at the early uses of wind power in ancient China, ancient Persia and ancient Egypt, or the way that other ancient civilizations harnessed solar power, energy manipulation and utilization was commonplace. Speaking of the spiritual sides, we know that the Ka in ancient Egypt was considered a vital essence, believed to be breathed into a person at birth and was sustained through food and drink.
Speaker 1:The Inca built Machu Picchu in the 15th century to worship the sun, god and Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese practice involving the movement of energy for healing. Curanderismo, of course, is the ancient tradition that this show explores in depth, and in curanderismo we don't question whether or not energy impacts our lives physically or spiritually. We know it does. Today, our magical mystic and master healer, Michelle, shares the ancient wisdom of curanderismo regarding energy and protection. Before we get too far into the practical aspects of energetic protection. I asked La Maestra how do you even know if you are the victim of an energetic attack?
Speaker 2:In a household you could start to have strange like poltergeist type of activities, like things missing or strange happenings with your electronics. That could be a sign that there's some sort of attack coming in in the physical space. You could feel drained in your own body. You can feel like something is sucking you dry. Curse and hexes, which kind of taps into malojo, are ways of knowing envy, jealousy, very strong envy and jealousy at a person is maloho or evil eye. And when somebody has very bad intentions towards you, you can get headaches, you can get stomach aches, body aches, that type of thing. And so those are some, not all, of the ways in which one has those signs of it.
Speaker 2:You can get it's like an electrical current behind the eyes or in the head where you feel we call them also poison arrows where they come into the back, right along the shoulders or at the base of the neck, at the power points, we start to feel like a blockage and other things are like when people have a series of bad luck that just comes out of nowhere and that would be a sign that somebody is doing something or somebody is having some really strong negative thoughts against you.
Speaker 1:These charged negative thoughts might be referred to as energetic attacks or psychic attacks in curanderismo. I asked La Maestra to explain what exactly a psychic attack is.
Speaker 2:A psychic attack isn't always somebody with a voodoo doll putting needles in it, which everybody presumes oh, I'm getting attacked energetically or psychically, and somebody has to be with that level of skill. There are those black magicians who use black magic and do those types of things and other kind of dark rituals to attack people and to bring harm. There are also less calculated, if you will, or unconscious, levels of psychic attack, and so when you look at that, so you're thinking something really negative about a person, or you are angry at a person, you're sending that frequency to them that attaches to them energetically, and so that's why we have to be very, very careful with our thoughts and our words. Our thoughts and our words are manifesting continuously, and so psychic attack, black magic, we're all magicians and so we're constantly either creating blessings or curses, and people who are skilled do it with more power, but it's still impactful either way, I'll play the skeptic for a moment and ask Michelle impactful?
Speaker 1:either way, I'll play the skeptic for a moment and ask Michelle isn't some of this just life, the ebbs and flows, the ups and downs isn't that just expected? Isn't this just how things normally go? Or are the symptoms of pain, dis-ease and so on due to a psychic attack do to a psychic attack.
Speaker 2:I would say that life is magical and yes, we have things that are happening and destiny comes into play and that type of thing. But we have to remember that a psychic attack is people. Let's say it's the jealous woman in your office. Let's say, every day you walk in and you're having this problem with this woman and she's jealous of you and she just wants to have your rear. That's a psychic attack that's happening, maybe unconsciously, or it could be more conscious, depending on the knowledge of the person. So you would say that's ordinary life.
Speaker 2:You have all kinds of stuff happening in a setting, but it's also energetic, and so that's the part where people need to become educated or aware of their capacities and what they're doing energetically. So our thoughts and our words and our feelings are what create magic, they're what manifest. And so if the lady next to you in your office or your boss is hating on you and she just can't stand you, or she's jealous of you, she's having that thought, she's going to inevitably say something and she's feeling it. So she's created something and she's sending it to you on the ethers and into the field and onto you, and so that becomes something very interesting because it's like whoa, we're responsible for a lot.
Speaker 1:Being validated by the words of La Maestra. You may be very aware that you should be implementing some protective measures in your own life. So I asked Michelle what can we do to bring some protection into our space, even if we are not practiced in the workings?
Speaker 2:of magic. You can do that with smoke smudging, you can do that with holy water and you can do that with particular objects. For example, in our Catholic ways we would put a crucifix above the windows and the doors, any openings in the house and the doors, any openings in the house. And when you're doing it, you are asking, you are seeing, you are visualizing, you are feeling that your home is shielded, that nothing or no one can penetrate that sacred space that is the space of your home. And so you do that with that level of intention. You can use ashes, you can use salts, particular herbs can be used for the protection in the physical place. You can also use flowers.
Speaker 2:Carnations are a wonderful way, and roses are a wonderful way, to create protection at your door, at the opening of your home. I like to use the salts at the front of my door and I just do a prayer and a blessing, and we also do it with an invocation. So an invocation is a calling to the holy ones, calling to your ancestors, a calling to the elements, whatever, whomever you feel is protective on another level, and you call them and you ask them to help to shield and contain that in indigenous ways. When ceremony is happening and when you're protecting a house or you're doing a blessing for a house, you're always, always bringing in the protection and the items that you use for that protection, always. And so our houses are an extension of us and they contain energy, and so we definitely want to clean it energetically and we want to shield it and protect it. So when you feel that something has penetrated your home, your physical space, your car, your office, you definitely want to do something about it with these methods.
Speaker 1:If you don't feel you are under any spiritual attack. This may not feel hyper relevant to you, but perhaps there is proactive protection that should be done.
Speaker 2:So I asked La Maestra how often should we be shielding and protecting ourselves and our spaces? Every single day, every single day.
Speaker 1:So, with myself, my day, never, ever begins without me calling in protection.
Speaker 2:I call in that protection before I get out of bed. I call in that protection for myself and the people closest to me, for my inner circle. I do it, I call upon the holy ones and then I call upon the blood of Christ or the light of Christ or the light of love, however it is that it calls me on that day. I call upon that, you call upon whomever or whatever, however you see it, love or just light, or call upon protection itself, a shield, to come around you and the people you love. It takes one minute, one minute to bring protection in, and then, at the end of the day, I do the same thing before I fall asleep and I'm going to enter into the dream time. So those are practices that I never go without doing. I'll share a little story with you that I never go without doing. I'll share a little story with you.
Speaker 2:In my 20s I had this mentor who has now passed on and I went to go and meet him at a place in Santa Fe for breakfast, downtown on the plaza, and at the time I was a nice looking young lady Everybody in their 20s looks great and so I walked in. I walked into the restaurant and this man was looking at me an old man, and he was with his wife and I could suddenly feel like, oh man, his wife is. This guy was being disrespectful and so I was like oh geez. And so I look at her and I didn't look at him. I didn't feed corn to the situation. I just went to my table and I told Robert, who was one of my mentors at the time. I said oh my God, that lady is so pissed off. I said I can feel the poison arrows in my shoulders. He got so pissed off at me. He said what do you mean? You feel the poison arrows in your shoulders? And I said I can feel it. I can feel her anger in my back.
Speaker 2:And didn't you create, didn't you do your shield this morning, your shield of protection? And I said no, I forgot, I was rushed. I said let me ask you something. He said did you wipe your ass this morning? Exactly like that. And I said yeah, why? He said you would never leave your house without wiping your ass and I said yeah, and he said you never leave your house without putting your shield on Every day. You want to create a practice. If you're thinking about things energetically, you want to create a practice in which you're elevated and you're protected energetically. You want to create a practice in which you're elevated and you're protected energetically.
Speaker 2:You're at higher octaves and then you're protected. And it is as simple as a command.
Speaker 1:I have the honor of being an apprentice of Michelle's Learning, shielding and love-based protective measures during a very chaotic and disturbing time in my own life almost instantly made a difference, and she's right. It didn't necessarily take much time. The empowerment that it brought forward was remarkable. I'd even call it life-changing.
Speaker 2:It's humongous when you realize that everything is energy and everything is imprinted. We're imprinted. Energy doesn't die. So energy shifts just basically by frequency, and that frequency is imprinted by our words and thoughts and our feelings, and so that's how it shifts. That's why we feel maybe tired or we feel maybe energized. It's not the only reason, but it is one of the reasons, being the protection is super, super important. Daily. It's like brushing your teeth you just do it and you get into it and you do it, and it makes a humongous difference with the change of every season. I do a protection around my property. I have a large, a large property. I don't have neighbors right next door to me and I live in the country, and so I do a protection around around my property, on the outlying part of it and then around the house itself and inside the house and in my car, and so I do that and it takes a little bit of time, but it's also like when you do a spring cleaning. It's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 1:It shifts all the energies, and so that piece of protection is really palpable At this point you might be wondering what specific things you can do to create barriers or protective shields in your space, La Maestra. What can our listeners use to do this?
Speaker 2:They could use, let's say, household items that they could use Salt, baking soda.
Speaker 2:They can use cinnamon. Clove is very powerful. If you're in our areas areas we use a lot of boshaw, so you can grind it. Boshaw is a root that is used for protection. You can place it around the house. You can place it inside water and boil it like a tea and spray it, which is very powerful. Always, again, you want to charge it. You want to cleanse and charge your items always, and so the charging is with your intention, and those are very easy things.
Speaker 2:You can put salt around beds. You can place salt in between the mattress and the box spring underneath. You can use an egg and place it in a bowl If you feel like you have a strong psychic attack coming at you. You can use an egg and place it in a bowl if you feel like you have a strong psychic attack coming at you. You can place an egg in a bowl in your bedroom or in your office or wherever you're feeling. You can put several of them, and those are very simple, they're not expensive things. You can light a candle or a birthday candle, or you can just use the power of God, the power of the creator to shield energetically.
Speaker 1:Visualizing the topic is powerful, so I asked Michelle to leave us with a closing thought regarding energy and protection.
Speaker 2:Don't allow fear to root in the garden of your mind. Never just uproot that immediately. That's very important.
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