There are people who practice Shamanism all over the world in many different cultures. My
focus is Native American Shamanism.
Shamanism is a spiritual system, where in the shaman works in the material and non-material
plane of existence or worlds, by performing a journey.  Through this is an altered state of
mind, a shaman can obtain knowledge, or healing, or retrieve lost soul pieces for their subject.
During this altered state, the shaman retains full control of his physical being.  As a result of a
Shamanic journey on behalf of their subject, a Shaman may bring back personal insights,
information, or instructions.  

In this way, a shaman can perform a mental, emotional or a spiritual healing.  

When a shaman does a retrieves a “soul piece” or performs soul piece retrieval for an
individual, they bring back an archetypical energy (“soul piece”), which was a part of them that
was lost by a trauma, accident or disease.  In addition, a Shaman can remove misplaced
energy from a subject, which is called an “extraction”. The misplaced energy be stuck or
stored in various parts of the body.  A shaman will sense this misplaced energy and remove it
bringing your body back to its normal energy pattern.
Seven Directions Journeys