Indigenous peoples know that physical ailments can’t be separated from spiritual ailments. For thousands of years, the Maya healing system has looked at the ailments of the body as a whole, and addresses the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of our lives as a whole.

You might benefit from spiritual healing if you’ve had a confusing ailment that’s defied diagnosis: recurring nightmares, experiencing unrelieved grief, sad or emotionally upset since experiencing a trauma, or if you’ve been to a number of clinics or health care practitioners who’ve been unable to help. Our maestro, Don Elijio Panti said, “The machines won’t show this sickness.”

Fortunately, modern medicine is beginning to recognize the healing wisdom of the Maya and other ancient cultures. Numerous studies have underlined the link between high blood pressure, arthritis, heart disease, asthma, bronchitis, and digestive problems with unresolved emotional and spiritual stress and distress. Neuroscience explains how brain chemistry affects our mental and emotional states. Psychotherapists and medical doctors are once again taught to consider the importance of the mind-body connection in disease treatment. 

Just as we understand that physical ailments can cause dis-ease of body, spirit, and emotions, spiritual healing recognizes emotional and spiritual ailments can also be expressed physically. These physical expressions are typically described as signs and symptoms in medical fields. Often the treatment is directed at these signs and symptoms instead of the underlying emotional and/or spiritual cause. We’ve learned that treating the physical symptoms does not always heal the cause. 

Spiritual and traditional healers across many cultures determine what ailment(s) have manifested with a pulse analysis included within a conversation about past events or trauma which gives a complete picture of one’s health story.