Reiki and Shamanic Healing for Codependency

Blending Reiki and Shamanic healing to address codependency can create a powerful path toward reclaiming personal power, healing emotional wounds, and realigning your energy to foster independence, healthy boundaries, and inner peace.

Here’s a framework that integrates both practices:

Core Themes to Address in Codependency Healing

• Reclaiming personal power and sovereignty

• Releasing energetic cords or attachments

• Healing the inner child and ancestral patterns

• Cultivating self-love and emotional independence

• Strengthening intuition and spiritual boundaries

1. Reiki Practices for Codependency

Goal: Restore energetic balance, support emotional healing, and promote self-worth.

Daily Reiki Practice:

• Self-Reiki (15–20 mins):

Focus on these chakras:

• Solar Plexus (Personal Power) — Boost confidence and boundaries.

• Heart Chakra (Self-love) — Heal emotional wounds and foster inner love.

• Root Chakra (Safety & Grounding) — Release fear of abandonment.

• Affirmations while channeling Reiki:

• “I am enough. I honor my needs.”

• “My energy is my own. I release what is not mine.”

• “I choose relationships that honor mutual respect and love.”

Energetic Cord Cutting:

• Call in Reiki and use Cho Ku Rei (power symbol) and Sei He Ki (emotional healing symbol).

• Visualize cords connecting you to another person or situation.

• Use your hand (or a symbolic knife) to cut the cords while sending love and light to both parties.

2. Shamanic Practices for Codependency

Goal: Retrieve lost soul parts, clear attachments, and call in protective spirits.

Shamanic Journeying (2–3x/week):

• Intention: “Show me where I gave my power away in relationships.”

• Ask your power animal or guide to help you retrieve lost parts of your soul (soul retrieval) or heal ancestral wounding.

Ritual for Personal Power Retrieval:

• Create sacred space with a drum or rattle.

• Call in the four directions and your helping spirits.

• Visualize calling back pieces of your energy that were given away or lost due to dependency or emotional enmeshment.

Nature Practice:

• Offer tobacco, flower petals, or cornmeal to the earth.

• Say: “I release dependency and call back my freedom.”

3. Blended Reiki + Shamanic Session (Weekly)

1. Open sacred space with drumming and invocation of spirit allies.

2. Self-Reiki or receive Reiki while journeying inward to meet your inner child or a power animal.

3. Cord-cutting + soul retrieval: Use Reiki symbols while visualizing calling back your power.

4. Close with gratitude and grounding.

Understanding Codependency Energetically and Spiritually

Codependency is not just an emotional or psychological issue—it has an energetic component. At its core, it’s often about:

• Giving your power away to others to feel loved or needed.

• Merging energies with others, creating confusion about where you end and they begin.

• Unhealed trauma or abandonment wounds, often rooted in childhood or ancestral lines.

• Over-functioning (trying to fix, rescue, or caretake) as a way to feel safe or valued.

This manifests in the energy field as:

• Weak or leaky solar plexus chakra (personal power)

• Overactive or wounded heart chakra (excessive giving)

• Entanglement or cords connecting your energy to others in draining or unbalanced ways

• Loss of personal soul fragments due to emotional trauma or enmeshment

Reiki’s Role in Healing Codependency

Reiki offers gentle, structured healing to restore emotional and energetic boundaries:

Key Reiki Tools for Codependency:

• Sei He Ki – The symbol for mental/emotional healing. Use it to clear limiting beliefs like “I must be needed to be loved” or “I don’t deserve boundaries.”

• Cho Ku Rei – Increases power and reinforces energetic boundaries.

• Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen – Enables distance healing, including sending Reiki to past events that contributed to codependent patterns.

• Journaling with Reiki – Write letters (to your inner child, past relationships, or family) and charge them with Reiki to release and transform.

Reiki Practice Suggestions:

• Daily self-treatment, especially on the heart, solar plexus, and root chakras.

• Energetic boundary setting: Visualize a golden light around your aura while sending Reiki to reinforce your space.

• Healing inner child wounds: Send Reiki to a photo of your younger self, using Sei He Ki.

Shamanic Healing’s Role in Healing Codependency

Shamanic healing dives into the soul level of codependency and works with spirit allies, ancestors, and nature to restore wholeness.

Core Shamanic Approaches for Codependency:

1. Soul Retrieval

• In codependency, parts of the soul often “leave” when one gives too much of themselves or experiences emotional trauma.

• A shamanic journey can retrieve these lost pieces and integrate them with love and protection.

2. Power Animal Retrieval

• Power animals help restore your personal strength, boundaries, and intuition—all vital for healing codependency.

3. Ancestral Healing

• Codependency can run through family lines. Journeying to meet ancestors can help break these energetic contracts or patterns.

4. Cord-Cutting with Spirit Help

• You can call on spirit allies or use symbolic tools (like obsidian knives or fire) to cut cords that bind your energy to others in unhealthy ways.

5. Nature-based healing

• Spending time in nature, offering gratitude, and connecting to trees or the elements can help re-anchor your soul and remind you of your place in the universe—not just in relationships.

Blending Reiki & Shamanic Healing

Here’s what happens when you combine both:

Reiki and Shamanic Healing

Gentle, nurturing flow Deep, transformational release

Works with chakras, aura, soul and spirit

Great for daily practice and powerful for ceremonial healing

Supports emotional and energetic regulation Restores lost parts and shifts ancestral patterns

Enhances spiritual boundaries Rebuilds sovereignty and spiritual power

Suggestions for Rituals or Healing Sessions

1. Cord-Cutting + Reiki Healing

• Drum or rattle to open space.

• Visualize the person or situation you’re entangled with.

• Cut cords with spirit tool.

• Place Reiki symbols over each cord end to seal and heal.

2. Soul Retrieval + Reiki Integration

• Journey to retrieve lost soul fragments.

• Once returned, place hands over heart and solar plexus.

• Use Reiki to help the soul part reintegrate and feel safe.

3. Inner Child Healing

• Journey to meet your inner child.

• Sit with them, comfort them, and invite them home.

• Use Reiki on the area of the body where the child lives (usually the heart or belly).

Healing codependency through Reiki and Shamanic practices is a sacred reclamation of your energy, your voice, and your truth.

You are not here to lose yourself in the needs of others—you are here to embody your wholeness, love yourself deeply, and walk in balance with those around you.

Every time you offer Reiki to your wounds, or journey into the spirit realm for insight and healing, you are choosing to break old cycles and return home to yourself.

You are worthy of relationships that honor your soul, your space, and your sacred yes and no.

May your path forward be guided by compassion, protected by spirit, and nourished by the radiant light of your own being.