Working with a Master Healer

Ben Oofana

Working with a Master Healer: The One Shot Deal That's Still Happening

It was suppose to be a one shot deal. A healing session for my 50th birthday with Ben, whose voice I heard on a podcast. I knew in that instant that was the person I needed to work with. His voice was clear, not just in tone, but on a deep soul level. I was feeling messy at that point in my life and I wanted the kind of clearness he had. If he had it, I was sure he could show me the way.

Now here it is, 12 1/2 years later I continue to see him on a regular basis. So much for the one shot deal! But I like many folks didn't understand this process of healing or living a growth oriented life. If you are not growing, you are stagnating and dying. Period. We are meant to evolve, as well as deepen and broaden our lived experience. Who better to do that with than one who's traveled the road already?

Over the last year several people that influenced me with their teachings and healing have gone, one passed away and the other retired, a third may not return to teaching. These teachers had decades of dedicated evolvement on their particular paths. And while they had an influence on me, Ben has been the most gifted, powerful and deeply influential person on my journey. I don't always take the time to deeply appreciate the gift of working with this very amazing healer, Ben Oofana, so I will share here some experiences and stories from my years working with him.

Visceral Healing and After Support

Ben's work spans the emotional, physical, spiritual and neurological spaces, but works particularly well with the emotional realm. I didn't think emotions where my problem when I began working with him, but the years working with him revealed how important it is to have a functioning relationship with all of our emotions, even the yukky ones. His work is visceral: dissolving patterns, structures, accumulated toxicity, stagnation and trauma in the body. Some of the forces that work through him are elemental and extremely powerful. To help integrate what happens in session he has daily practices to incorporate the new changes that have taken place. He provides after support. When has your doctor ( or any practitioner) called you to see how you were doing after an appointment or session? Sometimes he even does house calls provided he has enough work and travel expenses are paid. While his in person work is the most effective, his phone sessions can be quite dynamic as well. He spends time with you. In person sessions can go 2 1/2 to 3 hours. When you put the effort in to show up and do the practices, its met with more than 100% support.

Finding Safety on the Growth Edge

When I was in my workshop phase of personal growth I came across a woman who spoke about her childhood sexual trauma. She went to see a very powerful healer and told them to take all her pain away. And they did. Powerful healers can do that. But she said she went crazy afterwards, she had to go live in the desert alone for a year because she didn't know who she was without her pain, she had lost her identity and was given no tools or support to navigate her new self. I could relate to that on different level. The healer I used previous to Ben facilitated a spontaneous awakening in me that left me in a similar state as that woman, I didn't know who I was and it was destabilizing. The healer had no clue what to do or how to support me. Even without me telling that story to Ben, Ben could see the story in me. One of the first things he did was demonstrate how he had the ability to direct my experience, turning it up or down as needed. That made me feel safe, like I was in good hand and he wouldn't let things get out of control. In sessions, Ben's precision awareness could guide me right to my growth edge, bringing the emotions to to the surface and just a little beyond my capacity--enough to expand my bandwidth, but not enough to be too much -- while he held space. This allowed my feelings to arise and the unconscious patterns could come into my felt sense so I could process and digest them.

Why Twelve Years and Counting

The above story is why Ben works consistently over time. When working with a master healer each layer of disharmony is fully processed, digested and healed before moving on. It makes you feel like your standing on solid ground before moving to the next steps That is very much what it felt like early on. Now its a bit more of a global process. The sessions build on each other so when we would work together, I would often do multiple sessions in a row. This successive session work allowed the forces work more deeply and get alot more done because I would be more receptive.

Psychic Clarity Forged in the Mountains

Ben's intuitive capacity is truly astounding. He always responds to my thoughts, answering questions I had in between sessions before I even ask them. It was years before I figured out the "client stories" he would share, was actually my future he saw with acute accuracy. Psychics and intuitives are often influenced by their own filters, trauma and experience. The over 65 vision quests Ben has done ( 4 days and nights without food and water in the Witchita Mountains) has given him a psychic clarity that is unrivaled and unfettered by his past or physical limitations.

Physical Healings

I had the unfortunate experience of getting shingles a number of years ago. Luckily Ben was already scheduled to come to where I live to do sessions for me, my family and some others. If you've had a shingles outbreak you know the feeling of your nerves burning as if lit on fire with gasoline. My whole ribcage area had broken out. the pain was an 15 on a scale of 1-10. I was laying on my couch, Ben simply walked by to go to his room and the pain diminished to a 2. I haven't had an active shingles breakout since.

My daughter began doing sessions with me around the age of 14. At the time she was being extreme with her vegan health regime and losing weight. After her second session with Ben she regained a healthier outlook with diet and exercise and maintained her weight. Imagine my shock seeing her eat butter after months and months of my nagging!

There was one woman who had brain surgery for cancer and it left her unable to read, her passion, and the only thing she was capable of doing with the debilitating nature of her disease. Her sight returned enough to be able to read again after sessions. Unfortunately, she passed away, as not all diseases can be helped, but the quality of the rest of her life was so much better, being able to enjoy her books.

These few snippets show the wide range of healing capability Ben has.

Mirror of the Master

It can be difficult working with a Master. It is a hard journey. One that requires vulnerability, trust and vigilance on a daily basis. You need a willingness to face the uncomfortable as well as your deep fears. I remember Kim Eng's interview before she married Eckhart Tolle. The interviewer said something like, oooh how cool and special it is to be Ekhart's girlfriend, it must be wonderful to be in his presence so much. And she replied, "Its actually hard. Whenever I am not in complete truth and honesty with myself, I suffer immensely in his presence."

And its true. When in the presence of these kinds of Masters, its like they hold a huge mirror reflecting everything that isn't in alignment right back at you. The idea of who you thought you were in the bathroom mirror that morning is suddenly shattered. The pieces come back together in a new way that allows you to embody a larger self, one that has more capabilities on more levels. And the process happens repeatedly, over and over again if you stay the course.

The thing about true masters is that they will never say they are. Ben won't refer to himself as a master healer despite over 30 years healing thousands of people, years training with a Chinese master, receiving healing powers from a Kiowa medicine man and completing over 65 vision quests. Power told is power lost in his lineage, so there is a quiet, unassuming humble nature about him. His small slight stature doesn't seem capable of being a conduit for the powerful beings that work through him. His website doesn't sell training courses to be a shaman because mastery and mentorship don't work like that.

Healing the Subtle Body

Over the years, I got to see some of the people he worked with and how much brighter and less burdened they looked after sessions. Eating disorders dissolved, IBS resolved, trauma healed, quality of life improved. For those that stayed with his practices, they developed an incredible amount of emotional intelligence and resiliency. He has a lot of areas of expertise, but the emotional realm is a place he is optimized in. He can see peoples auras and subtle bodies. The subtle bodies are where your physicality comes into existence. He could see issues arising from this place that I had absolutely no reference for in my awareness at the time. Making recommendations based on what he saw, I have maintained better health than most folks my age.

The Before and Beyond of Sessions

The sessions themselves go beyond the the time you spend with him in the physical. The sessions sometimes begin when you commit to a date and time. I remember after I scheduled my first session with Ben. My husband had moved my flip flops and the wave a repressed anger that surfaced was so potent it scared me, causing me to dive under my covers and hide. " Shit this medicine man is powerful," was all I could think. That kind of repressed rage makes cancer fertile ground in the physical body. Dr. Gabor Maté details this extensively in his mind-body research: chronic emotional suppression, especially the lifelong bottling up of healthy anger, acts as a massive physiological stressor that blinds our immune systems, leaving us vulnerable to cellular disease. I know the session work over the years has helped prevent disease.

The powerful healing forces that work through Ben begin preparing you, difficult sensations and emotions may come to the surface. Some people would cancel when they felt that chaos, I felt bad for them because by cancelling they were left to deal with all that on their own. After sessions, life sometimes has a way of arranging itself to best support your growth and healing: resources may come your way, people come into your sphere that you need, pertinent information comes to light, situations that seem impossible suddenly start moving. I had a friend who's house had been on the market for 10 years. A few months after a session, it was sold. For me, within a few months of my initial session, I was able to leave a 28 year toxic marriage --the resources for new housing, furnishings and some additional part time work all landed solidly to making the transition happen with ease.

Paranormal Happenings

The old time native medicine people had paranormal powers and abilities to shift reality... like the warriors who could ride straight through the middle of a battle and not get shot. Ben's Mentor, Horace, could pick up the hot sweat lodge rocks with his bare hands and move the heat to one side of the lodge. Ben would never speak about what he was capable of, but at times would demonstrate. Those demonstrations were testaments to me that he truly lives with feet in both worlds. On one of my early vision quests, I was setting up on land I didn't have permission to be on ( it wasn't posted) I was afraid to ask the landowner because I didn't want anyone to know I was alone out there, I was afraid. I heard the 4 wheeler coming, the landowner had seen me cross his field. I was wearing a red sweatshirt, I had a blue tarp splayed out on the ground. I heard Ben's voice as clearly as if he was standing next to me, " BE STILL!" I froze, barely breathing. The landowner pulled up on his 4 wheeler maybe 20 yards away, got off, scanned the landscape several times, looking directly at me several times, got back on his vehicle and I didn't see him again for the rest of the time I was up there. I was standing on the brown hay, red sweatshirt, blue tarp and he never saw me. Ben was in NYC at that time, 200 miles away. So it was a funny thing for me to hear recently that some friends who follow the Lakota tradition had to speak to their medicine person by phone when they did a similar ceremony.

He taught me many things over the years, but the not in the usual way. Instead of telling me what to do as a rote set of commands to follow, he would sometimes subtly suggest, or say a small phrase that would take up residence in my awareness. This allowed me to develop my own instincts and listen to my body and my intuition. That process taught me skillsets of trusting myself that never developed as a youngster growing up in a an alcoholic home. I became more grounded and present. More in alignment with my true self, which helped facilitate my own abilities as a teacher and healer.

The core of what he imparted was simple:

Commitment. Do the thing. No if's and's or buts. You commit. You do it. Never rest on your laurels in terms of personal growth. If you aren't growing you stagnate.

Always stay grounded. Expanded states are wonderful, but its the deep work that keeps the ego surrendered, that keeps you humble. The deep work allows you to walk in the world with deep relationship.

Feeling. Feeling my Emotions, Feeling Deep, Feeling into me, Feeling my abdomen, feeling my breath. Feeling my Heart. Feeling my muscles. Feeling my relationships. Did I mention feeling?

Practice, Practice Practice There's that old joke about the music student who asked for directions to Carnagie Hall and the response was, "Practice, Practice, Practice. And that too is Ben's answer. How do you heal? How do you dissolve limitation? How you become who you envision yourself to be? The answer is Session work.. then Practice, Practice, Practice. Meditation practice, breathing practice, walking practice, embodiment practice, connected and fully relational. We must practice the habit of being fully human and fully alive if we want to be fully happy

If the idea of working with Ben is resonating you can connect with him at BenOofana.com

Need assistance on your healing journey ? Eileen is a Certified Unified Mindfulness Teacher and Alternative Healer who has been on multiple vision quests to be a clear and effective conduit for your growth and healing. Visit https://relaxandexpand.com    to contact