healing ritual
Restorative sacred practice
A healing ritual is a ceremony or set of symbolic actions intended to restore health, wholeness, or well-being.
The term spans religious practices, indigenous traditions, and New Age spirituality: The shaman performed a healing ritual for the sick child.
Healing rituals may address physical illness, emotional trauma, or spiritual imbalance, and typically involve prescribed gestures, words, or objects believed to channel restorative power.
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- sweat lodgeHeated structure for ritual purification
- cleansingRemoving dirt or toxins
- smudge stickBundled herbs for cleansing smoke
prayer · incantation · sage · smoke · altar · chanting · blessing · purification · sacred · invocation · candles · holy water · herbs · drumming · spirit · ancestral spirits · laying on hands · anointing
- Afro-Brazilian Religionaxe, syncretism, spirit possession, drumming, spirit guides
- ritualsrite, ceremony, sacrament, blessing, prayer
- ancient riteshuman sacrifice, animal sacrifice, blood sacrifice, burnt offering, burnt offerings
- faith healinglaying on of hands, miracle cure, miracle cures, laying on hands, laying hands
- healing prayerslaying on of hands, holy oil
- shamanismshamans, shaman, spirit guide, medicine man, medicine woman
healing ritualcurse
Invoked harm through words
hex · malediction · jinx · black magic · death rite
healing ritualblack magic
Evil supernatural practice
dark ritual · witchcraft · sorcery · necromancy · voodoo curse
healing ritualmedical treatment
Care for illness
clinical intervention · surgery · evidence-based medicine · clinical procedure · hospital care
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