Shamanism relies heavily upon ceremony and ritual to evoke the desired trance. Many rituals involve hypnotic tools like smells, smoke, repetition, sound, suggestion and sleep deprivation. Some rely on mood altering substances. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative-Some techniques are fear based and their main thrust is cutting cords of ghosts, goblins and boogie men. I prefer to celebrate co-creation with a higher source and light.
Religious exorcists are masters of the dark approach.
She saw them everywhere while the rest of us did not. The power of such negative suggestions became a self-fulfilling profusion of unhappiness. My personal rule of thumb for shamanism, and everything else, is-if it's not fun or doesn't manifest fun, don't do it. I got a call recently from a depressed woman who visited a Manhattan Beach, CA psychic. This woman told her that it would cost hundreds of dollars to rid her of an attached ghost and therefore her depression.