The tattoo has been used for spiritual, healing and decorative purposes in many cultures for thousands of years. Egypt, Japan, the Philippines, Samoa, Persia, New Zealand, and Taiwan are just a few of the ancient cultures where tattoos were used to facilitate spiritual growth and healing. In many of these ancient cultures, tattoos were used in religious ceremonies for spiritual purposes, as a medicinal treatment tool, and in order to display an individual’s rank and accomplishments. Tattoos have also been used for centuries as a right of passage from childhood to adulthood. Many ancient cultures also believed that tattoos had magical properties. As a result of this belief, tattooing and the processes involved in applying the tattoo were sacred practices and tattooing was most often applied by the shamans and medicine men of the tribe.
Even today, having a tattoo permanently inked on your body is a very personal and, in many cases, spiritually cleansing experience. It is a personal experience that you will never forget, you will always remember the place, the people and the processes involved in the application of the tattoo. You will remember how you felt the day you got the tattoo, whether you were happy, sad, sick or tired. Often you’ll even remember the day of the week, the month, and even what the weather was like outside. You will remember the emotions associated with the tattoo and the reasons why you got it. Perhaps a person gets a tattoo to represent the joy or love in her life, healing, change, triumph, just for fun, or even in a moment of anger. These emotions will be re-experienced every time you look at the tattoo. The very nature of having a tattoo applied to your body lends itself exceptionally well to emotional, spiritual, mental and even physical healing.
Even the pain of getting a tattoo is an integral part of the tattoo experience. The pain of receiving a tattoo is not punishment, you receive it because you have chosen to receive it, and in the case of a spiritual tattoo, it functions as an integral part of the spiritual healing process. Accepting the pain and working through it can strengthen the experience and outcome of a scarred tattoo.
Without even being aware of the nuances of getting a tattoo, many people choose to get tattooed as a way to heal a painful past. A tattoo in this case represents triumph over a painful physical, emotional or mental incident in your life. This could be a mentally painful past, physically painful trauma or even the passing of a loved one, or anything else that has left a painful mentally, emotionally or physically scar on the body that the person wants to overcome and heal. This being the case, tattoos applied in a sacred healing environment are especially helpful in healing the trauma that remains from the mental, emotional, and physical scars on the body.
A sacred tattoo setting is also often used by those who wear tattoos as a form of spiritual advancement and to reinforce their spiritual beliefs. The images chosen to be applied are spiritually significant and help facilitate the individual spiritual expansion of each person.
Whatever the reason for your decision to get a sacred tattoo session, each session can help ease life changes by providing you with a beautiful permanent spiritual pictorial anchor that will serve as a positively reinforcing reminder of the growth and change you are experiencing. . Whether your tattoo is to aid in healing and closure from past trauma or to facilitate joy and spiritual growth and moving forward into your future.
Spiritual healers who are also tattoo artists are now offering sacred spiritual tattoo sessions that are designed to offer the client a sacred environment to use the tattoo process as a tool in which to seek personal spiritual growth and healing. Each session involves the artist/healer and the client and is individually tailored and designed to meet the spiritual and healing needs of the client.
Each tattoo session is performed in a private and relaxing sacred spiritual environment. A sacred tattoo is usually done by a spiritual healer/tattoo artist and is individually tailored to each person, often a session will include the use of meditation and spiritually sacred objects.