In my experience with healing/sacred sites there are layers. There’s also something like lateral & vertical connectedness.
The lateral part is how connected, e.g. harmonized, in sync, over lapping, etc with the people that have stayed and continue to stay onsite.
The vertical is kind of like how deep, intimate, closeness.
Initially I was thinking of people but both can very much apply to the site: e.g. land, history, tales, spirits, what ever is tied to the energy and consciousness.
The layers can be described as stages, and how deep in the healing one is willing or able to go.
Initially it can feel like relief or lessening. An analogy could be like the physical cleaning of a body. If you take a shower or bathe that could feel kind of nice and refreshing. If you soak in a hot tub, dip in icy water, mud bathe, those could have stronger effects. Could imagine water that’s rich in minerals or is pristine and not really touched by human influence.
Going down a further layer, imagine taking a substance like ayahuasca, psilocybin, or pure tobacco. There’s greater purging and cleansing of the body.
Staying longer at a healing site can very good early on. The changes come easier, it feels good, and the people around you either share in a similar experience or can notice it without being caught up in it.
Ayahuasca, psilocybin, or pure tobacco have traditionally been done in ceremonies with shamans or at least some sort of guide to navigate the process, and for sanity as well.
If you’re going deeper in the healing at a site, it becomes a lot more personal and individualized. Like experiences that other people may not be able to relate to or even be able to perceive what is/was wrong. It can be seen as negative, and not something to get involved in. Reduced to labels of crazy or madness.
If you’re going deeper solo, without guidance, it may be difficult to figure out what you need to do, how to manage it, and what the outcome will be.
Whatever is coming to the surface can spread to others, and each person or the culture has their own ways of how they are going to react/respond. This of course goes both ways, how you are going to interact with someone/group doing their own deeper healing in the same general place.
If at a healing site, e.g. with strong energies, the healing is going to come. The last time I went through it the stages were like waves of an ocean. Didn’t really know how much or how little was coming at once, and then the experience of that wave suddenly coming down.
Anyway people have variations with how they process or behave with healing, as well as what they’re able or willing to experience.