Feeling Stuck? A Shaman"s Guide To Moving Forward In Your Life By: Rebecca Ryan | - According to Shamanic teachings, your body is a compass. Listening to your bodys guidance will give you the information you need to make the right choices. Have you ever asked someone how they knew it was time to change jobs, have a child, get married, buy something, eat, sleep etc? They will always answer with body signs, ie, it felt like the right time, I just knew, I was so over my old job etc.
What Is Shamanic Witchcraft? Your Guide To Understanding How It Works By: Rebecca Ryan | - Many people ask me to tell them more about Shamanic Witchcraft and how it works. I"ve been a public practitioner of Shamanic Witchcraft for years and I still find this such a big question! I"ll do my best to shed some light, all grace, please, as these ancient ways of making the unmanifest manifest aren"t easy to explain.
Shamanic Witchcraft, by my definition, is a blending of earth based practices. Shamanic Witchcraft, like all magick, is about liberation, indep ... Tags:shamanism, shamanic witchcraft, soul retrieval, hypnosis
The A B Cs Of Shamanic Healing By: Shamanic Healing | - Mind over matter, they say, and nothing could be closer to the truth. In every life, we are faced with emotional challenges and turmoil that hinder our progress in various forms. These problems of the mind take a serious toll on our physical reality. We tend to feel depressed, discouraged and demotivated, and seem to lack knowledge of the right direction. Indeed, it is surprising to see how much damage can be caused by emotional stress.
Putting Spiritual Leaders To The Test By: Yamaya Cruz | - A wise man once told me that a great way to test a man's level of consciousness is to have him sit in a room for two months. Huh! I balked. I could do that. I could sit and search the Internet, make a few phone calls, read some books, watch a few good movies. My list went on and on describing a myriad of things I could do in my room alone. No, a man needs to sit in his room alone, with nothing, just by himself.
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The Dangers Of The Middle World By: Yamaya Cruz | - Most of what we know as psychic phenomena actually happens in the shamanic middle world, or that world which is the spiritual parallel of the one we are living in. This part of the non-ordinary reality is ruled by a controlled visionary experience. Navigating through this plain is said to be the most difficult and thus requires one to be very knowledgeable and experienced when it comes to shamanic journeys. When one first begins his shamanic journey, this is the plain in the non-ordinary reality ... Tags:shamans, Shamisim, spiritual Healing, Spiritual cleansing
The Shamanic Upper World And The Spirit Teachers By: Yamaya Cruz | - In a shamanic sense, the so-called Upper World is that part of the non ordinary reality that is in complete contrast to the underworld in that it is a plain full of life instead of sadness and grief. The shamanic principles are based on the belief that there are three different worlds that govern a person's life. The one above him which houses a spiritual teacher, one below him which serves as home to his power animal, and the one that surrounds him which is his current plain of existence. Each ... Tags:Shamanism, Shamans, Spiritual Healing, Spiritual Cleansing
Shamanic Healing Taking Control Of What Is, Was And Never Should Be By: Yamaya Cruz | - The principles that define Shamanic healing are based on the fact that a body that is not filled with spiritual power is prone to get sick, be involved in an accident, or just basically have bad luck. Enlisting the help of a shaman to make the body feel better would mean opening yourself up to the many spiritual principles and truth upon which this particular therapeutic method is based. This healing process involves the restoration of the link between that person and his spiritual power, which ... Tags:Shamans, Shamanism, Spiritual Healing, Spiritual Cleansing
What Shamans And The Shamanic Principle Can Do To You By: Yamaya Cruz | - The simplest definition of shamans describes them as middle-men who stand between the world as we have come to know it and another world that is on a different spiritual plain, invisible and supernatural. These tribal people make good use of magic for healing, foretelling, as well as developing a certain level of control over spiritual forces and natural events. The word itself depicts a kind of mystery that seems to transcend and even contradict reality. It holds many specific meanings in varie ... Tags:Shamans, Shamanism, Spiritual Healing, Spiritual Cleansing
The Power Animals And The Lower World By: Yamaya Cruz | - The lower world is basically where the shamanic power animals can be found. These may be in the form of earth animals, and even those that are only depicted in mythological legends. These animals are also sometimes called 'totems' and they are responsible for guiding shamans through their spiritual journeys as well is through their daily lives. A variety of animals may become your guide; some would even have more than one. These animals are chosen based on your initially defined intentions and g ... Tags:shamans, Shamanic Journey, spirit animals
Shamanism Today By: Colleen Guy | - In the current Western world, many people are in search of a higher level of consciousness, and seeking more from their lives - rather than the ‘current culture’, which is focussed upon money, sex and power. A mid-life crisis or a period of deep change is often the trigger for this thirst to learn more about spirituality and shamanic practice.
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How Being Single Helped Me Achieve My Dreams By: ShamanicWisdom | - Year after year, it was the same old story. I would spend holidays by myself, and would, more often than not, indulge in sad feelings. At that time, I had no idea how struggling with being single would help me achieve my life's dreams.
One day, I called a dear friend of mine, who is amazingly wise, and confided in him that I was really tired of being single. What he told me changed my life beyond my wildest dreams.
The Spiritual Shaman - Shamanism And Omens By: Paul Andrew Todd | - The practice of shamanism is a logical, earth based spiritual practice. You may even have friends that practice this form of spirituality and never know it. One of the distinguishing factors of a person who practices shamanism is they tend to get along with animals and all forms of nature. People will also feel at ease around those who practice shamanism. Wikipidia defines a shaman as "intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds".
Beyond Meditation - Secrets Of An Ancient Powerful Technique By: ShamanicWisdom | - Throughout history, shamans and other wise men and women of knowledge have possessed the power to journey deep within to tap the universal source of information and wisdom.
Shamans have always known that the answers we seek can be found within. Bypassing the stumbling blocks of the outer, material world, they perfected techniques of accessing higher mind levels to find answers, gain insights and achieve profound understandings.
Spirit Readings By: Megan Colvin | - What is a Spirit Reading?
Have you ever wondered if spirits journey with you in this life? Do you have times when you don't feel alone, when there seems to be a presence around you, a familiar energy? A time when you felt "nudged" into a decision or guided to a particular thing or occurrence?
Our spirit guides are entities who have, as their current path, chosen to accompany you. They may have interacted with you in this lifetime, a past lifetime or on another level. They are ... Tags:shaman, shamanic, healer, healing, reiki, tarot, tarot reading, phone reading, spiritual
Shamanic Journeying By: Colleen Guy | - I would like to share my thoughts and experiences about journeying to the three different worlds, namely the Upper, Middle and Lower worlds, starting with the Lower (or Under) world as it is known in Celtic Shamanism.
The benefits of meditation are well known and journeying is a visual form of this practice. It is similar to lucid dreaming where you are an active part of the dream rather than watching from outside/above. You should be completely relaxed and comfortable, with some pref ... Tags:Shamanic Journeying, Shamanic Journey, Spirit Guides, Power Animal, Shamanism
How To Manifest Successful Goals Easily By: Raymond Thomas Hill | - Most people would agree that individual beliefs and values influence and determine the outcome of any situation or experience in our lives. Thats why a group of people can go through similar experiences and yet individually come away with totally different results.
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Shamanic Healing And Soul Retrieval - Part 3 By: Jan Engels Smith | - Soul loss creates a fragmentation of one's wholeness. Consequently, a person continually tries to fill the voids caused by the fragmentation. Attempts at "fulfillment" may include overt behaviors associated with drugs, alcohol, sex, faulty relationships, and food, or more subtle behaviors of verbal and nonverbal communication.
Shamanic Healing And Soul Retrieval - Part 2 By: Jan Engels Smith | - In a shamanic culture, care of the soul is part of daily existence. I believe that is why these cultures are notably contented, happy, and crime-free. People who are whole or feel good about themselves handle the ups and downs of life in a wholesome way. When people feel fearful, threatened, or fragmented, their responses to life are extremely different from those who feel trustful, optimistic, whole, and complete. In our culture, we have very little experience with sustaining trust and optimism ... Tags:shamanic healing, soul retrieval, soul loss, healing trauma, shamanism, energy
Shamanic Healing And Soul Retrieval - Part 1 By: Jan Engels Smith | - Shamanism is an ancient healing art, dating back at least 40,000 years. It was used by most indigenous cultures in the world. It is a healing method that emphasizes that all experiences affect your soul and that all healing comes through the soul. In shamanic cultures, the care of the soul is extremely important. In fact, it is the most important aspect of healing.1 The shamanic belief is that a human being is first and foremost a soul having a human experience, not the other way around. If the ... Tags:shamanic healing, soul retrieval, soul loss, healing trauma, shamanism, energy
A Quest For Understanding And Connection - Part 3 By: Jan Engels Smith | - I started my personal quest for understanding through science, which led me to psychology, which led to spirituality. I earned university degrees along the way, and have spent countless hours in workshops and seminars. My love for nature brought me to the study of science and ecology, my love for myself led me to psychology and the healing of my past, and my love for God led me to spirituality. Initially, my spiritual study seemed to move me away from my earlier scientific studies, but ultimatel ... Tags:spiritual path, connection to spirit, shamanism, shamanic healing
A Quest For Understanding And Connection - Part 1 By: Jan Engels Smith | - My story is everybody's story. My journey is remarkable, as a spiritual journey always is, but it is an experience available to all people. I consider myself to be an average American with average problems, but with a divine connection to Spirit. I love Spirit and I love life. I believe that one has everything to do with the other. But my life has not always been this way for me. I suffered a great deal in my youth, as is the case for many individuals, and have spent most of my adult life healin ... Tags:connection to spirit, psychology, spiritual healing, quest, shamanic healer
An Emerging Healing Arts Language By: Victor Demko | - Interacting with a great many people, in a great many settings, has led this one me to believe in the language of the heart, of friendship, and the deeply shared joy of the human condition, as well as its pain and suffering.
If the goal of all is to move toward an integrated state of wholeness and wellness, what would support that?
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Filmmaker Overcomes Himalayan Difficulties To Bring Rare Yogi Interview To Those Seeking Yoga 'high' By: Victor Demko | - Two landslides on a road in the Indian Himalayas tested holistic health filmmaker Victor Demko's resolve to get an interview with Yoga Master Swami Sundaranand. Demko encountered this challenge while traveling from Rishikesh to Gangotri, the site of the historic head water of the Ganges River and longtime home of the 79 year old Swami Sundaranand, one of the last hardcore Himalayan yogis.
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Honor And Trust The Relationship With Spirit By: Jan Engels Smith | - Many people start a new commitment to the spiritual path, or start defining their relationship with Spirit, and then immediately want wonderful things to manifest for them. Unfortunately, this is usually unrealistic. Before you are given access to the unlimited information, or powers of the universe, there is a respect and a trust that needs to develop between you and the spirit realm. Just as you are developing trust for the spirits, they are developing a trust for you. You are building a relat ... Tags:spirit helpers, spiritual, healing spirits, shamanic healing, mainfesting, manifestation
The Shamanic Journey: Spirit Helpers By: Jan Engels Smith | - Cross-culturally, there is a common belief in spiritual help that is witnessed as an intervention from a non-physical realm into the physical realm that transcends, changes, or heals. This non-physical realm is where the spirits dwell.
Energy Is Created By Your Beliefs And Thoughts By: Jan Engels Smith | - An energy field surrounds everything. Energy pulses out from objects, interacting with and absorbing other energies. A person's energy field, commonly called an aura, is generated inside the body and extends outward to surround it. Understanding the electrical and magnetic nature of energy is important to understanding healing.
Shamanism: Ecsatic Trance Postures By: ross heaven | - Although I had practiced yoga for a number of years, I did not make much of a connection between the physical asanas as methods for exploring the world of spirit until I began working with indigenous shamans and discovered an ancient and little-known practice where body postures are used to guide what are known as shamanic journeys: special states of trance or meditation through which we can access our inner selves or, as the shamans say, journey to other worlds'.
Plant Spirit Shamanism By: ross heaven | - Since the beginning of human experience, plants have played a role in the evolution of our species, not only in the provision of food and medicine but in our deepest spiritual experience and the development of consciousness. Their form, beauty, enchanting scents, their healing and emotional qualities, have all provided a gateway to the Great Mystery of Nature, which our Celtic forebears called The visible face of Spirit.
Though our lands are no longer forested as they were, we try ... Tags:plant spirit shamanism, soul retrieval, soul loss, herbs, herbalism, healing, folk medicine, folk healing, sin eater, shaman, shamanism, shamanic jour
Howard G Charing & Peter Cloudsley interviewed Shipibo Ayahuasca Shaman Benjamin Ochavano in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru, who is in his mid seventies to discuss how Ayahuasca can help those Westerners who are seeking personal growth and who have embarked on the great journey of self discovery and exploration.
A shaman is a 'Master of Ecstasy' (Mercia Eliade). The word ecstasy comes from the Greek - ex-stasis - meaning outside the limited, narrow, trance-state we call 'normal' waking reality.
Drumming For The Shamanic Journey By: Howard G Charing | - What is Shamanism?
Shamanism is the oldest way in which humanity has sought connection with Creation. The origins of shamanism go back at least 40,000 - 50,000 years to Stone age times. All of us have evolved from shamanic cultures, it is our roots wherever we live.
A shaman knows that all things are alive and walks with one foot in the everyday world and one foot in the spirit world'. Contemporary shamanism is the application of these ancient timeless ways to life here a ... Tags:shamanism, shamanic journey, drum, drumming, soul retrieval, shamanic healing
Faith And Miracles By: Jan Engels Smith | - People who have power-spiritual power-are people who have learned how to work with energy. Working with energy requires an understanding of both scientific laws and universal laws. Scientific laws change as science progresses. There were once laws that supported the beliefs that the earth was flat, was the center of the universe, and that light only travels in a straight line. These laws held true until science advanced to discover other possibilities, at which time new scientific laws emerged. ... Tags:shaman, shamanic counselor, healing, reiki, shamanic practitioner, gresham, portland, oregon, jan engels-smith, Self help, alternative, energy, healin
Your Belief Systems Are In Control By: Jan Engels Smith | - The following is an exercise, or process, you can use to explore the depths of your being. It is an exercise to discover your belief systems-what you believe to be true about yourself, about God, about life.
All of your actions are rooted in your belief system. Although most of your beliefs were formed as a child, they are in fact a choice. If you do not like what you believe, you can change it. As an adult, you have full control of your beliefs. In order to change, however, you m ... Tags:shaman, shamanic counselor, healing, reiki, shamanic practitioner, gresham, portland, oregon, jan engels-smith, Self help, alternative, energy, healin
Soul Loss - How Shamanic Healing Can Restore Your Life Force By: H G Charing | - Many of us have heard about Soul Retrieval, which is the return of lost soul fragments (or lost parts) of ourselves. Soul Retrieval is a classical shamanic practice, and in some communities it was the primary method of maintaining health or power. The word soul equates to our life-force, and in shamanic terms we are a composite of souls', or life-force, and this explains why we can become fragmented. The Shipibo - Conibio Indians of the Upper Amazon Rainforest, for example regard every part of ... Tags:shaman, plant spirit shamanism, ayahuasca, retreats, workshops, peru, shipibo, herbs, herbal healing, herbal medicine, san pedro, healing, amazon rainforest, phil
Energy Is Electrical And Magnetic By: Jan Engels Smith | - An energy field surrounds everything. Energy pulses out from objects, interacting with and absorbing other energies. A person's energy field, commonly called an aura, is generated inside the body and extends outward to surround it. Understanding the electrical and magnetic nature of energy is important to understanding healing.
Belief Systems, Attitude And Change By: Jan Engels Smith | - I, like many, spent several years in therapy. I had varying degrees of success, but I still viewed my childhood as something that wounded me terribly. I spent much of my adult life healing.
I was in a workshop, one day, and we were asked to come up with a happy memory from our childhood and to hold it in our minds as we continued with the exercise. I searched and searched for a happy memory. If an event presented itself with even an inkling of happiness, it proceeded to run itself ... Tags:shaman, shamanic counselor, healing, reiki, shamanic practitioner, gresham, portland, oregon, jan engels-smith, Self help, alternative, energy, healin
Affirmations And Mantras By: Jan Engels Smith | - Affirmations and mantras are statements you say to yourself in a repetitive and rote way. Affirmations have been used in psychology for years as part of the healing process for clients, with varying degrees of success. Mantras have been used for thousands of years by monks to train their mind. Both affirmations and mantras are methods of focused attention and concentration. Their success is based on the number of repetitions and the level of commitment to the process. Which do you think have bee ... Tags:shaman, shamanic counselor, healing, reiki, shamanic practitioner, gresham, portland, oregon, jan engels-smith, Self help, alternative, energy, healin
Journeying And Incarnations Was Jim Really John Lennon? By: Jan Engels Smith | - Jim was struggling with a career decision. Jim's current career had started with the death of John Lennon. Jim was about eighteen years old at the time of Lennon's death, but he had had a powerful experience at this time, which changed the course of his life. When Lennon died, Jim felt him enter his body. He committed himself to John's spirit, and became obsessed with learning all of his music. Jim is a talented musician and developed a very successful band, which played Beatle standards. This s ... Tags:shaman, shamanic counselor, healing, reiki, shamanic practitioner, gresham, portland, oregon, jan engels-smith, Self help, alternative, energy, healin
Life Experiences"'"choice"'"karma"'"unconditional Love By: Jan Engels Smith | - The terms "life experiences," "choice," "karma," "and unconditional love" are all part of the same whole. I will explain them individually, in the way that I received them in my own teachings; however, they must be understood holistically. One without the other can bring confusion. Together, these terms explain the wonder of life.
Vision Quest By: Jan Engles Smith | - A vision quest is a Native American ceremony that in the Lakota language is called hanblecha, which means, crying for a vision. It is a calling out to Spirit, to God, to Great Spirit with a request and questing for an answer. The vision quest is traditionally done for four days and four nights. The person on the quest sits isolated with no food or water connected through prayer to Spirit. Different cultures with similar intents conduct the quest with variations in time and practice. In all cases ... Tags:shaman, shamanic counselor, healing, reiki, shamanic practitioner, gresham, portland, oregon, jan engels-smith, Self help, alternative, energy, healin
Indonesian Shamanic Methods Of Fasting & Austerities By: Luxamore | - Fasting and asceticism are essential practices in Javanese Kejawen and shamanism--especially Indonesian shamanism. Most of the unusual and unique powers acquired in Indonesian occultism are dependent upon the mastery of these disciplines with their many forms and variations. Another important factor that must not be overlooked in the acquisition of these occult powers is the knowledge of the correct timing such as the proper month and day which magickal rites and disciplines are to be commenced, ... Tags:shamanism, esoteric, magick, fasting, austerities, discipline, spirituality, asceticism, occult
The Awakening By: Jan Engles Smith | - I was introduced to alternative healing in a very alternative way. I had a vision. In my vision an old Indian woman approached me. When I asked who she was, she replied:
I am you, I am your mother, I am your sister, I am your grandmother, I am the Earth. She had gray hair pulled back tightly in a bun, and her skin was wrinkled and weathered by life. She was wrapped in a wool blanket and smoking a pipe. She asked if I wanted to join in the sisterhood, but warned me that my life ... Tags:shaman, shamanic counselor, healing, reiki, shamanic practitioner, gresham, portland, oregon, jan engels-smith, Self help, alternative, energy, healin
The Basics Of Becoming Yourself By: Jan Engles Smith | - You are an incredible spirit of divine perfection, the same composition as God. Creator is an ocean and you are a drop of water in that ocean. You carry within you the exact components and properties of the entire ocean. You are made of God, in the reflection of God, and God is in you.
