I noticed that I avoided talking openly for years about Spirit Animals because I was afraid of ridicule, or simply not being taken seriously. I think it is human nature to make light of things we don’t understand. After 10 years of working with the unseen worlds and developing relationships with my guides and helping spirits, I still can’t say that I understand.
Read moreWHAT IT MEANS WHEN I SAY I AM A MEDIUM
I was called into the work as a shamanic practitioner because of my ability to work with spirits that have crossed over. Ten years ago, I was at a friend’s house doing a “guided meditation” that forever changed the course of my life. A woman guided me to a safe place in nature where I was supposed to receive a vision about my life’s purpose. What I saw was the goddess Isis standing at the edge of the ocean while the sun set. She gave me the message that my purpose in life was to “help spirits cross over.” This was the gateway for me into learning the shamanic arts.
Read moreSOUL RETRIEVAL: GETTING YOUR SPARKLE BACK
When there is a traumatic event, part of your soul will leave your body in order to lessen the impact. Have you ever been in a car accident and afterwards you feel kind of out of it? This is your body’s natural wisdom to support you. Every shamanic culture throughout time and across the globe has had some practice of journeying to that soul part and bringing it home. When part of your soul leaves your body, it can leave you feeling tired, depressed, empty -- you “don’t feel like yourself.”
Read moreSHAMANISM AND THE POWER OF THOUGHTS AND WORDS
Shamanic cultures understand the power of thoughts and words in creating our realities, and understand that we can create illness, pollution and war with our intentions. I knew someone who was told by a doctor that she would never walk again. But she believed she would and she ultimately did.
These beliefs that have been planted all throughout our lives since early childhood can be firmly ingrained in our psyche. Like a gardener, the shamanic practitioner learns to excavate the soil of the psyche. We must be careful with the words we say; each word is a seed that can grow into a flower.
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