by Gina Lake
A lot of our thinking is an attempt to fix things that can’t be “fixed.” For example, we might try to fix the past by trying to do it over mentally—imagining other ways it could have or “should” have gone—or trying to defend what we did by thinking about it. We replay the past as if doing that can change it. The mind tries to fix what it cannot fix. Or we might try to plan something down to every detail, as if doing that can cause it to go the way we imagine or want it to. Although some planning has value, the mind overdoes it, as it is often driven by needless worries and fears. It plays “what if” scenarios and tries, through thought, to avoid the messiness and unpredictability of life, however impossible that may be.
The mind also spends a lot of time trying to fix things that don’t even need fixing. It imagines, or anticipates, problems where none exist and, therefore, spends precious energy trying to fix something mentally that doesn’t even need fixing. For example, it might imagine that you will fall on your face while speaking to a group when you don’t even have a plan to speak to a group or when you have never had this difficulty before. Even if you’ve had this difficulty before, thoughts about this right now can’t change what has happened or will happen. This is called needless worrying.
The trouble with trying to fix something by thinking about it is that it doesn’t work! We can’t change the past by thinking about it (although we can still learn from it), and we can’t correct something that isn’t happening right now. We can only “fix,” or affect, real life—what is happening right now—not some mental idea of life. We can think and imagine all we want, but it won’t change the past or affect the present in the way we might like.
The other problem with trying to fix something by thinking about it, besides the fact that this doesn’t work, is that these kinds of thoughts do affect our experience of the present and our experience of life when we are thinking them because they take us out of real life and put us into our own made-up mental world, which for many people is full of worry, fear, and other negativity. We try to manage and control life through thought, and we are programmed to believe we can do this, but the truth is that we can’t. Being able to see this is your ticket out of hell and to freedom and to seeing that life is already just fine the way it is and that life—including you—never needed fixing.
The egoic mind imagines a problem and then imagines a solution. And when we get caught up in this, we feel like we have a problem that must be solved before we can be happy. But it has all been imagined! When you drop out of involvement with these thoughts and into the simple experience of this moment, you discover that this moment is fine the way it is—and you are fine the way you are. Life never had to be any different, and either do you. You can be the “imperfect” human that you are. In fact, you weren’t designed to be anything other than the human being you are. You are doing this human being thing perfectly!
The beauty is that we are all evolving toward being more loving and more aligned with the spiritual being that we actually are, whether we realize that or not. So, you can just relax and enjoy the ride that life is taking you on. All it asks is that you choose love over fear and hatred, and being positive over being negative. Fortunately, we all learn that being loving and positive is the only sane choice, since the other possibility only leads to suffering. So, we can’t really make a mistake (and, therefore, nothing needs fixing) because we are all being swept along toward seeing the truth about ourselves and about life—that we are all One and it is all good!
www.radicalhappiness.com
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
What is Shamanic Healing?
Shamanic healing is a spiritual and medical practice based upon the belief that all healing includes a spiritual dimension. ‘Shaman’s enter altered states of consciousness to communicate with other realms of reality. The ‘Shamans’ journey is to help the client to rediscover their connection to nature and spirit.
Shamanic medicine is a tradition dating back 25,000 years. The ’Shaman’ is responsible for the health of those who see him or her. This is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. Shaman’s are the mediators between the physical and the spirit world. The spiritual healing methods of Shamanic are now receiving increased and significant attention in today’s society, as Shamanic healing affects the energy field of a person.
To better understand how a ‘Shaman’ heals it is important to understand some of the basic concepts of what Shamanism is. It is a specific set of methodologies for accessing the spirit or energy field of anything or anyone. The ‘Shaman’ heals by working unseen/inner/spiritual reality to crate changes, which in turn crate changes in see/physical/everyday reality.
The essential perspective of the ‘Shaman’ is:
1. Everything is alive. Everything has spirit and awareness.
2. Energy and matter are the same. Everything is vibration. Everything that exists is an energy system within a greater energy system.
3. Everything that exists is connected to everything else in a web of energy or life.
4. Unseen/inner/spiritual reality affects visible reality.
Working within this system of perceptions, the ‘Shaman’ strives to create balance and harmony of the spirit. This can be focused on the client or a group. This also can be applied to anything that exists.
What distinguishes the ‘Shaman’ from other types of healer are his methods. The journeying, or Shamanic state of consciousness, allows the ‘Shaman’ to send out their consciousness to obtain information from the spirit world. This information is retrieved and used for further insight or healing. Example: a ‘Shaman’ might assist in healing a broken bone by opening up an increased energy flow to that area, or help a person half from an emotional depression by restoring energy lost as a result of a traumatic event.
By using Shamanic practices a wide spectrum of healing is possible. Traditional ‘Shaman’ healing is done by journeying to the bat of a drum or rattle to visit a teacher/spirit/totem for guidance or wisdom. Shamanic healing takes place in many forms, depending on what the spirits recommend. This can include plant and mineral spirit medicine, through ancestral memories, soul retrieval; extraction and soul escorting.
‘Shaman’s employ many different healing methods besides those acquired during journeying, these are herbs, visualization, and hands on, use of aroma, gemstones, and basic psychology. The ‘Shaman’ will use their lore of nature along with the ability they have to read auras and apply the knowledge of chakras to heal. The ‘Shaman’ understand the necessity to use both nature and spirit in healing. All of the above used in any combination may be used, along with journeying to heal. All depends upon the situation.
In summary, the practices of Shamanism involves making conscious connection with that which is spirit or life that which is sacred — all things. Healing can be accomplished through this connection by working directly to create greater balance and harmony of energy and spirit, and bringing back to the ordinary world awareness from the spirit world.
To do healing works of any kind a ‘Shaman’ will typically journey to the spiritual cause of problems. A particular problem of everyday life might have very different spiritual causes. In other words, illness that looks exactly the same symptomatically in two different people might be the manifestation of different underlying situations. In one person, depression and fatigue can be caused from a spiritual injury to the heart; while the same symptoms might be caused from excessive worry in another.
And once the ‘Shaman’ gains understanding, he/she has a variety of ways of working the client with the desire of healing.
http://www.kahunaaustralia.com.au
Shamanic medicine is a tradition dating back 25,000 years. The ’Shaman’ is responsible for the health of those who see him or her. This is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. Shaman’s are the mediators between the physical and the spirit world. The spiritual healing methods of Shamanic are now receiving increased and significant attention in today’s society, as Shamanic healing affects the energy field of a person.
To better understand how a ‘Shaman’ heals it is important to understand some of the basic concepts of what Shamanism is. It is a specific set of methodologies for accessing the spirit or energy field of anything or anyone. The ‘Shaman’ heals by working unseen/inner/spiritual reality to crate changes, which in turn crate changes in see/physical/everyday reality.
The essential perspective of the ‘Shaman’ is:
1. Everything is alive. Everything has spirit and awareness.
2. Energy and matter are the same. Everything is vibration. Everything that exists is an energy system within a greater energy system.
3. Everything that exists is connected to everything else in a web of energy or life.
4. Unseen/inner/spiritual reality affects visible reality.
Working within this system of perceptions, the ‘Shaman’ strives to create balance and harmony of the spirit. This can be focused on the client or a group. This also can be applied to anything that exists.
What distinguishes the ‘Shaman’ from other types of healer are his methods. The journeying, or Shamanic state of consciousness, allows the ‘Shaman’ to send out their consciousness to obtain information from the spirit world. This information is retrieved and used for further insight or healing. Example: a ‘Shaman’ might assist in healing a broken bone by opening up an increased energy flow to that area, or help a person half from an emotional depression by restoring energy lost as a result of a traumatic event.
By using Shamanic practices a wide spectrum of healing is possible. Traditional ‘Shaman’ healing is done by journeying to the bat of a drum or rattle to visit a teacher/spirit/totem for guidance or wisdom. Shamanic healing takes place in many forms, depending on what the spirits recommend. This can include plant and mineral spirit medicine, through ancestral memories, soul retrieval; extraction and soul escorting.
‘Shaman’s employ many different healing methods besides those acquired during journeying, these are herbs, visualization, and hands on, use of aroma, gemstones, and basic psychology. The ‘Shaman’ will use their lore of nature along with the ability they have to read auras and apply the knowledge of chakras to heal. The ‘Shaman’ understand the necessity to use both nature and spirit in healing. All of the above used in any combination may be used, along with journeying to heal. All depends upon the situation.
In summary, the practices of Shamanism involves making conscious connection with that which is spirit or life that which is sacred — all things. Healing can be accomplished through this connection by working directly to create greater balance and harmony of energy and spirit, and bringing back to the ordinary world awareness from the spirit world.
To do healing works of any kind a ‘Shaman’ will typically journey to the spiritual cause of problems. A particular problem of everyday life might have very different spiritual causes. In other words, illness that looks exactly the same symptomatically in two different people might be the manifestation of different underlying situations. In one person, depression and fatigue can be caused from a spiritual injury to the heart; while the same symptoms might be caused from excessive worry in another.
And once the ‘Shaman’ gains understanding, he/she has a variety of ways of working the client with the desire of healing.
http://www.kahunaaustralia.com.au
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