Shaman's Toolbox

Practical Tools for Powerful Transformation

Bloom Post

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Copyright 2011 by Bloom Post

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ISBN: 978-1-257-02884-9
Printed in the United States of America
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION

Published March 2011

The information in this document is not intended as a substitute for

Medical Advice. This book is not designed to be, and does not
provide medical advice. All content (Content), including text,
graphics, images and information available on or through this book
are for general information purposes only. The content is not
intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice.
The exercises presented in this book are for interest
purposes only. They have been tested in many workshops, client
healings and other real-life applications and no harm has ever
arisen for any participant as a result, and most have benefited
enormously. Any application of these exercises is at the readers
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exercises.
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Be present. Be in love. This is the only way you can

hold space for another person.
~ Grandmother

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in

darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
~ Hafiz

Contents
Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Communing With Spirit

Shamanic Journeying ~ My Story

13

Energetic Protection

21

Directions for Shamanic Journeying

29

Animal Totems

41

Plant Spirit Medicine

51

Connecting With Other Nature Spirits

63

The Akashic Records

67

Working With The Akashic Records

85

Do Something Different

89

Gratitude

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Infinite Gratitude to Spirit for absolutely everything!
Thank you to the Guides, Guardians and Protectors that
work with me at all times empowering my journey.
Spirit Eagle Angel Tribe, my dearest Winged Ones, I love
you.
Smiles and giggles to Archangels Michael and Metatron, and
of course Raphael. Thank you for showing me how big I
really am.
Spider Medicine, thank you.
Grandmother, its all love, with gentleness and ease.
There are some really amazing human beings of light on this
planet and I send much love and light to them for
empowering me, supporting and encouraging me in so
many ways:
Sam, thank you for believing in me and for having my back!
I could not have done this without you.
Shaman John, thanks for the fun. You were my first. Ha!
Kerry, amazing goddess, thank you for your thoughtfulness,
encouragement and support all these many years. Weve
come a long way baby!
Satiya, thank you sweet sister for introducing me to the
Council. I appreciate your authenticity, wisdom and
friendship. Thank you for your continued support and
encouragement.
Selah, aw momma, youre so good. Bless up! And thank
you from my cosmic heart, you sweet star-child. So grateful
for you and our connection in the realms.
Guenevere, you are a beautiful and authentic manifestation
of the divine feminine. Thank you for your magic.
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Papa Carl, I love you. You're a wonderful Papa and an

amazing man.
Michelle, my Piscean sister, thanks for the laughter that
keeps me in the flow. Thank you for introducing me to the
Knowledge.
SarahAnne, keep singing your songs sweet sister, and thank
you for sharing your songs with me.
Jeremy, thank you. So many lifetimes, so many new worlds
to create.
Thanks to Brother Al, Shawna, Julie-bird, Kara, Lindsay T.,
Lindsay S., Maria, Alena, and Caroline. You are amazing
gods and goddesses who have empowered me more than
you know. I deeply appreciate you.
Natasha, thank you for sharing your wisdom, and for our
learning together.
Meriwether Lewis Morley, thank you for saving me, loving
me, and gifting me with music and my middle name.
My Post Family, I love you. And don't be surprised if I
change my name again.
Shannon, thank you for helping me spread my wings.
Daniel, I give thanks for our friendship. Thank you for
seeing me.
Athens Sangha, you know who you are. I love you
immensely.
Clients, participants at workshops, students in classes, thank
you, because teaching is an amazing way to learn.
Thanks to Trey for computer support and for helping me
finish this project.
Thank you Maestro Mason for the title idea!
Thank you to all the amazing people who have empowered
me to heal and grow throughout my life.
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INTRODUCTION

Even after all this time

The sun never says to the earth,
You owe me.
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
~ Hafiz

Solstice, 2010. December 21st. Full moon lunar

eclipse. Today. Now. The present moment. This is all that
ever is.
You are a beautiful and divine being of light.
Everything about you is perfect, even all the things that you
don't like or would like to change. You are Spirit, God,
Creator, incarnate on this planet in your own unique form.
You chose your eye color and your hair color, your body
type and your personality before you even arrived here.
You looked at the journey you would be taking on this
planet, and you symbolically signed a soul contract to come
here and do your good work in this realm.
You knew what you had signed on for and you knew
you could handle it. You saw this place, this reality/illusion
of duality and separation, and you said, I want to
experience that. I want to play in that game. I want to
experience myself in a new way, in a dense, physical form. I
want to bring my light to this place and share it with others.
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I want to see what it's like to live as a human. I want to feel

what it's like to die, to transform in such a powerful way
that I won't even remember it's birth, too.
You chose to be here. We all chose this. We are not
victims to our lives. We are co-creators of all that happens,
to us and to the entire planet. That's a big responsibility.
Every thought you think, every action you take, every word
you speak affects the entire planet. The affect can be
incredibly subtle, so subtle that you might forget you have
that kind of power within you. Remember. It is time to
re-member yourself. Time to wake up from this dream and
re-member who you truly are.
This book is one journey. There are as many journeys
as there are people on this planet. When we share our
stories we learn how other humans are navigating their
journey. We learn new ways to walk our path. We learn
new practices to empower us to grow and heal. This is how
we help each other. We share our little piece of wisdom that
makes up this infinite puzzle, and together we form an
image that is Divine.
Take what resonates for you and use it on your
journey. Use what feels right for you and make it your own.
If something does not resonate for you, let it go. This is
simply one way to walk the path. Explore as many paths as
you can and create your own mosaic of tools and practices.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it
or who has said it, not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and
your own common sense.
~ Buddha
The practices in this book are simply the beginning.
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There is so much more to be explored. My understanding of

this work has shifted and grown even as I've been writing
this book, not to mention the many years that I've been
experiencing these journeys intentionally. Start where you
are and know that the possibilities are infinite. Enjoy the
journey and explore what comes to you.
Share your experiences with others. This practice is
not simply to find your animal totems or talk to angels. This
work empowers you to heal, grow, learn, evolve, and to
empower others through your own process. When you heal
yourself, you allow others around you to heal as well.
These practices continue to teach me to love myself,
truly love myself, all of me, even the parts of me that I didn't
like so much in the past. This gift, in turn, teaches me to
love others in a more compassionate way. Shamanic
journeying has taught me to pay attention to the gifts that
surround us each day; truly pay attention. I've learned to
take time to notice the little things, the magic that is
around us at all times. In turn, this empowers me to stay
connected to that magic, even on days when I am feeling less
than magical.
Shamanic journeying reminds me that we are never
alone. We are loved, protected, cared for, supported,
encouraged, provided for, appreciated, and held at all times.
We are always connected and we are all ONE.

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There is a spider living in my doorway. She lives in

the upper corner during the day, and each evening she
creates the most delicate and beautiful web in the frame of
my front door. After walking into her sticky threaded home
on three consecutive evenings, I finally realized she planned
to stay, so it would behoove me to come to an agreement
with her about our living arrangements.
I talked to Ms. Spider (who could be a Mr., I suppose)
and let her know that I am happy for her to live with me. I
can even leave the light on sometimes to help attract bug
meals for her. However, it would help to find a way to live
together, meaning that I need to be able to walk through my
door and into my house without taking her house with me,
usually stuck to my head.
It seems we have found a way to work together. I
asked her to please keep her (very large) web to one side,
and connect her threads to the other side of the doorway
high enough so that I can pass through. Apparently it took
her a few days to realize that the lower connecting threads
would get walked through because I do not always
remember to duck. Now she connects her web to the other
side of the doorway up high enough for me to walk under
and we live together quite peacefully.
I love watching her weave her web. It is almost
perfectly geometrical and she works so quickly, using all of
her eight legs to create her home. I have also watched her
capture her prey and wrap it up in a cocoon. She is utterly
amazing.
Mostly I see her sitting, unmoving, waiting. I find her
a beautiful reminder of sitting in stillness. She sits there so
patiently, waiting for something to find its way into her web;
and her web reminds me to relax if I feel stuck, instead of
fighting it, which seems to only create feeling more stuck.
As I write this book, spider medicine is consistently in
my life. In the last few months, spiders have been more
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prominent as I have begun the process of being an author.

Spider is powerful medicine for those who write. She came
to me when I first began journeying into the realms to meet
my animal totems. I am grateful she has stayed with me,
despite my taking some time to really connect with her
medicine in an intentional way. She has been weaving her
magic around me, waiting for me to be ready to sit with her
and weave words onto a page.
My intention is to share the gifts of the practices in
this book with all who are called. My prayer is that you
remember who you truly, divinely are, no matter how
beautiful it is. My vision is a peaceful world, filled with
human beings who love themselves unconditionally;
therefore appreciating and loving each other, and all things,
with compassion and reverence.
I send each of you much love as you traverse the
realms, exploring your inner landscape and traveling into
your infinite depths. Perhaps we will meet on the cosmic
roads. Life is a spiritual adventure! Enjoy writing your
story.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your
one wild and precious life?
~ Mary Oliver
Many blessings,
Bloom
12/21/10

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Chapter One
COMMUNING WITH SPIRIT

I love to think of nature as an unlimited

broadcasting station, through which God
speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune
in.
~ George Washington Carver

One of my favorite moments during a trip out West

took place as I was leaving a national park. The sun was
setting and there was a beautiful, lone mountain at the
entrance of the park. As I was driving by it, I felt compelled
to stop and offer tobacco to honor this place.
I got out of the car and sat and looked at the sun
setting in the sky. A Native American man drove up and
parked next to me. He was tall and handsome with two
silver-grey braids going down his back. He was watching
the sunset as well, and we began to talk. He shared with me
the significance of this mountain and why it is important to
his people. I was filled with gratitude as he shared this story
with me, about this area that meant so much to him and his
tribe.
In my pocket was a package of organic tobacco I had
bought in order to give offerings. Opening the package, I
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asked him if he would like some tobacco to offer to this

place. He said yes and that he was thankful I had thought to
bring tobacco as a gift.
We both held our tobacco and said prayers before
offering it to the wind. We stood for a few minutes in quiet.
As we began conversing again, there were two birds circling
overhead. We looked up, stopping our conversation to see
what kind of birds they were. They flew lower and lower
until they were just above us and we could see them clearly.
As we watched appreciatively, two beautiful hawks
circled over us for a few minutes and then slowly started
flying away together. We looked at each other and smiled.
He said, That was very auspicious, a sign from Great
Spirit.
I nodded quietly in agreement.

Spirit is always communing with us, we simply get to

pay attention. Driving through beautiful forests on a
winding, mountain road, I was on my way to teach a class
on Plant Spirit Medicine. Going over in my mind what to
share with the students, I thought through the outline of the
class and what I would say. In my head I suddenly heard,
Spirit is always speaking to us, and within about fifteen
seconds a beautiful, and very large hawk flew directly above
me.
Immediately pulling off into a parking area, I got out
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of the car to watch this magnificent creature in the sky. It

felt like instant confirmation that Spirit really is always
speaking to us, and had confirmed my thought by sharing
this gorgeous hawk with me.
As I stood by my car staring at the sky with my hand
shielding my eyes from the sun, numerous cars and
motorcycles drove by. Not one of the people going by
looked up at the sky to see what I was watching. They all
looked at me, but did not even bother to notice the hawk.
Spirit speaks to us in so many ways. Through the
wind, trees, plants, water, sky, animals, humans, storms,
stones, dirt, through all sorts of natural phenomena, Spirit is
communicating with us.
Spirit can speak through anything. Spirit can speak to
you through your television, the radio, CDs or DVDs. Even
your computer can bring you information that Spirit wants
to put in front of you.
In order to receive the messages that Spirit sends us, it
is important to be present and pay attention. We must
develop an awareness that allows us to listen, with our ears
and with our hearts. Once we learn to hear Spirit speaking
to us in obvious way, then we will begin to notice the more
subtle messages. Shapes, colors, numbers, sounds are but a
few examples of ways that Spirit can send us messages
empowering us to gain clarity and understanding.
A great way to learn to receive messages is to pay
attention to nature. Notice the animals in your
neighborhood, the squirrels, the crows, the songbirds, even
the bugs. Pay attention to the cycles of the moon. Look at
the sky, notice the beautiful shapes of the clouds; really look
at everything around you and take it in. Paying attention to
the natural world around us empowers us to slow down and
be more fully present, which allows us to notice the many
messages we receive daily from the Universe.
How can Spirit commune with us when we are not
paying attention? How can we hear Spirit speak to us if we
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are not listening? How can we find clarity and answers to

our questions if we are busying ourselves with drama,
gossip, reality TV or other numerous distractions?
If we fill our heads with distractions, our thinking will
be unclear and our inner hearing will be muddled. We must
take time to open ourselves up to the quiet and listen. We
often get signs and omens throughout our day that might go
unnoticed. When we miss the more subtle communications,
then we can end up experiencing something much more
obvious, and not necessarily enjoyable, that wakes us up and
gets our attention.
Ultimately, the difference between a message and a
distraction is our intention. Are we experiencing something
in order to gain insight, or are we constantly distracting
ourselves with mindless entertainment?
Spirit can speak to us in blinding bright lights or in
much more subtle and quiet ways. There are times when a
large, beautiful hawk flying above might be a sign for us.
There are times when a small feather falling next to us can be
a sign. Each message is of equal importance. The bottom
line is that Spirit is always speaking to us, it is simply a
matter of how much we are listening and paying attention.
Messages from Spirit do not always come
immediately. Our world can often be about instant
gratification, and Spirit does not necessarily work that way.
There are also times when the answer is right in front of us
but we dont recognize it, and therefore think that we are not
getting an answer to our question. Sitting in quiet each day
is important in order to be open to receiving guidance. This
also empowers you to make sense of the many signs and
gifts that Spirit shares with you daily.
When you are aware and present, and recognize
Spirit communing with you, your life will feel more
balanced, peaceful and fulfilled. You will find yourself
being more and more in-tune with the voice of Spirit, and
with the daily signs that the Universe shares in your life.
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This connection with Spirit will allow a deeper connection to

the earth and all of her inhabitants, empowering you to love
more fully. The flow of your life, and your world, becomes
more magical and full of joy and possibility.

On a beautiful fall day, I was sitting on a large

boulder in a gorgeous river listening to the water. Quietly
meditating for a few minutes, I felt the energy of the water
as it flowed toward me, around large rocks and fallen tree
branches. The rays of the sun warmed my face and I could
hear nothing but the water all around me.
I suddenly felt the urge to open my eyes, and when I
did, I saw a shape in some bushes on the bank. At first, the
shape looked just like a monkey, the kind I saw when I
visited India. After looking more closely, I knew it was not a
monkey, however it allowed me to be reminded of the
medicine of monkey, the symbolic gifts that monkey energy
brings.
Had I simply rationalized that the shadows made it
look like a monkey and ignored it, I would have missed the
message from Spirit. However, since my imagination had
showed me the shape of a monkey, I closed my eyes in order
to journey to spirit world to speak to monkey and see what
information it had for me.
Our conversation was very enlightening, and I was
offered the gift of seeing answers to some things I had been
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wondering about. It was a beautiful moment that could

have been missed had I not followed my internal urging to
open my eyes. Since I paid attention to that strange shape
on the riverbank, and followed what my imagination
showed me, I was able to receive clear messages from Spirit
regarding my life.
Its not always the big things that are the clues. In my
experience, its quite often the things that we perceive as
little, trivial or unimportant, that are exactly the ways that
Spirit is speaking to us. Take time to look twice, to stop and
listen, to notice the things you had ignored before. It can
make all the difference.

PRACTICES FOR COMMUNING WITH SPIRIT

We need to find God, and he cannot be found

in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of
silence. See how nature trees, flowers, grass
grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and
the sun, how they move in silence. We need
silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa

Being present and aware in order to hear, see and feel

information and messages from Spirit is a constant practice.
Here are a few exercises you can create in your life that will
empower you to slow down, be present and in the flow with
the Divine.

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*Breathe.
Notice your breath. How shallow is your breathing?
Are you breathing into your chest, into your solar plexus or
down into your belly? Begin to pay attention to your breath.
Your breathing is an immediate indication of your state of
mind. The majority of people are stressed and busy and do
not even notice that they are only breathing shallowly into
their chests.
Core belly breathing is a powerful way to
intentionally connect with your body, as well as get
grounded and centered. Breathing intentionally, all the way
into your belly, also brings much-needed oxygen to the rest
of your body.
Often we can not hear the still, small voice of God
because we are stressed and distracted. Each time you
remember, breathe into your belly. Breathe deep, gentle,
cleansing breaths that re-align you with yourself and with
the energy of Spirit.
When you are tired, stressed, losing patience with
something, or feeling any kind of negativity, take a moment
and breathe into your belly. You will feel your energy shift
as you re-align the flow of your energy into a calm, balanced
place through breathing deeply. Your head becomes clear
and your body relaxes as you connect with your breath.
*Sit and be quiet.
Meditate. Sit in silence. Create sacred space in your
life to sit and be in the stillness and quiet. In order to hear,
one must first clear out the mental chatter that creates static
and does not allow our direct line to Spirit to come through
clearly.
When you first sit to be quiet, what comes up in your
mind? Is it a to-do list? Is it worries or fears? Pay attention
to what comes up when you take time to quiet your mind.
These thoughts are often signs of what you are working with
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in your life and areas for growth.

That to-do list could be a sign of over-extending
yourself. Let it come up, flow through your mind, and let it
go. It is important to find some time each day to let our
minds be as clear and relaxed as possible. This exercise is
good for our mental, physical, emotional and spiritual
health.
Be present to what you are inputting to your system.
When we sit in silence, all of the energy we have been
receiving comes up. Are you listening to music that is
uplifting and heart-opening, or negative and angry? Are
you watching lots of television? Are you seeing movies that
are full of violence and fear? What kind of food are you
putting in your system to feed your body and soul? Are the
people surrounding you positive or negative?
What we bring into our system is what we will work
with when we sit quietly to meditate. We can reduce mindchatter and stress by monitoring what comes in to our
energy-field. Calming music, healthy food, and positive
input is incredibly helpful in creating a healthy, calm
disposition as well as a joyful, relaxed mind.
We can not always control the energy that comes to
us. Sitting in silence daily greatly empowers our ability to
be with any energy in a calm and peaceful way. When your
mind is calm, it will greatly help you manage the challenges
that come into your life, especially the unexpected ones.
*Slow down.
Life is not a race. Enjoy the journey. Look around,
take it in, notice the beauty around you. Stop and smell the
flowers, literally. Watch the sun rise, or set. Take a moment
and admire a big and bright full moon. Take a cat nap.
Enjoy an afternoon doing nothing, or reading a book or
lounging around watching the sun shift in the sky.
Whatever it takes to help you to slow down and enjoy the
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world around you, do it.

Notice how quickly you walk, even when it's a
relaxing walk around the neighborhood. Do a walking
meditation, taking each step slowly and intentionally and
take a breath with each step. If this sounds like it would just
stress you out and make you anxious, then it would be a
powerful practice for you!
We miss a lot at warp speed; speeding to work,
gulping down lunch, rushing to pick up the kids after
school, throwing together something for dinner, scarfing it
down and then collapsing into bed. Slowing down will help
you relax and feel calm. Slowing down is good for your
health, and everyone around you will feel more relaxed as
well. Slowing down is key to noticing the signs that Spirit
sends you.
*Spend time in Nature.
Being with nature is as easy as sitting in your yard.
When was the last time you really even noticed that tree in
your yard? Is mowing the lawn the only time you connect
with nature?
Put your bare feet on the ground. Feel the energy of
this powerful Mama Earth flowing through you. Feel the
grass, the dirt, the stones under your feet. Visualize what is
beneath the dirt, and feel the energy of all that lies beneath
you. Take time to do this every day for a few minutes. Your
awareness will increase and you will be more present. The
world around you will become more focused, clear and you
will begin to notice things you had not been seeing up to
that point.
Go for a walk in the woods. Connect with the trees,
the plants, the stone people (rocks and boulders), the
squirrels and birds. Sit in the woods and listen. Is there
wind? Is it silent? Can you hear water nearby? Can you
hear squirrels scurrying about? Are birds chirping? Sit and
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listen to nature and the earth.

If you are not near woods, find a lake, or a park, or a
pond, or an ocean, and sit. Remove yourself as much as
possible from the energy of cities, cars and noise. Find a
peaceful place in nature and simply breathe into your belly.
Smell the smells, listen to the sounds, and take in the
visual beauty of the place. When you return to this place,
notice if anything has changed. Do you see the same birds?
Is there a new nest in a tree? Is it warmer or colder or
sunnier or cloudier? You might even run into the same
people you saw there the other day. Take in all the
information you can by being fully present and aware of
your surroundings. Then relax and be, while breathing into
your belly.
*Re-connect with your youthfulness, your childhood
energy.
Not everyone has a fairytale childhood. However,
everyone has been a child and experienced the awe and
wonder that children experience about the simplest things.
Children are great examples of genuine enthusiasm,
excitement, anticipation and especially belief. Kids believe
just about everything, until they are conditioned otherwise.
Have you ever just stopped to smell a flower? When
did you last ride a bike, for fun, not just for exercise? How
long has it been since you read a children's book? Have you
drawn or colored or painted lately?
When was the last time you listened to your own
inner child to find our what she or he would like to do?
Your inner child is not the voice that chides you for having
ice cream or tells you theres not enough time to have fun.
Your inner child is longing to spend time doing something
fun, something that makes you laugh and feeds your soul.
It is vital for your well-being, and your heart, to take
time to have fun, whether spontaneous or planned.
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Laughing and smiling creates peace of mind and health in

our bodies. Find something you can do that allows you to
laugh and smile.
Take time to appreciate beauty, through nature, or art,
music, movement, or in whatever form you choose. Take
time to walk around your block and notice things. A great
exercise is to get a throw-away camera and take pictures of
random things that catch your attention. Let your inner
child guide you as to what you photograph and see what
comes out when the pictures are developed.
Everything is real and everything is possible to a
child. Re-connect and re-member that awe and wonder
within yourself. This childlike energy will allow your heart
to open, and in turn, amazing and beautiful things can flow
into your life. Connecting with your childlike belief in all
possibilities will also help tremendously when you use your
imagination.
*Enjoy, and practice, using your imagination.
The previous exercises are warm-ups for connecting
with the power of your imagination, and that is really where
the magic is. In your imagination, everything truly is
possible and Spirit can open up your heart and your life in
positive and often unexpected ways.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

~ John Muir

The shamanic journeying exercises in this book are a

unique and creative way to open up to your imagination and
connect with Spirit. Many of us were taught not to trust our
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imagination, therefore we cut ourselves off from our

intuitive abilities. Pure imagination is where Spirit connects
with you and downloads to you all that you create and
experience. Intuition is where you feel this happening.
Imagination connects you to your Guides, your
answers, your clarity, your healing, your path, your
manifestation, your Personal Power, all of it. So if your ego
starts saying things like, Youre just making that up, you
can say, Why yes, with the help of Spirit I sure am, and
keep going with it!
These are simple practices that can be easily
incorporated into even the busiest life. By connecting with
these practices consistently, you will see positive shifts in
your daily experience. These daily practices will also
amplify your ability to travel into Spirit World and connect
with your Spirit Guides, your inner Divine Guidance.

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Chapter Two
SHAMANIC JOURNEYING

Everything you can imagine is real.

~ Pablo Picasso

There is an old Native American man in my car. He is

floating over me and chopping at things around my head
with an ax. He seems to be cutting things away, clearing
things out from around my head. Meanwhile, I am driving
on a major interstate and trying to get home, safely.
How am I supposed to concentrate on the road with
all this chopping and floating going on? Having no clue
what is happening, I focus on the road, drive straight home,
and quickly make a phone call.
An Indian followed me home, I blurt out, into the
phone.
What? I hear on the other end of the line.
I was driving home and suddenly there was this old
Native American man floating above me around my head
and he was chopping at things with an ax, all around my
skull, like he was cutting things from me or something.
Well, thats interesting.
Who is it? I asked.
I dont know, ask him, he said.
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This is how I met my first Spirit Guide.

Since my teens I have been fascinated with

Shamanism. I am intrigued by anyone who seems to be able
to do things that seem larger than life; Buddhist monks and
nuns, yogis, magicians, shamans, and miracle healers are all
incredibly fascinating to me. I have always been enamored
of the monks in Buddhist stories who could sit in meditation
on a mountain in freezing weather covered in wet sheets,
generating so much heat in their body that they dried the
sheets.
I have also felt drawn to spirituality and religion.
My Grandmother taught me the Lords Prayer when I was
three years old. I would say the Lords Prayer, then I would
say my personal prayers, and then I would hear God talk
back to me. It never occurred to me that others did not
regularly hear God talking to them. I just assumed this
happened for everyone.
In Jr. High, when I was walking to school to try-out
for basketball, I was very nervous about making the team. It
made perfect since to me to ask God if I was going to make
the team. Immediately I heard, Youll be OK. You will
make the team. Instantly I felt better. And yes, I made the
team. These were the kinds of messages I would get as a
child.
As I got older, I continued to get messages, and
started receiving more and more information. This
information did not feel the same as when God talked to
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me, so I did not understand what was happening. I would

sit next to someone on a bus and get psychic information
about them. What I most often saw about people was the
pain they were experiencing; if they had an addiction or an
illness, for example, or if they had recently lost a loved one.
It was sometimes overwhelming to be able to intuit
such personal information about others, and I often thought
I was crazy. I did not know who to talk to about these
things and felt like I had no energetic filter in order to stop
all the information from coming to me. I did not realize I
was taking on other peoples energy and that it was draining
me. I would be in my late 20s before I realized that I am
an intuitive and that I have psychic abilities. It was years of
feeling too sensitive for this world and wondering how I
was going to be able to handle all of the emotions and
energy that seemed to just come into my system without my
being able to stop it.
I knew I needed someone who could help me with
my sensitivities, but did not know where to turn. One
afternoon I was talking to my massage therapist and she
mentioned that she had hired a shaman to clear her office
space of any negative energy. Here was my opportunity to
meet a shaman in person. I was very excited to give him a
call.
Given all the books I had read, and the movies I
had seen about shamanism, I assumed that he would be an
indigenous person from North or South America. I was
ready to meet some dark-skinned old man with feathers in
his hair wearing a vest of deer bones and shaking a rattle he
had hand-crafted in his mud hut by the river.
I arrived at a typical nondescript office building to
meet this magic man. I found his office and tapped on the
open door to let him know I was there. He stood up, and
toward me walked a tall, bald, very pale white man, with a
bulging belly, wearing blue jeans, a collared shirt, and tennis
shoes. He was about as far away from what I had pictured
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in my head as I could have imagined.

I was already there, so I decided to go ahead and talk
to him. I sat down in a comfy office chair and we began our
dialogue. After discussing the kind of work he did and how
he might be able to work with me, I asked him point-blank,
Are you a shaman?.
He looked at me and said, I am a student, and if I
stop being a student Im in trouble.
But other people refer to you as a shaman.
He smiled, Other people do refer to me as a shaman.
It gives them a context to explain the kind of work I do.
He explained to me that his mother and his
grandmother had both been seers, as he put it. He was
raised in an Appalachian mountain tradition of connecting
with nature and the plants and seeing. The extent of what
seeing entailed, I do not remember, however, they all had
the gift and he was using his gifts to help others.
Because of his answer explaining that he was a
student, and due to his lack of ego about his abilities, I knew
I wanted to work with him. I told him how I received
information about other people energetically and how I just
knew things that no one had told me. I told him how I felt
like all the pain of other people came into my system and I
felt like I was crazy.
After listening thoughtfully, he said, Well, you might
be crazy, but its in a good way. Let me show you how you
can use it.
He laughed, and I felt that someone finally
understood what I had been going through all those years.
After a number of people telling me I wasn't crazy, but then
suggesting medication, I found his answer honest and
refreshing.
After that initial meeting I went back to him for
healing work. He would play his drum and journey into
spirit world to retrieve information for me. I would close
my eyes as he was drumming, and in my mind I would see
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animals and people and all sorts of things, but it never

occurred to me that I was journeying too. I would try to
block out these visuals so that I could keep my mind empty,
as in meditation. I thought I was supposed to keep my mind
blank and stay focused on the drumbeat.
This shaman shared many beautiful things with me
from these journeys and told me information about myself
that others did not know. I experienced healing in these
sessions and was always excited to go back.
After a few sessions, I decided to share with him what
I was seeing when he drummed. I was nervous because I
was seeing things that were different from what he was
seeing, and I wondered if it was appropriate for me to be
seeing things at all, since that was his job. He
enthusiastically told me it was great that I was seeing things
and asked me what I had experienced. I shared what I had
seen and he and I discussed how it made sense with what he
had visualized and he encouraged me to keep seeing for
myself. He told me that I was journeying and that it was
good to keep doing that. From that time forward we would
both go into spirit world when he drummed and share what
each of us had experienced, comparing our visions.
Eventually, I asked him to be my teacher and spent
over a year studying formally with him. We spent time in
the woods where he taught me many shamanic techniques
like how to read the energy of the land, and how to feel for
sacred spaces in nature. He shared his knowledge of natural
portals and vortexes, and how to connect with the ancestors
of a place. We also went on lots of journeys into the world
of spirit and he empowered me to heal many issues through
energetic body work. As he worked on me I would take it
all in and begin practicing on my own what I had
experienced him doing.
It was during this time of study that I connected with
my first spirit guides and learned how to communicate with
animal totems, guardians and other guides. Finally, all the
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psychic information I had been receiving started to make

sense, and I learned how to work with my gifts so that I did
not have to receive the emotional and personal information
of every person around me. All of this began with an old
Native American man chopping things from around my
skull.

When I asked this Appalachian shaman over the

phone, Who is he? and he answered with, Ask him, I
was a bit confused.
But isnt he a friend of yours? I asked.
No. Hes a friend of yours.
OK, I said, Ill ask him.
Laughing, the shaman said, Good. Well, let me
know what he says.
That is how it all began. That night, I sat on my bed,
closed my eyes and could sense this Native American man
was still with me in my room.
I asked him, Who are you?
You can call me Grandfather, he replied.
We continued to talk for some time, getting to know
each other. He led me to a fire where we would continue to
meet for that first year, while he taught me. He led me to
my sacred spaces in the realms where I would meet other
guides who would also teach me. I connected with animal
totems and ancestors, as well as other beings of light who
were, and in some cases still are, working with me on my
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journey, aiding me in my growth and healing.

One of the many gifts Grandfather gave me was a
name. He shared this with me after we had sat with each
other for almost a year. He said that it was time that I knew
my true nature and that he was going to tell me my name. I
was very excited, hoping to be named after a wolf or a
jaguar or something that seemed cool. Grandfather
laughed, knowing what I was thinking. We sat by the fire
and he looked at me lovingly.
You have the vision to see what many others can not
see. You have the ability to see from a distance, and to see
the bigger picture, acknowledging that there is truth to both
sides of a story.
He was quiet for a time.
Right now you are like a child, growing into your
gifts and your power. You are like a small bird that has
hatched from its shell and has been growing in the nest,
letting its mother feed it. It is time for you to step out of the
nest and learn to fly for yourself. You are an eagle, but you
are a young eagle. You have many lessons to learn, and you
have many gifts. I have been like mama bird to you, but
now you must learn to fly and you will go and learn from
others. My time with you is coming to a close. I will leave
soon.
I was upset and on the verge of tears. Why are you
going to leave? I asked.
It is time for me to go so that you may study with
others in the realms. I will always be with you.
Crying, I did not know what to say.
Daughter, listen to me. It is time for you to step into
yourself, your true nature. It is time for you to become who
you are, Eagle Woman.
For many years I held this name in my heart and told
no one. It was a precious gift that I chose to keep secret until
it was time to share with others. It took almost another full
year before I could truly appreciate and begin to live into the
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beautiful spirit name Grandfather had bestowed upon me.

It had been almost two years since I had first found him,
chopping around my head, chopping away at what hindered
me. Grandfather, like so many of our guides, could see my
potential long before I could. Grandfather could see my
authentic self, and he empowered me to live into that
potential by holding a mirror for me through my spirit
name. He also knew that if he stayed with me I would not
journey further into the realms and into my abilities.
A few months after Grandfather gave me my name,
we sat by the fire and he told me that it was time for him to
leave. I was sad, but I trusted him and his wisdom.
Grandfather hugged me and said, Are you ready?
Yes, Grandfather. Thank you. I love you.
He smiled. Then I watched as he slowly blended into
the smoke from the fire. He floated up over the fire and
suddenly flew into my heart. I felt a physical shift in my
chest and knew that Grandfather was with me, in me,
forever.
I heard him say, I told you I am always with you,
daughter. And he is, always.
I am Eagle Woman.

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Chapter Three
ENERGETIC PROTECTION

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends

over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
~ The Talmud

Once the doors of spirit world were wide open for

me, I was able to see ancestors much more clearly. Visiting
the southwest, especially the Four Corners area, I was very
excited to connect with the ancestors of these sacred lands. I
visited a few large National Parks where Native Americans
had lived. One of my favorite places to visit was Mesa
Verde. The road into the park is long and winding, through
beautiful vistas of mountains and valleys.
In the park live all sorts of wildlife including majestic
wild horses, and powerful bucks with large antlers. There
are majestic hawks soaring in the sky, and I sat just a few
feet from a tribe of deer resting peacefully in the shade.
At Mesa Verde there are areas that have been
preserved where the ancestors lived. Their homes are still
there, kivas dug deep into the ground. Around this living
area are informational signs explaining how these ancestors
made their homes here, with pictures of how it might have
looked when they were still alive.
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As I walked through the living quarters area, I could

feel the ancestors. With my ability to see in the realms, I saw
a small child who had lived here hundreds of years ago. I
spoke to him and he walked up to talk to me. Though he
was in spirit world I could feel his energy and speak to him
as if he were with me today.
He spoke a different language, yet I could understand
what he said. When traveling in spirit world, there seems to
be a universal decoder for languages. Though there have
been a few times when I could not understand the ancient
language being spoken, generally Spirit will empower me to
understand what is being said, even if it is not in English. I
have also asked my guides to translate for me when
necessary.
I could understand this young boy when he asked me
questions and spoke with me. However, when he told me
the names of people in his tribe, I was not able to translate
what he was saying. I wrote the names down phonetically,
as they are not names that I had ever heard, and I would
imagine are not commonly used in modern times, even by
Native American people.
This sweet boy asked me interesting questions and I
answered to the best of my ability. He pointed to an
airplane flying overhead and asked me what it was. It
looked to him like a large silver bird. After explaining what
an airplane is and how it carries people in the sky, the
concept was a bit beyond what he could comprehend. I
would imagine the idea of a large plane carrying humans
thousands of feet in the air would be an incredibly
unbelievable and odd concept to someone from his time.
He also asked me where his people were today. He
wanted to know why there weren't living there anymore.
This was an even more difficult question to answer.
After showing me things in his home and introducing
me to some of the children in his tribe, I left for the evening.
I had a rattle with me that had been a gift from a shaman I
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was studying with. At the boys urging, I left it in a safe

space in the kivas for the night so that it could soak up the
sacred energy of that area.
When I came back the next day to pick up my rattle, I
was greeted by this boy and many members of his tribe. The
previous day I had only met children, however upon my
return most of the tribe had come to see me. I was
incredibly grateful for connecting with the ancestors there
and left with a real sense of connection with the land of
Mesa Verde along with a deep appreciation of the previous
inhabitants of this place.
I visited another park, which had also been sacred
Native American land. There are cave drawings still on the
walls and great hiking trails over rock cliffs, as well as
overlooks with amazing views. Sitting on a cliff overlooking
the area, I could feel myself surrounded by ancestors.
Excited to connect with them, I took out my rattle and
started shaking it to get their attention and call them to me.
Shaking a rattle is a powerful way to call out to the
ancestors and invite them to sit with you. I soon found
myself surrounded by various ancestors and energies. At
this time I was still quite nave, and in my enthusiasm to call
these energies, I had not taken time to create energetic
protection.
At first, the group of ancestors that gathered around
me just watched me sing and rattle. When I got quiet, a
male asked me who I was. I told him my name and that I
was honored to meet all of them. I sat for about an hour
communing with the spirits of that place. After talking with
them, I continued hiking and exploring the area.
A few days after returning home, I started to
physically feel odd, uncomfortable. It is not an easy
sensation to explain. I was not sick or in pain. However, I
felt different, and not in a good way. Something did not feel
right. Calling the shaman I was studying with, I let him
know I felt odd and wanted to meet with him.
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The next afternoon while sitting with him he looked

at me silently for a few minutes. Then he asked, Who did
you bring back with you?
What do you mean? I asked.
Well, you brought back friends from out West. Did
you mean to do that?
He could see energies around me that I had invited in,
unbeknownst to me, while I was shaking my rattle and
calling to them.
No, I didnt mean to bring them back, I said. I just
wanted to talk to them because I was so excited that I could
see them. Theyre all over the West. I could even see
ancestors standing alongside the highway. Theyre
everywhere out there!
Well, you brought some back with you and thats
why you feel funny. You dont need these energies hanging
around in your energy. Let me see what I can do.
With that, he closed his eyes and did his work. When
he was finished, he told me that he asked them to leave, and
explained to them that they were not meant to be connected
to me. There was one energy/entity that he said seemed a
bit dark and not very friendly. He said he did not know
who he was and did not bother to ask because he did not
want to talk to him.
This was how I learned about energetic protection.
None of these energies were out to harm me, however,
having them in my energetic field felt a bit draining. When I
asked the shaman about them, he said that it is not that they
are trying to hurt anyone. He taught me that these
energies/entities were simply connecting with someone like
me who was wide open and inviting them in. Sometimes
these energies do not know where to go and are glad to
connect with someone living who offers them an energetic
space to cling to. I had called them in to get their attention,
had presented myself to them, so some of them decided they
wanted to come along for the ride when I left the park.
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It is as safe to travel in the spirit realms as it is to be in

this earthly realm. Just as there are people on this planet we
would rather avoid because we do not resonate with their
energy, there are also entities in spirit world that we will not
resonate with. It is good to discern when you do not feel
good about the energy of something in spirit world. If you
meet an entity and are not sure about it, demand that it tell
you who it is, and ask if it is of the light. If it says yes and
you believe it and feel good about it, you may then allow it
work with you.
If you encounter something that you do not feel good
about, trust your gut instinct. If you feel a tightening in your
body, or other physical reactions like the hair raising on
your neck, trust those instincts and be discerning. Take your
time with any energies that you are not sure about, and do
not let them work with you until you feel comfortable. Just
like with people, give yourself time to get to know an energy
that shows up. Sometimes we have an instant reaction to
someone that is negative, but once we get to know them
better we end up being great friends.
If an energy arrives that sets off your internal alarm,
then question it or ask it to leave. You do not have to talk to,
or work with, anything in spirit world unless you choose to.
This is your journey that you are creating, and you are in
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HOW TO CREATE ENERGETIC PROTECTION

There are numerous ways to create energetic
protection. This chapter will list various examples and you
may use these specific examples or create your own version
of energetic protection.
A simple way to consistently create energetic
protection is to visualize an orb of white or golden light
surrounding your body at all times. Seeing yourself in this
orb of protection is an easy and effective way to keep your
energy field clear and protected during your daily life and
while traveling in spirit world. Whenever you remember,
visualize yourself in this orb of light and soon it will become
a habit and you won't even have to think about it.
When going on a shamanic journey, it is important to
call in Protectors and Guardians in order to empower
energetic protection. This is an important practice before
traveling into the realms or connecting with ancestors. The
entities that came back with me from the West did not set off
an alarm. Guardians and protectors are helpful not only
because some entities are malevolent, but also because you
may not notice them.
Guardians and protectors can look however you
imagine them. Angelic warriors or guardian angels are
powerful protectors. Ask them to wrap their wings around
you and keep you safe. Mama Bear is a another powerful
and protective energy. If you work with animals like lion or
tiger or other strong creatures, you can ask them to protect
you. You can also call in centaurs or other mythical
creatures to guard you if you resonate with their energy.
Ask your guardians to create a circle of protection around
you and feel the difference when they are there.
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Other animals that are helpful for energetic protection

are armadillo, fox and skunk. Armadillo can empower you
to have a thick skin so that things dont get to you so much
in your daily life. Fox medicine is great for blending in and
being invisible, especially in social situations. Skunk is
helpful if you would like to keep certain people away from
you. Ask skunk to make a circle around you with his scent
and notice how people will come toward you and then
suddenly walk away.
If you are feeling the need for more intensive
protection, you may call in multiple forms of protection and
see them around you in layers, like bundling up for a cold
day. Call in multiple forms of protection and use all your
resources if you are feeling especially vulnerable.
Other examples you may add to your energetic
protection are visualizing a shield-like dome that covers you
which has a surface that deflects any negative energy that is
directed toward you. You can top it all off with visualizing
cloaking and invisibility up to as many miles as you believe
you need it, even in the hundreds of thousands of miles.
The more you practice simple daily energetic
protection, the more consistently you will have it. You can
experience greater mental clarity as well as more physical
energy, as you are not taking in energy from others that does
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While energetic protection is helpful for creating

healthy boundaries, it is not meant to be used as an
aggressive attack on others, including those in spirit world.
Creating energetic boundaries is healthy. However, using
these protections in order to attack or send negative energy
to others is never advised, even if you feel someone is
sending bad energy to you.
If you feel negative energy directed toward you,
visualize a reflective dome around you that deflects this
energy back to where it came from. Do not send any
negative energy of your own toward another being. When
you do this, you create unhealthy cords connecting you to
the other person or entity and allow more negative energy to
be directed toward you.
Love and light are the most powerful tools when
encountering negative energy from another. Call in your
guardians and protectors and let them keep you
energetically protected. You do not need to fight any battles
in order to remain clear; simply maintain a vibration of
compassion and take the high road. You are a being of light
and you are protected at all times.

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Chapter Four
DIRECTIONS ~ SHAMANIC JOURNEY

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't

be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't
know it so it goes on flying anyway.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Imagination is a vital key to accessing the spirit
realms. Everyone can access their imagination, and
everyone can experience a shamanic journey. This is not a
meditation where you empty your mind of thoughts. This is
about your mind being calm as well as active, as you will be
utilizing your imagination to see your vision.
If you find yourself becoming distracted, simply
breathe into your belly and re-focus. Be patient with
yourself and know that random thoughts will flow through
your mind. What is a random thought and what is part of
your journey? Shamanic journeying is a balance of letting
images come to you as well as allowing your imagination to
create pictures in your head. If you start making a to-do list
in your head, that is a distraction. Perhaps you are seeing
restaurants in your mind because you are hungry; those
kinds of images are probably random. When you relax and
let images arise from an unconscious source, you will
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experience the difference between a Spirit Guide and a

random thought. If, for example, you see an animal in your
mind, then this might be a guide for you. Allow your
imagination to flesh out and create a full picture of that
animal. Once you have the visual of your guide, you can
then see and communicate with them in your mind. With
practice, you will know and trust that they are present;.
On the other hand, you do not need to literally see a
guide. You can sense the presence of a guide and hear them
in your head without seeing them visually. Trust your own
gifts of working in the spirit realms and be open to how you
personally communicate with your spirit guides.
Communicating with spirit guides is different for
each person. Our guides can communicate with us verbally,
visually, intuitively, and even through symbols or colors.
Some people only see in colors and shapes. Gut instincts as
well as feelings are other clues for communication. There
are many ways for guides to share information with us. It
depends on each person how they see in the realms. The
more you journey, you will find your own gifts for
connecting with your guides and the experience will get
easier.
The idea is not to engage our fantasies but to
allow images to rise on their own from an
unconscious source. This is the True
Imagination of which the alchemists spoke.
Try it again at a later time if your images are
being driven by wish-fulfillment or from
instincts such as visions of a juicy hamburger if
you have missed lunch. Part of the curse of
modern man is that he confuses fantasy for the
amazing power of True Imagination and thus
relegates both to the psychic trash heap. 1
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When you begin journeying there may be times when

you feel like you are making it all up and it feels silly.
Talking to an owl might feel funny at first. Having a daisy
come up to you and start a conversation could feel odd if
you have never experienced this before. Let yourself be
open to what shows itself to you and be willing to have a
new experience. Remember the youthful enthusiasm you
had as a child and allow yourself to enjoy the experience,
just like when you suspend your disbelief in order to enjoy a
movie.
When that voice comes into your head telling you that
you are just making it up, or that you are doing it wrong,
remember that the voice you are hearing is usually ego. The
skeptical ego tries to protect us, but more often than not it
just keeps us stuck. Our egos can feel quite threatened when
we step into our personal power.
Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not
our darkness that most frightens us. We ask
ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not
to be? You are a child of God. Your playing
small does not serve the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people wont feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We
were born to make manifest the glory of god
that is within us. Its not just in some of us; its
in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same. As we are liberated
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from our own fear, our presence automatically

liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson
If there is a voice that tells you how this cant possibly
work, tell that voice Thank you, and continue moving into
your journey anyway. When we do something new it can
feel funny at first. No one else can see you talking to a lion
or an angel in your mind, so why feel embarrassed? This is
your own personal experience. Enjoy it!
Be willing to feel foolish in order to do the work. Be
willing to appear foolish in order to heal. Powerfully
changing your life in order to live with joy, peace, health and
fulfillment is worth feeling silly from time to time. Once
your life is flowing with grace, ease and beauty, you will
wonder why you ever felt foolish at all.
Your power is in your vulnerability. Your power is in
your willingness to acknowledge any fear of the unknown
and move forward anyway. Your power is in your true
imagination as you create your world. Begin your
shamanic journey and step into your personal power.
"True imagination is not fanciful
daydreaming; it is fire from heaven."
~ Ernest Holmes
There are many ways to experience a shamanic
journey. You can sit in quiet, or you can listen to a CD with
drumming or music. You can sit inside or outside, any time
of day or night. Ultimately, whatever is the most
comfortable for you is the best way to create the space for
your shamanic journey.
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When experiencing a shamanic journey, find a quiet

place to sit and relax where you will not be disturbed. Make
sure you are comfortable to sit for at least fifteen minutes.
How you sit is not important, what is important is
that you are comfortable so that you will not be distracted by
discomfort. You may sit on your bed, in a chair, on the floor,
outside on the ground, on a couch, wherever you can have
solitude and quiet.
Some people prefer to lie down when journeying. It
can be easier to relax when lying down, however, this also
makes it easier to fall asleep in the middle of a journey. It is
alright if you fall asleep during a journey. When you wake
up, try to remember if you had any dreams as Spirit can
work with us in dream-time as well. At the very least, you
got some much-needed rest. You may try to journey again
immediately, but it is probably best to choose another time
when you feel more rested.
There are CDs of Native American music or
drumming which can be used to facilitate your journey.
Native American drumming is wonderful for shamanic
journeying. You can also listen to any music that feels
calming and relaxing; music without lyrics is best. When
listening to a CD while journeying, one can often be
influenced by the energy of the music, which can then
influence and shift where a journey goes, depending on the
tone of the music and how it affects you emotionally.
Practice using music to journey as well as sitting in silence.
Fifteen minutes is a good starting place for learning to
journey. Once you are more comfortable, you might find
yourself journeying for longer periods of time. Remember
that this is energetic work, so you might feel either tired or
energized when you are finished. Allow yourself time to get
used to doing this work. Let longer times of journeying
come naturally.
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*Take time to center yourself and relax.

Breathe easily into your belly at least three times in
order to ground yourself and calm your mind. Close your
eyes when doing this and keep them closed for the
remainder of your journey.
Breathing into your belly is a powerful way to ground
your energy. It can be helpful to see your root chakra, the
area at the base of your spine, energetically connected to the
earth. You can visualize a cord of golden light going from
your root area down into the earth for grounding and
stabilization.
Breathing gently into your belly, your core, is also a
good way to clear your mind. Breathe in through your nose
and out through your mouth a few times, slowly. You only
need to do this until you feel calm and centered, then you
may breathe naturally for the duration of your journey.
Take time to let your mind become calm, and let the stress of
the day release before focusing your energy on your journey.
*Once you are grounded and relaxed, create energetic
protection.
Visualize an orb of white or golden light surrounding
your body at all times. Seeing yourself in this orb of
protection before starting your shamanic journey is an
important practice. It is always good to visualize your
energy field clear and protected before traveling in the
realms.
(See Energetic Protection, Chapter 3)
*Create a portal to enter into spirit world.
Everyone enters the spirit realms in a different way.
Allow your imagination to show you the special way you
will enter the spirit world. You may visualize a door, as
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ornate or simple as you like. You might see curtains or a

stairway, or an arch to walk through. Some people go into a
cave and others say they have walked into an ocean or even
a submarine. A student once told me his portal was a
willow tree, as it had been a favorite of his as a child and he
always felt safe and loved when with that tree.
Whatever resonates for you is your portal into the
realms. It is important to create a portal that can be opened
and closed, and clearly shows when you are entering and
exiting spirit world. This empowers you to keep your
energy clear in the earthly realm, leaving any energy that
needs to stay in spirit world where it belongs.

place.

*Once in spirit world, find your way to your sacred

After you have passed through your portal or

doorway into spirit world, let yourself be intuitively guided
to a sacred place that is special to you. It is important that
this place feel peaceful and safe. It can be similar to
somewhere here on earth, or it can be completely new.
Sacred places can be by a lake, on a mountain, in a
temple or garden, at the ocean, whatever resonates for you
and feels good. This sacred space is the place where you can
meet your animal totems, plant spirit guides, and all other
spirit guides that you are here to work with. Sacred places
are a wonderful, safe space to recharge your batteries. It is
your special place that is filled with beauty and opens your
heart.
It is good to keep your sacred place to yourself,
allowing it to be truly sacred to you only. If you choose to
share your experience of your sacred space with other
people, be discerning, as it is truly holy ground that has been
given to you as a gift so that you may do your good work in
spirit world.
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When first learning to journey, it is helpful to go to

your sacred space first, before meeting your guides. If a
spirit guide shows up first, ask them to lead you to your
sacred space.
Sometimes people who are new to journeying will get
lots of information and visuals very quickly and find it
difficult to slow down the journey. Beginning in your sacred
space helps you to receive information with clarity, and at a
pace that allows you to take it all in. As you practice
journeying, it is not necessary to always meet your guides in
your sacred space.
*When you have found your sacred place, ask that the
guides who would like to work with you for your highest
and greatest good please step forward so you can meet
them.
Be patient and let your guides come to you in their
own time. You might meet one at a time, or they can arrive
in a group. Be open to whatever or whoever shows up, as it
could be various things such as an angel, an animal totem,
an ancestor, or other archetypes and energies.
When a guide shows up, check in with yourself to see
if they feel good to you. Your body will give you signals if
something does not feel right. If something shows up and it
gives you a bad feeling or frightens you, tell it to let you
know who it is and ask it if it is of the light. If it does not
answer you in a manner that relieves you, tell it to leave.
You do not have to work with anything that shows up if it
does not feel good to you. This is your journey and your
sacred space. Only what you choose is allowed into your
sacred space.
Once a guide has shown up and you feel good about
them, feel free to ask their name or other questions you
might have. Sometimes our guides will take us elsewhere to
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show us things. Often they will have gifts for us that bring
healing, as well as empower us on our journey. It is a lovely,
heart-opening practice to give them a gift as well. In spirit
world you can imagine any type of gift you would like to
give and it is always free. You may give your spirit guide a
gift of thanks at any time that feels appropriate during your
shamanic journey.
You can bring any issues to your guides. Whatever
you seek, you can ask them. If you are in need of healing, or
if you would like clarity around something, bring this to
your guides. Perhaps you are having challenges in a
relationship or at work, you can ask your guides for help
with these situations.
Be aware that sometimes guides give us answers that
do not necessarily seem clear. You may always ask for
clarity. However, if you do not get a clear answer during
your journey, be willing to sit for awhile with what they
have shared. Often, their answers will become more clear
over time.
It can also take practice to receive answers from your
guides that seem clear, so don't be discouraged if you do not
immediately get answers that make sense to you. Keep
connecting with your guides in spirit world and you will
find that your communication with them becomes more
clear.
Also, be aware that your guides are working in the
spirit realms and can see the big picture in a way that we do
not. As an example, you could ask a question about your job
and then get some direction as to how to heal a relationship
with a family member. Though the two might not seem
related to you, in spirit world they can see that when you
heal your relationship, your job situation will shift. Be open
to what you receive, and be willing to sit with it for a time.
You are free to ask your guides as many questions as
they are willing to answer, and you may journey for as long
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as you like.
*Always thank your guides for being with you and
sharing their guidance.
Gratitude is a powerful practice, so be sure to thank
all the guides that came to work with you before you leave
spirit world. This is a sign of respect, not to mention good
manners.
*Make your way back to the earthly realm through
the portal you've created.
Remember to close the portal behind you, allowing
the circle you have opened to remain energetically closed
until you choose to go back to that place.
Closing energetic space is important when you are
finished journeying. With the portal closed, you are free to
go about your daily life without keeping the spirit realms
open around you.
*Once you return to the earthly realm, take a few
minutes to acclimate to your surroundings.
Stretch your body a bit and take your time getting up.
Ground yourself before going about other tasks. Be sure to
drink lots of water and keep yourself hydrated. This work is
energetic work so take care of your body by drinking plenty
of water.
Find time to rest, especially if you had a powerful
experience. It is good to let the experience integrate, so
nurture yourself as much as you can for the rest of the day.
If you need to do other things, thats fine, simply be aware of
your energy level and take care of yourself as you go about
your day.
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Journeying before going to bed is helpful for letting

the experience integrate while you sleep. However, if you
find yourself very tired in the evening, find time to journey
during the day when you can stay awake.
*Journal about your shamanic journey.
It is a good practice to journal after you journey. This
helps you remember all that happened in the journey. It is
also a great reference to come back to and read later when
you may have forgotten some of the details. More answers
and information can also come to you while journaling.
When reading about past experiences, you might find
an answer you had forgotten that you received. After you
have practiced journeying for some time, your journal can be
a wonderful reference for how you have progressed in your
personal practice and in your life.
The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
~ Emily Dickinson

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Footnotes:
1 - The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal
Transformation, by Dennis William Hauck. (Penguin
Compass, 1999)
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Chapter Five
ANIMAL TOTEMS

Animals are such agreeable friends they

ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~ George Eliot

Connecting with animal totems is generally the

easiest place to start for those beginning their journeys into
spirit world. We often resonate with animals more freely
than with beings from realms that might seem otherworldly.
It also helps that we can see and interact with animals easily
in this physical world. Plants are powerful totems as well,
however they are not necessarily as cuddly and easy to
connect with emotionally as animals.
By accessing the animal totems that are working with
you, guiding and empowering you, much can be learned as
to how to gain clarity, create healing and live the life you
choose to be living. Getting to know your animal guides is a
wonderful way to connect with your own gifts and your
personal power. The animal totems that come to you while
you journey are symbols of the power that you already
possess, and they mirror for you how you can bring your
gifts into this world and live your most authentic life.
Different lineages and schools of thought have
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different ideas on what is an ally and what is a totem, and if

they believe there is even a difference. Animal totems are
guides that are with us throughout our life, empowering and
guiding us. Animal allies are guides that come to aid us on
our journey when we need their help.
As you meet different animal guides and work with
them, you will come to know which ones are totems that will
be with you always. You will also come to know which
animals are showing up for you at that particular time in
order help you with a specific situation. Allies can come to
you for an afternoon or be with you for days and perhaps
even longer, depending on the situation.
Getting to know your guides is like getting to know a
friend. Some friends will be in your life forever, and some
are with you during certain transitions, challenges or
adventures, and then you may not see them for a long time.
For example, frog will come to me to remind me to sing, and
will empower me during a detox or a cleanse. However,
frog is not a totem that I work with on a regular basis.
When you meet an animal guide, you may ask if it is
your totem. However, it is best to simply appreciate the
guidance and love you are receiving, trusting that you will
know what your relationship is in time. Ultimately, all
animals are our totems and our guides because we are all
one energy, so dont get too hung up on who is a totem and
who is an ally.
Animal totems come into our lives in many ways.
They can come to us is through gifts that are given to us, like
collectible figurines or animal-themed decorations. Many
children receive toys that are totems. One of my earliest
childhood memories is of my beloved stuffed animals.
There was a teddy bear, of course, and an orange and black
striped tiger, and a wonderful pinkish-purple hippopotamus
with little flowers on her neck. I loved them so much, and
was quite sure that when I was asleep or out of the room
they came alive. I talked to them frequently because I knew
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they could hear me and they were my friends.

According to Steven Farmer, Ph.D., in his book
Animal Spirit Guides (which I use consistently to gather
information on animal totems and recommend it as a
reference), here are some of the traits of a person with Bear
as a totem:
*Youre a powerful healer, whether your focus
is physical, emotional, or spiritual healing.
*Youre assertive and confident, with a strong
presence.
*You need periods of being reclusive for your
creative spark, and typically emerge from
these periods with new ideas and projects.
Tiger has some interesting totem energy as well:
*Youre naturally clairvoyant, with the gift of
prophecy that becomes stronger and more
evident as you age.
*Youre a healer, and due to your strong tactile
sensitivities, your best vehicle for healing is
performing some kind of bodywork.
*Youre solitary and nocturnal and do your
best work at night.
And then we have Hippopotamus energy:
*Youre able to know whats beneath the
surface of things and people and can get to the
truth quickly.
*You honor your truth, speak it readily, and
expect others to do the same.
When the adults in my life gifted these animals to me,
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they were also gifting me with the symbolic gifts of those

totems, though they did not realize it. When I read what
these totems are about, I definitely resonate with each one
and can see how it has worked in my life.
There are other clues as to your animal totems. Are
there certain animals you feel drawn to? Do you have a
collection of frogs or turtles or some other animal? Do you
find that you always notice the crows wherever you go?
These are also signs that you are working with the medicine
of those animals, or that those animals would like to work
with you.
All animal totems bring us powerful gifts. Be open to
the different animals that may appear to you. Do not have
expectations of what kind of animal you would prefer to
work with. If a mouse comes to you, it brings equally
powerful medicine as a horse. The medicine they bring is
simply different. If an octopus appears to you, it is bringing
you exactly what you need in this moment, even if you do
not live near an ocean or know anything about octopus.
Connecting with animal totems empowers us to be
more present. When we pay attention to the animals in our
daily lives and begin to notice how they interact with each
other and with us, we are learning to be more aware of our
surroundings and the many ways that Spirit can speak to us
through animals. Paying attention to these totems helps us
be more intentional in our actions as well. The next time a
deer runs across the road in front of your car, it may be
telling you to slow down and drive more carefully; it might
also be running in front of you to get your attention because
it has symbolic gifts it would like to share with you.
Pay attention to your surroundings. Notice the
squirrels in your neighborhood, and the birds that are flying
above as you drive to work. When taking a walk, look twice
to see if that bird is a turkey vulture or a hawk. Give thanks
for those groundhogs on the side of the highway. Be
amazed and delighted at the many gifts that are brought to
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us each and every day, through the power of animals, when

we are open to receive.

DIRECTIONS ~ CONNECTING WITH ANIMAL

TOTEMS
*When you are ready to connect with your Animal
Totems, find a quiet place to sit and relax where you will not
be disturbed. Make sure you are comfortable to sit for at
least 15 minutes.
*Breathe easily into your belly a few times in order to
ground yourself and calm your mind. Remember, this is not
a meditation where you empty your mind of thoughts. This
is about your mind being calm as well as active as you will
be utilizing your imagination to see your vision.
*Once you are grounded and calm, ask for energetic
protection. Visualize an orb of white or golden light all
around your body keeping you safe at all times.
*Next, open the doorway/portal that you have
created to enter the spirit realms.

space.

*Once in spirit world, find your way to your sacred

*Now that you are in your sacred space, ask your

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animal totems to make themselves known to you by

stepping forward so you can see them. Be patient and relax
as you let them come to you. Be open to whatever animals
show up, without any expectation of who will be there to
work with you.
During your journey you might connect with one
animal, or perhaps more; whoever shows up is exactly who
you are meant to work with at this time.
*Once you meet your animal guides, ask questions.
You may consider your questions before you journey, or
simply ask what comes to you once you meet them. You
may ask them anything. Know that even though we will
almost always get an answer, it may not be what we were
expecting and it may not even make sense in that moment.
Sometimes we are given colors or feelings and can not
necessarily interpret them in that moment. Go with the
answer that is given, and feel free to ask them for more
details if you do not understand. Be open to what you
receive, and be willing to sit with it for a time after you
journey, allowing the information to integrate.
Communicating with animal totems can happen in
different ways. There are times when totems do not speak
and they simply show us things or take us places we are
meant to see. At other times animal totems will speak to us
in the same way we speak to other humans. More than
likely, you will hear in your mind what your totem is saying
whether you actually see their mouth move or not.
*Once you have asked the questions you would like to
ask, feel free to give a gift to your animal totems, as well as
ask if they have any gifts for you. At times, your guides will
hand you something, and at other times the information you
receive, or healing that you experience, is the gift.
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*When you are finished with your journey, be sure to

thank your guides for being with you and make your way
back to your portal and close the door of spirit world behind
you when you return.
*Journal about your journey so that you have a
reference for later and can remember the details.
*Drink plenty of water and allow yourself time to rest
as you practice shamanic journeying.

DEEPER CONNECTION WITH ANIMAL SPIRITS

Totems offer us energetic and symbolic gifts which
can also be referred to as their 'medicine'. The physical
medicine of animal totems is often found in nature. I have
found feathers, butterfly wings, the shells of cicadas, a turtle
shell, a snake skin, and even a squirrel tail. When I find
these gifts, I always ask them if they would like to come with
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me before bringing them home. If you intuitively feel that it

is a gift for you, then take it with you. If you feel that it is
something that is meant to stay where it is, you may honor it
by saying thank you and then leave it be.
When I feel that something is being gifted to me from
Spirit, I will bring it home and put it on my altar to honor
what I have received. Whether I leave the offering where I
found it or bring it home with me, I will also look up the
energetic symbolism of that particular animal in order to see
what information is being shared with me.
I am very wary about buying pieces of animals in a
store. Finding a turtle shell in nature is one thing, but for a
turtle to be killed so that someone can have its shell is cruel
and wrong. I do not believe that a rabbits foot on a key
chain that you buy in the drugstore is good medicine for
anyone. However, if you find a person who honors the
spirit of the animal and has antlers or a shell or something to
offer from an animal that has been respected ceremonially,
then it is up to your discretion as to whether to purchase it
or not.
Once you have met your animal totems and allies,
physically connecting with an animal is a powerful way to
connect more deeply with its spirit medicine. Many people
have brought animal medicine into their homes through
their pets. Different people resonate with different
medicines and some people have dogs and cats, while others
have fish or snakes, hamsters or ferrets. There are many
domesticated animals that we can connect with their
medicine safely.
Wild animals are not necessarily wanting you to pet
them and bring them home, however there are ways to
connect with their medicine as well. There is a nature center
in the town where I live that has many wild animals that
were brought there to be saved or rehabilitated. Many of
these animals were wounded in the wild and would not
have survived if they had not been brought to the center to
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be taken care of. This has been a wonderful resource for

seeing wild animals up close that we would not normally be
able to see. There are also national parks and preserves that
have many wild animals that people are allowed to view. I
much prefer this to seeing animals in cages.
Drawing pictures of an animal in order to connect
with the details of how they look, and finding and printing
wildlife photos found in magazines or online, are both good
ways to keep their medicine around you. Put drawings and
photos of your animal totems in your room or office, and on
an altar or other sacred place in your home to honor their
power and medicine.
If you are working with an animal that lives in the
woods, find time to sit in the woods and commune with the
energy of that animal totem. If it is an animal that prefers
the water, sit near the body of water it lives in and connect
with the area where this totem loves to be. If you have an
animal totem that lives in an area that you can not get to,
you can do a shamanic journey to travel in your mind to that
place and feel the energy of the area where they live. I have
never been to a jungle in this realm, however, I have traveled
to the jungle in spirit world many times to work with jaguar
medicine. Whatever is the animals habitat is an excellent
way to connect with that animals energy and spend time in
its natural surroundings, either literally or through shamanic
journeying.
Another way to connect with the spirit of an animal is
to examine its diet. Eating habits let you get to know an
animal totem better by learning how they nurture and
sustain themselves. If you are feeling connected to koala
bear, for example, then it is good to look at what it eats.
Koalas like to eat leafy things, and sometimes it can be a sign
to take a look at your diet and eat more leafy greens and
herbs.
Some animals, like a hawk, eat rodents, snakes and
even other birds. This is not necessarily a totem asking you
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to eat like it does. However, another way to learn more

about your totems is to examine what their prey is, or if they
have prey at all. For example, if you are working with hawk
medicine, read about the medicine of hawks prey and see
what you can learn from them as well. Working with both
totems is a way to create balance in your shamanic practice.

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Chapter Six
PLANT SPIRIT TOTEMS

O Tiger-lily, said Alice, addressing herself to one

that was waving gracefully about in the wind, I
wish you could talk!
We can talk, said the Tiger-lily, when theres
anybody worth talking to.
Alice was so astonished that she could not speak
for a minute, it quite seemed to take her breath
away.
At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving
about, Alice spoke again, in a timid voice almost
in a whisper.
And can all the flowers talk?
As well as you can, said the Tiger-lily. And a
great deal louder.
It isnt manners for us to begin, you know, said
the Rose, and I really was wondering when youd
speak.
~ Through the Looking Glass, Lewis
Carroll

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In my first year of journeying with my guides, a book

about plant spirit medicine came into my life and I was
intrigued by the concept. I had spent much time connecting
with guides that were animals and other beings of light,
however, up to that point, I had not connected in spirit
world with plants very often.
About six months before deciding to connect with my
plant spirit allies, I had been told about an intriguing plant
called ayahuasca. I had heard stories of shamanic
ceremonies using this powerful medicine to journey to the
realms and receive visions and healing.
Ayahuasca is a jungle medicine from South America.
The ayahuasca vine is mixed with the leaf of the chacruna
plant, creating a powerful mixture that empowers the person
who drinks it to experience visions and often journey into
other realms.
I was very intrigued by ayahuasca and also very
intimidated by the stories I had heard of peoples
experiences with her. I had been told that she is powerful
medicine and that she allows us to enter our perceived dark
places and work with our shadow side.
My concern with connecting with my plant totems
was that I would go to spirit world and meet ayahuasca and
that she would be my guide, someone I would work with
repeatedly. I assumed this meant I would need to go to a
ceremony in the jungle and drink her medicine regularly.
Because of the stories I had heard, I was not feeling excited
by this possibility. I decided to go looking for my plant
spirit totems anyway.
I had been working on occasion with a black jaguar
guide when journeying to spirit world. This black jaguar
would often shape-shift into an indigenous South American
man and then back into his cat form. I worked with him
regularly and he taught me many things when I went on
shamanic journeys.
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Connecting with my black jaguar guide, I asked him

to please take me to my plant spirit totem. He took me into
a beautiful, lush jungle. We seemed to walk for a long time
through dense bush and foliage and eventually we arrived
at a small clearing. In the middle of this clearing was a
group of plants with white flowers. They were growing
together in a bunch and it was a large group of them.
They were beautiful flowers. The leaves of these
plants reminded me of a lily, but they did not look like lilies
I had seen in the United States. The stems holding the
flowers were about a foot high, and at the top was a small
white flower.
I asked my guide what kinds of flowers these were,
and he very matter-of-factly pointed to my laptop and said,
Look in your box. Information can come to us in all sorts
of ways, so never discount modern technology, even when
experiencing a shamanic journey.
Returning from spirit world I turned on my
computer and began looking for this sweet flower I had seen
in the jungle. I looked for quite a while and was getting
tired of researching. At the time, I did not know what
ayahuasca looked like, so I decided to look her up to see if
she was this white flower I had encountered.
I found a website listing various plants and their
constituents, as well as having their pictures with the
information. I found ayahuasca and read about her and
looked at her picture, realizing quickly that she was not the
plant I had encountered in my journey. Though relieved
that she was not my plant totem, I still had no idea what that
flower was. I was staring at the computer screen, ready to
give up, when I suddenly realized that the background
wallpaper of that particular page was covered in this exact
white flower that I had seen in my shamanic journey.
I immediately began scrolling through the list of
plants from the website. I was determined to go through the
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entire ten-page alphabetical list to find the picture that

matched the wallpaper with my flower totem on it.
Backing up to the beginning of the As, I began to
scroll down slowly and there she was, on the first page. Her
name is Amazon Lily. She is native to Central and South
America. Her flowers resemble daffodil flowers, are sweetly
scented, and borne in groups of four.
I learned that Amazon Lily is a plant that empowers
healers to have confidence in their work. Years ago, when I
was introduced to her, I was seeking guidance and
confidence to bring my gifts to the world. Amazon Lily
empowered me to begin working privately with clients as
well as leading workshops.
The website where I found Amazon Lily has her listed as
follows:
AMAZON LILY [T] Eucharis grandiflora (white)
Amaryllidaceae, Amaryllis Family
Psyche: For spiritual people having self-worth issues that
impair the ability to manifest highest truth and beauty; shifts
attention from flaws to miracles, from weakness to strength
and grace.
Spirit: Unity and strength of spirit; purity, devotion. Helps
keep focus on desire and intention for healing and service.
Healers: take before beginning work, to clarify the aura.
Combine with Rhodochiton, Lotus for clearing and
grounding before working with others.
When connected with one's purpose for incarnating, it is
much easier to serve and heal. 1
This was the beginning of my experience with plant
spirit medicine. Since then I have spent many years in the
forests where I live, learning from trees, flowers and other
plants. I work with flower essences and have studied
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herbalism in order to create a stronger connection with the

plant kingdom. I also supplement my diet with tinctures
and teas harvested locally.
One of the most exciting gifts of connecting with plant
totems is the ability to work with their medicine
energetically. Creating a deeper relationship with the plant
kingdom can teach us to connect in such a way that we can
ask for their help energetically when we need a particular
medicine. Through shamanic journeying, you may call in
the energy of a plant and experience its healing affects, even
when you do not have it with you to ingest into your
physical body. This allows us to experience healing from the
medicine of plants at any time, which opens up a world of
possibilities.

DIRECTIONS ~ CONNECTING WITH PLANT SPIRIT

TOTEMS
Connecting with your plant spirit totems is very
much like finding your animal totems. Once you are
comfortable connecting with your animal guides, ask to
meet your plant totems. If there is a plant that you are
drawn to, you may ask your animal guides to lead you to
that plant and speak with it. Plants share a wealth of gifts
that are different from the animal kingdom and they are
strong allies to work with to facilitate healing.
*Find a quiet place to sit and relax where you will not
be disturbed. Make sure you are comfortable to sit for at
least fifteen minutes.
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*Breathe easily into your belly a few times in order to

ground yourself and calm your mind. Remember, this is not
a meditation where you empty your mind of thoughts. This
is about your mind being calm as well as active as you will
be utilizing your imagination to see your vision.
*Once you are grounded and calm, create energetic
protection. Visualize an orb of white or golden light
surrounding your body.
*Next, open the doorway/portal that you have
created to enter the spirit realms.

space.

*Once in spirit world, find your way to your sacred

*Now that you are in your sacred space, ask one of

your spirit guides or one of your animal totems to come
forward so that they can help you. Once you have
connected with a guide, ask them to lead you to meet a plant
that is your totem or ally. Follow them to find this medicine.
During your journey, you might connect with one
plant or several; whoever shows up is exactly who you are
meant to work with at this time. Let go of any expectations
of the plant guide that will come to you and remain open to
the medicine that you receive. Just like animal totems, all
plants carry powerful medicine, whether it is a rose or an
herb, a tree or a vine, they all have equally powerful gifts.
*Ask questions of the plant(s) that come to you. You
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may ask them anything. Know that even though we will

almost always get an answer, it may not be what we were
expecting and it may not even make sense in that moment.
Sometimes we are given colors or feelings and can not
necessarily interpret them in that moment. Go with the
answer that is given, and feel free to ask them for more
details if you do not understand. Be open to what you
receive, and be willing to sit with it for a time after you
journey if the message you receive is not totally clear in that
moment.
*When working with plants it is good to ask them
how they would like to work with you. Is it an herb that can
be tinctured or made into a tea? Is this a plant you can grow
in your yard or in your home? If so, ask this plant totem if
they would like you to grow them or use them as medicine.
*When you are finished asking questions, feel free to
give a gift to your new guide and you may ask if they have
any gifts for you.
*At the end of your journey, be sure to thank your
guides for being with you, and make your way back to your
portal, closing the door of spirit world behind you when you
return.
*Journal about your journey so that you have a
reference for later and can remember the details. Drink
plenty of water and nurture yourself.

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DEEPER CONNECTION WITH PLANT SPIRITS

There are many ways to connect with the spirit of
plants. Getting to know a plant is like getting to know a
human friend. The more time you spend with that friend,
the better you will know them and learn what they are
about. Research to gain information about the plants that
you meet when journeying.
The most immediate way to get to know a plant is to
examine it. What kind of environment does it thrive in?
Does it grow in bunches or alone? Is there a big, showy
flower? Is there any flower at all? Is it fragrant? Does it
have thorns? Pay attention to the details of a plant, how its
leaves grow, how its stem grows, how it displays itself to the
world. These are all signs of the energy of this plant
Where is a plant from? Is it native to that region or
was it introduced from another place? Notice where a plant
lives. Does it like the woods or open fields? Does it like dry
areas or wet places? Is it a shade lover or a sun worshiper?
Can you find it in town or only in the country? Just like
getting to know a friend, spend time with this plant. Go and
sit with it where it grows, its home, and get to know the
surroundings.
What does this plant do? Does it create food for
insects? Does it host bugs or other life forms on it? Is it
edible to humans? Is it used as an herbal medicine or a
culinary spice? Is it a remedy for something? Can it be used
to make an essence? What else does it offer, for nature and
for humans?
Draw pictures of the plant to really take in the details
of how it grows and its special markings. Take photos of the
plant from lots of different and creative angles.
Depending on the plant, you may harvest it and dry it
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to make tea, or to keep in your home. Is it a plant that makes

itself available as a spice for us to cook with? Is it inedible or
poisonous?
Ingesting a plant you are working with, assuming it is
edible, is another way to connect with the energy of that
plant. Some plants can be made into tea, others are lovely to
dry and hang in your home for fragrance or decoration.
Once you know your plant totems, planting them in a
garden, or in a pot, and taking care of them is a tangible way
to create a relationship.
As you create deeper relationships with plant totems,
practice calling in their medicine without ingesting them.
For example, if you have a headache, lie down and ask the
medicine of peppermint, and other herbs that are helpful for
headaches, to come to you and bring relief. You may
journey into spirit world in order to connect with these
healing herbs and ask them to help with your headache. Lie
quietly and allow the medicine of these plants to come to
you energetically, and soon your headache will subside.
This is only one example of the numerous ways we can work
with the healing medicine of plants energetically.

TREES
When was the last time you really noticed the trees in
your yard or in your neighborhood, other than to mow
around them or drive by? What kinds of trees grow in your
neighborhood? Are there trees near your home that create
shade, keeping your home cool in the summer?
Connecting with trees is empowering and healing. I
highly recommend hugging a tree whenever you have the
opportunity! Trees are amazing and so incredibly loving.
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Every time I hug a tree, I energetically feel the tree hug me

right back.
The best time to get to know the names of trees is
when they have leaves. In the winter, when there are no
leaves, they must be identified by their bark and this is more
challenging than identifying them by their leaves. Spring
and summer is a great time to get to know the trees in your
area. The fall can be a beautiful time to learn about trees and
see what colors their leaves change to, if they change at all.
Even if you do not know what kind of tree you are
looking at, you can still connect energetically with it. Take
time to sit and lean against a tree, taking in the energy of
that tree and the area surrounding you.
While sitting with that tree, be quiet and still, and
look around imagining all the things this tree must have
seen in its life, sitting in this one spot and not going
anywhere. Think of all the people and animals and seasons
and plants this amazing tree has seen come and go, while it
stands, quietly and peacefully, like a sentinel.
When walking on a trail, I often find two trees across
from each other on either side of the trail. When I see this it
feels like a doorway, a portal that these two trees are
holding. If I am on that trail for the first time, I will stop and
ask the two trees that make up this doorway for permission
to pass into their woods. It feels like a gesture of respect for
the forest and the energetic beings that live there.
I also like to share energy with the trees. To do this,
stand in front of a tree and make sure the bottoms of your
feet are completely on the ground. Put both of your hands
on the trunk of a large tree, or you can connect with the
branches and leaves of a smaller tree.
Imagine a flow of energy creating a circle between
you and the tree. If you would like to open your heart
chakra, feel the energy of the tree flowing into your hands,
into your heart area, and up and out your third eye (between
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your eyebrows), and back to the tree.

If you would like to bring more energy to your third
eye, imagine the flow of energy coming from the tree
directly into the area between your eyebrows, then down
into your heart area. Next, feel the energy flowing down
your arms, through your fingertips and back to the tree.
Once it gets to the tree, the circle continues as the energy
flows from the tree back into your third eye.
You can do this exercise in many different ways. For
grounding, I feel the energy of the tree come into the top of
my head through my crown chakra. I then feel it flow down
my body, out my feet into the earth, back up into the tree,
and from the tree back into the crown of my head.
You can focus the energy flow on any part of your
body where you would like to receive earth energy. The
trees are powerful conduits for mama earth energy and this
is a wonderful way to experience their gifts. While doing
these exercises, breathe deeply and gently into your belly,
and remember to thank the tree that is sharing its love with
you.

RESPECT FOR THE PLANT KINGDOM

There are many beautiful plants and trees offering us
numerous flowers and gifts. Before taking a gift from a
plant, try to remember to ask the plant first. It is a sign of
respect for the plant kingdom to ask permission before
picking or cutting something. When picking berries, or
snipping basil, for example, I will thank the bushes and the
plants for feeding me. I will tell them what I am going to do
with their bountiful harvest, sharing with them the love and
gratitude I feel.
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There have been times when I am harvesting herbs in

the woods, and I will check in to make sure that what I am
picking wants to come with me. There are times when I will
hear a plant say that it wants to stay, and I honor that
request. There is plenty for all of us, we do not need to pick
everything that comes our way. It is good to leave some
behind as a gift for mama earth, as well as allowing plants to
re-seed for the next year.
If you find a plant that is rare, do not pick it. Use
common sense and thoughtfulness before cutting a flower or
picking herbs. Be sure you are not on private property or in
an area where it is not permitted to harvest plants.

Footnotes:
1 http://www.hummingbirdremedies.com
http://hummingbirdremedies.com/flowers_a.html
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Chapter Seven
CONNECTING WITH OTHER NATURE SPIRITS

And now here is my secret, a very simple

secret. It is only with the heart that one can see
rightly; what is essential is invisible to the
eye.
~ The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint
Exupery

STONES & CRYSTALS

When connecting with stones, a great place to start is

where you live. Are you in an area that has mostly pebbles
or large boulders? Are there river rocks where you live or
large flat dessert stones? Is there quartz nearby? Notice and
pay attention to all the different kinds of stones around you;
their size, shape, color, and even the shapes they create
together.
If you are walking or hiking and a stone catches your
eye, take time and look at it. Do not remove the stone or
take it with you unless you are given permission by the
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stone itself. Ask if it would like to come with you and sit
quietly to hear an answer. If the stone does want to be with
you, put it in a place of honor in your home, on an altar or a
sacred space. Show the stone, and all gifts from nature,
respect for the medicine it brings you.
Crystals are very powerful energies to connect with.
There are many books on crystals and stones with helpful
information on their properties for guidance and healing.
You can also find beautiful and interesting crystals in many
shops. Before buying one, find the one that most resonates
for you and ask if it would like to come home with you. You
can do this silently, in your head, so that you do not feel selfconscious. This is a good practice as sometimes stones are
not meant to go with us and then the energy is different.
Years ago when I was in a healing session with a
client, a quartz shared with me that all crystals were once in
liquid form, and they became crystallized in order to
incarnate in this world and do their work here. This
particular crystal showed me that humans were once in an
energetically fluid form as well, and we crystallized to come
into human form and walk our path, too.
Crystals are wonderful tools for energy work and
healing modalities, as well as clearing and empowering the
vibration of a person or place.

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FAERIES
Being in the woods is the best way to connect with
faeries. They love areas with some sunshine, but not
burning hot; areas that have moss and ferns are good places
to look for faeries. They are also often found near old trees.
In order to feel them around you, one must connect to
subtle energies. Faeries do not generally make themselves
known unless they choose to, and they are careful about
who they allow to find them. I believe this is so they can
keep themselves protected. Unfortunately, humans do not
have a great track record for how we treat things that are
fragile and magical, so faeries are wise to be careful about
showing themselves.
I was hiking a trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway for
about a month before finally meeting three faeries there. It
was a beautiful day in late Spring, and while walking a trail
that I know very well, I noticed a Pink Ladys Slipper flower
I had never see before.
These beautiful flowers from the orchid family can
take many years to grow from a seed to a flower. They can
live anywhere from 20-100 years, but usually only flower 1020 times. Because of this, Pink Ladys Slipper is a very
magical flower. They can be hard to find in the wild because
people often collect them, though they are rarely
transplanted with success. They need a special fungus in
order to grow, and when removed from their habitat, they
tend to die.
Like faeries, Pink Ladys Slipper flowers are beautiful
and delicate and need to be appreciated and respected for
their fragile power. This particular day as I hiked through
the woods, a Pink Ladys Slipper allowed me to see her. I
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felt honored that she trusted me to sit with her. As I spoke

with her, three female faeries came to me and began to share
with me about these flowers. They told me about the area
we were in and the relationship between the faeries and
Pink Lady's Slipper.
I said to the Pink Ladys Slipper that I was sad that
she was alone and did not have other flowers like her
around. She said, Oh, Im not alone. Look.
Looking around I suddenly realized I was
surrounded by five or six other Pink Ladys Slippers that I
had not seen up until that moment when they revealed
themselves. I was so grateful to be gifted that connection
with the flowers and the faeries.
If you would like to connect with the faerie kingdom,
find time to hike in a wooded area. You do not need to go
deep into the woods to find these magical creatures. It is
important, however, to be patient and sit with the trees and
forest
If you are not able to be in the woods to find the
faeries, there are ways to entice them to visit you where you
live. Faeries love beauty and they are attracted to shiny,
pretty things. You may hang a crystal prism in a window
that creates reflected rainbows, and you may also set up an
indoor fountain. Both of these are attractive energies for
faeries. However, it is not necessary to buy things to entice
them. Faeries are creatures of nature. Create a magical
sacred space in your home or yard that has flowers and gifts
that you find in nature.
Let the faeries know that you would like to connect
with them, and give them time to get to know you. Bring
them gifts of fresh or dried flowers and herbs, stones, shells
or anything you find pretty. Honor them with your gifts
and your willingness to let them come to you in their own
time. When they are ready, you will feel them around you
and create your personal connection with them.
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Chapter Eight
THE AKASHIC RECORDS

Akashic Records: The akashic records (akasha is a

Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "ether") is a
term used in theosophy (and Anthroposophy) to
describe a compendium of mystical knowledge
encoded in a non-physical plane of existence. These
records are described as containing all knowledge of
human experience and the history of the cosmos.
They are metaphorically described as a library; other
analogies commonly found in discourse on the subject
include a "universal supercomputer" and the "Mind of
God". People who describe the records assert that
they are constantly updated automatically and that
they can be accessed through astral projection or
when someone is placed under deep hypnosis. The
concept was popularized in the theosophical
movements of the 19th century and is derived from
Hindu philosophy of Samkhya. It is promulgated in
the Samkhya philosophy that the akashic records are
automatically recorded in the atoms of akasha ("air" or
"aether"), one of the five types of atoms visualized as
existing in the atomic theory of Ancient India.
~ Wikipedia online

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Study the past if you would divine the

future.
~ Confucius

Standing in the kitchen of my friends house, he asked

if I had heard of the akashic records.
I said, No, what are they?
According to him, the akashic records were a
collection of information encompassing the lives of all
people, past, present and future. One could see the past or
future experiences of every human through these records.
The akashic records held the collective conscious of each
person who had ever lived, was currently living, and all
those who will live in the future.
Accessing these records had a catch. The ability to
access the akashic records had to be transmitted to you by an
Akashic Master who had already obtained this knowledge.
According to my friend, if you worked with the akashic
records without training and without receiving this
transmission . . .
What would happen? I asked.
He could not say, exactly, as he dramatically sipped
his tea. He had been warned it might be bad.
I was intrigued by the concept of the akashic records.
I was not intrigued, however, by the $1,500 price tag for the
multiple workshops that were offered by the Akashic
Master my friend had heard of.
I spent the next few days wondering about the
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akashic records. They seemed so untouchable and

mysterious. Researching online allowed me to gain a better
understanding of what people believe the records to be. I do
not remember finding any information regarding the pox of
bad-luck that might befall a person who connected with the
records without training and permission. I decided to go
find these records in spirit world and see for myself.
I had been working for some time with a beautiful,
sleek and powerful black jaguar guide. He would often
shape-shift into human form and then become a jaguar
again. He is the same guide who empowered me to connect
with my first plant totem.
Sitting on my bed and journeying into spirit world, I
found my black jaguar guide and asked for his help. I told
him I wanted to know more about the akashic records and
how to work with them. I asked him if I could learn to
access them and if it was alright for me to do so without
training.
Black jaguar started walking and let me know that I
was to follow him. We walked into a jungle, where we often
go in order to do work in the realms.
Deep in the jungle, he led me to a small set of steps
leading down to a platform. Though not yet able to see the
akashic records, I intuitively knew that they were on this
platform. In order to step onto the platform, however, I
would need to open a red velvet rope in front of me. This
red rope was just like you see at the entrance of chic
nightclubs. This struck me as funny, especially since I had
been told there was VIP-only access to these records.
I stood at this velvet rope, not sure if I should open it
or not. My jaguar guide does not move his mouth when
speaking to me, so I felt him ask me if I was ready to meet
the akashic records. Because of my friends warning about
the necessity of training before accessing the records, I was a
bit nervous and hesitated.
I asked, Am I ready?
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Black jaguar asked, Are you?.

I said, Yes, I am, though I really had no clue if I was
worthy of this endeavor.
He motioned to the rope with a nod of his head. I
unhooked and opened the thick red velvet rope and stepped
onto the platform. Because I can be a stickler for detail, I
remember hooking the rope back once I had stepped
through. I then turned and faced the akashic records.
I knew, intuitively, that I was seeing and experiencing
my own version of the akashic records, and that they could
look different to other people. This understanding has since
been confirmed as I have empowered clients to access the
records and witness their personal version of them.
Each persons idea of the records is similar, however,
our visual pictures and symbolic representations of them are
a bit different according to the individual.
If you prefer to connect with the akashic records on
your own before reading how they appear to me, please skip
ahead a few paragraphs and you can come back to read how
I see them at a later time.

When I turned to look upon the akashic records, I was

thrilled, and then a bit underwhelmed when realizing I was
not going to be overcome by fire or eaten by a giant sphinx.
What I saw before me was a beautiful and intricate lectern
made of light, that held upon it a large book made also
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entirely of light. The book was open and I gazed at it for a

moment.
Not quite sure what to do, I introduced myself to the
akashic records. I told the records my name and that I
would like to learn how to work with them. After saying
this, a flowing river of light rose out of the book and began
to pour over me. Once the light had fully engulfed me, I was
gently lifted up and pulled into the book.
Deciding to dive in head first, I went into the light
and then found myself in a yard walking toward a house. I
was a bit confused as I realized that I was not in my body.
Looking out through the eyes of someone else, I looked
down to see that I was in a male form. I did not recognize
this body, yet it felt safe to be here, so I continued to walk
toward the door of the house.
Seeing through his eyes, there was a small yard with a
few toys in it, and it was a warm, sunny day. The house and
the toys were from the 1950s or 1960s era, and it was a very
simple, middle-class home.
The man walked into the house and called out to his
family, letting them know that he was home. He bent down
to hug and kiss his daughter, and said hello and kissed his
wife. They then sat down to dinner.
This was someone elses reality. I was in this male
body, seeing through his eyes, and he did not know that I
was there. I was not doing the talking, even though I was in
his body and could hear him having a conversation with his
family while they ate dinner.
The experience was very exciting and completely
surreal. It felt like this journey only lasted a few minutes,
but it could have been much longer according to earthly
time.
The records shared with me that this was practice for
connecting into the life experiences of others. I was being
downloaded directions and trained in how to work with the
records.
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When I felt that it was time, I left the mans body,

removed myself from the story, and returned back through
the book of light to stand once again in front of the akashic
records. Black jaguar and I left the same way we came;
through the velvet rope, up the stairs, into the jungle and
back to my portal in order to come back to the earthly realm.
I continued to connect with the akashic records
regularly. Black jaguar guide would lead me to the stairs in
the jungle, to the red velvet rope that enclosed the book of
light.
After practicing stepping into random and peaceful
lives, I asked the records to show me previous lives that I
had lived. It was during these journeys into my previous
lives that I truly began to learn how I was to work with the
infinite akashic records.

During one powerful journeying experience with the

akashic records, I found myself running through the woods
in the body of a young Native American woman. I soon
realized that she was being chased.
By this time I had learned, through practice with the
records, how to come into a lifetime in someones body and
then step out of their body energetically so that I, as myself,
could watch the story. Stepping out of the persons body
empowers me to see the entire story from an objective
viewpoint and gather more information.
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When I stepped out of her body, I saw that she was

being chased by a group of white men. There were seven or
eight of them, some of whom were carrying rifles while
others had dogs.
The young woman started crossing a river that came
up to her waist. Crossing this deep river slowed her down
so that the group of men were able to get close enough to
take aim at her with their guns.
After firing a few bullets that missed her, one of the
men shot and hit her in the right shoulder blade, causing her
to lunge forward and fall into the water face-first. I am not
sure if she was shot a second time. The information that was
intuited to me is that she was exhausted, and the combined
trauma of the chase and the bullet wound were just too
much. She did not die from the gunshot; she actually died
from drowning as she was not able to pull herself up out of
the water and keep going.
The story of this young woman resonated with me as
I had experienced consistent issues with pain in my right
shoulder blade area, specifically where she was shot. Up to
that point, I also had a fear of drowning, which I did not
understand since I am a capable swimmer who loves the
water.
Watching this drama unfold was very upsetting. I ran
over to her and pulled her out of the river so she would not
drown, and carried her body to the river bank. I was furious
at the gang of men who had chased her with dogs and shot
her in the back.
As I laid her on the ground on her back, I heard
someone speaking to me. It was the akashic records, and I
heard very clearly, That is not how it works.
The records explained that I was not there to save her
and it was not my responsibility to do so. I was told that my
work was to forgive the men who had chased and murdered
her, and to allow her life to end the way it was meant to.
Sitting next to her lifeless body, I did not know if I
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would be able to do what was being asked. Holding her and

crying, I very reluctantly took her body back to the river and
placed her gently in the water, face-down, as I had found
her.
Her body lay in the water, and gently her spirit rose
up and hovered above me. She thanked me for being with
her when she died so that she did not die alone. Smiling
sweetly, she was leaving her body in peace instead of
exhausted terror. I felt so much love for her in that moment
as the tears streamed down my face.
I turned and saw that the group of men who had been
chasing her could see me. They did not seem to see her
spirit body that had risen from her earthly form. This was
my first past-life journey in which I learned that I could be
seen by other people in the vision.
The men were kneeling in awe and fear, and seemed
to perceive me as an angel. I decided to embody this
perception in order to speak to them, and I saw myself as a
beautiful and bright angel of light. (Shape-shifting in spirit
world is natural, allowing us to change into any form we can
envision).
I lovingly told the men that they were wrong to have
murdered this young woman. They were crying and asking
for forgiveness, and I realized that healing was happening
for them as well as for my past-life incarnation as a young
Native American woman. In that moment, the akashic
records showed me that healing can happen for all parties
involved in a past-life story.
I could feel that the hearts of these men had changed,
and they said that they would no longer murder Native
Americans. Two angelic beings came to the young woman
and accompanied her spirit peacefully on to the next phase
of her journey.
This past-life experience deeply affected me. I learned
that we are not always called to change the story. If
someone dies, they are meant to die. It is not necessarily our
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place to change the actual event. The revelation is that even

though we don't stop an event from happening (even one
that we perceive as traumatic), we can empower and heal
the energy surrounding that event. By doing this, our pastlife self experiences peace, even while dying, instead of fear,
panic, anger or other stressful and negative emotions.

When we return to our past-lives and shift the energy

from fear to love, from anger to forgiveness, from a negative
energy to a peaceful, positive energy, we heal ourselves as
well as those around us in that story. The ramifications of
this are huge as it empowers all those in these past-life
events to heal and shift their lives, which in turn heals the
lives of their succeeding generations. This creates healing
through their lineage up to the present and even into the
future.
As we heal the energy around a past-life experience,
we positively shift the energy that we carry into the rest of
that lifetime, and our death in that past life, as well as our
continued spirit journey after we die. This heals the energy
we pass on to our children and future generations, as well as
our continued lifetimes on this planet.
We are empowered to shift negative energy in order
to create energy that is peaceful and loving, and that is the
energy now carried in the collective conscious of all of us.
This is big healing! We are shifting the energy of the
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collective conscious as we shift our own energy, in any

lifetime. The more we empower the collective conscious
energy to be full of love, peace and gratitude, the more we
are empowering all humans and other beings on this planet
to heal. This empowers beings in other realms and other
lifetimes to heal, too.
When we create healing in our past-lives, including
forgiving ourselves or those who have trespassed against us,
we allow ourselves, as well as our trespassers, to experience
healing. All people, in all times, are able to make their own
choices about whether or not they choose to heal. No one
can be forced to heal. Each individual must choose healing
for themselves, and there are beings in other lifetimes that
have not chosen healing. They did not choose to shift their
energy and we can not force them to do so. We all have freewill.

In each journey with the akashic records, I discern if it

is necessary to let myself be seen by the other people in the
vision. With practice, you can learn to let yourself be seen
by some and remain hidden to others, even in the same
experience.
When I allow myself to be seen while working with
the akashic records, I am perceived by the people in each
past-life journey according to their culture and the beliefs of
the time period in which they are living. Therefore, the men
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in the woods chasing the Native American girl saw me as an

angel, as that was how they had been taught to understand
these kinds of visions in their particular culture. I presume
they understood the biblical concept of angels, so that is how
they were able to explain my unexpected appearance.
When I have appeared to people in previous lifetimes,
I can tell by the reaction of the people in the experience that I
have been perceived as a Goddess or God, an other-worldly
oracle, and even as a ghost or apparition. They will
sometimes ask me if I am an angel, a sorcerer or witch, and
at other times people have talked to me as their ancestor.
People in past-life journeys generally regard me as a
benevolent being of light. I certainly choose to bring
benevolent, compassionate and loving energy to all those I
connect with in these journeys.
I have often wondered if the people of the past who
have seen angles or various other-worldly beings were
actually seeing people like myself who have come back in
time to create healing. When I see myself in spirit world I do
not look like I do in this earthly realm. I am able to shapeshift with ease in the spirit realms, and I perceive an otherworldly glow of light around me at all times, much like what
one sees in paintings of angels.
As I have continued to work with the akashic records
I have experienced different visual experiences of the
records themselves. I still see the book of light, however I no
longer need to open a red velvet rope or to find my black
jaguar guide in order to find the records.
There is nothing barring the way of any of us who
choose to connect with the gift of the akashic records. The
records can work with anyone who comes to them seeking
guidance.

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Now when I go to the records and ask for

information, I have all sorts of interesting and different
experiences. I can tell the akashic records the name of two
people to find out their past-life history and I instantly get a
reaction from the book of light. If the two people have very
passionate energy in their past-lives together, I might see
huge flames rise up out of the book. If their story is not so
dramatic, perhaps just a flicker of light will rise up. The
records will let me know instantly what kind of energy we
will be working with depending on the client.
Once I see what kind of energy we are working with, I
enter into the past-life journeys in all sorts of different ways.
There seem to be as many ways to enter these stories as there
are stories to enter. Sometimes I still dive into the book to
get to the past-life. At other times I have found myself
engulfed in flames or light and carried somewhere. I have
walked around the book of light and into a past-life, as well
as walking up stairs, down stairs, or through tunnels and
passageways. I have even taken a client with me
energetically (empowering him to see it in his mind) as we
walked through a long hallway of doors, and I let him tell
me which door we were meant to enter.
Entering a past-life is always different, too. It feels
very much like time travel. I close my eyes and wake up in a
new reality. Generally I walk, fly, float, swim, dive or in
some other way make my way from the records to the
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lifetime I am called to see. I have found myself in woods,

water, homes, market places, battlefields, riding a horse, in a
field looking at a castle, as a man, as a woman, as a teen or a
small girl or boy. I have even arrived in the bodies of other
creatures besides human beings, and that is always an
incredibly interesting experience. I can arrive anywhere at
any time that I am meant to be in order to empower healing.
Once I reach a past-life it usually takes a minute or
two to deduce where I am and what person I am meant to
follow in that lifetime. I once found myself in an Egyptian
marketplace and had no clue which of the hundreds of
people there was the person who was the past-life
incarnation of my client. I called in my personal guides and
asked them to help me find the person I was meant to follow
and they led me to her.
Now that I have experience with the akashic records, I
am able to lead a client to energetically accompany me into
their past-life journey so they can bring healing to that
experience. This is done by helping the client to visualize
what I am seeing in their head as well. I always ask the
records if I am to bring the person with me and the answer is
usually yes.
Working with clients who have active imaginations is
always fun as I find that they are able to easily visualize the
story and see it with me. Some of the people I work with are
able to do much of the journeying for themselves, and I offer
support and confirmation of what they are experiencing.
It is vital to empower clients to be present in their
own past-life story. I can find the lifetime in which we are
called to do healing, however I can not create the healing for
that person. Each person must heal themselves and I create
the container and hold energetic space for this healing to
happen.
It is not completely necessary, however, it is helpful
for people to feel the emotions of the past-life experience in
order to connect and create healing. It is a delicate balance
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of connecting with the emotions of the experience, without

getting too caught up in the trauma and drama of the story.
It is important to experience it as a story in order to not get
overwhelmed and feel too upset to shift the energy.
Past-life work is like watching a movie that you get to
interact in when you choose. Watch the story playing out in
your mind and feel the emotion of the scene. If a part of the
story feels upsetting, remember that you get leave the
theater, so to speak, and that it is not actually happening to
you now.

The inevitable question I get: Is this really my pastlife? People want to know if it really happened to them,
literally, or is it a memory from the collective conscious? My
answer is yes and yes. Yes, it is literally a past-life that
happened to you, and yes, it is totally symbolic and a story
from the collective memory to which we are bringing
healing.
It is not necessary to know if we have literally lived
the past-lives that we experience with the akashic records.
When we heal the energy around these events, we
experience healing in our lives today, especially in our
personal relationships. There will be healing shifts within
our immediate families as well as any romantic
relationships. This work can heal energy with anyone we
are having challenges with. It can also empower people to
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let go of unexplained fears and step into their personal

power with courage.
Past-life work is not about changing what happened,
rather, it is about healing any negative or traumatic energy
around the event. It would be presumptuous and
egotistical, a type of playing God, to go back and change the
actual event; doing that could have far-reaching negative
effects on many people.
Working with the akashic records is about going back
to an event, whether it is literal or symbolic, and
empowering the energy around that event to be love instead
of fear or hate or anything besides love. The event
happened in Divine Order and we do not shift Divine Order.
Healing the energy around these past-life events empower
all subsequent lifetimes and generations to be in a flow of
loving energy, clearing stuck energy that was not flowing in
that particular lineage.
Past-life work with the akashic records is about
healing our current incarnation. Working with our pastlives is one way to help us be healthy in the present moment.
Spending all of our time in past-life stories can take away
from being fully present in our current journey. Balance is
important in all things, including healing work. We go back
to the past to create healing in the time that really matters,
the present.
Just as we can work with past-lives in order to create
healing, we can also go into the past of our current life and
help ourselves heal. This is done in very much the same
way as working with past-lives, the only difference being
that we are working with ourselves when we are younger.
Also, some of the people from these past stories might still
be alive.
When working with your past, be sure that you are
now comfortable looking at situations that might have been
uncomfortable at the time. You do not need to re-live a
situation that felt traumatic. If you choose to work with
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something from your past that could be frightening to you,

ask someone to be with you so that you can feel safe and
supported. Remember you can always ask your guides to be
with you as well. You never need to go on a journey alone.
You may ask the akashic records to take you back to a
situation from your past that is in need of healing, or you
may simply pick a memory you would like to heal and let
the records take you there. Find your way back to that
situation and find yourself as a child in the story.
There are a number of ways to bring healing to events
from your past. You, as your adult self, can go back to you
as a child and create energetic protection around your
childhood self. Again, this does not change the event or stop
it from happening, however, it does shift the energy as you
are now surrounded in love and light while it's happening.
If you decide to heal an event from your childhood,
be sure that you feel ready to sit with the situation. At any
point that it seems too emotionally overwhelming, find your
way back from spirit world. If you do not feel ready to sit
with the event yet, give it some time and use other
techniques for healing. You can also contact a qualified
person to help you who has experience with assisting others
in healing childhood issues. Do not force yourself to step
into a memory that you are not ready to be with. Take your
time and be gentle with yourself in all healing experiences.
When I have gone back to heal past events, I find
myself as a child and I hold myself as the event is
happening. My childhood self does not know consciously
that I am there necessarily, nor does anyone else in the story.
I hold my small self close and tell my childhood self how
loved I am. I say all the things into my ear that I would have
wanted to hear at that time, especially any good things that I
did not hear as a child.
I see my childhood self surrounded in a bubble of
love and light for protection and I forgive the other people in
the story if I feel wronged by them. I have gone back to
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certain events from my childhood and I have been able to

see the pain in the other person who was in the story. As a
child I could not see how wounded the other people around
me were. However, when I go back to see that event now, I
can clearly see the bigger picture. This does not invalidate
my pain or make it alright that they did hurtful things, and
yet it does empower me to forgive more easily.
You may stay through the entire event and continue
to share loving energy with your childhood self until the
story is finished. It is not necessary, however if you feel
inclined, you may interact with your childhood self, as well
as the other people in the story. Be prepared for what you
get, because it has been my experience that some people in
our current life are not necessarily ready to make the shifts
that we are making. It is alright for others to transform at
their own pace. Keep your focus on bringing love and
forgiveness to the situation and do not be attached to
wanting the other people around you to make dramatic
shifts.
With this in mind, be very discerning about sharing
this work with the people who were at the event that you
went to heal through akashic records. For example, if you
went back to an event with your siblings or your parents, be
very thoughtful if you choose to share this experience with
them. Everyone has their own interpretation of an
experience. Each person has their right to that
interpretation. You have the right to bring healing to any
event that felt less than loving to you.
Discernment is key in this work, so be mindful of who
you share with and what you choose to share. This practice
is about healing yourself. Do not be distracted by trying to
heal others. It is not your responsibility and you can't do it.
Each person can only heal themselves. Focus on healing
your past, and allow that loving, healing energy to allow
others to shift in their own time.
Bring that loving, healing energy to your present life.
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The present is what is important. We bring healing to events

from our past in order to move forward and live our lives
fully, in the now.

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Chapter Nine
HOW TO WORK WITH THE AKASHIC RECORDS

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it

does enlarge the future.
~ Paul Boese

There are as many ways to work with the akashic

records as there are people doing it, and each way is perfect.
This chapter will share how to connect with the records so
that you may access your past-lives as well as connect with
your past in this current lifetime. It is best to practice
shamanic journeying before accessing the akashic records.
Once you feel comfortable creating energetic protection and
you have created a portal into the realms, as well as found
your sacred space and at least one spirit guide, then practice
working with the records.
*Sit comfortably in a quiet place.
*Breathe gently into your belly a few times to center
and ground your energy.
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*When you are grounded and your mind is calm,

create energetic protection and see a bubble of light
surrounding your entire body.
*Find your portal into spirit world and enter.
*Find your sacred space within spirit world.
*Once at your sacred space, ask a guide that you work
with regularly during shamanic journeying to come and be
with you.
*When this guide arrives, ask him or her (or it) if you
may meet and learn from the akashic records. If your guide
says no, ask why. Our guides know if it is in our best
interest to work with the records. Find out why you are
being told not to work with the akashic records, and what
you can do in order to be ready to access them.
*If your guide says yes you may meet the akashic
records, ask your guide to please take you to them. Your
version of the akashic records can look however you choose.
It may be a large book of light, a library with different
volumes sharing previous lives, a temple, or anything else
you can imagine.
*Once you arrive at the akashic records, if you
encounter a guide there, he or she is the Record Keeper. You
may introduce yourself to the akashic records, or to the
record keeper if you meet one. Let the records know that
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you would like to work with them.

*Ask to be shown the lifetime that is in your highest
and greatest good to be seen at this time. You may also tell
the records a challenge you are experiencing, and ask the
akashic records to take you to a past-life that is connected to
your current challenge. Another way to work with the
records is to give them the name of someone you know and
ask to see a past-life that you shared.
*Let the akashic records, or the record keeper, take
you to that particular lifetime and watch what happens
there. You may go alone or take your guide with you. Do
not attempt to change the events of that lifetime. However,
if you feel ready to bring healing to the situation, you may
do so by bringing love and peace to yourself in that lifetime,
as shown in the previous chapter. You may also bring
forgiveness to others in the story, or to yourself if needed.
*Once you have seen what you needed to see, and
brought love to any energy that was in need of healing, leave
that lifetime and come back to the akashic records. Thank
the records for working with you. Come back to your portal
and leave spirit world. Remember to close your portal door.
*Journal about your experience. Drink water and
nurture yourself as you feel called.
When experiencing past-lives, the akashic records will
show you what is in your highest and greatest good in that
moment. At times, this is a past-life story that feels positive
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and uplifting. There are other lifetimes, however, where we

might see events that are frightening or traumatic.
Generally, if you are choosing to heal something, it
often leads back to an event that was perceived as traumatic.
The trauma we experienced can create an energetic wound
that we carry from lifetime to lifetime.
If you are in a past-life shamanic journey with the
akashic records and you encounter a situation that feels
frightening or traumatic, you are always able to leave. The
records only take you to what you are able to handle, and it
is important to remember that it is not happening to you in
this moment. Whatever you see is a story that you are
watching. You can walk away from the story at any time.
You do not need to stay and create healing if it feels
emotionally overwhelming.
If you do encounter a past-life that feels too intense,
you would benefit from finding a qualified person who can
walk with you through the story of that lifetime and give
you support. Find a person who has experience with
healing work and the akashic records, and let them guide
you into this experience.
The akashic records are one avenue to empower
healing in your life. If you do not resonate with the work of
the akashic records, healing can happen in a different way.

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Chapter Ten
DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Doing the same thing over and over and

expecting a different result is the definition of
insanity.
~ Albert Einstein

It was a gorgeous spring day and I was leading a

Shamanic Journeying workshop. One by one the
participants were sharing what they had experienced during
their journeys.
There was a man at the workshop who had been quiet
during the afternoon. He was overweight and dressed
completely in black. He looked tired and unhappy. After
everyone else had told of their experiences during their
shamanic journeys, he finally decided to speak up.
I didnt see anything, he said. Everything seemed
just really dark all around me. I kept looking but I couldnt
see past the darkness.
Would you like to know what I saw for you? I
asked. While participants are journeying I will psychically
get information for each person. I often share with the class
what I saw when we are finished.
Yes, what did you see? he asked.
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I saw lots and lots of spiders all around you. These

spiders are helpers for you, and they are here to help you
write.
He looked away and it seemed he might start crying.
I want to be a writer, but I havent been writing for a
long time, he said quietly.
Well, they are here to help you get back to writing, I
said.
Since it was a small enough class, I offered to sit
privately for a moment with each participant. As I came
around the circle to this gentleman, I sat with him quietly.
He was lying down and I was told to put one hand over his
heart and another over his third eye. As I did so, I saw that
he appeared to be surrounded by something dark. In his
energy it looked like he was wearing a large dark cloak that
covered his entire body.
I shared with him the visual of the dark cloak and he
said he could feel it and it was very heavy. I asked him if he
was ready to take off this cloak that was wearing him down,
and he immediately answered yes, he was more than ready.
As I kept my hands on his heart and his third eye, Spirit ran
energy through me for some time, empowering him to clear
this energetic cloak of darkness. When he was ready, he
gracefully let it go from his energy field. It was a beautiful
healing to witness.
Having just experienced a large clearing, I
encouraged him to drink plenty of water and rest for the
remainder of the day. It is important that we take care of
ourselves after clearing stuck energy and creating shifts in
our energetic field. I reminded him that spider medicine
was with him to help him with his writing. Spider wanted
him to journal and write freely, without worrying about
what others thought of it, or if they would even read it.
Two months later he came to another Shamanic
Journeying workshop and I was amazed at the difference in
his energy. He walked in the room with a smile on his face.
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He had lost some weight and was wearing blue jeans and a
light blue polo shirt. His energy was light and friendly and
it was as if he was a different person.
Mentioning the change I could see in him, he
smilingly acknowledged the intentional shifts he had been
creating in his life. He had been writing since the last
workshop and said it had helped him gain clarity about
many things that he had been feeling confused about. He
was once again enjoying writing and feeling incredibly
motivated on his creative journey. During the course of that
afternoon workshop, he journeyed and saw many things,
connecting with his guides and receiving gifts. It was a
remarkable transformation.
About two months later, I was again emailing out
invitations to a Shamanic Journeying workshop, and I sent
one to this man. I received an amazing reply from him,
telling me why he would not be able to attend the upcoming
workshop.
He shared with me that he had quit his awful job
and left his unhealthy relationship and finally moved up
to New York City to be a writer. He was incredibly excited
and doing really well. He was sorry he could not attend the
workshop, and appreciated all he had experienced in the
previous classes.
I feel strongly that he continues to do well in his new
endeavors. He is a wonderful example of how doing
something different can change your life. For this man,
attending a Shamanic Journeying workshop was something
different; beginning to journal and write again was
something different; and then it led to even bigger shifts in
his life. Moving to a city where you have always wanted to
be, in order to live your dream, is definitely doing
something different!

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Everything you experience in your life, you have

called into being in order to step into your personal power
and achieve the growth necessary for your evolution. Since
we ultimately call in all that we experience, it is wise to be
present and conscious to what we are creating. When we are
aware of what we are creating, we are able to intentionally
manifest what we desire. When we are unconscious of what
we are creating, we can end up feeling like victims to what
we unconsciously manifest, and our life is not what we
want.
In order to be conscious of what you are creating in
your life, you must be aware of your thoughts and where
you put your attention. What do you focus on? Where are
you putting your energy? Are your thoughts generally
positive and uplifting or do you habitually focus on the
negative? How do you talk to yourself? Are you mentally
beating yourself up with guilt and shame?
Shamanic journeying is one way to gain clarity on
where much of your focus is and if it serves your highest
and greatest good. You spirit guides can help you shift your
thinking from lack, sadness and fear, to abundance,
happiness and courage. You will receive their guidance
when you sit with them regularly and are open to what they
teach you. Now that you have the tools to do this, you are
well on your way to creating and sustaining a vibrant,
healthy life that you enjoy.

Change your thinking and you change your

life.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

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When I sit in a private session with a client, we will

often get very specific information as to things they can do
to shift a situation they would like to change. Almost
always their guides will give them exercises and practices
they can easily incorporate into their life in order to gain
clarity and open themselves up to joy, freedom and
possibility.
These exercises can be as simple as taking an Epsom
salt bath, finding time to meditate during the week (even for
ten minutes), taking walks, journaling, or writing a letter to
someone you are learning to forgive. These are practices
that can easily be incorporated into even the busiest
schedule. Many times, however, when I meet with a client
again, they have not done the exercises and feel frustrated
that nothing has changed.
If you want something to be different, you must do
something different. If you want your life to change, you
have to do something different. Do anything different.
When your guides give you simple practices that will help
you heal your life, do them. If you usually get up at 7:30
a.m. and feel that you do not have enough time in your day
to meditate, get up at 7:15 and sit quietly for ten minutes. If
you usually drive the 1.5 miles to work, and you would like
to get more exercise, get up early enough to walk to work
instead.
If you have always wanted to be a writer and never
tried it before, start journaling. Want to be a runner and
youre out of shape? Start walking around your
neighborhood and get those juices flowing. Want to garden
but dont have a yard? Start growing herbs, flowers, and
cherry tomatoes in pots in your home.
There are many simple things a person can do to
create change. Your life is like a river and it is flowing in
whatever direction you put the majority of your energy. As
you create changes in your life, even seemingly small
changes in the flow, eventually the river will get the idea
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that your energy is going somewhere new. Soon the course

of the river that is your life will begin to shift in this new
direction.
Your amazing life is a very large river, so creating a
big shift in the flow can take time. Often, people will start
making little changes, and when the bigger parts of their
lives do not shift immediately, they will lose heart and give
up. Keep up with the little shifts and in time you will
experience much bigger changes as well. Lasting change
begins with small steps that grow into larger and more
profound shifts. Begin your changes with goals that might
bring you a bit out of your comfort zone and daily routine,
while still being realistic.
What are some small changes you can make in your
daily life to begin creating bigger shifts? Take a few minutes
to make a list of things you seek to create in your life.
Choose one thing from your list, and write one thing you
could do this week to empower yourself to create this. Do
that one thing for at least a week.
On week two, choose a second goal from your list and
figure out one thing you could do to manifest this goal as a
reality. Add this one thing to the first thing you are doing,
and make time for those two small changes in your daily life.
Week three, add another small shift to the first two
changes. You can continue this process, letting go of things
once they have shifted. You can also work with one or two
things at a time without adding more until you are ready.
For example, if you would like to start exercising, you
could make time to take a walk daily, or every other day, for
one week. If you would like to learn a foreign language, on
week two, you could sign up for a class, or begin listening to
CDs that teach you how to speak another language while
taking your walk. Then you have two practices you have
added to your daily life that create energetic shifts.
Once you begin creating subtle changes, you will
notice how other things in your life, that may not even seem
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related, effortlessly begin to change and shift in positive

ways. You have empowered the flow to move in a direction
that you choose, and you are therefore consciously creating
your life.

Sit with your guides on a consistent basis and you

will find that the answers you seek become more clear each
time you meet with them. Practicing shamanic journeying is
how you learn to connect with them and hear them. The
more you practice connecting to your spirit guides, the
easier it will be to hear guidance even when you are going
about your daily routine. Eventually, you will be able to talk
to your guides and receive help without sitting down and
doing a shamanic journey. Your guides are with you always
and they are available at all times.
Shamanic journeying is a form of prayer. We sit and
connect with Spirit through our totems and other beings of
light. During our day we can speak to Spirit, through our
guides, at any time and receive answers. It is also important
to find time to sit and intentionally connect with our guides
when we are fully present and not distracted by other
things.
As with anything, the more you do something the
easier it gets. Shamanic journeying may seem challenging at
first, and only through practice can you learn to trust
yourself and your journeying experiences, and really enjoy
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the full power of this practice.

Be patient with yourself. Allow yourself time to grow
and heal. Remember to love yourself. You are perfect and
divine. You are loved and you are love.

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Chapter Eleven
GRATITUDE

The universe loves grateful people. The

more grateful you are, the more you get to be
grateful about.
~ Louise L. Hay

Let me see the Truth about myself, no matter how

____________ it is.

How would you fill in the blank of that sentence?

Take a moment and sit with that. Find a piece of paper and
write out the above sentence. Then fill in the blank with all
the words you can think of that you would put in that space.
When you are finished, look at the words you have
chosen. Are they negative or positive? Are they uplifting
words about how fabulous you are? Or are they words like
bad or awful.
I capitalize the word truth in this quote in order to
show that it is a universal truth, and not simply something
we have decided to believe about ourselves that may have
no actual basis in truth whatsoever. The Truth about
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yourself is so amazing and fabulous and wonderful and

beautiful, and yet we can find it so hard to believe that. We
are often in the habit of just assuming that we don't measure
up and that we need to change ourselves a lot in order to
really be amazing and beautiful and powerful.
The Truth about ourselves is so big and bright and
powerful that it can often seem frightening to fully
acknowledge and live into who we truly divinely are!

The fastest journey to loving oneself is to

look for things to appreciate everywhere you
look. The vibration of appreciation and the
vibration of love are identical vibrations.
~ Esther Hicks

Take another piece of paper and make a list. This list

will be all the qualities you admire and appreciate in others.
Think of at least one person, living or dead, that you really
admire. If you can think of more than one person, that
works too. Think of all the things about these people you
appreciate and that you would like to emulate. Write down
all the things you can think of that makes them so great in
your eyes.
Really take your time and write each and every
wonderful thing you can think of about that person. If you
can only think of a few things, add another person and write
all the amazing things you see in them. Write at least a full
page of qualities you admire in these amazing people.
Do not turn the page until you have finished doing
this exercise. When you are finished, read ahead. It is
important to finish the exercise first.
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Offer a vibration that matches your desire,

rather than offering a vibration that keeps
matching what-is.
~ Esther Hicks channeling Abraham

Once you have finished your list of all the wonderful,

fabulous and amazing qualities you appreciate in the people
you admire, take a pen and write at the top of the page:
Traits and Qualities I Appreciate and Admire In Myself!
Because, every single thing you have written on that
piece of paper is who YOU truly are. Every other person on
this planet is a mirror for you. What you see in that person
is simply a mirror for who and what you are. So, when you
see these amazing qualities in another human being, you can
only see them because they are being mirrored back to you.
They are within you to begin with or you would not be able
to see them in others.
This is not an exercise to simply boost your selfesteem. This is Truth. Anything you can see in another
human being is a mirror of what you also have within you.
Now. Not when you get smarter or older or richer. All these
traits and qualities are within you right now, at this present
moment, and you do not have to do anything to become
these qualities.
If you see beauty in someone, this is because you, too,
are beautiful. If you see anger in someone, it is because you
have anger within you as well. Look around your life at all
the mirrors surrounding you and let them teach you about
yourself. Let those mirrors show you where you are
beautiful and bright. Learn from those mirrors where you
choose to grow and heal.
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Take this list of qualities that you admire and

appreciate about yourself and put it up somewhere in order
to remind yourself daily of how wonderful you really are.

Let me see the Truth about myself, no matter

how beautiful it is.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr, quoted in A
Grateful Heart, edited by M.J. Ryan

Take a chance and see how beautiful you really are.

Allow yourself the gift of seeing the Truth about yourself, as
amazing as it is. Let the world see you, too. We really need
you to be your authentic and awesome self. We need you to
step into your personal power and live your life in a big
way. We need you to heal yourself so that we can also heal.
We need you to be a mirror of all the wonderful qualities we
have within ourselves, too.
Thank you for having the courage to be your
authentic beautiful self. Thank you for empowering the rest
of us to do the same. Thank you for being willing to take a
chance on how amazing you are in order to love yourself, so
that the rest of us can love ourselves as well. Thank you for
healing this planet with love, starting with self-love. Thank
you for being you. We are truly glad you are here.

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There is a power inside of every human,

against which no earthly force is of the
slightest consequence.
~ Neville, philosopher

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

~ Dalai Lama

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sometimes I've believed as many as six

impossible things before breakfast.
~ Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Bloom Post is a Shamanic Intuitive Healer who is

passionate about healing and empowering each of us to
remember who we truly divinely are. Bloom writes books,
leads Shamanic Journeying and Energetic Protection
workshops, and speaks to groups, as well as seeing clients in
private sessions. She also teaches Plant Spirit Medicine
classes at herbalism schools in the southeast and is currently
working toward her Doctorate of Divinity in Metaphysical
Studies, with a focus in Spiritual Healing.
Clairvoyant and clairaudient since childhood, she has
studied across the U.S. and India. Bloom is a Reiki Master
Practitioner and received her Yoga Teacher Training
Certificate in India in 2005.
Bloom lives and loves in Asheville, North Carolina,
where you can find her hiking in her beloved Appalachian
mountains. You can learn more about her work at
www.bloompost.com or contact her by emailing
bloompost@yahoo.com.