Archive for February, 2010

Big Dreams, Brilliant You

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

The last two posts were about dreams and how to access your true self. This post continues with another aspect of dreaming: nightmares. Even nightmares are shamanically seen as positive. A nightmare is BIG energy, lots of power, lots of potential. In the interpretation of this energy that something is out to get us, we are weak and incapable. Those concepts are all coming from the egoic centers of the mind. The ego or conditioning of the culture will constantly place you in a weaker position to life that is out to get you. Again, to take your power back in this scenario is to show you HOW POWERFUL you actually are.

The dream is asking you to move into this super powerful arena and take control of your life. Not to be scared and at loss, but to turn toward this energy, and use this energy that the dream is showing you for yourself.

I believe that the spirits and the universe are constantly providing opportunities to move us into our brilliance, to provide opportunities for empowerment and freedom of the confines of an overactive ego. They do this throughout the day and also throughout the night.

So start paying attention to your dreams — and your nightmares — for the learning they contain. Then actively work toward changing the outcome of those dreams. Your true self is waiting for you to see just how powerful you are!

Heart to heart,

Jan

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A Vortex of Desire

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I often listen to Abraham-Hicks material. I find it inspiring. Abraham is a group of spirits or non-physical beings that are channeled through a woman, Esther Hicks. Esther has been working with this group of beings for about 20 years and she has become quite proficient in bringing their message through to the world. I have listened to her for years and marvel at how she has changed because of carrying this higher vibrational energy. Abraham uses the expression, “create a vortex of aspiration or a vortex of what you desire and know that the universe is in motion responding to your desire.”

I like the word vortex because in my mind’s eye I can see a cone-shaped area that is full of my desires, my prayers, and my intentions. It is spinning and there is all this wonderful high frequency energy being broadcasted from the vortex. I can see and sense this energy and know that things are in motion. I can also see in my mind’s eye if I am in the vortex or not. Sometimes the only component missing in my vortex is ME. For whatever reason I am on the outside of my vortex. The only way I can be in the vortex is to be an energetic match for it. I then have an action to take to put me in the vortex.  I like action because I am a doer.  The action is something that will enable my feelings to change, to bring them up to the high frequency component of the vortex. I know that if I change my thoughts, and decide to think of something fun, or appreciative, my feelings will change accordingly and I can visualize myself hopping into the vortex. It is a game that I play with myself, but it seems to work.

Abraham-Hicks’ book Vortex describes more. Click here to learn more.

Heart to Heart!

Jan

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A Circle of Support from My Spiritual Team

Monday, February 8th, 2010

This idea of a SPIRITUAL TEAM has really been fun for me. I can feel my team of spirit helpers surround me like a circle of support, a circle of love engulfing me. As I sit in my prayer room/office I am literally enveloped with this energy.  Every wall, or table has something that depicts spirit.  They may look like pictures or statues to someone else, but I know that the energy of that being is REALLY there.  That the pictures and statues are imbued with the energy of the spirit being and the spirit being IS in the room with me.  I am literally contained by their presence.  It makes me smile.  I feel safe, and I feel the companionship of these allies.  There is an intimacy that only WE share.  Trusted friends with history and heart secrets that only SPECIAL LOVE can describe.  As I contemplate this and let it absorb deep within my cells I KNOW and FEEL that I am loved beyond measure.  And as long as I accept this love, and recognize this love, it will have the power to affect me in the most miraculous ways.  Just the feeling alone is healing.  My entire body, mind and soul relax, fill with joy and peace.  Ahhhhhhhh my team.

Heart to Heart,

Jan

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Your Spirit Helper “Team”

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

I recently had a client that was very involved in basketball, a team sport. I found myself thinking about the whole analogy of team sport and how it relates to shamanism, correlating the idea that the spirits that surround me are my team.  Just as it would be a burden and not very efficient to play a team sport with only self as the main member, so it is with life. It is a burden and not very efficient to not call upon the spiritual helpers that surround me.  The “team” needs to be trusted with the ball, there needs to be communication, there needs to be such an understanding of the other members that a knowingness and certainty presents itself in every moment.  I need to use them constantly as I navigate my life

Sometimes I actually comment to them, this is your job.  I need you to do this for me.  You do this so much better than me. My responsibility is to stay in a vibrational match to receive.  If they do their part I must do mine and believe in the system working as a whole.  I must enjoy the “game”, believing in the others while being a great team member. As in any team sport, the more the team works together in a cohesive group, the greater the trust, the easier the flow, and the more fun everyone on the team will have.

Heart to Heart

Jan

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The Hidden Potential of Spring

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

I love this day, commonly called Ground-hogs day. Tradition has it that the ground hog seeing his shadow reveals how far away spring is or how long winter will linger.

The many of you who know me, know I love the winter months. I love the darkness and all that it offers in life. I love to get up early in the morning while it is still dark, light my candles and do my prayers, meditation, journeys, or internal searching. The darkness lends itself to the quietness before the rush of business the day often brings.

But another thing that I love is change, and of all the seasons, I marvel at what I call pre-spring. The first days of February I celebrate this pre-spring emergence. This time represents the hidden potential. All the new life that is ready to emerge but still looks deadened in the cold stillness of winter.

Yet during this time, there is organization of cells, deep internal feeding, new hope. A readiness stirs under the ground, hidden from the eye. It is the result of the quiet, of prayers, meditation, and journeys ready to form; the hidden, the dormant, the barren that is planning to emerge. It is the plan that is well thought out, well laid out, and full of hope, inspiration, and faith.

The earth feels it and I feel it internally. I celebrate this time for it is perfect.

Heart to Heart

Jan

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Visit LightSong’s New Facebook Page and Become a Fan

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Along with the new blog, I’ve created a new Facebook page for LightSong School of Shamanic Studies. I’ll be posting events, pictures, video, and other things there to share with my Facebook friends. When you visit the page, become a “fan” and you will get automatic updates to your own Facebook wall, so you can keep up with all that we are doing at LightSong.

You can also post your comments, suggestions, and other input on the page so we can all share what’s happening in our lives related to LightSong.

And spread the word by sharing the page with all of your friends, too. I love how all this technology connects us!

Click here to see the new page! At the top of the page next to the header, you will see a button to become a fan. Click on that and it you will be able to follow our updates. Then, in the left column, there is a link to share with your friends. In one click you can send an invitation for others to visit the page as well. Thanks for passing the page on!

Heart to Heart!

Jan

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