Here’s a video of an interview of me with Margi Lantos on the topic of Shamanism and Becoming Yourself. I invite you to watch it and let me know your comments!
Heart to Heart,
Jan
Archive for the ‘energy’ Category
Singing Yourself Home
Thursday, April 29th, 2010In my training years ago I learned that one of the ways indigenous people identified people that needed a soul retrieval was that they had stopped singing. The joy that usually emanated from the person in their natural state of wholeness was missing. Something or some part of them had left and the result was a lack of broadcasted joy. This lack of joy caught the attention of others and something was immediately done to bring the quality of joy back to the person. Life was to be lived with attention to a state of wholeness, not fragmentation. Fragmentation was dangerous to not only the identified person but to the rest of the community. Attention and intention to the process of staying well – staying in joy, balance and the heart space was a priority.
In our non-indigenous culture, this attention is absent. Many people don’t “SING” (the poetic term for broadcasting a state of joy and wellness). Fragmentation that happened years ago is still unattended to and has created multiple fragmentations until the whole of society is fragmented. It seems overwhelming doesn’t it? But it is not. Each day you can care for your soul in such a way that you can sing yourself home and bring back energy and stay full.
Using the idea of singing (although it doesn’t have to be in the literal form), you can intentionally sing yourself back home. Call your name as you envision different places that you have left your energy. An example might be a difficult conversation that you had with someone – your boss, a coworker, or family member – where you felt drained or upset. Those negative feelings are an indication that you lost some of your divine essence or life force to that particular situation. As you remember and envision that conversation, call your energy back to you. Reach out your arms and hands and collect it and then pull it to your heart. Feel it move back inside of you.
What about driving on the highway. Did you lose any part of you there? How much of you gets lost in the space where you work? Go to your job location in the omnipresence of your mind and gather yourself up. Get in a habit of doing this every night before bed and feel the amazing results it has.
If you would like to bring song and sound back into your life, LightSong Associate Teacher Lauri Shainsky is offering a Sound Intensive this weekend. Go to http://www.hiddenlakeretreat.org/component/eventlist/details/8 for details.
Care of the Soul
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010What is the soul?
My definition isn’t textbook or scientific, but from my heart. I understand the soul to be an energy field; an energy field that carries a unique signature that holds a distinctive code within it and also holds all of your evolution. No two signatures are the same, although all signatures come from the same source – the creative force of the universe.
In the physical world our soul as energy resembles the gaseous state. It’s never solid. However, it has solid aspects to it. In its most dense state it comprises and animates the physical body, but is more than the physical body. So it is you, is in you, and is around you. It extends around you and reaches out into the environment, exploring its surroundings. It is the major life force that embodies you and allows you to experience physicality.
Your soul also requires maintenance. Daily care and attention to the soul promotes divine health. Just as the body would deplete if attention weren’t given to food, water, hygiene, and exercise, the soul can also become depleted. The maintenance of the soul is necessary.
Neglect of this process has created very difficult life experiences for my clients. I feel I have dedicated my adult life to understanding the maintenance of the soul, so that with the help of my spirit allies we can clean up people’s energy systems and care for their soul.
Merging With Your True Self Before Sleep
Monday, March 1st, 2010In my Level II class this month I gave the assignment of merging with the true self just before going to sleep. The true self is the actualized potential of each person in this lifetime, the perfect you that has never experienced hardships, wounds, or misfortune of any kind. It is the blueprint and actualized being of who you were to be in this incarnation: healthy, vibrant, loving, brilliant and wise. My idea for the assignment was that if you took the time to move into this energy just before you went to sleep you will carry this energy into your dreams or into the light if you travel that far. The likelihood of staying more conscious of this magnificence could greatly increase, thus empowering you to a greater extent.
The more the realization that you are given daily opportunities through the death and rebirth cycles of night into morning to rid yourself of burdens, deficits, illness, or hardship, the more the realization is understood and internalized that life is working for you not against you. These systems have existed from the beginning of time to help humanity. All of the negative projections that we place on life are just that — negative projections. They come out of our own egoic creation of suffering and then they control all of our thoughts, distorting the truth of our own power and abilities to create ourselves.
If you would like a meditation to help you merge with your true self, I have a CD for just this purpose. Go to www.lightsong.net/Products/CD_awaken.htm for more information.
Heart to heart,
Jan
Big Dreams, Brilliant You
Sunday, February 28th, 2010The 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
A Vortex of Desire
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010I 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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