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		<title>Your Soul Awareness Video</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/05/12/your-soul-awareness-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;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!
Click here to view the video.
Heart to Heart,
Jan
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;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!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blip.tv/file/2824931?filename=SpiritualBridges-JanEngelsSmithWithShamanismAndBecomingYourself838.mp4">Click here to view the video.</a></p>
<p>Heart to Heart,</p>
<p>Jan</p>
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		<title>The Intention of Listening</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/04/30/70/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spend my day listening to people: listening for underlying patterns in the issues they are presenting; listening for word usage and how that can relate to belief systems; listening for signs of karmic related issues; listening to the spirits as they inform me as I listen to my clients. When I listen, I am [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I spend my day listening to people: listening for underlying patterns in the issues they are presenting; listening for word usage and how that can relate to belief systems; listening for signs of karmic related issues; listening to the spirits as they inform me as I listen to my clients. When I listen, I am concentrated and focused.</p>
<p>My father was a detective and I feel that those observational qualities of listening and watching were passed down to me in both genetic and environmental ways. We would do a mystery game in the paper each day. Dad would read the article and teach me how to put the clues together, like working a giant jigsaw puzzle in my mind. What did I hear, where are the clues, what is not being identified that needs to be investigated? I do this constantly throughout the day and I am doing it now as I write these blogs.</p>
<p>When I think of my last post, where else have I heard and observed the concept of “SINGING”? I am not speaking of the obvious, but the conceptual. In the movie <em>Australia,</em> the little boy, often used the phrase, &#8220;I will sing you to me&#8221; or &#8220;I have sung you to me.&#8221; It was a sacred way of communicating where energetically the boy would focus his attention and intention to make contact with whomever he was focused on. From people, animals, or heart desires, he would sing them to him, a form of telepathic communication manifestation that had no space or time limitations. As I mentioned in my previous blog this same communication can be done for yourself, singing yourself back to you.</p>
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		<title>Singing Yourself Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/04/29/singing-yourself-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.hiddenlakeretreat.org/component/eventlist/details/8">http://www.hiddenlakeretreat.org/component/eventlist/details/8</a> for details.</p>
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		<title>Care of the Soul</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/04/28/care-of-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is the soul?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <em>is</em> you, is <em>in</em> you, and is <em>around</em> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Merging With Your True Self Before Sleep</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/03/01/merging-with-your-true-self-before-sleep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 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.</p>
<p>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 &#8212; 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.</p>
<p>If you would like a meditation to help you merge with your true self, I have a CD for just this purpose. Go to <a href="http://www.lightsong.net/Products/CD_awaken.htm" target="_blank">www.lightsong.net/Products/CD_awaken.htm</a> for more information.</p>
<p>Heart to heart,</p>
<p>Jan</p>
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		<title>Big Dreams, Brilliant You</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/02/28/big-dreams-brilliant-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>So start paying attention to your dreams &#8212; and your nightmares &#8212; 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!</p>
<p>Heart to heart,</p>
<p>Jan</p>
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		<title>A Circle of Support from My Spiritual Team</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/02/08/a-circle-of-support-from-my-spiritual-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>Heart to Heart,</p>
<p>Jan</p>
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		<title>Your Spirit Helper &#8220;Team&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/02/04/your-spirit-helper-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Heart to Heart</p>
<p>Jan</p>
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