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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>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>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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		<title>The Hidden Potential of Spring</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/02/02/the-hidden-potential-of-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The earth feels it and I feel it internally. I celebrate this time for it is perfect.</p>
<p>Heart to Heart</p>
<p>Jan</p>
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		<title>Visit LightSong&#8217;s New Facebook Page and Become a Fan</title>
		<link>http://blog.lightsong.net/2010/02/02/visit-lightsongs-new-facebook-page-and-become-a-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Engels-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with the new blog, I&#8217;ve created a new Facebook page for LightSong School of Shamanic Studies. I&#8217;ll be posting events, pictures, video, and other things there to share with my Facebook friends. When you visit the page, become a &#8220;fan&#8221; and you will get automatic updates to your own Facebook wall, so you can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Along with the new blog, I&#8217;ve created a new Facebook page for LightSong School of Shamanic Studies. I&#8217;ll be posting events, pictures, video, and other things there to share with my Facebook friends. When you visit the page, become a &#8220;fan&#8221; and you will get automatic updates to your own Facebook wall, so you can keep up with all that we are doing at LightSong.</p>
<p>You can also post your comments, suggestions, and other input on the page so we can all share what&#8217;s happening in our lives related to LightSong.</p>
<p>And spread the word by sharing the page with all of your friends, too. I love how all this technology connects us!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Portland-OR/LightSong-School-of-Shamanic-Studies/318980333676?ref=ts">Click here to see the new page!</a> 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!</p>
<p>Heart to Heart!</p>
<p>Jan</p>
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