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Your Soul Awareness Video

Jan Engels-Smith — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:02:38 +0000

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!

Click here to view the video.

Heart to Heart,

Jan

All I Want to Do, Is Dream…

Jan Engels-Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:51:26 +0000

The spirits see us as unlimited in what we can actually do to achieve wellness, happiness and health. The limits we feel are the limits that we create and then lock into our consciousness and subconscious. These limits often show up in our dreams. Taking our power back in the dream state leads to wellness in the “awakened” state of consciousness.

I often hear people be frustrated when they can’t remember their dreams. They feel as if they are not “up to par” or they are deficient in some way as a dreamer. Again this is a projection of our Western culture, that says you are “less than.” From a shamanic perspective there is a dismemberment that happens to the psyche in a dream. Dismemberment is a shamanic term that means to take someone or something apart so that it can REMEMBER its truth.

Human beings are naturally divine, capable, creator beings on the planet. However they forget this truth and go through life acting limited and unable. One of the dismemberment phases of dreaming is the dismemberment of these limitations and the ability to REMEMBER the power and the abilities that you actually have and are willing to take in to the dream time.

Shamanically speaking when a person has no memory of their dream, and sleeps soundly and deeply, it is because they completely dismember and go back into the light of creation. They rest there and they have the ability to reassimilate completely ANEW. However what most people do in the reassimilation process of reentry into their body is they put themselves back together exactly as they were before. They don’t take advantage of the power they hold to reassimilate healthy, or different. Shamanically speaking each slumber allows you to go back into creation and change what isn’t working for you. So instead of being deficient because you didn’t remember your dreams you were given the opportunity to return to the divine and be at peace. It is a beautiful state of deep reconnection.

I’d love to hear your stories of dreaming, dismemberment, and reassimilating. Just click on the “no comment/comment” link at the end of this post!

Heart to heart,

Jan

Big Dreams, Brilliant You

Jan Engels-Smith — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:11:06 +0000

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

A Circle of Support from My Spiritual Team

Jan Engels-Smith — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:48:07 +0000

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