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Hummingbird Journey
A journey with hummingbird can help you add sweetness to your life. The hummingbird resides in the North quadrant of the Inca medicine wheel. It represents our soul’s journey, living life in trust of our path and taking it from the mundane to the mythic. This hummingbird, known as Siwar Qinti in the Qechua language, is a tiny bird that make a migration of thousands of miles every year from South America to Canada. It does this on tiny wings over open water and not asking why it is going or if it is safe or comfortable, or what will be at the end of the journey. Hummingbirds feed mainly…
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Shamanic Journeying
Shamanic journeying is the process that opens the doors between our waking, ordinary reality, and non-ordinary reality so the soul can dialogue with the spirit energies that dwell there to receive help and guidance. Across cultures the landscape of the journey is similar, generally composed of the upper, middle, and lower worlds. The middle world is considered our ordinary world, where we reside in our day-to-day life. The lower world contains our subconscious, our old wounds, lost soul parts, and helping spirits that can guide us to those parts of ourselves including gifts and abilities that may have been lost to trauma. The upper world is similar to what we…
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Return to Eden
We can return to Eden through the practice of non judgement. Being out in nature can give you time to reflect and I was blessed on vacation to find this time. I’ve often pondered the Sermon on the Mount in times of stress where Jesus asks us to consider the lilies of the field, how they neither toil nor spin, and yet are quite beautiful. The birds also fly and are provided for. Yet we struggle and worry. We judge our situation as acceptable or not. sometimes compared to an internal standard and sometimes in relationship to what we see others have or are able to accomplish. Ever notice the…