7 Reasons You Should Have a Soul Retrieval

Soul Retrieval can assist in attaining life goals, restoring health, releasing old behavioral patterns and emotional and psychic pain. Here are some additional reasons to consider soul retrieval.

1) Going through Life Is Easier With All Your Limbs

Likewise, a complete and whole energy body just makes life easier. I deeply honor the courage and creativity of people whose life journey doesn’t include the luxury of being able-bodied. Similarly, I know people who have sustained a great deal of trauma who, through a deep commitment to personal growth and healing, have done an amazing job of working around the empty spaces created by soul loss in order to live a vibrant, healthy life. While it’s not impossible to thrive with missing soul parts, there’s an ease in navigating the world that comes with simply having your complete energy inside of you and available.

2) You Become Far Less Vulnerable to Other People’s Bad Behavior

Remember that self-defense class that where they talked about carrying yourself with confidence because perpetrators generally are looking for folks less centered in their power? Wouldn’t it be great if the folks who push boundaries picked other people to play that out? Sure, there are a ton of skills you can learn that protect, diffusion and deflect unappealing energies and behaviors from others. The cool thing about soul retrieval is that the resulting power and solidness of your energy field automatically helps redirect those with poor boundaries and harmful intentions away from you.

 3) It Can Help You Have Better Body Odor

People often say, “You smell nice.” when they hug me. While I mostly attribute this to compliance with cultural standards of personal hygiene and the pleasant aroma of the leave in conditioner I use to tame my naturally curly hair, the soul retrieval session can help as well. So many people are walking around with their fight or flight response turned on at a low level all the time. This causes the body a lot of stress, including the release stress hormones that don’t smell all that nice when we sweat. I often include a process that lays the groundwork to sooth the fight or flight response in my soul retrieval work. This reason could also be title as “Have the Flu Less Often and with Less Severity”, “Get Better Digestion”, and/or “Relief for Insomnia”.

 4) If you’ve Moved on from Your Ex, It’s Good To Stop Accepting their Chat Requests on the Etheric Plane

In soul retrieval work, I get back parts that you’ve left behind with your former romantic entanglements. Sometimes that pull to your ex isn’t about them at all, but about the fact that you’ll never really lose your connection to your own essence. If a part of your essence resides with that person, there’s an ongoing tie to them. Plus, not everyone knows to release the energetic connection when they give back their ex’s CDs and take them off speed dial. I’m really good at cleaning up the old, outdated cords and structures.

5) Codependency and People Pleasing Become Far Less Compelling

People take other people’s soul parts to try to fill the holes left by their own soul loss. The person they take from (often a child or romantic partner) is diminished. The person taking the soul part is burdened with unuseable energy and both parties experience an unhealthy soul tie to one another. This is a recipe for codependency. When you have all of your energy back, the need for others to feel whole within yourself is instantly reduced. Also, once you’re filled up with your own energy, it’s harder for other people’s emotions to intrude into your space. So, you’re less compelled to try to keep other people happy just to create peace inside your own skin.

6) Effortless Psychic Protection Is Your Friend

Within the shamanic framework, illness is caused by energetic intrusions. Even if it’s not something you think about, as energetically sensitive people are keenly aware, humans can be messy with their energy. Especially as related to former lovers and when sharing the freeway. One of the most powerful forms of psychic protection is a soul retrieval. When your energy is full, with no gaps or holes, there just isn’t room for other people’s energetic messiness to intrude, by accident or design.

7) It Can Increase Your Personal Charisma and Sex Appeal

Wholeness and self-confidence are sexy. People with all their energy dancing inside of them are less needy and desperate. Wholeness and personal health create an appealing energy that can magnetize people to you, professionally and personally.

So, as you can see, there are a number of benefits to soul retrieval above and beyond the alleviation of fatigue, depression, and lack of passion. It also increases feeling secure in who you are, living in your power, speaking your truth, and finding your passion and soul purpose. In my admittedly biased opinion, the cost benefit ratio is great when you consider my soul retrievals are a single session healing that cost $125 and an hour and half of your time. I don’t claim that soul retrieval will complete resolve every challenge in life. However, I do find it provides a strong and stable foundation that strengthens other forms of personal healing as well as your ability to achieve your goals.

For more information on Soul Retrieval, please visiting the “healing” page at www.handsoverheart.com. Prefer to watch a video? Check out http://youtu.be/2ch4NKJyiw4

About Katie Weatherup

My commitment to healing work is part of my deep commitment to my own growth and healing. As a former mechanical engineer, I have always understood the necessity of system integrity. The human spirit is a highly complex system, which can break down in complex and subtle ways. Much of my shamanic work is oriented towards wholeness. I help people find their way back to themselves, all the parts they’ve lost, forgotten, denied and disowned.

To better pursue my vocation, I constantly explore additional healing modalities and techniques. I’ve studied with Hank Wesselman, Alberto Villoldo, and Maria Yraceburu. I’ve also received training at the Natural Healing Institute and through Michael Harner’s Foundation for Shamanic Studies. My books, “Practical Shamanism, A Guide for Walking in Both Worlds” and “Sex, Shamanism and Healing, My Kissing Quest” are available on Amazon.com.

The Relationship Garden

When it comes to relationship, I build these beautiful gardens and sacred spaces. I create a container and fill it with dynamic energy to facilitate flowing our energy together. I tend the connections with love and mindfulness. Most of all, when I fall romantically in love, I create a garden for myself and my beloved. When I learn new tools, like how to honor and empower men or compassionate communication, I joyfully rush back to the garden space and begin weaving it in.

Most men who are invited into this beautiful partnership space really enjoy being there. Many find that this space I create provides safety and soothing for their heart like nothing ever has before. They rest in the beautiful space and it feels good to them. In retrospect, I can see that many of the men who I’ve tried to share that garden with have been those who have a huge deficit in some major human needs such as love, attention, being important, feeling respected, mattering to someone. Meeting these needs in someone who has experienced a great lack often results in them authentically meeting my need to feel adored and special.

My best friend, Mara, has a beautiful physical garden. I love to share time with her in it. It sooths my soul deeply and it’s a sweet place to enjoy flowing energy with her. But, I’m not interested in the care of actual plants, so I’ve never pulled a weed or picked up a spade in her garden. And that’s okay, because she and I both know that this is where I’m at with it. I may keep her company while she works and appreciate the beauty of her efforts. But she has her garden for her own reasons that have nothing to do with me.

When I build these shinning strong energetic spaces to share with people, it works out really well in my practice and my friendships, because I’m creating the garden for my own sake and finding people to share it with who value the space and take good care of it while they are there. My dear friends are uniformly good considerate, honoring guests of the space I hold open for them in my life and many of them do co-create and help maintain the container for our connection.

But it gets messy in partnership because I build much more elaborate gardens. And they take a lot of energy and attention to maintain. Sooner or later, while I’m pulling weeds and my partner is lounging in the hammock, I start to get resentful and try to make them pick up a spade and work alongside me. I get tired of being the only one working on clear communication, cleaning up shadow stuff, finding the balance between our needs. But I’ve been asking the wrong question of my potential lovers. I’ve asked them if they want to play in my garden, not whether they want to work and play and co-create a garden with me.

From there, the story plays out in much the same way. I start to get more and more resentful and frustrated with my love’s lack of participation and then the control comes in of trying to make them do what I want them to do. Things become less joyful and abundant from there. The man is confused because suddenly I’m unhappy where before I was joyful just to have him sharing my space. And he really can’t win, because just as I am not interested or skilled or willing to garden in a physical garden, that’s not how these men were ever available to engage with me. It would be like my friend inviting me over to hang out in her garden then getting mad at me for not trimming the roses while she cleaned the pond.

My energy around space I share with people is moving and changing. One of the things that has been alive for me is deepening into community and expanding the people I hold in my sense of community.
This weekend I was running about 5-10 minutes late to Taste of Tantra Palooza, which turned into 25 minutes when I followed a different set of directions to the wrong location. The whole time I was getting there, from the time I thought it would be 5-10 minute until it turned into 25 minutes, I had all this stress and shame. I was going to be late, I’d miss important stuff, everyone would see that I had failed to arrive on time. And, here I was, traveling to a beautiful event with people I adore and nothing bad was happening to me except my self-talk. Sometimes I don’t enjoy my insight when I see so clearly that only I am causing my suffering, but I haven’t figured out in the moment how to stop.

When I arrived, the people there were dancing. I put my stuff down and got it organized where I would need it, then took a deep breath, aligned my energy to the group, and flowed into the dancing. The people there had been building the garden for the day with their dance and movement and conscious connection while I was occupied struggling to arrive. Much of that energy was already in

place. My community, those I knew and loved and those I didn’t reached out to me with their arms, their energy, their smiles and flowed me inside the beautiful golden web of connection that had been woven. I was awed with this new experience. I was play in an energetic garden I’d done less than my fair share to create and all was well. (The image I posted has me in the center with my eyes closed as the dancing was coming into stillness, held by my community).

The shadow side around choosing

to participate in connections where there is co-creation rather than my creating and maintaining the energy is control. My friend’s physical garden is laid out exactly how she likes it. I admire and appreciate her efforts, but I’m not part of the vision and I don’t make suggestions about what I think would be pretty. So, the work as I move into this more satisfying place of co-creation, is working with my little girl who has this old pattern of tying to create emotional safety through control. I don’t want to do all the work alone to arrange the tea party, but I can find the part of me that still wants the tea party exactly her way.

If I stopped sorting my potential partners by men who love the space I hold in relationship because they don’t know how to create it for themselves and instead looked for men who want to co-create, I have the potential to get what I really want. And I give up a lot of control because I’m not connecting on the basis of meeting a deep deficit.

But the control, doesn’t really serve. And when I found someone who was wounded, offered them the sanctuary of my love and all that went with it, they grew and healed and became healthier, clearer and stronger. So, the hook of needing me begins to diminish from the moment I put it in. I grow in relationship and most of the men I have been intimate with left healthier, happier and stronger from our time.

It’s in perfect alignment with the

energy exchange with my clients and students that I hold maintain and hold a beautiful space along with the other services I provide. This garden, maintained by me, is right and good. And, when it comes to lovers, I find a renewed commitment to keep my healing practice where it belongs and to seek out healthier people for my lovers and friends and community. I want those who will co-create the garden of our connection.

Dreaming the Future

This month the Isis energy for me has been very alive.  I feel her most strongly when there has been an injustice or misuse of power as a sense of divine outrage and a movement towards change.  It’s the yummiest feeling of anger I know, the most life affirming.  Rather than helpless rage or anger used to make others wrong or bad, there is simply a profound call to move toward what is right.  When this Isis energy is alive in me, I feel fully aware of my own divine spark, I respect the divine spark of others and I will tolerate nothing less than the honoring of this truth.  Now is a good time to invite the Isis energy into your life.

Watching Egypt experience profound changes, I recognize the aliveness of the Isis energy.  I find within me an excitement and a fervent prayer and desire to hold the highest destiny.  I watched on the edge of my seat as the people of Egypt assembled and demanded a change in their government.  I was in awe and celebration to watch emotions running so high, to see this wave of unstoppable change arise, but without it immediately flowing into massive violence and bloodshed.  I hold this fervent hope that what follows is in the spirit of what has already unfolded.

Those who vision both peace and personal freedom for the planet have been profoundly affected by the leadership Gandhi provided in India.  It is a sign of our times that in Egypt, movement happened so much faster.  Living in a time of great change is scary and exciting.

I believe we co-create our world.  As a wave of change is sweeping through the world, whether we’re looking at Egypt, Libya, or Wisconsin, we can find the deep-seated root of the human fear of change.  We are all aware of the human potential for violence when emotions run high.  If you have the great blessing to be not in the hot seat right now, if your part of the world is going along with businesses open and transportation running, you can be the space holder and vision for the places that are changing.  We, who aren’t in the hot seat of change, have the space to take a breath and choose our response.

Just as I spend a lot of time considering how I will vote in an election, I strive to be equally mindful about what energies and potentials I vote for in the world.  We all get to choose from moment to moment in our own lives whether we make war or peace as we consciously acknowledge how our personal truth can be different from another person’s yet coexist.  If visioning the best for Egypt seems too big or far away, I invite you to cast your vote for the future of the planet in striving to create in your own life what you would wish for Egypt and the people of the world.

For those of us bearing witness to the wave of change, we have the space to come home to ourselves and choose exactly what energies we want to feed, how we want to vote and contribute to the vibration.

Choosing how we contribute to the vibration:

We can do this by managing our fear and stories that make one group right and another wrong.  Instead we can connect with empathy and compassion for everyone concerned and vision the best outcome, even if we don’t know what that outcome looks like.  This can take the form of Pema Chrodon’s Tonglen, Byron Katie’s The Work, or fire ceremony (as found on my website at http://www.handsoverheart.com).

For me, it is a time to connect with what I value most.  Above and beyond having my physical needs met for food, shelter and safety, I value choice, self-expression, contribution, co-creation.  I want these for myself and everyone else.  Your deepest wishes for yourself and others may be different.  That’s beautiful.  If I hold choice and you hold education and someone else hold integrity and transparency and we all pray these things for all the people of the world, together we are seeding beautiful potentials in the world for all these things.

What’s especially magical about this process is that by becoming an active, conscious co-creater, as opposed to a passive one, my voice, my vote has a great deal more power and influence.  I believe strongly in social justice, but my passion lies more intensely with helping people to heal and grow at a soul level.  So, when it comes to social justice, my contribution is generally in the form of taking personal responsibility and striving not participate in racism or discrimination.  My cousin, on the other hand, works for an organization that promotes social justice.  She teaches in schools, does media work, takes classes, and builds community.  Her direct influence in bringing greater social justice to the world is much stronger than mine because she’s using her time, energy and attention to promote it.

Likewise, anyone who chooses to hold the highest and best for Egypt or the workers in Wisconsin or the people of Libya is influencing the potential outcome.  The more you open your heart, do ceremony, pray or just actively hold compassion or loving kindness, the stronger your contribution will be to the destiny path of peaceful transformation.  I want so much for people to have the chance to have physical safety, decent living conditions, education, choice, and freedom of expression.  And, I passionately contribute my vision to create a world where there are effective and efficient ways to have these things without massive bloodshed and violence.  I believe that the more people who are holding a vision for change without violence, the more space that energy has to become alive and expressed in the world.

It reminds me of the proverb attributed to the Native Americans about the grandfather speaking to his grandson about the conflicting sides of his nature.  He describes it as two wolves, fighting inside him- one holding all of his jealousy, hatred, pain, small-mindedness and the other holding justice, kindness, compassion, integrity.  The grandson asks which wolf wins and the grandfather replies, “The one I feed.”

In this time of great change, movement and transformation, I invite you to choose which energies to feed with your time, energy and attention.  In a time when so many are talking about the direness of circumstances, I invite you to feed hope and help me to dream a world into being that we would wish for our children’s children.

My Condo and Spiritual Growth (or How Personal Healing Literally Pays Off)

My Condo and Spiritual Growth (or How Personal Healing Pays Off)

As someone who teaches things like manifestation and personal growth, I’m surprised when I find an area of my life that I’ve closed out those principles in some way.

My tenant just gave notice and I find myself needing to rent my condo again. This is always a scenario that triggers a great deal of irrational fear and stress. Given that I took ten people to Peru and experienced less emotional stress about that trip, I realized it was time to start cleaning up some of my emotional holding.

I have been treating my condo, which was my home for five years, rather badly. Because I’ve had the story that I don’t want the stress of being a landlord, I’ve done everything I could to minimize my interactions with the condo, including renting it out for way under market value.

This time around is that my boyfriend, a skilled electrician (www.fidelityelectric.com), got all excited and decided to make many upgrades, such as custom lighting, upgraded appliances from Craigslist, ceiling fans and such. For the minimal investment from me of buying the parts, he was willing to take ownership of the project and make my condo an even more beautiful home. My tenant graciously agreed to allow access for the work and even to show it for me so I wouldn’t have to drive over.

It was one of the spiritual principles I teach in action, that of feminine manifestation. By having a desire (in this case for help with the condo) and being still and receptive rather than working hard, the universe can move on your behalf to connect you with the right allies and helpers. Seeing the energies of abundance and unexpected blessing move through the area of my condo, I realized I was drawing lines and pushing away the larger blessing of the condo itself.

I own this piece of property that will likely grow over the years to be worth far more than I paid. Someone else is paying for me to buy it and, if I rent it at market value, it even puts some extra money in my pocket every month. I’ve been telling the story that I don’t want to make my money through being a landlord. But once I take apart my story that being a landlord sucks, it’s a pretty easy way to make money, which feeds my life in many meaningful ways.

This is also a place to heal some of my family of origin stuff. My parents had a lot of stress about renting out their mobile home. People would move out and trash it. Money was tight when I was growing up so I witnessed a lot of stress around this dynamic. But my parents were making different choices about the security deposit that they collected. The reality for me is in the four years I’ve had my condo rented out, I’ve had tenants who took excellent care of it. I realized I’ve been operating from the story that people would ruin it and make my financial picture more stressful, in contradiction to my direct experience.

My other stress was the idea that if something broke, I wouldn’t be able to deal with it. The reality is that sometimes it’s taken some thought to find the best way to address an issue, but, again, I’ve had excellent success finding good people to repair things easily. In point of fact, again and again, I’ve had friends willing to gift me with their time and skill to fix things. My condo is definitely an area that the men in my life show up to support me.

As I write this, I still have the discomfort of the unknown. I need a new tenant by the beginning of March and I don’t yet know who that will be. I prefer closure rather than open ended situations. Yet, as I put my attention on my condo in a warmer way, I find that I have every reason to trust the perfect person will be thrilled to rent it. And going forward, I can see my condo as a wonderful financial investment rather than an emotional vulnerable point. In this case, I will literally make money as a direct result of personal healing when I rent it for what it’s actually worth.

(Note: Ten days after writing this, I signed a lease with my new tenants.   I’m delighted with them.)

Guided Journey for Financial Abundance

As the energy of the economy begins an upswing, I invite you all to be on the front of the wave, with any issues around financial abundance cleaned up quickly and easily.

To this end, I’ve done something a little different this month. With the help of my guides, I’ve channeled a guided shamanic journey for clearing blocks to financial abundance. Many of us carry wounds from other lifetimes or from our ancestors about scarcity. Sometime our current emotions are informed by our soul’s history, like when we look at our bank balance and react like we’re a farmer realizing we don’t have enough stores to survive the winter. Often this is unconscious, so we don’t know why there’s so much fear, just that there’s an intense reaction.

In the guided journey, you’ll have the opportunity to release old, painful, toxic energy and to bring in fresh life-force energy. You’ll be able to heal past life wounds of scarcity and strengthen your root and sacral chakras. You’ll put energy towards manifesting abundance in the future. The recording is my gift to you.

To find it, go to my website- http://www.handsoverheart.com and click on the “articles” page. You can listen online or download it as an .mp3.

When Illness is Healing

One of my concerns about the metaphysical community is how illness can be characterized as a direct result of some life lesson not being learned or an unhealthy pattern of thought or action. Some books and websites may that tell you a liver issue reveals unresolved anger and continue to match each ailment to a “wrong thinking” cause. I can understand the temptation to see things this way – following the “right” practices provides a feeling of safety and immunity from illness. Also, when faced with another’s pain, we may seek to emotionally disengage from the sufferer by assigning some fault to their suffering.

But, again and again in my shamanic practice, I see that while there is sometimes a kernel of truth to this viewpoint, it is a misleading oversimplification of physical illness. I can find a belief within myself that engaging in my spiritual practices will spare me from some of the harder aspects of being human, such as illness. But when I do get sick, this belief comes back to bite me, because not only to I feel bad, but I feel like it’s my fault because of some physical, mental or emotional failure on my part.

I recently spent a week in bed with a cold. The last nine months have been intense, most recently with some major shamanic dismemberments and initiations. The illness allowed the physical body and the psyche to catch up to the soul, releasing and reorganizing based on the healing work I had done. I could actually see the energy reaching back into past lives to clear lifetimes where I died of illness. I could see how my dreams were my subconscious reorganizing and resolving certain themes.

To most effectively clear and heal energy from the past we need open up the contained energy. Illnes can be an emotional, physical or mental experience that resonates to where the pain is being held and allows the pain to be released and cleared away, just as a physical cut is sometimes needed to drain infection from under the skin.

Part of why I got sick was because I have a strong intent to be healthy, whole, and healed. Paradoxically, a head cold for a week was the best way to release, clear, and resolve old wounds that my soul carried. It helped me to catch up to myself and to come back into my center. Was there another way to do this healing? Of course. But this was extremely efficient and I’m a big fan of efficiency.

It also gave me a chance to look at the deals I make with the Divine; if I’m a good do-er of my breathwork and supplement swallower, if I manage my emotions well and do my shadow work, then I never have to get sick or have a flat tire. In fact, I had over a year without a cold or a flat tire, so I figured I had everything dialed in. But I realized that while my practices do measurably reduce the illness and flat tires in my life, these things aren’t a pass to get out of the less comfortable aspects of being human. In the case of my recent cold, my intent to be healthy and whole, and my longing for some downtime were stronger than my intent to avoid viruses.

Building Energy

Nine months ago I committed myself to a daily breathwork practice. It builds life force energy and clears the auric field. When I do this daily, my mood, my energy, and my life experience are all brighter. I’m not as vulnerable to other people’s moods or heavy energies as I go through my day.

Yet, there are days when I struggle to sit down and spend 15 minutes doing this practice. If I’m feeling good and up, it’s easier to engage in this kind of self-care, but sometimes if I already feel good, I don’t feel the need so I just “forget”. When I’m feeling down or moody, it’s hard to do the practice. The astrological events since mid-December have been hitting a lot of people hard and personal shadows and feelings of depression seem to be prevalent.

With this kind of life force energy building practice, if I miss a span of time, the first day or so can make me feel worse as the practice moves the stagnant energy out of my field. Plus, if I’m already feeling down, I want to eat a comfort food (rather than health food), curl up with a good book, and hide from my feelings. Doing my practice when I’m already feeling emotionally uncomfortable is to dive into that discomfort and feel it more keenly. There are days I’ve spent more time discussing doing the practice with myself than it would have taken to just do the practice.

So, why am I sharing this? Because 15 to 30 minutes a day of Qi Gong, breathwork, or Tai Chi will transform your life. Bringing in life force energy regularly will heal old wounds across your lifetimes, help you have the energy to get through your day, and provide the best protection I know of from illness. It’s very hard to sustain depression with a daily practice like this, yet, if you’re depressed, it’s very hard to make yourself take this life affirming action.

I know people who bring great self-discipline to their spiritual lives. I bring courage and passion to my journey, but rather poor self-discipline. So, sustaining this practice over the last nine months, even with days missed, has taken a tremendous personal commitment.

I invite you to take a journey towards self-care. I invite you to explore a life building practice and use it not as a space to blame yourself or make yourself bad, but an area to investigate your challenges and learn about yourself. Some days what works is to commit myself to 5 minutes, only to find that once I get past the first minute or so, I’m carried forward to the full practice. Sometime the conversation with myself goes, “Well, I want to feel better, right? Well, if so, my breathwork is the fastest path towards relief.” You might find that a class is needed or a pact with a friend. Perhaps it’s something you can do at lunch but not first thing in the morning. Whatever your path, I invite you to begin or resume this exploration.

Reincarnating within our lifetime

One of the best things about living in this time is that we have the ability to clear pain, patterns and heavy energies that our souls are working with very quickly. Now is a time when we can reincarnate within our own lifetimes, without changing bodies. Our patterns, issues, circumstances, and level of peace can change dramatically from what came before.

In the past, resolving a pattern of abuse might have been a multi-lifetime endeavor, including incarnations as the victim and perpetrator. Or there might have been a full lifetime devote to the subject as unpleasant power struggles flavored many of your human interactions. Today, we can release huge, multi-lifetime patterns very quickly- in a healing session, a fire ceremony or a night of intense dreaming.

Sometime when I do a journey for someone, what needs healing for them is a painful pattern that many souls participated in. My guides will have me call out to all the souls who were part of that pattern and invite them to come to a central fire to complete and release the issue. It’s total choice for which souls answer and I never know who they are, some aren’t even incarnate at this time, but I hold space for everyone who wishes to be released from some big pattern of abuse and pain. Victims and perpetrators can choose to simply release the karmic patterns. For example, I worked with one client who had been a slave in Jamaica a couple hundred years ago and I was able to hold space for all the souls who participated in that pattern (who were available to release it at that moment) to be fr*ee of it.

Another way to tap into the power that’s available is to hold the transpersonal aspect as well as the personal. Whether you’re working with a theme of sexual violence or child abuse, holding intent that as you resolve it in yourself and come to grace, that all who have walked this path have the chance to be released from it. The wisdom and healing our souls achieve goes into the collective human consciousness.

Effective Healing on a Budget

In this message, I will share some effective healing practices and options that cost little or no money. They are a powerful compliment to other healing practices, such as my shamanic sessions. They also stand on their own as practices that, with the discipline of regular use, will provide transformational healing.

On the “Articles” page of my website, there’s a fr*ee .mp3 recorded journey for financial abundance. Instructions for Fire Ceremony are also found on that page. Fire ceremony allows you to transform strong emotion through the fire, instead of through your own emotional matrix, providing accelerated relief from painful emotions. It is a way of disrupting habitual self-abuse and self-criticism and inviting in accelerated change. The fire provides a direct energetic intervention that allows you to reprogram your energetic field and soul blueprint.

One of the things that the guides recommend again and again is life force building practices. Examples include yoga, breathwork, Qi Gong, and Tai Chi. These practices directly increase life force energy, physical health, and emotional balance, while strengthening the lower chakras. This helps clear and heal past pain and trauma. Life force building practices also strengthen your ability to attract money, enjoyable relationships, and wonderful life circumstances. If you find yourself struggling to get through the day, you may not have the energetic reserves to fully manifest the life you desire.

In San Diego, the Grossmont A*dult School offers day and evening classes in Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and Yoga. The website is http://a dultschool.guhsd.net/ (note the absence of the www in this address and remove the space in the url). While their 55+ classes are geared towards older a*dults, they are open to anyone. I’ve taken Tai Chi with W. Orsini and highly recommend him. Two months of twice a week Tai Chi classes cost $13 for the whole program.

Also, Wendy at http://www.emeiqigonghealing.com leads a fr*ee Qi Gong practice in Balboa Park every Saturday morning. I had a great experience there.

If you’re not local to San Diego, you can still purchase a DVD of the Emei Qi Gong healing routine from Wendy’s website or visit http://www.emeiqigong.us for a Qi Gong teacher near you.

For anyone who’s out of work or struggling financially, life force building practices are very helpful in drawing financial opportunity and abundance to you. It’s a great thing to do if you’re out of work and wanting to align yourself to manifest a job.

Sustaining Desired Vibration

I often find myself talking about the great merit of filling up one’s own cup before undertaking to fill anyone else’s. I aspire to always give from a place of abundance and fullness, stopping to refill, replenish, rest and even retreat when my personal and energetic resources get low.

This can be challenging when loved ones are struggling and I choose to get extra sleep or delay returning a phone call until I’m feeling more centered. It’s a balance and the better a job I do of self care, the better I do supporting people I love without resentment or depletion.

Another way to engage with the healing of others is to think not of energy transfer (ie. I give someone energy or channel universal energy on their behalf) but in terms of vibration. If you strike a musical tuning fork, you can transfer the vibration to another tuning fork of the same note without them even touching. The musical note will get louder without the original tuning fork giving up any energy.

As human beings we have all possible notes and vibration potentials within us. So, when you vibrate clearly and strongly to health, joy, financial abundance or well-being, those who so choose will begin vibrating those things within themselves, just due to proximity. What I most admire about the Dali Lama is his ability to vibrate so strongly and clearly that an entire auditorium has the chance to experiences the energy of peace and calm. I’ve experienced this directly with the Zen master Gangaji. Likewise, this is part of my repertoire in teaching shamanism; I can awaken that potential within my students through vibration.

If you have tuning forks of two different notes and you strike each of them, they will cancel each other out, diminishing each other’s vibration. So, if you’re cultivating a certain vibration within yourself- compassion, health, peace, wealth, healing- consider surrounding yourself with people, objects and experiences that support that vibration rather than canceling it. When your chosen vibration is strong and solid, you can be around people, institutions and circumstances of an incompatible vibration and still sustain your own. However, if your resources are low, it’s easy for other people’s stress, anger, poverty, or pain vibrations to activate those frequencies within you.

Thus, trying to do healing for someone in pain when your own resources are low is an extremely challenging situation in which to sustain your own health and balance. Just as it’s not good for people with suppressed immune function to be around those with the flu, if you’re tired and off your center, it’s not helpful to be around people who are also struggling.

Sometime we can’t control the situation or it’s necessary to show up for someone when we’re short on personal resources. Good parenting can fall into this category at times. Yet, holding onto the intent, the touchstone, and the priority of putting energy into filling yourself up when you find your reserves getting low will minimize the time you spend trying to give while depleted.

So how to replenish? Time in nature, Qi Gong, good care of the physical body and time with people who are in authentically good spirits are all good ways to replenish your resources and get your vibration stronger if it feels diminished. Soul retrieval also makes sustaining your center and personal positive vibration vastly easier.