July 2021 — Shamanic Meditation Studies – Spirit Guides!
Please note that we are scheduled to meet from 3pm – 5pm (Arizona time ) on Saturday July 17.
Please reread pages 101 – 104 in "An Unfiltered Life." My focus this month will be on actively showing you how to take on the role of Spirit Guide, both in and without form. Try the simple exercises and post what you experience!
Yes Keshav…thankyou…
What a beautiful being he is. He needs your support more than ever as he transitions to the Blue Realm!
Blessings everyone…
I haven’t posted for awhile and I wanted to let you know how much you all mean to me and how much I love you all.
Awhile back I wrote about my friend Mark who had been diagnosed with Cancer. I have been writing a lot these past weeks but my focus was on a beautiful website called Caring Bridge. The site was set up for Mark, by his husband Sam, so he could share with family and friends and we in turn could share as well. Joe and I got to visit Mark at the hospital a few weeks ago. He had completed his radiation but stopped eating shortly after and was wasting away and awaiting diagnosis. The following day, he went home on Hospice. I went to see him last Friday and could feel him leaving…he passed away peacefully Sunday evening.
I will never forget my experience during the shamanic journey, to the healing realm of the Blue Beings, that Keshav led us on awhile back. And how only a few hours later I was told of Mark’s brain tumors. I knew that journey I had involved Mark. I got to share this with him and we had many beautiful talks about surrender, presence and blue energy. He loved the color turquoise which is all around his house and yard. I will always think of him as the “Turquoise Man.”
That bright light Mark radiated extends even farther now…he now wears a lighter body of energy and I am sure he will be leaving little sparks of his presence everywhere. He is a special being and I miss him…
Namaste
Missy, I unexpectedly cried during the silence on Thursday. The word belonging came to mind.
This week I was in presence with humpback whales and I unexpectedly cried when Mama showed up beside the boat with her calf. I was shaking and I can still feel that when I think of them… as I recorded them all I could say was ‘You are so Beautiful!’ And beautiful was an expansive word for all I was feeling. I brought them to Silence Thursday … so powerful. Namaste. Love.
I was so grateful to sit in circle with you all when I was not feeling well, physically. It was a unique and powerful healing for me; a reminder not to play the role of teacher, but to continue to inspire and be inspired by heart openings.
And, while my energy was fading, I just keep my eyes and ears open to our common wisdom. Healers heal in surprising ways. Please, let us continue to make room in our lives, for peace to blossom.
Opening to what is and taking steps from that place. The house I lived in for over thirty years, is boarded up and partially gutted. Yes, I am grateful to be alive. Still there is a sadness and accepting that I have lost “things” has been difficult. I’m told things can be replaced. Really, things may be substituted. A hotel room substitutes for my once safe, secure home. And there is a peace in knowing that while beloved items may be gone, the love is not. This allows me to accept and a release. I can’t change what happened but I can choose peace. And, I am finding many opportunities to choose peace right now.
I hear you Diane. The early morning cooing of the local morning doves, sure feels welcoming and inclusive. My "cooing callback" sounds like moaning to me; close enough for love birds.
My spirit guides this morning were the music of insects singing a symphony while watching the sunrise. I felt like I was at a concert ! So soothing!
I have recently come to realize that the people I come in contact with every day are my spirit guides. Clients, cashiers, the dental hygenist, the mechanic, a neighbor, all of you…are all spirit guides for me. . I come face to face with guides every single day and I am given the gifts they have to offer me…concern, compassion, patience and generosity. They exhibit all I strive to be. I am being given an opportunity to drop petty tyrants with every step I take during the day because everyone is so damn nice! It has become increasingly difficult to hold onto a mental construct that just isn’t true. It simply doesn’t hold up when it runs directly into a wall of consideration and compassion. I feel myself fighting it though. And that brings me to the spirit guide that has been with me since taking form…my physical body. No escaping that it is doing its very best to show me what the mind is doing, how old patterns and beliefs are affecting the body, how it’s guiding me to just chill the hell out. Breathe, relax, surrender. Such amazing guides. Thank you all.
It’s vibration, it’s frequency – theta and delta from a drum or a chant or the earth’s hum.
It’s stillness bursting with energy, opening a gateway, reaching out to connect, to share and exchange energy. It’s taking a timeless moment to feel the hidden bird in the tree, breathe in the energy in the seemingly empty space and bow to the chair that supports us. Noticing a flower, making eye contact, knowing a heartbeat connects us…countless ways to connect. Different forms, same energy. So simple, so spectacular. Namaste
Spirit Guides today come in the form of avian species… Crows have been very vocal this week, wasn’t sure why, but they seem to be wanting us to listen. So I stop and listen. And watch. How can you not when 8 or more are across the road, landing , flying, screaming it seems! Not very subtle. They were far away a couple days ago in the woods, making a racket, then yesterday I happened to look out my upstairs window on a random moment and there was a lone Turkey Hen in my yard. Can’t miss her, big. Then I looked some more and saw movement all around her, and she was escorting brand new chicks through the yard! Eating bugs, yay! She chose the mowed area probably because it’s easier for them. This morning the crows showed up across the road in the lone apple tree, and I believe that was the connection. Never know when we will be guided, or be a guide. Namaste. Love.
Missy: planting seeds is truly participating in the creative process and every time they grow into plants it is as miraculous as the first time. And then to be caught by color and aroma and stopped in your tracks and pulled into right here and now is to be transformed by these beautiful creations!
Thank you for your sharing, Betty. You clearly have thought this through thoroughly.
Yes Betty, I perceived though the Nasturtiums in front of my barn this early morning wafting their incredible scent and boy it got my attention! I created the box of them so also my responsibility to take care of them in the box. Water, mulch, weed, fertilize. The sunshine does the rest! Namaste.
Honoring that spirit guide that is Diane is simply listening to and following my intuition and not needing validation from anyone.
Beautifully put Betty!!
For me it is recognizing that I am responsible for how I perceive, for how I experience this moment, knowing that ultimately I am my spirit guide. I am the creator of all that I experience. If I choose to get messages from other guides, they are guides I myself have created through which to communicate to myself. I need to recognize that I am creative, powerful; ultimately I am love. This body and this persona are temporary vehicles in which to navigate ordinary reality. And I can choose to experience love, peace, support, compassion for myself and then share with others by opening up to that which is already here. For me there is a need to line my everyday path with reminders of this because I am very forgetful and will fall asleep again if I don’t.
What actions are necessary to honor and accept the Spirit Guide that we already are?
I’ll say I never get tired of seeing a rainbow. It doesn’t Get Old I said then thought on that…what is this Getting Old? As a lil girl everything was a wonder : rainbows, beach shells, ocean creatures, wind, snow, you name it. Then we do this thing Getting Old and a Rainbow still makes us feel young and alive, the gift after a late summer rain. I’ll start noticing these Getting Young again moments and stay Alive a lil more vibrantly. Namaste.
I second that, Russ. There are tribes that are considered “primitive” that work as a team. One for all and all for one. How can we ever accomplish anything when we are competing against each other instead of working together, even if it means compromise.
More of my musings: Note to myself – Becoming you. It’s stunning to realize the impact you have on this world. So, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY! I’m starting to see that this transcends all politics. Geo or otherwise. Our world needs us to be larger than political ideologies, We cannot allow ourselves to be divided into Trump voters or Biden voters. We must shift beyond such boundaries."
Betty – I experience you as a richly powerful healer. Your ever deepening sense of clarity is being felt. Thank you.
I was journaling something today and thought I would throw it out here. A work in progress: "As you focus attention on the present, make the effort to thoroughly notice every detail you can for as long as you can. It sheds more light on what Keshav is urging us to do more of, when he asks us to consciously open to a room or space. Let the energy of that space flow through. I also noticed, while staying present when Adam was speaking, as my peripheral vision fading, so too did my sense of presence."
It is truly an honor to embrace the role of spirit guide. In that role there is no doubt and no regret. It is taking responsibility for feelings and embracing the present moment whole heartedly without being a victim or a victor! It is following the inner voice that is full of wisdom. No denial of my spirit self (a lesson from Tetitla I think). Wow. Coming full circle is sublime! Namaste
I have recently experienced a profound shift. Lifelong depression has dropped away. I wake up in the morning truly grateful for another day. At night I thank all the unseen beings who have supported me. When making a decision, I can choose the one that feels right, not necessarily the most “secure” path, knowing that I am a part of the one and therefore supported in all I do. Especially when we are all gathered together I feel very strongly the energy of love, support, harmony and community. I am the one that holds the key to that experience. That wonderful energy attracts that energy.
So more supportive beings are in my life. The human spirit guides. I suspect that my spirit self sends me messages as well. That I am my guide. I take things personally much less often. I judge myself and others less. Sometimes I am the windshield, sometimes the bug. In either instance the universe supports me. I am not a victim. A victim is powerless. I am powerful. In the long view it is all works for the good. I only had to learn to trust that it is so. And surround myself with people who will remind me when I am forget.