Journey of the Light Worker

A little over a week ago I attended a shamanic retreat in northern NSW. I didn't have much expectations going into it, and to be honest I actually had a very little understanding about what shamanism was all about! So in today's post I will try my best to explain shamanism based on my experience and perception. I believe that shamanism is a very old and traditional way of connecting with your spirit guides and the powers of nature in order to bring about healing for yourself or for other people. It's a technique that has a very long history and taps into knowledge that in this day and age, we have forgotten. We are so disconnected from nature and our ancestors that we do not know that they have so much untapped wisdom that can greatly help us. If you are to walk the path of a shaman or at least want to be a recipient of a healing that a shaman provides, be open to the fact that you will most likely undergo powerful shifts. It's not to be taken lightly. You ...

I have always been the type of person who wanted to understand why I acted in a particular way or why I had certain blockages around my body (e.g. sacral chakra and throat chakra) and over the past few months I had been trying to get to the bottom of these issues during my own personal meditation. Suffice to say that during my own personal meditation, I didn't get that much insight into what the blocks were. In fact, my arms would just start moving or I'd feel an energy shift and that would be it - none the more enlightened!  At the shamanic retreat that I went to, we did a number of things including healing past life issues and soul retrieval. During these sessions, I didn't really get any flashes of insight into what had happened to me previously. In fact, when my partner was doing the past life work on me, she told me where my main blockages were but when she asked my guides for more information about them, she wasn't given anything. Hmph! What I have now learnt ...

I've just come back from a week long shamanic retreat. That will be the subject of a separate post, but today I wanted to talk to you about loss.  As you know, I've recently been blogging about spirit guides and the like and many of you know of my spirit guide, Laughing Bull, the Native American Indian guide. For me, I had kind of ignored him for a long time (knowing that he was there), and one of the purposes of doing the retreat was to connect with him more fully. Well, the Universe had other plans. On Saturday we did a soul retrieval ceremony. During the entire ceremony I couldn't really see anything via my third eye - I could feel parts of me coming back but didn't necessarily know what the underlying traumatic event was to make them go away from me. At the close of that session, I finally got to see Laughing Bull - he had an animal coat on of some kind and had his back to me. He turned and look at me and disappeared - a part of me consciously knew that his time...