Practical Shamanism

Lifestyle changes can be incredibly complicated to implement and sustain. Giving yourself grace with this complexity and implementing a plan to address this aspect will improve your results. I talk about lining up the energy around the change we want. And also, about overcoming the aversion chemistry that seeks to get us to avoid implement things that we know are good for us but our inner cave person thinks threaten our survival. I hope this helps you find a graceful path forward to a lifestyle that yields enough health and wellbeing and is something that's sustainable over the long-term.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

We have an aspect of our soul that is the bridge between the human experience and the soul journey. It's connected both to the now and the eternal. We can learn to use our mind to direct our psychic abilities to take counsel with our inner wise one!

For a variety of reasons, sometimes doing something like shamanic journey may not be the optimal way to send our awareness out to talk with our guides. If we're highly emotional (which we all are at times), we may not have the clarity and focus. For people who have some fear around psychic abilities, they may find an internal journey feels safer and more comfortable. And finally, people who have certain mental health situations, such as what is diagnosed as schizophrenia, or entity issues, sending awareness outside of your auric field can be contraindicated as it can make things worse.

Thus, learning to connect with your inner wise one is a great way to safely access your psychic abilities and access your deepest wisdom!

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

As a former engineer turned shamanic practitioner, I'm incredibly interested in efficiency and elegance in addressing the question of what will create the most holistically fulfilling life. In this podcast, I explore some ways to get to clarity on what you want, to screen out the ways our minds lie to us, and to find a sustainable path forward toward that outcome.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

A powerful way to sustain health, vitality and personal happiness is by keeping the fire of your passion for living vibrant and bright. I often work with people who don't have a death wish, but neither do they have a particular life wish. The lack of a strong vision and intention in this area can create vulnerability to illness and accidents. Learn about tending and amplifying your life wish!

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

In this episode I share about a couple of months that were hard for me. Sometimes it's one big thing and other times a number of small things that undermine our well-being and emotional centeredness. I hope this episode helps you to have compassion for yourself and others when things get tough. Also, to have a realistic idea about what mindset and meditation can and can't do to help. And I hope it gives you some ideas to move yourself along the journey of restoring your well-being when its been diminished by life experiences. And, just so you know, as I release this episode several weeks after it was recorded, I'm enjoying things feeling much better in my personal circumstances.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

I adore traveling and connecting with land magic! I even wrote a short book with all my best knowledge: https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Travel-Practical-Shamanism-Vacations-ebook/dp/B00C2LKZE6

In this episode, I share about some of my top travel tips for working with energy and connecting with the land. Also, some specifics about places like Ireland, Peru, Iceland, New Mexico, Death Valley and more!

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

Sometimes we get so wounded by other people's messiness and unskillful relating or outright bad behavior that we don't want to engage our hearts with other people going forward. We can unconsciously (or consciously) create heart armor to avoid future connection. We can even distort and disrupt our natural, healthy ability to run energetic connection with other humans.

I invite you to treat healing heartache and loss as a learnable skill. Often new possibilities flow into empty spaces created by relationships that are complete. Before we ask how to I find friends or a romantic relationship, it's good to ask what's in the way of these things coming to in.

Self-trust in our ability to heal and in our discernment often helps us be willing to be fully open to new connection. Relationship discernment can be complicated. In this podcast, I share some of the things I look for that make me believe I'd be successful with someone. And, I allow myself to be in the fan club of someone for whom I have huge affinity and appreciation but who isn't aligned to be a friend or in a deeper relationship.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

I had a journey some years ago wherein my guides talked to me about ways I was using my will and magic to stabilize things in my life that had run their course out of a fear of and resistance to change. They shared ways it was limiting the life I would live and asked me to make a choice about this aspect.

In this podcast, I talk about ways to catch when we're doing this and how our instincts can cause our mind to rationalize remaining committed to an unstainable course of action. I give some advice about making choices and getting present with when to choose again. I share a lot about my own self-inflicted pain when I haven't done a good job with this. I also talk about using our intention to ask our guides to help things to come out well on the other side when we travel through take apart times.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

I received an email from a former client I haven't interacted with in years that went into detail about how terrible I was for holding a boundary about being paid in the standard way before working with her. It included expressions of pity that I was such a terrible, money motivated person that I would do such a hurtful, obviously awful thing to her.

It was, among other things, a trip down memory lane of a lot of failures in my early attempts at relating to friends and lovers. When I got hurt, rather than introspection, compassion (for them or me), or working through the emotions before trying to address the misalignment, I would spin a story of how wrong and bad the other person was and why I was entitled to whatever I had desired from them. Then, I'd write a really long email explaining this. Happily, with the help of therapy, among other things, I have more functional ways of relating.

Yet, I can still find that subroutine of ruminating on another person's way of being in the world as invalid when I feel hurt. This messy, vital, complex business of relating to other humans has such levels of risk and reward. In this long episode, I share about my personal journey with mental loops of vilifying other people and how I navigate it when someone vilifies me and wants to tell me about it. I hope it helps you have a functional map for navigating this highly charged, complicated energy, whether it's showing up internally or focused outwards.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

I find myself in a season where my deepest longings are for time freedom and less external stimulation. I'm taking a break from many of the things I normally engaging in, like travel and dating. I'm also taking a break from my personal improvement goals and settling for sustaining what's already in place for supporting my body, mind, and spirit.

I'm quilting, engaging with my business and clients, and watching movies. The net effect of some romantic disappointments and a tough financial situation have left me a bit depleted, and it feels good to allow myself the space and time to replenish. I want to offer this map of restoring oneself without it becoming a crisis or even a miserable time.

Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides? Check out my membership offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism

Want more audio content from me? Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/

Sound editing by Kevin Young. You can reach him at [email protected]

DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.

To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com