ShamanTalk

There are a LOT of terms within Shamanism, some of them you may know, and others you may not. This week's episode will teach you the lingo of the Shamanic world so that you can better understand & communicate the key concepts within this ancient practice.

The Ego has a bad rap — it has become the villain of self-help.

According to psychologists, if we don’t have an ego, we would become mentally ill. We need it to mediate between the unconscious and the conscious. Your relationship with your Ego can turn into either an enemy or an ally.

In other words, your Ego is not you, but we often completely identify with our Ego as Self. 

Ego is a structure built of a lifetime of experience, disappointment, pain, love, excitement and connection – whatever we experienced in our childhoods, both good and bad.

Our Ego is a curious beast — most of us don’t realize its existence, yet we are under its mercy.

So, this week we explore how to explore Ego gently and to shift it to its rightful place as part of our Being rather than the illusion that it is the whole of our Being.

An in-depth guide to the ancient Toltec practise of Recapitulation - gifted to the world, for all to use. 

Do you have an inner checklist or a set of rules that you assume, if you follow them, will lead to a perfect or happier life?

“When I eat healthily and go to the gym, I’ll have a better body; then I’ll love myself.”

Or

“If I do yoga and meditate every day, then I’ll be less anxious, and people will like me more.”

Most of us live in this transactional space within ourselves, where we’ve decided that if we do X, then we’ll be ‘good enough’ (whatever that means for you).

But somewhere along the way, the pressure to live up to this ever-growing set of inner conditions and rules becomes too great to live up to, and we end up failing in these transactions.

It’s at this point that the voice of your inner transactional relationships morphs into the voice of your inner critic, and you can find yourself in a highly anxious space, often teetering on the edge of depression and anxiety or falling into that dark space entirely.

Luckily, we don’t have to wait until our lives start to crumble under the weight of our transactional relationships.

This week’s podcast is all about how we can move out of this transactional space and into more positive unconditional internal and external relationships (yes, this can apply to external relationships too, tune in to find out more.)

As always, there are tips, tricks and journey Ideas to help you in your journey of Shamanic self-discovery.

Do you ever feel like something or someone is draining your spiritual & mental energy even when you’re not around them?

If so, then perhaps a cord-cutting ceremony is what you need.

What is cord-cutting?

Cord-cutting is a healing technique to help “unhook” you from draining or unhealthy emotional dynamics, freeing you from relational patterns that squander your mental and spiritual energy.

It is a ceremony that you can use with places, people, and sometimes even memories.

This technique can even allow relationships to grow into more healthy states; for example, it enables you to free yourself from unhealthy patterns within the relationship and redefine it entirely.

And it’s the topic of this week’s podcast episode.

I’ll be giving you the full rundown of when and where cord-cutting can come in useful, and I’ll be teaching you how to safely do it yourself.

As always, there are lots of tips, tricks and journey ideas to help you on your path of Shamanic self-discovery

Do you remember episode 79? We talked about Funk Days…. Well, the opposite of a funk day can also be true!

This week we’ll explore the other end of the spectrum – what to do if you experience high spiritual energy.

There are times when I am so full of spiritual energy, I don’t quite know what to do with myself! I’ll feel a rush and a buzz – I’ll want to do everything and will start a tonne of projects – only to lose that energy and end up feeling flat and lethargic - in other words, I'm in a state of burn out.

In this episode, I'll be teaching you how to effectively channel that energy you feel so you can avoid spiritual burn out. 

Many of my clients and students struggle with Journey Interpretation & other Spiritual messages early on in their path. This week we dive into a comprehensive guide to understanding your spiritual messages.

Have you ever felt alone in the Universe, unable to face going through the motions, having no real sense of direction, and feeling hopeless? You could be going through a 'Dark Night of the Soul' or a Spiritual Awakening.

Tune in to this week's episode, where I'll be identifying the main ways you can know if you're experiencing a dark night of the soul and just what can be done to support you through this challenging experience.

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As always, there are lots of useful, actionable advice, guidance and journey ideas to aid you in your Shamanic Journey of Self-Discovery.

I firmly believe that the key to a healthy, happy and emotionally free life is undertaking deep personal work i.e. bravely facing your Shadow and working through your issues (with the help of your spiritual team). 

Shamanism is a wonderful tool that enables us to do this but all too often in the spiritual realms we actually use spiritual practices as avoidance techniques. Using Spiritual ideas as a way to avoid personal work is called 'Spiritual Bypassing'. 

Spiritual bypassing is defined as “using spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep personal, emotional ‘unfinished business,’ to shore up a shaky sense of self, or to belittle basic needs, feelings, and developmental tasks.”

In this episode, I'll be showing you how to recognise and avoid these techniques so you can stay on track with real personal work and not get sidetracked by "shiny spiritual objects'.