Power threats are threats to your value and your esteem. 90% of the time you are not managing physical threats, but threats to your power and your esteem and your value and that is what manages your boundary system. That is what your boundary system is engineered consciously or unconsciously to do, to manage power threats. Does that insight not change the game?! In other words: what is under … Read more about What are Power Threats?
Embracing Shamanism
Exciting annoucement….
Embracing Shamanism is excited to announce that Heart of the Wild has been granted charitable status. Heart of the Wild is a charity being established by a group of dedicated shamanic practitioners and teachers. Their primary aim at this early stage is to acquire land and establish a centre in rural Scotland with a view to offering workshops and training courses in both contemporary and ancient … Read more about Exciting annoucement….
Inner Child Reflection Questions
What would you say your childhood was like? What experiences did you have? Did you have a lot of experiences of abuse or abandonment or rejection? Where you shamed a lot? Where you nurtured and loved and taken care of? Where you allowed to express yourself fully and to follow your heart? Would you see there was predominantly abandonment, predominantly love, or a … Read more about Inner Child Reflection Questions
Tribal Questions
Not only do you have a personal sense of identity that your personal consciousness recruited, but you are part of the subconscious of your tribe, that also forms and shapes identity. Think about all the tribes you belong to. What groups and causes do you belong to? What Tribal Archetype is there for you and where is your identity in that tribal structure? What in your childhood tribally formed … Read more about Tribal Questions
The Dreamer, the Ancestor and the Unborn
Everything is born out of the dream time. Every vision, every thought we have, every action we take, all that is manifest in this world, is born out of the ‘Ocean of Being’ – out of the dream time. Traditional people from different cultures say that we as Westerners are ‘dreaming the wrong dream’ – a dream that is not sustainable in the way we treat the earth and all our fellow inhabitants of this … Read more about The Dreamer, the Ancestor and the Unborn
Shamanic Practitioner Training
Congratulations to the Clan of the Sisters of the Golden Web, which is the latest cohort to have completed the Shamanic Practitioner Training. The core intention of this training is to learn and practice a wide range of time-honoured shamanic methods of healing and transformation, building confidence in their application and nurturing the role and responsibilities as a shamanic practitioner. … Read more about Shamanic Practitioner Training
Become a Love Rebel.
Become someone who is capable of living in an intuitive heart. We are all interconnected, we all do matter. Live in the both-end of mystical truth, you were born to relate. We are here to relate, that is what our souls signed up for. And to relate in a wholistic way you got to have boundaries. The question is ‘how do you want to relate?!’ One wonderful way to discover this is our Healing Circle … Read more about Become a Love Rebel.
Questions to Ask When Things Get Difficult
You can ask yourself simple questions such as: Do they keep their word to themselves? Do they keep their word to other people? If they don’t keep their word to themselves, what makes you think they will keep it with you? Someone can only give you the intimacy that they have with themselves. It’s a simple truth. If you don’t have compassion for yourself, I cannot expect you to have it … Read more about Questions to Ask When Things Get Difficult
Authenticity
Authenticity is coming from what is true in your experience directly without analysis, without the shame, interpretation, that then shouts ‘listen to the shadow’, or mentalizes an emotion. Authenticity is about all your feelings, being with them, expressing them, it is also about true esteem. True esteem is how you really feel about yourself in this moment ‘right now I feel like crap about myself, … Read more about Authenticity
The Wounded Healer.
There is a wound that doesn’t seem to heal and The Wounded Healer says ‘I am here to help you with the transition – let’s go and find spirit medicine’. And you begin this healing apprenticeship with The Wounded Healer . You start to study healing, go to see a healer, you start to seek medicine for your own poison – the poisons that are being triggered and revealed by a chaos cycle. We have a … Read more about The Wounded Healer.