Shamanic Dreaming

Here I am on a train again. Saturday morning, pink skies and a day in Edinburgh catching up on the Gobhar colour grade and sound edit with Ryan and Gaby and editing the film for PAMIS. The week has been full. A filming day with my shoulder rig, a day with PhD meetings, new courses launching, the first of the Shamanic Power Retrieval modules completing and many individual sessions and supervisions with people I work with. I am seeing such a colourful and deeply centred and caring pulse of new work come into the world through people. It is filling me with hope.

The shamanic dream begins now in each moment. In shamanic or visionary consciousness we are always aware that every vibration of our intentions, our thoughts and efforts in the world has a profound effect on the future - for ourselves and those ahead of us in time. I honestly think one of the most meaningful tasks of my life is learning how not to react, how to see everything as information and how to ask myself what would be the best way to respond for myself and for the future ones. It has become an automatic intuitive response that takes little thought, but sometimes takes a lot of holding and shamanic and constellation work to undo the deep seated drivers through psychodynamic and gestalt enquiry. We are all elements of waves through time and space and my healing is to feel myself as a part of this wave.

The book Shamanic Dreaming keeps finding people on the bookshelves of shops around the world and this gives me so much joy.

Here is a piece I wrote a few years ago for space holding teaching. Iti s a part of the 'The Human in the Shaman' aspect of my work. I hope it brings inspiration and more kindness and appreciation into your lives.

We create a circle by being positive and kind with one another. We feel able to

state our preferences. We accept one another for what we each choose and create

a circle which operates on unconditional love.

We understand that in the world of humans everyone has their own script going on.

We are born into certain structurings through our family and tribe. They become

molds for us and make an impression on us. We then learn how to trust the way of

intuition and knowing and tune into this way of intuition and knowing better.

Sometimes we find some of the things which held us were useful and natural.

Sometimes we find they were damaging and unhelpful. We learn to move out of

and heal from these.

We know we each have a way of looking at things that can sometimes be affected

by our previous moulds. We learn to step back into the sanctuary and listen to our

knowing to see what is true and what is a drama loop we have been living with. We

learn to not perpetuate drama loops by focusing our thoughts and talk on them but

instead focus our thoughts and communication on what is positive and light. We

don’t ignore our drama loops but quietly put them in the clear light of a healing

place in our sanctuary where they can be given healing light and conditions can

start to flow to heal them.

We also value that everyone else has a unique way of operating and it is quite

possibly a lot different than our own way. We become more and more open-minded

and keen to learn. We keep a clear space and hold curiosity for others checking in

and asking what is happening. We realise we can’t read what they are saying and

we can’t expect them to understand us so we learn to communicate clearly asking

questions and being curious and inviting others to be curious about us. We grow

so much from this!

All the time we learn to hold loving kindness for ourselves, seeing that we are just

work in progress dislodging from some pretty amazing deep scripts. We give

ourselves what we need to be good to ourselves and understand it’s not a

competition and there aren’t any punishments. We cultivate giving ourselves praise

and appreciation. It is the soulful container!

You are really thinking about what you are working with as being like a

multidimensional machine. You are helping the flow and keeping things safe. You

set all of this up when you write your workshop plan with its structuring and you call

all of the spirits in when you set up sessions or classes initially and a few days

before each one. Really know that everyone’s spirits are holding them and that

their journeys are blessed.