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Compassionate Depossession, and Spirit Release

6/13/2018

Scene from "Spirited away", studio Ghibli, Myazaki

We are like portals, or channels for divine light to pass through. As we work on ourselves, and get clearer, more light shines through. I see many young children in that way; their purity, and openness to life is crystal clear, and they are full of light. We sometimes bring our past energy, karma, and considerations with us into this world, and also, this life, and our experiences can start to mold us, in terms of how much, and where we let in that light. Our mind may protect our sanity by covering trauma with scar tissue, which lessons the pain, but lets in no light. Or, we may splinter off pieces of ourselves, our light, to hide and protect it, because it does not seem safe here. Those pieces may not come back. Or, you may forget about them.

Think of it as a screen, as in a window screen. The life force passes through you, and if there are any blocked holes, any closed off places, or resistant places, or stuck places, the divine light will not pass.
After a while, there will be a definite pattern forming; almost the silhouette of something. There is a pattern, of where you will not allow flow. Perhaps you are not ready to shine light there, are afraid to, or even quite unconscious to it.
You may be drawn to others with a similar pattern of light and dark. Other entities, beings, even thought forms, or attachments may be also.
Neutrality helps the flow. Running your light through those stuck places helps. Being aware of what is you, and validating that.

Compassionate depossession, or spirit releasement is one of the healing modalities that I do. Many people are aware of some of the symptoms of it, but the names are foreign to them. They may have feelings of depression, sadness, incessant self-trashing thoughts, intense anger, sexual arousal, or confusion that does not feel like their own, or that has not had any relief from traditional therapies or healing.
It can also be a physical illness that came on out of nowhere, that doesn’t respond to traditional therapies, from headaches, to back pain to kidney infections.
Some people seem to have never ending drama happening in their lives, or long streaks of bad luck. Sometimes there is a “funky” energy around the person, which makes people avoid or stay away from them.
There are others who hear thoughts in their head that are destructive, or demeaning, or apathetic. After a while, people start to believe that this is their own consciousness. Obviously, sharing your space with another entity can be destructive, painful, and exhausting.
It is exhausting because it needs your life force, to stay in your space. Usually, by the time you seek energetic help, you have been in that situation for a while.

The term “compassionate depossession” comes from the spiritist tradition in Brasil. (Allen Kardec (1804-1869), is the pen name of the French educator, translator and author Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and is the founder of Spiritism).
In other areas it can be known as spirit release, (England) or as spirit removal.

Dr William Baldwin wrote a book in 1995 called, "Spirit Release Therapy", which is the basis for many other works, books, and is an excellent primer on this work. Also, there are differences between an attachment, a possession, and an obsession. There could be some energies, like thought forms, that may need an extraction, a process of removal (done by a guide or helper) and given to an element, such as water, or earth, for release, assimilation, and transmutation.
A shamanic practice known as a”Soul Retrieval” can greatly help. Sometimes it is done before a releasement, sometimes after.
There can also be Soul agreements, or contracts, between spirits, which may make the work difficult, and they can be released, brought into present time, or destroyed. We have free will.

We are free beings. We have the right to choose. That is law in the universe.
Our ability to be cognizant of our sovereignty, even to declare it, is a good protection from evil, and from some of the darker energies that are around us. Control, binding, and slavery are some of the energies of evil. It is an energy on this planet. Even some of the entities caught up in the game of control, and evil, have the ability of declaring their own sovereignty.
One of the things to remember, also, is that you can say hello to, and acknowledge that sovereign spirit that lives in another. Your friend, or the person you are talking to. You can do that from your own space of being sovereign.

In my work I use both terms, Compassionate Depossession, and also Spirit Release. There are times that a releasement is necessary; it may not be aware that it is in another’s body, it may not be human, but an elemental (a basic force of the earth, with a consciousness, like the spirit of a tree, or the spirit of the land).
A depossession may sound frightful to some people, and bring up images of Catholic exorcisms. Well, there are cases where the invading energy is malefic, is there consciously, to cause pain, and destruction, and sometimes it can present itself as dramatic.
The word exorcism can be used, although it reminds us of the Catholic rituals, and of course, the movie. While it can be quite intense, not many people use that phrase, although Wanda Practnika, a powerful Polish practitioner, does. She has also explained her views on the Catholic religion, and its knowledge of, and the history of, it’s use of exorcisms. (At some point, they were not allowed in the church. Then they were, but the priests had nothing to go by. They had to, well, just wing it. In present time, it is used, and allowed, but under strict guidelines.
In the bible, Jesus performed exorcisms. Many other religions have their own versions; Muslims, Jewish. There are writings in the Koran, and in the Kabbalah. Most indigenous cultures have their versions, and their ritual ceremonies. This has been going on for thousands of years. It seems, as humans, we need this practice. It could be a part of our nature.

Through my trainings, with teachers like Betsy Bergstrom, I have learned to use the words compassionate depossession, because it is just that.
In a powerful, contained, protected, sacred space, the practitioner allows the help of guides, and psychopomps (beings whose job it is to help those cross over, go to the light, or into the earth, or finally home, or to their next step. It means guide, or conductor of souls). This is done in a heart centered space, from ones true self, which is, a powerful being of love, and light. You can see the light in the other, and with respect, speak with it, urge out the story of why, and how, to help this "suffering soul", and create an opening for them to move on, and complete.
It is a win-win. It helps the planet as a whole.
This is the work that I do.
I began this lifelong journey of helping others find relief, and wholeness, though, by reading the works of William Baldwin, Dr. Edith Fiore, and Louise Ireland Frey, who use the phrase spirit release, or "spirit release therapy" (coined by William Baldwin).
There is also the phrase “entity removal”, which is true, in terms of what is happening, but for me sounds a bit like a truck that comes to your house, like a Roto-Rooter, with long, vacuum hoses!
A bit of amusement here, because this work can get a bit dense. Always know that you do not need to match the vibration of what is happening, to be of help. It is also a good means of protection, and of clarity, to have some levity. I learned this wonderful tool from all my years at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, to which I am grateful.
There are times that an entity has come into a person’s energy field because of a curse, or a very strong psychic whack. Perhaps this has come down the family line. There are ancestral curses that have been intact for many generations. Sometimes, an entity comes in because of the person’s interest, or participation in occult activities, like Ouija boards, mediumship meetings, or séances. There are attached gurus (not nice beings, full of love and teachings, but control beings, in a religious guise).
Drug use and abuse, alcohol use and abuse, even spending time near people who have a lot of entities in their field, can lead to an attachment. Some people (couples, groups, families) can share a being, or a group of them.
There are some people who are genetically predisposed to allowing another being to enter, and cohabit their space. It can be a family trait. It can be a family being. I see this quite a bit as a psychic.
I also see people who don’t seem to be bothered with them much at all. They live quite comfortable, and happy, in the temple that is their body, with not much drama at all. I see people who have clean chakras, and spaces, who seem to radiate light. They are a beautiful sight to behold, and you can more easily radiate, while in their company. I am happy to say, that I have many friends like this.

It is also true that entities, and humans who have died, but not yet crossed over, can be attracted to people who have a lot of light in their space. Beautiful, clear, clean, sparkly, light infused, loving people are targeted like a moth to a flame. Indeed, it can be mesmerizing, and attractive to something stuck for so long in a grey world, where everything stays the same.
At some point beings that have not gone to the light need an energy source. You may just be that source.
I hope I am informing, and not scaring you at this point. I want to paint a picture for you of how, or why these things happen. They happen to most of us, and to the best of us, at some point. You don’t need to be a bad person, or a weak person, for a being to jump in your field.
But this is why it is so important to have good energy hygiene, not just to meditate, but to clean your energetic field, daily, and also to pull your energy back from wherever you have left it. It is also why you want to stay grounded, and to truly live in your body, to inhabit it. You may need help, with a soul retrieval, a healing where our life force, your soul parts are brought back to you, if you have splintered off at some point, because of trauma, abuse, loss, illness, or sometimes shock.
It’s excellent to be steadfast and clean, and clear your energy field. It’s tantamount to use your psychic protections daily. It’s also ok to ask for help.
Soul loss can be the main event that weakened your field in the first place.

It can also be that you were weak; perhaps an illness, or simply that you had surgery, where you were under anesthesia, and were out of your body for a time. There are so many beings floating around hospitals. You could go in for a tonsillectomy, and come out with much more.
They can be lost, or sad, or in a state of rage. They can have the emotional age of a 3 year old. Or, not be human, but from another dimension. Or put here by the controls of another. Or, simply just lost.

It does seem that it is a part of human nature, though, to have this weakness. For some, the ability may be strength; for protection, as an example. For others, a predisposition, to allow others to co-habitate this body, and, as such, this one precious life. No one needs to suffer, though. There are tools, and there is help.
Knowing yourself is the first step. Be aware of your energetic field, and know what it feels like to be just you, in your space. Keep your light strong, and protections up. Using guides, like Archangel Michael, or your own powerful angels, or guides. Getting regular healings, and tuneups.
Asking for help is a precious tool that we all have.
And knowing, that you are not alone in this, especially if you are human.

If you are wondering what is going on, or are interested in a Soul Retrieval, or a spirit releasement, or just want to know more, here are a couple of blogs, and also a couple of simply explained Youtube videos. (I love the use of the dry erase board!) The second video is quite informative, although does not go into the compassionate aspects of the work, nor does it give you tools to help you. So please stay tuned! I have been writing quite a bit on the subject, and will post more. Please do get a reading from me, if you wish to look at something in more detail.
Blessings, of light, love,
infinite compassion, and amusement,
Helena

copyright helenamazzariello/spiritinjoy 2018

Links:Here are other blog posts of mine on the subject, and below are two short, interesting videos. Enjoy,

https://www.spiritinjoy.com/blog/soul-retrieval-and-integration

https://www.spiritinjoy.com/blog/compassionate-depossession-and-the-importance-of-being-heard

Spirit attachment ~Hans Wilhelm
https://youtu.be/fccoaKbRU2A
Spirit and entity removal, soul loss, soul retrieval, and the energy game on earth ~ Peter Michaels
https://youtu.be/o9PC4V_IWtg

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Transfiguration, the art of moving form into radiance

5/7/2018

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Transfiguration, the art of moving form into radiance.

(and, of being that radiance).
Hello.
I was dreaming last night and got a wonderful message on how to do an Angel Healing.
It was to #1: Call in the angel that you wish to work with
#2: Ask, and allow the angel to merge with every cell (either with you, the healee, or, the place)
#3 Allow the angels to lift up the vibration, of every cell. More light. Expansive. Transforming.
#4 Ask to go into all the dense places
#5 Ask to seal, and close, the aura, and energetic field.

How wonderful! It was Archangel Jophiel, who offered it. There are many ways of asking for healing, from an angel or guide. Like prayer, or like an intentional request. It is intention that is so important, so clarifying.
In the Ascension work that I teach, and that I do, we work with many healing masters, guides and Angels. Their energy is so bright, so expansive, that you cannot help but be affected in a beneficial way.
We also use the energy of the Violet Ray, the transmuting flame in the same way. We may speak a fiat, or short prayer, aloud, because of the power of your own voice, in declaring, in calling into being.
In shamanism, in Sandra Ingerman’s teachings, you can sense the light and expand it into your own being, to become light. Or, to recognize, that you are light, expanded light. By becoming light, which is our true form, and seeing another, as their true form of expansive light, amazing healing, and transformation can occur.
Becoming that light, that radiance, is transfiguration.
It is an amazing healing.
It starts from the heart, the higher heart, and radiates outward. I see it as a loop of energy, like a torus loop, around me. When seeing another in their light, it always looks like a loop of energy.
For you, it may look different.
This light feels amazing, and very protective, and quite expansive.
In using the Violet Flame, it feels quite healing, and transformative, as if heavy, dense energies are being burned up in its flames. There is a reaction going on, a consuming, and a cleansing.
That is why I usually do light work first, then Violet Flame work, and then the light work, at the end.
Sometimes, I will use a blue light, as a protector, on the outside edge of my energetic field.
It works quite well, this blue light. It looks light the blue flame of a gas stove, an etheric, moving energy,
I see the Violet flame energy as also moving, and in action. The blue, for me, though, works very well as a protector.
In the Seven Rays (or worlds of being) the Blue Ray energy, is the First Ray. It is about power, will (divine will), and courage. The Archangel Michael works on this ray, and is a wonderful ally for protection.
It is a good energy to use on the outside of your aura, or field, or to protect something.
I do love the idea, though, of asking an Angel for help, in transfiguration, and for healing. Like a jump start for your car, and then you are good to go.

Whether it is white light, or Violet, or Blue, you can radiate it on your own, and SHINE YOUR LIGHT (Here is a past blog post with more on that, and a sweet meditation video), or you can ask for help, from an angel, in bringing your cells into a higher vibration.
The angels are happy to help you, all you need to do is ask, and to be open to it.
Have a blessed and light filled day!

Here is the chart of the I AM Presence, showing the three columns of protective energy you can use. The figure on the bottom is you, and the golden halo your higher self, and the figure above, is your own god consciousness, or I AM presence. The beautiful, and expanding rings of energy around that are your karma. Your good karma, meaning all the good that you have done, through thought, word, or deed. Your job here is to raise the balance of that. You already have a good start! I’ll talk more on that next month, stay tuned.

copyright HelenaMazzariello/Spiritinjoy 2018

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Healing the ancestral lines

4/7/2018

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I have been enjoying a course in Ancestral medicine, getting to know the 4 lineages of my parents.The main jewel in this is to connect with the well ones, the transcended ones, those who are ok, and can bless you, and have wisdom, from their own journey, that they share. Those who have not transcended, or who are not well yet, can undergo a transformation to join them (Elder Malidoma Somé talks about this word "Ancestralization", the community of well ones). One of the processes in the healing is to grieve, or bear witness, to some of their trials, and traumas. Another is to forgive, and yet another, is to know the blessings that they had, and, are passed down through you.
Whether good, bad, or indifferent, is it wasn't for them, you couldn't be here.

Also, the traumas that are not grieved, or expressed, or healed, will be carried in the bones of the descendants, willing or not. It has been an amazing journey, and I highly recommend Daniel Foor's book 'Ancestral Medicine", if you want a step by step workbook, to do this work in a safe space. Your lineage goes back hundreds of thousands of years. Think 1,000 years, is about 20 generations.
At some point, we all meet.

In working class 3, in course 2, (grieving and forgiveness), I've been working with my mothers Polish lineage. In my Grandfathers lineage, which originated in Lublin. When he arrived in the US, his name shortened from Kozlakevich, to Kozlak, to Koslak.

I can see and feel the pain, in a safe space, guided by my well ones.
"Is there something for me to bear witness to?" I asked.
"It was like a Pogram", they said (except it was about the Polish). Russians, or cossacks, or paid soldiers, attacking at night, killing most of the woman and children. The men could do nothing about the slaughter.
"That is why they drank" the well ones prompted. I was also shown the red and white flag, with the eagle, and a bough. A very, very old version. I am shown, they were forced to leave their land, walking in the high snow, with just the things on their back.
I could feel the grief wave through me, I felt it in my bones.
There was also the rape, of a very young girl.
(I had seen known this before, as a psychic, something about the child of a rape from a cossack, who was not loved, who was hated, because of the rape. His spirit caused a lot of grief, subsequently, after his death. But that is another story.)
I was looking at this young girl, possibly 9 or 10, in her nightgown, huddled against the wooden wall, and staring back, with terror.
"That is where the being came in", they showed.
This is nasty, and dark, and the well ones push me back, not to see/feel. But I grieve it on some level. I am not healing it, or them. That is not my job. ( In this context, it is the job of the well ones, in the lineage).

As I am preparing to leave this journey, I see that the well ones are healing my great grandfather. Perhaps this will take a few more of these sessions.
Afterwards, I was in my garden, looking at my new grape sprouts on the woody stems. I felt softened by the grieving process, like I needed some time to care for my self, but otherwise, good.
I then felt a soft presence brush past my right hand, to get my attention. I saw a flash of my great grandfather, thanking me. Now, I have never seen him, but the polish nose I saw on that face was a telltale sign. I felt protected, I knew he was on his way toward ancestralization, but not quite yet. I'm sure there will be more work on that lineage.
Funny, now that I think about it, my mom had grapes in our yard, that came from her dad.

Flag of Lublin, city in Poland

Because I have been working on both lineages of my mother's ancestral line (which are both Polish, Lublin, and Bialystok, both on the Eastern side), I have been studying the history of Poland. I will share a video, which shows the build up of Europe, both in population, and in boundaries.

Some people doing this work can name relatives, going back many generations, and some only know their parents, or in the case of adoptees, may not even know their parents names. Some have taken DNA test to shed more light, and others just rely on their journey, and psychic abilities.
In this case I have only my mother, and a handful of photos of my grandparents, whom I have never met. I am so lucky to have strong psychic abilities, because this is how I am meeting them. When I journeyed to a relative that had crossed, (my aunt Helen, my mothers sister, who I have known half of my life), she took my hands, and placed them in my Grandmothers hands. And then, I looked up. What an unforgettable moment!

My mothers parents had hard lives, many children, and worked hard. They also were able to leave Poland to live the American dream, and own some land, build a house, a home, a garden, some livestock. Most of the stories I remember, have to do with gardening, stories of being poor, but making it work to be happy, and of family. The small town I grew up in, was mostly Polish immigrants, mostly Catholic, living similar lives.

I'll be doing more work, and explorations, on both sides of my lineages. Happy to share more, later.
Doing this work is not all painful. Here's an older post about my Italian lineage...
https://www.spiritinjoy.com/blog/saying-hello-to-your-ancestors-and-those-who-have-your-back

And here are two videos,
an animation on the history of Poland, (if you like it, here is the link to Pt 2
https://youtu.be/8CwFHH_y2So), and Pt 3 https://youtu.be/8P1y2v0BwnM
and of the population growth in Europe, throughout the aeons.
Gentle blessings,
Helena
copyright 2018 spiritinjoy/HelenaMazzariello

Great quote! Important to have good protections, and tools, and support,
to feel, grieve, and release it.

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Trusting your Process, and your True Self

3/3/2018

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It's all about trusting your process. That helps you to relax into what it is you are doing, and, while doing your best, giving yourself the benefit of the doubt. Also, giving the universe the benefit of the doubt, since the universe knows so much more than you do. Remember also, that you know so much more than you think you do!
This is how I like to think of the process of co-creation. You can see yourself as surfing (or bellyboarding, if you don't know how to surf) in this vast, ocean. You can feel, and sense, the pull of the current, and the waves of the ocean. You have an intention, you have your tools, and you have your energy, your capable spirit, even your past life or past time information, to help you.
Your physical body and it's effort is important. Keeping it strong and happy, or at least motivated, and slightly amused, will help you in your quest.
But it's that sense of trust, and it's ability to keep you both relaxed, and aware, is what we are addressing right now.
I have just come back from a very powerful shamanic training, with one of my teachers, Betsy Bergstrom, in the compassionate depossession of spirits. Some of those "suffering souls" were once human, and some never were. It is an intense, and sacred process. And there are powerful, and yet both sacred, and amazing results, for all parties involved.
It can be quite intense, and you need to be both centered, and protected.
One thing that I will do, in the set up of this process, is to become aware of my "True Self". Whether that is called my I AM Presence, or my God Self, or my True Self. This is the self that is radiant, expansive, that cannot be wounded, corrupted, or changed in any way. And once I have connected to that part of me, and with my higher heart, I start to allow, and trust in the process.
You are that self. You have access to that True Self, too.

It is almost too simple. To be your radiant self, to connect with it, and to become it, connects you to all your tools and resources, with no effort.
It is the smaller you, the ego you, the fear based you, that lacks trust; it wants a guarantee. By stepping into the light of your own being, that clear knowing, or cognizance (it's located in your 7th chakra, one of your tools, one of the "clairs" that you have, like clairvoyance, clear sight, and clairsentience, clear feeling), comes into play.

This is one of the places that I read from, as a psychic. I may "see" things with my clairvoyance, but my "claircognizance" makes sense of it all, makes it whole. I have learned to trust that place, to get answers.
BE STILL, AND KNOW.

When creating something in your life, or, in creating your life, the tool of trust, can help you immensely. Either in trusting the universe, or in your true self. Even in the law of attraction, allowing yourself to feel the vibration of the word "trust" in your being, allows you to relax a bit, take a breath, and allow. It may feel like the opposite of control.
How strange, that most of our life, and our world, we cannot control. Most people see that as a sense of not having power. Power=control. Leaning on another person, or an Angel, or a friend, or guide, or the universe itself, seems the antithesis of creation.
But sometimes to stop struggling, to not know, to allow yourself to be led, to be shown, is the key. There is Grace in that. It is the secret password, of your next step. The previous article speaks on this, on Grace, and on letting go.

Listen to your dreams, for they are smarter than you.

There can be, for us, some wounding surrounding trust, either from people that have abused ours, or from a notion that the universe did not have our back. Many of us have at some point, turned our backs on that place of trusting the universe. In this place, I may interject the word "God'. I have seen so many people turned away from their god, from their own light, because they felt abandoned, or let down, when they trusted.
there can be a lot of pain there. Present time, and past time pain, and past life pain, or possibly ancestral trauma and pain. It is worth doing the healing work if it seems insurmountable, to go back and release or heal the old, old patterns. For now, though, breathing, grounding, centering, relaxing, and saying hello to and accessing your True Self, and going into a place of co-creation, with a loving universe, can be a goal worth reaching. Not only will it bring peace of mind, and immense healing, but you'll be working with the laws of the universe, instead of against them.
Not only will your emotions, and your mind experience the shift, but your body will, too. It's a wonderful, expansive energy, to trust, and to know. The opposite can be a cosmic isolation, that you have to do everything yourself, effort, effort, and the world is out to get you.
Even if there is past trauma, the expression of it can get you out of isolation, and to a place of healing, of being heard, and that you matter.

Gabor Maté, a family physician, and also a medical coordinator of the palliative care unit of the Vancouver Hospital, talks about and has studied clinical cases for years, how a people who can't trust, or express their authentic selves, and go into seclusion about it, has a much greater risk of getting sick, with illnesses such as cancers, and autoimmune diseases. Some people become sick from years of not trusting (that you are safe while sleeping, for example), long after the initial trauma has past. He shows that not the trauma, but the lack of its expression, raises the risk of illness. If you are interested in his findings, I'll post the link of his talk here.

Now, I'm not saying don't participate in creating your amazing reality, with slow and steady effort, hard work, and love, and passion, and (of course),asking for help. What I am saying, is to realize the wisdom of the universe, and to allow it to unfold.
You cannot control everything, and it will break you to try.

I am saying to be curious.
To be open, to allow.
I am saying to trust.
Don't quit, in the middle of what you are creating, when it gets tough,
the struggle will not last.
Trust yourself, hold the vision, trust the process.
Do you remember the last time that you did trust, and it was ok, even better than you could've planned?

Love the process. Be in that place of absolute surrender, once you have set your intention in motion. Don't worry so much about the "how" of it.
Be in certainty. And clear knowing (that place, in your 7th chakra, on the top of your head, where you connect to divine intelligence).
You can feel fear, and you can learn from exploring it, but you don't need to match the energy of it. Same with the energy of isolation, either personal, or cosmic.

Trust in the divine timing of things (that can be hard for me). Trust in the power of love!
Meditation, and mindfulness help you to get to the quiet place where there is little mind chatter. It's a good practice, becoming a clear vessel, to be still, and know.
Trust is a belief, and it is also a tool, as is asking for help. And getting out of your own way, is a part of that. It is allowing.
Trusting the process, tapping in to your True Self, and allowing yourself to be a co-creator in your own life, is like surfing the waves in the ocean; it involves practice. It's the art of knowing when to effort, and when to let go.

HelenaMazzariello/Spiritinjoy copyright 2018

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The gift of Grace, in asking for help

2/6/2018

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There is a grace, and a vulnerability that makes asking for help so powerful and strong. Those words seem opposite, but they are not. Just as giving and receiving are two sides to the same coin, so is the strength in asking for help. Especially, if you are not used to it. You have to loosen the belt of the ego, and admit that you don't know everything, and can't see around corners, and perhaps know (or suspect) your own limits.
I try to write about tools for us to be aware of, and use in both our spirit life, and our everyday life. I think this is a powerful tool, because it precedes all the other stuff that comes up, that can be a waste of time, consciousness, and life force.
When working with angels, as many of you know, the basic rule is, they cannot do anything, until you ask. They cannot intercede. It is the same with your teachers, your friends, and perhaps the universe, or the multiverse. I believe that even practicing the laws of attraction, in your life, is a way of showing the universe that you need to change the energy to something that fits better. You do much of the changing, by using your thoughts, and emotions, and energy to match what you wish to create, or experience, and the universe is a willing partner in the dance.
The same with your friends, and your colleagues. The same with the landscape of your own mind, and heart.
For those of you who work with spirit guides, Power animals, or helping spirits, it is the same.
Some people hand their problems up to Jesus, (or god/goddess/all that is), and ask to be shown the next step.
"Let Go and let God".
"Google it".
"I am in a place of the unknown. I don't have all the answers. I am willing to ask for help, and to receive."
It's a place of not being in control, of not knowing. It's a place of sitting with the mystery of that.
Always having a plan can be good, and feeling that you are in control is great, but sometimes that is not what is. You may need to backtrack, for a bit, and just sit with it all.
Be in the mystery.
Perhaps there is a bigger plan, that you are not aware of.
The void.
You can't manage it alone, you need another way, a different viewpoint, another paradigm, and you can't get there by just pushing, pushing, trying to control, with the old mindset, or the old tools, or the old way.
I think, and have come to understand, that being in the mystery is a holy place. It is an initiation. You perhaps give up from ego exhaustion.
There can be so much energy on "It's a problem".
Maybe you are making your life into a movie of "This is a problem", and have set the stage, the characters, the speeches, etc.
Perhaps you get something out of that.
Perhaps it serves a purpose.
It can make me go unconscious. It can cause a lot of pain, and uncertainty, and I lose energy.
So, let's take a look at that place, of stepping back, and being in the mystery, of not knowing, and having that be ok for a while. Maybe it is a big issue in your life.
Breathe into that place, and relax a bit.
Be vulnerable. Be complete with being incomplete.
Just allow.
Here, in this place, is grace.
It's like a moment of silence, in a crazy, loud, fast paced world.

Just be in the present moment, and be aware of what's around you.
You can drop the ego act, or at least be aware of it in your thoughts, and emotions, and get a little space.
A time out.
Breathe, and be grateful, for what is, and for it all, in this silent space. In your heart.
That's when Grace makes it's appearance. After you've let go.
And grace is wiser than you.
Just continue to be with the great mystery for a moment more, and drop all that other stuff. And breathe into your body.
And now, ask for help. Be open to it, to how it comes. Whether it's an idea, or help from an ally, or nature, or divine intervention. Perhaps it is your own higher Self. Perhaps, you just needed a time out.
You went into neutral, and became quiet, and vulnerable, and grace came.
And that is a splendid tool, indeed.
In a short while, you will feel nudged, into taking action. But it will be inspired action, not grinding action. Listen to your quiet voice, or the nudging of the angels, or helping spirits you have asked. You should have more energy now, tempered energy, to make it happen. In that quiet space, you will feel, or know the correct next step, as an expansion, not a contraction. You will sense it, and know it, even if you don't know why.
Not independant, but interdependant.
Here's to Grace, making it's quiet landing, like a bird, showing up because there is a quiet space for it.
Many blessings, on your day,
Helena

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Where do YOU go when you die?

1/11/2018

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Hello! Another amazing year of Spirit in Joy, as we proceed into our next phase of our journey, our lives. We are shedding the old, and building the new, and our roots are sinking further into this planet of ours, with these beautiful, and finite bodies of ours, and we are nourished by deeper places.
It has been said that, "the secret of life is that it stops". Well, I have seen enough, of spirit to know that it actually doesn't, it just changes form, changes worlds.
In my never ending shamanic studies, I have added to my plate Ancestral Medicine, and healing (Daniel Foor's book, and work are excellent). It has been wonderful to be witness, and say hello to those radiant ancestors, who can guide, and bless, and even heal and help the ones who need healing and help, so you, and your descendants do not take on the burdens, or the dis-ease. I am learning, and meeting, and understanding, and enjoying, and being nourished by this process. My work, and studies will help my clients with their needs, and I can better serve my community.
I have just taken a Death and Dying course, with Sarah Dole, as part of my journey towards a teachers program of shamanic studies (with Sandra Ingerman). I am also embarking on the advanced compassionate depossession course with Betsy Bergstrom, coming up next month. I have been doing this work for two years now, and it will help me go safely deeper, and my abilities will be able to help others.
I must say, I have chosen the best teachers I know of. I am forever grateful for the guidance here, the nudging from my spirit, and my helpers, in the work that I love, and that I do. It has helped my psychic readings and healing enormously, and has even crept silently, into my art.
But then again, this is an art form.
So, on to the page title. We had done a journey on "Where do you go when you die?"
Obviously, it is different, and personal for everyone. Some go to the light, some go into the earth, some stay around, and forget, or don't let go. Some have help. Some need it. Here is my adventure.

I felt myself squeezed through a dark, earthen tunnel, and felt a bit claustrophobic. I felt a weight, or a pressure on my chest. Then I realized, that I was dead. I felt sad. I looked at the people around me, and didn't really know them. I saw family members standing around, in the distance, but they did not contact me, they just stood there. It wasn't really a love fest, at first. I saw my body, in a Catholic mass. It didn't have the result, like I had once witnessed my other relatives experienced. But it was ok. I felt people who loved me praying, or doing energetic work in my behalf, and it was so healing, and good. I did feel the presence of a guide. I saw arms grabbing me, and lifting me up. Ahh... I remember looking down at my body, at my life, like a life review. I thought, how sad that, "bad things can happen to good people". I felt the compassion, and the love, for my earthly body, and giving, funny, creative personality. I truly loved, while I was here.
Now what?
Then, I thought, "Hey, I have all these spirit tools". "I can do whatever I want"!
I started to move energy around. I started to fly around.
I remembered my enthusiasm.
I said hello to my angels, my teachers, the Ascended Masters, my helping spirits. I used the power of the Violet Flame, and I transfigured, and radiated light.
I just became light. It lifted me.
(Boy, I am so glad for these spirit tools while I have a body! In retrospect, I am grateful for my tools, sharpened, ready, and at my disposal. And, yes, you can take them with you when you go!)
So now, the energy is so much lighter. There is so much light. I can see separate places of learning, and places of healing, and can also see beings there, that I know and love. My friends, my family, my guides.
I am feeling like I am a part of everything else, like an interconnected, woven, web of light.
I feel so expanded.
Such light, and love.
I feel like I am finally home.
I was then shown a choice.To go into the cosmos. It looked like stars, and a million amazing choices. It was vast place of many galaxies, and dimensions. It was so beautiful, and I knew, in an instant, I could easily travel to where I wished to go.
My other choice, was to stay around the planet earth, to help hold space, and heal her. I could see the vast planet with a network of light around her; small brilliant points of light where the lines intersected. I could see those intersections were being held by beings, beings of love and light. It was so beautiful. How much love we all have for her.
I could also see some kindred spirits there, and they waved at me to join them. They were my soul family!
So many of them incarnated to Brasil this last time, while I stayed in the north. Oh how happy I was to see them!
When I saw my choices, I thought, "Well, let's go into the galaxies, and other universes first, just to see".
I was stopped by two guides, in the shape of a Peregrin Falcon, and a Blue Heron. No, your job right now is to stay and hold space for the earth.
And I was so happy to be able to do that, and reconnect with my family.

Coming out of a journey like that takes a little time. To squeeze all that expanse of a spirit back into a tiny body, like getting a large parachute into a jacket pocket.
My heart felt very full.
I am glad to have my spirit tools with me.
They are good things to have.
Each person in the class experienced it differently, but all felt the merging, and the love, and the light. And that they were not alone. If I do the journey again, it will probably be different, or show me different things. And your journey will show you different things too. But I do see, that it is about love.
So make sure you do all those things which you love here, and to truly love, here.
That seems like the cosmic plan.
Oh, and compassion. Lots of it.

Helena Mazzariello/Spiritinjoy copyright 2018

Lightwork, by Autumn Skye

I leave you with these beautiful quotes...

"You will lose everything. Your money, your power, your fame, your success, perhaps even your memories. Your looks will go. Loved ones will die. Your body will fall apart. Everything that seems permanent is impermanent and will be smashed. Experience will gradually, or not so gradually, strip away everything that it can strip away. Waking up means facing this reality with open eyes and no longer turning away.
But right now, we stand on sacred and holy ground, for that which will be lost has not yet been lost, and realizing this is the key to unspeakable joy. Whoever or whatever is in your life right now has not yet been taken away from you. This may sound trivial, obvious, like nothing, but really it is the key to everything, the why and how and wherefore of existence. Impermanence has already rendered everything and everyone around you so deeply holy and significant and worthy of your heartbreaking gratitude.
Loss has already transfigured your life into an altar."
-Jeff Foster

"Ring the bell that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen

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Being in the center of your head

12/21/2017

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Here is a great energetic tool for your spirit toolbox.

I enjoy writing about psychic or awareness tools, because they really are tools that you get to have, like a drill, or a screwdriver. These are spirit tools, which means you don't need a body to use them. But it's nice to have one.
As spirits who inhabit bodies. it's so easy for us to travel out of them: to the past, into the future. We go and visit other people, and places, and just leave our bodies. Eventually we come back, and sometimes bring that information back with us, but mostly, we just space out, and leave. While that can be innocent enough, some things can happen to us while no one is home minding the store.

If our bodies are not energetically protected, energy can slide in opportunistically. Many marketing strategies are based on that. You can be easily programmed as to which peanut butter is better to buy. If we are not in our bodies, our bodies may not feel safe, and the lower chakras open up to give us that information, and help us. As a psychic, I can see that the spirit of some people resides above their heads, and the body must fend on its own. Some people are so busy, or worried about the future, or in the future, that their spirit live a bit out of the body, in front of themselves. Again, body doesn't feel so safe. Some bodies put on weight, to feel more grounded, or safe. Some bodies take on hitchhikers, beings who take advantage of the fact that you don't really live there much. Some have spirit guides, that try to manage it all for you. All that comes at a cost. At the very least, you stub your toes a bit, and are spaced out, or accident prone. The worst case scenarios can be invading entities, being programmed, or being at the effect of other peoples beliefs and pictures about who you are, and what type of peanut butter you need to buy.

Being in your body allows for choice. You can still travel around, as we all do, but coming back in to a clean, vibrant space that is yours, and is the way you left it is the best. It means you have your power, and your seniority, because this is your vehicle, this beautiful body of yours. It is your temple. It is finite. It depends on you.

There is a spiritual space, in the center of our heads, right behind our eyes. It helps us to filter out all the noise from our daily life experience, and just be. Here, we can focus on consciously creating our experience. Here, it is calm, and clear, and you have access to your intuition, your focus, and concentration, your ability to tell the truth from a lie, and your intuition. I do much of my readings, and my healings, from this space. I do my daily meditations from this place. It is both my refuge, and my place of power.

While I love being in my body, and engaging all my chakras, all parts of me, each has its own place, in my life.
Being in the center of my head is different than being in my heart.
I consider my heart space to be powerful, and expansive, and inclusive. I consider it to be my communion with God/Goddess/All that is, and my deep connection with others, with all of life.
I still have that Source energy communion in the center of my head, but it is much more personal. It is where I can find my own truth. I consider it to be command central, like being behind the wheel of my car. You can think of it as the cockpit of an airplane, or just you, in your favorite cozy room, your workshop.
It is so easy to get distracted in all that is going on around (and within) you, that it usually takes a conscious effort to get back into the center of your head. It is a continuous leaving, and coming back in. That's why I meditate there, and why I discipline myself to keep going back, after I have left. I do this lovingly, and in a space of ease and kindergarten. Simple is best. So is laughing, when I realize I have left. I leave, and come back in, so many times throughout my day. Why, I forget, and remember, so many times, in the course of a half hour psychic energy cleansing meditation! I wonder how many times I have already done that today?
Being in the center of my head is also a way to retrieve my spirit from all the places it has been.
Here, I have access to my intuition, to clear sight.

My 6th chakra is also my perceptions, and my imagination. Knowing that these help to create my reality; it is a powerful place indeed.
It represents the element light. Light, which can travel at speeds beyond our comprehension! Our bodies see the world, and it's objects, as reflected light.
I do my readings from my 6th chakra. I also use my 7th (claircognisence), and my 5th Chakra (communication).
I use my 4th chakra also, when I do shamanic work, and healing. (This is a powerful place also, but that is for another blog post).

Awareness, vs Attention.
When you are clear, and sitting in your command central, which is the center of your head, that is home base. It is where your awareness lies.
You may put your attention on things outside of yourself, but you, the spirit stay here. As if you are in a room, and looking outside through a window.

There are many times that I have been teaching a class, or doing a reading for someone, and I start to space out, or forget what I was saying. I may even feel irritated.
The person wanted to hear me so badly, that they left their own space, and put their energy right in the center of my head! Or, perhaps, they have a live in entity, or over enthusiastic spirit guide, or family being. It may simply be a matter of a being with boundary issues, and not anything with mal intent.
In this case, a simple spirit to spirit Hello, while kindly but firmly backing them out, should do the trick. Let them get back in the center of their own head, and just, simply, pay attention to what I am saying.
Ahhh, instant relief!

You can do a simple meditation, to be aware of, and be in, the center of your head.

Close your eyes, and breathe, and relax.
Be aware of yourself.
Now simply put your first finger on your forehead. Be aware of the place where your finger touches your forehead, and bring your full awareness, to that place. Just notice what you notice.
I sometimes tap gently, reminding myself to gather myself up from wherever I was, and come back here. I may use my breath to bring myself back. Simple.
I teach this in my psychic meditation/ energy tools class. I have them (using the first fingers of their hands) touch both the front of their forehead (like you just did) and also the back of their head, right in the middle, and make an imaginary laser beam line that connects the two points. Then I ask them (they still have their eyes closed) to put one finger about an inch above their left ear, and the other finger about an inch above their right ear, and see another laser beam, connecting them. So now they have an "x" of a bright blue, or red, or green laser light, and I ask them to be right where these two lines intersect. They are right in the center of their head. It's quite a wonderful feeling, both to just be home, and also to command yourself there. Gently, lovingly, and with patience.

At this point, you can start to fill up that space, with you. Use your breath, to breathe yourself back in. Make that a room in the center of your head, instead of just a point of light. You can clearly see now, and even move about. Make a comfy chair for yourself, get to know the walls, windows. Light a candle, or add your favorite flowers. I am able to see out of the windows. I am able to clean out any clutter, or unconscious energy (which I see as white, fuzzy energy, which makes me want to fall asleep, or go into la la land). Kick out anybody else that might be there, taking up space. It is your command central, your drivers seat, only for you.
Breathe. Breathe yourself back in, and fill up the space with your beautiful energy.
Get to know this place, and how you feel when you as spirit, are in there, and aware, and thriving. Then, you will be very aware, when you are not. Perhaps you left on your own accord, and perhaps, you got kicked out of your body. A psychic whack from another, or a trauma, or perceived trauma on the body, might eject you. Drugs, or alcohol may do it too. Even a flirtatious encounter, or an argumentative one, or a room filled with people who are trancemediums. Your partner, your kids, or perhaps your favorite pet can jump in there. Notice who you are, and what happens, when you are not centered, or not in the center of your head.
Be selfish with this space.
No sharing.
Be patient, and loving, and just figure a way to get back in. There are times that I must break a window, and climb back in again. (just kidding, but perhaps not). Sometimes just a deep breath, a chuckle, and the finger test, is all it takes, and you are home. The more you practice, the easier it gets.
Many blessings, and enjoy your space!
Helena
Helena Mazzariello/copyright 2017

I teach this and many more energy tools for your psychic toolbox, and give readings, healing, and energy checks on how they are working for you. Feel free to contact me with any questions, and please give it a Facebook like , or comment here. Stay tuned for next months topic!

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Grief, Gratitude, and the courage that it takes

11/4/2017

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Side by side, grief, and joy. Grief is the price we pay for love. When we lose something that we loved, that was a part of us, it is a long, sometimes lifelong journey of grieving. In most cultures, grieving is a community thing. You are urged to have support. There are people who grieve with you, who hold space for you, so you can be submerged in the waters of emotion, and thrash about, without dying yourself. Grieving hurts. But it is so necessary, not only for you, but for the person or thing lost, and for the ancestors, and also, for your community.

In his talk, "Grief and Praise", Mayan Shaman Martin Prechtel says that they are one in the same thing; they come from the same muscle. If you cannot grieve, you cannot praise. And to him, fully grieving, is where you "look bad" when you are done; your hair is torn out, your clothes are ripped, and you are down in the street.
Your (true) friends and family watch out for you, and allow you to fall apart, but not drown in the ocean. They take care of you, they allow, even encourage.
Your true grief will bring up their own. Your vulnerability allows for others to have theirs. It works like that.
It is because you loved so much, that you grieve. Your praise is there, too, just as in your praise of things, lies a twinge of sadness, because all good things end one day.
Including you.
Some things cannot fully take their next step, until they are fully grieved, fully felt.
Ancestors, and the dead, including.
In my work with helping beings to take their next step, stuck pain, and grief can be the cause of them not leaving, not able to leave.
They, too, need their story heard, and need to release all that pain.
Do you think some of your ancestors died that way? Perhaps we carry some of it, and it is a family trait. Stuck energy can become toxic, no matter where it is.

Grieving is not just about people. It can be about a part of you, a forgotten dream, a powerful incomplete. Perhaps an animal, or not living up to potential.
It can be an exile of sorts. Or a communal pain. A cultural one. An ancestral one.
We can grieve collective pain.
Grief is not depression. That is the absence of it. That creates ghosts. It creates sickness. Unexpressed, held in grief, can solidify; it can become a tumor, a sickness, a toxic stone. It will manifest in the inability to feel joy, to fully praise, to love, to feel alive. When we stop the heart, we become shallow.
It may keep you stuck at that place or time, unable to move on, or to dream a new dream.
There can be a tendency to inflict pain on others, in that closed hearted place. It can be a dangerous thing, indeed, when a person (even unconsciously) tries to invoke that humanity inside themselves, that pain, by hurting those around them, perhaps, because they do not have access to their own, or it is not safe to grieve.
That must be what it is like, in the middle of a war. It can turn into violence.
It can become a burden on the living.

This solidified sorrow can be stuck in our family lines also. Our ancestors who did not grieve, and were not grieved for, unfortunately pass it down the generational line. We hold onto it, as sickness, as burden, as depression, and also as the inability to fully express joy, and praise.
We in turn will pass ours down.

Some cultures make it harder to express their emotions publicly; or to stay in grief, or are not ritually accepted as communal practice. Some are.
In our Western culture, and also in some Christian religions it seems, the habit to be stoic, virtuous, to keep it together, and to hide emotions, (or to anesthetize them), robs us of our ceremony, our ritual, our space to fall apart, to feel all the feelings. Not just alone, but in a connected space with others.
That there are ritual actions, like the cutting of one's hair, or wearing all black. Communities can work together, like one organism, in holding space, or in grieving as well. Symbolic completions, like church ceremonies, or gatherings, help greatly, but that does not happen for a loss like an animal, or a vocation, a deep friendship, or the maiming of the sacred land where you live.
Some people need to be 'provoked" into grieving. The possibilities, of that lost dream need also to be grieved. The stories told, and heard. Let out.
Not necessarily acted upon.
There can be anger, feelings of revenge, the stuff, the stories. This needs to come out of the muscles, out of the body, out of the heart, and be expressed, and be heard.
You may need to keep the fire going for a while, to allow, or, to have others help to do that for you.
Or you may need to do that for another. Ask the questions, and allow what comes up to be heard. Know, and accept that persons limits, also (or your own).
Grieving people do not need to be fixed; they need to be heard. Do not let them drown in the big waves. But let it be felt.

Grieving is active. Wretched grief, is cathartic. It happens in the body, in the muscles. It is necessary, and should not be postponed. It is not a preference, and not a deference.
It may feel overwhelming, like massive turbulent waves, that knock you over, and thrash you about. A smell, a memory, an unsaid word. Some trigger.
It may seem unending. But, after a while, you realize that you did not die, that you made it through. After a while, they come less frequently. After a while, it becomes a scar, that you still feel, on occasion, but has become a part of you. And we are here to love, and to be loved, to experience, and to have scars.

Some people feel that they do not have time to grieve, do not have time to fall apart. But it is a natural process, of the heart, that will leave us feeling more alive. Not happy, necessarily, but real.
Fully grieving is natural, and it takes courage. And like the word "courage", it's root, comes from the heart. It becomes a badge of honor that you wear, on your spirit.
And from that real place, comes growth. The seeds of praise are there, the reasons why you loved what you did. The reasons why it hurts so bad, the good that it was. The good that is there. The love that is there. The praise of what you lost. That is the honey, in the heart.
Some things in life, are just hanging on. You haven't processed them, because you are afraid, or numb, or haven't made a full decision.
You must let them die. Let them fully die, so you can begin to grieve it.
You may need help from community. You may need to use ceremony, or ritual. Ask your angels, and guides for help, if you have no one.
Christina Pratt, in her "Why Shamanism Now" podcast, says about grief:
Be with nature. Cry into the earth, your wretchedness, and let her take it from you. Or let your tears go into the water. Allow. Thank. be gracious. Leave an offering. Or write and write your stories, and your feelings, and burn them, and let the fire consume them, and the air take them. Talk with someone. Moan and wail to the crashing waves, until you are empty.

But until you do, you will cut off, from your heart, the other side of this, which is the praise of the thing you had, or were, or loved. The reasons why. The love.
Sometimes as you give yourself the space to grieve something, like an ended marriage, for example, you can find the lost dream there, and untangle it. After grieving your loss, and knowing the praise, and the love there, you can have the space to dream again.
We do all of this, to be real, to be alive, to be in the present, so we can return to the serious, and awesome business of the intimate relationship with life.
So we can begin again.
Grief can be messy, can be ugly, can be very, very, old, or just yesterday, but the doing of this sacred act, invites in, it's counterpart of praise, of love, and with it, a badge of honor, the ability to start again, and the sweet alchemy of grace.

Helena Mazzariello copyright 2017

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You may be psychic not crazy

10/8/2017

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Last week I gave a talk for a UC Berkeley class, which is called, "Nature, and Healing". I loved the subject matter they were teaching, and I was happy to do it. It. One of the women found my name on the Shamanic Practitioners list, that my teacher Sandra Ingerman has.
She just wanted me to come, and speak about what it is that I do, and how it heals the earth.

The phrase, "You may be Psychic, not crazy", is coined from the Berkeley Psychic Institute's founder Lewis Bostwick, and it makes sense for those sensitive intuitives who need a Hello, or acknowledgement, that what they are seeing is real, and it's ok, they are not crazy. Being very sensitive to other's energy and emotions, and knowing what's yours, and what's not, may make all the difference, in their world.
I already know that about myself, but it is a perfect title for the story I'm about to tell.

The whole experience was wonderful, starting with perfect parking in crazy Berkeley, right next to the campus. The building I went into was an old Gothic building, a Christian Science Organization, in affiliation with UCB. It was built in 1933, and has those super tall, carved ceilings, and gigantic windows with diamond stained glass patterns. As I walked into the room, while the students were coming in, and sitting down, I noticed about 4 or 5 beings (probably builders, or Christians, or early faculty members from the 30’s or 40’s) who lived there, permanently. I could see them up in the corners of the room. They were all male, and seemed to be in “good spirits”. I said Hello! And asked if it was ok, to have a shamanism, and lightwork session here. They were amused by the whole thing, and agreed, and stayed off to the side.
The women who met me said hi, and immediately mentioned that they feel a presence there.
There was a packed room, of students, who all seemed friendly, and interested, and settled in.
First they did a gratitude talk, and a meditation about being in the present moment. Then there were some slides, showing a short Ted Talk about the maker of the movie “Crazywise”, a film about a different way of looking at mental illness, from a energy, or shamanic point of view, instead of a pharmaceutical one. The co-creators of the class then had them answer a few questions about what they thought crazy means, what they think society thinks crazy means, and if they themselves had ever experienced anything like that. The answers weren’t to be shared, just to make them (us) think.
Then they showed a short 3 minute talk from a speaker in the film, and guess who it was… Sandra Ingerman!
So here is my teacher, in her beautiful deep blue sweater, talking about a shamanic point of view, on the screen, and then it was my turn to go. Talk about holding space for me!
And the talk was a breeze. They loved it! I told them about my psychic training, and work, and my shamanic training and work. I showed them how to give (and receive) a spirit-to-spirit hello, how to ground, and how to be in the center of their head, and in their body. (That was fun!) Then I had them sink into their hearts, and feel that, and also the heartbeat of the earth. I talked a bit about Ascension work, and showed them their higher heart, and explained about the 3 basics…love, wisdom, and power, and how to come from that, and show up as that.
Then I said the basics of shamanism, and talked about Sandra’s work, including radiating, and transfiguring. We talked about Masaru Emoto’s work, on thought forms, and emotions and water, and how it is affected by it. I gave them all the links to see the results of the water, and the cheerios, and tacos, and her courses, and classes, and books.
We did some radiating, and healed ourselves, and the planet, by being, not sending.
I showed them how to create sacred space, by decree, instead of petition, and we set a nice lime green bubble, the size of the room, and grounded it, to hold us during class, (we set it at a bright color) which we would deflate, and destroy at the end. This is something that I do, and I find it works quite well, to delineate space.
(The Christian guys up in the corner were very amused by this!)
I told them about the work that I do, the psychic readings, and healings, the labyrinths, and compassionate depossessions, and soul retrievals, and they had so many questions. Some people cried, and released energy and pain. Many stayed after class was over, and we talked and shared many stories.
I only had a short time to talk about labyrinths, but I gave some history, showed them different types, and told them about seed patterns, and how to make them. Most importantly, I showed them how, when your foot touches the earth, when walking slowly through one, that it is like a moving prayer, that connects you to source, and also heals the earth.
The guys up in the corners of the room liked that.

We dismantled sacred space, and asked that all got home safely, and that we would get a blessing. We pulled all of our energy out of the room, and destroyed our temporary green bubble. Lots of people got their answers, and we left the big, tall ceilinged, impressive building.

The sweet part, was, as I was getting in my truck to drive home, I smelled a distinctive scent…one of my favorite flowers, a lilac. I just smelled it for a moment, enjoyed it, and then looked around. Nothing but truck, and campus sidewalks, on a warm evening.
then I saw one of the beings from the building. Such a gentleman. He wanted to say thank you, and hand me a flower.
The class that these women are creating there is awesome, and is actually open to the public, even though it is a credited UC course. I was happy to be a part of it, and I thank all my shaman friends for holding space for me while I spoke to a full class. I appreciated the support.
Now, I won’t be so nervous about speaking to a larger group.
Gentle Blessings,

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Archetypes and Flexibility of Consciousness

9/5/2017

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While this blog post looks at Archetypes, in deities, in others, and in ourselves, the intent is really about choice, about flexibility of consciousness, and sovereignty and connection as spirit. The term Archetype comes from the ancient Greek, archien, “original, or old “, and typos, which means “pattern, model, or type”.
An original pattern, of which all other similar objects, concepts, persons, are derived, copied, emulated.
We know the term well, from psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, who used the concept in his theories, and work of the human psyche.
He believed that these mythic, and universal traits and characters, all reside in our collective unconscious, and they are fundamental human motifs, or templates, of our evolving experience. They can evoke deep emotion. They can be patterns that we grow from, and weave in and out of. We can become them, and live our lives through them, without being aware of them, or their power over us, or through us.
While there are many archetypes, Jung looks at 12 of them, 4 in each compartment of ego, soul and self. Each type share a similar fuel, or driving source, or motivation.
While we all have a few we are working on at the moment, most people have one that dominates their personality.
That also means that we see people through those lenses, and others see us through that lens as well.
Many deities, and Gods and Goddesses all over the planet share these archetypes. Many of them even share strong forces of nature; lightening, wind, or fire, for example.
They are so old, so ancient. Instilled in us from our ancestors perhaps, or just common templates in which to travess the world.
And how important! How vital, how helpful!
To set out, upon a perilous journey, as the hero, in your world, or to have the wisdom and compassion through pain of the wounded healer.

I can see how easily, though, we could live our lives in a bit of a trance, there, or get lost in a comfort zone. Perhaps the comfort zone we choose to sit in, or the comfort zone of another.
It could easily be a kind of possession. Not as an oppressing entity, but a trance state, which colors your sense of who we are.

In my work in the spiritual world I see people who worship various gods, and goddesses, and emulate them, and gain strength through them. You may identify with one angel, or Orisha. Emulate that energy, work with it, let it work through you.
You may have a shrine to a deity, but you are not that deity.
It may help you in your life’s struggles, or in a way of seeing the world, but you are not that. You are you.
The good part about identifying with an archetype is the enormous boost it can give you. It can be an energetic boost, and since it is ancient, there is a power to it from all that has come before. Perhaps your family line tends toward one or the other.
The bad part is you can lose yourself in it. You may get a bit dogmatic, if your own ego starts to meld and mesh with it. You may get a bit annoying to others (if you are always the victim, or the trickster, for example, or always the sexy goddess).
You may forget that you have choice.
You may want to relate to them, instead of unconsciously identifying with them.
We have, we all have, many temperaments, many ways of looking at things, many ways of creating our lives.
Like goddesses, and warriors, lovers, sages, rulers, caregivers. Healers, and wounded healers.
And so do others.
Dr. Daniel Foor, (who wrote the book, “Ancestral Medicine”), says that it is good to have a spiritual vocabulary, to talk about these things, and that a spiritual vocabulary to the sacred, is an antidote to possession.
And I wholeheartedly agree.
He also said that knowing what Gods you’re friends are ruled by, is important, so you can relate to them.
He called it the “hyena and the swan” mentality.

It could be a temporary situation or archetype, or god they are becoming, or worshipping. They may be coming from a place for survival, or ego, or just learning, or a sense of strength.
Can you be ok with your friend being Kali the destroyer, when you are in a trickster archetype?

Many spiritual teachers can come from the trance space of “sage”, or “rescuer”.
Forgetting who we really are can be easy, when there is a group agreement, as to “what’s so”. Group agreements have so much power.
So as we become more aware, as we grow and evolve, and learn, and try to free ourselves, and be our best, it becomes obvious to stay flexible.
F L E X I B L E

Flexibility of consciousness, in how we show up in the world is freedom.
We can weave in and out of many of these archetypes, and come out stronger, and not stuck.
We can see others in their ability to move through the states, too.
I think that knowledge is the key. Knowing the different places, in ourselves, and others is first.
I think that knowledge is power, and seeing ourselves and how we play out our character (and how others play out theirs) is enlightening.
It even helps with compassion.
And there is that wonderful spirit tool called a hello.
That spirit-to-spirit acknowledgement,
that we are spirit first, capable, amazing, luminous, and sovereign.
Hello, I see you! As one spirit to another, I say,
H e l l o !

The other stuff comes next.
The wonderful body, and the belief structures, the emotions, the stories, the ego, and dynamics, even the wounding, the perceived wounding, or the wounding we came in with.

Have you even gotten a hello from someone, mid-stream, in all your stuff? In your act, your drama, your story? Something that was so simple, and yet gave you back that sense of choice, of center, of sovereignty?
Have you ever lost your center, your self, or gotten stuck in a role, no matter how awesome the role?
H E L L O !

That hello, is why I love doing readings for people. It never fails to amaze me. to amuse me, to heal each of us, and to center us.
It starts when we set safe, and sacred space. My client says their name for me, a few times, slowly, and I see it clairvoyantly, while I give them a hello as spirit. Usually, they give me one back.
I have to fish around, to find them, sometimes. Hiding behind the swirling colors, and pictures, and masks, and archetypes, and sometimes, other entities, is the spirit.
I fish around, and find it, and say hello,
and Bam! The magic starts to happen.
There you are! Bright colors and all. Usually, you will point stuff out that you want me to read, and we are on our way.
By the end of the session, there is more you in there.
Simple.
You are not your ego, or your victim, or even your hero, or trickster archetype.
I love my work.
In that space, I get to see my own masks, and pictures, too.
Sometimes, a person can have a tag-along being in their space.
If there is time, we give him a hello too, and show him his own sovereignty.
He is not stuck there, and it may be time to move on.
Saying hello to spirit can also involve the spirit of a plant, or animal; the spirit of the land, or of a tree, for example.
Life here is simply amazing. You may get a hello back!
How validating!
Give people a hello on a soul level, not an archetype level. Not what they are projecting, or being, but who they are.
Enjoy your day, and enjoy all the roles we get to play.
And let’s give each other a deep, and validating hello.
Therein lies our freedom.