tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89595972512112157032024-03-19T05:15:25.597-07:00shamanic vision psychotherapyMoving away from a psychotherapy based on the medical model, depending on diagnosis and medications, shamanic psychotherapy approaches healing of emotional insecurities and wounds from a more spiritual, imaginal and practical manner. The site gives information on the nature of our imbalances and how to come into balance. It offers practical means of healing such as effective communications, the power of Now and Gratitude, and the Power and Beauty of Staying Present!Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-34820316735548311712018-05-18T16:24:00.001-07:002018-05-18T16:24:44.651-07:00Subverting the Dominant Paradigm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well, at least bringing about Balance and Harmony so that that and other belief systems, ways of being, and deeply archetypal structures will be taken into consideration along with that of We Are One. And, that the more we envision and prevail in the same direction the more Magnificent we All Become.<br />
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In a nutshell, there it is. Working with local “village” models where All is paid attention too is the intention. Small groups based on shared belief systems and systematic shamanic interaction with The Elements and all that they represent, can meet according to some precepts that work, and come up with a shared vision. The more that do so the more do so. The more that do so the more Power is summoned and fed into that Villages Matrix. The Ripple goes on.<br />
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-64461950124556956672016-10-25T16:52:00.005-07:002016-10-25T16:53:27.899-07:00Obaining and Keeping Balance and Focus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">This is a wonderful metaphor for how we can and need to experience the trials and tribulations of our life and to not be thrown off. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">That top was generating a toroidal* energy field, using gravity and centrifugal force to propel itself around and around with great presence. It was creating an electro-magnetic force field. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Using our minds to think out a clear intention and to visualize the outcome we desire, empowers our energy field to link to the “filaments of desire”; or, lay lines (think String Theory) and we then put into action manifestation of that which we intend.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Whatever we experience, good, bad or indifferent, we “visualize” on an unconscious manner in our bellies, hearts and head. The energy fields within our bodies are always churning out holographic images; for the better part totally unknown to our conscious awareness. Unless we ask ourselves, “When I feel that (in my gut, heart or head) what would it look like if it were an object?” (We can all do this although many of us, particularly masculine driven have to work to do so.) We imagine or visualize shape, size, color, texture, temperature, weight, etc. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Breathing, consciously doing so from our bellies and slowly and deeply, brings us back into the Now so that we are more fully able to visualize. Breath allows and enables us to empty our minds and to come into awareness of sensations, kinesthetic, visual, auditory, etc. Doing so with breath and gratitude we can “choose a better feeling or thought” and thereby a different holographic image!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">To further empower our intentionality we can visualize a toroidal energy field in each of our brains, intensifying each of our Chakra’s and coming from our DanTien. This gets our own spinning energy field radiating even more magnificently the filaments radiating out into the Universe create incredible connections with that which we desire. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Taking this a step further, we can not only imagine but experience the toroidal energy fields of our chakras and of our three brains coming into alignment with the forces of the Universe connecting to the hot molten mass of iron and nickel at the core of Earth. That connection is an incredibly rich source of both Spiritual and Material energies. And, we are in alignment with that force field. Each time one of our chakras are out of true then we weaken that force field. And if one of our brains is “out of our body” then the force field is incredibly weakened. And, this is what is happening with so many people on Earth. The out of body soul part then has a tendency to connect with other out of body soul parts. That union which is often fiercely strong can be hypothesized as “the problem with humanity on Earth”. This is a research question that can be answered. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Coming back to Center, to Balance and Focus and to Alignment with the very Powerful Axis Mundi we become super charged. The clearer we are to Intentionality with the unity of our brains then the more “Juice” is accessible! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It is from this place that we exquisitely manifest. With clear intention or muddy, we manifest. Allowing ourselves to be fully clear and empowered with breath, awareness and visualization we manifest. We do so also by default, as when our straying and dissociated soul parts wander about on Earth.</span></div>
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-71239082619262893022014-02-04T17:27:00.001-08:002014-02-04T17:27:30.815-08:00Working with our Toroidal Energy Matrix<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We each are composed of not only material or corporeal reality but also of "toroidal" energy realities. These are the donut shaped, apple shaped energy matrixes that compose all of creation. They have a center, as with the black hole in galaxies and they radiate energy from that hole up and down and around in circular fashion. Google "toroidal energy" and you will see representations of this kind of energy.<br />
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Important to us as living, breathing and co-creating beings is that this is energy that we can direct via our visualizations, breath and Trust and Love.<br />
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Our main toroidal matrix stems from our core, or dan tien, about 2 inches below our navel.<br />
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When we are not centered and balanced this energy does not flow freely as our core is bound up in one fashion or another; usually with fear and anxiety.<br />
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Breathing to our dan tien and visualizing the energy flowing up and down and around and around as with an apple shaped aura, with the seeds being the center, and we come back into balance.<br />
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Belly brain, Wisdom, has to do with our first three chakras, the marriage of "belonging", "creating", "honoring". This center has to do with our "soul" work, of "why" we are here on Earth and here where we live, relate, work and play. Fundamentally it has to do with surviving.</div>
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The most profound and exquisite way in which we do this is to envision each of these three marriages of chakras into separate and beautiful rainbow hued toroidal energy matrixes. Then to merge them into one magnificent toroidal energy matrix coming from our dan tien. We then envision the energy moving through us from heaven to earth and from earth to heaven. As it moves through us we come fully into alignment with our personal essence, our passion or purpose.</div>
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-17348385358521448022013-11-21T08:21:00.001-08:002013-11-21T10:51:59.506-08:00What Path to Follow?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Clear intentionality, or asking for something specific is instrumental in getting clear guidance. That question can simply be, “Guide me, I am lost!” Or, “I am concerned about my health, where should I turn”; or, “Which health practice should I follow, yoga, tai chi, chi gong”; or, “Which Spiritual Path should I take, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Shamanism, etc.?” </span></div>
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-75692410246795278892013-07-10T08:32:00.002-07:002013-07-10T08:36:53.776-07:00ATTITUDE! YA GOT SOME?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Lately I have been meditating and experiencing how powerful "attitude" is in our lives. Such a powerful energy, regardless of what the attitude might be!<br />
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The expression "cop an attitude" (<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=copping">www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=copping</a>) I first heard in the 60's when working as a research assistant related to some training in the prison system. Inmates and staff used this expression to describe the event of some attitude or another grabbing ahold of some one. A powerful "mood" that moves one to say and do things that they would not ordinarily do.<br />
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How often I see this in my life and work. How often I experience a mood moving me and my experiencing of "copping an attitude".<br />
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Increasingly I perceive this phenomena to be central to our imbalances! To relationship issues, particularly. Jealousy, envy, fear, anxiety, anger, depression, desperation, panic; you name the emotion it can be "copped" and run away with the experience. Take over what is happening. No wonder that the Ancient Greeks thought of such experiences as the very Gods and Goddesses inhabiting our personas and running them. The emotions are not of our own, but of some energies outside of ourselves running through us! <a href="http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/personifications.html">http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/personifications.html</a> This link is worth looking at. Worth studying if some detail!<br />
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When in our interactions we are "moved" by such emotions it is easy to let them run-away with us. Our flash of anger towards a mates inconsideration, or, whatever, can easily lead to any number of disastrous actions or regretted words. The wisdom we are coming to is to not "indulge in such energies". They can easily take over and bring about a loss of realization of "just who is in charge".<br />
Is it our true self, our higher self, a wounded soul part, or, one of the powerful emotions themselves?<br />
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Complex considerations and to give thought to these considerations can help us to come to some more resolved sense of balance. Can help us "choose a better thought, word or action".<br />
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The importance of time outs can not be understated! They are essential to reclaiming our sense of self in our daily interactions.<br />
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The essential task here is to come back into the now. It is almost (and possibly exactly so) that when we split off and cop an attitude we are opening pandoras box and allowing many extraneous influences to move through us and to consume us. Past wounds, previous belief systems, fears of the future, anxieties about what-ever call on the Gods and Goddesses and they come into us with relish. Then, it is not us that is on stage. Instead some other sense of extended historical self.<br />
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When we do come back to self, through mind-ful-ness and through cultivating awareness of self in "Now", then our better self, our higher self, guided by Source, comes to our truth. Then, and only then, can we approach the situation that ignited the attitude with due consideration.<br />
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So often I experience and observe "moods" move into Attitudes that can create great mischief and disturbance. They can also become passions that direct and channel our energies into great achievements. Still, it is worth coming back to Now, regularly for guidance and clarification of intent and intentionality. My last blog clarifies the importance of intent in our lives.<br />
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Cultivating mind-ful-ness allows and enables us to spot or become aware when an attitude takes over. Then we can more easily step out of the attitude and back into the now for the clarification and guidance so greatly desired and needed. This is the practice! This ability brings about healthy relationships and the greater manifestation of ones desires.<br />
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On Time Outs: visit my blog of June, 2010.<br />
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On Truth Speaking: visit blog of July, 2010.<br />
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-73444417032949076312013-06-07T07:25:00.002-07:002013-06-07T17:22:13.457-07:00INTENTIONALITY: CLEAR OR MUDDY ATTITUDE: TRUSTING OR FEARFUL?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>In spiritual language these becomes prayers of ascension as opposed to <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>prayers of wanting or needing. They convey Trust and Love.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>We can experience or want! Want conveys and implies “not having” <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>and accesses the profound sense of emptiness that so many of us <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>experience and manifest.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Catch yourself thinking and believing negative thoughts and “change” <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>these. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">Utilize the concept of “future probability”, e.g. “Every day in every way I am <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>increasingly experiencing . . .” What is probable has so much more <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>power than what is “possible”.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Chose a better thought, feeling or action!</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Be kind anyway.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Practice Generosity.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>We get what we give!</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>“The Love we get is equal to the Love we give!”</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Practice Mindfulness:</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Come back into Grace (Walking in Trust and Love) via breath and <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Gratitude.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Even when we are feeling really bad, there are wonderful gifts to be <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>experienced.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Depression is a state of consciousness where we can move more <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>actively through the grieving process! Giving thanks and <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>breathing into the discomfort of the body, awakens it to the <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>process of grieving!</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Anger is a wonderful way to express via body movement, the <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>bound up molecular sensations; to free them and release <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>them!</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Reducing the hold that depression or anger have on you frees ones ability <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>to both form clear intentions and move into trust and love.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We as humans are so incredibly gifted! We have All of the resources we need to change a problematic Reality to a One rich in expressiveness towards healing self, other and Gaia, itself! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">NAMASTE</span></div>
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<span class="s2"><b>references</b></span><span class="s1">: Here are a few of the many books elucidating on these realities!</span></div>
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<span class="s3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Yogi-1959-reading-Copy/dp/B0011398D0/ref=sr_1_44?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370613495&sr=1-44&keywords=autobiography+of+a+yogi"><b>Autobiography Of A Yogi, 1959, 8th Edition + PB reading Copy</b></a></span><span class="s4"> by Paramahansa Yogananda (1959)</span></div>
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<span class="s5"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Be-Here-Now-Ram-Dass/dp/0517543052/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370613546&sr=1-1&keywords=be+here+now+ram+dass"><b>Be Here Now</b></a></span><span class="s1"> by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ram-Dass/e/B001HCS3GS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1370613546&sr=1-1"><span class="s6">Ram Dass</span></a> (Oct 12, 1971)</span></div>
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<span class="s6"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Power-Positive-Thinking-Norman-Vincent/dp/B001VV1DFS/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370613583&sr=1-3&keywords=power+of+positive+thinking+norman+vincent+peale"><b>The Power of Positive Thinking</b></a></span><span class="s1"> by Norman Vincent Peale (1982)</span></div>
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<span class="s3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Law-Attraction-Basics-Teachings-Abraham/dp/1401917593/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370613314&sr=1-1&keywords=the+law+of+attraction+by+esther+and+jerry+hicks"><b>The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham</b></a></span><span class="s4"> by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Esther-Hicks/e/B001IOH5UA/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1370613313&sr=1-1"><span class="s3">Esther Hicks</span></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Hicks/e/B000APUKSW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1370613313&sr=1-1"><span class="s3">Jerry Hicks</span></a> (Dec 1, 2006)</span><span class="s1"></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Cutter-Buddha-Managing-Business/dp/038552868X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370613173&sr=1-1&keywords=diamond+cutter"><b>The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life</b></a></span><span class="s4"> by Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally (Sep 1, 2009)</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Start where you are and follow your interests. What speaks to you!</span></div>
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-89344249604847400842012-12-18T20:20:00.000-08:002012-12-19T07:45:59.182-08:00Where does the blame lie!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">To Whose Feet Do We Lay The Blame!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If necessary, let us consider:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. I have not, nor have so many other Americans been very pro-active to end the un-necessary violence from weapons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Our Government Officials have been bought off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. The Gun Lobby and Military Industrial Lobby has bought them off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. Guns are big business:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> a. They make lots of money </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> b. Retirement funds invest in such companies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> c. Many public employees benefit from such funds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> d. Most don't seem to notice or care from where the funds come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. The American Culture is a Culture of Violence:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> a.Peacemaker was the name of a Colt Revolver that "Won the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> West."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> b. America has more deaths by guns per capita than any other </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> country in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> c. We have been at War in one region or another for most of our </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> political existence! Strong Military Industrial Lobby!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> d. Great profits have come from such wars. Weapon and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> munition companies, The Pentagon, etc. all lobby for more </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> money and power. Congressman and other politicians are </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> bought off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6. We all like our creature comforts and seem to be lost in our</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> bubbles of complacency: Until some "senseless" act of violence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> wakes us up!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> a. few requirements about who gets what kinds of guns</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> b. many adults and teens leave guns laying around without</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> adequate protection from mentally ill or children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or, is it "senseless"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am reminded of the old saying: "Do as I say and not as I do!" Although we all know that we will model ourselves after behavior more than words. And, when we are traumatized (PTSD) what we tend to do is repeat the circumstances of the trauma so we can figure out how we could have lost our purity and innocence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When our leaders commit violent acts against innocent citizens of other countries what makes us think that our own citizens won't create violent acts agains innocents in our own country? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As above, so below. This adage holds true in organizations of all sizes; from families to countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Conclusion: We are all culpable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The question is; who will bring about the needed change, Government, Lobbies, Corporations or The People?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You guessed it: The People! There is no other option.</span></div>
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-15466480361718176062012-12-11T12:04:00.004-08:002012-12-11T12:09:32.394-08:00On the Threshold into The Age of Aquarius!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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WINTER SOLSTICE: 2012</h2>
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ON THE THRESHOLD INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.</div>
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On the 21st our the sun will enter ( what ever that means) into the Sign of Aquarius. Every 26000 some years a new age occurs. We have been in the Piscean Age, with the Piscean attributes of divisiveness. So I discovered by attending to this youtube movie: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlfYHAV1i8w&list=LLH4_kSBHJBeZhiBob8lj0gA&feature=mh_lolz">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlfYHAV1i8w&list=LLH4_kSBHJBeZhiBob8lj0gA&feature=mh_lolz</a></div>
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And, the qualities of Aquarius? Namaste: The Divine Spark in me acknowledges the Divine Spark in you. No need for gurus, we are all divine and in this age we will be awakening to this Truth!</div>
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Very cool.</div>
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At 10:05, so the same video reports we will cross the equator of the Galactic Rift. And, that is the precise time in which we get the biggest blast from the Black Hole. What does this mean? Good question. The Mayan Elders I have watched, read, listened to say that this is when we (Gaia) get a tremendous down-loading of Spirituality. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8y0MR8KiY8&feature=g-hist">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8y0MR8KiY8&feature=g-hist</a> and only a few will retain the information for more than a few minutes.</div>
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Maybe, but, we have never experienced, in the history of modern man, such an event. Perhaps a great number of us are more prepared to accept the Truths that will coming to us. </div>
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This is an Age where amazing Spiritual awarenesses are being shared. The Law of Attraction:<a href="http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/index.php">http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/index.php</a>,<br />
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The Diamond Cutter, wisdom of the Diamond Sutra as shared by Geshe Roach: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=diamond+cutter&aq=f&oq=diamond+cutter&aqs=chrome.0.57j5j0l2.2604&sugexp=chrome,mod=19&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&tbo=d&q=the+diamond+cutter+book&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDAx8HixKXfq6-gZlFTmWBUVJimKBtD8f2jbf6BVYFM0za5zd1EQBns5VTKwAAAA&sa=X&ei=ro3HUPTSC8ybjALcwYCwCg&ved=0CKUBEOkTMA8&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=9e5a97ecf0eac3e8&bpcl=39918873&biw=1187&bih=661">https://www.google.com/search?q=diamond+cutter&aq=f&oq=diamond+cutter&aqs=chrome.0.57j5j0l2.2604&sugexp=chrome,mod=19&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&tbo=d&q=the+diamond+cutter+book&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDAx8HixKXfq6-gZlFTmWBUVJimKBtD8f2jbf6BVYFM0za5zd1EQBns5VTKwAAAA&sa=X&ei=ro3HUPTSC8ybjALcwYCwCg&ved=0CKUBEOkTMA8&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=9e5a97ecf0eac3e8&bpcl=39918873&biw=1187&bih=661</a>,<br />
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The Course of Miracles: <a href="http://acim.org/">http://acim.org/</a><br />
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The list could go on.<br />
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You, my faithful readers, can probably name at least three different sources of enlightened information coming our way.<br />
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From my own studies I have been able to "choose a better thought", "be kind anyway", exercise "gratitude" and "generosity" more and more.<br />
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So, the judgmental nature of my socialization has diminished. Trained to "diagnose" I have even learned to not indulge in that form of professional power-tripping.<br />
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No need!<br />
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As one who writes this blog and for those who read it you will know that what I am experiencing more and more is the <i>Field of Love</i>. Fear and Anxiety are becoming mere signals to pay attention. We needn't harm ourselves and others by such indulgences as "addiction to adrenaline".<br />
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Far more fun to enjoy people as they are, even when they are offensive. Not to enjoy the offense but to understand that everyone has their story and compassionately attending to their story, to "see" them, lets them become less attached to their own destructive thoughts, beliefs and actions. Witnessing allows for easier change.<br />
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And now, 12/21/12 at 10:05am comes upon us.<br />
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So, why am I celebrating on the 22nd and not on the 21st.<br />
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Two reasons:<br />
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First, I want to be at home and able to "receive" more freely.<br />
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Second, I wish to celebrate on the 22nd our having "stepped over the threshold" and; into The Age of Aquarius!<br />
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Well, what if? What if this all just a bunch of crap? Could be yet I experience, as a sociologist, therapist and person, that when individuals share in beliefs the beliefs tend to be actualized. <br />
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Heh, noticed lately how many people are sharing wonderfully happy, inspiring, organizing, sharing and caring via the internet?<br />
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<b><i>It</i></b> is happening, isn't it?<br />
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-73461161483530231092012-09-05T11:41:00.000-07:002012-09-06T12:27:07.802-07:00Autumn Equinox 2012: Visualizing and Empowering Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Most powerful and accessible energy awaits our utilizing at this time in history.<br />
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Here are a few links to stress the powerful forces at work: 1. About Solar Flare-ups, on the increase:<br />
<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/05/160593797/wow-nasa-video-shows-mind-bogglingly-gorgeous-solar-eruption">http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/05/160593797/wow-nasa-video-shows-mind-bogglingly-gorgeous-solar-eruption</a><br />
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And, 2. About major Earthquakes on the increase:<br />
<a href="http://www.earth.webecs.co.uk/">http://www.earth.webecs.co.uk/</a><br />
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Should we Fear?<br />
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Yes, but only to become better prepared!<br />
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Should we be aware of the bigger picture?<br />
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Yes, of course, and that bigger picture has to do with our being almost in the center of the Galactic Rift, which the Mayans predicted would happen 12/21/12. That event and its veracity receives lots of debate and speculation, some wild claims from many (perhaps me?) and stunted and short sighted belief systems from others (due to "sciences" attachment to facts based on only a recorded history that only goes back, at the most, 1000's of years).<br />
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The Mayan Calendar goes back 26 thousand years, plus a few hundred or so, and records cycles of planetary movements. They were our first astrophysicists.<br />
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Interesting that about 26 thousand years ago the first discovered means of communicating via symbols happened with the finding of cave paintings in Southern France <a href="http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html">http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html</a><br />
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It can and has been argued that this time period was about the time of the advent of Civilization (for better or worse).<br />
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Can it be that our passing through the Galactic Rift again might portend another impressive transition of Humanity into a New Age?<br />
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Stands to reason, at least by this seeker of knowledge.<br />
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My contention and practice is to consider that not only will the massive earth and solar events happen but Spiritual Events will also happen. The Energy from the Dark Hole and from Dark Matter will increase our higher chakra centers and invite "knowing-ness".<br />
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We are already aware of "Indigo Children", also referred to as "Homo-Gnosis" (not sure where I heard this term . . . interpretation would be "the human that knows". For a detailed list of current books check out Amazon's site <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=indigo+children+books&sprefix=indigo+child%2Cstripbooks%2C338">Indigo Child books</a>.<br />
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Enough of the preliminaries.<br />
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The 21st of September is our Equinox: <span style="font-weight: normal;">daytime hours are equal to night-time hours. Throughout history it was a time of celebration.</span></h3>
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For me it is a chance to take stock of the next 3 months, leading to 12/21/12.<br />
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During this time I wish to meditate, pray, create ritual, visualize the World I believe to be "right" (in Balance and Harmony), to align different Karmic lives (past, present and future) with the desire to find a greater sense of Peace and Well-being. Truly the more we are at Peace in Trust and Love the more we generate such experiences around us: Witness the Wisdom of The Diamond Sutra and of The Law of Attraction.<br />
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My intention is to be, especially during this time, as clear and, dare I, pure as is humanely possible to have a greater effect via prayers and visualizations.<br />
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On the night of September 22nd, here in Eureka, I will be conducting with the able assistance of experienced shamanic journeyers a ritual to generate, align and direct through "clear intention" visualizations towards Balance and Harmony.<br />
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At this time we will "Surf the Zuvuza"; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Surfers-Zuvuya-Tales-Interdimensional-Travel/dp/0939680556">http://www.amazon.com/Surfers-Zuvuya-Tales-Interdimensional-Travel/dp/0939680556</a>. That is, the Spiritual Energy manifested by the Galactic point and space in time we find ourselves.<br />
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Should be fun and might well be beneficial, if not collectively then certainly personally!<br />
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Love to All!</div>
Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-6451196112425145222012-02-22T13:25:00.000-08:002012-02-22T13:25:03.717-08:00Ritual Healing Circles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
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</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">Similar Circles are being held all around the World.</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">There is not just one Healing Circle format, but many. This is my take on creating, facilitating and manifesting a circle. I intend to continue to do so for at least the next 10 months, leading to December of 2012.</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">The events, in Eureka, CA. will be held at Sacred Palace, Bikram Yoga, 516 5th St. </span>on the first Saturday of each month During Arts Alive, from 8:30 to 10:00 pm, or so. </div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><br />
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</div><div class="p1">What follows is a general description of what one might experience at the Circles I facilitate.</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">It is important to acknowledge that there are no set agendas or formats. My belief and experience is that the trance state and intention setting that naturally occurs during Sacred Space will bring to the surface all of the guidance and energy needed. Our ancestors, power animals, guides, angels and what-ever will be gathering around us to move through us for the event to manifest our intentions: Healing of Self, Family and Friends, Community and World!</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">Basically, and not necessarily in this orders what one can expect is:</div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p3"></div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span class="s2">Gathering</span><span class="s1"> of participants: The mother drum will beat out heart beat rhythms throughout the evening. Beaters will circulate throughout the evening as well.</span></li>
<li><span class="s2">Welcoming</span><span class="s1"> and </span><span class="s2">Invocation</span><span class="s1">: song, prayer, envisioning</span></li>
<li><span class="s1">Drumming, movement, dance: </span><span class="s2">Shaking</span><span class="s1"> bones to let go of blocks</span></li>
<li><span class="s2">Centering</span><span class="s1">, grounding and focus: Coming into Presence through Visualization, movement and stance.</span></li>
<li>letting “stuff” come to surface</li>
<li>Talking Circle</li>
<li>Intention formation</li>
<li>Voicing losses, requests for healing</li>
<li><span class="s2">Coming into Sacred Presence</span><span class="s1">: Guided Visualization, activating chakras, and<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>building community energy.</span></li>
<li><span class="s2">Healing Visualization</span></li>
<li><span class="s2">Releasing</span><span class="s1"> Energy for Healing through singing, chanting, ohm-ing, and movement</span></li>
<li><span class="s2">Closing</span><span class="s1"> Circle</span></li>
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<div class="p4"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1">Suggested Donations: 10 to 15$ per participant</span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span> funds to go to Sacred Palace and to Facilitator</span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1">Circles begun by Scott L Sherman and open to active participation by any and all<span class="Apple-tab-span"></span></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>web-sites and blogs where information re: Scott and his approaches to healing can be found on:</span></div><div class="p3"><br />
</div><div class="p3"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_479291578">scottlsherman.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_479291578">shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_479291578">humboldtpsychotherapy.com</a></li>
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</div><div class="p4"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1">Scott is available for individual and relationship counseling</span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span> at office</span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span> at other locations</span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span> via Skype or Gtalk (audio and video)</span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><br />
</span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1">Contact: 707-445-1018</span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1">scott@scottlsherman.com</span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1">350 E Street, Ste 409, Eureka, CA 95501</span></div></div>Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-10838177838169868852012-01-18T16:33:00.000-08:002012-01-18T16:33:06.993-08:00Accepting Personal Integration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
<div class="p1"><span class="s1">The Personal Integration Imperative</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><i>Personal integration is not a choice; just a matter of time.</i></span><span class="s2"> This lifetime; or the next!</span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">To become “One” is our destiny as it was our destiny to evolve from single cell to human. This is so by reflection not only on the nature of our physical evolution but also on the nature of our cultural, spiritual and religious evolutions. </span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><i>There </i><b><i>is</i></b><i> a choice as to when and how we become personally integrated!</i></span><span class="s2"> </span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">The concept of personal integration (PI) has to do with healing our multiple soul fractionating traumatic events. Occasionally one is able to “shrug” off such events and remain present (integrated in the Now). More often we can grasp the idea, discover the process and run with the adventure of PI.</span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">Traumas can be repetitively small, big or multiples of the two. They are always lessons. We all acknowledge major traumas. Small, repetitive are more often in denial. Shaming, blaming, hurried grieving all contribute to repression. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is simply a label that spells out that the trauma has not been processed. It has not been enlivened in the body allowing for healing. </span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">We enter into the processing of trauma differently. We all have a number of valuable traits that allow us to get on with the business of become integrated. Some are verbal or auditory, others visual or kinesthetic. We can write, dance, sing, paint, meditate, etc., to our own PI end.</span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p6"><span class="s1"><i>The more we become integrated the more resources we have available to deal with our day to day life; and the easier it becomes to Become.</i></span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">The shamanic model of the Universe has it that our fragmented (unresolved grief work) soul parts are left behind, blown into another orbit or Universe, tucked away in some corner of our bodies and so forth. Different folks experience soul loss differently.</span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">What is needed though is a format for healing. Not too much too fast and at least some on a regular basis. Either extreme creates more loss. The heap of fragmentation gets bigger and bigger, the personal pain grows and our dissociative experiences become greater.</span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">So, we must delicately embrace PI. To do so is expedient and rewarding. To not do so . . . well we only have to look at the thoroughly corrupted and “out of touch” individuals that seem to be at the ends of the bell curve to realize the alternatives. More sickness of heart, mind, body and soul.</span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">Three critically basic tools or skills are:</span></div><div class="p5"><br />
</div><div class="p3"><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span><span class="s1"><i>Deep, moderately slow and full breathing</i></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Embracing Gratitude for All</i></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Relaxing, relaxing, relaxing!</i></span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p4"><span class="s1">Breathing, being in Gratitude and relaxing promotes body awareness, memories and insights. Then the work of PI can proceed through our <i>Higher Self connected to Source</i> re-educating and re-parenting our more naive, wounded, stuck, primitive physical, emotional and spiritual selves. We are multiples of who we are until we experience PI. We increasingly become singular when we embrace the process! </span></div><div class="p5"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><b><i>Embrace with love, full breath, gratitude and surrender.</i></b></span></div></div>Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-52908994158928601512011-09-27T15:36:00.000-07:002011-09-27T15:58:18.722-07:00Back to the Relationship Cauldron for Personal Growth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This short blog is just to acquaint people of my most recent venture (as a therapist/healer)! For some time I have been teaching/training clients in some basic relationship strengthening tools. The workshop I have designed will be a concentrated approach to teaching the skills. Sometimes one hour sessions leave a lot to be desired.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; color: black; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnWCGUIeP0qBsY3v5tWCHqsdtRNrPmzEIcXc6RgVKzyCAbFQkvFU_oSW6ENfTJNXhyphenhyphenKjSIvYiBk2XpUlQ2SSERB8yk1KlWtJQhhkWqGS5ZE-rvRpVtw8MFCIxoOvJ-Ygwpy5gy53j2JI/s1600/relationship+cauldron911.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">So . . . here is what I am offering!</a></span><br />
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</div>What I feel really good about is how when one does this work it becomes easier and easier to stay present when conflict occurs.<br />
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What a blessing!<br />
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Heh, what do you think? I created this in Windows Publisher 2003 and saved it in .gif. Works great. How come it took so long to figure this out?</div>Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-48238137801719865502011-09-20T07:23:00.000-07:002011-09-20T07:23:41.433-07:00Bless the Waters of Life!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I woke up to the reality that blessing water changes it's molecular structure and that 70 to 80 percent of our bodies are composed of water the realization also came to me that the single most important act I, or anyone for that matter, can do is to go around blessing people: Blessing the Waters of Life. Blessing them with kind words, warm smiles, non-invasive or evasive hugs, or even just warm thoughts.<br />
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Some of you readers might remember the research of Masaru Emoto documenting in his book The Hidden Messages of Water (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Messages-Water-Masaru-Emoto/dp/0743289803/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316527688&sr=1-1">http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Messages-Water-Masaru-Emoto/dp/0743289803/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316527688&sr=1-1</a>).<br />
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Dr Emoto shows the crystalline structure of water subjected to different forces, including blessings. The results are astonishing.<br />
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I remember from years ago hearing that a wonderfully healing act is to on awakening in the morning holding a glass of water towards the sun, blessing it and then drinking the water with relish. Often practicing this simple act always seems appropriate. I now add some lemon to alkalinize the water to bring my body into balance.<br />
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No wonder I and so many others go to waters for healing. The ocean, rivers, lakes are all so well visited. And our realization that where water flows there are negative ions present that bring feelings of well being. Where water flows freely it purifies. No wonder that my subject for the chakra guided meditation video my friend Tom Betune and I created was flowing water <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgSrSOqFxdo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgSrSOqFxdo</a>.<br />
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I offer this short blog as a tribute to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><i>the healing waters of life</i></span>!<br />
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Share, care and enjoy!<br />
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Stigmatizing, Shaming, Blaming, Hexing, Pathologizing: We are All experiencing PTSD.<br />
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In this blog I wish to focus again on the stigmatizing or hexing qualities of PTSD; for these are often so subtle that we miss experiencing the trauma.<br />
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I am so excited to be living in this time, in this day and age and in this country, state and local.<br />
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No matter how hard the "Powers that Be" attempt they will not be able to close the lid on the awarenesses of PTSD and how they negatively effect our beings. Who knows, maybe even they will "get a clue."<br />
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Be that as it may, one gift of wars has been to confront us with "Battle Fatigue," "Shell Shock" and now what we call "PTSD". All one and the same. From that newer distinction widely ascribed to after The Vietnam War (the Vietnamese refer to it as "The American War") it was our Civil Rights movements and Women's Liberation Movements that opened up the awareness that PTSD is very wide-spread and not just an adjunct of wars.<br />
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From these openings we now, therapists particularly, are more widely noting that most if not all psychological and even physiological disorders have to do with one form of trauma or another.<br />
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To bring imagery into this discussion please imagine what it feels like to be "boxed" into something. Is not stigmatizing, hexing or shaming or blaming a kind of being boxed in?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Let's look at the words of Bob Dylan</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">I ain't lookin' to compete with you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Beat or cheat or mistreat you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Simplify you, classify you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Deny, defy or crucify you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />All I really want to do<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Is, baby, be friends with you.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />No, and I ain't lookin' to fight with you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Frighten you or tighten you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Drag you down or drain you down<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Chain you down or bring you down<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />All I really want to do<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Is, baby, be friends with you.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I ain't lookin' to block you up<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Shock or knock or lock you up<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Analyze you, categorize you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Finalize you or advertise you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />All I really want to do<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Is, baby, be friends with you.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I don't want to straight-face you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Race or chase you, track or trace you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Or disgrace you or displace you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Or define you or confine you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />All I really want to do<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Is, baby, be friends with you.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I don't want to meet your kin<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Make you spin or do you in<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Or select you or dissect you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Or inspect you or reject you<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />All I really want to do<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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</div>Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-76193800180762524722011-06-09T18:47:00.000-07:002011-06-10T22:47:52.683-07:00Filaments of Desire: Bondings of Personal Histories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From Quantum Physics we read of "string theory"; from shamanic traditions we read of filaments of interconnectedness between All. From my psychotherapy practice and personal take on reality I experience tugs and pulls on my very anatomy: My Energy Anatomy (see Carolyn Myss work: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Anatomy-Self-Diagnosis-Caroline/dp/B0029NMRIO?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Energy Anatomy and Self Diagnosis</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0029NMRIO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />).<br />
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When we employ imagery and visualization <a href="http://www.blogger.com/(http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/04/holographic-awareness-as-portals-for.html">(http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/04/holographic-awareness-as-portals-for.html</a> with respect to our bonding and in some cases, bondage then we are increasingly able to manage these "filaments of desire" and transform them from unpleasant and controlling to healing and redeeming. From rigid ways of perceiving and treating our loved ones to enabling flexibility and movement.<br />
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I think of one client many years ago who had at an early adolescent age stolen his fathers silver coin collection and blown it at the arcades. His father was furious and in a rage beat his child and kicked him out of the home; at least as the client remembered. What brought this memory to the surface was this awful feeling in his solar plexus that came about whenever he became close to others <a href="http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/04/relationship-cauldron-gift-of.html">(</a>see blog entry regarding Relationship Cauldron: <a href="http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/04/relationship-cauldron-gift-of.html">http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/04/relationship-cauldron-gift-of.html</a>. As we explored this awful feeling and linked it along his filaments of memories it took him back to that experience with his dad. The feeling had been dealt with alcohol, relationship and other addictive disorders to the time.<br />
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Our approach was to work with the sensation in terms of what in ordinary reality might be responsible for such a powerful sensation in his gut. What he came up with was a big wire rope about 6" in diameter; pushing and pulling him through his life.<br />
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Re-envisioning this image he was able to come up with an energy beam that exchanged only positive information and reflected back to the sender any negative content.<br />
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My client experienced immediate physiological relief. That wasn't too surprising to me as such a reaction is fairly typical.<br />
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What was incredibly and wondrously surprising is that the very next day he received a phone call from his dad: The first one in maybe 30 years. They in subsequent days, weeks and months were able to re-conciliate.<br />
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There have been other similar experiences.<br />
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With these examples I am reminded of The Law of Attraction <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Law-Attraction-Basics-Teachings-Abraham/dp/1401912273?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1401912273" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and The Diamond Cutter <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Cutter-Strategies-Managing-Business/dp/0385497903?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your Life</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0385497903" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. With respect to both of these profound books and knowledge we are talking about how what we think, feel and believe creates our reality. They both extoll the virtues of visualizing desired outcomes.<br />
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And, all of this comes back to what I consider to be another Law: The Law of Gratitude for All. See my blog regarding this concept: <a href="http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/03/gratitude-is-elixir.html">http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/03/gratitude-is-elixir.html</a>.<br />
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We are, indeed interconnected. The closer the relationship the stronger the link. The stronger the emotional memory the stronger the sensation, the stronger the link.<br />
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In relationship most people tend to remember the negative experiences far more deeply than the positive.<br />
Perhaps that happens to link us to the memory such that we can do our soul retrieval work and reclaim and re-educate the wounded, neglected and forgotten memories. We are all evolving and our evolution is determined to keep us going back to the formative memories of survival. Instinctual survival.<br />
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And, above all else, Love. Love is more than an emotion. It is a latice work of filaments that intrinsically links us to All.<br />
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Thanks for visiting and considering.<br />
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<br /></div>Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-38585716782807068482011-05-06T16:30:00.000-07:002011-05-06T16:35:06.564-07:00Maxaman, Myth and The Power of Belief<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As you might guess this entry is more about the "Power of Belief" than it will be about Maxaman. However, to report on what I experienced as the power and influence that the effigy of God or Holy Boy, Maxaman has on the collective consciousness of the Mayan population, perhaps particularly around Lake Atitlan, can be used to stress the point.<br />
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The point being, what we believe is less important than that we believe. In many ways this is just another example of The Law of Attraction.<br />
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One very profound aspect of the power of belief has to do with what it means to be human. We far too often underestimate the magnificence and wonder, the deliciousness of what it means to be human. To say that humans are awesome is a major understatement.<br />
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The intention of the Shaman who is the "carrier" and/or care-taker of Maxaman has to do with the ability to bring about significant change in reality by the strength and power of his belief. Having the effigy, Maxaman, and the cumulative history of the Mayan history and culture behind him greatly enhances the shaman Nicolas to visualize, believe and emote confidence in himself and the power of Maxaman. When the People believe congruent with the belief of the shaman and the beauty of the prayers and ritual then greatness happens.<br />
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The rituals I took part in were beautiful, poignant with meaning and energy. I am reminded of Malidome Some's imperative that shrines must be so constructed as to bring wonder, fear and respect. Then they must be empowered with the strength of the conviction of the person or persons responsible. The Maxaman shrine was both beautiful and troubling. What was the meaning and significance of the candles of different colors, the effigy, the ties around the effigy, the several hats, the prone effigy of Maxaman behind the figure, and, behind that Jesus on the Cross, etc.<br />
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Interestingly, as the Christian belief system by way of the cross was behind Maxaman, Maxaman's influence appeared in one of the Churches we visited. The scarf's around the Church Saint (not sure if figure was male or female). And, we saw many examples of the blending of belief systems. A fail safe system? Just go along with the prevailing energy until it passes? Visual reminders of the power of Spirit and further strengthening belief?</div>
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Regardless, there was a strong attendance and evidence of "belief." In doctor's offices clients are reassured by the certificates, diplomas, licenses and tools of the trade. The book, The Heroic Client, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Client-Revolutionary-Client-Directed-Outcome-Informed/dp/0787972401?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Heroic Client: A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectiveness Through Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0787972401" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> content analysis of many numerous studies of psychotherapy outcomes considering, therapist modality, diagnosis and medications came to the following conclusions. There are only three aspects that can predict positive change. These are: 1. The clients motivation to change, 2. The therapist's belief in his/her own skills and effectiveness; and, 3. The clients belief in the therapist.<br />
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It all comes back to Belief!<br />
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And, when we consider the effectiveness of clear intention this can become even stronger. If my intention is strong and I believe my intention will be honored by The Universe, then the right healing modality and/or healer will come along.<br />
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How will I know? Dreams and synchronistic events lead the way; after the clear intention. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Psychology-Jean-Shinoda-Bolen/dp/006078220X?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Tao of Psychology</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=006078220X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, by Jean Shinoda Bolen documents how this work. And then there is Carlos Constaneda's<br />
works where he talks about "omens" and "confirmation from the Universe." <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Don-Juan-Knowledge-Anniversary/dp/0520256387?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge</a>. (Not certain it was in this, first book of Constaneda's work but know it is concept, attributed to Don Juan.)<br />
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Considering all of the above; doesn't it seem reasonable to assume that we are meant to evolve and the more we believe in the process of evolving, healing, trust and love and the beauty of our own being the more that is not only posible but even probable!<br />
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The last week of March and the first of April, 2011 my extended family and I, ten of us, traveled with four others to El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. Our guide, Carlos Vivar, a Mayan who grew up in the village closest to Tikal and that responsible for caring for the jungles around Tikal, very knowledgeable about the history of Mayadom, archaeological ruins, the culture modern and ancient, Mayan shamanism and so much more is my pick for a man of destiny. </div>
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Carlos left his village against his families wishes to walk to Flores. It was on this walk that he first saw Tikal and at that time decided to study the world of the Mayans. In Flores, speaking only limited Spanish, he sat outside of a school until the instructor came to inquire what it was he wanted. "To learn Spanish." The teacher took him in to his classes, his home and his heart. Carlos rapidly learned Spanish and rudimentary English. </div>
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Soon he was discovered and hired by a major touring group, Overseas Adventure Travels (OATs) to lead tours of Tikal. After only a few years he so impressed OATs that they invited him to high level studies and to lead tours throughout Mayadom. </div>
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Among other things Carlos comes from a long line of Shamans and is colleagues with some of Mayadom's leading shamans. He introduced us to Nicolas, shaman of Santiego de Atitlan and caretaker of the effigy representing God, Maxaman (Holy Boy, as he is spiritually regarded by the People*). We were fortunate to watch Nicolas lead several rituals, one involving a healing and empowering for myself. I was extremely honored and seem to have benefited strongly from the ritual.</div>
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Subsequent to this experience Carlos invited my wife, Joanne Witte and myself to attend the Mayan End of the Mayan Calendar event in Tikal, December 21st, 2012. We were both very honored and accepted the invitation to stay for the event with he and his family in his village. He had informed us that already there were no accommodations anywhere else for many miles around. His statement, "All of Mayadom will be there."</div>
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From our travels and readings it is indicated that the Calendar records, accurately, 26 thousand years of Celestial events. The glyphs and scrolls of glyphs predicted the Spanish invasion and advised the people to not fight but that the Spanish would tire after finding no gold and leave. It took them several hundred years to do so.<br />
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One observation that really impressed me was how many small villages, while influenced strongly by modernization, still maintained the old costumes,<br />
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customs and language. The people of Mayadom are very proud of who they are and not rapidly giving way to modernization. Perhaps they learned from their experience with the Spaniards. Perhaps the manuscripts and glyphs also tell of modernization coming . . . and going.<br />
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While there is no sense that "the world is going to end" with the advent of the new Mayan Calendar there is definitely predictions of many upheavals in all ways. In general the belief is that the "eye" to the cosmos will be opened on 12/21/2012 and that a new age, an age of higher consciousness will come about. Interesting to me that this is congruent with "The Age of Aquarius."<br />
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I am not sure of exactly what is meant by the "eye" the cosmos but from what I glean on the 21st of December the sun rising will coincide with the rotation of our galaxy which will look like an eye. Apparently there is a spacious void that when the Milky Way rotates a certain way the void appears like an eye. It seems that the "photon beam" from beyond the Pleiades has a clear shot to earth at that time. This happened 26 thousand years ago and again 5125 years ago, perhaps in a lesser fashion. Unfortunately I do not remember when or how I read or heard about the above. For a more scientific explanation visit the following blog: <a href="http://mayanprophecy2012.blogspot.com/2009/07/galactic-alignment-2012-john-major.html">http://mayanprophecy2012.blogspot.com/2009/07/galactic-alignment-2012-john-major.html</a> In his blog the following description is elucidated: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">The Galactic Alignment of 2012 ... The Holy Cross of the Equinox Axis and the Milky Way Galaxy ... the Solstice Galaxy Alignment explained by John Major Jenkins ...</span><br />
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</div>Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-69114234835536900542011-03-15T15:11:00.000-07:002011-03-20T13:31:30.672-07:00From Fear and Anxiety to Trust and Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Those who have visited this blog before know somewhat of what this entry is about. My great pleasure and joy in life is having learned to not spend much time in the "Pit of Fear"; instead moving from there into "The Field of Trust and Love."<br />
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Today this is most important as the news is full of fear and anxiety about the devastating tragedy in Japan and the ensuing nuclear fall-out that is possibly becoming a real threat to so much of life on Earth and of real concern to so many of us. There is lots of over-reaction to he news. Sensationalism. News casting . . . and we are the fish.</div>
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Use it also to effectively pray and visualize the outcomes that can possibly come from this tragedy.</div>
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Move the realm to probably with active prayer, visualization and positive thinking (The Law of Attraction <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Law-Attraction-Basics-Teachings-Abraham/dp/1401917593?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1401917593" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />).</div>
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-60009929452065772062011-01-15T17:20:00.001-08:002011-01-17T07:23:04.103-08:00Emotional Intimacy in RelationshipsCreating Emotional Intimacy in Relationships<br />
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The relationships naturally changes over time. Emotional intimacy that was once passionate and exciting can diminish unless steps are taken to help maintain it. This entry may help understand why emotional intimacy in relationships often fades over time and what can be done to rekindle our passions.<br />
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Emotional intimacy in relationships tend to fade over time.<br />
This happens for many reasons: After the initial romancing period the issues of our pasts begin to play more active roles in our relationships. Those issues are part of what attracts us to each other often on very deep unconscious levels. This phenomena is related to the repetition compulsion. We come to be together so that we will be “worked” to become more fully integrated. I think of this phenomena as The Relationship Cauldron (see my blog entry: SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2010<br />
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Without acknowledging this built in conflict and building a support system for doing our unique personal work in our relationship we will need to give each other more space: To move away from each other.<br />
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If we are attached to the “live happily ever-after model” of marriage then we compare our own stressed relationship with that model and find it wanting. However, thanking our partners for helping us access our profound sense of emptiness due to our wounded-ness can help us to build a more realistic and stable intimate basis. When couples see the going into an issue as “sacred” in the sense of visiting the temple of healing and not taking the others stuff personally then the marriage can be strengthened.<br />
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A common reason for this fading has to do with our having other affairs. “Affairs do not happen in a vacuum.” We become distracted from our own personal work by having children, becoming overly involved in our work, getting into drugs and/or alcohol, having extra-marital affairs, etc. When one person begins to move away the other will either push hard to reestablish the closeness or move away accordingly. Either tact can be damaging to the marriage. Ultimately, no matter what the affair, it is a distraction to keep us from feeling the discomfort or pain having to do with our personal and ancestral wounds.<br />
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We crave as a basic need emotional intimacy and will find it one way or another. As drifting apart happens other pursuits take precedence. We are all “Seeking Village” and will find the support we need to heal one way or another. Fairly often this happens in the late 30’s, 40’s or 50’s. It takes lots of living to get it that we need to make big movement towards doing our own personal growth work. None of us are immune from this.<br />
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Recognizing the drift away from the intimacy and talking about this is important. In my web-site (scottlsherman.com) under “Tools, Communication Basics” are some instructions on how to actively and reflectively listen to each other. Open, eye-leveling communications can rebuild intimacy.<br />
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Prescribing for self in my relationships and for my clients in theirs that sacred time be set aside for intimate relationship building: Dating one night a week, at least. Taking a weekend off once a month to get away from routine tasks and other possessive pursuits is critical. Getting away for a longer period of time at least once a year is also very beneficial.<br />
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Also paying attention to five critical times in a family’s day-to-day living is critical. The times most important to "see" each other; to hug, tell you love, and are there for them. These times are: 1. when we get up, 2. when we eat, 3. when we leave the home, 4. when we return; and, 5. when we go to bed.<br />
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The most significant time is coming home. We live in a toxic world and taking time to “get home” spiritually and to feel ourselves in our own home, in a grounded sense, allows for us to be open to re-connect with our loved ones. Going out into the world and returning is a mild form of jet-lag. Yet, it can be very taxing and include such common sensations as “road-rage”, boredom and frustration with work, financial stressors, job stressors, other frustrating relationships, etc. It is all too easy to not get home even when we are home. We tend to continue to process the day “out there” even though it is the past and we are “here.” Making a point of “being home” helps us to reconnect with our loved ones. This has to do with the concept of “quality time” versus “quantity time.”<br />
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A major task for all couples is to sort out whose stuff is whose. As it is estimated that 80 to 85 % of our relationship issues has to do with communications it is also estimated that only about 20% of our issues is with our partners or family members. The larger remaining portion has to do with our personal histories. This gets back to how by honoring the awareness that we are all striving in one way or another, intentionally or accidentally, to become fully integrated: To become highly spiritual beings. We are striving to come to grips with our own repetition compulsions and woundings.<br />
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Making time to sit down and actively hear each others understanding of the reality of the relationship is very important. What do they perceive, how does that affect their emotional well being, what sense do they make of that in terms of emotions and personal history; and, what do they want and need to help them move along on their path. The one not talking is to only register what has been said; and not in their mind arguing, reasoning, fixing, etc. Only remembering so that they can tell the one sharing what they heard. If they got it right (really right and not just 50% or so) then they can move on to the listener telling their side.<br />
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It is amazing to me, still, how this simple to do (although hard to learn without practice) can reduce tensions and re-establish intimacy. We all want and need to be honored or “seen.”<br />
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Thanks for viewing this entry and let me know how it works for you.Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-21412379789116614902011-01-15T16:47:00.000-08:002011-02-01T19:53:00.223-08:00Corruption and Redemption<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Believing that very few humans, less than one percent can be classified "without conscience;" what leads humans to repeatedly behave in ways to cheat, lie, steal, etc. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My interest in bringing this information to this blog has to do with another interest, fascination even, of mine that of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"repetition compulsion" phenomena I write and speak about. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those who have visited my blog have no doubt read about the phenomena of people repeating traumatic events often over and over again and again. My belief is that it is a soul issue and has to do with "so they will remember" to heal.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I know from my work is that when becoming aware of the phenomena one dips back into personal history and remembers where the original traumatic act or event occurred, deals with that loss with gratitude and forgiveness of self and/or other, then the wounded soul part can return and healing begins.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wonderful Alcoholic Anonymous movement has as a basic tenant, one of the 12 Steps, the Fifth, I believe "To </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves" and then to make things right where one may.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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I offer in this entry two exercises that can be found on my web-site at the following URL. <a href="http://scottlsherman.com/frameset.html">http://scottlsherman.com/frameset.html</a><br />
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The first piece has to do with our "Energy Anatomy"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/ADVANCED-ENERGY-ANATOMY-CAROLINE-MYSS/dp/B000N558Y0?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">ADVANCED ENERGY ANATOMY</a> as Carolyn Myss elucidates in her book by that name. My piece is named in my URL as "Know your Energy Centers." Our Chakra's or energy centers, our bio-computers can be cleared, empowered and linked to each other in such a way that our human magnificence can truly be realized.<br />
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The second in my web-site is labeled "The Healing Visualization." It has to do with both "intention" and our Chakras.<br />
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The ritual I intend to perform sometime on this day, 12/31/2010 is as follows:<br />
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<ul><li>Spend some time reviewing the past year and talking about intentions for the future with friends and loved ones.</li>
<li>Form the intentions with positive and probable affirmations. The Healing Visualization paper helps with this piece.</li>
<li>Find a place and setting to meditate.</li>
<li>Take several nice and easy breaths after exhaling all of the old stale air.</li>
<li>Attend to being fully in the moment by focusing on being fully present with sensations.</li>
<li>Focus intention on Crown Chakra, initially, and visualize clear light entering your anatomy via the far reaches of the Universe. As it enters your Crown Chakra (pineal gland) imagine the energy of the Universe energizing the center and moving the energy into a vortex. The vortex of flowing energy transforms old, stuck and blocked energy into beautiful color and form. The color is primarily heliotrope and it helps to visualize this color.</li>
<li>Move through each Chakra in a descending fashion using web-site entry on Energy Centers for inspiration on color, location, etc.</li>
<li>Then visualize the energy flowing through your whole body, a white light connecting the ends of the Universe through each of your Chakras and into the Earth.</li>
<li>Next, connect through the Earth to the opposite ends of the Universe.</li>
<li>The imagine and experience a flowing, washing exchange of energy from Heaven to Earth, into and through the Earth, to the opposite ends of the Universe and back again. As the wave sent with intention and visualization from you goes through the Earth (taking old stuff out of you) it gives love and life to the Earth and connects all of creation. Then as that energy bounces or flows returning through the Earth and back through your body and Chakras it also brings healing, beauty, magic, transformative realization, etc.</li>
<li>Then, feeling this divine interconnectedness and at one with all of creation remember your clear and probable affirmation and remembering it visualize sending it throughout the Universe. </li>
</ul>Know then that each Energy Center has been tuned to your own individual prayer for healing, transformation for the New Year and that you have contributed greatly to "The Healing Story."<br />
<ul></ul><div>Thanks for visiting my blog and may each and every one of you and your loved ones find greater health, peace and interconnectedness with all of Creation. May you walk in Trust and Love and forever remember that the single most revolutionary act any of us can ever commit is to refuse to spend any unnecessary time in fear and anxiety.<br />
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Submitted with Great Gratitude, <br />
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Scott</div>Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-60344046477956220192010-11-11T20:42:00.000-08:002011-07-04T06:32:00.066-07:00The Mother Wound<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The trail of tears” has brought whole civilizations to this point. The Father-land abusing, the Great Mother, not protecting. Father go off to work or war and come home abused, corrupted, and toxically shamed. Our collective ignorance and our natural innate healing process (repetition compulsion) allowing no choice but to pass the wounding on . . . even to our own loved ones. Wives, lovers and children.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the indigenous world there are transition stages for when one leaves and enters the village, for the world outside the village is problematically toxic. Our homes can have the same. And, to a strong degree they need to be even more intentional, lacking the extended family and social network. No sweat lodge or men’s or women’s lodge to detoxify.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The mother wound has its roots in the deeper sense of the “Wounds of the ancestors.” Our female ancestors had witnessed and experienced their own wounding. No structure or means for processing, the wounds went under-ground; soul parts splitting off. Enabling, paralysis, denial of one sort or another then creates the repetition compulsion process.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This leads to our setting each other up to once again experience a wounding. Most often this wounding is felt in the same area of our bodies and the scenes and actors are mirroring past wounds. Our over-soul hoping if not expecting that we will wake up! That we will do our own internal work and heal!</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Radical Forgiveness works and has worked. It can start with each one of us. Think of one who has wronged you. Feel the pain or discomfort in your body. Breathe into it with gratitude for it's positive intent to get you to do something different. Thank that feeling and the resulting loosening of the tightness. Release that pain into prayer for healing for all involved. Visualize the outcome that is collectively healing.</span></span><br />
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Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-8515104359940842232010-10-18T13:00:00.000-07:002010-10-28T12:19:45.058-07:00The Father WoundIt has long been my generalized belief that men are more wounded then women.<br />
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I believe this has to do with the absence of dad's as healthy role models. One kind of addictive disorder or another tends to get in the way. Work, war. alcohol, sex, affairs, sports, depression or some other kind of escapism takes dads away from their sons.<br />
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At the same time most men I have known and worked with have "lost" their childhood at a very early age. Most men stopped crying at about 4 years of age.<br />
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How much of this is genetic and how much conditioning is hard to know.<br />
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Also, in this country or in all of Modernity, men tend to be raised by women. Moms and teachers teach us how to be a man. Men are too busy or detained from be present for their sons.<br />
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It seems this has been the pattern for hundreds if not thousands of years.<br />
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Joseph Weir Perry has written extensively ( <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Four-Quarters-Mythology-Spirituality/dp/0809132524?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Lord of the Four Quarters: The Mythology of Kingship (Jung and Spirituality Series)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0809132524" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> ) and how this has effected our very mythologies. His argument is that Feminine Goddess mythologies began to take a back seat to Storm God mythologies from 5 to 10 thousand years ago.<br />
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This was also the time of the rapid growth of City-States and expansion of territories. Kings formed armies to gain more land and slaves to increase the productivity of the State to provide for the people.<br />
Rape, pillage and plunder abounded.<br />
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The Trail of Tears truly began thousands of years ago.<br />
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No wonder boys and men have their tears dried up. What toxic shame we are saddled with.<br />
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You may say, "Not me!" and to some degree I agree with you. However we can't not all be affected by this historical process.<br />
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This happening is "of our ancestors" and effects the very fabric of our lives, culture, recreational activities, stories, where our resources go, etc.<br />
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What can and does change all of this is for men to learn to process our wounded-ness, to be responsible for our own interactions. To do so means to find support for our troubled relationships and to not take on more than is our due.<br />
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In the indigenous world there were universally men's and women's lodges. In those cultures individuals could go for support and release of pent up emotions.<br />
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Increasingly individuals are finding and creating such supports in this time.<br />
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Without such support we turn to our escapes which take us from staying present with our loved ones.<br />
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The wounding carries on. The wounding is "An Accident of History." The corruption necessary for us to survive has generated a compounding of errors.<br />
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True we have gained incredible knowledge in our left-brained dominance of reality. Now, in this Age of Aquarius our feminine and masculine selves can unite, merge and women can learn to "fix" things and men to "process." This merging is, indeed the process of "The Healing Story."<br />
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Our Green Movements are all indicative that we can heal and bring about healing on a larger scale.<br />
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And, what about The Mother Wound. Tune in.Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-16659003187384595302010-08-13T11:17:00.000-07:002011-07-19T19:15:27.069-07:00Dreaming/EnvisioningFew of us make the best use of our dreaming realities; not to mention our "envisioning." Yet, these are profoundly powerful and wonderful arenas for us to process our worldly and other-worldly experiences. To increasingly spend intentional time in our dream world is to move more freely in our corporal world.<br />
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In Carlos Casteneda's book (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Art-Dreaming-Carlos-Castaneda/dp/006092554X?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Art of Dreaming</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=006092554X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />) he describes an experience where he went to sleep and woke up from that dream into another dream. In that second dream he fell asleep and woke up again, into a third dream. In that third dream he experienced a corporal reality. His book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Separate-Reality-Carlos-Castaneda/dp/0671732498?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Separate Reality</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0671732498" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> describes in some detail moving in and out of different realities.<br />
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My own dreaming experiences, while not so "powerful" have non-the-less served as guides for personal growth, for changing my course of direction in life, for entertaining and for relationship building.<br />
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For example, from the dream world instructions were given for me to cultivate more receptivity from others. To be open to "receiving" as well as giving. This came about through a lucid dreaming experience. (A classic book in this realm is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-World-Dreaming-Stephen-Laberge/dp/034537410X?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=034537410X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> by Stephen Laberge.)<br />
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While I do not practice lucid dreaming with much intentionality my dreams often are spontaneously lucid. Several have been "big dreams": Dreams that are emotionally powerful and portend change in ones life course. Good to pay attention to such dreams! The following words describe one such big dream.<br />
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My right hand moved up and on it a white angel was dancing. I was astonished and delighted. Then my left hand rose up and out of the ether appeared a second angel. It began dancing in my left palm. In my growing astonishment and delight I explained "Look, I have Angels dancing on my palms." An audience then appeared in my dream. Angels were dancing on their palms.<br />
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I woke up from that dream into a second dream and explained, again, "Look, Angels are dancing on my palms." The audience in that dream also then experienced Angels dancing.<br />
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I woke up again into my own bed and shared that dream with my wife, Joanne. She said, "How wonderful. Your left hand is the hand of receiving. You give generously with your right hand but don't often allow yourself to receive."<br />
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Since that time, maybe as much as a year ago, I have been more mindful of openly receiving the gifts of the Universe, from complements to agates on the beach. From that experience I received a deeper awareness of the Feng Shui of giving and receiving. The awareness that too easily and readily receive is to have even more energy and potency in giving! Reiki <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Original-Reiki-Handbook-Mikao-Usui/dp/0914955578?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Original Reiki Handbook of Dr. Mikao Usui</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0914955578" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />!<br />
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This dream was cultivated by me as I had been working on open, active and intentionally receptive listening; both in my life and in my practice. The dream emphasized to me the physiological state of my left hand and right brain being more open and less blocked to being fully present in the moment. I have been paying more attention to the awareness of moving energy from the Universe through my being with my left palm (chakra) being a major receptive channel.<br />
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This awareness leads me to express the importance of intentionality in dreaming. In Laberge's book he describes (in my words) the mantra, "Tonight I am going to sleep, and when I sleep I am going to dream. When I dream I can be aware of my dream and learn to enter into it." One may need to practice this for weeks before being able to "enter" into dreams. In the mean time the act of intentionality encourages more dreaming. Also, taking any piece, image, vingette from the dream and entering it into art, writing, speaking, poetry or whatever, will prime one for bigger and bigger pieces of future dreams. Eventually, whole stories can be remembered, with characters, emotion, color and plot. These can become "life course" guidances.<br />
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Holding intentionality to remembering dreams and to entering into them as one falls asleep guarantees more exchanges between waking and dreaming.<br />
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In the mean time there are guides as to how to use dreams. One of the most celebrated dream workers and teachers is Jeremy Taylor (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Your-Dreams-Unconscious-Transform/dp/1585427543?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1585427543" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />). His book is full of excellent guidance. One of his beliefs which I subscribe to is that dreams always serve health and wholeness.<br />
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In my dream sharing I have learned to pay special attention to the feeling state upon waking. This can guide one into dream interpretation.<br />
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Also, there are no "bad" dreams. Being chased by a dragon or beast or mad person is suggesting one look at what is pursuing. Learning to turn around and face the "beast" with the open question of "What do you have to teach me" transforms the energy from terror and fear to lightness and love.<br />
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And, as with all of life, remember that "gratitude" is the elixir.Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959597251211215703.post-72729443592169819382010-07-26T13:45:00.000-07:002010-07-29T07:16:55.299-07:00All Roads Lead to NirvanaAlong with "We can't not evolve to higher consciousness (blog entry 3/28/10)" comes the awareness that no matter what we do we are headed in the right direction.<br />
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Even experiencing terrible things can be part of that path: They provoke us to make changes. The changes are in our belief systems, our life style and our choice of friends and even families.<br />
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Mindfulness, meditation, yoga, psychotherapy, soul retrieval, wilderness experiences: all of these and many others can be paths to becoming fully conscious.<br />
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"Presence," becoming fully present, standing in one's own center and not being set off by anyone or anything in terms of that state of consciousness is a primary attribute of obtaining Nirvana.<br />
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For most of us the attainment is not instantaneous or occurring at birth. For most of us it is a gradual process in which we are working towards "Full Presence," "Enlightenment" or however we may see it. We do so by many means.<br />
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One of the most frequently used and under utilized paths is via our significant relationships. Most certainly with our chosen life mate and/or children.<br />
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For those of you who have been following this blog you will know my belief system and the process I profess for utilizing the path of working relationships to evolve to higher consciousness (See entry 4/15/10).<br />
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We are tremendously gifted at this time in history, especially those of us living in certain areas in the US.<br />
We have role models, teachers, comforts, challenges and movements to keep us headed in the right direction.<br />
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Buddha, Christ, the various world religions and their precepts taught all point us in the right direction. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Dragon-Tattoo-ebook/dp/B0015DROBO?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Esther Hicks</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0015DROBO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vortex-Attraction-Assembles-Cooperative-Relationships/dp/1401918824?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1401918824" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />) and the Abraham Law, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Echart Tolle</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1577314808" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and his works, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seth-Speaks-Eternal-Validity-Soul/dp/1878424076?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Seth Speaks</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1878424076" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/World-Come-Long-Awaited-Predictions-Dawning/dp/0609805371?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Ruth Montgomery</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0609805371" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, Burke (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Consciousness-Study-Evolution-Human/dp/1594626243?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Cosmic Consciousness (A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1594626243" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, Zen <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Three-Pillars-Zen-Teaching-Enlightenment/dp/0385260938?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0385260938" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, Sufi (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sufis-Idries-Shah/dp/0385079664?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Sufis</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0385079664" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />), Taoism <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Te-Ching-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061142662?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0061142662" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />,Ken Keyes (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Higher-Consciousness-Keyes-Ken/dp/0960068880?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Handbook to Higher Consciousness (Keyes, Jr, Ken)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0960068880" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and many many others all point out the way. These few are among my readings and studies following a life long interest in spirituality, healing and enlightenment.<br />
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What becomes very clear after considering these various approaches is that the paths are many; and, there is not one "right" path but many.<br />
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These various paths and which one works best for you are determined by many variables.<br />
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Of real importance is ones clear intention. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, in my field, psychotherapy what seems to work is not diagnosis or medication but: 1. The clients determination to heal, 2. The therapists belief in themselves; and 3. The clients belief in the therapist.<br />
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It is my belief that the same findings can be applied to the decision to obtain higher consciousness.<br />
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What works for you? What speaks to you?<br />
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What comes across your path after you make the decision to heal or to become a higher conscious being, a more loving or helpful and productive prosperous soul?<br />
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Don Juan in Carlos Castenada's work (I believe it was in Journey to Ixtlan, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Ixtlan-Lessons-Don-Juan/dp/0671732463?ie=UTF8&tag=shamanicvisio-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=shamanicvisio-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0671732463" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />) talks about omens and confirmation from the Universe. After we make some clear decision and start on a path we will be given omens. When we note those omens as omens yet have some questions about whether or not they are such; we will be given confirmation from the universe.<br />
According the shamanic wisdom, our power animals or familiars will appear in one form or another, in a book, in real life, in our dreams or wherever. Attending to what we have been thinking, believing and realizing puts it all together for us. It strengthens our belief and motivation to continue to move in the direction in which we have been going.<br />
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The obverse of this is that when we are not committed or decisive then we are often besieged by contradictory omens and confirmations. When we are clear, the Universe responds to us with decisive clarity! This provokes us to become more decisive and change. Shades of The Law of Attraction!Scott Lloyd Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074272631404878309noreply@blogger.com0