Limiting agreements – part 3 – releasing
Once we’ve identified a limiting agreement (either the words or the energy or both), we have the clarity necessary to begin releasing it. I felt a sense of anticipation this morning when I awoke, and I intuitively knew it was the right time to unravel the limiting agreement that the body is a tool to be used without regard for its needs. In my healing room, I smudged, lit a candle on my altar, and created sacred space. I spoke out loud to the divine compassionate ones and told them that this old agreement was causing pain and suffering and...
Limiting agreements – part 2 – identifying
Limiting agreements can be elusive. For years, I’ve asked myself what is at the heart of my inability to consistently take care of my body. It felt like a secret I was keeping from myself. I knew I needed greater awareness to fully release what was holding me back. The first step in working with limiting agreements is to identify the wording and energy as clearly as possible. This brings about a more thorough release when we start the unraveling process. Sometimes the awareness of limiting agreements will pop fully formed into our...
Limiting agreements – part 1
Last week I journeyed to get insight around why it is so difficult to consistently make choices that are kind to my body (one of my healing intentions for 2022). The helping spirits brought my awareness to a piece of core programming from childhood. My father was a farmer with a strong Midwestern work ethic and a lot of determination. He tried to bend everything around him to his will, including his physical body. He believed the body was merely a tool to perform work under the control of his mind. Because it was just a tool, it didn’t need...
Movement and clairsentience
Years ago when I was living in Missouri, I had an interesting experience while doing errands. As I maneuvered through the parking lot at the grocery store, a dark blue pick-up truck passed by. I locked eyes with the man driving the vehicle, and the jolt of recognition was mesmerizing. It was like a scene from a movie – we both turned our heads and looked over our shoulders at each other until we were out of sight. That was the end of the encounter. I used to joke that I met my soul mate at Schnuck’s in St. Louis. But I no longer see it that...
Confirmation through animal sightings
Yesterday I shared several stories of how the outside world sometimes validates energetic shifts in shamanic healing sessions. The same sort of messages also happen for classes. Before a two-day basic shamanism class last fall, I got up early to drive to Crow Moon Healing and get set up. As I was loading my car that morning, I saw one of my power animals before I even left home. A pileated woodpecker flew into the top of a nearby tree. They did their trademark cackling and then drilled on a dead branch. Pileated woodpecker medicine for me is...
Confirmation
At a recent group healing at Crow Moon, we were at a pivotal point in the session releasing a heavy layer of old ancestral anger from the client’s body. The energy was very fiery, and the helping spirits showed me alternating images of molten lava and a blacksmith’s forge to describe what we were dealing with. Just as we finished working on the red hot energy, the smoke detectors upstairs went off. We laughed at the sign from the Universe and took it as confirmation that the release had been effective. The outside world sometimes validates...