I can help you connect with intuitive spiritual guidance intended just for you, by performing a “journey” for you. For the same reason we need counselors and coaches to help us understand “what we actually already know”, I can help you access what you need to know about your life.
The purpose of a journey is for you to connect with intuitive spiritual knowledge that you cannot access with your intellectual mind. My role is as a conduit for your messages to get to you.
Any of you that are familiar with techniques for getting in touch with your higher self, can do this for yourself. However, sometimes it is easier to get external confirmation of what you think the correct answer is by having someone like me doing it for you. Also, if you are too close to the issue, are too connected to it emotionally and have lost your sense of perspective on the issue, it is easier for someone else to do it.
Depending on your perspective and your religious background, you might think of journeying in a variety of ways. Some people believe it taps into the collective unconscious, or that it utilizes your own active imagination. Others believe that a shamanic journey is a direct connection with your own individual spirit guides and power animals, and the Universal Life Force. My own training has been doing shamanic journeys, as a shamanic practitioner.
Like a dream, most journeys are made up of symbols and metaphors that come together in a story, to answer a question. You can read journeys I have done for others under the “Journeys” category on this blog.
I am very honored when someone asks me to perform a journey for them. It is always a beautiful mystery, unraveling the meaning of a journey, and I always learn new and fascinating things. However, the most rewarding aspect is when I know that you will take information you received and apply to your life, in order to help yourself to advance yourself along your life’s path. That is the ultimate purpose of a shamanic journey.
If you would like me to journey for you, email me at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com for my next appointment.
Process of Shamanic Journeying
I use a basic shamanic journey process. Shamans from many different cultures may have different ways of journeying to alternate realities, but the process is basically the same, and the destinations are similar. There is an Upper World, a Middle World (which is this one) and a Lower World. The Tree of Life is a common theme for shamans the world over, and the Tree connects all these Worlds. Shamanic journeyers may travel up and down the tree to reach all of the Worlds.
Before I journey for you, I set my intention for the specific question you asked. My intention for the journey information received, is for your highest good, and the highest good of all.
I journey into “non-ordinary” reality, where there are few rules and unusual events often happen. I explore this alternate reality until I find the answer to your question. I also usually encounter your power animal. Your power animal will usually make itself known to me, as it is the animal assigned to you personally at birth. Because this animal cares for your well-being so much and exists to help you, it is often the one conveying some information to you.
While I am journeying, I disengage my intellectual mind, so that I don’t interpret or judge the messages through my own perspective. This allows whatever message, no matter how strange it seems to me, come to you. If I try to interpret the message through my own personal lens it can lead to the wrong meaning. Quite often the symbol or message is in a very specific way, that only the question asker can make sense of.
As soon as I have received answers to the question you have asked, I give thanks, and leave.
Once I come back to waking consciousness, I type up the journey exactly as it appeared to me. This is important since certain symbols may have specific meanings to individuals, that I wouldn’t know about. Then I do a little research on the major symbols in the journey and email it to you. I encourage you to do your further research on the major symbols before we chat. We set up a time to talk for ½ an hour and to further delve into what we both believe the journey means for you.
Taking the traditional symbolic meanings, along with what the symbols mean to you, reveals the deep and powerful meanings behind these symbolic messages. Having your own interpretation of your journey, plus myself as an intuitive symbologist to offer an outside point of view, helps bring out the most information for you.
Following the journey, I encourage you to let the journey sink in, and reveal any further meanings it might have to you. I encourage you to study your power animal and connect with it, in order that its qualities can help you out in your life.
In the best circumstance, days, or even weeks after the journey, the meanings are deepening and bringing you more insight into your life.
Does this sound intriguing? If you would like me to perform a shamanic journey for you, I can be reached at conduitofjoy@hotmail.com, for my next available appointment.
Kara
Thanks to Mark Gilliland for the image of the Tree of Life!
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