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Urban Shamanism: Wise Ways for Everyday Life

In the hub bub of the urban jungle life, it is often hard to imagine that we have anything to do with creating the strange and tumultuous reality of our times. Yet, if you are reading this, perhaps you are entertaining the idea that you are somehow participating in a grand dream and that at some level you really do create your reality.

Indigenous peoples from around the world have understood the concept of dreaming their world for many eons. They understand and take great responsibility in dreaming well. Their wisdom is simple, and yet quite profound in application. You can easily adopt the philosophy and apply the practices in your urban life and discover this mystery for yourself.

Maintain constant awareness (mindfulness), presence. Stay awake! Be mindful of your thinking, your actions, your feeling and how you interact in your world. Slow down in the hustle and bustle of this world and recognize your attitudes and thoughts, feelings, are connected to your actions, and to how your life is being created. Breathe. Your attitudes, thoughts and feelings create your world! Direct your thoughts toward your desires, and yet stay present in the moment, for the moment is where the power of your life lives.

Always pay attention to synchronicities. There are always signs, omens and messages, if you will only listen and see. Bringing your constant awareness to the NOW moment allows you to see/hear/feel the signs and synchronicities. There is a weaving the fabric of your life from your inner dreamer to your outer reality. The “coincidences” and synchroncities will help you see the bigger picture unfolding and reflect back to you what you are creating.

Relate with a full and open heart. If you want a world full of love, peace and joy, discover your full and generous heart. What you give is truly what you receive. Let your heart guide you in your creative process, and your world will reflect this generosity, joy and fullness.

Always give back in gratitude to your world. Bless your world with gratitude and watch it flow. This action of gratitude will expand  your world as much as any action can. It is attractive and full of heart, as well as energy that creates growth.

Listen to nature. Be in union with nature, for it will teach you and show you what you need to know. Every part of the natural world is a teacher if you will observe, listen, watch and ask to understand. The trees, the rocks, the wind, the water, the mountains, the birds, the squirrels, etc., all have a message if you will learn to see and to hear. Nature not only will teach you, it will fill you up with the higher octave energies that are the foundational energies of creation. Nature will replenish and regenerate you, inwardly and outwardly.

Keep life in balance. There is a time to work, a time to rest. Be mindful to stay in balance with this flow. When you are out of balance, life will begin to crash down around you. Balance is a crucial key to accessing your soul essence and bringing it to Earth in all your activities.

Work hard. Focus on what you desire to create and give yourself to it. This is not about urban workaholism! This is about giving yourself to your desires and then taking action in your physical world to bring forth your dreams.

Release ego and lower dense energies constantly, while filling up with the vibrant higher energies of light and love. Clean and clear man made energies of anger, fear, hate, envy, judgment, jealousy, greed, etc. The ego/false personality will constantly challenge you with these attitudes made of limitation and fear. They create dense, low frequency energies and experiences of chaos and distortion. The Andean Qero call this energy “hucha.”

Clean your mental and emotional energy bodies, and your physical body regularly with practices such as meditation, salt water baths, inner reflection, eating good food, walks in nature, positive attitudes, dancing, singing, playing and sending your “hucha” into the Earth for the Great Mother Earth to recycle. As you clean your energy bodies, imagine filling back up with starlight, light from the cosmos, sunlight, moonlight and sparkles of gold through every cell of your physical body and energy bodies. These cosmic energies are full of the qualities of love, bliss, joy, peace, happiness, laughter and creativity, etc.

These practices keeps your energies bodies vibrant and filled with creative, life-giving energy, all the while “youthing” your physical body.

Remember, you have a limitless mind. There are no limits to what you can do. The Great Void, or Quantum Field allows for miraculous, magical and mystical experiences. Let go of all limiting stories and focus on the possibilities of great things happening. Play the “What if… ?” game, and watch your imagination and curiosity draw to you what you desire and more than you can imagine. What if life only got better?

Be free of opinions of others. Be neutral to the responses of others toward you, positive or negative. Let go of the praises and judgments others have toward you and discover the power of your own authenticity, free of ego.

Release all judgment. This isn’t the easiest, but is one of the important ones. Releasing judgment of the world outside you will free you from ego and struggle. When judgment arises, examine your own attitudes, drop into your heart and let go of critical mind. This neutrality will expand your authenticity, free of ego.

Overcome the fear of death, which includes the death of the ego. Every day is the opportunity to die unto the old, to the ego, and to ways of being that no longer serve you.

Strive to become the type of person who is a walking blessing. Be a giving presence to all you meet. Imagine what it would be like to be filled with joy, happiness, positive energies, and starlight overflowing to all you meet. Walk your talk and exude a presence of light and love. This is the power that will shift your world and all you meet.

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Avatar Image By: Katherine Skaggs
Katherine Skaggs is internationally known and respected as a visionary artist, intuitive, author, teacher, spiritual counselor, shamanic practitioner, reader of the akashic records and painter of souls. Katherine is also the artist of the Mythical Goddess Tarot, the Pocket-full of Goddesses: a Blessing Oracle, and both the art and inspiration of the Pocket Blessing Cards… including hundreds of soul portraits and channeled paintings of goddesses and divine beings of light. Katherine travels around the world to study with shamans in the jungles of the Amazon basin, the mountains of the Andes and Mexico, and other sacred sites with wise ones who will have her! Katherine is artist of the Mythical Goddess Tarot Website is http://www.katherineskaggs.com
Website: http://katherine-skaggs.wildirismarket.com

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