Arhithena Healing Arts

My Peruvian Teachers - Jose Luis and the medicine ones.....

2012-01-12T10:24:00.000-08:00

Don Sebastian, Dona Asunta, Don Allario - beautiful medicine teachers I studied with in Peru this past summer 2011. Very cool to see them on Youtube doing a Despacho to Pachamama.....

Enjoy the teachings!

Inka Pachas - Cosmology I.......Create your Healing Mesa !

2011-09-05T17:59:00.000-07:00

INKA PACHAS
Inka Cosmology for Personal Empowerment and Growth
Calgary, October 6 - 9, 2011
Dear friends,
I’d like to invite you to an exciting journey of exploration and growth through the Inka Medicine Path. This thousand year old tradition of love and power practiced by Inka Shamans will be able to heal and empower your lives, children, and communities. Here’s a brief description of the training program.
Inka indigenous peoples have mastered practical ways to effectively heal, transform, and envision our human potential in congruence with the principles of Heaven and Earth. They engage reality through heart-centered processes allowing them to maintain a state of well being and right relationship at all
times. For thousands of years these healing and transformational technologies have been used effectively to attain equilibrium and fulfillment in life. The path to personal healing and power
revolves around the concept of “Pachas”. Pachas or time/space continuum are maps of consciousness,
memory banks, human blueprints containing essential luminous coding. They provide philosophies,
percepts, ways, and luminous seeds to deal with aspects of our journey: imprints, wounds, behaviors,
karma, potentials, healed states, etc. In order to become an individual of power the initiate builds a Mesa or Medicine bag, which becomes the living embodiment and map of the medicine journey.

The first Pacha of empowerment and healing, we explore, is known as Amaru Pacha. The
archetypal serpent creator Amaru becomes the essential blueprint we awaken within. It deals with the
cycles of nature and mastery of time. In the space/time continuum our cultural trance or adopted identity
cycles back and reenacts our suffering. Constant reenactment expands our unconscious load. The
teachings of Amaru uncoils and sets free such memory loads and brings renewal and transformation. It
also represents the lower world where everything is intangible and in the process of manifestation or seeding. It is the womb of the Mother where life begins and returns. It is the safest place where
the soul takes refuge in times of chaos, pain, or trauma. Through animistic healing ceremonies we reclaim those soul parts that have been compromised and restore them to their natural setting. The teachings of Amaru allows us to heal and step beyond our woundedness. We learn to change our relationship with the past and our suffering. We learn modalities of living congruently with our actions and are no longer claimed by our imprints.

Kuychi Pacha, the domain of the Rainbow Jaguar archetype deals with the tremendous capabilities of our awareness. Awakening our luminous memory allows for a multi-sensorial exchange with all our relations. The Munay Pacha or territory of unconditional love becomes the vehicle to navigate in multiple realities. The embodiment of the Sacred becomes a way of being in the universe and consensual reality becomes secondary. We evolve away from conceptual reality, cultural perceptual lenses, or personal stories to an accurate understanding of our engagements as we honor our struggles. Jaguar medicine teaches us the essence of Ayni or balance, reciprocity, and harmony. It allows to merge the parts of who we are seen as and who we truly are into wholeness. Integrity, elegance, right relationship become the tools of the Jaguar Medicine person. We learn to synchronize to our luminous nature and break free from limiting beliefs, fear, and violence that resides within us.

The teachings of Apuchin Pacha revolves around the archetype of the Seer. We learn to awaken
the visionary within and, ultimately, envision our possibilities as single and collective individuals. We
explore the mystery teachings outside of time and space and bring awareness and availability to our own
becoming. Shamanic practice allows us to engage in perceptual shifts to obtain information and insight.
Using several tracking modalities we learn to navigate in different realms of consciousness to become
familiar with spirit guides and healing tools. We learn the subtleties of energy as we develop our own
medicine body by weaving ourselves to the matrix of nature and the medicine lineage.
Through this training we create a Mesa or Medicine Bundle that becomes our map of
transformation and healing through the medicine path. A powerful body of knowledge, Ritual, Healing
Techniques, and Rites of Passage become the axis of a strong medicine body. This training on Inka Pachas comprises a series of four long weekends. To obtain maximum gain, commitment to all four sessions is required. This training seminar will take place at a wonderful lodge surrounded by extensive forests and green pastures. Our time together will be filled with ceremonies, time for contemplation, exercises, and lectures. The collective and personal experiences will certainly have tremendous use in your daily life.
In Spirit,
Jose Luis Herrera

Jose Luis Herrera, a Peruvian native, was born into the thousand year old
tradition of mountain and jungle wizards and mystics. During the last 27 years he
has traveled extensively studying the different medicine traditions of the
Americas with particular interest in his native Andes and Amazon. He’s a trained
naturalist, explorer, and mountain guide. While formally educated in Engineering
and Systems Sciences, his close connection with the Apus (mountain spirits) led
him to climb professionally many mountains in Peru and Bolivia. Extensive
expeditions, studies, and experiences have made of him one of the foremost
experts in Peru. He’s the Chairman of the Andean Research Institute, a
foundation dedicated to the preservation of Indigenous Knowledge and Ecology
of the Rainforest. Jose Luis is highly respected and a recognized steward and
teacher of indigenous knowledge and healing technologies. He’s the director of the Rainbow Jaguar Institute and teaches Cross Cultural Shamanism and Healing in the Americas and Europe. His prestigious shamanic healing school has mentored, trained, and empowered hundreds of individuals and shamanic practitioners.

For registration and information, please contact Cindy Johnston at 403-949-3202
or email at: cindy@spiritualsolutionsfortoday.com
Rainbow Jaguar Institute
P.O. Box 5223 Herndon, VA 20172 800-614-6202 rainbowjaguar@

Dreams Belong to the Dreamers !

2011-08-11T12:26:00.000-07:00

Sharing your dreams with a partner, play the Lightning Dreamwork Game ! Robert Moss invented a simple, quick process for sharing dreams with a partner or a group; focusing energy like a lightning strike. Here are the steps:

1. Get the dreamer to tell her story as simple and clearly as possible, leaving out autobiography and explanations. Stories need titles, so the dreamer should be encouraged to come up with a title for her dream report. In this way, the dreamer is helped to claim the power of creating and telling stories, which is central to the art of conscious living. When we can tell our story in a way that others can hear and receive, we have acquired real power that can be applied to any situation, from ending a family drama to winning a new job or a book contract.

2. The person who is hearing the dream asks a few questions to get the bare minimum of facts required to place the dream in a context and see how it may apply to he rest of the dreamers life, past, present and future. The first question is always about FEELINGS. How you feel immediately after a dream are the first and best guide to the nature of the dream. The next questions involve running a reality check on the dream. What does the dreamer recognize from her dream in the rest of the life ? And is it remotely possible that any part of this dream could play out in the future either literally or symbolically ? I also like to ask the dreamer: What do you want to know about this dream ?

3. Play the "If It Were My Dream" game. Anyone present during the telling of the dream gets to play. If you are commenting on someone else's dream, you can do no wrong as long as you follow the simple rule of prefacing your opinion and associations by saying "If it were my dream..." You are not allowed to interpret another person's dream. You are going to pretend that her dream is your dream and talk about whatever comes to mind when you play that role, which might range from dreams of your own with a similar theme or to your feeling about the symbols or situations that are coming up in her dream.

4.Get the dreamer to come up with an action plan, bu which I mean a specific and practical way to honor the dream. Sometimes even veteran dreamers are clueless when asked for an action plan. So in a Lightning Dreamwork game, we are all poised to make suggestions about how to move beyond talking to walking a dream. On the way to an action plan, we ask the dreamer to come up with Mark Twain called a "snapper", a personal catchphrase that captures the essence of the dream and the insights that have come through in discussion. This is a neat way to retain a message and it orients us towards us doing something about it. Come up with the right "snapper" and it may lead you to the right snap decision.....(Above paraphrased from Active Dreaming by Robert Moss).

Using your Dream body to help you walk your dreams has opened huge intuitive doors for me, I plan on working with the Active Dreaming process and Robert Moss's The Way of the Dreamer Home study Course in Active Dreaming in the next 3 months so we can co-create a Dream Group and Individual Lightning Dreamwork sessions.

Blessings of Your Healed State,
Samantha

Week of April 13 - 20th : Resolution of Duality Card

2011-04-13T19:57:00.000-07:00

Qualities: resolving the perceptions of duality, mass consciousness, personal integration of polarity, cooperative alliances, re-framing of language that separates and limits.

Now is the time for you to confront directly the illusion of separation and duality ! Receiving this lens asks you to resolve your separate sense of identity. Bring awareness to the way you hold duality pairs such as good and bad, right and wrong, them and us. Such pairs support the very framework of our presently transforming third-dimensional reality.

Duality is simply a perception. Duality pairs, such as right and wrong exist simply as value judgments and cultural definition. In the collective trance you probably have been taught to understand duality from the position of separation. Duality is the transformational playing field that is maintained only be the belief systems held in mass consciousness. As you personally integrate your inner polarities and transmute your limiting beliefs, your reality transforms. When enough personal realities are transformed, collective reality also shifts, revealing a Greater reality of inseparable Unity. Since we are literally transforming reality with the power of our thoughts, it is essential that we become aware of language that separates and limits so that is can be re-framed into language that unifies.

In receiving this lens, you are being challenged to work with your belief systems and thoughts to see where they appear to limit you. Your very complexity and rigidity invite new processes that open you to simplicity, expansion and change. You will feel this energy working in any of your life that has become too complicated or inflexible. Since your own personal issues are connected to mass consciousness, as you transform, you contribute to uplift-ment of the whole collective.. You ARE the resolution of duality.

In my own lineage of teachings - we call this non-position......if you eliminate absolute positions of energy - it is truly just energy and however we color it, is ours to own and that choice is only ours to make. The Peruvian shamans have no definitions of Positive and negative when describing energy, only heavy and light. That describes how it feels to them - so open your awareness to how it TRULY FEELS !

Remember the Full Moon is on Sunday this weekend, and it is again a Super-Moon and will affect us in interesting ways. Be gentle with yourselves and do your Healing work/play! I Love You All,
Samantha Hussey

(Please see the deck - The Mayan Oracle by Ariel Spilsbury and Micheal Bryner)

Week of March 28 - April 2nd : Shadow Card

2011-03-27T20:23:00.000-07:00

Qualities: reaction, resistance, attachment, unfinished business, unexpressed aspects,. hidden potential, journey to wholeness, healing destructive family patterns, and internalized mother/father

Profound insights and empowerment await your journey into the shadow's wisdom. Shadow is simply the unseen faces of the light, your "unfinished buisness", your fears and doubts, the parts of yourself that you noramally avoid or hide. Shadow, the unexpressed, holds the most powerful potentials and impoetant tools for transformation. Shadow gifts you with the vision of how your illusions - your beliefs, judgemtrnts, fears, and limitations - are the only things that stand between you and the light.

Your shadow will offer you signs for growth in everyday life. When you have a charged reaction to any person, situation , or issue this is a clear signal that a shadow aspect is asking to be seen, owned, and thus transformed. Be direct about sharing what you normally withold. Fully experieence and express your emaotions. Honor your realtionships by your willingness to address shadows with others. Your reward will be deeper initmany , love and self-acceptnace.

Working with shadow is an important part of the journey of self into perceiving it;s wholeness. When you personally heal and integrate your own shadow aspects, you also help to heal the pager pattern of the collective mind-field. Now is the time to heal destructive family past family patterns and to work on bringing to awareness unfinished business with both you biological father and mother, and the internalized voice of your inner father and mother. When you are growing up, you naturally transferred male authority and female nuturance to an outer father and mother figure. Begin the journey of reclamation of male authority and female nuturance of your own inner father/mother, that only you can offer yourself. Take back the power you gave away growing up to nurture and give yourself permission to be, do, and become all that you are!

(Please see the deck - The Mayan Oracle by Ariel Spilsbury and Micheal Bryner)

I Love You All,
Samantha

Reiki Healing Sessions

2011-03-13T08:50:00.000-07:00

The Reiki energy therapy will bring the individual into harmony with herself or himself, with the whole universe and with God/Goddess/Creator. Reiki has a calming effect on the body, which allows the body to go into a self-healing state. Reiki will also help in removing the pain (an anaesthetic effect), and this effect will generally appear after a couple of minutes after we started the Reiki treatment.

Reiki not only promotes your physical well-being but also has a positive effect on your emotional and spiritual equilibrium. This is why, after a treatment, many people feel refreshed, relaxed, cleared and feels more content. It is suitable for healthy and sick people of all ages. You can use it to replenish your vital energy, to strengthen your immune system and to help with healing of ailments and serious illnesses such as sports injuries, cuts, burns, internal diseases, emotional disorders, and stress-related illnesses.

WHAT IS REIKI USED FOR?

Balancing energies of the organs and glands and their bodily functions
Releases blocked and suppressed feelings
Promotes natural self-healing
Balances the energies in the body
Chakra Balancing (purifies the energy centers)
Enhances personal awareness and helps meditative states
Relaxes and reduces stress
Strengthens life force energy
Treats symptoms and causes of illness
Strengthens immune system
Relieves pain
Clears toxins

HOW IS A REIKI SESSION PERFORMED?

Reiki is a therapy that the practitioner delivers through the hands, with intent to raise the amount of Chi/life-force energy in and around the client, heal energetic pathways and reduce negative energies. Reiki can be practiced in several ways: on its own, along with other alternative therapies like shamanic healing, and along with conventional medical treatments.

When a practitioner performs Reiki, usually the client sits or lies comfortably, fully clothed. The practitioner places her hands on or slightly above the client's body, using 12 to 15 different hand positions. Each hand position is held until the practitioner feels that the flow of energy has slowed or stopped, typically about 5 to 10 minutes.

HOW LONG IS A REIKI SESSION?

Typically, the practitioner delivers at least three sessions of 30 to 60 minutes each. Depending on their level of training, people can perform Reiki on themselves as well as on people who are either close by or at some distance away (even at a long distance). In the latter case, Reiki is a type of "distant healing."

WHAT WILL I EXPERIENCE DURING A TREATMENT?

The experience differs from person to person and possibly also between different sessions; it depends on the body’s ability to receive this treatment and its benefits.

The energy flows wherever it is required (spiritually guided) and can normally be felt as a warm sensation or tingling in the body. Receiving Reiki is a very relaxing and soothing experience!

Usually when receiving Reiki you will feel very relaxed and you may have a "floating" feeling. You may feel heat, a tingling or cold under the practitioners’ hands. These and other feelings come from what the Reiki energy is actually doing in and around your body i.e. adding energy, removing excess energy, balancing, removing blockages.

It is also possible that you experience different emotions or thoughts you had forgotten might pop up. If they do you are probably supposed to learn something and release them. Some people receive insights on how to solve problems.

Remember that all healing starts with a process of releasing, which means your condition could potentially worsen and then once you overcome this crisis of healing, which could be in the form of emotions or even toxins in your body that you need to get rid of, healing comes about even though you might initially even feel worse than before. You can help your body by drinking lots of water.

If you would like to connect with me on how a Reiki Healing session may help you on your healing journey. Please contact me by Email or Phone (paqokuna@gmail.com or 403-668-9361)......Reiki is a gift from Spirit and I feel honored to bring that gift to you.... I Love You All, Samantha

Shamanic Healing Sessions with Samantha

2011-01-06T09:40:00.003-08:00

Shamanic healing interventions offer powerful avenues for directly accessing, clearing, healing and re-informing old traumas, souls contracts, ancestral patterns and other powerful energies imprinted on our luminous energy field, sometimes for many lifetimes. While healing is a journey, shamanic sessions seek to find the imbalances at their root cause, rather than working backwards from the presenting issues. This by its very nature, tends to promote deep, lasting, transformation shifts that help us heal more quickly. Shamanic healing is also focused on restoring personal power, and removing unwanted energies that contribute to our loss of power.

It is up to each person to set their clear intention and commitment for their own personal healing journey. As a practitioner, I am here to support you in honoring that commitment to yourself. By creating and holding a safe and sacred space, the luminous body can transmute heavy energies back to sources of light and power.

Our entire being is then informed in new ways, leading us to new levels of awareness, greater states of health and well-being. As we are sourced more and more from our wholeness and less and less from our wounds, we step more fully into our personal power and potential.

During sessions, you remain fully clothed, and lie on a massage table, or sometimes work is done on the floor or the ground if we are working outdoors. There is gentle touch to the body for some of the work, and other forms of energy work and body work may be integrated into your session. The work is always conducted with the deepest respect for you and your process, in the safety, protection and grace of Sacred Space, where Spirit is invited to work on your behalf.

Illuminations

Many of my shamanic sessions include an Illumination – working with one of the stones from my mesa – and with your luminous energy field, and the Luminous Lineages, to deeply clear one or more chakras that is holding “hucha” heavy energies. This gentle but powerful process, can clear lifetimes of energy sludge from your chakras. It’s called an Illumination, because when the clearing is complete, the chakra is “illuminated” – reinformed with Divine Light. When I begin an illumination on a chakra, it is most often spinning slowly or not at all – a sign of a clogged, blocked chakra. When the illumination is complete all the chakras are spinning clockwise, full of energy and light, once again sourcing the luminous and physical bodies with life force energy.

If you are interested in booking a Healing Session with me, please contact me by email or by phone.
403 - 668 - 9361

I Love You All,
Samantha

2010-11-02T21:24:00.000-07:00

A Beautiful Movie about the Peruvian Q'ero Mountain Medicine tradition, I am so honoured to be a part of!
Love You All,
Samantha

Being on Earth

2010-10-07T08:46:00.000-07:00

SIMPLE PRACTICES FOR
RECONNECTING WITH EARTH
by Robin Rose Bennett
Excerpt from Healing Magic

Go outside and simply be. Sit, stand, or lie with no goal or plan.
The simplest practice of all can be the most challenging for our busy, goal-oriented selves. Try it. Be still and know the earth.

Awakening Senses
~ Consciously breathe fresh air in a natural setting. Smell the scents that are being carried in your direction.
~ Touch various natural things with your fingertips, such as stones, feathers, grass, flowers, or tree bark. Touch them with your eyes closed and notice the difference.
~ Walk barefoot on different types of ground: on grass in a meadow, sand on the beach, fresh pine needles in the woods, or on smooth pebbles in a shallow stream or river. Feel the sensations of different textures under your feet.
~ Listen carefully to the sounds you hear. Notice that the longer you remain quiet, the better your hearing becomes.
~ Sit or stand in one place and look around you, observing as much detail as you can. Stay there for a minimum of five minutes and notice that the longer you stay there, the more you see.

These practices help you learn to slow down and reawaken your natural senses. You can continue with more smells, sights, textures and include tastes, too.
Be creative about how you open yourself to perceive the multitude of details that are available.
Tickle your cheek with pussy willows, brush your hair gently with a fallen pine bough, let an insect walk on your arm, smell a maple tree flower, taste an apple off a tree.

Heart to Heart with Mother Earth
~ Lie down on the ground, on your back or your stomach. If you’re on your stomach, turn your head to the right or left. Breathe deeply, in and out, and listen to your heartbeat. As you become quiet and relaxed, see if you can hear and feel the heartbeat of the earth coming up into you from the center of the planet. Feel the generous love of Mother Earth, the ancient mother of us all. Relax; she will not let you go.
Open to receive. Melt into her. Feel your heartbeats merge and become one. This practice helps you feel the protective love the earth has for you, her daughter or son. It opens you to receive nurturance and nourishment from the earth, which, in actuality, you are always receiving.
Knowing the truth of this increases your sense of security and belonging, and decreases your sense of isolation and loneliness.

Drawing on Earth Energy
~ Place both feet on the ground, ideally without shoes. Consciously breathe in and out and draw the energy of the earth up into your body through the bottoms of your feet. Send love down to the earth with each exhalation. Even in a tiny city park, you can find a patch of earth, perhaps where a bush is planted.
This practice regenerates your energy, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It is especially useful when you feel fatigued from being indoors too much or not moving your body enough. It can help lift depression, too. When I lived in the city I never thought this practice would be enough to help me. Yet, I would make myself go outside and do it—and it always did help, even when I kept my shoes on.

Communing with Plants and Trees
~ Sit outside with a plant or tree and do a timed writing practice. Pick a phrase such as, “This plant (or tree) says, . . .” as a starting point. Commit to write for a specific length of time that you’ve decided on in advance, from 5 to 30 minutes, without lifting the pen off the page at all. Repeat your starting phrase at any point if you get stuck, as many times as necessary, so you don’t stop writing (as described in Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones). Let the writing go anywhere it wants. When you’re done, read what you’ve written out loud to yourself or someone else. I guarantee that something you’ve written will surprise you and teach you something.

~ Sit outside with a plant and consciously connect with it through the exchange of breath. Plants exhale oxygen and inhale carbon dioxide. Humans do the opposite. Open to receive the gift of breath as you inhale and share the gift of life sustaining carbon dioxide with “your” plant as you exhale. This symbiotic relationship is always taking place and it is of primary importance. If it weren’t for the plants and trees, you wouldn’t be able to breathe. Breathe in and out with conscious awareness and let yourself experience the living relationship you share with the plant, which until now, only it has been conscious of. Let it touch your heart.

These two practices can help you feel the love that plants and trees share with human beings. They help you to experience the common spirit or consciousness that emanates from us all. The plant may even communicate specific information and guidance to you. These are among the kinds of practices that helped herbalists and medicine people originally learn which plants were good for food and medicine and which were hallucinogenic or poisonous. You might even be lucky or receptive enough to hear the plant’s song!

I Hope you've enjoyed this article all great places to start you on your healing journey !
Have a Blessed Day,
Samantha Lone Eagle Woman

2010-08-27T12:18:00.001-07:00

2010-07-23T17:10:00.000-07:00

What is EFT or Tapping and How to Do It!

By Nick Ortner, Producer of the The Tapping Solution

What is Tapping?

Millions of people are settling for lives filled with poor health and emotional baggage. Not knowing how to achieve the joyful and satisfying lives they desire, they’re stuck accepting a lifestyle of emotional trauma, chronic physical pain, compulsions and addictions, or perhaps just an empty feeling inside. Along with these problems come pills to kill the pain, sleep at night, and suppress anxiety – but this is hardly better than the disease.

If you’re like many people, you feel trapped, caught in this cycle. You’re tired of feeling sad, depressed, anxious, discontent, and unwell. You’re sick of the expensive and ineffective treatments. You’re fed up with relinquishing the power over your health and happiness to psychologists and doctors. You’d like to grow, flourish, and thrive, putting the past in the past. You want to be your best, living a life that is filled with peacefulness, joy, and fulfilment, from day to day and moment to moment.

With Tapping, you can do that. You can discover the vital secret for emotional wholeness and physical relief. You can take your physical and emotional well-being into your own hands. It’s simple for anyone to master, and it’s free.

Tapping provides relief from chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical diseases. While Tapping is newly set to revolutionize the field of health and wellness, the healing concepts that it’s based upon have been in practice in Eastern medicine for over 5,000 years. Like acupuncture and acupressure, Tapping is a set of techniques which utilize the body’s energy meridian points. You can stimulate these meridian points by tapping on them with your fingertips – literally tapping into your body’s own energy and healing power.

Your body is more powerful than you can imagine… filled with life, energy, and a compelling ability for self-healing. With Tapping, you can take control of that power.

So How Does It All Work?

All negative emotions are felt through a disruption of the body’s energy. And physical pain and disease are intricately connected to negative emotions. Health problems create feedback – physical symptoms cause emotional distress, and unresolved emotional problems manifest themselves through physical symptoms. So, the body’s health must be approached as a whole. You cannot treat the symptoms without addressing the cause, and vice-versa.

The body, like everything in the universe, is composed of energy. Restore balance to the body’s energy, and you will mend the negative emotions and physical symptoms that stem from the energy disruption. Tapping restores the body’s energy balance, and negative emotions are conquered.
The basic technique requires you to focus on the negative emotion at hand: a fear or anxiety, a bad memory, an unresolved problem, or anything that’s bothering you. While maintaining your mental focus on this issue, use your fingertips to tap 5-7 times each on 12 of the body’s meridian points. Tapping on these meridian points – while concentrating on accepting and resolving the negative emotion – will access your body’s energy, restoring it to a balanced state.

You may be wondering about these meridians. Put simply, energy circulates through your body along a specific network of channels. You can tap into this energy at any point along the system.
This concept comes from the doctrines of traditional Chinese medicine, which referred to the body’s energy as “ch’i.” In ancient times, the Chinese discovered 100 meridian points. They also discovered that by stimulating these meridian points, they could heal. Call it energy, call it the Source, call it life force, call it ch’i… Whatever you want to call it, it works.

In some ways, Tapping is similar to acupuncture. Like Tapping, acupuncture achieves healing through stimulating the body’s meridians and energy flow. However, unlike Tapping, acupuncture involves needles! “No needles” is definitely one of the advantages of Tapping.

Acupuncture also takes years to master. Acupuncture practitioners must memorize hundreds of meridian points along the body; the knowledge and training take years to acquire.
Tapping is simple and painless. It can be learned by anyone. And you can apply it to yourself, whenever you want, wherever you are. It’s less expensive and less time consuming. It can be used with specific emotional intent towards your own unique life challenges and experiences. Most importantly, it gives you the power to heal yourself, putting control over your destiny back into your own hands.

The History of Tapping: An Accidental Discovery Leads to a Healing Revolution

It began in 1980, with a psychologist by the name of Roger Callahan, and a patient with an extreme phobia of water. Mary’s fear of water controlled her life and kept her from daily activities. She was unable to take her children to the beach and was unable to drive near the ocean; she grew fearful when it rained, and could not even withstand the sight of water on TV. She had vivid nightmares involving water.
Dr. Callahan and Mary had been working on this problem together for over a year. Finally, Mary worked up the courage to sit within sight of the pool at Dr. Callahan’s house. Even doing this caused Mary extreme distress, and though she found ways to cope with the intense fear and emotional pain, she did not overcome her phobia. They discussed her problem, and how to overcome it, but without success.
Her fear of being near the water caused Mary stomach pains – a common “gut reaction.” Dr. Callahan had recently been studying traditional Chinese medicines, and learning about meridians. Suddenly he had an inspiration. Remembering that there was an acupuncture point for the stomach meridian on the cheekbone, he asked her to tap there, thinking it might cure her stomach pains.
Mary tapped her cheekbone as directed, and this little action changed medicinal history! The response seemed miraculous, to both Mary and Dr. Callahan. Her stomach pains disappeared. But even more amazingly, her phobia of water disappeared, too! She ran down to the pool and began splashing herself with water, rejoicing in her newfound freedom from fear.
Based on this discovery, Dr. Callahan began a series of investigations to develop and refine this technique, which he termed Thought Field Therapy. Gary Craig trained under Dr. Callahan’s tutelage in the 1990’s, learning the procedures for TFT. As time passed, Craig began to observe some problems with TFT, aspects that he saw were unnecessary complications.
TFT required practitioners to tap on a specific sequence of meridians (called an algorithm) for each different problem. Diagnosing the problem required a technique called muscle testing, wherein the practitioner would measure the relative strength of a muscle, while the patient explored various thoughts or statements.
Craig observed repeated scenarios in which the problem was incorrectly diagnosed or the practitioner tapped out the meridian points in the wrong order, yet the patient was still helped.. Based on these observations, he concluded that it did not matter in which order the meridian points were tapped.
Craig developed EFT as a simplified, improved version of the concepts behind Callahan’s TFT. EFT has one basic, simple sequence of points to tap, no matter what the situation.
Because of this, thousands of people have used Tapping for illnesses and to resolve emotional problems. Tapping practitioners have studied the techniques and trained to take on more complicated and difficult cases, and these dedicated practitioners report more successful applications daily. More and more people are discovering and exploring Tapping. Many are discovering how Tapping can change their lives.
Basic Tapping Sequence for Anxiety
As discussed, Tapping can be used for everything- try it on everything! In this example, we’ll focus on general anxiety.

Try it now with this initial sequence. Here’s how a basic Tapping sequence works:

- Identify the problem you want to focus on. It can be general anxiety, or it can be a specific situation or issue which causes you to feel anxious.

- Consider the problem or situation. How do you feel about it right now? Rate the intensity level of your anxiety, with zero being the lowest level of anxiety and ten being the highest.

- Compose your set up statement. Your set up statement should acknowledge the problem you want to deal with, then follow it with an unconditional affirmation of yourself as a person.

“Even though I feel this anxiety, I deeply and completely accept myself.”
“Even though I’m anxious about my interview, I deeply and completely accept myself.”
“Even though I’m feeling this anxiety about my financial situation, I deeply and completely accept myself.”
“Even though I panic when I think about ______, I deeply and completely accept myself. ”
“Even though I’m worried about how to approach my boss, I deeply and completely accept myself.”
“Even though I’m having trouble breathing, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

- Perform the set up.

With four fingers on one hand, tap the Karate Chop point on your other hand. The Karate Chop point is on the outer edge of the hand, on the opposite side from the thumb.
Repeat the set up statement three times aloud, while simultaneously tapping the Karate Chop point. Now take a deep breath!

Get ready to begin tapping! Here are some tips to help you achieve the right technique.

- You should use a firm but gentle pressure, as if you were drumming on the side of your desk or testing a melon for ripeness.

- You can use all four fingers, or just the first two (the index and middle fingers). Four fingers are generally used on the top of the head, the collarbone, under the arm… wider areas. On sensitive areas, like around the eyes, you can use just two.

- Tap with your fingertips, not your fingernails. The sound will be round and mellow.
- The tapping order begins at the top and works down. You can end by returning to the top of the head, to complete the loop.

- Now, tap 5-7 times each on the remaining eight points in the following sequence:

Head (H)
The crown, center and top of the head. Tap with all four fingers on both hands.
Eyebrow (EB)
The inner edges of the eyebrows, closest to the bridge of the nose. Use two fingers.
Side of eye (SE)
The hard area between the eye and the temple. Use two fingers. Feel out this area gently so you don’t poke yourself in the eye!
Under eye (UE)
The hard area under the eye, that merges with the cheekbone. Use two fingers, in line beneath the pupil.
Under nose (UN)
The point centered between the bottom of the nose and the upper lip. Use two fingers.
Chin (CH)
This point follows symmetrically with the previous one, and is centered between the bottom of the lower lip and the chin.
Collarbone (CB)
Tap just below the hard ridge of your collarbone with four fingers.
Underarm (UA)
On your side, about four inches beneath the armpit. Use four fingers.
Head (H)
And back where you started, to complete the sequence.
As you tap on each point, repeat a simple reminder phrase, such as “my anxiety” or “my interview” or “my financial situation.” Tap firmly with the first two fingers on each hand.

Now take another deep breath!

- Now that you’ve completed the sequence, focus on your problem again. How intense is the anxiety now, in comparison to a few minutes ago? Give it a rating on the same number scale.

- If your anxiety is still higher than “2″, you can do another round of tapping. Keep tapping until the anxiety is gone. You can change your set up statement to take into account your efforts to fix the problem, and your desire for continued progress. “Even though I have some remaining anxiety, I deeply and completely accept myself.” “Even though I’m still a little worried about this interview, I deeply and completely accept myself.” And so on.

- Now that you’ve focused on dispelling your immediate anxiety, you can work on installing some positive feelings instead.

Note: This is a different approach than traditional “positive thinking.” You’re not being dishonest with yourself. You’re not trying to obscure the stress and anxiety inside yourself with a veneer of insincere affirmations. Rather, you’ve confronted and dealt with the anxiety and negative feelings, offering deep and complete acceptance to both your feelings and your self. Now, you’re turning your thoughts and vibrations to the powerful and positive. That’s what makes Tapping so much more effective than the “positive thinking” techniques that many of you have already tried. It’s not just a mental trick; instead, you’re using these positive phrases and tapping to tune into the very real energy of positivity, affirmation, and joy that is implicit inside you. You’re actually changing your body’s energy into a more positive flow, a more positive vibration.

Here are some example phrases to guide you:
“I have faith in my ability to change.”
“I am joyful about these positive changes.”
“I am accomplishing so much.”
“I enjoy the calm and peace that I have.”
“I love the person that I am.”
“I am becoming a more relaxed and joyful person.”
You can use these positive phrases with the same tapping points and sequences described above.

Congratulations! You’ve completed your first Tapping sequence.

Samantha's notes: I use tapping for a variety of reasons - food cravings, ANT's (automatic negative thoughts), pain.....try it and see if it works for you...Love You All!

Book Review - The Ringing Cedar Series

2010-02-23T11:20:00.000-08:00

When synchronicity comes in my life, my intention is to listen to it. I came across the Ringing Cedars series at Fairs Fare bookstore in Calgary, and was intrigued at the first edition cover art. Though I did not purchase them until I read what Angela Stokes-Monarch (Raw Food Goddess) had to say about the series on her website – this book series inspired her most out of all the books she has read. So, I started to read the series, and was pleasantly surprised at the holistic messages that I found. Anastasia, the title of the first book focuses on the initial encounter of Vladimir Megre (the author) and the extraordinary Russian taiga recluse, Anastasia. In this three-day time period Vladimir learned all about Anastasia’s views on child-rearing, sex, eating, healing, Nature, and religion. Vladimir’s journey is chronicled in the second book; Ringing Cedars of Russia to get the first book, Anastasia had told him to write, published. There are a total of nine books to date, that Vladimir published, and I wanted to focus this book review on the principles presented mainly in book four “Co-creation” (ISBN#978-0-976333333).

Co-creation presents the idea that every human being on this planet has the right to create a “kin’s domain” for oneself and for one’s family; in other words everyone needs to build a home. According to Anastasia we all can create a sustainable living environment on one hectare, planting a living border, ¼ of the area housing, ¼ of the area gardens and ½ diverse forests. Producing our own food is a key to and enriching life, in this modern age with documentary movies such as “Food Inc.” and “Food Matters” that teaches us to be discerning with what we put in our mouths this message is key. Also, according to the book, the kin’s domains will produce extra food for the community around it, and will enrich the health and wealth of the area around it. Anastasia also has instructions for planting (from book one) seeds in your gardens, that brings your personal energetic connection into the growing of those little edible plant people. The trees you plant for your grandchildren will build them in turn a new house, those apple trees will provide food for them, and you will be remembered for your Love in starting this Space of Love. As Anastasia says “You have to create everything with Love right from the Start” (pg 193:Co-creation).

There is so much rousing information that is presented in the Ringing Cedars series and I urge you to persist through the muddled writing style of the first two books. To me, Vladimir Megre is a very human character and real life person in these books, and I felt his writing vastly improved as the series progressed. I loved the powerful perspectives of Anastasia even though I didn’t agree or resonate with everything that she believes. The layers of realization when I read this series was astounding and it stirred the push for me to get the ideas of kin’s domains, Permaculture, Live food and conscious parenting out into the world. Creating community with others of like mind is a possible solution to the disillusionment with our lives that is common today. I invite you to pick up any of the Ringing Cedar Series books, find a nice spot in nature and call upon Anastasia’s ray of love to come and warm you.

I Love You All,
Samantha

Practical steps for Manifesting what you want............

2009-12-15T01:11:00.000-08:00

So, Spirit or your Higher Self has shown you what it is that you need to do (Manifestations- Commitments - Gifts) in this physical vibration....

Is it write a book? Is it declutter your closet...only you know what you are being directed to do , and if you choose to manifest it on this earth foundation you need to be aware of a few steps:

1. Your identified with what you want (which means you've accepted it - it feels right! )

2. Ask for a release of old or stuck energy which then creates a space in your life for the things that need to happen in order for you to accomplish your goal and then work with the Divine. So, do some personal work - be consistent with these activites and you will prosper (Love,Meditation, Joy, Reiki, Writing, Reading, Gratitude, Loving Kindness, Munay-Ki and be open to opportunities for growth.).

3. Maintain the change first, by having a means by which you can gain further education if you have questions - this can be by experiencing; coaching, reading, mentor-ship, spiritual groups, meetings, talking circle and meditation or ritual.

4. Maintain the change second, by having accountability built into the milestones of the work needed. So, if you are writing a book, you need a consistent writing schedule daily. Then, if you enjoy say, watching movies, then your accountability could be; If I don`t write for 30 minutes daily, for the rest of that day I cannot watch any TV.

5. Maintain the change third, by having a consistent daily practice that will lead you *daily* further and further along your goals. If you want to climb the Inca trail in Peru (like I want to), you first need to learn to walk, then hike, then hike uphill. Consistent action even just for 10 minutes a day breeds results very quickly.

6. And finally - Remember you are human, and are therefore human - we are all surfing in this beautiful quantum soup called life. Have the greatest loving-kindness to your self -cultivate laughter and love. Everything just is and it`s perfect.

Mucho Munay, Beauty As I walk,
Samantha

P.S. Thanks to Patty Shortreed and her Claim Your Voice - Claim Your Power workshop for the inspiring weekend ! Patty held me accountable, taught me to sing, and is a great lady to learn from ! Check her out at www.claimyourvoice.com

Protection - Calling in your allies....

2009-11-22T23:53:00.000-08:00

Some of my earlier experiences of Spiritual life were practicing a mix of Shamanism and Wicca. Going out into Nature, spending time camping and being in solitary ritual. Calling the directions and building sacred fire shaped my beginnings. When I was out in a dark forest at night, hearing and projecting my fears on the outside world, noises like coyotes and ravens; I called in my allies as I knew them then. Here is one of my favourite examples of spoken magic/intention (It is lovingly credited to DJ Conway in her book Celtic Magic).

"Wolf and Horse Old signs of might,
Lend your strength to me this night,
Courage I need and the power of steel
Energy, willpower and defence to feel
Hearken to my call, great powers all"

It is gathering of power that is effective for defence, methods such as choosing and creating a mantra to recite when you get the "tingly feeling" of disharmonious energy nearby. Now-a-days what is most effective for me is a combination of calling my allies, and then visualization of an earth-banishing symbol or my Bands of Power from the Munay-Ki Rites 1&2 session.

1. Ask your self what Animals/Angels/Masters/Deities/Elements resonate with you the most, or signify Strength, Defensive skill, and Inner Power.
2. Then construct a meditation or shamanic journey to ask those animals/Allies of resonance to work with you in a gentle and beneficial way.
3. Ask how these elements would like to be called, or what images need to be called up in the mind’s eye to absorb their qualities.
4. We are asking for the qualities of Power, Strength, Defence and thus Discernment that are found in your allies, study and get to know them.
5. Writing down what information they (your allies) give you is a great idea, in my opinion, it helps manifest the energy of that interaction from meditation/journeying to outside reality.

I am not saying the world is out to get you and you feel you need to worry about your Protection all the time. The universe generally has a way of largely steering aware people out of the way of Danger, unless of course, it is to teach us. There are still moments when we feel it necessary to add a little extra Awareness, Power, and Courage to the outside reality mix to help us along in interesting situations. I encourage you all to forge personal relationships with your allies; they will teach you and love you.

With Mucho Munay,
Samantha Hussey
“Blessings of Remembering and always Walk in BEauty”

Hummingbird Energies - Joy is your Natural State!!

2009-09-24T11:11:00.000-07:00

During the Munay-Ki Rites we seek to experience right relationship with the Archetypes of the Medicine Wheel. Any Medicine Wheel will have 4 Directions, 4 Animals, 4 Elements,etc. In the Inka Medicine tradition that the Munay-Ki Rites are derived from Hummingbird is the Archetype of the North - and we plant the seeds of energy of hummingbird in the solar plexus chakra. We find our true Power through Joy, Sacred Joy that is not the product of an outside stimulus, but from the deepest places of our Being. This is the laughter we have with ourselves, when we perceive our human-ness and our innocence (and maybe our stupidity). In the lessons of the Hummingbird we learn the joy of the present moment; when the Hummingbird is drinking her nectar (sweetness of life) she is not thinking about the next flower to conquer, she is just then enjoying the PRESENT. Hummingbird also teaches us that we are more than our bodies and we are on a journey of spirit that transcends our own perceptive of our physical limitations; Hummingbirds migrate great distances, that scientist are still puzzled how they physically do it, with their tiny size.

Embrace the Sacred Joy of this moment and ask Hummingbird to come and work with you! She will show you areas of your life where sweetness and joy can be embraced and the nectar of life is ours to drink deeply and directly from.

Oh little Hummingbird we honor you, may you teach us your wisdom,
May you fly around us and help us find our sacred joy,
We are truly Grateful, Thank you!

In Love and Light,
Samantha

PS. I am away for a couple of weeks at a Vipassana Meditation Retreat until Oct 9th.

2nd Kimmapii Kids Festival 2009 Sept 12th!

2009-09-01T19:39:00.000-07:00

Kimmapii Kids Music Festival and Family Fun Day

When: Saturday September 12, 2009 12 to 7:00 p.m.

Where:
Redwood House, Redwood Meadows
(just North of Bragg Creek on Highway 22)

Admission: Adults $20 Teens & Seniors $10 Children 12 and under free

Tickets are available at the door or through our website
www.kimmapiikids.org

Join us for a family day of music and entertainment. Whether you come for the music, the amazing silent auction and treasures at the marketplace, or the fun activities planned for the kids, you’ll feel good knowing your contribution gives the gift of education. All donations from this family festival provide funds for school supplies for children in third world countries.

Check out what’s in store for the silent auction and marketplace:

This year’s theme at the SILENT AUCTION is “World Adventure” and offers finds from 4300m above sea level, unique art and creations gathered from our adventures to the highlands of Peru and Bolivia, as well as donations from all around the world. How about WestJet tickets to anywhere they fly in North America to kick start your own adventure. Or spoil yourself with fine silver jewelry of semi-precious inlaid stones and go out on the town. Your house or office adventure begins with a chance to collect unique fine art, wall hangings, prints, sculptures and garden art. How about a wellness adventure with massage and other unique healing experiences that you can bid on? For a deep inner adventure, bid on several relaxation and mediation experiences while listening to the sounds of a hand-carved Peruvian flute or Tibetan singing bowl. Delight the senses and begin to explore... over 35 items are waiting for you!

I will also be selling some nice Palo Santo incense, Handmade Jewlery, Deerskin Medicine Bags, Goldenberries and a few other things in the Vendors area! I only accept cash and cheque!

Treasures at the MARKETPLACE: If you can't make it to Peru or Bolivia, then the market comes to you. Hundreds of treasures will be for sale. There's fine hand-made silver jewelry inlaid with semi-precious stones and crystals at affordable prices. Or if you prefer hand-woven textiles, there's every imaginable colour and style to choose from - from table cloths, handbags, purses to embroidered hats. This year, we're also introducing statutes and carvings of sacred animals from the Peruvian Inka tradition - silver, bronze, crystal and stone of all kinds. For the kids, we've put together their very own market, with prices starting at $2 so they can do their own shopping. Watch out for the toy lamas - you'll want to adopt them for sure!

So plan to shop. Credit is available however cash or cheques save administration fees

Watch the inspiring video on YouTube Kimmapii Kids on YouTube

Help spread the word - download the poster from www.KimmapiiKids.org
MEDIA WATCH – please let us know when you see the local media cover this good news story

We look forward to sharing this day with you!

Walk in Beauty - where it comes from....

2009-06-23T07:05:00.000-07:00

Navajo prayer
Beauty before me I walk

Beauty behind me I walk

Beauty above me I walk

Beauty below me I walk

Beauty all around me I walk

In beauty all is made whole

In beauty all is restored

Navajo Nightway Chant
"In beauty I walk...

With beauty behind me I walk

With beauty above me I walk

With beauty around me I walk

Navajo blessing which reads:
"Beauty is before me,and Beauty behind me above me and below me hovers the beautiful.

I am surrounded by, I am immersed in it.

In my youth, I am aware of it, and, in old age,I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail.

In beauty, it is begun.In beauty, it is ended."

I was taught that the translation of Beauty touches the sacred dream of the mythic, and it is our perception of our world that co-creates it with Spirit. I challenge all who read this post to look with the eyes of the Heart and see only the perfection of the world, and be aware of it's dance, it's beauty and it's true reality. Not the reality that was taught to you, pushed on you or you were told you had better "accept it" or you would not be able to make it......See it for it's foundations and core....Everything is how it is.

Walk in Beauty upon the Earth,

Samantha Hussey

(inspired by Kimmapii teachings of the South see -http://www.kimmapii.com/ ) and my past teacher Renee.

Above image is of the Anasazi (pre-Pueblo people) Cliff Dwellings in Arizona - not Navajo.

Serpent Energies - Trust and Let GO

2009-05-24T08:10:00.000-07:00

Snakes have long held a precarious position in our world; in some cultures they are revered and then in others, snakes are seen as the ultimate symbol of evil. In the lineage of Inka Shamanism as taught by Alberto Villoldo, snakes (Sachamama) are seen as the representative of the South direction of the Medicine Wheel and the Root Chakra. So, we know that the Snake archetype is all about shedding the past, our physical requirements being met (food/fear/fornication), and walking softly on the earth. When our physical requirements are met, we have the time and energy to commit to spiritual practices.

As we move forward in this year - always remember to surrender control of all the little details in your physical life. When you surrender to the organizational principle of the universe manifestation happens....just letting go allows it all to fall into place! In the 3rd Munay-Ki Karpays the Harmony/Ayni Rite as taught by the Villoldo lineage, you are given the archetype of Quetzalcoatl/Jesus/Osiris/Mother Theresa in your 6th Chakra - connecting you to the energy of one who has trust in their divine path of teaching and being - without worrying if they will survive, they just do!

Image above is from

http://www.pachaworks.com/

Blessings of Remembering who you really are - Perfect and Divine!

Samantha Hussey

Develop a Direct Connection with Creator

2009-03-05T08:37:00.000-08:00

You can experience union with your Creator in many ways. Culture and/or Religion has traditionally dictated to us how, when, why and if we could connect to the Divine. We live in times of change, where the old standard is shifting into a NEW paradigm; we can create our own link to Creator! Here are three ways you can personalize your spirituality:

Create a symbol that represents the Sacred – let this symbol, that you can use for meditation/sacred work, form in your mind’s eye. This symbol will merge your subconscious with your higher power in a very practical way. Draw and place this symbol in your home or office, every time your look at it, you are highlighting the truth that you are divine and YOU ARE A CREATOR. You can even draw this symbol in the air when you need to bring your sacred self to the forefront for a situation.

Compose a power song to sing when you want to connect with your creator-self. Music has been used throughout human history to connect with the divine. Take a few key words, or an affirmation that you wrote yourself and incorporate them into your song, allow a hum to form that shifts your consciousness into an expanded state. Finding your power song in nature or in your sacred space at home helps to allow the process to unfold; walking does help to move you along, but you will want to sit for the next step if possible in an undisturbed location. When you have your words and your melody, keep singing it over and over again, until you really feel your ego dissolve and you experience losing yourself within all life around you. Toning vowels from your song may help to put you in that “hollow reed” state where you are in divine bliss and love. Work with your song and only use it when you allow yourself the space to experience ego-lessening – driving your car may not be the best place!

Dance, Dance and then Dance like no one is watching! As you sing or hum your power song, allow movement to overtake your body and reflect your expression of the divine. When you dance you can meditate on your Creator symbol, allowing its power, with the song and dance to merge and know that you are Creator – end your dance with holding a position that represents your symbol. Dancing to achieve a trance state is so universal it is everywhere – find a drumming or rattling CD to have playing the background is also useful. I use Zulu Drumming from South Africa in my own spiritual practice.

I Love You,
Samantha Hussey

(information above inspired by "Medicine for the Earth" by S. Ingerman)

(Picture above is from http://www.hummingbear.net/~aayoung/workshop.html)

Sage Teachings - Harvesting the Plant People with Respect

2009-02-05T21:46:00.001-08:00

Calling the Ancestors with Sage – Incense

Sage (Artemisia spp.) is used in the First Nations as a smudge, a calling to the ancestors to be present, an offering, and a medicinal herb. From my perspective it seems all traditions have some sort of clearing, or calling plant. Examples are the traditions of: the Impapho of the Sangoma to the Copal Resin of the Huichols, and the Palo Santo of the Andean Medicine People. I honor all our plant teachers; they feed us, and demand our greatest gratitude.
When approaching a patch of Sage, we do so with a sense of humbleness and respect; Step One, invoke the “Essence or Deva of Sage” as an overlying spirit that connects all life sparks of that particular species. Just as some would agree all humans share the realm of the super-consciousness (Universal Mind).

Two, inquire which plants you can harvest from, as it will affect the colony as a whole. Connect using intuition, channeling, trance, meditation; get to know your skills in detecting vibration. If you only need the leaves, take only the leaves; don’t burn or twist if possible, there is science behind the idea that plants and animals feel pain in very similar ways to us.

Three, place an offering to the colony in gratitude for the energy given. This can be whatever you want, as your heart feels necessary. Traditions include; a pinch of corn meal, tobacco, water, natural fertilizer dug into the soil, food, or an overflowing energy packet of love directly from your heart. This can help repair the luminous energy field of the sage plants. Or tree, vine, flower, whatever is your chosen clearing and calling herb.

Respect is Key.

Love and Light, Samantha Hussey

Image above is from www.greenlandpipeco.com

The Awareness of the Open Heart in Munay (Love)

2009-01-26T06:53:00.000-08:00

Everyone has the ability to sit still, be quiet, listen with a heart full of love to their guides, ancestors, angels, spirits, devas, power animals etc. Rather than be blind or deaf to this "sixth sense" embrace it. Make a commitment to voice out loud your intuitions! Make an appointment each day to connect with your guides and ask your questions....Authors such as S. Roger Joyeux, Sonia Choquette, John Edwards, John Perkins, Alberto Villoldo, and others teach us to open to this incredible power that we all have inside us.

Judith Hirst-Joyeux has a radio show on 7Th Wave (7Th Wave Radio) on Tuesdays at 1 PM MST and tomorrow's show is about feeling energy - experiencing energy and intuition is the way to build confidence in the world of spirit. It is there, whether you believe in it or not!

"They have forgotten the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses or their dreams. They don't use the knowledge the spirit has put into every one of them; they are not even aware of this, and so they stumble along blindly on the road to nowhere - a paved highway which they themselves bulldoze and make smooth so they can get faster to the big empty hole which they'll find at the end, waiting to swallow them up". (Lame Deer, Sioux Medicine Man)

Above image is from Alex Grey (www.alexgrey.com), please support this incredible artist!

Love and Light,
Samantha Hussey

Create a Smile in Your Heart !

2009-01-21T12:17:00.000-08:00

A New Way of Being.....

This exercise is a pleasurable and powerful life-changing tool. The effects of daily stress associated with materialistic obsession (and its by-products: anxiety, isolation, frustration, fear, anger and depression) can be dissolved by this technique. It is at the same time simple and very profound. It increases greatly the vibratory rate of your non-physical Higher Self. Its premise is “smile at the world and the world will smile back at you.”

As you go about your daily activities, from the moment you get up in the morning up to the the time that you go back to sleep, constantly imagine that you are smiling inwardly at your outer reality as you go about your daily activities. Imagine that you are smiling from the deeper recesses of your mind, originating from within your heart area, and that you are projecting that happiness and smile outward through your eyes and expression. No matter what the circumstances are. You will find increasingly that your eyes will be smiling and so will your mouth, that will often curl up to a slight smile.

At the same time imagine that your heart constantly expresses a great inward smile filled with pure joy of being alive, no matter what.

After 2 weeks or so, you will notice an incredible amount of changes, not only in the way you interact with the ‘outside’ world, but also in how the ‘world’ acts and projects reality toward you. Your fears will begin to abate and an inner feeling of peace and love will emerge. Notice how people seek your presence and ‘Inner Love.’

The above exercise is from:
Burt Goldman's Blog

Love and Light,
Samantha Hussey

Making Medicine Bags - Teachings about Sinew and Braiding!

2008-12-26T08:11:00.000-08:00

I honor my teacher before me, for her patience and support. I was taught that you should always honor the materials that you use in Bag making. Praying for Gratitude for the leather (deer, cattle, sheep), sinew (cattle) and other materials that you may use out loud or in mind. I was taught that you should always connect your hands to your heart. Making that connection will ensure that you do everything with your heart, even if it is monotonous or dutiful. Food cooked with love will feel energetically better than cooked with angry or sad thoughts.

My teacher taught me the Four Strand Braid, which represents the four sacred directions. When you weave the four stand braid you put your intent into it. Even thought the learning chant is Under 2 over 1, after your body memorizes the movement, you can train your mind/body to enter trance and put energy into the cords as you weave. Chant what comes to you in the moment or in the Journey. The four directions when they come together represent Spirit/Quanta/That which is Manifest.

Excert from The Sacred Medicine Bag Workshop manual authored by myself.
Above photo is credited to Angels and Ancestors...

Our Deepest Fear - Words to Live By

2008-12-04T23:20:00.000-08:00

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant,

Gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God (or Goddess/Divine).

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking

So that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest

The Glory of God (Divine) that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

We unconsciously give other people

Permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

Read by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 Inaugural Speech

Aventurine - Heart Value

2008-12-04T22:18:00.000-08:00

Green stone from India, varying in color from pale green to deep forest green. Also know as green quartz…..This beautiful stone to me resonates with the heart chakra and can be applied to heart healing as well as general body healing.
"Love IS IAM Receive Love IS!” is the message I feel in aventurine and it works on abundance and receiving energy as it relates to self-worth.

A great stone to carry in challenging or stressful times, it may also help to experience stimulating your heart. This area can soothe chronic stress and remind us of our Divine nature that is Worthy and Loved.

Stimulate Your Heart Chakra by simply touching the skin over your heart ~ I like to put my hand over my heart or tap or stroke the skin downwards and contemplate reaching out for my Soul Spark. That part of me connected to the Creator/Godhead /Eternal/Quanta. Or Imagine doing it!!

Walk in BEauty,
Samantha

Thanks for the image www.ozarkrockexchange.com

Lapis Lazuli - Depth of Our Soul

2008-11-29T00:12:00.000-08:00

Lapis Lazuli is a deep azure blue stone with streaks of pyrite gold. This stone is considered to contribute to expansion of intuitive and soulful activities. Influencing our lives at the level of soul dreaming - Looking with our eyes Open from the level of our eternal being. With it's influence over the 3rd eye, I consider this an important stone to myself when focusing on manifestation and developing my sight over "external" reality.

"When worn with a purposeful intent lapis lazuli stones become potent healing medicine and may help the wearer to develop clairsentient and telepathic powers" (Crystal Medicine - M. Elsbeth)

Lapis was used in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Rome and Greece. By some, it is considered to be in the realm of the element Water, and have the Magnetic power of Attraction.

Walk in BEauty,
Samantha

Balance and the Spirit

2008-10-23T23:53:00.001-07:00

If you represent the different aspects of your life like spokes on a wheel ; relationships, finances, physical health, environment, emotional health, spiritual awareness, etc. You could gauge how much balance you are in with each aspect.

We all have issues in one or more of these areas, or you would be in the state of equilibrium. In my life, I usually have one area that I have to work on, and then life shifts and the others may be touched with some new insight, or challenge to over-come/or resolve or really discover, what is it in me that triggers this ? I suggest tapping into our immensely creative power to experience the limits of our accepted levels of abundance.

Aundance is a Clear Blue Sky Exercise

1. Imagine a Blue Sky as the extension of your feelings of abundance...Clear, perfect blue sky, no clouds, just calm, blue. This is your perfect expression of your life's abundance; happiness and satisfaction.....go higher and higher into clear until you feel comfortable blue....

2. If you want now, cloud this sky with soot and grey..this represents any state less than that you felt before the soot was created.....

3. You can see a gauge on the side of you view to represent the level of happiness. See where it is now, with soot and clouds, then turn your sky back to a beautiful, clear blue sky!

4. How clear can you make your sky ? Check your gauge !

5. If emotions rise to the surface...breath...experience them to completion (it's possible you can do it).

6. Go back to a comfortable level on the gauge with the blue sky at normal level (where you started in #1).

Note: Proceed in small increments and let go/experience the emotions of living in your truest abundance..and lift your view of abundance with time to divine proportion....
(Secrets of Shamanism, Jose & Lena Stevens)

Past the Drama Stories

2008-10-12T00:09:00.000-07:00

Looking into my past these last few days, burning my roles, and re-writing my Story; I feel like I can see into the Drama and Stories that I put into the world. And that I can see the stories of others blatantly in my face. What is it in me that causes these stories to be obvious ? Are my stories beginning to fall around me, like a mask that I can now turn around and look at it with fresh eyes, a mind that no longer cares about being right. But I can feel another story coming on......

Here is an exercise : (summary from South Medicine - Shedding Your Past - The Four Insights - A. Villoldo)

1. Burn Your Labels/Past - write down all the labels/roles you have given yourself, others have given to you (that you've adopted) or society has given to you - 10 at least.. Create a fire (can be a big candle), write the labels down on little slips of papers, and stick/wrap these slips around a toothpick (candle flame) or small twig (roaring fire), blow your intention into these sticks and watch them burn. Let the fire consume these labels, because we are not the labels (Mother, Sister, Friend) we give ourselves, we are the perfect divine children of the universe!

Remember the sacredness of all beings, including your strong mirrors and especially your neighbors!

Love and Light,

Samantha

Create Sacred Space

2008-10-09T21:35:00.000-07:00

We live in a fast-paced world, and having a refuge in our lives is important. Even if you do not meditate, create a sacred space. A comfy chair you can sit in to relax for a few moments, read or engage in self-care activities. A corner where you can have a simple altar full of pictures of ancestors, sacred objects (your child's first rattle, your crystals, statues of deities), and anything else that helps you connect with your divine self. You can even divide this corner with a room divider, when you engage in self-care to define it's sacredness. Although I am a firm believer that you can call up sacred space in any place - a place dedicated to relaxation and prayer is a must for any person. You deserve at least 5 minutes of deep breathing and reflection on the day, to release all emotions to the divine and connect with your true self. It will reduce your stress levels, blood pressure and I am sure will be some of your most enjoyable moments of self-care.

Love and Light - Walk in BEauty,
Samantha

Give Yourself Permission to Let Go of Control

2008-10-05T11:19:00.000-07:00

If I have a problem, I cannot see the solution too....I just let go and don't obsess on it, and then it will either fix itself, or Spirit usually shows me what I have inside me that is causing this problem, or contributing to it's existence. Sometimes, the best solution is do nothing and breath let go even for a few moments and let Spirit in to your life to show you the best path.

I give myself permission to let go of control, I give myself permission to just BE!

“When you change the perception of the events you experience, you also alter the way these situations live within you. You are no longer the cause or effect of anything, and you sense a tremendous relief because the world is exactly as it should be – and it doesn't need you to fix it.”
(The Four Insights – Alberto Villoldo)

Love and Light,
Samantha