Its really hard to keep your heart open and stay positive when you're bombarded with daily images of destruction, rage, and entitlement. It's even harder when those around you focus on what's wrong.

Yet all my indigenous teachers share the same message: We are dreaming the wrong dream when we stay stuck in the cultural trance. That trance is seductive and pervasive. Violence, dissing others, zoning out with social media, escapism, buying-to-feel-good, and self-righteousness feed the trance.

This isn't news to you, dear readers. Since we all struggle with how to step out of the trance and stay out, however, the wisdom of others can help us find courage to dream a new dream and stick with it.

My second  "Lessons of the Rainforest" blog, Remembering the Beauty Gives You Power, offers up some of this wisdom. Check it out  here. 

As the light wanes, relish each moment.

As the leaves turn and fall, say goodbye to what no longer serves you in your life. 

Bring the changes into your body, slowing and beginning the inward turning. 

Find your radiance, radiate it into the world, and feed your dreams with it. The more we shine, the more we help others to shine.​​​​​​​

Our DNA can hold the traumas of our ancestors and even increase the likelihood that we’ll develop stress or anxiety disorders. You can help mitigate these inherited patterns! Ancestral Medicine: Discover How to Heal Family Burdens & Reclaim the Blessings of Your Lineage will show you how to connect with your ancestral family guides to transform intergenerational burdens into ancestral blessings. My friend and colleague Daniel Foor, psychotherapist and ancestral healing teacher, will share the promises of this work on Sept 26. Register here. 

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Explore into the vast, beautiful, and light-filled structure of your subtle energy body. Learn energy practices and guided meditations that can radically transform your relationship to trauma, anxiety, and emotions. Free download still available: Beyond Your Energy Body: Experience an Initiation Into Your Sacred Anatomy with Desda Zuckerman. Register here. 

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If you’ve been curious about shamanic journeying and don’t have access to an in-person workshop, check out this free recorded event with one of my long-time teachers, Sandra Ingerman, The Healing Power of Shamanic Journeying: How to Access Inner Guidance from Helping Spirits. You’ll find out about entering parallel worlds to receive accurate guidance on the life situations you’re facing, and learn how to access a higher form of consciousness. Access here.  

Any time you feel weighed down with negative thoughts, or knocked sideways by someone else's energy, practice releasing the dense energy and filling with a nourishing connection to one of the elements. For example, here's how to fill yourself with the energy of fire with the sun:

Face the sun. Open your heart, breathing out all your dense, heavy energy into the sun. Breathe the heat, warmth, and transformative power of the sun into your heart.

Repeat, breathing out heavy energy and breathing in sun energy, until your heart feels full and clear again. Thank the fire of the sun.

I’ll be sharing many simple practices like this in my upcoming online course, Experiencing Energy Alchemy. In the meantime, if you have a copy of Weave the Heart of the Universe into Your Life: Aligning with Cosmic Energy, check out practices for working with each of the elements starting on p.48.​​​

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