Shadow Work

What is Shadow Work?

Shadow work is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on the “shadow self,” which is the parts of the psyche that people often keep hidden, such as trauma and resentment.

The psychoanalyst Carl Jung first developed the concept. Jung used the term “shadow self” to describe the things people repress or do not like to acknowledge. He theorized that it is a counterweight to the persona, which is the self that people present to others.

Although the shadow self can include negative impulses, such as anger and resentment, Jung believed that it also held the potential for positive impulses, such as creativity. He felt that the shadow self is integral to a person’s experience of the world and their relationships.

He also thought that a person could gain a better understanding of themselves and become more balanced by working with their shadow self.

Shadow work comes from the concept of the shadow self, which originates in Jungian psychology.

According to Jung, a personality includes the persona, which is the personality that people show to the public, and the shadow self, which remains private or hidden. Unlike the persona, the shadow self often includes traits that a person does not like to show.

However, Jung did not view the shadow as a negative or shameful part of a person’s personality. To him, it was an important part of their psyche.

The goal of shadow work is to assimilate the shadow and the persona so that a person can learn how to manage impulses they usually ignore, such as anger or greed.

Jung also believed that the collective unconscious influences the shadow. The collective unconscious is a Jungian idea that refers to the collective memories and impulses of society as a whole. As a result, systemic issues such as racism also fit into Jung’s idea of what the shadow self comprises.

Just as shadow work might help a person confront the parts of their personality that they usually avoid, Jung thought it might allow them to address prejudices and impulses resulting from broader social ills.

How the shadow self forms

The reason you reject these aspects of your personality goes back to your childhood.
When we're young, we depend on our parents or main caregivers for survival. As a result, we become very attached to them and their way of doing things. So, say a caretaker scolds you for being outspoken, there's a chance that you won't feel safe speaking your mind from that point on, even as an adult.
"Because what it means to you is, the person I need to love me to survive won't love me if I do this thing," Swart says. That message becomes internalized—buried within your subconscious—and can therefore become a trigger for you for seemingly no reason.
In this example, if one of your shadows is around speaking your truth, it might bother you to see other people doing so. Every time somebody is outspoken around you, it might bring up unexplainable feelings of anger and resentment since you have been programmed to believe that speaking up is not a safe thing for you to do.

Benefits of shadow work

As the shadow is a concept, it is not something that scientists can tangibly measure. It is also subjective and varies based on context. For example, something that is acceptable in one culture might be taboo in another, which affects whether it becomes part of the shadow self.

As a result, there is not much scientific research on the effectiveness of shadow work. Instead, most research on this approach emphasizes how a person might use it to solve specific challenges.

Shadow work say that it helps them with:

identifying and countering negative personal traits, as well as negative traits that society has instilled in them

learning to be more accepting of themselves

understanding the challenges other people face with their shadow selves

confronting trauma, grief, and other challenging emotions

understanding how society, childhood, and various relationships influence their lives and interactions

In some cases, components of the shadow self may motivate good acts. For example, a person may find that confronting their implicit biases, which they may not usually think about, can help them work to change them.

Similarly, being more aware of their anger may help a person channel that anger for good, such as by fighting for a just cause.

Shadow work is by no means easy, and offering compassion to those parts of ourselves that we have hidden away for so long is important.

A lot of people put off that work because they're afraid of what they'll find.There's so much shame associated with these factors, but often if you're mature enough or personally developed enough, doing shadow work can be a huge relief because you realize it's not as bad as you think.

Some of our greatest lessons will come from looking at the parts of ourselves we hide away. Because when we can bring our shadow to the surface, heal, and integrate those lessons into our lives, we evolve exponentially. After all, it was Jung who said, "There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

EGYPTIAN CARTOUCHE

                        EGYPTIAN CARTOUCHE

What is a Cartouche?

The modern word Cartouche is of French origin and on one level it represents an oval figure as seen on Ancient Egyptian monuments, which contains the name of a sovereign or person of rank. Metaphysically a Cartouche acts as an anchor for the spiritual energy of the monarch and as a protective force which serves to preserve the energies or soul of the person whose name was contained within. Cartouche symbolizes the preserving and utilizing of the Ancient Archetypal Energies for healing, divination and magic employed by the Ancient Egyptian Priesthood. Cartouche encapsulates those archetypal energies which were known and understood by the ancient Egyptians and embodies them in identities easily recognizable in today's world. Cartouche acts as a bridge between day-to-day things and the transpersonal or Higher Self, which makes it very much a part of the Aquarian Age - the age of individual responsibility. Cartouche is based on ancient Egyptian (or older) knowledge and should not be confused with tarot cards. It consists of 25 cards: Cards 1 to 9 (Osiris, Isis, Horus, Bast, Thoth, Hathor, Nepthys, Ptah and Anubis) represent the major archetypes; cards 11, 12, 13 and 14 the Elements of Fire, Air, Water and Earth; and cards 15 to 25 (Sirius, Lotus, Crook & Flail, Uraeus, Winged Disc, The Twins, Sphinx, Scarab, Pyramid, Ankh and Buckle of Isis) relate to more general or mundane energies. Card No 10 is Set, representing all forms of opposition, delays, hindrances and unforeseen problems. Set can indicate one's personal opposition to an idea, to change or to a proposed project.The ancient Egyptian symbols depicted on the cards capture the essence of the forces or energies that govern the universe. Many believe the Egyptians gained their knowledge of these forces from an even earlier advanced race who, in turn, were instructed by extraterrestrials from the Sirius star system. The symbols, colors and meanings of the cards accord both with the designs found on Egyptian temples, pyramids, tombs and old papyri, and with a secret arcane tradition that has been handed down from century to century. Each card can be used for meditation, divination, healing or magical or talismanic purposes and, when arrayed in the various layouts, can provide insight and answers to dreams, family or emotional problems, financial or business matters, healing and health, crafts and skills, protection, spiritual seeking, or any of life's many enigmas.

Egyptian Cartouche Initiations :

The Initiations into Egyptian symbols brings about a state of heightened awareness and clarity. There are 25 Initiations into the ancient archetypal universal symbols from Egypt and Atlantis which can enhance healing powers and psychic development. Cartouche is the oval in which the hieroglyphs are drawn. These initiations help us to be more in-tune with archetypal energies.  Specifically, with regard to receiving higher levels of accurate information from Spirit while doing hands-on healings, sending healing energy, readings and Shamanic Journey work. The Egyptian Cartouche initiations are currently available to anyone without any perquisites.

Egyptian Cartouche is a rare type of spiritual power initiation process. There are 25 cards with ancient symbols with a particular association and function to choose from. The symbolism, power and process is what enhances a different facet of your life for each different power card that you choose to take initiation for. The teacher attunes, initiates and provides these cards and powers- on a one to one basis in spiritual attunement sessions.

You can pick one card or a few or all of them. The cards represent and enhance a different aspect of your life each like- career, money, business, fertility, marriage, love, fame, happiness, health, education, life issues, psychological issue remedy and many more. The spiritual initiation is absolutely essential to seal the energy within your body and the card to work for you lifelong. The cards do not work without the attunement. This is a religion neutral spiritual practice and faith based remedy enhancer for life issues.

Initiations given in the class

YOD - first attunement, which opens the initiate to inner knowing. However, higher information is subtle and the initiate must also have a 'quiet mind'.  The remaining Egyptian Cartouche attunements connect the initiate to archetypal energies. The difference that the initiate feels after the attunements is that one is able to connect to archetypal energies beyond an intellectual conception, and use these energies in healings. After on is initiated rest and drinking lots of water is advisable.  
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Pyramid - initiation and protection
Osiris - the good father, teacher, consoler, the warrior who protects
Isis - the nurturing mother, earth magic, earth power, earth divination
Thoth - lord or karma, lord of time, healer and magician
Nephthys -  hidden knowledge
Ptah - architect, builder, patron on men
Hathor - patron of women and beauty, Her mirror is protective as it reflects back what is being sent
Horus - healing of the physical eyes as well as the third eye
Bast - psychic abilities and psychic protection
Anubis - protection and guidance, guides the recently departed safely to the next world
Fire - connection to the fire element
Earth - connection to the earth element
Air - connection to the air element
Water - connection to the water element
Sirius - connection to the star people When Atlantis broke up the arcane wisdom was broken up, the Native Americans were the only ones who retained that wisdom that life exists on other planets
Uraeus - power
Ankh - the key. After the attunements the Ankh serves as the energizer much like the cho ku ray is the energizer of Tera-Mai Reiki and Tera-Mai Seichem symbols.
Buckle of Isis - fertility in ones endeavours 
Sphinx - animal medicine and the connectedness between the animals, ourselves and Mother Earth
Twins - connection to the twin flame, our guardian angel, who watches out for us from the spirit world. It is our twin flame, who holds the other balance of who we are. 
Crook and Fail - taking back our own authority. Helps to connect with the path that was chosen before birth. When we release our wills to the Will of God and surrender to our own path rather than try to recreate someone else's or force things to happen our way, then life takes off! Things happen, we meet the right people and the right opportunities come our way.
Scarab - transformation
Lotus - peace of mind
Winged Disk - success 

Yod Initiation -The Magical Egyptian Divine Energy

The Yod Initiation is an Ancient Egyptian energy. It connects the student to Higher thought patterns and will bring greater accuracy for those who do readings of any sort for self or others. The Yod initiation opens the narrow channel at the top of the head, which allows both intellectual information and creative inspiration to enter the brain and mental body. In addition, it activates the intuitive centers found within the Third Eye, Heart and Solar Plexus.It also serves to further open the heart to love and compassion and forms a direct connection to your higher self.The YOD initiation will help one to access ancient archetypal constructs.YOD is the first attunement in the Egyptian cartouche.The cartouche is a personal invitation to awaken the qualities inherent in the human soul.It is a personal initiation which awakens that what is asleep in our soul.After the initiation you are able to listen closer to the voice that guides and directs us. Also enhances divination, channeling, as psychic ability.Being the first initiation into Egyptian symbolism, the YOD Initiation brings about a stronger awareness and clarity of purpose to our place in this scheme of the universe. 

Benefits of Yod Initiation :

1) More clearer communication with God’s Angels.
2) Healings come about easier and more effectively.
3) Faster manifestation of intentions. 
4) Can be used during meditation to experience more profound and deep meditation sessions.
5) Focused and concentrated energy which may be directed for the purpose of healing or creating a better life.

The Yod Initiation is a part of Seichem Level 3 and people who have taken this attunement has amazing experiences while working with the Yod,both as a healer as well as a healee.

----Stay blessed

Dna Reading And Activation

What is Dna Reading/Activation ?

We are in the most monumental of transitions in all of evolution at present, and our navigation through this time and our ability to impact on it depends on our DNA.
Never before has there been so much support for our awakening, and this is coming through the highest orders of angelic beings in creation.  This program taps into the tremendous gifts from these angelic orders that have come to restore man to his pristine nature.
The ability of our DNA to express higher coding is what evolves the body as vehicle to behold ever greater of the Infinite…ever higher vibratory light and frequency. And these orders of angels have appeared in 2013 because a new reality is dawning that was marked by the end of linear time in early 2013. We are being supported and upgraded to express highest strand capacity that is beyond the magnetic distortions from the story of separation. Eons of old programming can and will be erased through active engagement with these mighty beings and their many insights and gifts. This program contains power and teachings to anchor in the new reality. Not only will you learn radically new paradigms of being that free you from limitation, but these paradigms will be activated in your DNA.
The purer the body, the less dense it is; the less dense, the more it can hold a higher vibration, and the higher the vibe, the more refined the emotions and thoughts, the greater clarity and inner knowing, and the easier it is to manifest in life. Similarly, the less we resist life, the less tension…the less density, and so on. The higher the light, the greater the clarity, and the more we perceive the truth of life behind appearances.  Density is what gives rise to linear time or to cause and effect. Resistance to life, desire for life to be different is what causes the gap between cause and effect–the larger the gap, the less aware we are of the connection and of the self as cause…the great the confusion and room for error, which engenders more resistance and pain.
And so the less density and the higher the vibe, the more the gap between cause and effect closes, and the more we dwell in true reality wherein lies the power to manifest our dream reality.
These  DNA Reading/Activation work to clear the old programs that create a distorted magnetic field from negative emotions and untruth. With less distortion, higher codes express and these free emotional body of  trauma memories. As the emotions refine, trapped density releases as pure power to evolve the body.  With more refined feeling frequencies in the chakras, the inner and outer senses refine, and the endocrine system secretes higher hormones that are capable of igniting coding from the chambers of the DNA to further accelerate body evolution and open higher faculties. Light-filled feeling and body power from purity are the necessary elements in accelerating awakening and mastery over this realm.
You are the central fractal pattern of your reality, so repair and refine the core pattern and reality changes. The core blueprint of this pattern is the DNA. Everyone has the same DNA potential, but not everyone’s DNA structure is robust; each person has varying levels of breakage and magnetic distortion. So while we are equal in potential, we are not equal in realized potential. That said, we are not bound by any of this, and all manner of support is available to clear the genetic distortions from the pain of separation. Radical new life awaits those who will allow it.

Benefits of Dna Reading/Activation :
·  Clears  the magnetic field around the DNA that is steeped in the distortions from the story of separation that mankind has experienced for eons. This clears the ways for higher light and frequency to penetrate and activate the DNA.
·  Clears  patterns of fear and density at the level of organs, cells, joints, muscles, etc.
·  Clears  heavy metals from the brain, strengthens lymph system, dissolves bodily matrices
·  Removes  fear of unknown, fear of our vastness, creates new reference points on the path of awakening
·  Clears  trauma from the Heart’s and body’s cells
·  As  neediness of the Heart is cleared, the High Heart activates as GPS and power to manifest dreams
·  Supports  revelation of higher truth, restores angelic powers, powers of healing
·  Clears  false memories and restores truth
·  Supports  higher interpretive powers of Heart and brain, and they become a unified field
·  Supports  self-regeneration and rejuvenation
·  Supports  trust in inner guidance and clarity
·  Reclaiming  sovereignty and effective expression
·  Balances  masculine and feminine poles of consciousness that ignite body evolution
·  Removes  psychological bondage from patterns that are obsolete
·  Removes  blocks to infinite potential
·  Removes  causes of victimhood, hopelessness, fear, and pain
·  Seeds  connection to the Mind and Heart of the Infinite
·  Activate  patterns for perpectual self-regeneration.

---Stay Blessed

10 Ways To Create A Sacred Healing Space

Reiki works no matter how or where it is offered. Reiki doesn’t need a special healing room, or crystals, or incense, or anything. Reiki doesn’t even mind which hand placements are used or in which order they happen. That said, I have always found my own healing experience and those of my clients and students to be greatly enhanced when held in a sacred healing space.

When creating a healing space allow yourself to be guided by your intuition throughout the process, from choosing the location to where to place your crystals and talismans. Here are some guidelines for those who feel a little unsure of how to go about this, but always allow your own personality to shine through while bringing your sacred space into existence.

1. Make sure the space you choose is private, quiet and free from distractions. If you’re in a shared building make sure there will be no interruptions when you are giving sessions. A sign for the door is useful.

2. Natural lighting is wonderful, but avoid direct sunlight. The same goes for fresh air. Too much wind can be unsettling. An A/C might be necessary in hot places, but have a fan as an option for clients who are sensitive to the dryness of air-conditioning. If you don’t have natural lighting, use lamps with soft lightbulbs.

3. If you use music with your sessions, make sure your sound system works well. Skipping CDs are the worst and old crackling speakers just as annoying. Have the necessary adaptors and back-ups and a plan B for technical troubles. Test your music before a client arrives to keep things flowing smoothly and avoid any stress.

4. Candles, aromatherapy oils and incense can be used unless your client feels aggravated by any of these. Always adjust the setting to suit the comfort needs of the Reiki receiver. Electric oil burners are great for a subtle aroma that doesn’t overwhelm or require the monitoring of candles.

5. Make sure your Reiki table is super comfortable. For your comfort, it should be the right height to allow your hands to rest gently on the client without any tension in your body. For the client, there should be enough space on the sides for their arms to rest comfortably alongside the body. Make sure the table is long enough to accommodate taller clients. I prefer to have my own table made from bamboo according to my chosen dimensions, but the standard massage table is usually good enough. I use a portable massage table when I’m travelling.

Use beautiful linen for your table and make sure it is always clean and fresh smelling. Test the pillow for comfort. I like to keep extra pillows and sarongs and a light blanket nearby, incase needed during the session. Some people get quite cold during a Reiki session and some like to have something light covering them to feel safe and nurtured.

6. Have some comfortable chairs for pre and post session talks and a place for clients to leave their bags and stuff. Make the environment one in which the client feels completely loved and nurtured, like you thought of every possible thing to make them feel comfortable, which you did.

7. If your Reiki room is indoors, you may like to decorate the walls with soulful art and images of those who inspire you. Some practitioners display a picture of Mikao Usui or their teachers to honour them and the lineage. I like to hang mandalas in my healing space and art that I find beautiful and soothing. Let your uniqueness come into play here and have fun creating the atmosphere that calls to you. Healing doesn’t have to be serious. Joy is a wonderful healer in itself.

8. If you love crystals, you’ll probably want them in your healing room to support you and give off good vibrations. I enjoy creating an altar for my healing space where I place my crystals, feathers and all kinds of special treasures I’ve collected or been gifted over the years. I have a small framed picture of Mikao Usui which sits with my altar. My singing bowl also goes there, which I sometimes use after a Reiki session, only if the client is open to a bit of sound healing.

Always check with clients before a session starts if they’d like to incorporate crystals, essential oils and other non-Reiki related additions to the healing session. Even better, when you advertise, be very open about all you have to offer and how you offer your Reiki sessions. There’s nothing worse than a client going for a traditional Reiki session and being surprised, or sometimes horrified, with unexpected crystals, oils and angels. Be very clear about these things.

9. Before and after a Reiki session, you may like to burn sage or palo santo in your Reiki room. Besides clearing the space, this ritual also gets you in the right mood for healing. You can also clear your own energy fields while you’re at it. You could have a special box for keeping your sage, incense and other sacred tools and trinkets.

10.Treat everything in your healing room as sacred. Keep a place for a beautiful jug and glasses for water, drape pretty cloths over any tables or cabinets, let every item have a special purpose and place in the room. This creates a noticeable magical energy in the room. Enjoy creating your sacred space as much as you and your clients enjoy being in it. The energy you put into it will be felt and much appreciated by those coming for healing.

---Stay Blessed

Reiki Star Meditation

Reiki Star Meditation:

1. Easily cleanse the meditation space you are in by picturing a Reiki cleansing tornado/cylinder moving gently around the room. It is sucking in all of the negativity and is leaving nothing but love and light behind. Next make a power symbol over every side of the room. Make an extra one on every window and door.
2. Light a candle and sit or lay down in the space you are going to meditate in. If you like music be sure to put something soft and relaxing on.
3. Do you have more people that you would like to send Reiki to than you have the time to do?
4. Picture that each one of these people is a beautiful star in the night sky before you. The sky is lit up by their beautiful majestic white light.
5. Make a power symbol before the night sky and beam Reiki to the beautiful night sky filled with stars for 10-20 minutes. During this time notice how much brighter each star is getting as Reiki is being beamed to it. Each one begins to look shimmery and pure. Reiki is cleansing, healing, and protecting each star.
6. When you feel called to do so end the session with one large grounding symbol before the night sky. Open your eyes and give thanks.

---Stay Blessed

The Chakras Of Planet Earth

The chakras of the earth are perfectly aligned with our own. As she awakens, so do we. In the same way we have energy bubbling up from the lowest chakra, called Mooladhara in Sanskrit, or simply the root chakra in each of us which is striving to reach the crown, so that all of humanity can become “enlightened” – so too, the earth herself is participating in this process of awakening.

Though these vortexes of energy have changed over time, depending on planetary cycles, they are generally understood to be in the following places and correspond to our awakening based on the energy they help to refine:

1st Chakra – the Root or Mooladhara Chakra
Mt. Shasta in California (Some also believe this vortex is 5th chakra of the planet.)
The energy of Mt. Shasta is considered primal and base. This is where the universal life force accumulates before it becomes life – and is representative of the geysers which rush to the surface with energy the same way that kundalini energy is thought to rush to the crown to enliven the pineal gland – where all-seeing spiritual vision thus ensues.

2nd Chakra – the Sexual Chakra or Swadhistana
Lake Titicaca Peru/Bolivia
The Plumed Serpent – found in many South American myths, it is representative of the kundalini energy rising to the sexual chakra of the planet. Also called the rainbow serpent, this center has some of the most ley crossroads or ley lines on the planet, second only to Bali. It is where our primal energy starts to ‘birth’ itself, quite literally into form. Some say that it is through this chakra that the earth overcomes entropy.

3rd Chakra – the Manipura or the Solar Plexus Chakra 
Uluru, otherwise known as Ayers rock in Australia along with Kata Tjuta
This huge, monolithic rock is in the Northern Territory of Australia. This is where dreamtime legends arise from the Aboriginal peoples. Anangu life revolves around the Tjukurpa (sometimes wrongly referred to as the Dreamtime). To the Aboriginal people, this is the ancestral period of when the world was being formed. Kata Tjuta is considered Uluru’s sister rock formation. In us, the solar plexus is where we digest emotion – on the planet, it is where we will one day realize a legend told by the Aborigines from the ‘umbilical chord’ of the planet.

4th Chakra – the Heart Chakra, also called Anahata       
Glastonbury, Somerset and Shaftesbury, Dorset
This is the home of the holy grail. It is perhaps also our greatest contribution to ourselves and our fellow sentient beings on this planet – to open our hearts to heal the earth and allow her to embody her rightful place as a peaceful, loving satellite in space. Interestingly, this is an area known for high levels of crop-circle sightings which exhibit magnetic abnormalities.

5th Chakra – the Throat or Vissuddha Chakra    
Great Pyramids near Mt. Sanai and Mt. Olives in the Middle East
This is the one chakra that does not exist at a ley line. It is the exact center of the earth’s land mass as it currently is configured. Modern day turmoil in the Middle East is considered to be “the cries of the mother” or the voice of the planet calling for help.

6th Chakra – the Pineal Gland or Third Eye Chakra       
This chakra can shift – it is called the Aeon activation Center. Now it is considered to be in Western Europe, but will likely move over the next several thousand years.
This chakra is the one that opens portals and allows extra-dimensional energy to enter this world. Just like our pineal gland allows us to recognize other dimensions and realities, so too does the 6th chakra of the earth.

7th Chakra – the Crown Chakra or Sahasrara, the Thousand Petaled Lotus, the Highest Energy Center    
Mt. Kailas in the Himalayas in Tibet, also known as the “Roof of the World”
The highly developed consciousness of Tibetan people, as evidenced through the Dalai Lama’s teachings, is indicative of the energy that resides at the crown chakra of the planet. Just as our own crown connects our will with Divine will, so does Mt. Kailas connect the planet with her spiritual destiny.

----Stay Blessed