Thank you so much, Coyote. I have read some of the things you posted elsewhere about narrative medicine (I'm not sure if that was what you called it, but that's what I'm calling it) and this idea has long resonated with me. Thank you for reminding me that my post re my journey/session is in this vein, and, yes, indeed was/is healing for me to tell (despite any trepidations I had).
Somewhere I read of Ethiopians healing from war trauma by gathering to grind coffee beans and tell their stories and dreams as they went about the simple morning ritual of preparing coffee together. I believe storytelling to be an often missing element of medical practice today, and have sought to understand how we might incorporate this art more fully. In my own work as a massage therapist, from time to time I've been gifted with the amazing personal stories of clients' important life struggles/triumphs /transformations. It's amazing when it happens, and is definitely healing for me to hear and them to share and be heard.
Yes, I call it narrative medicine, but also sometimes “mythic” medicine, because it’s about accessing the mythological dimensions of one’s own life. Pretty much all of the world’s shamanic traditions utilize narrative/mythic medicine.
Here's my Godwink for the day and I think its hilarious! :)
At work I have a computer with Windows 7 as the operating system. A few weeks ago, when Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 our IT department decided that it was too dangerous to let Windows 7 computers have access to the internet, so all Windows 7 computers were completely cut-off from any outside website. Instead, to access the internet we have to remotely log-on to a Windows 10 machine, virtually, from a remote desktop application.
So, about 30 minutes ago, I decided to take a break and browse through this forum. So I'm looking through the forum and go to hit the back button and realize, wait a minute, this is my normal browser! I forgot to go to the virtual machine. My first thought is that the internet is back up for a bit, through some snafu. So I start checking other websites: Google: denied. Yahoo: denied. NY Times: Denied.
Every website that I try is still blocked, except for, MIRACULOUSLY, www.jeannemayell.com!
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I absolutely, positively love that beyond words!
Our fabulous interdimensional energies and openings to multiple universes at work without being affected by the earthly confines of traditional space-time-technology!
You found one of our portals to Shamanic dreamtime! Now let's see what other abilities you manifest after this ???
Beam us up Scottie we're all tired of Broken Windows DT anyway! ???
Spirit is urging me to share this. Earlier this evening, I wrapped up my little contribution to a discussion on shamanism, which had developed as an offshoot in the forum about Kim Jung Un’s fate. I thought it was signed, sealed and finished off with a bow. But barely hours after writing about the blessing I had received from Andean Q’ero shamans in Los Angeles 30 ago, I received this link to a teaching from an Andean spiritual leader who happens to be in lockdown right now in...Los Angeles.
Her message seems be directed at other spiritual teachers in the Andes but carries meaning for all light workers. We need to be “lighthouses” to ride out these difficult times and leverage the unprecedented opportunity for global transformation. I don’t have nearly the depth of understanding of shamanism as do a number of you here including @vestralux and @coyote and many others, but this message is so clearly articulated, it can be universally understood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUIlZhW0quk&feature=youtu.be
@pikake I loved that, need that! Thank you for sharing, Pikake.
Blessings abound. What a beautiful, beautiful expression of all that I've learned and continue to learn and am always striving to live for my entire 70 years of life.
Everytime i look at my own life challenges or those of my children and grandchildren, spirit reminds me once again why we are all needed and how our challenges and losses are all parts of the gifts and the shifts of transformation.
I have been blessed with shamanic visions and even experiences but this beautiful gift of a human being exemplifies a profound expression of a true body of light in all ways.
What a gift to experience this sharing. Thank you. It actually makes me realize that I can continue to hold space, and pain, and loss in all the ways my own being is needed for as long as and painful as i know it will be.
My hope soars even higher and lighter. I am filled with tears of beauty, light and great gratitude for her gifts and yours in recognition and sharing. Thank you for the gift you (and everyone here) are to all of us here, as well.
Namaste in all languages of the light.
Thank you for the gift you (and everyone here) are to all of us here, as well.
Namaste in all languages of the light.
@michele-b, I could feel the warmth in your gracious words, and I am moved to reply. I am relatively new to this forum and had I known better, I would have included your name in those well versed in shamanic visioning and journeying. I would love to hear more.
The message is indeed uplifting - so glad you created a thread where it was appropriate to share a teaching of light. I feel so blessed to have come across this forum; I am gifted with so much every day. Namaste!??? (love your sign off and may borrow it!)