I have to admit meditating can be difficult. I have difficulty doing it because it’s hard for me to quiet my mind. For people like me meditation exercises for stress are necessary, and I have learned a few. On the other hand, I found a way to relieve stress, and find inner peace, which only requires listening…
It’s simple. I use shamanic drumming music. This kind of music works a lot like binaural beats, creating a balance in your head through certain frequencies. Just listening to it puts me into a meditative trance that alters my brainwaves in such away that it gets rid of my stress.
But drumming goes beyond the benefits of meditation.
There are a lot of health improvements that can be gained through drumming, like reducing stress and boosting the immune system.
Not only does it help the shaman connect to the spirit world to bring back power animals, and talk to spirit guides, but it also has a physical effect, creating a real world, deep self-awareness by inducing synchronous brain activity and promoting alpha waves.
Drumming, especially through a shamanic journey, can assist you to let go of negative feelings and emotional trauma.
But the biggest benefit of Drumming, in my opinion, is found in something that is an essential part of meditation, and for discovering who you really are as the observer of reality. It binds us to the NOW, grounding us in the present moment.
Only though living in the moment, and understanding it completely in this way, can we know who we really are.
If you focus on the moment, you will start to understand that in it, there is no stress.
The stress was created either in your past, or it is created because you are focused on the future, and worried about it. The key to inner peace is living, as much as you can, in the moment. Stress is something that happens in the brain, not in the real world. If you let yourself get stressed, listening to drums can ground you again.
I have been teaching Shamanic Journeying for many years, and finally I can offer this course online! I am excited to seeing you there 🙂
So why should you do a Shamanic Journey?
If you want to make contact with your spirit guides, spirit animals, power animals, angles, ancestors, elders, or departed shamans, and if you want to find out more about yourself, or finding answers to questions, than a shamanic journey will be very helpful.
Maybe you tried to do this already through a meditation, but it didn’t really work out for you, because doing a meditation is not your thing.
A shamanic journey is similar to a meditation, but done in a different way. So you don’t need to pack your suitcase for this experience. You will do this journey with the help of a special kind of drumming music, that I will provide here for you.
What is a Power Animal, and why should you bring it back into your life?
Symbolically speaking, a Power Animal is a part of you. Power Animals are a reflection of your deepest self.
It represent qualities which you have, or need, in this life. Often these qualities are hidden, because of a shock or trauma.
Through this journey we focus on how to find your Power Animal, and bring it back into your life, so that you will experience more energy and Inner peace.
Gratitude is an extremely powerful energy. The more we are grateful the more gratitude we will get back.
Gratitude is the quickest way for you to make a connection to your soul. When you are connected to your soul, you become one with the universal wisdom, because you feel connected with all that IS. You will feel yourself as if you are an energetic being of infinite possibilities.
When you are in the energy field of gratitude your ego will be compelled to get out of your way.
A common reason why we have problems with people is because there is a lack of gratitude. It is often the case that we expect gratitude from other people when we are unaware of the fact that we do not show them any gratitude ourselves.
A lack of gratitude will influence our entire lives negatively.
Lets create, with many others, a Portal of Love and Gratitude! Lets spread it around the world. Start sharing now!
You are all awesome, and I am grateful for you!
Daniela
Through this meditation you will learn, each day, to see the wonders of life, because your attention is focused on GRATITUDE and LOVE.
And the more that we spread this gratitude and love meditation throughout the world, every day, the more wonders there will be for all of us to share. Indeed, do the Love and Gratitude meditation as much as possible, share it with everyone, because when you do this you are joining, and creating, a morphic field of information that begins with a single idea, or thought, that attracts another identical idea, or thought, like a magnet, and becomes an info field. The more the same thought is collected in that field the bigger the morphic field becomes. Spreading, and practicing, this meditation will create a huge morphic field that has the potential to change everything we know for the good forever. This morphic field is what we call our portal of love and gratitude.
A very important part that I am teaching in Reiki Level 2 is the Healing of your Past, your childhood. We also call this “Healing of the Inner Child”.
Lots of problems that we have in our lives today, thinking patterns, behaviours, beliefs, and even illness, often comes from our past.
This already begins when you were in the womb of your mother. Maybe you could sense it when your mother was going through some hard times. Or later in your life, maybe your parents could not show the love to you that you actually needed, or maybe you experienced bullying from your classmates, or you were heartbroken as a teenager.
With the healing of the Inner Child we are not able to change the past, but we are able to let go of the emotions that might still have an effect in our life today. We will be able to forgive our parents, or others.
The process of “Healing of the Inner Child” is similar to Distance Healing for others, except you connect with yourself, starting with the time when you were in the womb of your mother, following each year of your childhood, and even later years, until the present day. Of course, this is done year by year, and not all in one session.
Pictures of yourself as a baby, child, or teenager are helpful, but not always necessary. Your intention is important here! If you want to send healing to yourself as a one year old child, then you simply connect with yourself in your first year of life. You also can write down on a piece of paper your name and the year.
Ground yourself, and connect with the Reiki energy
Draw 1 x the Power Symbol, say 3 x the Mantra. Draw it over the piece of paper, or over the photo, or just draw it in your mind.
Then draw 1 x Distance Symbol, say 3 x the mantra, and say your name one or three times, and the year you want to send the energy to (example: Me, …your name…in my first year).
Draw again 1 x Power Symbol, and say 3 x the mantra. Now you are connected to yourself in the past
Imagine yourself in the past. What do you look like? Are you a happy baby, child, teenager? Are you smiling, or are you sad?
Imagine yourself between your hands.
Let the energy flow out from your hands, until you see or feel that the child (you in the past) is smiling and happy. Include the Mental-Symbol if needed.
If you feel that your Inner Child is happy, in peace and is smiling, ask the child if it wants to give you a big hug? If not, do more healing, if yes, imagine you are giving your “inner child” a big hug. Stretch out your arms, bring the energy of your “inner child” to your heart.
Lay your hands over your heart chakra, and stay there for a few minutes. Let the energy flow. Feel the joy in your heart, because you brought healing to yourself.
When you feel it is done (perhaps after 10-20 minutes), say to yourself: “thanks” and let your Inner Child go with the knowing that you helped yourself to find your Inner Peace.
If you have already learnt Reiki Level 2, you may have learnt this method.
Let me know your experience with the Healing of the Inner Child 🙂
How Can This Simple Mantra Effect Everything Out There In Your Life?
You may have heard of the Hawaiian therapist Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, who never met any of his clients, but cured an entire ward of criminally insane patients.
How was he able to cure them?
He did this by simply reviewing each of his patients files, and used this simple Mantra to heal, not the patients, but himself. He said: “I am sorry”, “Please forgive me”, “Thank you”, “I love you”
Is this really possible? This sounds like a miracle, right?
Dr. Len used a simplified version of Ho’oponopono, that he calls Self I-Dentity.
The idea behind Ho’oponopono is that I am responsible for whatever problem I may have in my life.
This means anything that is happening to me outside, is actually only happening on the inside, in my mind, consciously and subconsciously
This is not an easy concept to accept, because it seems obvious to us on the surface that we have problems because of other people and our environment.
But maybe he is right, maybe there is no such thing as “outside”, and everything happens to us in our minds? So everything you see, and everything you hear, you experience in your mind. But you think it is ‘outside” of you.
You may think if you have a problem, or someone is mean to you, that this is the fault of other people or the environment. But Dr. Len says: No, it is all going on inside of yourself.
What you see outside yourself is all just information, and a reflection of your inner world!
If you think about it, this sounds pretty scary. And it is really hard to understand … at least at the beginning.
But if you accept that everything around you is information, which shows you what is really going on inside of you, wouldn’t you think that this must be a gift from the Gods?
If something is not right on the outside, something that is bothering you, then understand that this is just information, that something is not solved in your mind, or subconscious mind, and now you get the chance to clean this information by simply using the Mantra: “I am sorry”, “Please forgive me”, “Thank you”, “I love you”
Example: A man’s wife complains that he never helps around the house. He if offended, thinking that she is always complaining.
But now he understands that this is just information for him, information (may come from past experiences) in his mind, or subconscious mind, which needs to be corrected.
He asks himself: If I created a complaining wife, why did I do this? Maybe he realizes that he often feels worthless, and this negative thinking might have started in his childhood, at school. Or maybe he as no idea why, but accepts that something is going on inside of himself, not outside of himself.
What ever it might be, he can now decide what to do:
If he decides to get angry, and he thinks his wife is terrible, and he wishes her to leave him, and maybe she will leave him one day, he still would have something inside of him, which will always create this situation for him again in the future.
But when he decides to accept that this situation with his wife is an opportunity to change something inside of himself, he would start to think : “I am sorry”, “Please forgive me”, “Thank you”, “I love you”.
When he says ” I am sorry”, this is addressed only to himself, to Divinity (his God within him, or his Higher Self). He is sorry for creating this situation, and for the negative thoughts that he had, which separates him from love.
When he says “please forgive me”, he is asking himself, his divine self, for forgiveness from being separated from love.
When we says “thank you” he is thanking his Divinity for the opportunity to learn from his problems, and for forgiving himself.
When he says “I love you” to his Divinity, he will be united again with All That Is, and create PEACE in and around himself.
Check out the videos:
Part 1
Part 2
If this concept is still hard to understand, maybe you can see it from this point of view.
Let’s say, there is an Ego Self and your True Self, and both are a part of you. Your Ego Self is consciously and subconsciously creating situations in life that can be good or not so good, which is stopping you from living live through your True Self.
And when the Ego realizes what it did, it can change this by saying to the True Self: Please forgive me, I am sorry, Thank you, I love you.
But I think the best way is just to try it out, and see what happens in your life, and the positive changes it can create.
You need to do it to understand how it works, even if it feels strange.
Meditation is helpful to let go of stress, and to replace it with inner peace. It is a great tool to balance body, mind, and soul.
I know, there are so many kinds of meditations you can choose from.
But really, what is the best meditation?
I think, in order to meditate, choose one that is simple, and comfortable. Whatever works for you is the right meditation.
Important is to find a kind of meditation, that makes you want to keep doing it every day.
When I started to meditate, I just focused on my breath. Everyday I took 5-10 minutes just sitting down, closing my eyes, and focussing on my breathing rhythm, thinking “I breathe in now”, and “I breathe out now”.
In doing so, after a few meditations, I often lost track of time, and my meditations went longer than just 10 minutes. I didn’t even need to focus on my breathing anymore, because I felt like I was my own breath. I had the feeling I was really connected with my inner true self.
Now, when my students ask me, what meditation they should do, I always suggest to start with this simple meditation. KEEP IT SIMPLE.
I also understand that to meditate on your own is not always easy. I suggest to try a guided meditation. You can buy a lot of different kinds of guided mediations, or you can find a meditation group in your area.
Try the short guided meditation above, and feel the release of stress. Maybe you want to integrate it in your daily life, to find your own inner peace.
What kind of Meditation works best for you? Please leave a comment or question:
