Anastasia Toom, Spiritual Counselor and Healer

What is Shamanism?

2009-04-03T18:25:00.000-07:00

Shamanism is a Spiritual Practice that some historians say has existed for over 40,000 years and is known as the oldest Healing Tradition in the world. Historically, the Shaman was someone who acted as a medium between the Spiritual and physical worlds, through various rituals. Today the process is observed as a way that one can return to his/her roots through one's natural surroundings.

Shamanism is a practice that existed on every continent around the world, so every one of our ancestors practiced it. It is a personal Spiritual practice, and is not a religion. Shamanism has no leader and has no rules, unlike a religion. What you follow is your God within you. There is none without. We project outwardly on 'them' or 'him' what we in fact are afraid to admit is in us.

By accepting responsibility for being human and acknowledging that you are the master of your own universe, by acting on your inner voice, vision and sense of right and wrong (for you), your inner Truth, you are in the flow, in the real. This leads to genuine knowledge of your inner self.

The word Shaman originated among the Siberian Tungus and literally means 'he or she who knows.' So the Shaman is someone who travels to the non-ordinary states of reality to obtain information or healing on behalf of themselves or a community member, or the community at large.

Shamanism is always evolving to serve the people of today, and that's why it is still blossoming today. If Shamans weren't good at what they did, the communities would not have been interested in those practices, and they would not have survived.

The commonality amongst all people practicing Shamanism is journeying. In some cultures, they use a rattle, in some a drum. The drum is even called the Shaman's horse. The sound of the drum helps to change our consciousness to the Pheta state, where we become more open to the Spirit world.

The Shamanic psychological paradigm for our reality is of: the upper, middle and lower worlds. Traveling in the middle world, Shamans of the past, would look for lost objects, or to find out where the buffalo were at that moment, to help the hunters.

In journeying, coming up with a clear intention for the journey and a good question (reason for contacting the Spirit) is key. It gives clear direction and a successful result. If there is no powerful, clear intent and question, you may contact the Spirit, but you won't get anything of value. There has to be fair exchange of energy. The level on which you offer is the level on which you will receive.

The healing that the world needs now is to reconnect with nature, in all meanings of the word. The natural green environment, as well as our inner human nature. Religion has said that humanity and nature are fundamentally corrupt and therefore rightfully cut off from God.

I have found that that is a very old lie, and a terrible lie. When you journey to your center, to your root, you will see that you are rooted in Light, Love, God and everything is always available in abundance.

Shamanism is how we initially connected with the Spirit in all things. That re-connective practice is still available. It didn't die with our ancestors. We can freely practice it today and get beneficial, healing, enlightening results.

In my practice as a Spiritual Counselor and Healer, I use Shamanic Journeying extensively, in order to help people find answers to their life long questions, find solutions to problems, and relief from mental and emotional anxiety and negativity.

In the Shamanic Exploration and Healing Circles, I oversee the process of people taking their own journeys or partnering up and journeying for their partner, for information and healing. You can find any answer in any area of your life: Spiritual, Mental, Career, Social, Romantic, Financial, Physical, Family.

When in the old days, you would want travel to see where the buffalo is, today you would travel to find where your next job is, where is that apartment or that room mate or that romantic partner that you have been looking for. Or if you're not sure what to do in your life, travel to discover what your passion is, and what does it look like in the form of service. If you have chronic financial problems, take a journey to find out what is blocking your cash-flow and what freedom looks like for you.

There is no limit to where you can go and what you can know.

Many Happy and beautiful travels to you all!

Anastasia toom
http://angellightpath.com

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Your thoughts, only yours, shape Your Reality

2009-04-02T13:50:00.000-07:00

Watch Your Thoughts................ For They Become Words.
Choose Your Words....................For They Become Actions.
Understand Your Actions............. For They Become Habits.
Study Your Habits..................... For They Will Become Your Character.
Develop Your Character..............For It Becomes Your Destiny.

Your thoughts create your world, your universe, your reality. Everything and everyone around you is a result of your thoughts.

At first, you think a thought, and it's not a big deal, it's just a little thought, but you keep thinking the thought, and it grows with importance in your mind, you talk about it and you feel about it and it starts to collect energy all around it as a result of those actions, and if you keep thinking that thought day and day out, you will see it manifest in your external reality, as a place, person or thing. Then that reality persists, because your thought persists, and you come to think this is just how things are, you come to believe that that's the only way things can be. But that's not so, things are only that way because you think of them that way. Remember, a belief is just a thought you keep thinking.

Love and Light
Anastasia

Masters Dance

2009-03-11T22:18:00.000-07:00

What makes those who are more advanced, the masters, so is that they are more in the now.

That's the key to being alive, to be totally in the now, now.

By my estimation, nearly a third of us on this planet tend to be stuck in the past, at one time or another, out of fear of new things, fear of change.

And in observing the more advanced beings or teachers, what I found is that they are not more in the future rather than the past, but they are here and now more, and as they get more advanced they don't simply disappear into the future to never be seen again by those who share the moment of now with them. They may venture there, but they come to the center again, and they get profoundly grounded and rooted in the present moment, and share everything that they have in the now. They give up charitably everything that they create within themselves to everyone.

Their attention is on something that requires no loss of their energy and they are, in a way, doing a dance with it, and having a multifaceted dialogue with it. To the rest of us, it may seem like just many actions and movements that we don't understand (chaos). Or these actions and movements may not seem like much, until you try them. Like Yoga. Often, in my classes, when students do Yoga for the first time, they exclaim, 'This is hard! I thought it was going to be easy.' I usually explain that those people they see in pictures and on TV doing Yoga, have likely been doing it for enough time, that it became easy. Yoga is not a magic pill, that you take once and become a Yogi. It is a practice, that is developed with consistent evolution of the soul.

Yoga is this dance, of the soul's Life with eternity, with immortality. What the masters are dancing with is themselves, their shadow, all the parts they don't understand also, and through the movement, they come to understand and know themselves, and to know God. The masters are more at union with themselves, in the now. And the whole universe is the natural orchestra and dance hall around them, supporting and creating space for this wonderful romance of a person with his and her Angel. If you see the world from the point of view of your Angel, it is miraculous. It is never dreary, or monotonous. The rhythm is full of excitement and life. And doing the same pose over and over again, until you 'get it right' really is an exciting adventure into Light.

And the key to opening the gate to this dance of heaven with Earth is gratitude. In my experience, gratitude is an instant remover of walls, your own, that is. Because even those that seem to be posed to you by someone else, that you seem to have no control over, you do. And in affirmation of gratitude, with total faith that God is on your side, rejections slip away. Gratitude practiced systematically is the best antidote to psychological (and emotional) blocks that I know.

By Anastasia Toom (c) 2009