Thank you, TattooedTeddy- you are so uber sweet! My boyfriend now was my first serious relationship- I was 17 and he was 19. My mum is still hung up over my first boyfriend, the first guy to ever ask me out (I was like 15 and had no interest in boys). I can't believe that after so many years she would still try to get me to talk to him. Especially after he called me recently to see if I wanted to get together sometime and I obviously was trying to blow him off. We had absolutly nothing in common other than the fact that we like to fuck. Not that I ever gave it up to him. I was so not into boys at the time that I wouldn't even give him head. Penises intimidated me, and to an extent, they still do. I love going down on my man but I have the worst gag reflex that I think originated when I first gave him head. He's terribly well-endowed and I guess I tried to take in more than I could suck off. It's not a problem every time, but when it happens, it turns me off like a light switch. I've noticed it's easier when I have something to distract my mind, like sixty nines or listening to music.
When someone says Shamanism, the first thing that comes to mind is Native American shamanism, but the spiritual path isn't necessarily confined to this one culture. When I started studying shamanism, I picked up some books on Celtic shamanism. I didn't stick with it for too long. I got hung up in the changes in my material life and stopped doing what was good for my mind and body. I'd go back to it, but again, only for a short while. I'm the kind of person who tends to do it all, and then make up my own way based on all the things I've learned. Basically, shamanism is a spiritual path, like zen. It doesn't require that the practitioner be of a certain religious affiliation. When I was studying it, it led me down a road of what most would consider strange, surreal, dreamlike, as in it defied the laws of physics. Metaphysical worlds with talking animals you could learn from, mythical creatures and deities, drenched in symbolism. I was highly fascinated. Before my first journey, I had to practice things in meditation. Being inside objects, like fruits, trees, rocks, getting a feel of how they would look and smell on the inside. This enhanced my senses without having to actually feel, taste, and smell objects, which is what one needs to learn since they will be travelling to a world you can only go to in your mind. I also practiced being animals, spending time doing what the animal would do. It was very fun and very educational, especially when I just let my mind go, I could think of things that the animals would do that I wouldn't think of right away. For instance, a lion would hunt, but she would also just relax in the sun, like a housecat sometimes does.
I enjoy shamanism because you are being trained to heal. But before you can heal other people, you heal yourself. There are pieces of your soul you have to find to make yourself whole again. You have to align your bodies, mental, physical, astral, etc. and clean your aura and your chakras. But most important, to me anyway, is meditation. Even by itself, it's such a healthy practice.
BTW, I got my first tattoo. I'll be posting a picture when I get batteries for my camera.
Peace out~
When someone says Shamanism, the first thing that comes to mind is Native American shamanism, but the spiritual path isn't necessarily confined to this one culture. When I started studying shamanism, I picked up some books on Celtic shamanism. I didn't stick with it for too long. I got hung up in the changes in my material life and stopped doing what was good for my mind and body. I'd go back to it, but again, only for a short while. I'm the kind of person who tends to do it all, and then make up my own way based on all the things I've learned. Basically, shamanism is a spiritual path, like zen. It doesn't require that the practitioner be of a certain religious affiliation. When I was studying it, it led me down a road of what most would consider strange, surreal, dreamlike, as in it defied the laws of physics. Metaphysical worlds with talking animals you could learn from, mythical creatures and deities, drenched in symbolism. I was highly fascinated. Before my first journey, I had to practice things in meditation. Being inside objects, like fruits, trees, rocks, getting a feel of how they would look and smell on the inside. This enhanced my senses without having to actually feel, taste, and smell objects, which is what one needs to learn since they will be travelling to a world you can only go to in your mind. I also practiced being animals, spending time doing what the animal would do. It was very fun and very educational, especially when I just let my mind go, I could think of things that the animals would do that I wouldn't think of right away. For instance, a lion would hunt, but she would also just relax in the sun, like a housecat sometimes does.
I enjoy shamanism because you are being trained to heal. But before you can heal other people, you heal yourself. There are pieces of your soul you have to find to make yourself whole again. You have to align your bodies, mental, physical, astral, etc. and clean your aura and your chakras. But most important, to me anyway, is meditation. Even by itself, it's such a healthy practice.
BTW, I got my first tattoo. I'll be posting a picture when I get batteries for my camera.
Peace out~
hope your healing goes well
Todd
I have also read some books by Thich Nhat Hanh...one of them is "The Blooming of a Lotus" Guided Meditation Exercises for Healing and Transformations.
And something else you maybe interested in...
Harvey Rachlin "Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones, and Eistien's Brain" The Remarkable Stories Behind the Great Objects and Artifacts of History, from Antiquity to Modern Era.
Unknown Fact about me: I studied Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, and a little of Shaolin.