The Power of Nature

Did you ever have experienced the following: You are on a walk in the woods and you feel the cleansing and earthy power of the surrounding nature? If you are shamanising and visiting the nature frequently then you surely have already established a friendly contact to various spirits of the nature. In another writing I have written something on natural spirits. However, in this writing the emphasize lies more on the energetic aspect of working with natural spirits. The exercise described below is used to regain power and to be healed.

This exercise isn´t recommended for the beginner shaman but is more for theadvanced one. You should have experience with shamanic workings, especially the shamanic journey and the shamanic sight. It is recommended that you already are directing shamanic seances for clients which presumes an excellent contact to your spirits and ancestors. Another prerequisite is a feeling for energy as it is being taught and can be felt in Iron-Shirt Qi-Gong or Tao Yoga.

At first you are conducting a journey with the intention to be led by your helping spirits to a location in the woods, where a natural spirit lives which wants to cooperate with you in this issue. This could be an river-spirit, plant-spirit, sea-spirit, mountain-spirit and so on ... Let us asume you get the information to go to an tree-spirit (recommended by myself for this particular exercise, by the way). You are walking in reality to the place the spirits described to you in your journey and have a look at the spirit (trust your spirits). Then you go into shamanic trance and communicate with the spirit. Perhaps the spirit will give you additional informations like herbalistic knowledge, rites or wisdom, which currently are more important to you then our exercise. However, as a "filling station" this exercise is unbeatable for regeneration and cleansing. After you have asked the spirit and it is willing to cooperate you can start with the exercise.

You can establish a good contact to tree spirits only after longer time periods of continual working with it. They have a different time-feeling and it takes its time to be noticed by the tree spirit more intensive than usual. Two to three weeks as a minimun time-period should be in your mind.

O.K., you are opening your root- and your crown-chakra. The crown-chakra is being used to send your energy to the tree and the root-chakra is being used to absorb the cool and healing energies of the earth and the tree´s roots. You can proceed as you like: You can use your hand-chakras for absorbing and sending at once or you are sending with the crown-chakra and receiving with the hands (using the bone-breathing technique of the Iron-Shirt Qi-Gong). The navelchord can be used accordingly in connection with the other possibilities. Be creative. When you are touching the trees bork with your hands you are standing in the midst of the trees auric field. You can think of many other possibilities of exchanging energies. Don´t forget to be thankful to the tree-spirit after finishing the exercise. Remember that the tree-spirit transformed your rubbish and bad energies! (Source)