Developing Intuitive Guidance with Gifts from the Rainforest
Animal Energy Medicine for Healing the Modern Mind – Tutorial IX
- Enhance your intuition and self-healing abilities
- Heal negative karmic and energetic patterns
- Change destructive attitudes, habits and behaviors
- Create new templates for self-love and joy
- Guided meditations to hear your inner guidance
Intuitive Guidance for Decisive Action
In Gifts from the Rainforest, there are 58 plant, animal and nature spirits that share their message with a focusing tool I call the Intuitive Learning Circles. These Circles have a hypno-therapeutic action that can help us sort out information and enhance our objectivity.
When your mind is all cluttered up with too many thoughts it can be hard to tell if something you want to do is actually a good idea. Also, some ideas that are really important can get overlooked.
You Can Use the Circles to Ask About Specific Actions to Take ~
You might want to journal to keep track of the thoughts and ideas that come up with this exercise. You can go deeper through journaling or conversation with a therapist or like-minded group.
This kind of processing is a powerful resource that helps you to sort out your thoughts. Emotions can be felt and more easily released once they’re out of your head and put down on paper, which prevents overwhelm, anxiety and burnout.
Ask Your Intuitive Guidance About Specific Actions to Take ~
Slow down with #23 Sloth and pick one action that you’re considering doing at this time – i.e. taking a trip, starting a business, a project, etc.
To help you get out of your head, use Dragonfly Medicine #31 to consciously bring your energy down into your solar plexus area and connect with your natural instincts and self-healing abilities.
Once you’ve done that, slow down even more!
Especially if you’ve been through a recent trauma, the stress of that experience might have shut down the energy in your Third Chakra, which happens to be located at your solar plexus. Take a few minutes now to help yourself by allowing it to open up and relax.
Stop focusing on all that you’re trying to accomplish and take a few minutes to clear out your mind with #12 Rat Medicine.
When your mind starts racing and you’re too busy to stop and take a deep breath, you’re identifying with herd mentality from the collective ego. Catch yourself before your ego runs away completely!
Imagine you can sweep away all that extraneous clutter. Send it to the Light and close the doors behind you that let all that clutter in.
Then relax! Take several long, deep breaths – inhale and exhale.
Move around and stretch if that helps.
Once your thinking has calmed down, gently bring your mind back to your original question using #36 Plant Spirits. What were you thinking of doing?
Notice how much better your body and mind feel when they’ve calmed down…
Now you’re ready to ask: How would taking that action nurture you?
~ Is the timing for it right?
~ Would doing it energize you, drain you or something else?
~ What is your impression of how it would actually feel to do that thing?
~ How would it affect others?
Dive deeper with #23 Divine Perspective from Soul Prayer Charts. A perspective from your Soul will help you expose potential sabotage and find your way forward in positive, productive ways.
Take the action that you’re considering and project it out into the future – what do you sense?
~ Does taking this action serve you on a Soul level?
~ Does it have purpose and meaning?
~ Would it be joyful?
~ What are the possibilities that could result from taking this action?
~ Are there certain steps or decisions that need to happen first?
Use #33 Llama and consider your proposed action again.
What effect would deciding to take this action have on your other priorities?
~ Are you willing to be flexible and follow inner guidance as you go?
~ Are there any new decisions you need to make about yourself?
Get all the gears in your mind moving together.
~ What decisions do you need to make about others?
If you need to, use the Circle to unstick those “stuck” gears and remove mental obstacles from your thinking process.
Intuitive Guidance Will Help You To Set Yourself Up for Success
#34 Butterfly will help you to consciously tap into the most beneficial energies and nourishment that would support your ability to make wise decisions and follow through with them successfully.
If you’ve decided that your proposed action isn’t a good idea for you, use #5 Wasp to pull your energy back from that possibility.
Perhaps your time would be better spent doing something else. If that’s the case, look to your intuition to follow a better plan.
Regardless of what you’ve decided, remember the Golden Mean that says what you put out comes back to you.
Confirm with #14 Otter that you are centered within yourself properly to put your highest good out there so that you can receive a reciprocal, beneficial response.
Place your best intention in the center of his Circle like a bull’s eye. Send your energy to that intention and then allow the energy to return to you.
Congratulations! You’ve made yourself an active part of the equation.
Now, be sure you’re using your karma correctly for the best possible outcome.
Start by confirming that you’re using your own karma and not confusing your actions with some one else’s.
Next, confirm that the decision you’ve made is actually in your best interests. If it is, great – good to know!
Is it positioned correctly – in your own personal garden?
Finally, make sure you’ve included the karma you need to stay grounded and keep your energy high enough so that you can easily rise above any misunderstandings, difficulties or miscommunications that may interfere with a successful follow through.
If you don’t have those intentions now, plant the seeds for them.
Tap into your Guardian Angel and Intuitive Guidance with Divine Grace from Soul Prayer Charts.
Is there anything else that you need to be aware of?
If there is, make a note of it.
Remember to stay open and ask for help in case you need to adapt to changing circumstances.
Now that you have answers from your intuitive guidance, take a moment to close off any harmful pathways or leaks in your energy field.
“All doors, holes or pathways that lead to suffering are sealed and healed.”
“I turn my attention in the direction of my Soul’s intention.”
Congratulations! Now is a good time to take a walk or go out into Nature to help this all integrate. Be prepared for new ideas and solutions to make their way towards you!
Please note: These Animal Totems can help you practice how you’re using your decisions to create better outcomes. However, your intention, whatever it may be, cannot be completed until you have followed through and taken action in the real, physical world.
Helpful Tips:
Did you remember to cross and uncross over the midline of your body?
With practice, you will begin to intuitively “know” whether you need to cross or uncross. Give yourself permission to make a habit of this valuable skill.
Were you willing to play and be flexible with the Circles?
In this exercise and all the other sequences on this website, I’ve taken the time to create a general template that I hope will be helpful. However, self-healing is an individual process and your experience will be unique – differing even from one day to the next. That’s why it’s important to remember that your Soul is in charge!
With that in mind, you may be ready to begin your Animal Totem Tracks series.
If you feel you’re ready, go through this exercise again with that question in mind. Checking in with your Soul to evaluate your options is one of the best decisions you can make!
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This Mind Exercise is Part of Spirit Animal Tracks for Self-healing
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More Help ~
If you feel that Intuitive Guidance has helped, but hasn’t addressed all of your needs, Rheanni Lightwater is an expert in the art and science of mind body healing.
She has 23+ years experience in energy medicine and environmental energy clearing. Contact her if you feel stuck, confused or overwhelmed.
Ms. Lightwater’s mission as an Intuitive is to assist people in creating vibrant health, happiness and prosperity. Contact her at 505-271-4612 or email:
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Disclaimer:
The Intuitive Learning Circles should not be considered as an exclusive method of treatment. The appropriate medical or psychotherapeutic authorities should be consulted for the diagnosis and treatment for any medical or psychological condition. The information and practices described in Gifts from the Rainforest or this website are best considered as an adjunct to orthodox medical or psychological treatments.
