Clear Distractions – Tutorial VI
Using Gifts from the Rainforest to Clear Distractions
Animal Energy Medicine for Healing the Modern Mind – Tutorial VI
- 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
CLEAR DISTRACTIONS FROM YOUR MIND
As you learned in the previous Tutorials, each Circle has a different healing action or medicine and are often used in sequence with positive affirmations to help you focus your intent. to support the positive changes that you’re asking for.
When the Circle are put together in different sequences, they can help us accomplish different mental and emotional tasks. In this case, let’s go through a short sequence where you will utilize your personal Power Animal to help you clear distractions and focus on your goals more effectively.
Access and Utilize Your Natural Creative Abilities.
Sometimes people are overstimulated or have learning difficulties that interfere with their ability to focus and productivity. Sometimes, a more creative and instinctual approach will help.
Use these positive affirmations with the Circles to access your intuition, gut instincts and the creative magic of Nature through #31 Dragonfly.
“I actively seek out the wisdom of my Animal Instincts and the Natural World.”
“I accept help from the generous, abundant resources of life
and listen to their promptings.”
“I connect to the natural
protective and creative abilities of my Psyche and Soul.”
“I allow my Power Animal to help me see this project from the perspective of my Higher Self.”
Are there any distractions pulling at you? If so, intend to withdraw from any harmful intentions, extremes or life trajectories that are harmful to you.
When you have a lot of noise or buzzing going on in your head, Mosquito Medicine can help you.
“I move the buzzing and excess noise from my head.”
Imagine that your mind just has too many windows open that allow random thoughts to come flying in. Another analogy is having too many tabs open on your computer. Piranha Medicine #8 will help you close them down. Use these positive affirmations to help:
“All holes are sealed and healed.”
“I follow the direction of healthy protection.”
Once the noise has subsided, let Paying Mantis help you refocus your attention on whatever your current task is.
“I am able to pull my energy and attention in and focus on what I’m doing.”
Do that both crossed and uncrossed so complete the correction in the best way possible.
Remember, as you breathe and visualize, the Circle is working with your Higher Self – helping you to shift and change in just the way that is best for you.
You are in charge of your attention, unless you’ve given that power away!
Remember all that you learned from Tutorial V? This is an excellent example of when and how old agreements could be interfering with your well being.
“I release all agreements to allow my mind to be distracted.”
“I let go of second guessing myself.”
“I reclaim my power and my attention.”
Wasp Medicine will help you pull your energy away from negative situations or even old memories of painful experiences.
“I pull myself and my energy out of negative spaces and experiences that are detrimental to me.”
The Wasp also reminds you to keep yourself protected. Do you have proper protection now? If not, what might help?
It is possible that you’ve been taking your project a little too seriously and the energy around it has gotten too heavy.
Gather yourself in your center with Otter Medicine and bring some fun and lightness into whatever you’re working on.
“I decide to bring a healthy sense of fun into what I’m doing.”
You might also have lost track of what the purpose for your original goal was. Garden can help you place it again. Use the Circle to remember what this activity has to do with your life and the personal dream you hold for yourself.
“The purpose of this activity is to ______________.”
Be sure that your agreements confirm who is in charge of what you’re doing and how you get it done.
“My Soul is in charge of how my energy is used –
even when I’m distracted by ____________.”
Butterfly Medicine can help you remember to tap into the most positive energies available to you, no matter where you are.
“I relax and use the most beneficial energies possible to manifest this project.”
Now that you have the proper focus, position, agreements, purpose and energy, let Starlight Medicine help you put it all together. What is the next best step for you to take to help you with your project?
Congratulations! You’ve just pulled yourself back from the dangers of a distracted mind. Get up and move around a bit to help this settle and get integrated.
Next Time:
In the Seventh Tutorial, you’ll get an opportunity to experience how Gifts from the Rainforest can help you take aim at the concept of reciprocity.
Return to Your Animal Totems Intro ~
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.
Are You Catastrophizing?
One of the biggest challenges we face is how to get past all the catastrophizing that’s going on.
When a person is CATASTROPHIZING, they are imagining the worst possible outcome of an action or event. It’s so easy to blow everything out of proportion, especially after all we’ve been through! Turn on any form of media and within minutes you’re hit with intense waves of anger, fear, outrage, even paranoia. Before you know it, your energy is scattered all over the place and you’re feeling hopeless.
Certainly, there are plenty of disastrous events that are actually happening. I’m not suggesting that we isolate, live in denial or surround ourselves with ‘nothing to see here’ apathy.
However, making a big drama over problems while ignoring the solutions is like feeding a shark and then expecting it to just peacefully swim away. It ain’t gonna happen!
Our problems can’t be solved from the same mental position they were created from. A positive balance can be struck by consciously pulling your attention and energy away from all those problems and redirecting them to genuinely helpful solutions.
It may sound hard to do, but learning to stop catastrophizing is possible.
With this simple sequence of Intuitive Learning Circles, you can easily refocus and let go of some of that fear you’ve been feeling. All you have to do is be open and follow the simple directions. Each Circle helps gather unconscious information, organize awareness and illuminate solutions that come directly from your Soul. You are in charge!
Start out by taking a moment to consider what situations are bothering you the most. What seems to be the most upsetting to you?
You could be catastrophizing about anything – environment, work, family, politics, AI technology, social media or even a personal relationship.
What emotional upset comes to mind first?
With that upset in mind, scroll down and gaze softly at the short sequence of Intuitive Learning Circles below. Let each Circle help you access intuitive answers to the questions that go along with them.
Step 1:
Take a moment to relax and take a few deep breaths. Let your shoulders drop and gently look at the Circle in whatever way that appeals to you. Once you feel pretty relaxed, ask yourself this question:
“What am I paying too much attention to that isn’t in my best interests?”
It’s important to accept whatever comes to you because that answer is your Inner Guidance sending a warning to you.
Step 2:
Gaze softly at this next Circle that helps you access your unconscious decisions:
“What decisions am I making about this situation? What have I decided about other people? What have I decided about myself? Are those productive thoughts?”
If they are productive, great! Make them even stronger.
If they’re not productive, what kind of thoughts and decisions would be better for you to make? Would you be willing to give yourself and other people a break? Don’t judge, just keep a mental note. Oftentimes when we change our decisions, the situation begins to change too.
Step 3:
Use this Circle to help you connect with a more positive energy that lives within.
“I decide to empower a healthier and more hopeful frame of mind.”
This may take a few minutes, so take all the time you need. Move around and stretch if you like.
Step 4.
As you gaze at this Correction Key for repairing your energy field, ask yourself:
“Am I willing to heal the pathways in my energy that are jagged, torn, blocked or turned inside out?”
If you are, use your imagination with this Key to smooth the energy out.
If you’re not, can you tell what’s holding you up?
Step 5:
Bring yourself fully into the present. Open and close your hands. Take a look at the time… remember how old you are… find something in your space that you can really connect to.
These are all things that can help pull you back together.
What do you need to do to get grounded?
Step 6.
Put your hand on your heart and meditate on this symbol for a few minutes with this positive affirmation:
“I connect my consciousness with Hope.”
Make sure you’re relaxing as much as possible. Roll your shoulders if you need to. Adjust how you’re seated. Hope is a virtue that connects you with your Soul.
Step. 7
When you’re ready, check your progress…
“Does it feel like I’m moving in a better direction?”
Step 8.
If the answer you get is “no” or “I’m not sure,” use this Circle to imagine that your Soul can turn you towards the direction of your highest good and close the door completely on all that catastrophizing.
“The path in my mind that leads to disaster is sealing and healing.
I follow the direction of healthy protection.”
Once you’re clear that you’re heading in a positive direction, you can thank your lucky stars that you have successfully pulled your mind out of emotional chaos.
Congratulations!
Now that you know what kind of issues are especially upsetting, you can make a plan to find some good solutions. For now, though, you probably need to rest. After all, catastrophizing is hard work!
Take a few minutes for yourself to walk, get out in nature or do something that will help you relax.
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Rheanni Lightwater CHT, CKT lives and practices in Santa Fe, NM. She specializes in learning difficulties and mind body healing using Kinesiology, the Intuitive Learning Circles, Reiki as a Master/Teacher, Hypnotherapy and Shamanic Clearing Techniques.
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Disclaimer:
This Mind Exercise should not be considered as an exclusive method of treatment. The appropriate medical or psychotherapeutic authorities should be consulted for the diagnosis and treatment if there is any medical or psychological condition. The information and practices described on this website are best considered as an adjunct to orthodox medical or psychological treatments.
Protected: Understanding Karma VIII
Four Seasons
Living in the Present With the Four Seasons ~
Self-care and Personal Growth through Gifts from the Rainforest:
46. The Four Seasons – Each season reminds us to follow the natural cycles of life. Staying in sync with them brings harmony to body, mind and spirit.
Are you out of sync?Worrying about the future or stuck in the past?
What would remedy that and help you live in the present?
Healing Action: Pull yourself into the present by fully coming into your body. Open and close your fingers. Notice the time and date. Look around. Be in alignment with what is. Stand firm within the natural Circle and cycles of Life.
The Circle of Life
All of life follows a natural cycle of
birth, growth, decay and regeneration.
However, the critical mind becomes impatient and
wants to see immediate results.
It longs for the green of summer all year long.
The creatures of the rainforest
laugh because they know this is folly.
The plants cry because they know
the danger in this kind of thinking.
Allow the seasons to teach you
how to reconnect to the joy and fulfillment
that is available in each moment.
There is no time but now.
Bring yourself into harmony with what is.
Mind Body Integration
For best results, gaze softly at the Circle both crossed over the midline of the body and uncrossed so that the communication is more complete.
Intuitive Learning Circles help you access your inner guidance and self-confidence to make proactive changes. Simply relax and gaze at the Circles while contemplating its message and positive affirmations. Your intuition will come forward and give you the help that you seek.
Further Exploration into the Healing Circle of the Four Seasons:
This Circle of Life beckons you to step into the simplicity of being here now. The small mind thinks that doing so would be too difficult. Why is that?
Perhaps it fears the loss of control that comes with being open and receptive. After all, birth, death, and rebirth seem like scary things, yet if we cling to the ideal of endless youth, we’ill never taste the sweetness of maturity.
A fearful mind organizes itself around dissatisfaction and all the reasons why things couldn’t possibly work out. It loves to fixate on all the reasons not to do something rather than the benefits that could be reaped from moving forward. The fear of approaching winter causes it to hoard. It idealizes the birth of spring and yet resists the change that’s required. It makes up stories about how things would be so much better if others just conformed to their way of doing things. It likes to take snapshots. It doesn’t like the chaos of change.
We could be much happier if we would relax and organize around the natural circle of life that accepts change and goes with it. Watch how the plants and animals handle this and you will come to understand that you can never go back to the way you were yesterday. By the same token, you can never know exactly what will happen in the future.
Life is best experienced in the present. Accept that you are constantly changing and adapt to natural law.
The Four Seasons is an excerpt from Gifts from the Rainforest
Available exclusively From Soul Resources LLC:
OPEN YOUR HEART AND MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE FOUR SEASONS
Inspired by Design Therapy from the native tribes of the Amazon, the fifty-eight Intuitive Learning Circles and animal totems from Gifts from the Rainforest are self-healing tools for nature lovers who want to accelerate their spiritual growth and intuition.
♦ Find emotional healing ♦ Deal with repetitive habits & attitudes that keep you stuck ♦ Develop common sense ♦ Learn to trust your gut instincts. ♦ Receive messages from plant, animal & nature spirits.
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 of any medical or psychological condition. The information and practices described on this website are best considered as an adjunct to orthodox medical or psychological treatments.
Monkey Medicine
Break the Spell with Monkey Medicine
Self-care and Personal Growth through Gifts from the Rainforest
#28 Monkey – Monkey is presenting an opportunity to respond differently in the face of cruelty and rage. Learn to invest your energy more wisely. Life has so much more to offer!
Are you spending too much time fighting and finding fault with others?
Are you making your life too hard? If so, what would you rather be doing?
Healing Action: Identify if you’re involved in harmful group think, curses, grudges or bad attitudes. Repairing the damage done begins by forgiving yourself first.
Angry Monkey
The angry mind is like an angry monkey.
It swings wildly from one tree to another,
casting coconuts and squealing curses at the top of its lungs.
The monkey-mind has often thoughtlessly
cast insults and stones on friends and enemies alike
whenever it has felt threatened.
Deflect the ill will of others by refusing to
take their threats personally.
Their curses are merely a reflection of how
they feel about themselves.
Cultivate humility when thinking ill of others.
Your curses are merely a reflection of how
you feel about yourself.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Vigilantly monitor your monkey mind.
How is it feeding you with poison?
Approach it with compassion, and nourish it
with the milk of human kindness.
Forgiveness begins within.
Mind Body Integration
For best results, gaze softly at the Circle both crossed over the midline of the body and uncrossed so that the communication is more complete.
Intuitive Learning Circles help you access your inner guidance and self-confidence to make proactive changes. Simply relax and gaze at the Circles while contemplating its message and positive affirmations. Your intuition will come forward and give you the help that you seek.
Further Exploration into Monkey Medicine:
Monkey medicine speaks of the need to clear your mind of preconceived ideas and concepts that have been cursing your attempts to be peaceful and happy. Somehow, an angry mind is dominating the situation.
As you gaze at the Circle, relax and ask your Soul: “Am I mad at myself?” “Is someone else mad at me?” “What am I afraid of?”
Monkey is showing us that within every stone that’s cast against another is an opportunity to learn and respond differently. Redeem yourself first and a path will open that leads to forgiving others. Take that opportunity and your life will change forever.
It could be that you’re being a projection to someone because they’re seeing something in you that they don’t like about themselves. On the other hand, you may feel like others are throwing accusations or ridicule at you simply because that’s what you expect them to do.
Don’t fall for such wasteful mental activity! Look deeper into your own insecurities. This may seem unpleasant at first, but there is a gift waiting for you if you’re willing to get to the bottom of this falsehood. Usually it involves letting go of an old way of thinking about yourself and the world.
The monkey may also be exposing a collective illusion that’s been bedeviling you in this situation. See it for what it is. Break the spell that keeps you from being who you truly are in the face of destructive groupthink. Once you can transcend the lie that’s being told, a passageway that has previously been blocked will be ready for you to step through.
Gently coax your monkey mind out of the dark undergrowth of fear and resentment. Bring it into the light of day. Using Love and Forgiveness, encourage it to swing freely through the trees until it can travel to the very highest regions of the forest canopy with ease!
Monkey Medicine is an excerpt from Gifts from the Rainforest
Available exclusively From Soul Resources LLC:
OPEN YOUR HEART AND MAKE FRIENDS WITH MONKEY MEDICINE
Inspired by Design Therapy from the native tribes of the Amazon, the fifty-eight Intuitive Learning Circles and animal totems from Gifts from the Rainforest are self-healing tools for nature lovers who want to accelerate their spiritual growth and intuitive abilities.
♦ Find emotional healing ♦ Deal with repetitive habits & attitudes that keep you stuck ♦ Develop common sense ♦ Learn to trust your gut instincts. ♦ Receive messages from plant, animal & nature spirits.
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 of any medical or psychological condition. The information and practices described on this website are best considered as an adjunct to orthodox medical or psychological treatments.
Vine of the Soul
Spiritual Healing from the Vine of the Soul
Self-care and Personal Growth through Gifts from the Rainforest:
41. Vine – Ayahuasca is an ancient medicine used in ceremony for soul retrieval and to bring us back into union with our spiritual selves.
Have you given away your power? How can you regain it?
How can you effectively move out of fear and into courage?
Healing Action: Align with your inner knowing. Find a spiritual based process or ceremony that will help you determine what got you off track and how to regain balance.
Mother Ayahuasca
For over a thousand years, shamans from
the Amazon have received healing
for their people from the Vine of the Soul.
This medicine teaches how to reconnect
with our spiritual selves and nature.
She provides lasting physical healing
by addressing its spiritual source.
She shows us the truth about how
we have betrayed ourselves and our divinity.
She reminds us of who we are
and how we lost our identity.
Call upon this ancient tradition
and reflect on what the deeper cause
for your pain and dilemmas might be.
Your Soul knows the answer,
you have only to call upon it.
Mind Body Integration
For best results, gaze softly at the Circle both crossed over the midline of the body and uncrossed so that the communication is more complete.
Intuitive Learning Circles help you access your inner guidance and self-confidence to make proactive changes. Simply relax and gaze at the Circles while contemplating its message and positive affirmations. Your intuition will come forward and give you the help that you seek.
Further Exploration into Ayahuasca Medicine:
The ego is blocking the truth, although with help from your Soul, it’s possible for you to see beyond your delusions and imaginary fears. Ayahuasca’s medicine can show you how you are presently using your strength and will. It can also show you how you might improve upon them.
Let her assist you as you move out of fear and into courage:
- Purge lies and dangerous distractions.
- Expel malignant toxins from your body and mind.
- Allow your Soul to take its proper place in your experience.
- Align with your inner knowing and the truth will be revealed.
- Maintain your newfound health and integrity by taking good care of yourself.
You may be refusing abundance that has been coming your way or possibly you may benefit from learning how to be more compassionate. Learn to heal yourself by listening to the wisdom of your heart.
It’s very important at this time to be real and genuine in your requests, because whatever you ask for, you are liable to get. Unlock your suppressed creativity and heal your Self.
The Vine of the Soul is an excerpt from Gifts from the Rainforest
Available exclusively From Soul Resources LLC:
OPEN YOUR HEART AND MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE VINE OF THE SOUL
Inspired by Design Therapy from the native tribes of the Amazon, the fifty-eight Intuitive Learning Circles and animal totems from Gifts from the Rainforest are self-healing tools for nature lovers who want to accelerate their spiritual growth and intuition.
♦ Find emotional healing ♦ Deal with repetitive habits & attitudes that keep you stuck ♦ Develop common sense ♦ Learn to trust your gut instincts. ♦ Receive messages from plant, animal & nature spirits.
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 of any medical or psychological condition. The information and practices described on this website are best considered as an adjunct to orthodox medical or psychological treatments.
Shamans Leaves
Clear the Clutter Out of Your Mind with Shaman’s Leaves
Self-care and Personal Growth through Gifts from the Rainforest:
32. Shaman’s Leaves – when the mind goes into survival mode, it can pull progress to a complete stop. Shamans leaves shake out resistance and fear so that the journey can continue.
What are you afraid of?
What would you like to shake off? What mental confusion needs to be cleared away? What might help you do that?
Healing Action: The critical mind wants to control you through fear or panic. Do not abandon your efforts – persist. Sit up. Breathe. Shake it out! Now is not the time to give in.
The Shaman’s Leaves
On shamanic journeys, resistance is expected.
When this happens, the small mind
will think up every possible reason to give up
and retreat from your Soul’s journey.
The shaman then brings out his dried leaves
and shakes them in your face
for however long it takes
for the small mind to surrender.
These dried leaves contain yellow magic –
the courage to endure against all
manipulations of the mind.
See your fear for what it is.
Stay with it.
Endure.
Mind Body Integration
For best results, gaze softly at the Circle both crossed over the midline of the body and uncrossed so that the communication is more complete.
Intuitive Learning Circles help you access your inner guidance and self-confidence to make proactive changes. Simply relax and gaze at the Circles while contemplating its message and positive affirmations. Your intuition will come forward and give you the help that you seek.
Further Exploration into the Medicine of the Shaman’s Leaves:
You have decided that things are supposed to happen in a certain way and because of your limited thinking, you are about to give up. Don’t.
- If you can stop thinking so much and open to the possibility of different scenarios, the block can remove itself.
- If you can open yourself up to new ideas the world will respond to you differently.
- If you refuse, you remain chained to outmoded thoughts, habits and behaviors that will naturally lead to self-defeat and self-pity.
- If you are waiting for a guarantee, you will just keep delaying the completion of your goal.
- If your mind is telling you that something should be happening in a certain way ask your heart: “According to who and how would they know?”
- If you don’t have much self-discipline, now is a good time to develop some.
Do you need to stop trying to force something to work out a certain way and just trust the process? Nature has a way of righting things on its own; allow this to work for you.
It could be that a recurring pattern of post-traumatic stress is blocking your mind and making it hard to think clearly. Pent up energy needs to be released. Let the Circle help your body do what it needs to do. Use your breath, rhythmic motion, sound and visuals to bring the blockage up and shake it out. Once the stagnant energy is released, allow your body and nervous system to calm down with slower, deeper breaths and softer, rocking movements.
Or
Early childhood and/or cultural conditioning is blocking your spiritual connection. Take the pressure off of having to be a certain way. Doing the opposite of what you think you should do is often the cure. Visualize a warm breeze blowing anxious thoughts up and out of your mind, like a little whirlwind of leaves.
The medicine of Shaman’s Leaves is an excerpt from Gifts from the Rainforest
Available exclusively From Soul Resources LLC:
OPEN YOUR HEART AND MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE SHAMANS LEAVES
Inspired by Design Therapy from the native tribes of the Amazon, the fifty-eight Intuitive Learning Circles and animal totems from Gifts from the Rainforest are self-healing tools for nature lovers who want to accelerate their spiritual growth and intuition.
♦ Find emotional healing ♦ Deal with repetitive habits & attitudes that keep you stuck ♦ Develop common sense ♦ Learn to trust your gut instincts. ♦ Receive messages from plant, animal & nature spirits.
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 of any medical or psychological condition. The information and practices described on this website are best considered as an adjunct to orthodox medical or psychological treatments.
