Your full newsletter offers a personal note from Josephine, and soulful insight from Mother Earth, Nature, and Native Spirits.
Enjoy the full newsletter, "Soulful Living & Wisdom - Your May 2024 Periodical."
A Personal Note from My Soul to Yours...
May I speak openly with you? I have been releasing old beliefs that have caused me to feel guarded. Some of the learned beliefs from former experiences trained me into patterns of thought that said it was necessary to be guarded. We intellectually know that having a wall up does not just interfere with negative coming in, but also good coming in or out effectively.
Disclosure...
One of the things that this guardedness hindered was my ability to effectively share my heart's calling - soul journey, in the practice and service of shamanism. The combination of personal and professional training, life experiences, near-death and spiritually transforming experiences, visions, and mentoring that came through vision quests; and teachers arriving in my life at precise moments, is very similar to the Babaylan, or Hilot and Filipino (Shamanic) Practitioners. And, yes - though in today's day and age, it is less relevant than with our ancestors, the mix of my racial and ethnic background includes Filipino lineage, along with Spanish, Hungarian, and Chinese (to name a few that we're aware of).
Aside from that, I learned erroneous beliefs about keeping the practice of being "on the path" a secret. Even using the term was considered highly inappropriate when speaking of one's practice, or calling oneself by a term only used to describe a person that serves in this way, by others. Some have referred to my practice and being of service, as a Shaman or Medicine Woman in certain circles, including a Medicine Man and Elder of a tribe in Colorado, whose name I respectfully will not disclose.
My training is a blend that may reflect similarly to different cultures, which seems fitting to the way my path has unfolded. Practitioners have individualized styles and approaches, even when trained in the same cultural apprenticeship. It is a calling in their heart and soul, which can only be heard and followed by the individual.
Insight...
The words, shaman or shamanism, have become generalized terms to reference many types of practitioners of healing, spiritual, elder, or teacher, and mediators between the physical and spiritual plane, within different cultures. Nearly every culture has some form of priest, healer, medicine person, seer, etc., noted in the indigenous tribes. Shamanism (contemporary or otherwise) is not a religion. It is a practice and way of showing up in life while being of service in some way to fellow human beings, the animal kingdom, or the plant world.
The messages have been quite pronounced for anyone in this or similar callings to come forward, step up, and step into sight with the Divine light guiding the way. From a broader perspective, we all have an inner "shaman" or higher wisdom that is calling to us, guiding us, and waiting for us to merge our human consciousness with it. It can be scary to drop the veil, but the inner stirring to follow the lead of the Spirit is far more powerful.
I have seen our winged brother Eagle more than ever before, which is a powerful message about awakening and soaring above the common ground or old ways of being, regardless of what others may, or may not be doing, or can see you as being. Interestingly, May is a time of greater awakening and expansion, and the May Flower Moon beckons to release the old patterns and beliefs that hold you back from your new way of being.
Only you can feel what you're called to, which answers a call from the collective consciousness - and why you must be what you are called towards, to feel deep satisfaction and fulfillment, or quality of life while living and being of service in your way.
Invitation...
I invite you to spread your wings and soar through Father-sky as the divine individualized, and empowered expression of Source Energy - Great Spirit, that you are discovering yourself to be.
Do you feel like old beliefs are holding you back from answering your higher calling, or a better version of yourself? It's okay. It's not because you're bad, stupid, or flawed in some way. We're all going through this on some level. This too shall pass. Spirit is always supporting, and guiding you, through your path of least resistance and most allowing.
How may I be of support? One way is through guided journeying, or shamanic journeying, which I call "soulful journeying and visualization." It is a means to lovingly hold an energetic space that helps you tune into your soul's knowing and innate wisdom. It is a process where you are guided through a process of connecting with your guide, ancestor, spirit animal, patterns in your energy field, or body, or hear the higher power of your understanding, to aid your ability to navigate life challenges, clear what patterns are blocking you and allow yourself to take any necessary action or non-action.
Another option when you may feel out of sorts, disconnected in some way, or feeling numb or stuck, is the Body-Wise Method. In the process, I help you to reconnect, and hear what the body is attempting to relay that needs your attention, love, understanding, and thereby allowing better integration with the soul-being that you are.
Insight into "Miracles - a Relationship between the Physical and Spiritual Realm"...
Tapping into the insights of Mother Earth, Nature, and Native Spirits, the Bumblebee came to me numerous times nearly every day for the past week. It is a messenger of "miracles - a relationship between the physical and spiritual realm."
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The message from Spirit is:
"You have the answers. You are an extension of Source Energy - Infinite Intelligence. You are not separate as a physical form, either alive or dead (nonexistent), or nonphysical spiritual being. You are both. With the full support of Source Energy, you, as soul or nonphysical consciousness, animate and guide the physical aspect of self that resides within you - translating for you, your intentions and desires, defined through the living (translating) of experience.
Action motivating action creates a sense (perspective) of being separate from the whole of you. Be assured that, just as we - as the Bumblebee, require no thought to be inspired to action by a broader perspective of Source in us, it is the same with the human. The difference is your added mechanism to decide versus simply being as you are, which adds to the whole for continuous expansion and evolution. However, learn from us, that we are alert consciousness in form, and Divinely guided. Everything is that is of Source. And all is of Source, and in the belly of Source.
From your human perspective, we Bumblebees 'should' not be able to fly. Yet we do so, and powerfully. People like to call this a miracle. But remember, a miracle is simply the unfolding of what goes beyond the human mind's capacity to 'fully' comprehend. Therefore, dear one, all of life as you know it is, in fact, a miracle. Revel in that. Let that be your guiding light or mindset in gratitude, and you will go beyond what you have been able to imagine wholeheartedly." - Translated from Spirit
Personal Thought and Soulful Insight to Consider...
We have received an invitation to allow and embrace miracles. The realization is that it is our reality if we will let it be so. During shamanic (soulful) journeying, the Bumblebee may symbolize focus, wisdom, community, and balance between work, play, and rest. It can bring healing, and spiritual insight when meditating upon its habits and patterns in nature.
This message resonates with me on a couple of levels. The reference to everything being considered a miracle because all comes from, and is within, the Source Energy that creates worlds. Albert Einstein said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." I believe as we question, and then practice reframing the habits of thoughts that would tell us differently, it is increasingly possible to view our world and each other through the lens of everything being a miracle. Therefore, valuable, worthwhile, and to be loved and respected.
Secondly, I've shared at different times when and how I've experienced healing from a diagnosis of vertigo, and even a puncture wound to the abdomen in my youth. Neither of these is a part of my life experience now.
Through my practice, I've shared the testimony of a client who came to me experiencing insulin-dependent diabetes and supported him on the path to healing from the diagnosis and use of daily insulin injections.
That said, as a subscriber you have access to a video library that supports you through present moment practices, soulful living, and various styles of meditation. We also have a Facebook support group called Autoimmune Wellness Support Group, that you are welcome to join.
From other life experiences, I've learned to allow healing in my body - as it DOES know how to do the way it was divinely created, and have supported others in doing the same.
The diagnosis is a pointer to where more love, attention, and care need to be on a variety of levels. The "how" and insight of this process, are what I'm willing to share within the community where I maintain a compassionate and judgment-free zone.
It is an opportunity to feel supported, encouraged, and guided through your own internal and external journey of allowing healing, health, well-being, and evolving in many areas of life. *You will learn practical steps and practices to do for yourself. And just like you, I'm human and appreciate those who are present, supportive, and hold space for genuineness and vulnerability. We're all in this together.
Does any of this resonate with you? Then I'm personally inviting you to join me on this journey through our community.
Have thoughts, insights, or personal experiences that you would like to share? Now that we're publishing the newsletter on the blog, you're welcome to post in the comments. Please remember this is an open-minded, spiritually-based, judgment-free zone, which also requires keeping things 'PG' in text.
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Thank you for your business and for spreading the word to others! Remember to "live in AAWE" and let YOUR light shine through soulful living and wisdom.
Expect Blessings,
~ Josephine
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