Journey to help

[amethystrse]

This morning I did a shamanic journey to find help for dealing with all of this anxiety and stress. The answers I received showed me that this is something I have to learn how to handle. I have a reason for being so stressed out. I need to learn how to cope with such stress while not letting it rule my life

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[amethystrse]

I don't mind at all hon. Shamanism is something I'm really attracted to.

Journeying is something that you do to visit the spirit worlds. There are 3. A lower world where you usually talk with your animal spirits. An upper world where you usually talk to your spirit teachers. And the middle world where you can commune with the spirits of nature.

To journey you need to listen to a repetitive beat, like drumming or a rattle. You start off with a quick beat and work your rhythm to a slow one. It's supposed to be monotonous. The beat of the drum or rattle will put you in a trance state.

It was always suggest to me that for a person's first journey you should go to the underworld. When I did that I met both my animal spirit and my spirit teacher.

While drumming think about an area you know of that has a natural opening in the ground. It can be a hole or a cave or a well or anything like that. Travel down into the hole and through a tunnel (for me it's a tunnel, for others it could be something else like a shaft or whatnot).

After you leave the tunnel you'll find yourself in an area. For me this is a cliff with a giant waterfall. Down at the bottom there is a lagoon and a forest off on the shore. I go down their either by jumping into the water or walking down steps on the side. For you the area outside of the tunnel may be different.

When you find a spirit ask if they're your guide. Then you can talk to them about matters you're experiencing.

[caninepawprints]

Sounds cool. I've tried it once before a long time ago and didn't know if it was the same thing you were referring to or not. When I did it, I went down into a hole in the ground and met a stag. Today, I tried it again, but without a drum beat. I met three animals, a wolf, deer, and bear. I thought I was making it up, but I couldn't seem to snap out of it. Then I traveled back to where I had walked in, and the second I opened the door to walk back into "my world," my eyes just snapped open. It was kind of freaky, but cool too. It's neat to find out that's what you meant by a shamanic journey. I've only done it twice in my life and it's been enlightening each time.

I'll have to try it with the drumbeat and see what happens.

[amethystrse]

Yeah, that pretty much is what a journey is like. Though I find I can snap out of it at any time. :)

[caninepawprints]

I think I could have if I'd really wanted to, but there would've been more to it than just waking up.