Adapted from The Chakras in Shamanic Practice
by Susan J. Wright
Inner Traditions, 2007
Simple Solution:
You may choose to do this task using a shamanic drumming tape, having someone drum for you, lying outside surrounded by nature sounds, playing relaxing music, or in silence.
1. Lie down on the floor or Mother Earth. (Please modify as needed for your comfort.) Relax your physical body. Breathe in relaxation, breathe out tension. Feel yourself getting heavier and heavier, sinking down into the earth on which you life. Feel yourself held by the loving embrace of Mother Earth, fully supported, as you completely relax your legs, arms, torso, shoulders, neck, and head, releasing them to the pull of gravity.
2. Now allow yourself to journey. Go–in your consciousness, your spiritual imagination–to your sacred healing place. Trust your spirit to take you to this special place in nature; perhaps you have been there before, perhaps not. It may be like watching a movie at first, and then being in the movie. See the forms and colors of your sacred place. Take them in deeply through your eyes to your nervous system. Perhaps you will also hear your sacred place through the songs of running water, birds, or the breeze. Take in the sacred natural music of this place.
3. Smell its fragrances. You can receive healing from this sacred place especially deeply through your sense of smell and its ancient, primitive connection to your nervous system and soul. Feel this place on your skin. Take in its textures, temperatures, and the movement and caresses of the air. Feel yourself completely present in the journey. Feel the nurturing spirits of any animal or plant life as well as the elements and the natural forms that embody them. You may want to ask your sacred place if it has a message for you. Or you may have a specific question that you are pondering. Ask sincerely from your heart, and allow your sacred place to answer. This answer may happen by something shifting or changing in your sacred place. You will be left to ponder the significance of this change, or something in your sacred place may speak or communicate to you in a symbolic or sensual way, such as in dance or song. It may be as spirit, animal, tree, stream, rock, blade of grass, or other object. If it was a symbolic communication, sit with the sensuality of it and process it, allowing its meaning to reveal itself to you. Feel nurtured by this communication.
4. When you are ready, thank your sacred place and helping spirits. Carry this communication from Spirit back with you from no ordinary reality to ordinary reality. Record your experiences in a journal. Over time, you may intuit how this communication can support you on the journey of life.
5. Develop a profound trust in your sacred place as you travel to it for a few minutes each day. It will help you shift any wounding you may have around trust issues. You may have an ongoing communication with any of the spirits from your sacred place. Feel how they are always there to support you.
