Earth Spirit Dreaming: Shamanic Ecotherapy Practices - Elizabeth E. Meacham 2020
Sacred Space and Preparation for Working with Light
Spirit-Connecting Practices
One person living consciously in vibrations of light can truly change the world. One person living fully into new and healing stories, from love and alignment with life, can wash over and transmute many negative, destructive feelings, beliefs and thought forms. Once we are in light, we connect with others who are dreaming the world from similar vibrations, and we create a consciousness, a channel, of visionary dreaming that makes it easier for all of us to maintain healing dreams. I cannot state often enough the daily work, mindfulness and consistent practice that goes into holding these visions for a new world; sickness, exhaustion, grief, unexpected personal and world events can throw us off, and throw me off much of the time. Still, we get back up and start with just one more thought of light. When in doubt, I start shifting to a higher vibration by counting my blessings. If they are hard to come by in a given moment, I start by thanking God for my breath, then for the air, then for the trees, then for the sun and Earth that nourish the trees, just one more grateful thought at a time. Even for pain, for darkness, for shadow, we find gratitude. All of life is sacred in all of her forms. We come to honor this through great feats of mind-shifting over and over again.
The following practices support the joining of our Earth and Spirit selves. Awakening to our full potential as connected beings with our Earth and Spirit communities, with clear intention, we can vision lives and a world of beauty, care, creativity, justice and love. Waking up to our full selves, we come into our ancestral knowledge that we are dreaming the world into being in every moment, with every thought and every emotional imprint that we bring forth into form. This section of the book invites mindfulness, as we work to hold a vision of connection with the Earth. We choose consciously to focus on gratitude, love and healing in order to vision the world into light. The dominant energies on our planet are often not conducive to these visions of healing. We must watch carefully our tuning in to the news, gossip, family drama, negative thought patterns, that are reaching out to us constantly from every direction. The more we see light and beauty, the more we draw it toward us and bring it forth in the world.