Shamans tend to be men {Women have more of these abilities in their natural state and require less altered consciousness.}, though women also can become shamans; some women shamans are extraordinarily powerful. In some cultures, shamans are involuntarily chosen by the spirits; they realize their calling in a transformational experience, often a serious illness that brings them close to death {For example Damion Brinkley of today.} and is self-cured. In other cultures, persons with natural shamanic gifts are selected at a young age, trained and initiated.

Failing at something and getting back up is much less painful than to look back and regret not doing something (or doing something) and not being able to go back and change the outcome.

Is guilt necessary? Is it useful? Is it even a normal human emotion? Many feel this ugly emotion to be an unwelcome intruder which undermines their self worth and self esteem. Do you want to begin to release it forever thereby reclaiming your rightful experience as a Divine Being in your own physical body?

About a special man....

In the interest of mankind the Angels are delivering messages full of hope, love and joy for a better today and a better tomorrow. I have agreed to be this channel.

Imagine, for a second, if someone came up to you and said, all of your children, and their spouses and children were visiting each other, all in the same house, and the house collapsed and they are all dead. Immediately after this person gives you this horrifying information, another person appears and tells you that all of the money you’ve invested in the stock market was bad investments and now you are penniless. Can you even imagine that?

Power Songs are oral prayers expressing your true self, your nature, your individuality, your power. All cultures have power songs but you can have your own power song too. We think of the power in a hymn or an African chant, a Shamanic ceremony song or even in the howling of wolf. And there is definite power in sound.

Your Thoughts Create Your Life Experience

There's a Native American belief that before we are born, we choose our parents. It actually ties in pretty nicely with the reincarnation idea that we prearrange certain circumstances before each li...

How are you going to DRIVE-HOME GOD's PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE? Get more active at church? ... or at work? ... Start a church? ... or a ministry? CHURCH ACTIVITY There are books on how to find GOD's pu...

How to achieve your goals by sending your desires out into the universe. This simple four-step process can turn you into a magnet that attracts whatever it is you desire.

What really binds us to any negative emotional state in which we find ourselves suffering is this: choice.

Ever wondered how the spiritual world works? Take a look at this article and see if these insights don't offer some inspiration and food for thought.

The reasons for keeping a journal. Excerpts from other's ideas about journal keeping.Be in tune with yourself.

It doesn’t matter what magazine or newspaper you pick up these days, there it is! the evidence of violence; the killing of innocent people, the terror of aggression and destruction. How do we, as caring, compassionate, conscious people maintain our inner peace in the face of war? Is it responsible to turn from the glaring headlines, close our eyes, go within to connect with that place of inner peace? What if those headlines have stirred up our visceral fear reactions and we are disturbed and angry? When outer circumstances create worry, helplessness and judgment how do we shift our inner attention so that we send peaceful thoughts, rather than more anger and hatred?

Over the past five years, many people have been committed to mental institutions, tortured, detained, imprisoned, and even killed, simply for refusing to give up this practice...

Uh, oh. I’m in trouble now. I found God. Now what do I do with Him?

Using humor to counter stress is easy to learn and very effective. Examples and simple organization of humor are readily available when we know what to look for.

All day it's been non-stop - the tv was on, then the radio, then people were talking to you all day long. Even when you're alone the thoughts crowd in and ceaselessly chatter in your mind. The simplest thing can help the busy mind to chill out... just a minute.

We all deal with stress in different ways. Discover the top stress reducers and how to get through the rest of your business day...

In my travels day to day I notice that the majority of people I meet do not breathe with intention and ease. The labored breathing patterns of humans I have witnessed are not an isolated and random event. At the time of this awakening one knows such disconnection from our breath to be a phenomenon in an alarming pandemic pattern. The world at large seems to be holding our collective breath as if before some spiritual plunge.

A crisis is a window of opportunity for spiritual growth. You don’t need to be a social worker or counsellor to assist someone in need!

Everyone has felt anxiety at one time or another.  It may just be a little twinge or might be an overwhelming feeling that seems to last forever.  Anxiety management is easier to deal with if you properly understand it.  However, anxiety management or the short-term relief of anxiety symptoms, is now possible.