Let’s apply traditional means- shamanism- to a modern problem- that of credit card debt!  Or to whatever kind of debt is causing you grief. If you’re like me, owing money on credit cards and seeing that amount remain stubbornly present or continue to rise evokes a lot of stress, frustration, and helplessness.  Or it may be student loans or a personal loan you just can’t seem to clear.  It certainly was a major pain point for me for a number of years.  Then, in 2018, it occurred to me that I wasn’t leveraging my tools.  I was treating credit card debt as a financial problem alone instead of something that had an energetic structure as well. By dismantling the organized energy (and cleaning up energy created and sustained with persistent uncomfortable emotions related to the debt), it makes it harder for the debt to persist in the physical realm.  It’s not a substitute for right action. But just as treating the energetic aspect of illness often causes the body to respond better to physical treatment, and this seems to work with debt- be it student loans or credit cards or something else. It certainly has had great results in my own life.  Prior to engaging shamanic work with this problem, I believe I was working uphill in my actions in the physical world, by trying to shift something that has a chronic and consistent structure on the energetic level.  Now my credit cards have zero balances more often than not and I don’t have any other financial debt.  Ready to give Fire Ceremony at try for clearing debt?  Check it out here:  https://handsoverheart.com/2017/01/20/fire-ceremony/ Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

In this podcast I open up about a date that reminded me how much harm opinion culture can do.  In this somewhat rambling and candid podcast, I talk about race and gender issues and some upgraded ways to navigate the world if you’re not called to geek out about these issues, which is totally okay. Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

In twenty-one years of professional practice, I’ve yet to work with a client who didn’t have energy to recover from the past resulting from endings that failed to create a full, clean closure.  Part of this is lack of training of drawing our energy and soul parts out of a relationship, situation, or endeavor when something is complete.  But, much of it is a culture that puts way more focus on beginnings that conscious endings.  In this podcast, I share from my own experience and from my work with others about the merits of being present to honor time and experiences shared even as you step away deliberately.  Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

As someone who was painfully shy and socially awkward who has become a person who mostly feels ease and confidence in interacting with strangers and friends alike, I’d like to share about that journey.  I hope that if you’re feeling the pain and isolation of social anxiety or shyness, that this will give you hope that this doesn’t have to be something that you always endure.  I break down some of the key game changers that were part of my journey in the hopes that it will give you some guideposts in navigating this issue.  Or perhaps this will support you in holding kind space for someone you care about who is less than socially graceful. Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

Often, we don’t experience the deliciousness of time to just be rather than do.  For me, this was because I didn’t go to stillness and release of “shoulds” until I was exhausted.  And, in the stillness, I often was overwhelmed with a lot of emotions I’d been numbing and avoiding.  It made me bounce back into the perfectionism and overachieving that were getting me external validation. Over the years, my relationship to the balance of yin and yang has become much heathier.  I want to offer that within this stillness that isn’t the result of exhaustion or filled with difficult emotions, there is rich territory.  It is a great way to access your creativity and to connect to your spirit guides.  It offers more connected relationships and is rejuvenating for the physical body.  I would even offer it’s foundational for maximizing our sustained happiness. Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

In this episode I eventually share my choices about the COVID vaccine, but more than that, I invite people to see if they have tension around my agreeing with their truth in the matter.  I find that that both science and intuitive information are trusted sources in taking counsel before making my life choices. I recorded this on the same day as I experience a lot of grief over a long standing, hitherto successful friendship shifting due to ideology conflicts.  If polarization doesn’t feel good to you, you may enjoy my ramblings about navigating this issue.  Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

Having a good relationship with yourself is complex because of the depth of shared experience.  The fewer conflicting needs and less complexity in a relationship, the easier it is for an average emotionally intelligent person to be successful with another person, given a similar baseline level of harmony.  I feel like certain words like “self-esteem” and “gratitude” can mislead us to an oversimplification of a complex relationship when it comes to our internal experience and make us feel like we’re failing in some way. I love witnessing friendships, romantic relationships, business partnerships, parent/child relationships that are joyful and successful over the long-term.  I see markers of success as relationships with high levels of affinity and mutual respect with resilience in the face of difficult external circumstances.  If you ask these people about their relationships, they will often speak to the merits of the other person and go on to say they’ve had ups and downs and that it takes a lot of work.  But somehow, we don’t seem to apply this wisdom to the relationship to ourselves- that we’re nifty people, but being us has ups and downs and takes a lot of presence to the relationship for it to thrive.  In this rather rambling episode, I speak into some of my wisdom about reframing concepts like self-esteem, gratitude, and self-sabotage.  I hope to support you in implementing unconditional friendliness towards yourself as well as a willingness to be in the complexity of balancing the needs and desires that go alone with being you. Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

The majority of people I work with are deeply moved by the desire of “may we all be well” with “we” being inclusive of humans, animals, and the planet.  How do we balance our empathy and desire for social and environmental change plus care for the vulnerable with being effectively engaged in our own lives?  All too often we leak emotional energy and suffer over the suffering of others in a way that doesn’t have good for ourselves or anyone else in the equation.  I share a number of thoughts for shifting this equation to have peace with not suffering over the suffering of others while empowering yourself first for self-care and then for aligned contribution.  Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

Ideally, you’ll find a way to feel like you can have critical needs met in other areas, while actively and dynamically engaging with the things that your soul thinks makes incarnating worth it. If you’re creating tension by going without enough of certain things, like safety or connection, soul purpose expression can become a tug-a-war with other parts of yourself. I want to support you in a both/and rather than either/or approach. Looking to the wisdom of each chakra about what it needs to be on board with soul purpose expression is a great way to approach to this goal. Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com

For much of my life I had such a longing for a single teacher, mentor, belief system or facilitator that, if followed religiously, would lead to freedom from the confusion and pain that I was experiencing.  In the end, I found that I am complex and dynamic enough that I needed to draw from many sources for wisdom.  I got a lot out of talk therapy, but it doesn’t address past life influences or my psychic abilities which are such a fundamental part of my moment-to-moment experience.  Likewise, Reiki wasn’t a great match for addressing unhealthy relating strategies that I was able to see and dismantle with the help of a good therapist.  And so it went across many modalities and with a number of gifted mentors and teachers. This episode is designed to give you support in creating your own life map and compass when it comes to blending wisdom from many sources.  Join my mailing list to learn more and receive additional free content: https://handsoverheart.com/contact-me/mailing-list/ Want to support my work and be supported by my team of guides?  Check out my Patreon offer: https://www.patreon.com/practicalshamanism Check out my online academy at https://academy.handsoverheart.com/  Sound editing by Kevin Young.  You can reach him at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The suggestions and information provided here are intended for personal growth and exploration. The content of this podcast is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or psychological treatment. Please seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health condition.   To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website at https://handsoverheart.com