Clearing your Channel: Tap into your Intuition, Guidance, Gifts, Strengths and Universal Consciousness.

This weeks blog is a snippet from the Shamanic Soul Retrieval Program  “Introduction to Mindfulness and Good Habit Building” module.

The key to clearing your channel to be able to receive Divine guidance, tap into your gifts and strengths, and live a Spirit Led life is energetic hygiene. 

Externally, energetic hygiene requires lifestyle changes and being conscious of the quality of the energy you allow into your vessel from the external world. What you eat, drink and consume, the external environments you choose to be in, what media you see and hear, who you associate with, etc.

Internally, this requires healing from your past to clear stagnant energies that are creating blocks in your energetic body. It requires mindfulness and awareness of how your body feels, physically and energetically. It requires building a relationship with the thoughts and voices in your head that are self limiting beliefs from family and societal conditioning, to find out where they came from so that you can heal and transmute them, to clear the chatter and be able to hear the Divine.  It requires presence, being present in the here and now, not in your head about the past or future. It requires the nervous system regulation that comes with the aforementioned, awareness and practice. 

A clean, centered, hydrated, balanced vessel is an open conduit for Divine Energies. 

As you work with all of the aforementioned, you begin to become very aware of energy and the effect it has on you from the world we live in. As you increase your awareness and mindfulness, you begin to learn how to protect your energy. As you learn how to protect your energy, you learn how to consciously clear the energies you do take on, either through your external environment or something you allowed into your vessel. As you learn to clear the energies and maintain energetic hygiene, you learn to keep your center, no matter what is going on in your external environment, but have the awareness if you do shift off center and can easily pause and recenter. Learning this, allows you to navigate this world differently and do things you never thought possible, with the Divine assistance that’s always been there, but now are tuned into. 

Clarity on this topic came to me through a three day Ayahuasca retreat that was a silent retreat. This particular retreat was a deep healing retreat but the retreat center also offered other types of ceremonies and retreats that were intended for learning. Deep into the ceremony, the Shaman would walk around asking the participants if they are “connected,” as in, still with the medicine deep enough to receive teachings from the medicine and the Divine.  If you were not, he’d offer more to re-establish the connection. Through the medicine and the teachings of the Shaman and Elders that weekend, I learned that the purging that comes along with sitting with Ayahuasca is a purge of the trapped stagnant energies within your body. Having the healing visions and experiences in the medicine and then purging the stored energies opens you up to have a clear channel to receive teachings from the medicine and the Divine.  The goal is to have your energetic body cleared so that you may receive from the Divine and the Spirit of the medicine.  You achieve that state by purging in the earlier stages of the ceremony, take more medicine if needed, so the medicine remains in your body and you receive the teachings.  In order to be eligible to sit in the learning ceremonies and retreats, you have to have been through several of the healing ceremonies and be approved to sit by the Shaman and the Elders. In these ceremonies, the dosage is smaller and those that are in attendance have reached a point in their healing that deep energetic purges are less likely and the attendees keep the medicine in their systems in order to maintain a stronger connection and receive Divine teachings.

In the weeks and days leading up to an Ayahuasca ceremony, participants are asked to follow a specific clean eating diet and given direction in making good energetic choices, such as abstaining from sex. This is called a Dieta. The purpose of a dieta is for the participant to come into ceremony with the cleanest energy possible without the energies that come from a poor diet or from other people. During the closing ceremony of my three day retreat, the elders advised that it is possible to maintain “connection” in our daily lives through integrating ways of the dieta and good energetic choices, confirming for me all that I had learned about this topic in my healing journey and through the medicine that weekend. This increased awareness was integrated into my daily life and I have achieved everything I stated in this section. Now, my connection is nearly constant and I can sense when it is not and re-establish it if I desire. That’s not to say I am always paying attention, but it’s always there and attainable when I call upon it.  Because of this, I now navigate this existence in ways I never knew were possible. 

Do you need Plant medicine to tap in and “connect.”  No, absolutely not.  I have learned as much about this topic and achieved that connection more through meditation than any amount of plant medicine could ever provide me because meditation is a daily practice. The biggest thing I took away from that particular three day retreat is that I do not need the medicine to achieve this, I only need a clear energetic body.