Change your Story, Change your Life

Zusatztext Carl Greer has written a wonderful and compassionate guide for seekers of psychological and spiritual growth. He introduces the reader to basic shamanic and Jungian concepts to link timeless ritual methods with modern active imaginal techniques. His clear explanations provide perspective! and his suggested exercises support personal exploration. Informationen zum Autor Carl Greer PhD, PsyD is a practicing clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and shamanic practitioner. After focusing on business for many years, he earned a doctorate in clinical psychology, and then became a Jungian analyst. The shamanic work he does is drawn from a blend of North American and South American indigenous trainings and is influenced by Jungian analytic psychology. He has trained with Peruvian shamans and through Dr. Alberto Villoldo’s Healing the Light Body School, where he has been on staff. He has worked with shamans in South America, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ethiopia, and Outer Mongolia. Carl Greer is involved in various businesses and philanthropies, teaches at the Jung Institute in Chicago, is on the staff of the Lorene Replogle Counseling Center, and holds workshops on shamanic topics. Klappentext Shamanic practices to help you change your life for the betterExploring Your Current Story What is the story of your life? In answering, your first instinct might be to list in sequence the significant events you’ve experienced. However, if you define your story in this way, you may not recognize your authorship of it. It might seem that things happen to you without your having much control over them. To claim your role as the storyteller of your life, it is helpful to observe that your story has pat- terns and themes. In this chapter, you will work with exercises that allow you to discover your story’s themes, which serve as organizing principles for the events of your life. Shamans look beyond the sequence of what happened and when. They see the themes of a person’s life as energetic threads woven into a fabric, and pull out certain threads so that they can be replaced with new ones, reweaving the person’s present and future. As you identify the themes in your story, you will come to better understand the idea of energetic influences on your story. A thread of caretaking, struggle, leadership, or curiosity may be a part of your fab- ric without your realizing it. One woman found in the process of discovering her story that the theme that most stood out for her was a fear of being swallowed up, or subsumed, and being forced back into old patterns. Examining your story from different angles and telling it in a variety of ways makes it easier to identify such themes. In this chapter, you will do many writing exercises and answer many questions that will help you in this task. The insights you gain from doing the work in this chap- ter will make it easier for you to recognize which energies you want to bring into your life, and better understand the experiences you will have, when you start using the practices described later. Each of these exercises will be helpful in exploring your story because each allows you to see it from a different angle. Start by doing the ones that resonate most for you. Take your time with them. After you begin to work with the shamanic and Jungian techniques and take jour- neys, be sure to complete all of the exercises in this and the following chapters. It will take some time to get through all the exercises in the book, but you will find they enhance your jour- neying and other shamanic experiences, and vice versa. Some of the exercises may be emotionally challenging to work with. If you find it difficult to complete one, put it aside and think about it for a day or two before coming back to it. Do your best to answer the questions. In time, come back and reread what you have written and think about whether you would have d...

Product details

• Authors: Carl Greer, Carl (Carl Greer) Greer
• Publisher: Findhorn Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9781844094646
• ISBN: 978-1-84409-464-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 15 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology