{"id":1048,"date":"2020-08-29T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2020-08-29T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:05:25","slug":"discovering-and-working-with-animal-spirit-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/discovering-and-working-with-animal-spirit-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering and Working with Animal Spirit Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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*The following is an excerpt from the book\u00a0\u201cDreaming of Cupcakes: A Food Addict\u2019s Shamanic Journey into Healing:\u201d<\/a><\/p>

Throughout this book, I\u2019ve already spoken a lot about how I\u2019ve utilized my animal totems to show me where I needed to heal and how to do it.\u00a0 I realize this may seem strange to someone who has never experienced a drum journey into the spiritworld and I don\u2019t expect to convince anyone of anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s really something one has to experience to believe.\u00a0 I was skeptical when I first started journeying.\u00a0 I wondered if what I was experiencing was real; my mind was in overdrive.\u00a0 At first, it was hard to stay present because I didn\u2019t expect to sense or see anything.\u00a0 When images and sensations started coming, I didn\u2019t know what to make of them or how to interpret them.\u00a0 It took a while for me to figure out my own dreaming symbols and what they meant to me.\u00a0 It took time to learn to quiet my mind before a journey\u2026<\/p>

What I know over the last decade of working with my animals is that they are real and ready to support me on my spiritual journey.\u00a0 They know things that I don\u2019t know consciously and they can help me find missing pieces that I need in order to live my Sacred Dream here on earth.\u00a0 Since I began working with them, life is easier.\u00a0 They show me how to bring the reality I am experiencing in the spiritworld down to earth in ways that I can\u2019t always figure out on my own without their assistance.\u00a0<\/p>

In addition, they speak in the language of symbols and metaphor. The ego has a harder time interfering with messages that come in these forms.\u00a0 I\u2019ve discovered that messages from my totems have a different \u201cfeel\u201d to them than the ones coming from my ego.\u00a0 Time is suspended and I enter into a different space when my totems enter the scene.\u00a0 I am no longer operating in ordinary reality; all my senses are flamed on. And they don\u2019t have to come only in the dreamtime; they also come when I am awake to give me messages.<\/p>

Jennifer Engr\u00e1cio<\/strong>\u00a0has been a student of shamanism since 2005. Jennifer is a certified teacher who has worked with children in many different education settings since 2001. She is a certified shamanic coach, reiki master, and lomilomi practitioner; in addition, she runs\u00a0<\/strong>Spiral Dance Shamanics<\/strong><\/a>. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, she now lives in Calgary, Canada with her life partner.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*The following is an excerpt from the book\u00a0\u201cDreaming of Cupcakes: A Food Addict\u2019s Shamanic Journey into Healing:\u201d Throughout this book, I\u2019ve already spoken a lot about how I\u2019ve utilized my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiraldanceshamanics.com\/beta2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}