Why I offer this Work?
~Thank you Davinia Diaz for the photo and the time spent exploring shamanism~
My own healing and spiritual life became a dedicated and conscious one in late 1999 when an awakening arrived triggered by the death of a professional that was helping me.
Meghan was an art therapist who was so kind, accepting and compassionate with me, at a time that I was very lost and broken in my life.
After many dark years trying to make sense of my life and the world, her death due to cancer helped me realize that the kind loving world I sought existed and I had direct experience through the boundaried love Meghan offered to me at a time in her life when unknown to me she was facing her own death.
Even in the depths of despair and darkness that blanketed my life, a spark of light and trust there could be another way never went out and in receiving the love Meghan showed it grew and grew.
My own life changed dramatically after this and my own spiritual life became conscious and since December 1999, I have dedicated myself to this process.
Throughout my life I seem to have a way to keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep moving through, this quality has led me to some amazing experiences within a number of spiritual disciplines.
When I came to shamanism in 2006 it really was a homecoming for me, a moment of remembering. I knew this from that day to this, shamanism and all it brings has become a way of life for me.
Along with daily Yoga and Meditation, a prayer practice and study of spiritual knowledge, time being within natures embrace, dance music and writing as a creative expression, these ways have become my way to heal soothe and make sense of life and deepen into my nature and the mystery blessings and challenges life offers ultimately leading and inviting me ever deeper into my own unique nature and growing to trust this.
I am amazed at times if I reflect on my life and how it has transformed simply by trusting in the process, asking for help and taking the next steps.
Love, honesty and kindness sit at the center of this and as I learn and am challenged and blessed ever more by what living this actually is and asks from me, these ways of shamanism give me something to lean into so I can carry on with the next step.
Meghan’s love and many other friends, companions, mentors and teachers have shown me this. Shamanism led me to the love and support of spirit which I can never fully understand or know but somehow in its mystery I sense and have a knowing and trust without knowing.
The healing journey has led me back to a return to that which as a child I inherently knew and carried through the harshness of my experience of earlier life.
I know it is possible to not only change but transform our lives because this is what happened and is happening to me. The binds of my past are releasing and in that space I can breathe another more authentic way into being and expression in our world.
That which carried and led me through, that spark of hope has somehow been actualized and while I cannot change our world, in changing my own world somehow our world changes too.
The trauma despair and pain no longer hold the power it once held over me and when challenges come, I am resourced and empowered to find solutions to live well.
The heart of this is self-honesty, love and kindness just as I have been shown and this engagement with life has brought a shift in perception to a world very different to the one I thought was all there was. Yet that spark of light kept whispering there’s more trust there’s more!
I trusted this, it literally kept me alive. I trust this spark of light is within us all and when it meets the conditions it will shine ever brighter and this possibility is there for us all.
To share and bring this hope to others is a joy in service of life and while I can do this, I commit to serve in this way it makes sense and give a purpose to the journey I have taken and the alchemy experienced.
I am qualified as a counselor after a 4 year training with the University of West of England such a valuable time and a very dynamic and creative academic training in this profession.
This along with my ongoing learning with shamanism I feel brings a rich holding and space created to offer others in support and guidance in their own courageous healing and spiritual journeys.
This link above takes you to a interview with a very inspiring man Jhoty who spoke with me about my life and shamanism
I was interviewed by a magazine blog Mystic-mag about my work, this gives good insight into aspects of my work and how it may help you, the link to the interview is below.
https://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-reading/briananderson-interview
