Ceremony
Alex Stark has a great post on practices you can perform every day to maintain your focus, your energy field, and your balance with the universe. He covers the following areas: Purification, Breathwork, Invocation, Receiving, Thanking, Feeding, Closing. The Dalai Lama has also shared a list of practices to increase love and compassion in the world.
"In windswept Siberia, shamans have for generations cured illnesses without touching their patients, sung with their diaphragms and controlled the weather. Some can travel over long distances and even levitate, hovering above the birch trees. They regularly communicate with kind and evil spirits. One of them, Tyurgen, manages to balance shamanism with life in industrial Chelyabinsk. "
In the Andes, the first twelve days of August are a potent time for creation as this is the time Shamans are envisioning the upcoming year. August 1st marks the New Year and the first twelve days correspond to a specific month of the following year so August 1st is January, August 2nd, February, and so on, culminating with August 12th and December. The Shamans of the Andes are dedicated to a path of service and are dreaming the world into being, not for themselves, but for all of humanity.
