Journey to the Upper World

I recorded this in the audio file below, so you can either listen or read- or do both, as you please! Scroll down for the audio file below.

In the first class we journeyed to the Lower World and met our Power Animal and Helping Spirits. I so hope you have been able to repeat that journey and also used the separate drumming track and have met up with your Power Animal and Spirit Guides often, asking questions, and practicing your communication with them.The more you put into journeying, the more you get out of it and the better you will become at receiving and understanding guidance from your Helping Spirits.

The journey for this month will be to the Upper World – I will be drumming and walking you through the journey. We will set our intention to meet a benevolent helpful teacher in human form in the Upper World. As always, it is important to set the intention and repeat it to yourself as you are journeying. The Upper World is often experienced as ‘ethereal’ and you go there by moving upwards, like climbing a tree, jumping UP from a cliff, flying on a bird, climbing a rope, a bean stalk, or a rainbow; you may experience the Upper World as a Crystal City or similar place. Listen to the drum beat and repeat your intention to meet your helpful Teacher in the Upper World.

Keep a journal with you so you can record the journey and come back and refer to it later. The recorded journey is for app. 14 minutes but you allow for however long time you will need to record your journey afterwards.

As you get better and better at journeying you will be able to journey anytime and anywhere but for now, arrange for yourself to have some undisturbed time by yourself. If you do get interrupted while journeying, it is not a big deal. You will not go into shock as Shamanic Journeys are not out-of-body-experiences but conscious journeys performed while IN  your body. If you get interrupted, you can always do the journey over again.

You can go quite deep though, so that is why I will always tell you not to listen to the journey as you are driving or operating heavy equipment. 

It is a lot nicer to be able to focus your undivided attention while journeying so turn off your cell phone. I do believe in being polite and respectful to our Spirit helpers (manners are good anywhere) so make sure to thank your Teacher, Spirit Helpers, Spirit Guides, Power Animals as you leave. You can even say: “Thank you, our work is done for now”.

In this journey we will ask for a healing of an old or unidentified wound and ask to be taken to a place of Healing. Your teacher may choose to transmit either a gift or a healing to you. This healing will be to help you on your Spiritual Path forward. Healing doesn’t always mean curing of a physical ailment, even though that can be a way imbalance shows up in our lives. Shamans know that illness first manifests itself on a spiritual or energetic level before it shows up on an emotional or physical level.  You may also want to ask if there are behaviors you can change to strengthen the healing or gift.

Once you have written down your journey, you may want to make a doodle or a sketch or a painting of the journey/gift/healing in order to remember even better.

Consider creating this as a virtual gift for your Teacher and offer it to him or her next time you meet.

Note: If you find that you need a longer journey time, feel free to do this journey later with a drumming track. I am including a 20 minute drumming track under the Recap and Review Section – under 2:9.

Recorded file for Journey to the Upper World.

This is the recording of the written material above. The drumming and the journey is below.

Journey to the Upper World

This is the drumming and instructions file for meeting a Teacher in the Upper World. Teachers are often those who have gone before us and know how to transform the experience of life on Earth. There are many different teachers available to us . Remember to be safe and don’t listen to this while driving or operation heavy machinery!

Nature Listening Meditation

This is a reminder to go outside and listen for the sounds of nature. We tend to forget that we are nature too and being outside realigns us with our natural rhythms. You do not have to do this prior to journeying but listening to sounds of nature as a meditation practice is very healing! Remember- don’t listen to this while driving or operation heavy machinery!