Do-it-yourself Shamanic Healing Anyone Can Quickly Master This Powerful Technique Of The Andean Med

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by Kerri Bodmer Colegrove

Kerri Bodmer Colegrove is the founder and former editor of Women's Health Letter, co-author of The Giant Book of Women's Health Secrets and author of the ebook Feasts for the Gods, about a powerful do-it-yourself shamanic healing technique.

Have you ever had the fantasy of fast-forwarding yourself into a beautiful future? A future where old hurts have been transformed into friendly reminders of past lessons? A future where uncertainties about yourself and others have been replaced with knowing? A future where what you need simply flows to you with much more ease and even elegance? A future where your greatest passions, hopes and dreams increasingly flourish?

These are the goals of shamanic healing. And as someone who's been researching and writing about healing for over 15 years now, I can say without bias, it is one of the most powerful forms of healing available today.

Can it heal physical conditions? Yes! It can heal what caused a physical condition to develop in the first place - which often results in a physical condition improving if not completely resolving.

Can ...
... shamanic healing heal emotional symptoms? Yes! It helps heal underlying emotional trauma - even rape and incest trauma - and as this is cleared, related symptoms dissipate.

In these ways, shamanic healing can increase the effectiveness of any other healing efforts you're currently using.

But you needn't have a physical or emotional problem to benefit from shamanic healing.

Shamanic healing is a form of energy medicine. So it works at the energetic or spiritual level to diminish and even eliminate anything that's holding you back from achieving your greatest potential. Shamanic healing is also experiential, which means the proof is in the pudding - once you experience it, you know something profound has taken place to benefit you.

And now, you don't have to seek out a shamanic healer to experience this. You can give yourself this experience, quickly and easily, by using a simple shamanic healing technique yourself.

That technique is one that's been used by the shamans of the Andes Mountains for over 5,000 years. It's called a despacho.

There are many types of despachos. They are basically prayer offerings and they're made on a piece of paper, perhaps wrapping paper, of dried fruits, grains, legumes, candies, flowers, red and white wine or juice and a few other symbolic items. The most special ingredient of a despacho are the qintus or leaf sets. Prayers and wishes are blown into these leaves, then they are placed in the despacho along with the other ingredients. When a despacho is complete, the paper on which it is made is folded up to enclose the contents, as gift wrap around a gift. Most despachos are then burned. This delivers the energy of the prayers and wishes to the universe and the universe replies back with healing and blessings.

Since despachos are a form of shamanic healing they're experiential, so you needn't believe this is possible to experience it. All you need to do is make a despacho with leaves into which you've blown your prayers and wishes - for healing or whatever else you'd like to receive. Despachos can even help you manifest what you want more quickly using the Law of Attraction, because despachos help you attract more of what you want. What's most important for making a successful despacho is your intention. The simple act of making a despacho always seems to satisfy this requirement.

Today there are hundreds of different types of despachos for different purposes. These include despachos to heal our feminine and masculine aspects, or what Carl Jung referred to as the anima and animus. There are also despachos to bring special blessings to special occasions such as a birth or a wedding. Making one despacho can bring welcome improvements into your life. Making several different types of despachos (including the despachos to heal the feminine and the masculine) can transform your life for the better, forever - including speeding you toward and even achieving your greatest potential.

The Abundance Despacho is one of the best for bringing what the name implies, abundance. Your prayers and wishes for any type of abundance, you blow into the qintus or leaf sets, then put these into this despacho. Your prayers and wishes can be for an abundance of material resources such as money, as well as for more of something that is non-material such as improvements in a relationship or even healing for a serious health condition or emotional issue. The more prayers and wishes you put into one of these despachos, the better.

Then, as soon as you burn your despacho, be on the lookout for welcome coincidences or opportunities the universe creates and delivers to you in response to your prayers and wishes. These opportunities can be divided into two basic categories, blessings and healing.

Here are some examples of how this can play out One woman made a despacho with a qintu, a leaf wish, for a new employee for her real estate brokerage. Within 48 hours of burning her despacho, three great candidates crossed her path. Another woman made a despacho with a qintu prayer for new income. Within 24 hours of burning her despacho she was offered a teaching position at a prestigious acting school - out of the blue -- she hadn't even applied for the job! And a man who prayed for healing for his back pain was soon told by an acquaintance about a book titled Healing Back Pain by John Sarno - as he read it, his back pain disappeared. Such experiences are much more common than not with despachos. In fact, making a despacho always produces at least one new possibility for improving your well-being in some way.

This can happen quite quickly too. So quickly that it's important to suspend disbelief and be open and receptive to this process, even when it means letting go of the old to make way for the new. Using your intuition may help guide you -- perhaps with feelings, perhaps with the language of dream imagery, perhaps with suggestions from others, perhaps with signs or experiences related to the themes of old versus new.

Ultimately, a despacho helps pave the way for you to come into greater alignment, or right relationship, with the world around you. Exactly what that entails, the universe will reveal to you as you go. When putting your prayers and wishes into a despacho, let them reflect the fact that the universe knows best. Instead of requesting a specific romance with John down the street, for example, request a romance with someone you like as well as John or better. Then be receptive when what you asked for shows up.

Although you may be discovering despachos for the first time, they're a 5,000-year-old tradition. They've passed the test of time. They work! And they're a powerful form of shamanic healing that you can easily do yourself!

For more information on despachos, or to order Kerri's ebook Feasts for The Gods (which has directions for making 13 different types of despachos including despachos to heal your feminine and masculine aspects), or to download free directions for making an Abundance Despacho, or to order a kit to make an Abundance Despacho, visit www.feastsforthegods.com.

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Abundance Despacho
You will attract healing and blessings when you use the directions that follow to make an Abundance Despacho. There are many types of despachos and the Abundance Despacho gives thanks by giving back. When you do this, you receive much more than you give. Be on the lookout for opportunities to realize your prayers and wishes for healing and blessings. They are indicators that your despacho is working. This synchronicity is a hallmark of well-being. To keep new healing and blessings coming your way, make an Abundance Despacho once a month.

Piece of paper measuring approximately 30 x 30. Wrapping paper works well. Make the despacho in the center of the paper, leaving enough room on all four sides to fold it up as a gift when finished.
Sugar, for love, perhaps in the form of a Southern Cross, guiding principle of the southern hemisphere.
Incense, 2 sticks, criss-crossed, invites the presence of the divine, place on top of the sugar to represent the assemblage of reality, the intersecting of time and space for the manifestation of life to occur.
Anise seeds, sprinkle over the incense to feed the elemental spirits of earth, fire, water and air.
Lavender and/or rosemary and/or sage for cleansing and the power of directed action.
Rice for fertility and abundance.
Red wine or juice. Call on the earth to bless this first layer, then sprinkle some red wine onto the despacho.
White wine or juice. Call on the mountains to bless this first layer, sprinkling it with white wine.

36 or more leaves, (dried bay leaves or any similar sized flat leaves.)

Make the leaves into qintus (leaf sets) by assembling three leaves together, face up, stem side down, with the largest leaf in the back and the smallest in the front.

Blow your prayers and wishes into the qintus. Your prayers and wishes can be for anything including healing, assistance, guidance, favors, etc. Remember to make your prayers general and without attachment to outcome, such as requesting a wonderful new home but not a specific one; or a great new job but not a specific one; or a new friend but not a specific one. Make at least a dozen qintus.

Place the qintus in the despacho.

Sugar, sprinkle onto the qintus for more love and sweetness.
Seashell, to hold the intent of the despacho.
Female and male figures. Place these into the shell to represent complementary opposites, balance.
Two tiny qintus, place in the shell to nurture the male and female figures.
Gold and silver bead, put into the shell to represent the sun and the moon.
Gold and silver paper, small bits, put in the shell to represent the wisdom of the earth (gold) and wisdom of the mountains (silver).
Gold cord, silver cord, put in the shell to represent our connection to earth and heaven.
Silver and gold flute or other music item(s). Place into the shell to represent sound. Celestial music brings harmony to all elements of the despacho.
Candies to represent everything we are in relationship with, bringing harmony throughout our environment including any enemies upstream, and making peace with ourselves, to be in right relationship.
Candy sprinkles, multicolored, for the elemental spirits.
Chocolate for the earth.
Black licorice for protection.
Lima beans, to represent places of power that contain the creation energy of the universe, so we can tap into this energy and come into synchronicity with our path.
Corn for sustenance, gifting back to the earth what we have been given.
Garbanzo beans for protection so our path is clear of obstacles.
Small red beans to represent places of emergence, such as springs.
Peanuts to represent old trees, the plant people.
Lentils to represent the abundance of the earth.
Raisins to represent the spirits of our ancestors, our blood lineage, for healing for them and for us.
Cranberries to represent our gardens, our localities.
Figs to represent spirits of ancient ones who dwell in sacred mountains.
Starfish to connect us to the stars and bring our destiny into this world.
Animal crackers to honor all animal spirits.
Alphabet noodles to enable us to step outside of time and beyond language and linear reasoning to true understanding and wisdom.
Two candy frogs as messengers to carry our prayers.
One dollar as a measure of our success to ensure the success of the despacho.
Cotton balls to represent clouds, the provider of the waters.
Rainbow yarn or multi-color ribbons to represent the rainbow and a bridge between the visible and invisible worlds and our capacity for transcendence.
More yarn to encircle the despacho. This represents the weaving or tying together of our prayers and offering to bring them into harmony.
Confetti to celebrate all life.
Flowers for healing.
Feather for flight.

Important: To keep the prayers intact, do not turn the despacho upside down or shake it up.

Fold despacho as a gift, enclosing the contents securely inside.

Tie despacho closed (as a gift) with yarn or ribbon, remembering to protect the prayers by not turning it upside down or shaking it up.

Last qintu, blow into it the intention to include any forgotten prayers. Tuck this under the yarn tie.

Within 24 hours of making this despacho, burn it for an explosive transformation. Make a fire with enough fuel to completely burn your despacho, or use a gas fireplace or gas barbeque. When the despacho is placed in the fire, do not look at it except to make sure it is burning well. This symbolizes non-attachment to outcome and a release to all claim to that which is being given away. If you can't burn the despacho, or for slower, more steady results, bury it or put it in a body of water.

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