Shamanic Creativity

Evelyn C. Rysdykis an internationally recognized shamanic practitioner and author of several books, including The Norse Shaman, Spirit Walking, and The Nepalese Shamanic Path. Along with her writings, she is an impassioned teacher and a featured presenter for Sounds True, The Shift Network, and other international and online programs. She finds creative inspiration and renewal on the coast of Maine.

• INTRODUCTION The Power of Creative EnergyONE How Shamanic Creativity Supports Wholeness Preparatory Practices Tapping into the Creative Energy In and around You • Notebook-Naming CeremonyTWO Feelings: The Dance of Dissonance and HarmonyClearing and Repair Repairing Your Energy after Experiencing Fear or Anger • Ceremony for Slaying the Bully’s Words • The Holy Eraser Talisman Ceremony • Reprogramming the Subconscious THREE Nurturing Your Creative Brain Breathing Exercises and Workouts for the Senses As Easy as One, Two, Three, Four! • Meditation: Four In, Seven Hold, Eight Out • Using Your Eyes • Using Your Ears • Using Your Limbs • Writing the Right Brain Awake • Alternate Nostril Breathing FOUR Altered States and CreativityElevating Awareness Using Fire to Experience the Dark Side of the Moon FIVE Shamanic Journeying to the Lower and Upper Worlds Spirit Journeys Meeting Your Power Animal • Asking a Question of Your Power Animal • Merging with Your Power Animal • Meeting a Teacher and Asking a Question • Performing an Offering of Gratitude • Meeting Your Creative Mentor • Meeting an Ancestor and Asking a Question • Honoring the Ancestors SIX Shamanic Journeying into Unknown Territory Off-the-Map Forays Cruising to the Primordial Sea 145 • Traveling into the Brain • Exploring the Earliest Galaxy • Visiting the Future SEVEN The Ebb and Flow of Creative Energy Daily RitualsCharting Your Creative Tidal Flow • Shaping and Remembering Your Dreams • Morning Gratitude Bath Ceremony • Breathing with the Trees • The Chicago Dog Method EIGHT Building the Imagination Curiosity Calisthenics Creating a New Bread Crumb Trail • Imagining Senses • Question Reality, Man! • Ten Ideas • Mixing It Up • Lateral Thinking Puzzles • Brainstorming for One • What Is It? • A Three-Minute Story NINEEmbracing Your Highest ConsciousnessAn Extraordinary Journey The Radiant Field of Infinite VibrationsTEN Protecting and Actualizing Your Creative Potential Transmutation Tactics Removing Self-Sabotaging Programming • Turning a No into a Yes for You CONCLUSIONA New Paradigm of CreativityRESOURCESCreative Organizations and Supplies Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author

“This book is a wonderful read and a deeply empowering way to heal our stolen creativity, and bring us back home to ourselves. Unlocking and repairing our creativity is essential work, and Evelyn puts the key to this locked, vital passion right in the palm of our hand with this book. This book is about discovering the seed of our birth right again, and about helping that seed grow into a strong and mighty tree, full of beauty.”