| This article is about methods of getting out of the | | | | our needs of understanding are different. In today's |
| box, or expanding awareness so that you can make | | | | world we want personal empowerment. We want |
| changes in your life. | | | | our wellness. We want our dreams to come true! We |
| I say this expression all the time. I put it in | | | | want quicker results. |
| advertisements. I use it in conversations. Being "in the | | | | In Shamanism, learning how to think and believe |
| box" means having an extremely limited perception | | | | differently to attain these intentions starts with |
| of what is real. It means the person depends on his | | | | learning how to journey. Journeying is a method of |
| or her personal experiences of visual reality to shape | | | | making contact with non-ordinary reality. Although |
| their choices. | | | | there are actually many methods that people can use |
| You've probably also heard the term "I'll believe it | | | | to make this contact with the non-physical, the |
| when I see it". This declaration is probably one of the | | | | reason that I like journeying so much is because it |
| most limiting belief statements that a person can | | | | requires an active mind. |
| make. The visual reality of a human being is | | | | Another place that humans have limited themselves is |
| extremely small. Just think of how many people you | | | | through the loss of focus. Their "minds" have control |
| know that have poor eyesight. They need glasses or | | | | instead of the greater part of self, the true self, the |
| contacts; they can't read without glasses or see far | | | | "god self" having the control. The journey style takes |
| away. Sight is a really poor sense for most humans. | | | | this active mind and puts it to good use. The journey |
| Yet many base their entire reality upon it. "I'll believe | | | | teaches the mind how to rise out of the density of |
| it when I see it" IS being in the box. | | | | the Earth and all of its hardship into the places of the |
| Getting out of the box starts with opening up to | | | | god self. |
| different possibilities of reality. Getting out of the box | | | | A person can usually learn how to journey rather |
| is also based in the belief that we are incredible | | | | quickly. This quickness is appealing to the average |
| beings of creative energy; that we create through | | | | person. The shamanic journey opens the doors |
| our thoughts. We CAN have the desires of our heart, | | | | quickly, allows you enter into non-ordinary reality, and |
| by learning how to think and believe differently. | | | | offers a technique to explore this vast, creative, and |
| The ancient ways still work in major respects. Yet | | | | healing space. |