This ceremony is to support you in opening your heart and embracing the good medicine that's deep within your own chest.
In the shamanic world,
It's important to create the good medicine in every area of our lives.
This medicine is not about necessarily taking a pill or something from the outer world,
But it's more about the condition of what I refer to as your medicine chest or your heart mind.
It's been said in the Bible that as a man thinketh within his heart,
So shall it come to pass,
Or so shall it be.
It's important to remember that what we hold closest to our hearts,
Closest to our heart mind,
If you will,
Will surely come to pass as we ruminate about it,
Meditate upon it,
Dream about it,
Envision it.
There is a communication between our brain and our heart and a deep union between the two.
So this is where I want to invite you to place your hand upon your chest,
That this is where the strongest medicine in all of your life resides.
Feel the beating like the drum right in your own medicine chest,
In your own heart.
And with each beat,
You can feel the drum within you,
Opening your heart,
Taking you deeper into an altered state,
Into an expanded state where you can move past perhaps what I would call sometimes the lesser things or the lesser gods and move in to what's real and authentic for you.
So take a deep breath into your heart and feeling it beat like a drum,
Know that this is where your true strength,
Your deepest intuition,
Your deepest heart's longing resides.
This is where your medicine will take root and grow in the world if you're able to connect your heart to your thoughts,
Your feelings,
And the rest of your body.
Imagine with your hand upon your heart that you have an inner eye,
Some call it the single eye,
From your third eye,
That can peer all the way down into your chest cavity and into your beautiful,
Vibrant,
Healthy,
Passionate,
Open heart.
Just concentrate for a moment with your hand on your heart to feel that powerful life force energy and take a breath and then exhale fully,
Giving your heart more of what it needs,
Sacred breath,
Taking in the precious air,
The oxygen that comes to us from nature itself.
The exhalation of the trees is the inhalation into our hearts.
Trees are such powerful metaphors for sending us their breath and an exchange between us.
Breathing in to the lung,
Which oftentimes has been compared to the images of trees.
It's as if we have trees surrounding our heart on the inside of our chest with our lungs,
Filling our whole chest up again.
Exhale fully and expand your heart.
In that expansion,
Take a moment to envision the true medicine that lives within you.
What's in your medicine chest?
What brings you inspiration?
What guides you through your own dark nights of the soul?
When you're weary,
Lost,
Tired,
Disappointed,
Confused,
Frustrated,
And even angry.
If you can take it into your heart and breathe,
There's the possibility of a transmutation.
The medicine in your heart can heal the ills of the world that you have taken on.
Again,
As a man or a woman,
Thinketh within their heart,
So shall it come to pass.
And so,
We want our thoughts that we meditate upon repeatedly,
Not to be unconscious ones,
Ruminating,
Going into places of victimhood,
Of constant anger,
Resentment,
Frustration.
We want to become conscious of what we're thinking and the messages that we're sending into our medicine chest.
The heart will bring about what we focus upon.
So take a moment to breathe into your heart and exhale several times,
Clearing out the heart and the chest,
Cleansing that area,
And replacing it now with the truth of what you truly desire.
With your full faith that you have the ability to heal yourself,
To transform your life,
To bring healing transformation to others.
That you can share your medicine chest with others and even teach them how to breathe into their hearts,
Release their old traumas,
Open their hearts again,
Remember their innocence and trust,
And to renew faith,
Love,
And inner knowing and wisdom.
This is the most powerful medicine and medicine chest available to us.
While we may have medicine chests in our bathrooms that hold different medicines that help if we get a scratch or a headache or a fever,
Some things can only be healed and transformed by the medicine within our own hearts.
And taking another deep breath now,
Sending back out into the world your breath.
And riding upon your breath is your heartfelt intentions for your deepest desires,
For yourself,
For those you love,
And for the world itself.
And when you're ready,
Take another deep breath,
Exhale fully,
And thank your heart.
Perhaps you place your hand on your heart and give it a massage in a circular motion,
Or pat your heart,
Or face down towards your heart and speak gently to it,
Saying thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you.
