To enter the shamanic body,
We begin by being completely focused within the physical body,
Within the ordinary state of consciousness.
Take a comfortable seated posture and bring your attention into your heart center.
Within your heart center,
Within each of us,
There is a doorway,
A doorway between the outer physical consciousness and the inner spiritual body,
The spiritual consciousness.
As you bring your attention deeper and deeper into this heart center,
You may perceive it as a spark of energy and eventually as light or energy escaping through a doorway.
Continue to bring your focus,
Your attention deeper into this doorway until you can move through the doorway into your spiritual body.
As you do so,
Bring more and more of your attention,
Of your focus,
Of your presence through this doorway.
Continue drawing more of yourself through this doorway until you feel yourself more present in the spiritual body,
The inner body,
Than you do in the outer physical body.
Now,
If you have not yet done so,
Begin to take some of that radiant energy from that doorway and use it to shape a full-length mirror directly in front of you at arm's length so that this mirror reflects your entire body.
Once this is done and you can perceive in some way your reflection in the mirror,
Take more of the same energy and create a beam of light as thin as a pencil,
Beaming from your heart center here in your spiritual body through the surface of the mirror on into your reflection,
Directly into the heart center of your reflection.
And allow yourself to feel the sense of connection now between your spiritual body and this reflection.
Now bring yourself once again focusing down into this beam of light,
Your focus and your attention and your presence moving along this beam of light down to the surface of the mirror.
Gathering yourself together here and moving through,
Continuing along the beam of light on the far side of the mirror all the way into your reflection,
Moving deeper into your heart center here in your reflection moving through the doorway here at your heart center and expanding outward into your shamanic body.
As you emerge into shamanic body here in Lodge you will probably want to give yourself time to acclimate,
To feel yourself in this other body just as you feel yourself in your physical body.
At some point you will want to stand up and move to the World Tree and take a moment to connect in,
To feel the presence of the World Tree.
When you are ready to return from shamanic body to your ordinary state of consciousness,
Sit down the floor of the Lodge,
Bring your attention into heart center,
Move back through the heart center from shamanic body into that inner shamanic body which was the reflection in the mirror.
Feel that transition as you move through that doorway and notice as you emerge into this inner body that the beam of light and the mirror are already here.
In this case the reflection in the mirror is your spiritual body.
Bring your attention into the beam of light once again and move along this beam of light like moving along a long circular corridor of light,
Moving through the surface of the mirror and continuing on down the beam of light into your spiritual body,
Into the heart center of your spiritual body and through the doorway here,
Emerging into your physical body and your ordinary state of consciousness.
