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A Simple Totem Journey Story – 2020 (Hethna)

Posted on November 4, 2021September 28, 2022

(Naturistic Shamanic Tradition)
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This is a story of four weeks and a successful person who was both confounded and unfulfilled.

During 2020 we were referred to a person, who had been labeled as depressed by their coaches of 13 years, their doctors, and family. Actually, people noticed when this person was around them, things became messy, sodden, and if they were around fellow staff members and family too long, “efforts became bogged.”

Staff, friends, and family had abandoned them.

So with us, they did one small ancestral movement and as prescribed immediately after, their totem course. Their totem revealed the most special revelation about themselves.

We all know rain after a dry spell is welcomed with celebration, joy and the promise that it offers. If the rain stays for too long, things quickly become miserable and with more everything comes to a standstill. Their totem was rain, and this explained the joy they experienced when catching up with people after a while, but also explained why many aspects of life became bogged down if they didn’t keep moving, or dwelled in an issue, project, or interaction too long.

Three weeks later they had this epiphany that they were never depressed… they just did not understand their nature, let alone their core needs! That label alone had bogged them, dwelling, dwelling, dwelling on it, but not finding anything to fix.

Upon deciphering their nature and the response of fellow humans, they reframed the way they came to the world, projects, friends, and most importantly for their family. It has set them free to work less, family and business run smoother because they can conceptualise clearer what they do, and how that positively and negatively affects their cohort. New boundaries on activity, communication, delegation, parenting, etc.

Life is now much better. They are the bringer of rain, joy, promise and well-needed things, however, too much dwelling turns things into a mess.

This is just the initial superficial layer of a momentous totem journey in our tradition, a journey that is unique to all, and we are delighted to support.

How could your life, relationships, and inner fulfillment change with such unique personal insight?

More on Totem or “Hethna” in our tradition: >here<

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