that believes something needs to be fully understood before it is valid. When we drop below the mind and allow our bodies and energy fields to naturally connect with the earth, when we in essence give up the mind’s need to control what is happening, and then open ourselves with humbleness and gratitude to the Mother Earth, the insight and energy of these power places are available to us.
This knowledge, insight, and pure power available for transformation are amazing. Many people experience dramatic shifts in their lives following a power journey, a voyage to a power spot to work on personal growth. Stuck patterns of behavior and untenable life situations suddenly have the freedom to move. It is not that the transitions are necessarily easy, but there is excitement, flow, and momentum that were not tapped before.
On one power journey to Peru with the Toltec Center of Creative Intent, I experienced another astounding result of connecting with the earth in power places. We took a group of people to the beautiful country of Peru to experience and work with the energy of sacred sites, while also doing personal and group process to let go of limiting beliefs. While doing ceremony in a cave at the base of a mountain at Machu Picchu, I had an intense vision and a visceral knowing of how the work I was doing was impacting other people and the earth itself.
We often hear from great spiritual teachers that the best way to help humanity is to free ourselves, because problems in the outside world are a reflection of our internal strife; thus the most effective way to fix them is to work on our own connection with the divine. I experienced a deep energetic understanding of this truth.
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