A movement and percussive method of entering shamanic trance

Endless Endlessness, Angels of mercy and compassion, Awakened ones, Sacred beings of the directions, Compassionate helper spirits, Elevated Unbroken Ancestors, please bless this work with your permission , power , protection and support, when it is undertaken sincerely, amen.

Read this all the way through three times before attempting.

Sincerely open in love and gratitude to the spirits of shamanic trance. Surrender, in your way, to this process.

Intend to safely experience shamanic trance and explore the tunnel to the lowerworld and returning. Write down your intention in a journal and have journal and writing implement handy through out.

Obtain drum and beater or a rattle. Ive seen crafty practitioners use an empty plastic juice bottle and some rocks from the parking lot.

Lock door, turn off cell phone and computer etc. Smudge self and space.

Completely alone in the privacy of your thusly warded space, cover the windows, take off your clothes and turn out the lights. In almost complete darkness you are going to drum( or rattle etc.) and dance  for 15 minutes.

The dance can be freeform or a simple two step, make sure you don't fall. You may have to peek a little bit.

The drumming must be repetitive and monotonous, do not introduce rhythms or patterns. This is extremely important.

Accept all the conditions of your life now as they are, Extend acceptance and gratitude to all for being now. Put on an eye covering like a bandana and start dancing and drumming. Your eye covering should provide maximum darkness but still allow peeking. Continue for 15 minutes.

The objective is to awaken sense feel your entire body from the inside without the personality guiding the process, i.e. no scanning etc. Just observe with impartial attention on all sensations until one obtains and holds awakened whole body somatic and emotional awareness, and the knowing that occurs in direct perception.

If your inside becomes filled with a sensation of warmth and bliss or golden light, that is sufficient.

All of these instructions are focussed on keeping the body in a high state of arousal while the mind , guided by the monotonous sound, goes into low arousal. This conscious use of attention in this way pulls the plug on the drunken monkey minds incessant chatter, and it will stop. You will have a subjective experience as your own situation resolves and unfolds but the common denominator is powerful dissociation occurs, ones soul and spirit become unimpeded.

Mind goes into low arousal while body is kept moving in high arousal.

After 15 minutes at least, sit down on a blanket.

Sit on the ground, use your chest( heart area ) and ground ( alternate beats and connect through this) as a drum briefly. I like to sing softly while drumming on chest and ground; mama, come closer , mama, 60 seconds.

Massage your feet and ankles for 2 minutes, still shaking, stopping and drumming or rattling as needed to stay in a trance state.

Massage the middle of forehead between eyes area clockwise with pad of hand for 2 minutes.

Massage temples circularly 1 minute.

Play a drumming or rattling track on a device that is warded so no notifications or messages or calls etc are on now.

Lay down, put on an eye covering.

From here on describe out loud ( it is very good to record this if possible,) what you see and experience in a closed eyes visionary way.

Start by imagining yourself to the above pictured hole in the ground, and enter in to the entrance to the underworld. Remember to describe it out loud , the spirits are listening.

Explore the tunnel briefly. describing out loud using all 5 sensorial channels.

Return by reversing your steps back to your physical body.

Write down observations in your journal.

Mabey eat something or go for a walk and return to your journal later and add an additional insights that may arise as you come to further integrate the experience and some of the symbols in your visions open surprizing doors within.

Ya salom, may Spirit go in peace.

"Connecting with a spirit helper, diy self initiation" is an upcoming article, stay tuned.