Recapitulation is going back in time to recover energy that has been lost.  We are going to go back in time and reclaim lost energy and give back energy that is not yours.

It is obvious why we have to get back lost energy, but maybe not so obvious why we have to give back energy that is not ours. It is a shamanic law that energy can only be used by the person who originally owned it. If energy is given to us, or we inadvertently take energy from another person or even if we try to steal energy from someone else, we cannot use it if it is not ours. If we cannot use it what use is it to us? It has no use at all except to become a burden to carry around. Anything that has no use becomes a burden in time, and burdens drain energy, make us tired and weaken us physically. The reason we are doing this shamanic work is to find out what is really ours, and if something belongs to someone else we need to either give it back or simply let it go and hopefully it will find its way back to where it belongs.

Recapitulation can be an enormous task that takes years for the ‘serious shaman’ or it can be an activity that is done everyday in just a few minutes. We will start off by explaining the easy way first.

Daily Recapitulation

At some time during the day, possibly before you go to bed at night, take some quite time and go over the events of the day. Maybe you would like to write a list in your journal of everyone you had contact with on this day. Then start at the top of the list and focus you mind on all of the interactions you had with this person. Remember with as much detail as you can: the situation; what happened with this person; how you felt at this time and any thought or decisions you made about yourself or that person or life itself.

The interaction doesn’t have to be unpleasant for you to lose energy. A caring and loving friend may give you their energy and call it compassion or healing, but remember you can’t use other people’s energy and no matter how well meaning they are you need to give it back. You can even pick up energy from people in the street who you are not even aware of.

There are very fine filaments between you and a person and a situation you were in together, like cords only much more subtle. The process of remembering strengthens these filaments and allows you to take back any energy you have lost. Also it enables you to give back through the same filaments any negative energy that came to you during that time. For example: eating at a busy restaurant. There are lots of energies of different people who possibly have never been cleared from the space. That’s not to say its negative or bad is just wasn’t cleared, and that’s the energy you may walk away with.

How much energy do you pick up in a normal day? How much energy do you lose in a normal day? It’s a wonder we have any usable energy at all with this mixing and mingling so it’s very important to sort out and recapitulate to recover that which is ours and to clear out that which does not belong to us.

The Keys Of Recapitulation

• Remember the situation with the person in your mind make it as real as you possibly can, with feeling, images and thoughts and keeping this in focus….
• Start with you head turned fully to the left, turn you head as slowly as you can all the way to the right, breathing IN, breathing your energy back from the situation with the person.
• Then turn you head slowly, back to the left, breathing OUT all the way, breathing out any energy that is not yours.
• Continue these head turns, breathing as slowly as you can, IN from left to right and breathing OUT just as slowly, turning you head from right to the left.
• Notice your breath, don’t force it, just notice if you are breathing more on the IN breath or more on the OUT breath. Are you taking more energy in or giving more energy back? It is not important which of the breaths is the stronger, it is just energy and there is no right or wrong about the situation.
• Keep turning you head and breathing this way until your breath is mild and gentle and equal in both directions. Then turn you head from LEFT to RIGHT to LEFT with no breath at all, this acknowledges completion of RECAPITULATION with the person. Cut cords with the person and all of the feelings and thought from that time

If you had contact with many people in your day this individual recapitulation may only take a couple of head turns with people who were not so important.

copyright: Odette Nightsky 2011 (please ask permission to copy this for internet or study use)

This is an excerpt from The Workbook. The Guide to Contemporary shamanism in your home. By Odette Nightsky. Available @ www.contemporaryshaman.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many wonderful avenues of healing now available in the world today. There is a therapist/guide out there for everyone. however, having so much to choose from, can seem a little overwhelming. If you’re not quite sure what you need, you may have to sift through quite a number of charlatans and or performers to find what suits you best. 

Acutely Sensitive souls are very susceptible to other people’s vibrations. Hence, if your looking for a good therapist to guide you, you will need to choose one that has a healthy relationship to the spirit world and this 3rd dimensional earth world as we know it. You may need a healer who has looked deeply into their own shadow and knows what it is like to live in both worlds. A helpful tool when choosing a therapist is to offer them an initial consultation payment so you can meet them and discuss what it is they feel they can offer you……meet them face to face. A true soul healer will understand.

Be aware that many people in the New Age therapy profession may not have a grounded understanding of working with these type of sensitive issues. So trust your gut instinct.

If you feel that they are a person whom you can share your inner most fears with, no matter how far fetched they may seem, it’s a good indication that they may be right for you long term.

What to look for in your Therapist

Remember Acute Sensitivity is not cured by a quick fix it’s a way of living that needs to be brought into balance.

 

• The cost is reasonable to your income

 

• Their eyes are clear and healthy…. Do they look healthy? Or do they appear drained and grey?

 

• Give them an example of an encounter you’ve had and see what their response is, does it sit comfortably with you?

 

• Ask them what they think the darkness is, if they say the devil, forget it! Because you may be in for a battle against right and wrong… There is no right or wrong, it just is.

 

• Ask them if they are available to talk with on the phone at certain times that suit them if you feel you’re freaking out due to what was brought up in a session?

 

• Do you feel safe in their presence?

 

• Do they want to do anything you feel deeply uncomfortable about?

 

• Is this someone you feel you can trust with your secrets?

 

• Do you feel better (not higher) after having a session with them

 

• What can they offer that may make a difference to your life?

 

This is an excerpt from “The Bridge Between Two Worlds. A Shamans view of Schizophrenia & Acute Sensitivity”

 Copyright. Odette Nightsky

 

 

One of the most common subjects that I offer guidance on is boundaries. Depending on who you talk to, the word ‘boundaries’ can have different meanings. Some see boundaries as borders of safety and respect, others see boundaries as walls and limitations that they are determined to break down. Being sensitive, you need boundaries to contain you as we are natural empaths both emotionally and psychically. Boundaries but not armour.

I was brought up with healthy boundaries. On a practical and physical level I felt totally safe. I did not feel controlled or trapped in any way. I was given space to discover, to grow and find my own way both in religious matters and interests. I always looked forward to coming home after school. I was taught manners and respect for others as I would have them respect me and to this day those tools have been a great asset to my life. However on a psychic level it was a different story.

I didn’t come from parents that knew all about things that go bump in the night and how to get them out of my aura. They were not practiced in how to deal with the astral world and I’m not sure I knew how to explain how I felt in regards to my sensitivity and what I experienced on a psychic level. I tend to feel people before they even talk and I feel what they are carrying energetically and what they have disowned. I did not have any clue how to articulate that and even if I did Im not sure they would have got what I was trying to say.  In psychology they ask you what is your first memory. Mine was at 3 years old and being left overnight in a hospital in Singapore for an eye operation (I was born with a shaking interned left eye) in those days parents could not stay with their children. During the night I was invaded by discarnat spirits and thought forms of others who had been there. As a young child you can only imagine how the terror of that night impacted on me for years to come. I was of course always terrified of the dark after that, to the point even in my teens I would go down to the garage at night to get the ice-cream out of the second fridge and I would force my mother to stand on the balcony and keep talking to me all the time…I would run up the stairs feeling something on my back. I had other psychic invasions in the years to come but more about that at another time.

Many people who have been abused physically, psychically and emotionally as children will be in a challenge to define their boundaries. All of my clients are learning how to heal in this regard.  An upset will often come because of feeling invaded by something or someone on an energetic basis. When you feel invaded you automatically do what you can to protect yourself, whatever you can. The automatic response is to go into crisis control as you would have done when you were young. I thought the sheet over my neck would protect me from vampires (the symbolism of parasites sucking your energy), and no it didn’t really work but it was enough illusion of comfort to get me to sleep at times.

All who are abused in one way or another either flight or fight or both. I like many others took flight and left my body to be somewhere else when it was all too much. That somewhere else however was out in the astral floating around pushed into the disowned realms of the unconscious.

So later in life when something happens that is invasive we tend to connect to that original fearful child and do what it did to cope.

• Leave the body
• Get stuck in the mind program of battle of who is right who is wrong
• Get angry and protective like a warrior
• Lose connection to the earth and grounded spiritual guidance
• Isolate and shut down
• Fight
• Flight

Sensitive folk with spider web boundaries tend to attract people who unconsciously have very little respect for boundaries at all. I certainly have had my share of them. It’s important to remember that these people are your best teachers to give you a gauge of where your boundaries are at.  If there is someone in your life invading them they are triggering that child in you who now goes into automatic pilot to protect themselves.  Other energies can only invade when you are open to invasion in the first place.

So how do you stop getting invaded?

Firstly stop leaking your own energy. Lets say for an example that you meet someone you are very drawn to energetically. You bond with them, your empathise with them, you listen, connect on a psychic level. Then in a while that person and you have a challenge on an emotional level and you start feeling invaded by their vibration and your authentic self is disrespected.  Can you see that you leaked your energy in the first place maybe by giving so much of your own vibration to them? So its important to get your spirit back to your body, to take back that which you gave away. No one has power over you unless you have given them some of yours in the first place.

It all goes back to that child and what they had to do to cope and what they felt was lost when they were invaded. Inner child work, soul retrieval and recapitulation in this regard can be life saving as it teaches you how to reconnect with your authentic self that is connected to the whole.

When you respect your own boundaries others will respect them too.

I learnt very early on that being a pleaser made things go more smoothly but in doing that I tended to give myself away to others and their energy. I could tell how much I was carrying other people’s energy as I would stand in the shower and not think about me and what I was doing at all. I would have all the other people’s stories in my head. I still get that but I am aware now and I recapitulate and clear their stories from my psyche. I felt so much empathy for people in struggle that I opened my heart, my aura and my home to their drama’s. It took its toll on my sensitivity and they would go away feeling heard and validated and I would be left with all the psychic debris that was disowned and spend the next days wondering why the hell did I feel so out of whack?

I can pick the signs up so much more easily now and I can feel it with much more insight and awareness that I am able to sort it out much faster and even more important I don’t put myself in a situation that rings of this kind of feeling.

If you with someone who wants to share but is very rarely interested in your wellbeing and you feel tired after they have gone. I can guarantee you that you have leaked your energy and they have sucked it all up.

Don’t get into the blame game of judging them to be energy parasites. Their boundaries are crap too and they may be unable to see what they are doing either.

You are only responsible for your own energy, not anybody else’s.

There is a story that I love about two monks who meet a woman at the river, they are not allowed to touch women, but she is unable to cross so one monk carries her over to safety. They walk on for miles together while the other monk continues to berate him that he shouldn’t have touched and even worse carried the woman over the river. He silences him by saying. “Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river; you are still carrying her.”

You may have absorbed energy that has set you off-balance but it’s up to you how long you will carry it for. When you stop the battle of right and wrong and embrace what you find as a teaching you are much more able to clear your energy field and find balance again. As you grow in this ability to clear and ground your energy  your auric field will automatically become stronger.

Being sensitive you need boundaries to contain you as we are natural empath’s both emotionally and psychically. Boundaries not armour.  The part of you that became the protector of that invaded child has been created for a reason. But your protector doesn’t need to be an armed warrior with a switch blade and a gun it needs to be a good parent that knows you like no-one else and offer you mindful guidance. When you gain grounded safe boundaries that empower your authentic self your protector will relax and feel that you are safe.

Blessings

Odette