A step-by-step practical guide to enhancing creative energy

• Explains how creativity--or creative energy--is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life

• Explores how to use spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the “right brain,” boost imagination, and overcome anxiety and other destructive emotions

• Provides suggestions for when your creative energy is at a low tide

In this step-by-step practical guide to enhancing creative energy, Evelyn Rysdyk explains how, from the shamanic perspective, creativity--or creative energy--is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life. She explores how to use the shamanic technologies of spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the “right brain,” boost imagination, overcome anxiety and destructive emotions, and become much more creative in daily life. Examining creative energy as a natural phenomenon similar to the tides, the author provides suggestions for when your creative energy is at a low tide as well as offering shamanic techniques for dealing with insecurities related to your creative pursuits and overcoming dysfunctional subconscious perceptions.

Presenting a wealth of experiential exercises, rituals, and shamanic principles, this guide gives you the keys to unlock your own creative birthright.

Evelyn C. Rysdyk is an internationally recognized shamanic practitioner and author of several books, including The Norse Shaman, Spirit Walking, and The Nepalese Shamanic Path. Along with her writings, she is an impassioned teacher and a featured presenter for Sounds True, The Shift Network, and other international and online programs. She finds creative inspiration and renewal on the coast of Maine.

INTRODUCTION
The Power of Creative Energy

ONE
How Shamanic Creativity Supports Wholeness
Preparatory Practices
Tapping into the Creative Energy In and around You • Notebook-Naming Ceremony

TWO
Feelings: The Dance of Dissonance and Harmony
Clearing and Repair
Repairing Your Energy after Experiencing Fear or Anger • Ceremony for Slaying the Bully’s Words • The Holy Eraser Talisman Ceremony • Reprogramming the Subconscious

THREE
Nurturing Your Creative Brain
Breathing Exercises and Workouts for the Senses As Easy as One, Two, Three, Four! • Meditation: Four In, Seven Hold, Eight Out • Using Your Eyes • Using Your Ears • Using Your Limbs • Writing the Right Brain Awake • Alternate Nostril Breathing

FOUR
Altered States and Creativity
Elevating Awareness Using Fire to Experience the Dark Side of the Moon

FIVE
Shamanic Journeying to the Lower and Upper Worlds
Spirit Journeys
Meeting Your Power Animal • Asking a Question of Your Power Animal • Merging with Your Power Animal • Meeting a Teacher and Asking a Question • Performing an Offering of Gratitude • Meeting Your Creative Mentor • Meeting an Ancestor and Asking a Question • Honoring the Ancestors

SIX
Shamanic Journeying into Unknown Territory
Off-the-Map Forays Cruising to the Primordial Sea 145 • Traveling into the Brain • Exploring the Earliest Galaxy • Visiting the Future

SEVEN
The Ebb and Flow of Creative Energy
Daily Rituals
Charting Your Creative Tidal Flow • Shaping and Remembering Your Dreams • Morning Gratitude Bath Ceremony • Breathing with the Trees • The Chicago Dog Method

EIGHT
Building the Imagination
Curiosity Calisthenics
Creating a New Bread Crumb Trail • Imagining Senses • Question Reality, Man! • Ten Ideas • Mixing It Up • Lateral Thinking Puzzles • Brainstorming for One • What Is It? • A Three-Minute Story

NINE
Embracing Your Highest Consciousness
An Extraordinary Journey The Radiant Field of Infinite Vibrations

TEN
Protecting and Actualizing Your Creative Potential
Transmutation Tactics Removing Self-Sabotaging Programming • Turning a No into a Yes for You

CONCLUSION
A New Paradigm of Creativity

RESOURCES

Creative Organizations and Supplies

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author