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www.shamansociety.org 21 When I started working with the Spirits of Nature Land Spirits and Middle-World Spirits I started as most of us do by going out and asking a local Spirit of Nature for a healing or a teaching. Then what I like to think of as an innate sense of fair- ness made me start thinking Whats in it for the spirits When I askedWhat can I do for you I was started on a path of land healing which I still practice and teach. Working with the Spirits of Nature is my passion and from doing this work I feel I have come to a greater understanding of myself and of the working of the web of life. My personal spirit friends have never made a distinctionbetweenhumansandtherestof nature. There are only those who need help and those who can give it. So I heal where I can whether the recipient is land those spirits who inhabit the land plants humans and other animals or buildings. And I hope I am equally open to accepting healing from others in turn. My heal- ing teachers mantra isWe do what we can do for whoever is in need of what we do. Increasingly as I feel the flow of power around the web touching us all I feel less inclined to divide my shamanic work into healing and being healed. The power flows through us allcontinually. It takes many forms and is used in many ways and most of those ways are healing ways. We use power to bring about change and if that change is for the better that is healing. Original Soul Loss I always feel there is more to learn and recently I have been discussing with my spirit teachers how I can use my relationship with the Spirits of Nature to bring about healing in people. As a way of answering they gave me a journey mission for myself and my students In what ways can the Spirits of Nature help me to heal others and myself One of the most important teachings I was given then by my teacher was this Power is in everything. Power is the flow of energy through everything. And so everything is part of the flow. Everything around you points the way to health and to healing leaves rain the way a shadow falls all this connects you. In connection is completeness and in completeness is health. All this power is heal- ing power as it is growth power life power love power. When we go out to sit by a favorite tree or gaze at a beloved landscape where we enjoy the feel of the breeze on our skin and the sun on our face this is when many of us feel most strongly our connection to everything. Feeling this connection helps us be more at peace. Many people have told me that if they are feeling down a walk in woodland picks them up in an almost miraculous way. This is maybe the simplest way that Spirits of Na- ture will heal us just by being with us hold- ing our hand and giv- ing us company at our lowest points. These simple things which we all do at different times are healing ways. They heal our soul and bring us peace. My teacher then gave me another important teaching Once we humans were just another creature on the face of the earth. We were complete in our humanness connected as we were to other animals and to the spirit worlds. And then we be- gan to see ourselves as other-as not just an animal and even more importantly as not a spirit. This was humanitys first soul loss. Since then there has been a craving in humans for reconnec- tion for making ourselves complete again for retrieving human- itys soul. He then said You can never be completely whole in life because the world of humanity is not whole. This idea of us once being so closely connected to the web and at one with all things is one which is found in many religions shamanic practice Healing with the Spirits of Nature by Jane Shutt