
Gifts and challenges on the Healing Journey
We mine our gifts and face our challenges through the Journey of self discovery
The Ayahuasca healing journey
We all have an evolutionary impulse to know ourselves. Resisting this deeper calling creates resistance, separation and pain.
The Mother Ayahuasca calls us to a transformational journey to expand our conscious awareness and reconnect with our true Self.
Through this journey we are offered a possibility, a gift of awakening and becoming free from inner limitations. The Journey requires commitment and courage to face the shadow self, see though the illusions and learn how to correct our ways to return to wholeness.
Our main resources through this Journey is our openness and willingness to change, surrender, and trust we cannot fail and will triumph in the end.
This Journey is a universal process and can be described by certain characteristics as follow.
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Death – Rebirth – Transformation – From Fear to Love
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Expansion of awareness – uprooting ignorance
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Heart opening – healing the feminine – our connection with Earth
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Reconnecting with Spirit stepping out of victimhood into creatorship
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Physical healing
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Maturation - personal empowerment
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Returning - sharing the Gift
The Journey is a symbolic initiation process, a rite of passage where we face our fears, overcoming our obstacles and recover our gifts to bring back and share it with the world.
This Journey was described by many before, as The Heroe's Journey or The Journey of The Fool described by the tarot cards and it is really a journey of purification of self, inner alchemy, a deep transformation that leads back to our true nature, the recovery of the out true Self, the philosophers stone.

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Journey of self discovery Evolutionary implulse to know ourselves
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Initiation, rite of passage Purification of the Self Uncovering our Gifts
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Requirement is courage, commitment and surrender
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Reconnection of Self Embodiment of true nature
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”

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Challenges will arise on the healing journey
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Our main tools Personal guide Supportive environment
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Our main challenge Resistance to change
“Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself - Man, know yourself and you are going to know the Gods”
(Temple of Apollo – Delphi)"
Common obstacles on the Journey
One thing is sure challenges will arise during this journey.
Our power lays in how do we respond to these challenges. Using this medicine in a supportive environment and having an experienced guide throughout the process is vital to meet these challenges with more ease, courage and confidence.
Good to remember that the Medicine can and do work on a level that most people are not aware of. By having an expectation about how the healing journey should unfold and look like we can easily miss our opportunities for healing and learning, refusing the gift and perpetuate pain and suffering.
The biggest obstacle is resisting change
When are in stress and discomfort there is a natural resistance that arises simply because we all prefer to feel good. However when we are stuck in this resistance it can greatly slow down or completely stop the healing process. The following are common obstacles that can arise during the healing Journey.
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Lack of guidance and nurturing context
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Overwhelm with difficult emotions (anger, grief, fear)
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Stuck in negative discomfort
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Resistance, refusal to face personal shadow self and deal with personal issues (open wounds), suffering, denial
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Distraction, outward projection, blame (onto others)
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Disappointment (in expectations) with results, missing healing opportunities
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Sense of failure, depression, guilt, reversing back to old habits
Gifts of the Journey
The Ayahuasca ceremony initiates a full circle of death-rebirth experience and a fundamental transformation moving from fear to an expression of love on a deeper level.
Through this Journey we have an opportunity to let go and change difficult challenges and obstacles that we are ready to transform in our lives.
Expansion of awareness
As our mind opens we are able to see with a different eye, beyond our identity, attachments, belief systems and rise above our story, see the bigger picture and come into a deeper understanding, acceptance, forgiveness and inner peace.
Opening the Heart
Through this Journey we can open our old wounds, embrace our emotions, heal and let go of past pain. Only through this opening and letting go we will be able to fully open to experience love, compassion and the real beauty of life.
Reconnection
It is my experience that the Mother Ayahuasca helps us to reconnect the fragmented parts of ourselves and deeply experience our connectedness, wholeness and true nature.
Through this personal, direct experience we are able to deeply ground and root into the body of the Earth and feel how we are part of the whole interconnected web of Life.
Physical Healing
As a result of inner transformation we experience a rebirth that often times connected to physical healing and recovery. As our energetic signature changes so our physical body transforms as they are deeply connected and inform each other.
Maturation
Through this journey of healing and self discovery we learn to take responsibility, follow inner guidance and marry intuition and reason.
Bringing more balance into body-mind-spirit we take back our power and our place as responsible creators in the web of Life.
Returning with the Gift
Our healing is not complete until we return 'home' to share our gifts with the world bringing harmony and healing.
Transformation starts with the individual. Being a living example is the best way to inspire and support others to embark on their Journey.

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Fundamental transformation Moving from Fear to Love
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Uprooting ignorance Healing painful memories
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Reconnecting to true Self Grounding into the Earth Recovering our Soul
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Physical healing , recovery Taking our power back Becoming an example

“Be the change that you want to see in the world"