About the Book
• 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, from the shamanic perspective, 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. 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.
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
Evelyn C. Rysdykis 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.
Review :
“This book is a wonderful read and a deeply empowering way to heal our stolen creativity, and bring us back home to ourselves. Unlocking and repairing our creativity is essential work, and Evelyn puts the key to this locked, vital passion right in the palm of our hand with this book. This book is about discovering the seed of our birth right again, and about helping that seed grow into a strong and mighty tree, full of beauty.”
“Art is a process that brings nature back to people, and shamanism is a process that brings people back to nature. This soul-nurturing awareness is elegantly illumined throughout the pages of Evelyn C. Rysdyk’s latest book, Shamanic Creativity, where visionary inspiration, symbolic meaning, and archetypal wisdom are given earth-beautifying ceremonial expression as spirit medicine for healing the ills of our postmodern world. Highly recommended!”
“Evelyn Rysdyk is a brilliant shamanic teacher who has helped to pioneer shamanic teachings in our time. She knows how to take some of the deeper ancient cross-cultural mysteries and share them with a modern Western culture. Evelyn performed her ‘magic’ again with Shamanic Creativity. This practical guide contains the support, inspiration, clear communication, and shamanic guidance you need to tap into the deepest level of your creativity. This is such a timely book as we all need to own our destiny to create our highest dreams.”
“Kudos to Evelyn Rysdyk’s new book Shamanic Creativity. This overdue and inspiring book offers in simple language the tools to free old energy blocks, patterns, and ways of thinking to manifest a creative and fulfilling life beyond your expectations. Read it and follow the rituals, energy work, and spirit journeys. It’s a must, not just for those who practice shamanism but for anyone who wishes to rediscover and ignite their birthright’s life passion.”
“In this moment when we dearly need to access the full range of our wildhearted creativity, Evelyn Rysdyk offers us a way to do just that. Shamanic Creativity is not just for those who identify as ‘creatives’ but for all of us to discover how we unleash our creative superpower. We are creating the path as we walk it, and we need to course correct. Evelyn offers direct, accessible practices to awaken our slumbering creative potential to be that course correction now, to offer unique new solutions, ingenious risks, and heartfelt weaving of it all together. With the shamanic practices offered and the hope Evelyn inspires, we might just innovate our way into a future that supports the insanely, improbable, fragile, beautiful reality of life on Earth.”
“As a teacher of sacred art I often tell my students that our own life is the greatest piece of art we ever make! We are all part of creation, and it is through our own creations (in the widest possible sense of the word) that we express the innate and divine force within us. Creativity unlocks, heals, and supports wholeness. Evelyn Rysdyk’s new book presents a map and ‘creative cardinal rules.’ Ultimately, she tells us how to transcend conflict and contradiction, view those as fertile ground for new insights and projects, and, in her own words, arrive at homospatial thinking. Treat yourself and get started today!”
“The ideas and suggestions offered in Shamanic Creativity are interesting, inspirational, and supportive for anyone wanting to connect with the creative forces of the universe as well as their own. Evelyn Rysdyk is the epitome of shamanic creativity and a great guide.”
“Once again Evelyn Rysdyk shares her deep understanding of shamanic practice coupled with her lifelong experience as a creative artist. You can trust her, as both shaman and artist, to guide your own creative energies into life patterns that will bring greater harmony and empowerment to your everyday life. It will be a joyous journey!”
“Creative energy is our birthright. It is life itself speaking through us. In Shamanic Creativity, acclaimed author and experienced guide Evelyn C. Rysdyk teaches us how to connect with this limitless vitality, removing the blockages and allowing it to flow unimpeded.”
