REIKI MASTER, SHAMAN, MUNAY-KI, 9 RITES, ENERGY HEALER, SPIRITUAL, HOLISTIC HEALER:-MASC(Relax),BSYA (I.H),RSA (Reflex),BSY(B.Ss

Ties That Bind Energetically:

  If you hold on to your past even after the facts and circumstances change, you create imprints in your luminous energy field (LEF) as well as energetic cords that tie you to the past. The cords that join you to those individuals are energy filaments that can remain long after your relationships with them have changed.  Shamans are able to sense these connections to the point that they can tell who’s on the other side of the rope that’s tied to your neck. So even if you’re no longer furious at your former best friend whom you stopped speaking to years ago, you may have a cord binding you to her/him that keeps that relationship and your karma with her/him, unresolved. It’s what makes you go ballistic when you find out that she/he’s gone and hurt someone else, or when you’re reminded of an argument you had with her/him back when you were still friends. These cords are like feeding tubes, which you use to continue nourishing yourself with the sour milk of anger and resentment.

  It you don’t cut the tie to your ex-pal, you’ll end up re-creating a similar situation in your life in order to find forgiveness and peace. You’ll also continue to cling to the story known as “She/he Hurt Me, and I Am a Victim.” Then each time you retell the old tale, even if it’s just to yourself, you’ll create new feelings of sadness, anger, and resentment, thus reinforcing what’s binding you to her/him.

            We can even remain energetically ties to other people after they die, remembering the pain they caused us instead of recalling the lessons they taught us.   These types of toxic connections are very common, where we hold our ancestors responsible for what’s wrong with us today. These cords can keep the dead trapped between the worlds, unable to find rest or peace. They then become earthbound spirits that haunt our houses and our lives tethered to us by our wounds.

            An energy tie that binds you to someone else can drain you of vital energy, almost as if you had a parasite. It will continue to exist as long as you allow your paralyzing story to replay itself over and over again.

            If you suspect that you  have an energy bond to another person that’s draining you, the following exercise in forgiveness will help you free yourself of the pain and energy drain of that connection.

Exercise : Severing the Ties That Bind

  While there are Shamanic techniques for cutting the cords that energetically tie us to another person, we can also sever these bonds through the practice of forgiveness. The practice is a three-step process-unfortunately, most people accomplish only the first two, finding momentary relief and satisfaction, but not effectively severing the energetic and karmic ties in the LEF. It’s imperative that you do all three steps in order to completely release yourself from the other person:

1.     The first step is to identify someone who has wronged you or whom you have wronged. Take a deep breath and exhale, releasing with that breath all the anger and injustice that you may feel. Repeat this for as many breaths as you need.

2.    Next, take another deep breath and blow a prayer or a blessing toward this person, forgiving them for anything they may have done to you. And then, in your mind’s eye, ask them to forgive you for anything you might have done that hurt or wronged them, repeating the following to yourself: “I release you and bless you.” Repeat this for as many breaths as you need.  Then take a very big scissors/knife and cut the cord that is tied to your body.

3.    The final and most important step is to contemplate the lesson that you learned from this person. What was life trying to teach you through that individual? How do you receive the lesson in its totality so that you don’t ever have to learn it again? How do you turn what was once a source of anger or wounding into a source of compassion and power? It is up to you to write then new story of this relationship.

Once we’ve discarded our old stories, cut the karmic cords, and begun to heal our wounds, we stop being consumed by the dramas of our lives and feeling stuck in a nightmare. Then we can begin to dream a far more fulfilling dream.

The Despacho then is the complete ritual.. there are no empty words here, no words or actions that mean anything other than that which each person present brings in the moment.

‘My thanks for the tree that I loved to climb as I grew up’ ‘my thanks for the teachers I have in my life’ ‘my thanks for the grass.. the skin of the earth’ ‘my thanks to my father who was my greatest teacher’.

‘A song of celebration of difference that brings harmony to my world’

The ritual itself depends on the ‘presence’ and ‘intention’ of all those present. The beauty and grace of this ceremony means that although if may be a ritual that is 500 years old, it is totally fresh and new each time it’s done because it relies for its fresh aliveness of the presence of those it serves.

This is no empty remnant of some long past forgotten ceremony; I believed this is the difference between what has become dogma/religion in the Western World and what a truly Spiritual Practice. When we are being told about it by someone else and then asked to use another’s words or actions then a ritual can begin to lose it’s meaning for the participant, especially over time it becomes a bit like Chinese Whispers. We end up not knowing why we are saying these words because we lost (or in some cases never knew) the original meaning.

Alternatively, when we have the Direct and Full experience, when we bring ourselves fully into it, when we know that each one of us has a Vital Part to Play, then it becomes something that Lives within us, that we fully understand, and then we get it at a deep, cellular level.

Its like life.... If we really knew and understood that we each of us has a place in the UNIVERSE that only we can fill, then we would step fully into it with pride and joy for who we are. What happens in our world today is that we aren’t encouraged to think of ourselves as unique human beings with a place that is ours to fill.  The myth that we live by is that we have been kicked out of the Garden of Eden, that we have sinned from the beginning of time, and we have to earn our place, to struggle and fight for our place.... or in most cases we end up living lives of quiet desperation because we didn’t know there was a place for us here at all.

We are all human and that very fact connects us to each other.... and that as humans we all have underneath the same longing for connection to something bigger than ourselves, the same yearning for meaning and purpose in our lives.

One of the participants in a Recent Despacho Ceremony said that as the Coco Leaves (Bay Leaves) were being passed around and each of us blew our ‘selves’ into them she felt the threads of light that connected us all.  Then as the second set were passed around and we all blew our dreams into them, she felt the threads of light connecting us outwards into the world. So that she truly felt the connection that we all have with each other and with life itself.

A Traditional Despacho is created by Medicine People who work in alignment through their Spiritual Power.

The Despacho brings us back into the right relationship with our world, and with ourselves.

It’s an offering to the Earth and to the Heavens, a Thanksgiving, and A Prayer of Gratitude.

In order to create a Despacho, the Altomisayoc must perfect a specific Shamanistic Manoeuvre, the Harmonization and Balancing of three “BANDS” or levels of consciousness: yankay, the physical universe, yachay, the spiritual or wisdom realm, and munay, the feeling or heart centre.

The Despacho contains symbols of everything: The Elements, The Four Directions, Weather, Clouds around Mountains, Rainbows, Lakes, Rivers, Fruits of, Earth, Stars, human labour, Emotions, Ideas, and so on. Every item represents a part of the Andean Cosmology, is imbued with intent for connection to the Mountains and the Cosmos, and affects the totality of energy in the universe. When the offering is completed, the entire assemblage is folded, ties and wrapped in a sacred weaving.  It is then offered to the Forces of Nature either by burning, burying, or by casting into water. The energy of collective intention captured and contained in the Despacho is thus released into the universe, where its message of reciprocity and gratitude can reach the most appropriate agent for manifestation. The result is renewed harmony and balance in ordinary life.

Ayni.. The word itself means reciprocity, “As I give so shall I receive”  ‘Whatever I sow, so shall I Reap’

This is a beautiful way to Dream our world into being.

When we create an Ayni Despacho we do this to manifest into our world all that we need in order to step into our becoming.

As we work with our Despacho we create a harmonious energy and we envision a world of Munay (Love), of balance and abundance that we can step into.

The Shamans have always known that by aligning ourselves to the forces of nature, the natural forces of the universe. We are able to create a reality that doesn’t collude with the collective dream of scarcity, lack and fear, but a reality based on the natural forces of the universe which are powerful, creative and vital.

When we come into right relationship with the earth, with the heavens and with ourselves we align ourselves with this natural life force of the universe. The life force that flows through every living thing that informs every living atom. We live in an abundant world that is naturally beautiful. The Shaman when creating the Ayni Despacho holds a vision of what is possible for the world that is based on beauty and abundance, the sweetness, the nectar of life and the wisdom that we all inherently hold.

The Despacho is a prayer that allows us to thank the universe for that which we are about to receive! And it does this in the spirit of service to the Family/ Community/ Village/ Society that we live in.

Because when each of us grants ourselves the gift of Abundance, we become Abundant, Radiant, Generous Human beings who do what they love and love what they do. So Creating a World in Balance.

Preparation:

Andean Weavings – Paper any colour: - The offering is created on Andean Weavings that represent the masculine and feminine in balance. (If you are unable to obtain Andean Weavings then please use Paper, any colour). White paper, for clarity, is placed on the weavings for a base.

Large piece of paper: - Represents an envelope of dreams which we will write with prayers.  – Fold into 1/3 d’s horizontally and vertically to create 9 squares. –

Red Wine, Vodka, White Wine : - As the Cermony begins, Red wine, Vodka is offered to the Spirits of the Mountains and to Mother Earth.

Toss the two drinks outside the paper to bring together heave and earth, to call the elementals of the three worlds.

(Red Wine) Blood of Pachamama (earth) Call on Pachamamma to Bless this first layer. Hold glass; pray into it. Use a red flower to sprinkle the Despacho with the Red Wine. “Be with us, thank you Pachamama for our lives” Thank you for nourishing and nurturing us.

(Vodka) Offering to the Mountain Spirits, The holy Mountains. Call on the Montains to bless the Despacho. Use a white flower to sprinkle the Despacho with spirit. “Be with us, thank you Apus, Montain Spirits”. Thank you for your wisdom.

 Sugar: - Represents – Love and the sweetness of life.  Place sugar on all four corners of the paper – representing four corners of the world and the four elements. – Make small cross in the centre of the paper with the sugar to represent the Soughtern Corss. “What is in heaven is reflected back to me” “As above so below”.  Use sugar liberally throughout.

Incense: - A bed of incense is laid, to carry the prayers of the offering into the cosmos. Any aromatic flower/essences

Flower petals : - (Red for Pachamama, White for Mountains) are laid in a pattern, commonly in a circle ( clock wise), four directions, cross, or flower pattern, depending on the intent.

Rice: - Sprinkle rice over the whole paper for fertility/abundance/to bring our prayers to fruition.

The Medicine Persons and all the participants feed each other Coco Leaves (Bay Leaves in UK) – the sacred plant of the Andes – into which their prayers / wish’s have been blown.  These gifts are a sign of community and strengthen connections. For the Inca there is no word for ‘I’ so that each Leave represents the community / the village / us and grows in intention as it is passed around each person blows their intention/prayer into it.

Coco Leaves (Bay Leaves):- 3 sets of coco leaves (Bay leaves), called Kintus, each person involved prays, use your right hand clockwise blows into their leaves clock wise, with intent (wish’s, forgiveness, better health, relationships etc) ask for what they wish for themselves, ask for what they wish for the earth, prayers of the earth, prayers of manifestation, and prayers for this land. Passing the leaves around the group allows the prayers to gather momentum by each participant, and then placed in a pattern on the offering, again reflecting the particular intent.

Uhupacha – Keepers of the riches of Pachamama.

Kaypacha – Middle World.

Hanaqpacha – Upper World – The Luminous Beings.

3 sets of Coco Leaves (Bay Leaves) assembled face up stem down together, these represent: 3 worlds

3 Worlds :  Uhupacha – Keepers of the riches of Pachamama. – Underworld. - Kaypacha – Middle World.  - Hanaqpacha – Upper World – The Luminous Beings.

3 qualities:  Power (Yanquay) – Love ( Munay) – Intellect (Yanchay)

2 States of Self Past:  Present – Future – Becoming.

Give SOUND to these prayers / Give voice to your Intent. Intention is everything. When prayer comes from our deepest self, it becomes a Mantra, and allows us to access the bridge all possibilities.

BREATH: -  The most important act of doing a Despacho is the BREATH. It’s an active prayer of engaging the sacred. Breathe into the Leaves. Tell it who you are (who you really are merged with your external identity), Tell it your myths, your wounds, your contracts, your promises. Tell it who you are becoming. Call on all the place of source: Apus (mountains) Pachamama (earth). Call on your teachers, anyone and everyone who has contributed to who you are now. 

With your right hand clockwise place Leaves onto this foundation layer.

Shell:  Place 1 x shell in the middle; this represents the womb of Pachamama our source / birthplace. Holds us and nourishes us. Provides us with opportunity and safety. Represents mother of water – Sachamama – Great Serpent.

Figurine: (Male & Female) Represents the Masculine and Feminine within. Complementary opposites (Yananti/Mesinti) balance / communion.

After the initial “Bed” is created, some or all of the symbolic representations are prayed over, offered up, and added:

Everything after this Basic Foundation can be created as you wish:

When the contents of the Bed of your Despacho are complete, typically encircle them with a long thread or piece of yarn, often this string is died with colours of the rainbow. Place your Red and White flowers, then your cotton wool.  Sprinkle with Red & White Wine.

The yarn  weaves together our prayers and offering and bring them into harmony.

We seek to create a vortex of energy in order to manifest our prayers.

The corners of the large paper are then folded over the contents so that they (all corners) touch at the centre.

The Despacho is now a smaller square.

The new corners of the square are also folded to the centre.

Tie the Despacho with white and yellow yarn.

White – Clarity

Yellow - Harmony

Wrap in a cloth and use to cleanse the energy body of everyone participating in the ceremony.

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE DESPACHO NOW?

There are several options.

Bury the Despacho – for slow steady results.

Burn the Despacho – for an explosive transformation

Or feed it to Running Waters ceremonially within a reasonable amount of time.

Possible ingredients:

This is a short list of the possible meanings to be used in Despacho offerings. You can add to this list or substitute other items that could also have a similar interpretation.

VEGETABLE PRODUCTS
although this is a generic list, many refinements can be made by proper selection of the specific harvest, location, and quality of the products listed below. In all cases, the item should be evaluated energetically through dowsing or divination in order to determine its qualities and meaning.

COPAL:                                                 Offering to the Lower World, the Shadow
FRANKINCENSE:                               Offering to the Upper World, the Light
PALO SANTO:                                    Holds Space for our Prayers
COCA:                                                   Sacred Wisdom of the Mother
TOBACCO:                                           Offering to the Sky Father
SAGE:                                                    Purification, Banishment of the Negative

ANISE:                                                  Celebration, The Senses
BERRIES:                                              Rewards, Fruits of Labour. CRANBERRIES – Native Berries to our Lands.
CEDAR:                                                 Wisdom of the Forest
CORN:                                                   A Gift of the Earth, Our Daily Sustenance. Growing corn in our lives.
CORNMEAL:                                       Offering to the Earth Mother
COTTON:                                             Dreams, Clouds, Mountain Snows
FIGS:                                                     Ancient Mountain Spirits
FLOWERS:                                           The Beauty of Nature, the Power of Light, Reproduction & Fertility. YELLOW for healing.
GARLIC:                                                Absorption of the Negative, Banishment
GRAINS:                                               Sustenance, Abundance
LAVENDER:                                         Purity, Purification
LAUREL:                                               Sacredness, Victory over Adversity
LEAVES:                                                Honouring Nature Spirits
LIMA BEANS:                                     Sacred Places, Huaqas, Power Spots
LIQUOR:                                               High Energy, Honouring the Spirit World, our Ancestors
PEANUTS:                                           Caves, Places for Elemental Spirits, Old Trees, Plant People
POLLEN:                                               Offering to all Living Creatures
RAISINS:                                              Offering to the Dead. Spirit of our Ancestors / Healing for them and us
RICE:                                                      Offerings to the Spirit World. Abundance, Fertility of our dreams and prayers and thanks.
SWEETS:                                               Fertility, Beginnings, Potential.  
SUGAR:                                                Sweetness, Feeding the Spirits
VEGETABLE OIL:                                Our connection to the Nourishing Power of Nature
WAYRUROS:                                       Seed of Protection
WINE, RED:                                         Honouring the Mother, Menstrual Blood
WINE, WHITE:                                    Honouring the Moon, Fluids of Purification, Urine

ANIMAL PRODUCTS:
Please note that specific animals or animal products will lend to the item the resonances proper to that animal, species, or individual. A quail egg, for example is very different from an eagle egg. A chicken's first egg is also distinct from her later eggs, and so on.

ANIMAL SHAPES:             Honouring our Relatives in the Animal Kingdom
FAT:                                       Purest form of energy
BLOOD:                                Life Force
BONE:                                   Our Inner Core, Structure, Connection to Animal Relatives
CORAL:                                 The Power of the Sea, The Subconscious
EGGS:                                   The Unborn, Purity, Healing
FEATHERS:                          Connection to Birds and to Native American wisdom
FETUS:                                  The Unborn, Pure Potential
FUR:                                      Boundaries, Our Relations in Nature
HUMAN HAIR:                   Honouring our Connection to the Animal World
INSECTS:                              Time, The Web of Life
MILK:                                    Connection to the Mother, Honouring Trees
PEARLS:                                Infinite Wisdom & Purity
STARFISH:                           Foundations, Successful New Beginnings
SEAHORSE:                         Delicacy & Balance
SHELLS:                                 Power of the Waters: Depth, Faith, Flexibility

MAN-MADE SYMBOLS & SYMBOLS:

ALPHABET NOODLES:     Language of the Soul, The Unwritten
ASHES:                                  Offering to Our Personal Ancestors
BEARS: P                              Personal Power
BUTTERFLIES:                     Happiness, Spontaneity
CANDLES:                            Celebrations & Rejoicing
CANDY:                                Compassion & Love. Represents the sweetness of life
CIRCLES:                               Completion, Good Luck
CONFETTI:                           Happiness, Celebrations
COINS:                                  Good Fortune, Wealth
IMAGES OF COUPLES:    Marriage, Love, Reproduction
CROSSES:                             Decisions, Coming Together
DICE:                                     Good Luck
FISH:                                      Abundance, Prosperity
FLUTES:                                                Voices of the Ancestors
FROGS:                                 Keepers & Guardians of the Waters
GOLD LEAF:                        Wisdom, Direct Knowledge from Nature. Message from the Mother
SILVER LEAF:                      Intuition, Clairvoyance, Message from the Moon
GOLD THREAD:                  Connection to the Earth Mother
HANDS:                                Sensitivity, Mastery
HEARTS:                               Working from Love, from the Centre
HOLY WATER:                    Blessings, Protection
KNOTS:                                 The Web of Life, Interdependence
MEN:                                     The Masculine Principle
MOON:                                The Feminine Principle, The Shadow, Nourishment
RAINBOWS:                        Meeting of Ordinary and Extraordinary
RABBITS:                              Fertility, Reproduction
SEQUINS:                            Happiness, Joy, Celebrations
SILVER THREAD:                Connection to the Mountain Spirits
SKULLS:                                Power of the Past, Power of the Ancestors
STARS:                                  Hope, Aspiration
SUN:                                      The Masculine Principle, The Light, Creation
SUN & MOON:                  Balance of Opposites, Harmonization
BUDDHA:                             Enlightenment, Attainment
THE GODDESS:                  The Feminine Principle Made Flesh
THUNDERBOLT:                Expression, Power of the Voice,
TURTLES:                             Healing Power
WOMEN:                             The Feminine Principle

GOLD BEADS                      Represents the Sun

SILVER BEADS                    Represents the Moon

GOLD CORD                        Connection to Earth

SILVER CORD                      Connection to Mountain Spirits

CHOCOLATE                       For the Earth

SEEDS                                    That Feed Us

LENTILES                              Abundance of the earth

SPRINKLES                          Represent the elementals

LIQUORICE                          Protection

MONEY                                                To ensure successfulness of Despacho – Measure of success

COTTON WOOL                 Clouds – Provider of waters

RAINBOW YARN               Connects the Clouds / Bridge between the Worlds / Rainbow

RED YARN                            Path of life (Red Thread)

MINERALS:
Various minerals will resonate differently with different traditions, but some aspects are common to all. There are nuances, however, depending on place or origin, manner of extraction, the relative age of the mineral, in whose possession it might have been, and so on. Old jewellery is a valuable source of quality minerals that can be also understood as being returned to the Mother, especially in burial despachos.

GOLD:                                   Masculine, The Sun, Insight
SILVER:                                 Feminine, The Moon, Intuition
AGATE:                                 Acceptance, Emotional & Physical Balance, Raises Consciousness
AMBER:                                Protection, Memory, Calming
AMETHYST:                         Higher Knowledge, Insight, Grounded Psychic Growth, Courage, Self-esteem
AVENTURINE:                    Joy, Mental Clarity, Positive Attitudes
BLOODSTONE:                   Blood & Heart Healing, Vitality, Courage, Higher States of Consciousness
CALCITE:                              Astral Projection, Balances Yin/Yang qualities
CITRINE:                               Successful Relationships, Letting go of Addictions, Self Confidence
COPPER:                              The Earth’s Gift, Conductivity
DIAMOND:                         Removes Blockages, Balances the Mind, Sexuality & Power
FLUORITE:                           Practicality, Getting Things Done, Ability to Perceive Higher Levels of Reality
GARNET:                              Circulation, Stimulates Imagination, Self-esteem & Willpower, Calms Anger
HEMATITE:                          Protection, Aids Astral Projection, Increases Self-Esteem
HERKIMER:                         Cleanses Subtle Bodies, Past life Memory, Clairvoyance & Dream work
IRON:                                    Strength, Persistence, Endurance, Direction
JADE:                                     Good Luck & Prosperity, Strong Immune System, Divine Love, Protection
LOADSTONE:                      The Power to Attract & Bind Together
MOONSTONE:                   Open up to feminine qualities: Receptivity, Intuition, Sensitivity, Clairvoyance
OBSIDIAN:                          Removal of Obstacles & Negativity, Prophetic Vision
OPAL:                                    Protection, Cosmic Consciousness, Intuition, Emotional Balance
PERIDOT:                             Clarity, Patience, Clairvoyance, Positive Emotional Outlooks
PYRITE:                                 Material Realization, Good Fortune, Eases Anxiety
CLEAR QUARTZ:                Purity of Perception, Purity of Intention
ROSE QUARTZ:                 Love & Romance, Purity of Feeling, Confidence, Expression, Creativity
SMOKEY QUARTZ:           Purification, Elimination of Shadow Aspects, Fertility, Creativity, Joy
RUTILATE QUARTZ:         Breaks old Patterns, Childhood Blockages, Ease Depression
RHODOCHROSITE:           Cleansing of Subconscious, Self-Identity, Strengthens Androgyny
RUBY:                                    Spiritual Balance, Heart Healing, Confidence, Flexibility, Vitality, Leadership
SALT:                                     Protection, Boundaries
SAPPHIRE:                           Communication w. Spirit Guides, Clairvoyance, Telepathy, Expression
TIGER EYE:                           Works on Mass Consciousness to Separates Desire from Need
TOURMALINE                    Dispels Fear, Negativity & Grief, Promotes Balance, Eases Compulsiveness
TURQUOISE:                      Fresh Starts, Offering to the Ancestors, Strength of Entire Body, Protection