Sandra Johnson-Pettigrew
‘Every life has a challenge - every heart has an answer’.
We each hold the answers to our own truth, health and happiness. There is no one way to find that truth. I'm a breast cancer survivor, mother, grandmother and crone. I have spent a lifetime exploring inner truth and well being. My mission is to pay forward all I have learned in this wonderful, crazy search. I have experience as a Drug and Alcohol Counselor, Suicide Prevention Coordinator, 30+ years as a Massage Therapist and am a Certified HeartMath® Coach and Trainer. I have practiced shamanic journeying since 1993.
Healing is personal for me as a breast cancer survivor. After chemo, a few surgeries and a lot of help from friends, family, loved ones and Spirit, I am now cancer free. I worked full time during my treatments finding it helped me focus outside of myself and keep a positive attitude.
I treated my cancer in the best way I knew and then allowed myself to heal from the chemicals that filled my body and the surgeries I chose to discourage any cancers from returning. I then took a three month trip around this incredible country and Mexico. I got home and fell into darkness. We can ‘know’ something and not really ‘do’ the practice needed to experience the benefits. The spiritual practices I studied for years needed to be ‘remembered’ and ‘practiced’. After a year dancing with my shadow I reconnected to Spirit and Light.
Then our culture changed. CoVid happened, and divisions in our culture, country and world that began long ago loomed larger and larger. I’m finding many of us are struggling to feel ‘okay’ in the chaos that the world is feeling. Through my connection with LIght and Spirit I am able to maintain my own truths and my personal world that gives me peace. My existance isn’t only linear on this planet … it transends the concept of physical knowing. I’m connected to a guidance and belonging that comes from Source. I want to ‘pay forward’ this knowing and a way to light the darkness.
Grounding Running/Energy Exercise
Before beginning any conscious connection, such as running energy, I do Heart Focused Breathing:
SHIFT FOCUS – focus on the area around the heart. This is the energy center (chakra) that connects our more physical connections to earth energy and the higher cosmic energy from the God, Source or the All. Imagine your breath flowing in and out of that chakra.
SHIFT BREATH – breathe a bit slower and deeper than usual. A count of 5-8 in, then out, will help you to keep steady, even breathing in and out through the heart.
SHIFT EMOTION – activate a positive or renewing emotion or feeling. Feel a time you experienced compassion, love, awe. Complete love. An original memory for me was the awesomeness I felt overlooking the Grand Canyon, or an incredible sunset/sunrise. The feeling that all is right with the world and I am filled with love.
I suggest doing this for at least 2 minutes
AND THEN ….
The pranic tube is an energetic tube that follows the energy centers (chakras) in our bodies. We can bring God Source and physical earth energy into our bodies using this pathway. It runs from the crown to the perinium.
Connect to the Earth, the physical planet, by imagining a chord dropping from the heart down through the perineum area all the way to the center of the planet. Some visualize following a tree root. Acknowledge and honor that earth energy and bring it up following the prana path through each chakra to your heart. Remember, healthy energy is light, translucent, moving and vibrant. Notice the color and substance of this energy and hold it in your heart.
Connect to Source – the All, the God Source. From your heart imagine a chord running from your heart through the crown chakra and connecting all the way up to your source. Connect and bring in that energy. Open the crown chakra, like a lotus blossom or camera lens and allow it to flow through the prana tube into your heart. Notice the color of this clean, light energy and hold it in your heart.
Running this energy through the prana tube, exit through the crown and rain through the body’s field of energy (aura) re-entering the prana tube at the root chakra creating a torus. Keep doing this until you feel energized and balanced.
Return the focus to your heart. Thank your higher self and fill your heart with light that emanates throughout your energy field. Breathe that in a few minutes and return to this gift called life.
With love and light.
Sandra’s links
An Intrepid Heart (website)
Sandra’s Society for Shamanic Practice page
Sandra’s email: anintrepidheart@gmail.com