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There are two kinds of Shaman. Some people have a gift and study for years to develop that gift into a powerful healing art. Ross is what is called a natural Shaman, someone who was born blessed with a natural gift for healing. Ross has studied traditional shamanism and has brought the core of the ancient traditions into a form that can be used by people of our culture and time. In a former life, Ross was president of an advertising agency and a communications executive. After that, he taught creative thinking. Seeing the limitations that fear placed on people's creative passions and the limitations it brought in his own life brought Ross to undertake a spiritual journey in search of answers. That journey covered many miles and several continents. Ross had a private healing practice in Santa Fe for 20 years and relocated several years ago to Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1998 Ross wrote his first book Healing The Shadow, which looks at the dark forces in our lives, their powerful role in affecting us and how we can deal with them. In 2004 Ross released his second book, Truth which offers a spiritual explanation of life and offers many healing techniques. In January of 2008 Ross released his third book, Journey to Enlightenment. Here is a snippet from his writing on "Inner Peace" Years ago I learned about spirituality through Zen meditation. I sat morning and evening, religiously (if you will pardon the pun), seven days a week, at least twice a day. I got calm, my breathing deepened and the world slowed down as I began to focus on what was really important in life. My friends noticed the changes occurring in me. I went deep. I touched a place of inner peace and calm I had no idea even existed. Here is a snippet from his writing on "Having a Problem" Let’s assume that you are having a problem. You want your life to be better. You wish, you hope, maybe you even pray. You put affirmations up on your refrigerator, cut pictures out of magazines or call a psychic that one of your friends used. The thing most people do not realize is that The Universe does respond. What happens is that a life experience will be created to show you the ways in which you push love or abundance or whatever else it is that you have asked for away. In other words, you will get a lesson, or what I am going to call a "learning opportunity." These problems provide an opening for you to examine the resistance you have created to whatever it is you have asked for. This means that you will most likely experience a failure, and it can feel like torture. After all, you have asked for help, and instead of being given salve, you get sandpaper. And to be fair, we must remember that you are not starting out in the best frame of mind, anyway. But this is the route you must take in order to receive what you have asked for because that is where the problem is! The block to abundance or love or peace or whatever it is you desire, isn’t on God’s end, it’s on yours! I will say that again, the difficulty isn’t on God’s end. It's on yours, so that’s where you will have to go to fix it! Here is a snippet from his writing on "Choosing Compassion" I pass by gyms or yoga studios and see people busily working out or running outdoors in order to improve their health and look great and I want to say to them, “If you really want to live longer and improve the quality of your life, pay attention to all those self-condemning inner thoughts that you use to rip yourself to shreds!” If people could see the affect that these thoughts had on their life expectancy, they would stop them in a heartbeat. Those thoughts are more damaging than being overweight. Actually, it is not an either/or situation. We need to get rid of both. These have been just a few examples of who Shaman Ross Bishop is, to get to know him better and to see if he can help you, go to his web site. Ross writes extensively about life and spirituality on his web site. His articles, books and CDs can be found at: http://www.rossbishop.com |
