Journey 22 - Hernia Healing

11/14: My morning Journey took me to try to discover how I can heal my hernia patch from within. I smudged the room with Sweet Grass and Sage, lit the Sacred Candle, and took off self-drumming. I was sitting atop one of a whole grouping of trees, in very warm and pleasingly moist air..near perfect summer air. In the distance I saw Owl flying and looping toward me, but a horizontally placed reflection was coming with him. There were, that is, two Owls, one on the left, one on the right, whose motions were mirror images of each other. When Owl got to me, though, he converged into one. We took off together and flew through the Sky Cloud Tunnel into the Higher World. I was suddenly inside an old-style western saloon, and there was a Native sitting in old-west clothing on one side of a bench near the window. He was controlling the motions of the sun and moon from there..in the sky one could see the two bodies moving up or down at the command of his hand. This told me he was able to alter the flow of time. He then had me sit beside him, and he changed me back into a young boy, apparently so my body could revisit and relearn the DNA code for the structure of the torn muscle prior to the injury. To remember how it should be, that is. I was then returned to my current age. He then sent me alone out to a semi-wooded area next to a pond..there were trees and shrubs as well as lots of clear dirt areas. Very pretty. I instinctively lay face down on the dirt, to place my body next to Mother Earth to advance the healing of this muscle. Then, I was transported to the Chipmunk hole near the feeding area out back in our yard. I was made to lie with the damaged muscle area right over the opening. From the opening came little “energy Ants”, packets of energy that flowed individually into the area, to begin recombining the muscle fibers. I lay like that for a while. That was the end of the Journey, and Owl and I rushed back to the room, where I thanked all the Helpers and took a nap. I’m not sure if I’m to actually lay on the ground now for healing, to do it in the Spirit World, or both. Obviously focusing on how the muscle should look is also very important, and suggested by my conversion to being a boy again. Additionally important is to see the “energy ants” at work all the time. Finally, the “reflective” nature of the Owl’s approach at the start reminds me to keep looking at the alternate side of reality..the yin as well as the yang. Light as well as dark. The Heyoka principle, very important to Shaman perspective and success. I am very grateful for this trip and the information provided.