Power Animal Experiences - Bear Energy

Power Animal Experiences - Bear Energy 
​Written By Anja Mays

Sometimes being introduced to an animal’s energy field within the shamanic practice seems to be very easy. A lot of healers, teachers and artists are freely sharing their experiences, creating card sets and beautiful art work. You can choose a card in ceremony  and read the thoughts and teachings of somebody else. 

To experience an animal’s energy on its own in wilderness or on a shamanic journey or a clear dream for me is totally different - when one is totally aware of the moment given. Animals appear in special unforgettable moments, in dreams and visions. They appear in unusual shapes and are able to speak and to communicate on a level which is truly ‘the unseen world’. No-one beside yourself is seeing it and making the individual experience - very intimate and privately - and always precise - if you listen. 

Bear energy for me is one of the special experiences I had. At a given moment I needed advice on which path to walk on to come into my power. On a shamanic drum journey I asked my helping spirits for advice. Until that point I had known a little brown bear from my prior experiences, a bit like ‘Baloo the Bear’ in the ‘The Jungle Book’ by Rudyard Kipling, a really funny bear, always looking for honey bees, playful and joyful. 
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On this specific journey the bear spirit appeared and I was invited to ride on his back. He instantly started running. He ran through forests without looking right or left, just straight ahead, as if he had a specific route and path to follow. 

The landscape changed and woods became Tundra, so it seemed that our journey had turned North. Finally the Tundra ended as well and the ocean appeared right in front of us. In between the brown bear had changed his fur color and become white. At the ocean he stepped onto ice and like a boat this ice moved north. ​

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Animals appear in special unforgettable moments, in dreams and visions. They appear in unusual shapes and are able to speak and to communicate on a level which is truly ‘the unseen world’. 

​Here we met an old, old woman in a tent - made of bones.

Here I saw: 

​My prayer had been answered and bear was the guide between the ‘seen’ and the ‘unseen’ world, knowing where to go to ask for guidance from another spirit. Following the advice had been my task and I had done so, freely trusting that all would be well, because the answers came from deep within. No-one else to trust - just to trust myself and inner guidance. 

Bear spirit appeared again in the following years, being the mediator between the seen and the unseen world for me, young and playful, old and wise or exactly as the predator which he is in the ‘seen’ world. 
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Thank you, Bear Spirit for your guidance.