The practitioner may also bring back to the client the knowledge and power of the client’s totems or power animals. All people have power animals, regardless of their nationality. Compassionate animal spirits have taken on the job of protecting us from misfortune. They can do this here in our material world, as well as in the dreamtime. These totems bring us literal power as well as loan us some of our qualities. It can be very helpful to know of the totems that will be with us from birth to death, because knowing them we can know more about our own nature. Calling on the totems and creating relationship with them increases the level of their ability to help us and empower us in our daily lives, not just in extremity. Children respond wonderfully and intuitively to this knowledge and totems have been helpful in dispelling fears and night terrors for children.
Betsy Bergstrom
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