The Body Deva

ldquo;All of Mary Shutan’s work is brilliant. Her fourth book, The Body Deva, may very well be her best thus far. This book allows the reader to connect with their own body’s wisdom in a grounded way that is an important step to greater self-connection and spiritual growth. There is a lot of material available that takes a person’s spiritual journey outside of themselves; The Body Deva brings you back into yourself.”

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Mary Mueller Shutan is an acupuncturist, herbalist, craniosacral therapist, zero balancer, and spiritual healer. Author of The Spiritual Awakening Guide and Managing Psychic Abilities, she has helped hundreds of people worldwide through her programs and consultations. She lives near Chicago, Illinois.

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A step-by-step guide to accessing the body deva, your body consciousness, for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing

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**Chapter 5

Working with Contracts

Just as we may have made written or oral agreements with our work, landlords, or others, we are continually energetically engaged in the creation of agreements with ourselves and others. The difference with an energetic contract is that they are primarily subconscious– we are not fully conscious when taking on a contract that we are shifting our beliefs and perceptions as well as our identity and outer reality.

An energetic contract is an agreement that results in a change of perception or a taking on of roles or responsibilities…

Releasing Held Contracts

It is likely by this point you have thought about a contract that you may have. If you do not have a specific contract that you would like to work on, you can also ask your body deva to show you where in your body a contract may be held.

• Ask your body deva to highlight or show you where this specific contract (or where a contract is if you are keeping things open or do not know of one) is held in your body

• Do a body scan and note areas of your body that you are drawn to or seem highlighted to you - If multiple areas show up, ask your body deva which is most important to work on, to work on first, or to work on today
• Ask the body deva or the individual consciousness of the body part that you have found what the contract is that is held there

• Simply sit until you get a clear sense of what this contract may be

• This may not be a clear understanding. This may be a sense of knowing, a picture, or something that doesn’t compute with what you have experienced in this world. Simply note whatever comes up, no matter how strange
• Continue to ask this part of your body for more information: tell me more until you get a sense of what this contract may be

• Ask the consciousness of your body: what belief or understanding about myself, the world, or about people (men or women) is held here?

• If what comes through is unclear, again ask to be told more
• If there is resistance, you can move to working with the resistant part of yourself
• If there is lack of clarity, you may simply need to do a few sessions with this body part (you can return another day) to find out what is going on. Often we need to “digest” information when it becomes conscious, and so whatever we can become conscious of concerning a contract, even if it seems vague, is a wonderful starting point.

• You will ask the consciousness of this body part to tell you about the circumstances of what happened.

• Who was involved?
• How old was I?
• If this were a scene on a television, what would be going on in that scene?

• What is the contract here?

• We are asking again for purposes of clarity, and to get as close to the wording of the contract that we created as possible.
• Remember that a contract is often a belief that you have on some level agreed to and taken on. This can be taken on directly or in reaction.

• If the information that you are receiving does not come in context with your experiences here (it was passed down to you), you can either choose to continue if you have the capacity to pick up information, or may choose to inquire as to where the information is coming from

• Ask your body deva or the individual consciousness of the body part if it is ancestral (family) or past life
• Remember, when you ask your body slowly (pausing between each choice) there will be an indicator (typically a sense of knowing or a change in energy in the area of the body you are exploring) that will indicate which choice (past life or family/ancestral) is correct.
• Occasionally there are multiple contracts. If this is the case, you will ask if any are from your timeline, or your experiences here, and work on those first.
• If it is from beyond your own experiences here you still want to get a sense of what was happening, the beliefs created, and the agreement that was formed. The work in further chapters will more helpfully guide you to and through this process.

• Once you know what the contract is, and largely what age, you will consider if you need the contract. Do you need it fully, partially, or not at all?

• Ask the consciousness of your body for guidance about this. We would all like to release anything that restricts us, but we may not be fully ready to.
• Respecting the body and offering compassion will allow for contracts to change more readily than forcing things to leave.

• If you do not want the contract at all, you will visualize yourself at the appropriate age to the best of your abilities and let her know that you understand why the contract was formed, but that she no longer needs it any more.

• Ask your individual body part/consciousness if it realizes that it is holding on to an outdated contract

• Ask that the individual consciousness of the body part you are working with clear the contract

• Ask that the body deva (the consciousness of your body as a whole) release the contract more fully as well as integrate that body part with the rest of your body map to whatever extent it is able to

Contenu
Introduction

PART ONE
Introductory Work

1 The Body Deva

2 Working with Resistance and Blocks

3 Working with Fear and Emotions

4 Working with Inner Children

PART TWO
Intermediate and Advanced Work

5 Working with Contracts

6 Healing In Utero

7 Healing Family and Ancestry

8 Healing Past Lives

9 Healing Cultural Energies

10 Working with Archetypes and the Multitude of Selves

11 Healing the Central Myth

12 Tying Things Together

**Closing Thoughts

Further Resources

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