Black Bear Totem

Black Bear is known for its period of hibernation. Bear can help us with the ability to turn inward to access our strength and honor your nature cycles. He teaches us when it is time to act and when it is time to be still.

Keyword Summary: going within, sweetness of life.

The bear hibernates and goes within. Bear energy is the energy that seeks your deepest truths. And with the finding of your truth comes the honey of life �?the sweetness that comes with knowing who you truly are.

Bear energy helps you to go within and touch the great void where creation and you come from. By entering silence we give ourselves the opportunity to return to the world stronger and wiser.

Bear energy is also about taking the courage that to stop thinking is not to die because we are so much more than our thoughts. So take a break, go within yourself and introspect. From the true place of bear we can see that life is like a dream to us and that our deeper self is not so tied with earthly concerns.

To have with you the symbol of bear is to state your intention to travel within and connect with the places where intuition and "knowing without thinking" are the rulers. Some activities that can help support this connection are meditation, dreaming, long walks by yourself and switching off the television.

Black Bear is the most common totem bear The black bears qualities include: Discernment Observation Practicality Totem bears in general including the black bear are associated with the following medicine. (See the information below)

Keywords:

Introspection Hibernation black bear totem medicine Being Reflection Digestion Void West

Element:

Earth

Teachings:

Bear teaches us: To turn inwards for guidance That a period of reflection and time to digest is necessary in order to grow and be reborn in the spring How to accomplish our goals through introspection How to bring dreams into concrete reality That we all have the answers within us (our inner knowing) That there is a time for playfulness and a time to be assertive

How to Apply Bear's Teachings to Your Life:

Have you been 'doing' rather than 'being' leaving little time for reflection. When we enter the void the place of emptiness and silence we give ourselves the opportunity to be nurtured by simply being one with the universe. Being brave enough to honor that time in ones life where you need to retreat enables great things to be born. After all that same state of nothingness was present before the universe was born. Imagine what can be born within you if you allow yourself the time of hibernation. Have you been searching for advice outside of yourself ignoring the knowing within. You know how to accomplish your goals if only you would allow yourself the time to ask and receive this information. Write your dreams and goals down on a piece of paper explore how you feel about these goals. Are they your own or are they another's ideas of success and happiness. Own your dreams. Are you true to your boundaries? Are you assertive when you need to be and playful when you want to be? Could you introduce a little more play time and drop the need to be so serious. Bear cubs are extremely happy being playful as are their parents. They live this balance. Mother nature nurtures everyone. Is it time for you to rest on the earth in the arms of our mother. Spend some time connecting to nature. Lying supported by her body becoming her. Feel her energy fill you. If you find it difficult to feel try imagining a cord extending from your heart to earth. Visualise energy coming from her through this cord to you.

How to Harness Bear Energy:

Begin a dream journal Meditate Curl up under your covers in bed and reflect on your dreams Read about bear Draw bears Explore caves black bear totem medicine Eat salmon

Communication:

Because of bears attributes it would be ideal to call on bear while in a meditative state Call on bear to communicate to you through your dreams

Prayer:

A quieting of the mind as turning inward begins May I share the womb of our mother with you Teach me to honor my cycles and the need to be nurtured until knowing sets in black bear totem medicine Here I am one with my dreams Black Bear totem Medicine