What is a Power Place?

Big Power Places are to be found world wide.

They are also called Sacred Places.

But we can also create our own, personal Power Place.

The design and character of the place 

entirely depends on your purpuse.

Power Place. What is that?

Actually we are all familiar with this idea, but it is probably often so natural for us that we do not think about it. But we know that if we are used to do something special at a special place our mind will remember this activity together with the place.
Let´s say that you sit in a sofa and you read a book. Next time you sit down in that sofa you will automatically remember what you read in that book. If you enter the kitchen you will get an impulse to make food (or whatever you have been doing here earlier). The memory of the place and the memory of an action are stored together in our subconscious mind and now they attract each other like magnets. One will be together with the other one.

People who become gurus or shamans have a long education where introspection is a main method for learning. They learn how the human psyche is working and then they pick out the clearest pieces and from them they make methods that they concentrate into ceremonies.
When we meet with these concepts in their ceremonies we get very impressed and we think that they are magical. They are magical only in the sense that they are discovered, polished and presented in a mythological form, which makes a strong impression. The purpose is to arise and focus energy, but that can always give result. We send signals to other dimensions also when we do not call it magic.

Such a teacher is interested in presenting his teaching in a living form that is similar to theatre, which makes a stronger impression than any explanaition would do. When you participate in an action you will remember it. That is also why such ceremonies are filled up with special tools, medicine items with colors and symbols. They can also be conducted with special words that are not being used in the normal day to day life. The action with the place, the songs, the mantras and the tools and words will be remembered for a long time and continue to deliver the teaching that was intended. With many such events stored in your memory you will be walking around with an inner teacher.
The thing is that a very strong experience gives a strong memory.

My own place!

One of the mystic concepts that have been taught to us is the Power Place. It is just a focused blow up of something that we should already have known. We also often know it without thinking about it.
Such a place is a place for communication with something. You are the one that is constructing your Power Place so you are the one that choses the place and how it should look, the furnishings, the colors and the pictures. Even the smell. You are the one that chooses what kind of activity that should be performed here and how the rules are. Now what happens is that with focusing always on the same kind of activity here your inspiration will get stronger and stronger. You can now say that the place has a spirit. It means that you should be careful with your thoughts here. Only focus on those ideas and emotions that you want to attract, grow and be part of. That´s why a a power place can also be called a Sacred Place.

You can shut the door behind you to be alone with your own chosen spirits, in the same way as the Red Indian is closing his medicine wheel with stones and commands. This is quite normal and we do it automatically. It only turns into something magical when you get aware of it and call it magic. Magical here does not mean more than a focus point that is apart from the rest of the world. 

The person is now the owner of his own space and other people who are allowed to come in will feel it. To meet your boss in his room at his office is not exactly the same as meeting him in the dentist´s waiting room.

This is the same as the territory of an animal. An animal is in his own territory much more strong and confident while visitors have much less power. In his own home a dog can chase away anyone while in someone else´s home he might just be hiding under the sofa. Especially cats can be like this.
We are in the same way. We are much more confident in our own space and much more cautious in someone else´s home. You can throw your pullover on the floor in your own home, but don´t do it when you are visiting someone else! You might violate the unspoken rules of the owner of that home!

Are you introvert?

Some people are extrovert, outgoing and sociable and enjoy being around everywhere. They seem to get energy from being with other people and do not seem to have to hide away from the world to charge the batteries.
But an introvert person often (always?) needs to be alone or at least be in his own space in his own home to "get back to himself" again. He likes to be in his own place where he can rebuild his spirit, his energy and his sense of knowing who he is and what he wants. He fills himself with energy and when he feels that his spirit is strong again he can get back to the outer world and other people.
As introspection comes naturally for this person I believe that most genine shamans are introvert. They are mostly used to deal with the inner worlds of the soul and psyche. That´s what they are experts on.
I do not know if introversion is more common among men or women, but I would guess among women, as they have for thousands of years been responsible for the homes, while the men were more running around outdoors.

Do you get depressed?

If you are introvert I would say that you might be much more in need for a Power Place than your extrovert friends. And I mean really in need.
If you are very much introvert it can be too much for you to spend the whole days among people and also the whole evening with family. If the situation is that you slowly get more and more empty, tired and depressed, do not just go to the doctor to get some ssri-pills. The reason for your depression might be that you need more time alone in your own Power Place. But do not expect spirit to return immediately. If you have lost energy you may have to start with just sleeping and eating and doing nothing, feeling free. But avoid junk food!

In earlier times it was quite common that people had their own power places: the woman had the home / the kitchen. (In daytime the children were not allowed to be indoors, so she was alone).The man had his carpentry, his garage, library or office where he could hide, claiming that he had to work or smoke. For a hunter the forest can be his power place. There is plenty of silent space and he probably automatically arranges a nice spot where he can cook and rest. Fishing is a popular way of getting away to do nothing for hours in complete silence.
Industrialization meant that the workers lost their own power places and today many people do not have their own space where they can charge their inner batteries, or said with another language: they lose their spirit.

When we lose our spirit, lose our energy, we are easily lead by those who want to sell everything to us to make us happy again. And we are easily lead by the views of the mainstream. We are easily victims of that kind of mind control, that comes through all ads and TV-programs.

Why does the Red Indian make a Power Place in a circle of stones?

To get into contact with spirit!

Spirit is energy, focus and will power.

It is to get your lost energy back again.

To get into contact with a sense of joyful motivation.