HEALTHY LIFESTYLE · JULY 2017
If I could teach you
only one thing, I would
choose for you to learn
how to ride uncertainty
like a wave. If you can
learn to ride within the
power of the wave, to
allow its energy to pro
pel you forward, you
can tap into a source of
personal power.
BECOMING AWARE OF
YOUR RESISTANCE:
energies on this earth.
We must balance the
intellect and mind
of the male with the
intuition and emotion of
the female in order to
understand how we came
here from nature and
what we are made of. If
not, then maybe we are
lost. Maybe our evolution as a species will actually
cease.
The Key to Surfing and Surviving the
Chaos of Today's Uncertain World
D
id you know that you are
fearless, generous beyond
thought, gracious, creative,
able to shape shift your
destiny?
You are! So what is keeping
you from celebrating
yourself, from living the bountiful life you deserve
and can create?
In looking at the events of the past several years,
I found a thread, a luminous thread that led me
through the maze of challenges we face today.
How did the events of our time form into the
chaos of the world today, as well as the turmoil
in our own personal lives? As you hold up your
star shield to the Great Spirit, you see that there
is a dangerous imbalance of the male and female
But there is a choice we can make to prevent that
and achieve a critical balance. I believe it comes
down to the one lesson that the Sisterhood
of the Shields taught me over and over: how
to give up resistance and pick up the shield of
empowerment.
The events of this past year, in particular,
demonstrated the turmoil of uncertainty. We have
always lived with a sense of insecurity, and until
lately, most of us have spent our energy trying to
ignore it or pretend it doesn't bother us. So how
do we--as shamans--learn to make uncertainty our
ally? How do we let go of our resistance to change,
our fear of what is different? This has become a
focus within my Shamanic Mystery School.
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Using energy in a focused,
conscious way will reduce
the sense or experience of
chaotic energy for yourself
and others around you.
Chaos is a part of creation,
and instead of resisting or
responding in fear, we want
to shift how we respond to it
by directing our awareness to
the beauty and opportunities
it manifests.
Dynamic energy is given off
by an act of creation, and
the energy that comes from
the chaotic side of creation
is powerful. It is uneven and
somewhat like being in an
earthquake. This dynamic
energy is uncertainty. But it
is an amazing energy once
we tap into it and ride it like
a wave.
The Sisterhood taught me to
not stand and fight the wave,
but to throw myself into it.
Like the dolphins riding the
surf line, when you relax
and move with the current,
you rise to the surface and
maintain your sense of
direction. Uncertainty in life
is like that and we choose
how to face it.